CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

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CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Cable 3 votes

Psylocke 7 votes

Edgy MD
Dec 06 2014 09:30 AM

You think X-Men leaders, you think Xavier, you think Psyclops, you think Storm. Well, two erstwhile X-Men team leaders who also demand your respect match up in the Modern Mutants Bracket of the Marvel Conference. Both telekinetic telepaths, too

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Name: Cable Name: Psylocke
AKA: Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, Soldier X, Nathan Winters, Nathan Dayspring Askani'Son AKA: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock, Captain Britain (2), Lady Briton, Lady Mandarin
Creator(s): Chris Claremont, Rick Leonardi; Reconceived by Louise Simonson, Rob Liefeld Creator(s): Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe
Place of Birth: Salem Center, Westchester County, NY Place of Birth: Maldon, Essex, UK
How He Came to Be: Nathan was conceived a mutant, born a mutant, and raised in the future, where his parents somehow could psychically travel to raise him to learn his mutant skills well. How She Came to Be: Discovered as a teenager that she had mutant precognitive abilities. In later teen years, she discovered herself to have psychic powers, including telepathy. She later went through some trans-dimensional doorway and after a lot of drama, came out the other side with a different body and ninja skills. She's had some other transformations that you'll see down in the "Powers" field.
Base of Operations: S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Pericles, Mid-Pacific, among dozens of other spots in the present and future. Base of Operations: The Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, NY: Former: Braddock Manor, UK; X-Men headquarters, Australian outback
Teams: Oh man… X-Men, Secret Avengers, X-Force, Underground, The Twelve, New Mutants, Six Pack, Clan Chosen, Clan Askani… are you happy you asked? Teams: Mainly X-Men and S.T.R.I.K.E. Psi Division (British division of S.H.I.E.L.D.); also Captain Britain Corps, Crimson Dawn, The Hand, Hellfire Club (it's her birthright!), Horsemen of Apocalypse, Excalibur, Exiles, R.C.X., Sisterhood of Mutants, X-Club, X-Force
Signature Lines: "Here's a little something to remember me by! " Signature Lines: "Why is it... you men always seem to talk in macho slogans?"
Arch-Enemy: Stryfe Arch-Enemy: Mojo
Sidekick(s): Deadpool was for a bit, sorta Sidekick(s): None
Paramour(s): Domino, Hope Paramour Tom Lennox, Warren Worthington/Angel, a little psychic love with Cyclops, plus Neal Shaara, Sabertooth(!), Fantomex, Cluster
Has Been Played By: Stephen Lang Once Played By: Meiling Melançon
Could Have Been Played By: Brian Bosworth Could Have Been Played By: Michelle Yeoh
Song I Think Of: "Soldier of Love" Song I Think Of: "What's on your mind."
Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis, Technopathy, Enhanced physical attributes. Expert marksman and hand-to-hand combatant. Cyborg implants make him a fighting machine. Powers: First she was a precog with limited powers. Then she was a powerful telepath. That's cool. But that's all she was. For a time she had bionic eyes, but they weren't that much better than real eyes. But power creep definitiely held sway. She joined the X-Men, because both Professor X and Jean Grey were out of the fold and what's the X-Men without a telepath? But she had little or no fighting skills and held back in all fights. But then she developed leadership skills and even took over the team during one of Storm's deaths. Her psychic skills also developed into an ability to develop great psionic violence. Then, um, she went through a portal and came out the other side as a vicious oriental ninja assasin. She could get you with psychic knives and physical ones. She also developed some crazy-assed abilitity to "teleport through shadows" which I guess sounds both psychic- and ninja-related. Her precognitive skills eventually faded, because things were starting to get stupid.
Weaknesses: Carrying a deadly virus that he has to use his telekenisis to fight all… the… time. This can exhaust him. Weaknesses: She was blind for a bit in her original incarnation, but then got bionic eyes. She couldn't really fight, but then she really could. For a while she couldn't use her telepathy, lest she free some guy she had imprisoned on the astral plane, but then she got Phoenix's telekinetic powers. She's just falling up, this one. Anyways, she's flesh and blood and vulnerable physically if you can get past her ninja skillz, and she has trouble focusing her telepathy and telekinesis at the same time, and grows weary when taxed. Oh, boo-hoo.

Benjamin Grimm
Dec 06 2014 11:22 AM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Another abstention for me, I'm afraid. I've had no experience with either of these characters.

Zvon
Dec 06 2014 03:53 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Your making these up now, aren't you? Ha. I voted for the one with the purple tit.

Edgy MD
Dec 06 2014 05:11 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

That halvesy image is meant to depict two different Psylockes, as Elizabeth Braddock has inhabited two different bodies during her run.

Hey, look at that guy below.

Yeah, thanks, Edgy. This is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man here to remind you
abstainers that you're not voting for Pope. Click a button. It don't cost nothin'.

Fman99
Dec 06 2014 06:12 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

TITS 1, CABLE 0

Though, ironically, you can watch tits on cable.

MFS62
Dec 06 2014 06:49 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

I've driven through Salem Center many times.
Nothing good can come from there.
Trust me on this one.

Later

Zvon
Dec 06 2014 07:16 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Edgy MD wrote:
That halvesy image is meant to depict two different Psylockes, as Elizabeth Braddock has inhabited two different bodies during her run.

What were the odds that she'd get two bodies like that?
And 4 tits like that? Some babes have all the luck.

I like how it seems the writers don't know exactly what to do with her, yet she is still around, bouncing those four breasts from panel to panel.

Nymr83
Dec 06 2014 08:54 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

I like Cable better

She joined the X-Men, because both Professor X and Jean Grey were out of the fold and what's the X-Men without a telepath?

She also came after Rachel Summers, who was the first telepath-of-the-month after Jean's death. Rachel was Cyclops and Jean's daughter from yet another apocalyptic future and thus Cable's sort-of sister!

Mets – Willets Point
Dec 06 2014 09:21 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

MFS62 wrote:
I've driven through Salem Center many times.
Nothing good can come from there.
Trust me on this one.

Later

I had some friends from South Salem who were pretty nice, though.

d'Kong76
Dec 07 2014 09:30 AM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Some of the art is funny on these. Drill three holes
in those balls and you could bowl with them.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Dec 07 2014 09:42 AM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Alternate-future Cyclops kid-ness and his prominent place in X-history aside, Cable reminds me of nothing so much as Rob Liefeld, and Rob Liefeld is a terrible artist, representing a pretty terrible time for X-storytelling.

Psylocke-- at least, the Hand-shaped psychic-knife version-- is somewhat of the same bloated '90s moment, but is a little more interesting, powers-wise and story-usage wise. Not to mention... She's unseasonably hot (between her and Electra, I think I have a thigh-straps thing). YMMV (but, as per the voting, apparently not by much).

Edgy MD
Jan 15 2015 04:47 PM
Re: CPF WotS, Rd. 1: Cable vs. Psylocke

Betsy Braddock and whoever the other chick is beat the guy named after a corrupt public/private utility.