Cable Fact — November 5, 2026

Today's Fact

Cable's first team did not fall in battle or break up over money — it was renamed by a trademark letter from a small Balkan government.

CABLE'S SIX PACK WAS CALLED THE WILD PACK — UNTIL SILVER SABLE'S SYMKARIA SUED THE NAME AWAY FROM THEM!

The Featured Fact

When Cable assembled his mercenary squad in the present day — G.W. Bridge, Domino, Grizzly, Hammer and Kane — he called them the Wild Pack, and under that name they took jobs for the arms dealer Tolliver, including a demolition run in Tehran. The name was good, punchy, and already taken: Silver Sable had led a Wild Pack out of Symkaria for years, hunting war criminals under licence from the Symkarian government.

Symkaria treated the name as state property, and a legal notice over the trademark reached Cable's team while they were regrouping in Austria, as retold in Cable: Blood and Metal Vol. 1 #1 (1992). Outgunned by lawyers rather than soldiers, the squad simply voted on a replacement and landed on Six Pack — six operators, one crate of something strong.

The renamed Six Pack flew straight into the Afghanistan mission where they first clashed with Stryfe, and the new name stuck for the rest of the team's brutal history. Cable has faced Apocalypse, clones of himself and the end of several futures; the only opponent who ever beat him without firing a shot was Silver Sable's legal department.

Why It's Obscure

Armies could not stop Cable's first team, but a cease-and-desist from Symkaria rewrote its letterhead mid-mission.

Tehran

The Wild Pack years — Cable's squad ran Tolliver's jobs, including the Tehran demolition, under the Wild Pack name before anyone objected.

Austria

The legal notice — Blood and Metal #1 shows the team in Austria receiving word that Symkaria's trademark forced the change to Six Pack.

Silver Sable

The other Wild Pack — Sable's Symkarian Wild Pack, founded by her father Ernst to hunt Nazi war criminals, held the name first and held it officially.

X-Force #8

The debut — X-Force #8 (1992) introduced the team to readers already renamed, which is why the Wild Pack chapter stayed buried in flashbacks.

Gallery

The team that lawyers renamed — Cable's squad in its Six Pack era, and Silver Sable, whose government owned their first name.

Cable's Six Pack team art — **Six Pack, assembled** Cable's mercenary squad in the field — the team that started life as the Wild Pack and kept the roster through the rename.

X-Force issue 8 cover, first appearance of the Six Pack — **The first appearance** X-Force #8 (1992): the Six Pack's debut issue, published under the new name from the very start.

Silver Sable comic art — **The name's owner** Silver Sable of Symkaria — the mentioned rival whose own Wild Pack held the trademark that forced Cable's rename.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Cable: Blood and Metal Vol. 1 #1 — Marvel Database Issue record: the team in Austria is told to change the name from Wild Pack due to Symkarian trademark law, and chooses Six Pack.
Six Pack (comics) — Wikipedia States the team was initially called the Wild Pack until conflict with Silver Sable's group forced the change to Six Pack.
Wild Pack — Marvel.com Marvel's own team page notes that Cable's Six Pack initially used the Wild Pack name, with no association to Sable's group.