{"id":10128,"date":"2012-11-18T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2015-01-17T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T19:07:26","slug":"minimate-mini-review-81-retro-x-force-cable-modern-x-force-x-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/minimate-mini-review-81-retro-x-force-cable-modern-x-force-x-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Mini-Review #81 - Retro X-Force Cable & Modern X-Force X-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#81 - Retro X-Force Cable\/Modern X-Force X-23<\/h3>\n

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A battle-hardened soldier from the future, Cable initially led the New Mutants against Stryfe and his Mutant Liberation Front before forming the first X-Force team<\/a>. His telekinetic and telepathic abilities made him a formidable opponent; though he often let his high-tech armaments do the talking.<\/i><\/p>\n

This figure is officially known as \"Retro X-Force Cable,\" but it would be more accurate to call it \"Greg Capullo Cable,\" because I know my Cables and he was the first one to start drawing the shoulder pads this way - almost like real physical objects, rather than shapes that hovered near his torso. This is an example of a time that sculpted pieces are better than paint: Cable's detail is so stupidly complex (by design) that molding it all helps draw attention to the dumb.<\/p>\n

Cable has an angry look on his face, befitting the character and the style at the time<\/a>. He has a golden flash painted around his left eye, but it's not centered properly - it sits lower than the eye does. If you remove his giant shoulderpads, you get a more \"civilian\" style Cable, with a simple blue shirt. The shirt is either cut away over his chest, or his techno-organic virus has started growing over<\/b> his clothes, because half his pec is silver. His right hand is a full glove, while his left is a standard Minimate hand with a cuff above it.<\/p>\n

In the traditional manner, Cable comes with a lot of guns. There's a silver version of the Battle Beasts<\/a> gun, a BSG<\/i> pistol, and Punisher's<\/a> knife. There's also a new gun, a big blocky piece that totally looks like the kind of thing Cable would use. All the weapons can be stored on the back of the pads, and there's a notch on the top of the left shoulder where one of the rifles can plug in.<\/p>\n

Created in a secret government laboratory, X-23 is the result of attempts to clone the savage Wolverine utilizing only his X chromosome. With years of training as an assassin and Adamantium claws of her own, X-23 is a lethal and often brutal member of the secret X-Force team.<\/i><\/p>\n

This was the second Modern X-Force Minimate, after Wolverine<\/a> but before Warpath<\/a>. She's dressed in the team's black and grey, and has the same \"leg rings\" that Wolverine had to form his boots, though Logan didn't have a bare midriff... FOR SOME<\/b> REASON. Her hair comes from BSG<\/i> Athena, and while the design is right, it keeps her head from moving.<\/p>\n

X-23 has clawed and unclawed hands, but no claws for her feet. Just like Tarantula<\/a>. Surprisingly, her claws aren't just the normal Wolverine hands with the center claw cut off; instead, they're the Daken<\/a> hands with the dumbass under-claw cut off. God, is Daken stupid! You get your choice of heads with X-23: masked or unmasked. Why not print both on one head?<\/p>\n

This set is a weird mix of retro and modern X-Forces, but it makes sense in a way. What doesn't make sense is that an old Cable no one would care about is so much better than a new character who hasn't gotten a Minimate before.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>