Comic Book Alphabet Of Awesomeness - C

There are certain characters that develop fan bases for some reasons that I just don't understand. Probably asthetics more than anything, but one such character leads us to the letter C in the Comic Book Alphabet of Awesomeness:

Cable.

Here's the thing that's always bugged me about Cable, and has always irked me about comics in general.

Time travel.

Cable is the son of Cyclops and Jean Grey from the future who after being infected with a techno-organic virus was sent into the future to be cured, then sent back in time to his parents, and then sent back further in time to fight X-Men villains Apocolypse and Stryfe.

Gifted with the gifts of telekinesis and telepathy (which is what it seems like everyone in the Marvel Universe has if they don't have a cooler powers), which aid in him holding back the techno virus that threatens to overtake his body.

But what Cables real power is, is having lots of places to put things and some really big guns.

Cable has come to represent a big part of what comics were in the 90's: big, over the top, testosterone and angst filled yarns that were more focused on grim and grit than story.

This I feel was mostly thanks in part to the guiding hand of Rob Liefeld, a creator known for some rather, well odd anatomy, a failure to draw feet in anything and everyone gritting their teeth like they're trying to push their skull out of their forehead.

All these things culminate into Cable being the poster boy for everything that was wrong with comics in the 90's and has sort of become almost an archetype or at least set himself up for parody as seen in DC's Kingdom Come.

How can a character who is basically a caricature and representative of what is widely considered to be the darkest time for comics still be relavent and more importantly liked?

Well that's what comics do.

There's something about every character that people can latch onto. It might not be apparent to everyone but there is something that people gravitate towards, be it adolescent power fantasy or something entirely different.