Hey Abhi, gentlejudges and all,
Before I start, disclaimer: I recently had my laptop stolen and I'm doing the bulk of my work from an iPad, which works surprisingly well. I'm hoping this will have zero bearing on the match, but if my image links aren't working (or are the mobile, hard-to-read version of the normal imageshack links) lemme know and I'll work around it. If you can see the same images I can, I am confident that it will be obvious how badly Cable rocks his competition in this match. 🙂
Anyways, let's get this party started.
I'm the defending champ, representing Cable in his God-like messiah persona straight from the initial 10 issues of 'Cable and Deadpool'. Cable is the same character as he always has been, just much more powerful, and so any feats of Cable's prior to his power up are valid as well, provided that he has the same equipment.
Cable's powers are vastly heightened here in comparison to his average. In his short appearance, God-like Cable accomplished the following messiah feats:
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[*] Rerouted water to flood half the Sahara
[*] Threw all the loggers out of the Amazon rainforest
[*] Straightened the leaning tower of Pisa (lol)
[*] Stopped the white blood cell count from deteriorating in every AIDS victim in Africa
[*] Stopped a daily average of 14 individual acts of terrorism, 11 hundred attempted murders, 7 thousand car accidents
[*]Soothed the pain of every single person on the planet dying of any kind of disease
[*]Levitated Providence, his massive island fortress/city. Providence was home to thousands, made from retrieved parts of the Graymalkin/Asteroid M space station and, in general, pretty huge:
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The above feats, sans Providence, are all referenced in this interview that Cable agreed to partway through godhood:
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For context, while I don't believe any comics have given an exact number, it is clear that Cable was in this messiah form for over a week (and I think quite a bit over a week, but a week is enough to make my point).
The last three bullets are all context sensitive, and so now we know the bare minimum of the scope and depth of Cable's 'miracles'.
Knowing that, I present three points that I will be basing much of my argumentation on for this debate:
Cable is capable of constant telepathy on a global scale. This is an obvious necessity to soothe the entire world of pain. In later posts, I can give evidence to the actual power that Cable carries in his noggin, but it's important to note that he is both an incredibly powerful and skilled telepath, even in passive feats such as these.
b) Cable is capable of multitasking on a level nearly unheard of even among KMC herald debates. The feats speak for themselves here, but Cable's ability to multitask is one of his biggest strengths in a KMC tourney match where he needs to provide simultaneous defence and offence.
c) God-like Cable has never been seen in a fight at full strength. He went up against Silver Surfer, fought across oceans, broke Surfer's board, lost. Fair enough, it's the Silver freaking Surfer... but, for what weight it holds, and I believe it holds quite a bit in this match: Cable wasn't rested, Cable had been performing miracles for days, and Cable is not in danger of burning out, as he was in that fight.
With those feats spoken for, I feel I've established character and I'm ready to jump into the match itself.
Prep Stuff
According to Belt Rules, Cable is informed 5 minutes prior to the match who he is facing - only names, and Nick Fury's briefing- and allowed some bare minimum of actions prior to the match. I'm writing this because I feel like it's somewhat unclear what's allowed and what's not with prep, so I'm going to walk through this:
As per previous matches, Cable is going to spend his 5 minutes erecting a super tough shield.
Unlike that scan, where a shield was created in response to gunfire, Cable is going to spend his whole 5 minutes making his shield and meditating.
Cable will prepare to make himself telepathically invisible to attackers as soon as the match begins. Given that Cable's telepathy is globe-spanning, there should be no time between the beginning of the match and his telepathic disappearance.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img191/5803/invisibleo.jpg
With those two defensive measures taken, let the battle begin.
Battle
First, two items that I believe will dictate how this match will be viewed:
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[*]Reflexes
As I said in the match against Wonder Woman, if I were debating against Cable, one of my first lines of argument would be to claim that his reflexes were unable to deal with an assault from my character.
Well, setting aside the telekinetic shield and telepathic invisibility, even if a blitz were launched against Cable's God-like form, we can see that he is more than capable of dealing with it:
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In those scans, he readies and responds to Silver Surfer's blitz from orbit.
I've zoomed on the dialogue for emphasis:
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Not only is Cable capable of responding to the blitz - while still levitating Providence -, he then speaks to how Surfer and he are sundering the environment around them at the atomic level, and repairing it immediately.
I submit that if Cable is capable of not only protecting himself from a blitz from Surfer, but also atomically restructuring their environment as soon as it is damaged, in a fight that takes them from Providence and across the pacific, then he is capable of the thinking speed required to summon basic defences against his opponents in this fight.
[*]Telepathy
This is the second big tenant that I see dictating this match.
Before I start: I really, really don't believe that Abhi's attempts to make a Super-clone are going to work, for mostly logistical, but also rules-based reasons, but I'm going to get to that later. For now, let's ignore the looming question of whether or not Cable is facing one enemy or two, and focus on this scan:
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/16777768/kryptonmanvssuperman_12.jpg.html
Abhi's Krypton Man, vs. Superman at the time that Krypton Man would have known him (and therefore, should a clone of Superman be made, it would be made in the image of the Superman in that scan).
"You -- you can 'hear' my thoughts?"
"Certainly. Did you forget we were once linked telepathically?"
This will be child's play. Not only does this Superman show zero forms of telepathic defence, Krypton Man himself has telepathy, which, by both definition and comic book tradition*, outlaws him from being immune to telepathy.
*Sage and Emma Frost are both examples of comic book characters who need to turn their telepathy off in order to establish an immunity to outside telepathy.
The previous two times that I've had to prove that Cable is the top mid herald character, I've been up against Wonder Woman and later Magneto, both opponents with established telepathic immunity of a sort. Abhi has drafted no such immunity, and I am happy to begin and end this match by pointing that out.
Even if telepathic defences exist - and I assume Abhi is going to say that they do, because he has no other route here beyond admitting my victory -, it's worth spending time stating that Eradicator is not up against a junior telepath here.
Cable's telepathy was truly God-like. I've shown that he was capable of sifting through the thoughts of the world, constantly soothing pain and preventing terrorism, murder and traffic accidents globally.
Talking actual telepathic might though, let's use a direct comparison:
Emma Frost is probably Marvel Earth's premier telepath, so long as Jean is dead and Xavier is out of combat.
When Emma and X-Men flew near the outer border of Providence. Emma was hooked up to the on-board Cerebra, boosting her telepathy by the power of 10. They ask if she's holding up, she replies that her psychic shields are barely holding, and notes that Cable has telepathically ionized the Earth's atmosphere.
So, the weight of Cable's mind is such that while he's performing his godly duties - soothing pain, helping citizens with their taxes -, Emma Frost can barely hold up a psychic shield despite the fact that he has focused utterly zero attention on her, and, on top of it all, his brain powerz have telepathically ionized the atmosphere. Now, that's comic book lingo, and has no quantitative value in this match, but relatively I think we can say
Cable's telepathy > Eradicator's telepathy, and unproven defences.
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Conclusion
The match starts.
Cable instantly becomes telepathically invisible. He has a pre-established telekinetic shield that he will constantly repair and reinforce throughout the battle.
Cable mindphucks the hell out of his opponents. IF Abhi is at all successful in creating a Super-clone here (which, again I stress, I sincerely doubt and will speak to later), it will only serve to be detrimental when Cable assumes control of the clone's mind and turns a 1 vs. 2 match into 2 vs. 1.
Later, I'll address Cable's telekinesis, esoteric powers, and the numerous holes in my opponent's prep.
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