Deadpool 2 throwing Cable into the mix was something embraced by fans from the very start and while the sequel does a great job introducing the character, there's a lot about the character which isn't addressed including his parentage, the extent of his powers, and whether or not he's actually a mutant.
Those are all things which will hopefully be addressed in X-Force but it's hard to ignore the fact that Josh Brolin's version of Cable used technology instead of superpowers so does that mean he's just a regular guy? Well, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have revealed why that kept that deliberately vague.
"I think it is a little of an open question. We’re going to explore Cable more moving forward, we just didn’t want to overload it," Reese explains. "We did have versions of the script where he was using telekinesis, and it just became — suddenly he was Force-hurling stuff, it felt like Star Wars. We just decided to dial it back. Let’s keep it about technology. Let’s not overwhelm the audience."
While Cable is able to levitate his gun in the movie in order to bring it back to him, Wernick went on to point out why that may, in fact, not be the case. "But even that feels like it’s a technology means, as opposed to maybe he’s using his mind to do it. It’s just a fine line to making him complex and interesting and not overloading an audience with crazy backstory, and the techno-organic virus, which we’ll get into hopefully in the future, and those kinds of things. We’re kind of riding that line."
"It could be a little overwhelming, I think, for a mainstream audience, so we wanted to keep it simple and relatable," Wernick concluded. "You’ve got this time traveler from the future who’s trying to save his family, I think was the core of who Cable was in a Deadpool 2 movie. Moving forward in X-Force, my guess is that will be explored further and better, and we’ll get more backstory as to who he is and what his powers are." Do you think this is a satisfying explanation? Sound off below.