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100 days of enemy recs: 60. Cable/Deadpool
(which includes the movieverse, and the comics actually titled Cable/Deadpool, because of course Deadpool gets a canon slash.)
I have watched the movies! They are fun. I may rewatch them! I have "Once Upon A Deadpool" checked out from the library right now, I may even watch it before I run out of renewals! Stranger things have happened.
In comics continuity, Deadpool (Wade Wilson) and Cable (one of the Nathan Summerses) were actually introduced right at the same time - the height of the Leifeld Era, where everything was based on Rule of Cool; large, poorly drawn muscles; pouches; and BFGs. Neither of them really had a backstory at first, as far as I know? They were assassin/mercenary types because every character introduced in that era was an assassin/mercenary type. They ended up on opposite sides in that first appearance, but didn't really interact much, and that was basically how it stood until they got their co-lead comic, in which, because comics reasons! they can both teleport but they always teleport together, and thus, forced proximity! Love! There was only one bodyslide!
In between they both sort of grew backstories. Nate's is legendarily one of the most batshit in comics. I tried to outline it here but, you know what, nope. Basically, he is related to Scott Summers and Jean Grey, and they raised him, partly in the present and partly in an alternate dystopian future, and then as an adult, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, he came back to the Present of Marvel Time main continuity and set himself up as a mercenary without revealing who he was. By the time of their comics series, he has used some of his future technology (which is actually the sentient alien spaceship that went forward in time with him when he was a baby) to set himself up as a sort of broker for world peace operating out of his private island. Also he has vast psychic powers which he can't do much with because he has to use them to keep an alien robot virus from turning him the rest of the way into a cyborg.
(That's the simple version, I didn't even use the word "clone"!)
In movieverse things are much simpler because he's still at the "Came back in time, being a mercenary, not telling anybody who he really is" point in his personal timeline.
However, he's much more involved with movie Deadpool. Deadpool has basically three superpowers: he's Canadian, he has an incredibly overpowered healing ability that makes him absolutely unkillable, and he can see through the fourth wall. This is offset by the fact that the healing factor thinks the end-stage cancer and/or horrible burns he had when the power activated are how his body is supposed to be, and the fact that everybody thinks he's delusional. (The Canadianess has no downsides.) There are minor differences between movie and comics Deadpool, mostly offset by the fact that comics Deadpool was never very consistent anyway.
They have actually very complimentary powersets and methods, but they are opposites in that Cable takes everything far too seriously except when he doesn't, and Deadpool takes nothing seriously except when he does. They have spend the entire movie first as enemies and then sniping at each other through a reluctant teamup, but at the end of the film Cable has given up everything he has to save Wade's life, and Wade basically has nothing other than that.
I have watched the movies! They are fun. I may rewatch them! I have "Once Upon A Deadpool" checked out from the library right now, I may even watch it before I run out of renewals! Stranger things have happened.
In comics continuity, Deadpool (Wade Wilson) and Cable (one of the Nathan Summerses) were actually introduced right at the same time - the height of the Leifeld Era, where everything was based on Rule of Cool; large, poorly drawn muscles; pouches; and BFGs. Neither of them really had a backstory at first, as far as I know? They were assassin/mercenary types because every character introduced in that era was an assassin/mercenary type. They ended up on opposite sides in that first appearance, but didn't really interact much, and that was basically how it stood until they got their co-lead comic, in which, because comics reasons! they can both teleport but they always teleport together, and thus, forced proximity! Love! There was only one bodyslide!
In between they both sort of grew backstories. Nate's is legendarily one of the most batshit in comics. I tried to outline it here but, you know what, nope. Basically, he is related to Scott Summers and Jean Grey, and they raised him, partly in the present and partly in an alternate dystopian future, and then as an adult, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, he came back to the Present of Marvel Time main continuity and set himself up as a mercenary without revealing who he was. By the time of their comics series, he has used some of his future technology (which is actually the sentient alien spaceship that went forward in time with him when he was a baby) to set himself up as a sort of broker for world peace operating out of his private island. Also he has vast psychic powers which he can't do much with because he has to use them to keep an alien robot virus from turning him the rest of the way into a cyborg.
(That's the simple version, I didn't even use the word "clone"!)
In movieverse things are much simpler because he's still at the "Came back in time, being a mercenary, not telling anybody who he really is" point in his personal timeline.
However, he's much more involved with movie Deadpool. Deadpool has basically three superpowers: he's Canadian, he has an incredibly overpowered healing ability that makes him absolutely unkillable, and he can see through the fourth wall. This is offset by the fact that the healing factor thinks the end-stage cancer and/or horrible burns he had when the power activated are how his body is supposed to be, and the fact that everybody thinks he's delusional. (The Canadianess has no downsides.) There are minor differences between movie and comics Deadpool, mostly offset by the fact that comics Deadpool was never very consistent anyway.
They have actually very complimentary powersets and methods, but they are opposites in that Cable takes everything far too seriously except when he doesn't, and Deadpool takes nothing seriously except when he does. They have spend the entire movie first as enemies and then sniping at each other through a reluctant teamup, but at the end of the film Cable has given up everything he has to save Wade's life, and Wade basically has nothing other than that.
- Beer and Sympathy (4200 words) by rallamajoop
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cable and Deadpool, Deadpool (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cable/Deadpool
Characters: Nathan Summers, Wade Wilson
Additional Tags: Pre-Series, Chapter Related, Drunken hate sex
Series: Part 1 of Blame it on the booze
Summary:Pre-Cable & Deadpool. In the aftermath of their meeting of Deadpool Classic #22, Cable and Deadpool make an attempt to drown their sorrows, and one thing leads to another. (Or, the one about that time Cable and Deadpool had drunken hate-sex, way back before they became friends.)
- Calling Heaven on a Payphone (19471 words) by Largishcat
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Wade Wilson
Characters: Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle, Nathan Summers, Neena Thurman | Domino, Weasel (Deadpool)
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Lots of Angst, Fix-It of Sorts, Vanessa is Mistress Death, Smut, Open Relationships, Self-Harm, Canon-Typical Violence, Gratuitous Fourth Wall Breakage, Non-Linear Narrative, Pre-Poly, do not copy to another site
Series: Part 2 of Cable & Deadpool Kinkmeme Fills
Summary:Cable settles into the 21st century, Vanessa develops posthumous superpowers, Wade breaks into his friends’ homes.
- Living In a Powder Keg and Giving Off Sparks (33200 words) by Polaris
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Vanessa Carlysle/Wade Wilson, Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Nathan Summers
Characters: Vanessa Carlysle, Nathan Summers, Wade Wilson, Russell Collins, Blind Al, Neena Thurman, Piotr Rasputin, Dopinder (Marvel), Hope Summers
Additional Tags: Unconventional Families, Polyamory, Telepathic Sex, IKEA, Kink Negotiation, questionable parenting, Daddy Kink, Past Sexual Abuse, Consent Play, Pop Culture, Infidelity, Nate’s Still Married
Series: Part 1 of New Favorite F-Word
Summary:What do you get when you take a not-dead hooker with a heart of gold, a time-sliding telepath on a mission to save the world, a pyrokinetic teenager with trust issues, and the obnoxious fucker who brought them together? Answer: a family.
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I don't think I can let this one pass without pointing people to The Cable & Deadpool Yuletide Special; while it may not be an enemies-to-lovers story, exactly, it's certainly a classic and takes the whole breaking-the-fourth-wall business to places it's never been before.
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