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Channing Tatum Was So ‘Traumatized’ by Not Playing Gambit That He Can’t Watch Marvel Movies: ‘It Was Just Too Sad’
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Counterpoint: Gambit stole Colossus and Kitty's wedding so he could propose to Rogue.
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Why does he want to play that crappy character anyway. Magneto stole his girl, Wolvie kicks his ass all time and he is low tier in Marvel vs Capcom 2.
Mike Carey tanked what would have been a legendary X-Men run with his emphasis on Rogue fucking a grandpa.
man fuck that, I body people with gambit all the time in MvC2 when he's on my Cable/Sentinel team
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Mystique brought her daughter to this man for protection and he knocked her up.cry more noob
You literally have two top tier characters carrying that scrub. LOL.
Omg hahah I can't believe I've never seen this one.Gambit is the poorman's Gunfire
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He came along with loose cannon, who the madder he gets, the stronger he gets and his color changes
A Gambit/Venom crossover would be an easy billy. I don't know why Tatum is so invested with the character but I can't fault him because there'd be no Deadpool is Reynolds wasn't crazy about that character.
I like the cool aloof rogueish bad boy characters.
He was one of the first characters that was from my home state that I remember seeing.
Throwing exploding cards was cool the pre-teen me and I still think so.
People that fight with staffs/polearms are cool.
He and Rogue are a cute couple.
He's fun to play as in video games.
Gambit is one of those characters that could be interesting and fun or just a massive joke, depending on the writer. What a massive EKG graph of a character, based solely on how much the writer either loved or hated him. Lobdell did him justice, I dug the Gambit/Rogue married series, but most writers just can't write him at all.
Claremont was still feeling the character back then, dude was still coalescing.
Gambit was the undisputable MVP in X-tinction Agenda just a little afterwards, and the rest is history.
Back in topic, at least Fox didn't get to ruin another X thing. Sucks for Tatum though, he seems really passionate.
All of this, 100%, but I've said how much of a fan of his I am.
I hope to God we get Rogue, as she's my favorite superhero of all time. And if we get her, I hope we get Gambit.
He would be so easy to make cool again.
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Beyond the character design being hella cool, I'll always have a soft spot for a NOLA native superhero. Honestly the only good part about Xmen Origins Wolverine.
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All I see is he got Captain America partially naked and that is a win in my book.
You expect a 7 year old that hasn't encountered Gambit since to know that he has bad design? The vast majority of his fans legitimately thought he was cool back then. They still do because nothing in pop culture has featured him.
I think it's understandable and reasonable. Nostalgia is a powerful drug. It's the exact same reason Venom was popular and his movies are huge. Gambit would be similar.
90's X-Men cartoon and the vs Capcom series had him flying high in that period. Of course, it's been so long, tons of people don't even know the character.
Would have been amusing to seen this movie at the very least.
Would have been amusing to seen this movie at the very least.
I mean like what you want, I am not asking for people who like Gambit to be persecuted. Just pointing out he is not that cool. People geeking out over properties based on what they see as cool designs is how we get Book of Boba Fett. And Boba was at least a cardboard cutout that you could have made cool they just failed to manage it, but gambit has a solid decades long history and if Marvel were to do the typical amount of faithful adaption that's in most of their works he's not exactly the best character, from either an interesting or moral perspective. Never mind the (thankfully I doubt we see this adapted no matter what happens in the future) horrible "mysterious character with a sordid past" ripped straight from wolverine and dovetailing into crappy twists " who killed the x-men, was it THE WITNESS?".
they could, and I would have no problem if they did, go the other way and adapt him in a "name, powers, and clothes only" sort of way where everything else is original for the MCU, but that actually proves (even more so if Gambit in name only is cool enough to see even me enjoy a character I usually loathe) even more my original point, that Gambit as he actually has been is not actually that good of a character and isn't cool.
Not that any of this matters, they have already won , if they ever make a film staring hI'm, even if it's bad I am enough of a comic nerd they already have my money if and when it happens, and like The New Mutants I will even give it at least two viewing and try to find anything .with enough worth in it to salvage.
Garth Ennis had one perfect run in him, it came in the form of Hitman. Most other stuff is just trying to be Hitman, but written badly and without the wonderful John McCrea Artwork.
I'll never call Hitman a bad comic, but it's a little too stuck up its own ass about being a story about a good man with a gun in a world of baby playtime superhero adventures.
Like that one Superman issue everyone talks up is just kinda... like it's been yonks since I read Hitman, I'll cape to maybe misremembering things, but dude just tells Superman he's a good immigrant because he didn't bring his old home with him.
