It's sad how much Cable & Deadpool stops being interesting every time Cable opens his mouth when Deadpool is not in the vicinity. Ooops, is my character bias showing? I read and re-read the series and I completely forget what the ostensible plot with the floating island and Fake!Russia and government coups are all about, because it doesn't matter, babe, no one caaaares. Stuffy Mary Sue from the future and wisecracking coyote lunatic mercenary biologically teleporter-linked together to fight crime and hate each other! What more do you need JUST RUN WITH IT ALREADY. Cranky fighty stick-in-the-mud control freak stalker dork Cable = ADORABLE; "Everybody Loves Cable" ubermonologuing Cable = I PUNCH IN THE FACE. (Have you hit the Civil War arc yet? I love that just for the faceoff. And the punching.)
I like technical explanations when the science is A)interesting B)prima facia accurate C)at all important later, none of which fits Cable's junk. Otherwise, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so just run with it already! And I like that Deadpool is lampshade-hanging-savvy enough about his own genre to just go "Screw it, I'm shooting things" and I wish more Very Serious Superheroes would follow his example.
The best thing ever--okay, maybe, like, the eleventh-best-thing-ever--was when everyone was like "Ohh NOOOOESSS we've lost Cable in another dimension(s), what incredibly complicated rescue scenario with multiple crossovers can we concoct!" and Deadpool's like "Orrrrr we can do this stupidly simple thing instead!" And then they haul in Fixit Guy to make the stupidly simple thing splendidly complicated with wires and physics and he's all, "I, Fixit Guy, will now describe how awesome I am since I have hooked up this complicated science device to Deadpool that will successfully find Cable for us through--" Deadpool: "Gotcha, bye!" *IS GONE* Fixit Guy: "--through an elaborate scientific PROCESS I HAD NOT FINISHING DESCRIBING GODDAMMIT"
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I like technical explanations when the science is A)interesting B)prima facia accurate C)at all important later, none of which fits Cable's junk. Otherwise, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so just run with it already! And I like that Deadpool is lampshade-hanging-savvy enough about his own genre to just go "Screw it, I'm shooting things" and I wish more Very Serious Superheroes would follow his example.
The best thing ever--okay, maybe, like, the eleventh-best-thing-ever--was when everyone was like "Ohh NOOOOESSS we've lost Cable in another dimension(s), what incredibly complicated rescue scenario with multiple crossovers can we concoct!" and Deadpool's like "Orrrrr we can do this stupidly simple thing instead!" And then they haul in Fixit Guy to make the stupidly simple thing splendidly complicated with wires and physics and he's all, "I, Fixit Guy, will now describe how awesome I am since I have hooked up this complicated science device to Deadpool that will successfully find Cable for us through--"
Deadpool: "Gotcha, bye!" *IS GONE*
Fixit Guy: "--through an elaborate scientific PROCESS I HAD NOT FINISHING DESCRIBING GODDAMMIT"