Cable Fact — October 20, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against four independent sources. Issue cited below.

Before X-Force, Cable led the Six Pack — and their "Domino" was an impostor!

The Featured Fact

Long before he took command of the New Mutants, Cable ran his own mercenary strike team: the Six Pack. First glimpsed in a flashback in X-Force #8 (March 1992) by Fabian Nicieza & Rob Liefeld, the roster was Cable, Domino, G.W. Bridge, Garrison Kane, Grizzly, and Hammer — six guns for hire, mostly bankrolled by the shady arms dealer Mr. Tolliver, running jobs against A.I.M. and HYDRA while Cable hunted his nemesis Stryfe.

The team started out as the Wild Pack — until a conflict with Silver Sable, who already ran a team under that name (the Symkarian embassy even sent a cease-and-desist), forced a rename. Junior member Garrison Kane coined "Six Pack" while the team relaxed over several six-packs of beer. The Pack's end was ugly: in Cable: Blood & Metal #1–2 (1992) by Nicieza & John Romita Jr., Cable body-slid away and abandoned his team in Stryfe's booby-trapped bunker in Uruguay — Hammer was paralyzed from the neck down, and Kane's arms and legs were severed. Kane was later rebuilt as a Weapon X cyborg.

And here's the kicker: when X-Force launched, the "Domino" on the team wasn't Domino at all. Tolliver had hired the mutant shapeshifter Copycat (Vanessa Carlysle) to replace her — duplicating her appearance, personality, fingerprints, even her DNA — and she fooled Cable's entire crew until Deadpool exposed her in X-Force #11 (1992). The real Domino had been Tolliver's prisoner for nearly a year, finally freed in X-Force #14–15.

Why It's Obscure

Everyone knows Cable the time-traveling soldier and the leader of X-Force — almost nobody remembers the mercenary crew that came first, the trademark beef that named them, the betrayal that broke them, or that one of the team's longest-running members was never herself at all.

1990

New Mutants #86 — Cable debuts with zero backstory. For two full years, nobody knew where he'd been before — until X-Force #8 (1992) pulled back the curtain on the Six Pack. All mystery, no explanation, for 24 months.

1992

The beer-naming — The Wild Pack became the Six Pack only because Silver Sable's Symkarian Wild Pack got there first — and Garrison Kane literally named them while drinking beer. Marvel's most militaristic team, named by a buzz.

1992

The betrayal — Cable: Blood & Metal #1–2: on the Uruguay mission against Stryfe, Cable bodyslided out and left his people in a self-destructing bunker. Hammer paralyzed, Kane dismembered. This is the man who'd later demand X-Force's loyalty.

1992

The payback — The survivors didn't forget. G.W. Bridge recruited Kane and Grizzly into Weapon PRIME, a S.H.I.E.L.D./Department K task force built for one purpose: hunting Cable down. X-Force #10–12.

Trivia

The Domino fraud — Copycat copied Domino down to her fingerprints and DNA, and ran with X-Force for months. Nobody suspected a thing — not even Cable. It took Deadpool, of all people, to tell the difference.

Gallery

Art from the actual issues — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

X-Force #8 (March 1992) cover by Rob Liefeld: Cable leading Grizzly, Kane, Shatterstar, Cannonball, and Domino — 'Turning Point! Cable — Past… Present… and Future!' — **X-Force #8 (1992)**"Turning Point! Cable — Past… Present… and Future!" The Six Pack's first appearance, told in flashback: the original Wild Pack on the job against HYDRA.

Cable: Blood & Metal #1 (1992) cover by John Romita Jr.: Cable blasting away, cover text 'At last! X-Force's mysterious leader in his own limited series!' — **Cable: Blood & Metal #1 (1992)**Cable's first solo series (Fabian Nicieza & John Romita Jr.), digging into the Six Pack's past — and the Uruguay mission that broke the team apart.

Group illustration of the Six Pack: Kane, Cable, Grizzly, Domino, Hammer, and Bridge charging forward, each member labeled — **The Six Pack, assembled**The full roster, labeled: Kane, Cable, Grizzly, Domino, Hammer, Bridge. Note the "Domino" — the shapeshifter Copycat wore her face for months on X-Force.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Six Pack (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseCable founded the team as the Wild Pack; renamed after the Silver Sable conflict with Kane suggesting "Six Pack" over beer; the Uruguay bunker vs. Stryfe where Cable teleported away, leaving Hammer paralyzed and Kane's limbs severed.
Six Pack / Wild Pack — uncannyxmen.netIssue-by-issue chronology: the X-Force #8 HYDRA raid, the Cable: Blood & Metal #1 Iran/Afghanistan missions, the Symkarian name-conflict rename, and Bridge, Kane, and Grizzly reforming as Weapon PRIME to hunt Cable (X-Force #10–12).
Six Pack (comics) — WikipediaThe original team debuted in X-Force #8 (March 1992), created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld; the Wild Pack-to-Six Pack rename under pressure from Silver Sable's existing team.
Copycat — uncannyxmen.netVanessa Carlysle impersonated Domino inside X-Force; Deadpool exposed her in X-Force #11; the real Domino had been Tolliver's prisoner for the better part of a year (revealed X-Force #14–15).