X-Cutioner's Song was one of the single greatest story arch concerning Cable. In all truth if he had died -- really died during that saga I would have been somewhat satisfied. It would have been a great way to end the character and tie up the loose ends that surrounded him. But alas, he lived on to be involved in more uneeded drama and story. That story proves that out of all the Nathan Christopher duplicates ( Nate Grey, Nathan Summers, Stryfe ) that Cable was hands down the best of them. With or without powers Cable is the strongest of them all.