From: rjc2870@rigel.tamu.edu (CLAYCOMB, RICHARD JAMES)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: GAMBIT IS COOL
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:59:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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In article <92095.224213RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu>, RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu writes...
>Am I the only one who thinks that Gambit is the coolest mutant of them all?
>Never mind the fact that it's "fated" that he betrays the X-Men and all that
>jazz but he's the only one of them with style.  He's also beat up on
>Wolverine "Bang you dead!"

Yeah!  I agree with you completely.  In my opinion Gambit is the only one of 
the X-Men who can stand on his own without using his powers.  I mean, look at
the X-tinction Agenda, in issue 274 of the X-Men Gambit saves everyone's ass
from Commander Hodge.  Seems like while the rest of the mutants were hanging
on the walls bemoaning their fate, Gambit was the only one clever enough to
find a way out of the whole mess, ala pull spike from leg and pick lock stunt!
I'll have to hand it to Psylock too though, nice escape. :) 

As for Gambit being the traitor of the X-Men, somehow I doubt it.  It seems too
obvious that the first X-Man to be accused will turn out to be the traitor in 
the end.  I think it's...Jubilee!  haha! just kidding...

I don't really know if Gambit could take Wolverine down in a fight though.  Wolv
was on the down and out when Gambit beat him in the danger-room.  I think that
Gambit might possibly best Wolverine if he would energize something instead of
just swinging away.  In Uncanny X-Men 277 Gambit could have killed Woverine
(the "clone") but he wouldn't energize the spear after driving it through the 
guy.  I would have loved to see someone blow a smoking hole right through 
Wolverine just for the reader shock value, but that probably won't happen for a
while, if ever.  Don't get me wrong, I like Wolverine too! But a little 
variation never hurt anyone.

    If there was EVER one mutant Gambit should have been able to take out it 
would have been Bishop.  Why-oh-WHY (!) did the last X-Men cover have Bishop 
standing over Gambit's corpse?  Gambit could have mopped the floor with him!
Bishop's mutant absorption power or whatever you want to call it was completely
useless against Gambit's projectiles.  I doubt Bishop's strength would come 
that much into play either seeing as how Gambit has fought the Gladiator before 
and held his own despite being out-strengthed.  And as for Bishop's gun...
(plasma-gun is it?) haha! Gambit is near impossible to hit with anything so
uncreative.  He completely tore into Forge back in X-Men no 3, reflecting the
bullets back for insult. Yow!  Bishop really picked the wrong mutant to provoke.
I imagine that if Bishop can power up off someone else first, things might
get a little more interesting...hmmm.....

>characters as if they all talked liked Wolverine i.e "We take care of our
>own".  Man, if I read that damn line again, I'll rip that page out and eat
>it. 

Tell me about it.  The same old lines are starting to annoy me.
example-"The psychic knife!  The totality of my psychic powers!"
       -"The psychic knife!  The focus of my psychic powers!  Against it you are
         helpless."
       -"The psychic knife!  The focused totality of my psychic powers."

Some new lines for the whole team would be nice.  I could handle it. :)   
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