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Rogue: "What am I going to do with
you Remy LeBeau?"
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| Mutant Profile |
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Real name: Remy LeBeau Former aliases: None Identity: Secret Occupation: (current) Adventurer, member of the X-Men, (former) Professional Thief Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana Marital status: Single Known relatives: Jean-Luc LeBeau (father), Bella Donna Boudreaux (wife, separated) Group affiliation: (current) X-Men (former) Thieves Guild (New Orleans) Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, (former) New Orleans, Louisiana; Paris, France; Cairo, Illinois First appearance: X-Men #130 Personality: Remy is a headstrong individual who doesn't take orders well. He is also a rogue who is fond of all women. Remy speaks with a heavy Cajun accent, a legacy of his Creole roots. A loner at heart, he initially was very uncomfortable as a member of the X-Men, but he has grown more at home as part of the family.
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| Physical description and mutant powers |
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Height: 6 ft. 1 in. Weight: 175 lbs. Eyes: Red Hair: Brown Strength: Gambit is a mutant who possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. Fighting Skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing his near perfect agility in streetfighting techniques and acrobatics. Special Skills and Abilities: Bilingual in English and French, ability to throw small objects, including knives, throwing spikes, and playing cards, with extraordinary accuracy. Gambit is also considered, by those in the know, one of the best thieves in the world.
 Known superhuman powers: Gambit has the mutant ability to tap into the potential energy contained within an object and transform it into kinetic energy. When Gambit thus charges an object with kinetic energy and throws it at a target, the object releases this energy explosively on impact. Personal Weaponry: Personal body armour, Telescoping Quarterstaff and playing cards.
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| History |
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A homeless boy wandering the streets, Gambit was adopted by Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the council of the Thieves Guild, a criminal organization based in New Orleans. As part of a peace pact between the Thieves Guild and their rivals, the Assassins Guild, a marriage was arranged between Gambit and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of the head of the Assassins. However, Bella Donna's brother Julien objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. Severely wounding Julien, Gambit was forced to flee New Orleans to prevent war between the two guilds. Gambit wandered the world as he plied his skills as a master thief, aided by his mutant power to charge objects with explosive energy. He employed playing cards he charged with kinetic energy as his trademark weapon. At one point Gambit agreed to assemble the team of assassins called the Marauders for Mister Sinister. Gambit did not realize that Sinister would employ the Marauders to massacre the underground mutant community called the Morlocks.
 Eventually, Gambit encountered the X-Man Storm, who had been transformed into an amnesiac child and who had turned to theft. He helped her escape her enemy, the Shadow King, and they became partners. Later, when Professor Charles Xavier returned from a long period of traveling in outer space, Storm, having regained her memory and true age, sponsored Gambit's admission into the X-Men. Gambit has remained on the team ever since and fell in love with his fellow X-Man Rogue. In the alternate future in which the X-Man Bishop was born, Gambit has become an aged figure who witnessed the betrayal of the X-Men by one of their own members. Bishop suspects is the traitor, unaware that it will be the malevolent entity Onslaught, spawned by Xavier's mind.
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