I need to backtrack to last week's books for a bit, talk about Cable/Deadpool #33.
At the beginning of the issue, the waste fusion facilities are damaged and look like they might explode. Then they do explode. Fortunately, Cable has arrived (with Deadpool in tow), and uses the ol' gravimetric powers to shunt the fallout from the explosion into the atmosphere, so nobody gets hurt.
Oddly, I'm not here to discuss the possible ramifications that dissipating cloud could have on the world at large. I'm actually wondering how Cable did it. He "bodyslides" in close enough to the time of the explosion that Deadpool couldn't do what would come most naturally to him in that situation: get the hell out of there. And Cable supposedly has to shut off his gravimetric field to bodyslide, with the tradeoff being it takes time for the field to kick back on, usually in the range of a couple of minutes.
But there he and Wadey are, right in the middle of it, and Cable is most definitely using his gravimetric field, or else everyone would be dead. So I've concluded that the whole thing about his powers taking time to reactivate is a total load of bull. He's taking the Thanos tactic, and spreading disinformation to give himself an advantage. Now people who want to get rid of him think he has a weakness, when in reality he doesn't.
He even takes the charade to the point of getting smacked around by Deadpool in #32 (their brief skirmish in France), just to further the idea that it takes time for his abilities to kick back in. It's risky, but clever. He just hadn't taken time to worry about a situation where there wasn't time to "wait for his gravimetric sheath to kick back on".
I just wonder whether anybody noticed.
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Which makes Cable's seeming stupidity at the end of the issue all the more interesting. Did he genuinely think Deadpool wouldn't betray him or did he see that coming and is just faking? Of course, the fact that he though DP wouldn't betray him is unbearably sad.
dan: Based on what little I've read of the title, I'm inclined to go with "faking it".
Cable always seems to be ahead of the curve on this stuff, so maybe he was just making absolutely sure he can't trust Deadpool.
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