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Biography

Nathan Summers is a powerful mutant telepath and telekinetic, who has been fighting in wars most of his life as the time-travelling soldier called Cable. The son of the first X-Man Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, Nathan's maternally-inherited powers manifested at a young age. The circumstances of his birth were machinated by Mr. Sinister to create a living weapon against Apocalypse,[38][39] which resulted in his mother's descent into madness and death after learning her place in this plot as a clone of his eventual step-mother, founding X-Man Jean Grey. During this ordeal, baby Nathan was infected with the Techno-Organic Virus and sent into a post-apocalyptic future where he could be saved. Raised in this future as Nathan Dayspring, the "Askani'son"[13] destined to kill Apocalypse in the Clan Askani religion, Nathan became a hardened warrior and brilliant tactician. During his teen years, Nathan returned to the "past" and reconnected with his parents and older sister Rachel on the budding mutant nation of Krakoa,[40] but eventually returned to his adopted future to thwart Stryfe, his own radical terrorist clone.[41] After decades of struggle, Nathan travelled further back to a period closest to his original departure and formed the Six Pack to continue the battle.[42][43] He also joined the New Mutants as their leader and eventually reformed the team into the militaristic X-Force.[44][45] Now dedicated to the current time period, Cable sought to better the future of both mankind and mutantkind, for he had seen the result of not doing so firsthand. Cable took it upon himself to protect and train the messianic first mutant born after M-Day, adopting her as Hope Summers.[46] Eventually, Cable reached the point in time he resided in as a teenager and joined his loved ones on Krakoa once again, taking his younger self's place as chief security officer of S.W.O.R.D..[47]