Deadpool 2 is looking to finally bring Cable from the pages of Marvel comics to the big screen. But there's one daunting aspect of that -- how do you explain a comic book history as complex and as absurd as Cable has? For now, it sounds like the answer is to avoid as much of it as possible. Allow us to explain why that's an extremely good idea.

Poor young Bobby Drake. First, he and his fellow X-Friends got sent forward in time and stuck in their own future. Then he came out, and had to struggle with why his older self had yet to do so. Now he's found himself a cute crush, only to immediately get hit with the mother of all unsubtleties.