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[squeekness]

Some of that was touched on in X-men The End, but I don't know if that is canon or not.

 

[GambitXremy]

na it wasn't cannon... i didn't like the clone thing... but

Sinister= Black womb= i would like

 

[squeekness]

I don't mind the clone idea but the time line is off. Claremont should research these things. It would have made Gambit too young or Cyke too old.

 

[GambitXremy]

what do you mean... can you explain more on that.

and the black womb project went on for like forever.. and i think was still around after cyke and remy were born

 

[squeekness]

It went something like while Scott was at the orphanage, say a young teenager, Sinister took DNA from him and added it to his own DNA which he then cloned to make Gambit. So is Scott like 12 years older? I figured him as older, but not by so wide a margin. Something like that....

 

[Canemacar]

I'm kinda glad the Black womb thing didn't pan out. Gambit doesn't need government conspiracies, secret labs, or mad scientists in his birth story. just two superstitious people from Louisianna who abandon their devil-eyed child, meaning he grows up alone on the streets. Simple, yet elegant.

 

[squeekness]

I would like to know more about his parents, but only if was a good story and not something stupid.

 

[katie_girl09]

I don't know why, but I always pictured his mother being a scared 14-year old Catholic girl or something...
Weird, I know.

 

[squeekness]

There are lots of Catholics in New Orleans.

 

[katie_girl09]

Yeah, that's why I always pictured that I guess.
I think that would be more effective than anything supernatural.

 

[DJSCARLET]

Oddly enough there are alot of fanfictions were Gambit's mom is a prostitute. Most of the time the father is Cosair or Sinister.
Not really a bad idea.

 

[katie_girl09]

Really? Wow. See? I was on to something!

 

[GambitXremy]

I'm kinda glad the Black womb thing didn't pan out. Gambit doesn't need government conspiracies, secret labs, or mad scientists in his birth story. just two superstitious people from Louisianna who abandon their devil-eyed child, meaning he grows up alone on the streets. Simple, yet elegant.

the whole story got left open so future writers can run with it

 

[Canemacar]

Oddly enough there are alot of fanfictions were Gambit's mom is a prostitute. Most of the time the father is Cosair or Sinister.
Not really a bad idea.

I can see the prostitute as mother thing, though it does verge on the overdramatic, but Corsair or Sinister as the father kills it IMO. Not everyone needs to be a long-lost member of the Summers family or related to a villain. I *like* that Gambit's family is completely seperate from the X-men; he needs that individuality.

 

[DJSCARLET]

Nothing can be as overdramatic as Remy's origin in X-men: The End and Vulcun's origins.

 

[squeekness]

Vulcan's origins might have been a bit over the top, but I still liked him as a character until he went uber nutty.

 

[GambitXremy]

Vulcan's origins might have been a bit over the top, but I still liked him as a character until he went uber nutty.

they need to give him more depth.... more emotion

 

[squeekness]

I haven't read anything of the new stuff. I left off when he became Emperor. I don't care much for the Shi'ar and all that and none of my faves were involved so I've lost touch with what is happening with him now.

 

[iamlegend]

I don't mind the clone idea but the time line is off. Claremont should research these things. It would have made Gambit too young or Cyke too old.

The clone idea was... well, it was better than Claremont's original design.

While I agree with the general idea that Gambit's origin should be relatively normal (that meaning, an abandoned child of overly religious parents), his relationship with Sinister does need to be explored.

Over the years the writers have made plain that Sinister has a particular interest in Gambit, for whatever reason. Even if it's for a relatively mundane purpose, it's high time that they explained why and closed that chapter of Gambit's life.

 

[GambitXremy]

X-men origins: Gambit

 

[Specter313]

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X-MEN ORIGINS: GAMBIT #1


STORY BY Mike Carey
ART BY David Yardin
COVER BY David Yardin
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
COVER PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE DATE: Wed, June 10th, 2009

Remy LeBeau is one of the X-Men's biggest guns, but he started out on the other side of the equation, alongside Mister Sinister's Marauders. From New Orleans to the Mutant Massacre and beyond, this is the story of the Ragin' Cajun's transformation from villain to hero - and what it cost him...

 

[Havok83]

Carey's wrting this? At least the art looks great

 

[GambitXremy]

it's going to be good because rogues not in it

 

[Havok83]

it's going to be good because rogues not in it

I woudlnt be surprised if it was retconned that she played a role earlier in his life without either one of them knowing it

 

[GambitXremy]

I woudlnt be surprised if it was retconned that she played a role earlier in his life without either one of them knowing it

i hope not that would just be nonsense