r/Gambit

I had a buddy edit the picture for me cause I suck at any kind of video or picture editing

Many people feel Kelly Thomson did a great job with her 2018 Rogue and Gambit miniseries. I am one of those fans. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was I felt her flashbacks added much needed context to the earlier parts of Rogue and Gambit’s history that helped to fill in the gaps on why these two characters would come together in the first place. Gambit, the consummate flirt and ladies man, on the surface seemed to be drawn to Rogue in early issues because she was what he couldn’t have.

However, with Thompson’s backstory filling in details of their first encounter to include a flirtatious battle and first kiss (or make-out session) we see that isn’t the case. While under the influence of the Shadow King, Rogue is able to control her powers and this could be seen as giving Gambit the impression that he is immune to her powers, or at the very least that he could get lucky again and help Rogue move past her fears of hurting her partners with her touch. As I reread these moments, I can’t help but think how brilliant Thompson is to have crafted this backstory to fit so seamlessly into the already established lore and offer a new perspective through which to interpret their first moments in comics. Some people have commented that in these earlier issues Gambit comes off as creepy or a jerk who is just rolling the dice and trying to play games with her emotions. But I feel this new lens makes it more so Gambit is truly trying to connect with her again as they’ve already been able to find a way to fully express their love.

What do you think? I’d love to hear thoughts on how these revelations affected the way you see their relationship.

Honestly, I’m still disappointed we don’t have an ongoing yet - although Brevoort indicated something could happen after his current arc in Uncanny. And, I wasn’t super impressed with Claremont’s last Gambit book…

…but Claremont is still the his creator, and I’m happy to have more addition to Gambit lore away from Rogue (I like Rogue, but he needs more non-Rogue development).

Seen people talking about Marvel Rivals Rogue/Remy and people have identified Remy as a simp for his wife with both positive and negative connotations. I would like to bring forth a slightly different interpretation. Rogue has been horrified of hurting people with her touch since she was a child. But it's been made hella obvious that she longs for physical connection. At least 70%-80% of the reason her and Gambit were on again off again was because of how much she craves to be physically intimate with him (in both family friendly and not so family friendly ways). So with a whole lifetime of trauma and anxiety related to physical contact, asking for/initiating physical contact is a whole other can of worms. What these images depict is not only Remy being the beautiful golden retriever he is but him soothing the touch starved soul of his wife.

And also Remy is just real down bad for Rogue and constantly wants to be physically touching her. Basically it's a win win situation for both of them.

Woman who craves physical contact but struggles to ask for it + Man who wants to constantly be touching her = Perfection.

I just watched episodes 5&6 of Maul Shadow Lord and the voice actor of Marrok is the same voice for Gambit and he sounds very good and very dark. I’m wondering if this is a sample of maybe when S2 of 97 comes Gambit will sound very dark very menacing as Death. What do yall think? How will Gambit sound for S2?

I like Gambit he is one of the Xmen I would love to meet too bad they are not real him and Nightcrawler Gambit is fucking sexy and mine!!! Sorry Rogue move over!!!! I think he is hot shirtless Ok end of rant!