Comics The Official GAMBIT Discussion thread

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

It shouldn't really be much of a fight anyway. I mean, its the combined Marauders and Acolytes against 5 X Men.

And one of them is Angel.

It probably went like this...

Scott: Warren, I *know* you can take of yourself, I'm just saying...

Warren: I pwned that Gargoyle chick.

Scott: Sure, but that's not exactly...

Warren: I'm going whether you like it or not. DEAL WITH IT.

Scott: F***n figures. Fine. Odds are you'll come back insane or in a coma and I won't have to deal with it - pun intended - since Bobby's got Sam to fuss all over. Win-win situation, eh.

 

[Canemacar]

Yeah, things didn't exactly go too well for Warren the last time he tangled with the Marauders.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Revenge motif?

Makes the outcome even funnier.

 

[Canemacar]

Especially considering Warren apparently tries to take on Sinister by himself.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Maybe he's hoping his healing blood will cause an overload or something on a healer.

 

[Canemacar]

Ok, when I said Rogue was the least qualified X-man to lead a team, I take it back. Warren's got her beat by miles in the "lacking common freaking sense" category.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Awww.

So we *can* be nice to Roguey once in a while. Totally want that one on the record.

 

[Slant]

Scott said in 204 that he assembled the team that was going to rescue Rogue, right?

If so, it'd be awesome if he purposefully sent Storm in with 4 other X Men (one being Angel) against those odds just to say "Haha I'm the best leader", after they get owned.

Thats why he's drinking the coffee

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Scott said in 204 that he assembled the team that was going to rescue Rogue, right?

If so, it'd be awesome if he purposefully sent Storm in with 4 other X Men (one being Angel) against those odds just to say "Haha I'm the best leader", after they get owned.

Thats why he's drinking the coffee

A definite possibility, yes.

I guess he'll be too busy dealing with Chuck in UXM492 to see some action and will figure it's as good a time as any to tell 492's crew to calm the f**k down.

 

[Canemacar]

A definite possibility, yes.

I guess he'll be too busy dealing with Chuck in UXM492 to see some action and will figure it's as good a time as any to tell 492's crew to calm the f**k down.

Or a Sentinel bursts in on him mid-gloat, KO's Emma, and Bishop saves his ass.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Or a Sentinel bursts in on him mid-gloat, KO's Emma, and Bishop saves his ass.

Please. They're totally gonna tag-team that Sentinel.

 

[Canemacar]

Could someone who has their copy of 204 check something for me? Someone mentioned something about Gambit in it that I think I may have missed. Does Gambit drop the accent when he's alone with Rogue, then pick it right back up as soon as he sees Mystique in the room(and when he's with Sinister and the Marauders earlier in the issue)?

 

[iamlegend]

Could someone who has their copy of 204 check something for me? Someone mentioned something about Gambit in it that I think I may have missed. Does Gambit drop the accent when he's alone with Rogue, then pick it right back up as soon as he sees Mystique in the room(and when he's with Sinister and the Marauders earlier in the issue)?

Eh, I suppose you could argue it, but there wasn't a lot of stuff he said to Rogue that the accent would have changed. I mean, he still called her chere, still used a little bit of French...

Maybe it means something, but I really doubt it.

 

[Slant]

Yeah, he says a French phrase, but he did drop the "Dis" and "Dats", which I think he does use earlier. At least since Carey's been writing him.

 

[DJSCARLET]

didnt cable even mention in the comics that gambits accent didnt sound right? that it sounded forced??

 

[iamlegend]

didnt cable even mention in the comics that gambits accent didnt sound right? that it sounded forced??

Yeah, I recall that.

I don't know where they could be go with it... Any ideas?

 

[Canemacar]

Maybe they're hinting that he overplays the accent on purpose, possibly to appear stupid to most people. Alternatively, the Gambit we've been seeing is a clone/skrull.

 

[iamlegend]

Maybe they're hinting that he overplays the accent on purpose, possibly to appear stupid to most people. Alternatively, the Gambit we've been seeing is a clone/skrull.

Oh I hope not. We've had enough clones to last a damn lifetime in the Marvel Universe, and they should leave the Skrulls to the New Avengers.

Any chance Carey's going for some reveal of Gambit actually forcing the accent to be extra annoying? Maybe Marvel intends to use it as an excuse to ditch the accent for the most part. I know a lot of fans hate it.

 

[DJSCARLET]

Maybe they're hinting that he overplays the accent on purpose, possibly to appear stupid to most people. Alternatively, the Gambit we've been seeing is a clone/skrull.

Any chance Carey's going for some reveal of Gambit actually forcing the accent to be extra annoying? Maybe Marvel intends to use it as an excuse to ditch the accent for the most part. I know a lot of fans hate it.

i just thought it was marvel's way of saying there were some side effects from gambit going back to normal after the whole 'turning to death' thing.

 

[squeekness]

It's probably more like the writer's having forgotten the way the guy speaks. Some writers pay more attention and are mroe consistant with it than others.

 

[Canemacar]

I went and read an on-line transcript of 204 and I noticed a pretty big, and in my opinion deliberate, change in his speech patterns. When he though he was alone, he talked normally, used "this" instead of "dis" but switch immediately back to it when Mystique walked in.

Here's how he was talking when he was alone:

GAMBIT: I went a long way away from you, Rogue. Without explaining. Without saying goodbye. And then I went a long way from myself. Now I come back and you're already gone. But you gonna survive this, Je te jure. Even if you spit in my face. Even if you never let me explain. You don't end here. And you don't end like this.

(I. HATE. ROMY.)

And this is how he started talking to Mystique:

"GAMBIT: Dat's very funny, Mystique --"

"GAMBIT: Den I don't understand you."

 

[iamlegend]

I went and read an on-line transcript of 204 and I noticed a pretty big, and in my opinion deliberate, change in his speech patterns. When he though he was alone, he talked normally, used "this" instead of "dis" but switch immediately back to it when Mystique walked in.

Here's how he was talking when he was alone:

GAMBIT: I went a long way away from you, Rogue. Without explaining. Without saying goodbye. And then I went a long way from myself. Now I come back and you're already gone. But you gonna survive this, Je te jure. Even if you spit in my face. Even if you never let me explain. You don't end here. And you don't end like this.

(I. HATE. ROMY.)

And this is how he started talking to Mystique:

"GAMBIT: Dat's very funny, Mystique --"

"GAMBIT: Den I don't understand you."

Hmm... What could he be up to? The clone/skrull thing would be WAY too much here, and I really doubt that the X-writers would go that far (I mean, they knew how few times the clone thing has worked out in the Marvel U, and the Skrulls are the NA's problem).

 

[Canemacar]

I think Carey is subtlety hinting that he just fakes the accent around people he wants to under-estimate him.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

I think Carey is subtlety hinting that he just fakes the accent around people he wants to under-estimate him.

Well, yeah. Of course the accent was partly fake.

And... A SKRULL???

 

[El Bastardo]

It needn't necessarily be anything more than Carey dropping the vernacular/dialect at a "dramatized" moment. A lot of writing professors hate the use of vernacular/dialect anyway, as they think it makes stuff annoying and/or hard to read. Carey might have been taking a small page out of their playbook and dropping it at a moment where casual dialogue moment ended and a moment of dramatic and intense content started, thus pulling the reader in more.

A little convention and tool to use. Or he forgot. Or it means something.

Though I still think that Nicieza wrote the Cable comment as commentary on the part of Cable, not as a clue that Gambit fakes the accent.