Comics Official X-MEN: LEGACY Discussion Thread

[OutcryX]

he should throw dice instead of cards

 

[Manic]

He'd probably get bigger explosions from 'em.

 

[OutcryX]

that and getting hit with a die would hurt more than a card...and then comes the boom

 

[iamlegend]

Gambit looks odd without his trenchcoat. Its best that he keeps some version of it with every costume he gets. Although I have to say he did look good in his AOA costume but he had a long cape which pretty much took the place of the trenchcoat

I did like the AOA design. Probably because, as you said, it was something different but still had the same taste.

AOA Gambit was great all around... They had him get over Rogue so completely that it was liberating to fans of the character, and they really humanized him during the X-Ternal books. But it's a shame some of the best character development in Gambit's history came in an alternate universe...

And then they killed him, of course... Damn you Marvel.

 

[squeekness]

he should throw dice instead of cards

That would be cool.

I did like the AOA design. Probably because, as you said, it was something different but still had the same taste.

AOA Gambit was great all around... They had him get over Rogue so completely that it was liberating to fans of the character, and they really humanized him during the X-Ternal books. But it's a shame some of the best character development in Gambit's history came in an alternate universe...

And then they killed him, of course... Damn you Marvel.

They do seem rather fond of doing that. Shot to death in Nior, stomped on in Ultimate. Stinks.

 

[iamlegend]

He'd probably get bigger explosions from 'em.

*Imagining Gambit running around with 100 die in his pockets*

Not sure that would work. Would be funny though. t:

And to Squeek...

Don't forget the first Exiles appearance Gambit made. Another relatively solid rendition of the character, and he got axed. Didn't even let the poor guy's sacrifice mean anything, either, since they pulled the whole "He didn't really die, his body was just destroyed!" BS with Hyperion.

 

[UraniaChang]

*Imagining Gambit running around with 100 die in his pockets*

Not sure that would work. Would be funny though. t:

One thing for sure is that he can't pull any secrecy and stealth with a hundred dice in his pockets.

 

[OutcryX]

*Imagining Gambit running around with 100 die in his pockets*

Not sure that would work. Would be funny though. t:

And to Squeek...

Don't forget the first Exiles appearance Gambit made. Another relatively solid rendition of the character, and he got axed. Didn't even let the poor guy's sacrifice mean anything, either, since they pulled the whole "He didn't really die, his body was just destroyed!" BS with Hyperion.

dice can come in tubes and rectangular boxes..im sure that way of carrying them is more Gambit's style..as opposed to running around with a giant ziplock bag of them clanking and screwing up his swagger

 

[Havok83]

they are still much heavier than cards when you have dozens of them in your pockets. Im sure the cards are more comfortable for him

 

[GambitXremy]

Gambits switching from death and back now!!!!!!!!!

 

[Slant]

How exactly did he kill that guy? That wasn't the gas powers.

 

[Mystic]

Gambits switching from death and back now!!!!!!!!!

What?!! Where did you hear that and why would he be even be doing that? It makes no sense!

 

[Specter313]

What?!! Where did you hear that and why would he be even be doing that? It makes no sense!

It's in the annual:

Spoiler

A telepath that Gambit was fighting found something in his head that was leftover from Apocalypse's initial transformation of him, and activated it, temporarily turning him back into his Death look, and using some ability to either disintegrate the guy or suck him into the black card he threw at him, I wasn't quite sure.

I guess they're trying to make him like Angel. Squeekers is not gonna be happy.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Even as a guy who hates Gambit from time to time, I gotta say just as Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was making me love the guy again, they go and do something stupid like this with him.

 

[Specter313]

What is going to happen with Xavier now that his tenure in “X-Men: Legacy” is over? Is he going into limbo?

NICK LOWE: He’ll be hanging around the island trying not to get in Scott’s way for the foreseeable future (we’ll have to see how that goes).



http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22961

 

[Specter313]

Damn double posting.

 

[squeekness]

How exactly did he kill that guy? That wasn't the gas powers.

it's almost as though the guy's soul went into the card and Gambit collected it. (?) That's what I saw, but it may not be what the artist intended.

It's in the annual:

Spoiler

A telepath that Gambit was fighting found something in his head that was leftover from Apocalypse's initial transformation of him, and activated it, temporarily turning him back into his Death look, and using some ability to either disintegrate the guy or suck him into the black card he threw at him, I wasn't quite sure.

I guess they're trying to make him like Angel. Squeekers is not gonna be happy.

Oddly, I don't mind. It kinda shows that he didn't just magically or deliciously simply overcome what was done to him. I just would have liked to have seen the process that Sinister had put Remy through to bring him back to normal. This was better than the whole Horseman thing being ignored.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

And yet, no one notices when I compliment Gambit for once. Wow. Figures.

 

[squeekness]

I saw. I just don't have the game.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Eh, well, you can credit it for getting me into him again. It's been since I was a kid I was able to dig Gambit.

 

[squeekness]

He was wonderful in the X-men game, too. It was the first time I had seen the whole staff slam thing. The Origins movie totally ripped them off.

 

[javi1024]

Gambit was always one of the weakest when i played X-Men Legends. even when i went out of my way to level him up, Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, and Jean were always my strongest.

 

[UraniaChang]

I used him for a couple of times out of sentiment reasons in the game, but in the end I picked Iceman over him.

 

[javi1024]

they really need to come back with X-Men Legends 3 for the new consoles. using Cap and Thor is cool, but im not getting enough of my mutant fix by just picking Wolverine and Iceman.

 

[iamlegend]

And yet, no one notices when I compliment Gambit for once. Wow. Figures.

Well that's only because most of the folks that have been perusing the Gambit/Legacy threads lately aren't aware of some of the feelings you've had in the past. I however, noted it duly. t:

And yes, he's a lot of fun in MUA2. Digging being Gambit again, and they did a good job exercising his powers. I wish they'd of kept the staff slam move he got in Legends over the whole whip around or whatever he does now, but otherwise totally behind it.

And as for the annual...

Worse than I ever expected out of Carey. The best thing for Gambit's character WAS ignoring the Horseman era, the Milligan era in general, and basically everything else from 2000-2007 or so.

And yet we're back at this. Could you not come up with an original plot line Mike? Did you have to go back and dig up something no one liked to begin with? Or are you going to set him up to be "saved" by Rogue?

I'm nearly 100% done with all X-Comics for awhile. Everything has been so awful lately, I don't know if it's worth the money anymore.

Of course, can't go back to Spider-Man, because that's been torn up even worse the last few years.

Why Marvel, why?