Shortly after the first Deadpool trailer was released last week, Empire ran an interview with director Tim Miller in which he said he'd like to use Cable in a sequel, if there is one. "There aren’t really many definitive Deadpool villains, apart from Cable," Miller explained. "If we don’t put Cable in Deadpool 2 I think we’ll be run out of town on a rail."

The website Birth Movies Death has also heard from their source at 20th Century Fox that Cable is being considered for a potential sequel. They report: "They're already kicking around ideas for the sequel. And there's one that has stuck, and - while anything could change between now and whenever the sequel starts shooting - that idea is bringing in Cable."

In the comics, the Deadpool-Cable relationship has been all over the map. At times, they've been enemies, though that was due in large part to Deadpool being brainwashed to kill Cable. However, over time an unlikely friendship developed between the two as Deadpool's insanity works really well at keeping Cable's messiah complex in check. Many would describe their relationship now as one of Marvel's strongest bromances.

As for Cable, how will Fox introduce the powerful mutant? His backstory is complicated, to say the least. He is the son of Scott Summers/Cyclops and Madelyn Pryor, a clone of Jean Grey. Cable's birth name is actually Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. He was sent into the future — ruled by Apocalypse — for his own protection. When he became an adult he traveled back in time to use his knowledge of future events to change the fate of the world. Cable has vast telekinetic and telepathic powers, however, when he was a baby he was infected with a techno-organic virus that left him with a cybernetic eye, left arm and shoulder.

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Deadpool hits theaters on Feb. 12, 2016. You can check out every other upcoming Marvel movie on ComicBook.com’s Comic Book Movie Release Schedule!