Cable VS Booster Gold

Cable VS Booster Gold
Season	7
Overall Episode	126
Season Episode	7
Air date	April 20th, 2020
Written by	Liam Swan Thac Nguyen
Animated by	Luis Cruz Gustavo Espinal Zack Watkins
Episode link	RoosterTeeth YouTube
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Cable VS Booster Gold is the 126th episode of DEATH BATTLE!, featuring Cable from Marvel Comics and Booster Gold from DC Comics in a battle between time-traveling superheroes. Cable was voiced by Dave J. Dixon and Booster Gold was voiced by Ricco Fajardo.

Description

Time travel warriors clash and only one will leap into victory's history book!

Interlude

(*Cues: Wiz & Boomstick - Brandon Yates*)

Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.

Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.

Cable

Wiz: Our convoluted story begins with a supervillain, Mister Sinister.

Boomstick: With a name like that, you'd just be disappointed if he wasn't a supervillain.

Wiz: In an attempt to destroy another supervillain, Apocalypse, Sinister planned to create the ultimate mutant.

Boomstick: So he decided to, um... breed the X-Man, Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Alright weirdo, I mean, they're already in a relationship.

Wiz: Just one little problem. By the time Sinister was ready, Jean was... kinda dead.

Boomstick: No problem for Mister Sinny, he just cloned Jean, got the new her in bed with Cyclops, and bam! Out popped Nathan Summers, Marvel's ultimate baby!

Wiz: Of course, we're talking about comic books here, so Jean eventually came back to life. After dumping the clone, Scott and Jean decided to raise baby Nate together.

Boomstick: Aw, how nice, I love happy endings.

Wiz: Until Nate was kidnapped by, ironically, Apocalypse. Apocalypse infected Nate with a techno-organic virus, a liquid metal that converts organic tissue into cold, unfeeling steel.

Boomstick: It's basically cyborg herpes, and just like the real thing, there was no cure, trust me. Until a lady from the future showed up.

Wiz: Long story short, Scott and Jean allowed Nate to be taken two thousand years into the future, in hopes of a cure. Unfortunately, there wasn't one, because the future world was ruled by, of course, Apocalypse.

Boomstick: So now, poor Nate's got an incurable robot virus, and is stranded in a post-apocalyptic Apocalypse future. What a rip-off.

Wiz: Well, it's not all bad. As the techno-organic virus took over Nathan's body, it enhanced his strength, speed, and endurance. Most notably, he gained a powerful metal arm, and a cybernetic eye that can see in infrared and track objects two miles away, and fire lasers.

Boomstick: And if any part of his robo-self is damaged, he can just put it back together lickity-split.

Wiz: He's more than just a cyborg, though, his training in the future turned him into an incredible hand to hand combatant and tactical genius.

Boomstick: And like any good nineties comic book hero, he often comes to fights packin' some totally awesome heat. Machine guns, laser guns, a doohickey that can control dinosaurs, what more would you need? He became a gritty savior of the future, where everyone knew him by one name: Cable.

Cable: Remember it Apocalypse. The name's Cable.

Booster Gold

Wiz: Booster Gold is a hero, an icon, a brand. He's a vigilante protecting the streets of Metropolis, and also the head of his own PR company. He's a wink, and a catchphrase, he's fame and fortune incarnate.

Boomstick: But the number one thing to know about Booster Gold...he's one hundred percent full of shit!

Wiz: Michael John Carter was your average star college football player... from the 25th-century.

Boomstick: His future in the future was bright, until his mother caught a devastating illness they couldn't afford to treat.

Wiz: Forced into a corner, Michael was caught betting on his own games in order to pay for the treatment.

Boomstick: Shoulda moved to future Canada.

Wiz: While his mother did survive, Michael found himself in jail. After his time, he just managed to land a job as a security guard at the Metropolis Space Museum, and stumbled upon the exhibit on 20th-century superheroes.

Boomstick: Which inspired him to become a superhero, too, uh, kind of. Actually, he stole all the hero tech he could, and turns out, it was the real deal, including a God damn time machine! Oh yeah, great idea, let's just leave that shit lying around in the museum that hires ex-cons as security!

Wiz: Alongside his own C-3P0 robot, Skeets, Michael took a trip to the past. He used his knowledge of future events to profit off the stock market, and form his own company, Gold Star Incorporated.

Boomstick: Ah, that's pretty clever of him, clever like a fox? Because Michael J Fox played the guy from "Back To The Future", and then he went back, and he had the sports almanac...

Wiz: This PR firm and merchandising house would eventually introduce him as a self-made superhero celebrity, Goldstar.

Boomstick: Except, Ronald Reagan misheard the name as Booster Gold, and it stuck. Well, now he sounds like a trading card pack.

Wiz: Don't get the wrong idea, Michael didn't initially become a superhero for altruistic means. Even Superman, the most positive man alive, believed Booster Gold to be a huge dick.

Boomstick: Who could blame him? Booster didn't care about helping people, he just wanted to make a fortune on problems he already knew would happen. Sports almanac, remember?

Wiz: Luckily, he wasn't all talk, his stolen technology was incredibly advanced.

Boomstick: Like his power suit, which, despite making him look like a huge tool, increases his strength, speed, and toughness to superhuman levels.

Wiz: His main offensive gear includes energy gauntlets, both of which can fire uni-directional blasts known as...Booster Shots, really leaning into that brand synergy, huh?

Boomstick: And if an enemy is gettin' a little handsy, he can redirect the gauntlets energy through his suit, zapping the shit out of anything it touches, or it can amp up his strength even more, he's just gotta be careful not to run out of fuel.

Wiz: His goggles include heat vision, infrared, and x-ray, and his Legion flight ring allows him to... you know.

Boomstick: But, at the end of the day, Booster's still an ordinary guy, he's like if Iron Man were a dumb loser.

Booster Gold: I am Booster Gold. The greatest hero you've never heard of... until now!

Death Battle

(*Cues: Days of Booster Past - Brandon Yates*)

In the middle of a city, Booster Gold is seen standing in front of a bank with a tied up criminal, waving to the press and his cheering fans in front of him. Suddenly in a flash of light, Cable suddenly appears in front of the hero, attracting the attention of the surrounding people.

Booster Gold: H-hey, uh, buddy? Do you mind? You're hogging my spotlight here.

Cable: You look like an idiot.

The future X-Man begins walking to the right, and the crowd follows him. Michael catches up and whispers as Nate continues to march forward.

Booster Gold: Oh-ho, I get it. You want to take on the champ to boost your street cred, right? Ok.

To Cable's surprise, Booster assumes a combative pose right in front of him.

Booster Gold: Well, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!

Cable: The pavement will be stained with your blood.

Booster Gold: What?

Cable punches Booster Gold with his cybernetic arm, sending the time traveler crashing into the front of a building.

Booster Gold: Wait, is this guy serious?

Nate takes out his gun and begins rapidly firing at Michael, who activates his suit's force fields to deflect all the bullets. As he charges forward, Booster stops to listen to the crowd's cheers.

Booster Gold: Thank you! Thank you!

Cable stops firing and grows impatient as his cybernetic arm charges.

Booster Gold: Did you just punch me into next week? Or a million next weeks?!

Cable: I'll see you in hell, you goddamn golden asshole!

Booster's force field constricts completely, crushing Cable's body into paste.

Booster Gold proceeds to return to the present and continue to saluting fans and journalists.

Booster Gold: Ha, ha! Booooooster-rific!

KO!

Results

We cut to Boomstick looking at the screen in confusion and surprise.

Boomstick: Ugh...no....seriously?!

Wiz: I know this seems ridiculous but-

Boomstick: Seriously, how did that golden dingus beat mutant Jesus?!

Wiz: Well, *sighs* it sounds crazy at first, but Booster Gold actually had everything he need to take him out.

Boomstick: Cable's powers were way more versatile and deadly than Booster's, and his lifetime of experience in the trenches made him the more well-rounded soldier overall.

Popup: Supposedly Cable can extinguish stars, though he has never shown such power. Even then, Booster's force field has resisted blasts from foes whose destructive power level is beyond star level, like Trigon.

Wiz: But Booster had plenty of deadly weaponry in his own right, though his saving grace was that force field.

Boomstick: Sure that thing survived crazy stuff.

Wiz: Including every single thing in Cable's arsenal. For example, Cable's telekinesis could move a planet and rearrange cells right? Well Booster's force field survived planetary destruction at the subatomic level, similar to a nuclear bomb but on a massive scale worth about fourteen tenatons of TNT, over a hundred thousand times greater than Cable's power output.

Boomstick: That's 40 f*cking zeros b*tches. Holy mutant Jesus! And remember his gloves use the same energy as the shield, so that means Booster is packing some serious heat.

Popup: His field's resistance to subatomic destruction indicates it would resist more general molecular manipulation than Cable's telekinesis, preventing him from bypassing the shield's defenses.

Wiz: Even in Cable's fight with the Silver Surfer, while he managed to keep up for a short while, once the surfer got serious the fight was over pretty quick.

Popup: Early in Booster's career his force field was overpowered by Mindancer, a relatively weak telepath. However she needed to amplify her powers to do so. Booster's suit has been upgraded numerous times since then.

Boomstick: Meanwhile Boosty is over here in the same league as speedsters like Flash, and I know you're thinking "what about Cable's mind control powers?". Well Boosty's shield protected him from Maxwell Lord.

Wiz: Who's mental powers, like Cable's, could also span an entire planet.

We cut to Wiz and Boomstick

Boomstick: Yeah Cable looked a lot better on paper, but he just didn't have a sure fire way to put Booster down for good, and Booster had exactly what he needed to nab victory.

Wiz: This is one of the awkward things about comparing heroes from different franchises, Cable may be a gritty badass and Booster may be a silly goofball, but those distinctions mostly matter in their own world, in Death Battle we have to compare them directly, and sometimes it means a hero no one ever heard of wins.

Boomstick: Booster didn’t just win, he took home the Gold.

Wiz: The winner is Booster Gold.

Original Track

The track for this fight is "Days of Booster Past" by Brandon Yates.

The title is a reference to both combatants being time-traveling heroes, as well as the famous X-Men storyline "Days of Future Past", which also features time-traveling, though "Future" is replaced with "Booster".

The track cover is a golden star (representing Booster Gold) infected by Cable's techno-organic virus. Behind it is some time-travel-esque swirls representing their main gimmick of time traveling.

Trivia

• The connections between Cable and Booster Gold are that they are both time-traveling comic book superheroes from the future who have opposite reasons for traveling to the past (Cable wants to prevent a bad future while Booster Gold only wanted to showboat). They both also commonly operate in the street tier of both of their respective universes, but their true potential is comparable to some of the strongest characters of their universes. Both are also descended from superheroes (Cable is descended from Cyclops and Booster Gold is descended from Supernova) and both utilize high-tech futuristic tools in their arsenals.
  • Coincidentally, both characters made their comic book debut in early 1986.
• This is the 20th Marvel VS DC themed episode, after Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Batman VS Spider-Man, Batman VS Captain America, Deadpool VS Deathstroke, Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Green Arrow VS Hawkeye, Flash VS Quicksilver, Hulk VS Doomsday, Venom VS Bane, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, Black Panther VS Batman, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Ghost Rider VS Lobo and Miles Morales VS Static.
  • This is the 12th time that DC wins, after Batman VS Captain America, Flash VS Quicksilver, Hulk VS Doomsday, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid, Aquaman VS Namor, Captain Marvel VS Shazam and Miles Morales VS Static.
• This is the second episode where Boomstick refers to a character at 'The Ultimate Baby', after Hulk VS Doomsday.
• This is the fifth 'Human VS Cyborg' themed episode, after Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom, Wolverine VS Raiden, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel and Genos VS War Machine.
  • This is also the third 'Human VS Cyborg' themed episode where the 'Human' wins, after Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom and Genos VS War Machine.