Comics The '07 X-Event: Endangered Species, Messiah Complex, & Disassembled

[Valechan]

Funny thing, Predator X reaches the mansionnext issue (x-factor), so probably he won't kill anyone until theother issue, which is new x-men

 

[@JeanGrey]

I am now convinced 100% that Gambit's beating was fake in previous issue.
How possible is it that he recovered in few hours from it?

 

[Valechan]

His secondary mutation is to not being able to die

 

[squeekness]

I am now convinced 100% that Gambit's beating was fake in previous issue.
How possible is it that he recovered in few hours from it?

I keep thinking that too, but then Logan would have to have known Remy was a spy. I like the possiblity, but until that is shown, Remy sure healed fast.

 

[spectre]

this was asked in one of the interviews. i can't remember which writer it was but they said with sinister and exodus on the team remy's wounds were healed pretty quickly.

 

[Manic]

I'm not even a Gambit fan, but I'm convinced he's a spy.

 

[Specter313]

Funny thing, Predator X reaches the mansionnext issue (x-factor), so probably he won't kill anyone until theother issue, which is new x-men

Someone actually dying in New X-Men?!?!? NOOOOOOOO, really?!

 

[DJSCARLET]

MESSIAH COMPLEX PART 12
Showdown. The X-Men vs. The Marauders vs. X-Force vs. The Acolytes vs. New X-Men vs. Predator X. Will the victor get the spoils and claim the baby? Whatever the outcome, the future of mutantkind begins here
Any bets on who is gonna bite the dust?
so far no MAJOR characters have died.

 

[squeekness]

Well we already know that Cable gets the baby back because of the Cable 1 cover. Not many secrets left to be revealed...

 

[iamlegend]

Well we already know that Cable gets the baby back because of the Cable 1 cover. Not many secrets left to be revealed...

Marvel has spoiled quite a bit with their future solicits and writer interviews... Especially in terms of who lives/dies...

 

[Canemacar]

Anyone have scans of the Uncanny 494 fight?

 

[OutcryX]

I'm not even a Gambit fan, but I'm convinced he's a spy.

If Gambit is a spy...explain Sunfire...he joined up right along with Gambit...and he seems to be really enjoying his turn as a bad guy...unless he is just better at playing spy than Gambit and is under deep DEEP cover.

Also with all of Gambit's softness towards his former teammates during their encounters I guess Sunfire kinda counter-balances that by trying to burn their souls from the inside out...and dammit...WHY hasn't Karima shaken Malice yet?

 

[El Bastardo]

I'm not even a Gambit fan, but I'm convinced he's a spy.

I've been convinced of that since his reappearance in X-Men #200. And I was right, just to point that out again. It tends to be a recurring theme. Both my being right and my pointing it out, to be clear.

If Gambit is a spy...explain Sunfire...he joined up right along with Gambit...and he seems to be really enjoying his turn as a bad guy...unless he is just better at playing spy than Gambit and is under deep DEEP cover.

Also with all of Gambit's softness towards his former teammates during their encounters I guess Sunfire kinda counter-balances that by trying to burn their souls from the inside out...and dammit...WHY hasn't Karima shaken Malice yet?

Spy might have been the wrong word. More a... I don't know. Spy works, actually. It conveys the right image and information, but don't think of it as a Cyclops-sent spy. Yes, Gambit and Sunfire joined together, because Sinister approached them together. But while Sunfire's made a real turn, for whatever reason, possibly some weird honor thing between them, Gambit's been working undercover for the good side against the Marauders.

It's just not a matter of him being able to call up the X-boys and say "Yo, here's what Sinister's planning next." Instead, he had to give Cable a clue so Cable could do the mission. He had to attempt to save Cannonball under the guise of destroying Destiny's diaries. And now he, the assumed traitor once more (and sadly, because of Craphead Milligan, technically an actual traitor too), has had to see Bishop, who he did have something of a friendship with definitely, drop very, very low, and in a way very, very similar to what Gambit himself did (which is a nice way of the writers trying to make something good, again, out of what Craphead Milligan did).

 

[spectre]

i'm guessing that gambit has some kind of secret allegiance to cable.

 

[El Bastardo]

Doubtful, and most likely to the ninth power no.

 

[squeekness]

i'm guessing that gambit has some kind of secret allegiance to cable.

No, I think his allegience is to the child, or at the very least he is against the idea of the murder or athe exploitation of an innocent.

 

[spectre]

really? that's been my theory throughout this. how else would gambit know who had the baby, when not even sinister or the x-men did? im guessin gambit helped cable survive the explosion on providence and that he alerted cable to the baby's location in alaska while he and the marauders were en route. and im also very intrigued as to what the hell "one minute before dawn" means.

 

[Canemacar]

Why does everyone think Gambit is working for someone or owes alliegence to anyone? Maybe he's making things happen because *he* wants them to go down like that?

 

[El Bastardo]

really? that's been my theory throughout this. how else would gambit know who had the baby, when not even sinister or the x-men did? im guessin gambit helped cable survive the explosion on providence and that he alerted cable to the baby's location in alaska while he and the marauders were en route. and im also very intrigued as to what the hell "one minute before dawn" means.

Guesses without evidence are meaningless, and are with even less meaning when evidence disproves them.

Sinister did know who had the baby, before, I think, the Cable page was revealed to us. Else it was the issue after. I doubt the information came straight from Gambit, and if it did, and he was in league with Cable, why would he have told Sinister? Rather, Sinister knew, and told his underlings, and Gambit in turn told Wolverine.

Gambit and Sunfire got the flock out of Providence when Cable set it to blow. Gambit didn't help Cable get off Providence. Cable got himself off, through some means - probably some last ounce of power to teleport or time-jump or something, some last wisp of Greymalkin.

In a way, Gambit did alert Cable to the baby's position, and that was through the initial clue he gave him on Providence. The chances the two of them had any dealings past that are very slim, slimmer than Cyke, and Cable would have gotten to the baby first based on unraveling the riddle of the clue.

"One minute before dawn" was the aforementioned clue. As for what it means, it essentially symbolizes, at this moment, the entire game plan Cable has been working off of before Bishop peed in his cheerios. The clue led to Cable solving a riddle which in turn gave him this game plan. And now we're onto Plan B.

 

[spiderfan85]

Anyone have scans of the Uncanny 494 fight?

Here you go.

Spoiler

 

[OutcryX]

awesome....now got any scans of what happens once the x-men show up?

 

[Manic]

Well now. Gambit of all people can't understand why someone would betray the X-Men.

Mole.

 

[Canemacar]

I'm still wondering why Bru gave Gambit a British accent.

 

[El Bastardo]

I'm not entirely sure how an English accent could be given through the spelling of words, but that aside, he didn't.

 

[Canemacar]

I'm not entirely sure how an English accent could be given through the spelling of words, but that aside, he didn't.

The syntax he used for Gambit's dialogue uses the same kind of grammar used mostly by people in the UK. Americans, and especially southerners(much less Cajuns), don't speak that way. Everyone else spoke in a similar way, so it's more a case of Bru being unable to write characters with distinct speech patterns than anything else.