Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 1:23:18 GMT -5
First Name: Remy
Last Name: LeBeau
Alias or Nick-name: Le Diable Blanc, Robert Lord, Dirge, Death, Black Gambit
Eyes: Red
Hair: Brown
Persuasion: Currently Evil
Powers/Weapons:Gambit can charge inanimate objects with kinetic energy giving them explosive power. One of his trademark tricks is to hurl playing cards at an opponent, charging each card and turning it into a deadly projectile. His other tricks have included charging a wad of chewing gum when he was otherwise entirely tied up and charging the floor of an entire room, causing it to explode with great force.
He often wields an adamantium telescopic staff and has enhanced agility and stamina. On several occasions he has shown an ability to charm people through mild hypnosis and seems able to scramble attempts at mind reading and psychic attacks because of the charged potential energy always in his body. This charming ability may not be a result of hypnosis but appears to have the potential to be an empathy-based power. It has been mentioned that it becomes less effective to people who are aware of this ability.
Prior to being a revealed character he had the ability to control all forms of kinetic energy allowing him to charge anything, but his inability to control it caused him to go to Sinister. Later he went back to Sinister and had his powers increased again, until he burned them out after fighting the New Son.
It has been inferred that Gambit's ability to generate 'kinetic energy' will some day evolve into control of motion and time. The first example of this was New Son, a temporal clone of Gambit raised by a government organization. He created a fortress, the Crystal Cathedral, in the middle of time and space, and could teleport people into and out of it. The second example was The Witness, a possible future version of Gambit. He could see through time and bring things through time.
His power's true potential, though permanently excised now, is to control all manner of kinetic energy, allowing him to fire energy blasts, defy gravity and effectively exist as energy
As the Horseman Death, Gambit has shown the ability to convert inert materials into toxic substances; for example, transforming breathable air into poisonous gases.
History: Remy LeBeau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was abandoned at birth due to his burning red eyes. The child was kidnapped by members of the New Orleans Thieves Guild. They referred to the child as "le diable blanc" ("the white devil") and believed he was prophesied to unite the warring Thieves and Assassins Guilds. Soon after, Remy was placed in the care of a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery. After living as an orphan on the streets, Remy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then patriarch of the Thieves Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy off the streets and adopted him into his own family. In an attempt to reconcile the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, Remy married Bella Donna Boudreaux, daughter of the head Assassin. Unfortunately, he was challenged by her brother Julien to a duel after the wedding. In the duel, Gambit killed Julien, and he was exiled from the city and his relationship with Bella.
Not much is known of Gambit’s life over the following years since his exile from New Orleans, except that he wandered the world and became a master thief. He also made many contacts (and quite a few enemies) during that time. At one point Remy approached the master geneticist Mister Sinister for help in controlling his powers. Sinister surgically altered Remy's brain to reduce his power levels, thus affording him a greater degree of control. Gambit undertook several missions for Sinister, since he was indebted to him. Eventually, Gambit refused to serve him longer. Sinister decided to declare their debt settled after one last mission.
This mission included collecting a group of superpowered mercenaries (except Sabretooth, who was recruited by Gambit's friend and Sinister's right hand John Greycrow a.k.a. Scalphunter) and lead them into the tunnel of the subterranean mutant tribe called the Morlocks. Remy was under the mistaken belief that Sinister just wanted to gather knowledge on mutants or capture them. However, he was horrified to learn the truth, as the Marauders started slaughtering all Morlocks upon arriving. Unable to stop the killers, he managed to at least save one little girl named Sarah from them and took her to safety. The young Morlock girl grew up to become the X-Man named Marrow.
After much wandering around the world, he rescued Storm from Nanny when she had been transformed into a child. After taking her on a stealing spree across America, she brought him back to the X-Men. Gambit fought alongside the X-Men, learning as much as he could about them without revealing details of his past, not even his real name. Only Wolverine had his doubts about the Cajun, which led to a Danger Room duel between them that Gambit easily won (which might have to do with his rigging the fight).
When the original five X-Men rejoined and the X-Men were divided into two squads, Gambit became part of the Blue team under CyclopsEleadership. He became interested in one of his teammates in particular, Rogue, and started flirting with her, despite her off-putting manner and the obstacle of her uncontrollable power that prevented anyone from touching her. They started becoming more and more interested in each other, even though their first date was disrupted by a villain’s attack. Even still, the two fell in love.
It was eventually revealed that Remy had a dark secret. Rogue was so traumatized by absorbing his memories in Israel that she ran away from the X-Men for a time. Later, at a mockery of a trial, she was forced to kiss him again, revealing that he had assembled the team of Marauders for Sinister that later killed most of the Morlocks, outcast mutants living in New York's sewers, regardless of the previously written story that showed the Marauders had followed one of the Morlocks' own members, Tommie, to their home beneath the city. This apparent revelation and absorbing Gambit's own guilty memories caused Rogue to reject him.
Remy was subsequently captured and brought before a mock trial held by Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism, then disguised as Erik the Red. Remy was summarily cast out of the X-Men and was abandoned in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Starving to death, Remy made his way back into Magneto's citadel, where he encountered the psionic essence of a dead mutant named Mary Purcell. The wraith-like Mary bonded with him, allowing him to survive until he reached the Savage Land, a hidden jungle nestled in the icy wasteland. There, Remy struck a deal with the enigmatic being known as the New Son. In exchange for passage back to America, Remy agreed to run errands for the New Son.
When Gambit's psyche absorption had worn off, Rogue spent months searching for Gambit, to no avail. Remy encountered the X-Men again when he attempted to steal the fabled Crimson Gem of Cyttorak for his new employer. He agreed to return to the team, mainly for his self-respect and for Rogue. At one point he became the field leader of a branch of X-Men. His love for Rogue was still intact, but her inability to control her powers made her break it off out of fear of hurting him.
Meanwhile, the New Son revealed his true identity after organizing an assassination game for a cadre of super-powered mercenaries with Remy as the target. The attempt failed, and Remy learned that the New Son was an alternate reality version of himself. In his reality, the New Son's kinetic charging powers had flared out of control, burning the world and killing everyone but himself. As a result, the New Son hunted down and killed versions of himself in other realities to ensure that they would not repeat his mistakes. During their final battle, Remy burned through his enhanced powers to defeat the New Son, returning his powers to their normal level.
He later joined the team searching for the Books of Truth. Remy was then framed by mutant businessman Sebastian Shaw for the death of the Australian crime lord named Viceroy. With the assistance of Rogue, her team of X-Treme X-Men, and former Triad member Red Lotus, Gambit was able to clear his name. Soon after, Remy became embroiled in the X-Men's fight against an alien invasion of Earth led by the interdimensional warlord Khan, after trying to assemble the 'Madripoor Set', a group of seven gems. He was captured and used as a power source for the invaders to open a portal that would allow their full invasion fleet to pass through and complete the conquest of Earth. The X-Treme team's enemy, the enhanced human named Vargas, attempted to halt the process. Rogue tried to shield Remy against Vargas' sword, and he impaled them both as a prize for her fidelity. The couple survived, but lost their mutant abilities. As a result, he and the also powerless Rogue sought to live a normal life together and retired from the X-Men to also sort out their relationship.
When they returned, they were still both powerless. Shortly afterwards, however, Sage "jump-started" his powers, with Rogue's aid. However, this proved to be more of a curse than a blessing when one of Gambit's cards quite literally blew up in his face, blinding him. Gambit remained blind for several months, until Sage managed to restore his eyesight with her abilities once more. As Storm felt he needed time for rehabilitation, Gambit (along with Rogue) was not on her team anymore. Apparently feeling differently, Cyclops assigned both of them to another X-Men squad led by Havok, despite the fact that neither one (or any of the other members on the squad) is happy with being there.
Displeased with Rogue's choice of love, her foster mother, Mystique, infiltrated Xavier's Institute by shapeshifting into a student called Foxx. She joined Gambit's squad in an attempt to ruin his relationship with Rogue. After Gambit resisted her charms, Mystique reverted to her true form, and then offered Gambit something significantly more difficult to refuse: she transformed into Rogue and offered Gambit a Rogue whom he could have a physical relationship with. Whether or not they engaged in a relationship is uncertain, however. Rogue eventually discovered both her mother's presence in the school and the fact that Gambit had tried to cover it up. This led to the exact rift Mystique was hoping for, and allowed her to set up her daughter with her accomplice, Pulse.
Upon the return of Apocalypse, Gambit submitted himself to Apocalypse and was revealed as the newest member of the current incarnation of the Horsemen of Death, at the end of X-Men #184. Gambit seems to have intended to insinuate himself into Apocalypse's ranks in order to protect the X-Men from the High Lord's eventual betrayal, but he miscalculated, as the transformation process warped his mind as well as his body. As a result of becoming Death VI, Gambit's hair has turned white and his skin turned deep black. Despite having his mind and body twisted, Gambit still retains a large portion of his former self, stating to Apocalypse "I'm both Death and Gambit" and even remembers how deeply he cares for Rogue as he could not bring himself to kill her.
Comic character is from: X-Men, Gambit
Last Name: LeBeau
Alias or Nick-name: Le Diable Blanc, Robert Lord, Dirge, Death, Black Gambit
Eyes: Red
Hair: Brown
Persuasion: Currently Evil
Powers/Weapons:Gambit can charge inanimate objects with kinetic energy giving them explosive power. One of his trademark tricks is to hurl playing cards at an opponent, charging each card and turning it into a deadly projectile. His other tricks have included charging a wad of chewing gum when he was otherwise entirely tied up and charging the floor of an entire room, causing it to explode with great force.
He often wields an adamantium telescopic staff and has enhanced agility and stamina. On several occasions he has shown an ability to charm people through mild hypnosis and seems able to scramble attempts at mind reading and psychic attacks because of the charged potential energy always in his body. This charming ability may not be a result of hypnosis but appears to have the potential to be an empathy-based power. It has been mentioned that it becomes less effective to people who are aware of this ability.
Prior to being a revealed character he had the ability to control all forms of kinetic energy allowing him to charge anything, but his inability to control it caused him to go to Sinister. Later he went back to Sinister and had his powers increased again, until he burned them out after fighting the New Son.
It has been inferred that Gambit's ability to generate 'kinetic energy' will some day evolve into control of motion and time. The first example of this was New Son, a temporal clone of Gambit raised by a government organization. He created a fortress, the Crystal Cathedral, in the middle of time and space, and could teleport people into and out of it. The second example was The Witness, a possible future version of Gambit. He could see through time and bring things through time.
His power's true potential, though permanently excised now, is to control all manner of kinetic energy, allowing him to fire energy blasts, defy gravity and effectively exist as energy
As the Horseman Death, Gambit has shown the ability to convert inert materials into toxic substances; for example, transforming breathable air into poisonous gases.
History: Remy LeBeau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was abandoned at birth due to his burning red eyes. The child was kidnapped by members of the New Orleans Thieves Guild. They referred to the child as "le diable blanc" ("the white devil") and believed he was prophesied to unite the warring Thieves and Assassins Guilds. Soon after, Remy was placed in the care of a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery. After living as an orphan on the streets, Remy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then patriarch of the Thieves Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy off the streets and adopted him into his own family. In an attempt to reconcile the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, Remy married Bella Donna Boudreaux, daughter of the head Assassin. Unfortunately, he was challenged by her brother Julien to a duel after the wedding. In the duel, Gambit killed Julien, and he was exiled from the city and his relationship with Bella.
Not much is known of Gambit’s life over the following years since his exile from New Orleans, except that he wandered the world and became a master thief. He also made many contacts (and quite a few enemies) during that time. At one point Remy approached the master geneticist Mister Sinister for help in controlling his powers. Sinister surgically altered Remy's brain to reduce his power levels, thus affording him a greater degree of control. Gambit undertook several missions for Sinister, since he was indebted to him. Eventually, Gambit refused to serve him longer. Sinister decided to declare their debt settled after one last mission.
This mission included collecting a group of superpowered mercenaries (except Sabretooth, who was recruited by Gambit's friend and Sinister's right hand John Greycrow a.k.a. Scalphunter) and lead them into the tunnel of the subterranean mutant tribe called the Morlocks. Remy was under the mistaken belief that Sinister just wanted to gather knowledge on mutants or capture them. However, he was horrified to learn the truth, as the Marauders started slaughtering all Morlocks upon arriving. Unable to stop the killers, he managed to at least save one little girl named Sarah from them and took her to safety. The young Morlock girl grew up to become the X-Man named Marrow.
After much wandering around the world, he rescued Storm from Nanny when she had been transformed into a child. After taking her on a stealing spree across America, she brought him back to the X-Men. Gambit fought alongside the X-Men, learning as much as he could about them without revealing details of his past, not even his real name. Only Wolverine had his doubts about the Cajun, which led to a Danger Room duel between them that Gambit easily won (which might have to do with his rigging the fight).
When the original five X-Men rejoined and the X-Men were divided into two squads, Gambit became part of the Blue team under CyclopsEleadership. He became interested in one of his teammates in particular, Rogue, and started flirting with her, despite her off-putting manner and the obstacle of her uncontrollable power that prevented anyone from touching her. They started becoming more and more interested in each other, even though their first date was disrupted by a villain’s attack. Even still, the two fell in love.
It was eventually revealed that Remy had a dark secret. Rogue was so traumatized by absorbing his memories in Israel that she ran away from the X-Men for a time. Later, at a mockery of a trial, she was forced to kiss him again, revealing that he had assembled the team of Marauders for Sinister that later killed most of the Morlocks, outcast mutants living in New York's sewers, regardless of the previously written story that showed the Marauders had followed one of the Morlocks' own members, Tommie, to their home beneath the city. This apparent revelation and absorbing Gambit's own guilty memories caused Rogue to reject him.
Remy was subsequently captured and brought before a mock trial held by Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism, then disguised as Erik the Red. Remy was summarily cast out of the X-Men and was abandoned in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Starving to death, Remy made his way back into Magneto's citadel, where he encountered the psionic essence of a dead mutant named Mary Purcell. The wraith-like Mary bonded with him, allowing him to survive until he reached the Savage Land, a hidden jungle nestled in the icy wasteland. There, Remy struck a deal with the enigmatic being known as the New Son. In exchange for passage back to America, Remy agreed to run errands for the New Son.
When Gambit's psyche absorption had worn off, Rogue spent months searching for Gambit, to no avail. Remy encountered the X-Men again when he attempted to steal the fabled Crimson Gem of Cyttorak for his new employer. He agreed to return to the team, mainly for his self-respect and for Rogue. At one point he became the field leader of a branch of X-Men. His love for Rogue was still intact, but her inability to control her powers made her break it off out of fear of hurting him.
Meanwhile, the New Son revealed his true identity after organizing an assassination game for a cadre of super-powered mercenaries with Remy as the target. The attempt failed, and Remy learned that the New Son was an alternate reality version of himself. In his reality, the New Son's kinetic charging powers had flared out of control, burning the world and killing everyone but himself. As a result, the New Son hunted down and killed versions of himself in other realities to ensure that they would not repeat his mistakes. During their final battle, Remy burned through his enhanced powers to defeat the New Son, returning his powers to their normal level.
He later joined the team searching for the Books of Truth. Remy was then framed by mutant businessman Sebastian Shaw for the death of the Australian crime lord named Viceroy. With the assistance of Rogue, her team of X-Treme X-Men, and former Triad member Red Lotus, Gambit was able to clear his name. Soon after, Remy became embroiled in the X-Men's fight against an alien invasion of Earth led by the interdimensional warlord Khan, after trying to assemble the 'Madripoor Set', a group of seven gems. He was captured and used as a power source for the invaders to open a portal that would allow their full invasion fleet to pass through and complete the conquest of Earth. The X-Treme team's enemy, the enhanced human named Vargas, attempted to halt the process. Rogue tried to shield Remy against Vargas' sword, and he impaled them both as a prize for her fidelity. The couple survived, but lost their mutant abilities. As a result, he and the also powerless Rogue sought to live a normal life together and retired from the X-Men to also sort out their relationship.
When they returned, they were still both powerless. Shortly afterwards, however, Sage "jump-started" his powers, with Rogue's aid. However, this proved to be more of a curse than a blessing when one of Gambit's cards quite literally blew up in his face, blinding him. Gambit remained blind for several months, until Sage managed to restore his eyesight with her abilities once more. As Storm felt he needed time for rehabilitation, Gambit (along with Rogue) was not on her team anymore. Apparently feeling differently, Cyclops assigned both of them to another X-Men squad led by Havok, despite the fact that neither one (or any of the other members on the squad) is happy with being there.
Displeased with Rogue's choice of love, her foster mother, Mystique, infiltrated Xavier's Institute by shapeshifting into a student called Foxx. She joined Gambit's squad in an attempt to ruin his relationship with Rogue. After Gambit resisted her charms, Mystique reverted to her true form, and then offered Gambit something significantly more difficult to refuse: she transformed into Rogue and offered Gambit a Rogue whom he could have a physical relationship with. Whether or not they engaged in a relationship is uncertain, however. Rogue eventually discovered both her mother's presence in the school and the fact that Gambit had tried to cover it up. This led to the exact rift Mystique was hoping for, and allowed her to set up her daughter with her accomplice, Pulse.
Upon the return of Apocalypse, Gambit submitted himself to Apocalypse and was revealed as the newest member of the current incarnation of the Horsemen of Death, at the end of X-Men #184. Gambit seems to have intended to insinuate himself into Apocalypse's ranks in order to protect the X-Men from the High Lord's eventual betrayal, but he miscalculated, as the transformation process warped his mind as well as his body. As a result of becoming Death VI, Gambit's hair has turned white and his skin turned deep black. Despite having his mind and body twisted, Gambit still retains a large portion of his former self, stating to Apocalypse "I'm both Death and Gambit" and even remembers how deeply he cares for Rogue as he could not bring himself to kill her.
Comic character is from: X-Men, Gambit
