1) Cable (Nathan Summers)
If you thought Speed and Wiccan had a complex origin story, then wait until you learn about Cable. The son of Cyclops and Madeline Pryor (Jean Grey’s clone), Nathan Summers was flung into an alternate future where he grew into a hard-bitten warrior with cyborg enhancements. He then returned to the present where he often butted heads with Scott Summers – who didn’t realize Cable was really his son. And that’s not even getting into Cable’s half-siblings Rachel Summers and Nate Grey and his evil twin Stryfe.
Hiding beneath this ridiculously convoluted biography is a terrific character, though. Once the epitome of the trend for gritty anti-heroes in the 1990s, Cable has stood the test of time and remains one of Marvel’s most popular non-mainstream heroes.
At last, Cable is about to make his cinematic debut in next year’s Deadpool 2, where he’ll be played by the perfectly cast Josh Brolin. Seeing as the Deadpool movies are there own thing, though, we’re not sure how much the movie will delve into Nathan Summer’s parentage. It’s our hope that he might appear in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, as well, to meet his folks when they were young.