7 Uncomfortable Superhero Origins That Sorely Need Updating

3. Cable

Poor Cable. From his messed-up conception by Scott Summers and the clone of his dead girlfriend Jean Grey to his time-travelling, alternate-history-brother killing adventures, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers never had much of a chance, did he? As mentioned in the last point, Nathan Summers was never meant to be a superhero, but a part of Scott Summers' life in retirement. That all changed when Jean Grey came back into the fold and he and his mother were forced to have crazy storylines in order justify their existence. As a result, Madelyne became the Goblin Queen and Nathan fell victim to a virus for which the only cure was being sent to the future to live with a tribe called the Askani. When Nathan Summers returned to the present as the telepathic and telekinetic mutant Cable, he was older than both of his parents and was tasked with halting the rise of Apocalypse so that the future he came from wouldn't be quite so bleak. As cool as time travel is, it seems rather uncomfortable for Cable to be hanging around the present with his father who's younger than him and once abandoned he and his mother. By this point in his life Nathan must have more complexes than a Freud textbook, so it's hardly any wonder he likes blowing things up so damn much.