Cable is a 2024 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics. It is part of the Fall of the House of X (Crossover), the concluding chapter of the extensive Krakoan Age saga, begun in 2019.
Cable must fight against Orchis and the threat of the Neocracy.
Cable (2024) provides examples of:
- Assimilation Plot: The series introduces the Neocracy, a kind of genetically engineered singularity whose presence converts all humans around into Energy Beings capable of exploring all planes of existence at the cost of losing individuality to a Hive Mind. Cable has witnessed their existence in multiple timelines, and is guided by graffiti predicting their coming to investigate and prevent them from coming into existence.
- Back for the Dead: Mutant Empyrean, introduced way back in X-Men Annual #2 (1993), during the height of the Legacy Virus plot thread, comes back during the mini-series only to have his plug pulled and given a merciful death.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Irene Merryweather returns after last being seen in The Despicable Deadpool.
- Amanda Müeller/Black Womb reappears after last appearing in X-Men: Legacy.
- Continuity Nod:
- In issue #3, Black Womb tells Kid Cable she got the idea from "another time and place", referencing X-Men Legends (2021) #10.
- In the same scene, there is a flashback showing a group of scientists working at Alamogordo facility: Irene Adler, Mr. Sinister, Amanda Mueller, Brian Xavier and Kurt Marko.
- The Man Behind the Man: Black Womb is the secret head of Parvenu Industries.
- My Future Self and Me: The series stars both old Cable and Teen Cable.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Empyrean's ability to convert negative emotions into energy is being exploited by Parvenu Industries to power their facilities. He's strung up in a massive machine that taps him into the world's emotions and is thankful when Cable euthanizes him.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Grey Gargoyle is usually a member of Thor's rogues gallery.
