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Stryfe

Stryfe, the Chaos Bringer, is the evil clone of the popular character known as Cable, and one of his deadliest enemies. I knew that creating Stryfe would be a challenge, but he is such an important villain, and so visually striking, that I thought I would give it a try, and make him my third Eaglemoss custom figurine. As a  baby, Cable was sent into the far future by his parents (Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey--it's a long  story) in the hopes of halting the techno-organic virus ravaging his body (another long story). As a  precaution, baby Cable was cloned. This clone was kidnapped by the godlike, tyrannical mutant Apocalypse, who named him Stryfe and raised him as a successor until ultimately rejecting him as unworthy. Thus the adult Stryfe harbored a great many grudges, and traveled back in time to gain revenge not only against Cyclops and his fellow X-Men, but Cable and Apocalypse as well. Like many of Rob Liefeld's creations from the early 1990s, Stryfe ...