Gambit.

[Grennel]

Not sure if this should belong in the official comic thread, so I apologise beforehand. I don't want a FAN Mod kicking down my door and giving me the Theon treatment.

But I was in my local Forbidden Planet earlier. I haven't been a comic avid fan in some years, but sometimes I like to buy the odd issue just to see what the hell is going on. I bought an XMen book, and the guy on the counter asked me who my favourite character was. Without missing a beat I said Gambit (although this was Chris Claremont Gambit I was talking about. His first limited series was the highlight of my comic reading years) but the reply I got was "He throws cards, he's crap. He should never have been part of the gang" I thought the thief who might sell them out was awesome. What do the FANS think.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

I like Gambit. I don't think he's been too important for a while now.

[Deleted]

James Asmus' current run is pretty good. He keeps it light and fun for the most part, which plays to the character's strengths.

[Mozenrath]

I like him alright, but he's somehow even more '90s than Cable and Bishop, for better and worse.

[Thaal Sinestro]

Jun 7, 2013 20:35:44 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

James Asmus' current run is pretty good. He keeps it light and fun for the most part, which plays to the character's strengths.

Echoing this. It's pretty fun and you'll have a good time reading it.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Jun 7, 2013 20:36:17 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I like him alright, but he's somehow even more '90s than Cable and Bishop, for better and worse.

Design-wise, he certainly is. I think his looser personality helps him age better than a lot of his comtemporaries.

[DragonMasterP]

I remember how in the original Marvel Vs. Capcom he tended to be annoying as hell and not stop blocking.

[BlackoutCreature]

He was one of those guys that got really overexposed for awhile and has kinda been suffering for it since. When written right though he can be fun.

[Deleted]

He was one of my favorite characters as a kid in the Xmen cartoons. I want to see him have a full important role in a xmen movie

[Bishblast]

He was my favorite character in the comics for years and years... many of his stories are really, really lame, but he has been a pretty decent character from time to time. Definitely not one of my favorites anymore... much of the time when I read back in the day (can't speak for the last decade), if Gambit wasn't one of the few absolute central characters for a story, he mostly just stood around and had brief, nothing little page long exchanges with Rogue or something... just, for the longest time he was such a poorly used character. When they did the "Trial Of Gambit" thing in Uncanny 350 and tied it all back to the mutant massacre, I thought the character had major, major potential to be something great because of that ... they leave him in, what, Antarctica for a year? I thought for sure after that break they would have come up with something really cool for him.

But... he just came back, had a little two story arc that just pretty much swept everything under the figurative rug and he's back to just standing in the background of group panels for years. Sure, he had that solo series that went for two years, but NOTHING happened in that and it was hardly ever any good. I read the first little bit of Xtreme X Men because he seemed to be a featured player in that series, but that book was garbage, and honestly that was the last thing I've read that featured Gambit in a prominent-ish role. I did read the beginnings of the Ultimate Gambit character but have no idea what became of that character after the two issue mini arc that introduced him. Are any of his other books any good? I've heard mixed things about the current ongoing, but I haven't taken the chance on it.

Rant over, sorry... haven't written/talked/really thought about this character in years and years.


*As I said he used to be like my absolute favorite, the key issues I've gotten of him are going to be among the last books I sell, assuming I get rid of my comics one day... Uncanny 266 is one of the very last I'll get rid of, and I have four copies of X Men Annual 14 (got them all for a buck a piece, each one years apart, actually), and 3 copies of Uncanny 350 (one newsstand non-foil, one regular fiol, one foil signed).

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

He just doesn't do much. The events that surrounded the character are all gone and haven't been replaced.

His relationship with Rogue, in love but unable to touch... That's long gone.
Bishop thinks he betrays the X-Men.... Nope, that was Xavier/Onslaught.
He has a siniister past.... He worked for Mr Sinister, but in the most sympathetic way possible, and it's all resolved now.

They haven't given us any reason to follow the character since, he's been a Horseman, there's theives guild stuff which no one likes, he goes around doing random unimportant theif stuff.

[Bishblast]

Did anything ever become of that rumor that he was a Summers brother or something? I want to say Sinister said "brothers" plural in one issue and people went gaga for years speculating that he and Cyclops were brothers or something like that. I'm sure I'd know if he ended up being Scott's brother, so he obviously wasn't... was this ever touched upon? Or was it really just a typo by Fabian Nicieza after all?

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Only in alternate universes, 616 there's no link.

[Big DSR Energy]

Jun 8, 2013 3:34:37 GMT -5 Bishblast said:

Did anything ever become of that rumor that he was a Summers brother or something? I want to say Sinister said "brothers" plural in one issue and people went gaga for years speculating that he and Cyclops were brothers or something like that. I'm sure I'd know if he ended up being Scott's brother, so he obviously wasn't... was this ever touched upon? Or was it really just a typo by Fabian Nicieza after all?

Fabien's original plan was for a character named X-Treme would be Scott's brother, but he left the X-Men books and never got to tell the story.

Chris Claremont, in X-Men: The End (which is set in an alternate future from the main Marvel Universe), had Gambit be revealed as the third Summers brother, having been created by Sinister splicing Cyclops's DNA with some of his own.

In the actual Marvel Universe, a character named Vulcan was revealed to be the third Summers brother.

Though Sinister only said Cyclops had "brothers" and didn't give a definite number. So I think it's still possible for Claremont's Gambit reveal to be made canon, if they wanted.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Summers_brother

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Jun 7, 2013 20:49:43 GMT -5 DragonMasterP said:

I remember how in the original Marvel Vs. Capcom he tended to be annoying as hell and not stop blocking.

"Kinetic card! Kinetic card! Royal FLUSH!"

Lord, he was a pain when scrubby players would pick him. Not as aggravating as Cable, though.

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Gambit is not one of the Summers brothers.
The one you're talking about, in 616 continuity, is called Vulcan.

[Joker]

Gambit is a cool character, but like a lot of x-men gets lost in the shuffle.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Jun 8, 2013 13:02:45 GMT -5 Joker said:

Gambit is a cool character, but like a lot of x-men gets lost in the shuffle.

Hehe shuffle

Cuz he uses cards right?

[Grennel]

"Bang you dead, homme" I want that Gambit back.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

The current series mixed with his time in Liu's Astonishing have been pretty damned good. Fun with some depth. He is a character that toes around greatness then fades away. It is s shame. At one point he was looking like the next Wolverine too.