I know I've said it before, but the connections that the brain can make are fascinating. Or maybe frightening.
So I'm watching Korgoth of Barbaria on Adult Swim last night. Near the end, the title character utters the phrase, "Balls of the Gods!" This got me thinking about Cable/Deadpool #31, and Wadey's commentary as he slid between Hercules legs: 'Fighting a dude in a skirt. My advantage. Hmm... Godly endowments. His advantage.' Of course, the even more apropos line was 'By the curly hairs of Zeus I shall smite thee!', but I think my brain may have blocked that out.
I'd like to pause briefly here to praise Cap for his patience, and not simply letting Hercules beat 'Pool into a messy paste-like substance, no matter how many times Wade tried to tranq dart him in the back. On with the topic.
So I'm reading the rest of the issue, and I get to Cable's conversation with El Presidente, where Cable keeps telling him about what this whole Registration thing is going to lead to, and how people will look back on this time with less than kind eyes. But it was his comment how the next time they meet, the President 'will be watching his successor six times removed as he signs a treaty of surrender.'
The thing that struck me is, isn't Cable falling into the Waverider/Armaggeddon 2001 trap here? I remember that Waverider showing the heroes their possible futures made it so they could never occur. So by Cable telling the President about these future events, isn't he altering things so they may never occur? I know he's trying to prevent the huge war, but isn't he risking the surrender treaty part never happening as well?
Had Cable figured by that point that nothing would deter the president from his present course, so there was no harm in letting him know the eventual fate, as sort of a last ditch scare tactic?
Is it a situation where Cable has done so much freaking time travel, that he knows how to avoid problems like that? Or is it a matter of Marvel's ideas of time travel versus DC's?
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neither, Cable future is no longer possible and he knows it, but other people don't know that so he's bluffing about having future knowledge to change decisions to those he prefers.
furthermore even if his future was still possible, marvel's multiple timelines way of thinking makes it so he will still not be sure about what will happen.
Um yeah, what he said.
It probably is true in some timeline, but who knows if it applies in mainstream Marvel continuity.
Whatever that is these days.
(I'd say the line was merely included because it sounded cool, but Fabien N. usually doesn't fall into the Millar trap.)
In that scene, Cable was playing two cards.
First, he was playing up being a telepath/psychic. Cable was using his powers to project a likely end to the President's current course of action as with would tie in with his own plans.
Second, he played up The Art of War. Cable, more than any politician, knows what will happen as a result of the battles he, or any superhuman, engages in. Also, Cable is saying that he thinks that the President is so foolish, that the US will be doomed by Registration.
Finally, yes, the whole scene was a scare tactic. Cable tries to find the good in people before he blows them away.
Read the Preview of 32.
Everything is explained and remarkably Deadpool comes off as Intellegent AND stupid at almost the same time.
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