He kills every single guard in the prison facility easily via his weapons and his cybernetic arm and finally prepares to kill Russell as part of his goal to prevent his family's gruesome death. Later, the next day, Cable breaches the Ice Box, where he finds Russell. That night, in a motel, Cable uses his eye's advanced scanning and holographic capabilities to scan his many weapons and pick out the perfect pieces needed to build a better gun, then showing skills of engineering as he is able to make a new futuristic rifle using parts which are outdated for his time. Cable wanted revenge, deciding to kill him in the past to stop the future where his family was murdered from occurring.Ĭable uses his time-traveling device in order to travel back in time to just after an incident that got Firefist sent to the Ice Box prison facility. Cable hunted the mutant known as Firefist, which led him to invade Cable's home and killed his family with his pyrokinetic powers, leaving Cable as the sole survivor. In the future, Cable was a kind of soldier with a wife and daughter and they lived in peace in the future. One of the criminals he had frequently clashed with, named Firefist, eventually tracked down Cable's family and killed them.Īt the end of the film in a post-credits scene, Wade Wilson suggested to the audience that Cable will appear in the sequel. Later in life, he worked as some kind of soldier or bounty hunter tracking down violent mutants and criminals. At unknown points, he married and had a daughter named Hope, became bionically enhanced and became a time traveler. Little is known about Cable's backstory, only fragments such as that he was born into an apocalyptic future ravaged by war. Cable discovers his family is killed by Firefist