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| Identity = Secret
 
| Identity = Secret
 
| Alignment = Good
 
| Alignment = Good
| Affiliation = [[X-Men (Earth-295)|X-Men]], formally [[X-Ternals (Earth-295)|X-Ternals]], Thieves Guild
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| Affiliation = {{M|X-Men}}, formally [[X-Ternals (Earth-295)|X-Ternals]], Thieves Guild
 
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| Universe = Earth-295
 
| Universe = Earth-295

Revision as of 07:05, 18 October 2011

History

When Legion, the mentally unbalanced mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller, traveled back in time in an attempt to kill Magneto, he accidentally killed Xavier instead, creating a splinter universe known as the Age of Apocalypse. In that reality, mutants became the dominant species of the planet. Apocalypse rose to power enslaved humanity.

Early Years

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Gambit started out as an adopted baby by the Thieves Guild of New Orleans who trained him to become a thief in the following years. The Thieves Guild leader, Candra, joined forces with Apocalypse and became one of his Horsemen, but she was later killed by Holocaust during the Horsemen's War of Succession[1]. During those recovering days, Gambit fled the Thieves Clan and hid in the ruins of New Orleans, that got destroyed during the war. He first met the X-Men while they were fighting some of Apocalypse' Infinite soldiers. Gambit saw the Infinite's leader, Havok, attempting to kill Magneto but intercepted the blast[2].

Magneto invited Gambit to join the X-Men and the two became close friends. He became romantically involved with his teammate Rogue and even wanted to marry her. However, on the night he planned to propose, he saw Rogue kissing Magneto who had found a way to shut down her absorbing powers. Moments later, an agent of Apocalypse called Wolverine attacked the X-Men and badly injured both Gambit and Magneto. Rogue made her choice by first saving Magneto and then Gambit. His feelings crushed, Gambit left the team[3].

X-Ternals

In recent times Gambit formed his own group of mutant thieves: the X-Ternals. They stole from mutants in order to help common humans in need. During this time, Gambit found a new girlfriend: Lila Cheney[1]. Magneto would begin seeking out Gambit and ask him to return to the X-Men. Gambit, not aware of where Magneto was located would go to the bar Heaven, to get the location of Magneto's base from it's owner Angel, unaware that they were being watched by Sebastian Shaw. Gambit would arrive at the ruins of the Xavier estate just as Rogue and Magneto would be bombarded with temporal feedback when Rogue would use her powers to attempt to absorb the memories of the time displaced mutant Bishop[4]. This would cause Magneto to know that there existenced of a reality where Apocalypse was not its ruler, he wanted to make that reality happen. In order to do that, he asked Gambit to steal the M'Kraan Crystal, the Nexus of All Realities. Deciding to take on the mission, Gambit would say goodbye to Rogue, almost kissing her had he not been interrupted by Blink[5].

Gambit would recruit his X-Ternals to help out on this mission, gathering them after yet another clash with Madri Richter who was constantly attempting to capture the X-Ternals to win Apocalypse's favor. Accompanying Magneto, Gambit and his X-Ternals would break into the facility where Apocalypse kept details star charts so that they could learn the location of the Shi'ar galaxy. While Gambit and his fellow thieves kept Richter and his forces at bay, Magneto and Peter Corbeau would find the Shi'ar galaxy and use a device to activate Lila's latent teleportation abilities. Lila would teleport, Gambit, the X-Ternals and (accidentally) Madri Richter to the far off world[1].

There, Gambit and his friends would clash with the Imperial Guard, a team of super-guardians of the insane Emperor D'Ken who sought to take the M'Kraan Crystal himself and take over all reality. Gambit and the others would flee, and be taken to safety by the Shi'ar/Mephastaphoid hybrid known as Jonath who would tell Gambit and the X-Ternals about the history of the crystal. They would be attacked by the Imperial Guard again (joined by Richter) however the unstable crystal would begin it crystallization wave of the planet. Gambit and the X-Ternals would be rescued by the Starjammers who would teleport them aboard their ship before the wave could hit them[6]. The Starjammer's leader Deathbird would lead Gambit and the X-Ternals to the world where the M'Kraan Crystal was located. There Gambit, Lila and Deathbird would be led into the crystal by it's guardian Jahf who would tell Gambit that the universe was doomed due to the death of Charles Xavier years ago. Inside the crystal they would find that D'Ken had been immobilized by it. Jahf would tell Gambit that one could not just take from the crystal, they would have to give it an offering. Gambit would give up his lasting love of Rogue in order to obtain a shard. Succeeding, Gambit, the X-Ternals and Richter would teleport back to Earth, however not without their teammate Sunspot sacrificing his life[7].

The X-Ternals would materialize in the Morlock tunnels, where not only would they have to try and escape Richter, but would find that their teammate Guido was really a double agent working for Apocalypse. Not only would Guido steal a shard of the M'Kraan Crystal, he would also capture Magneto's son Charles and bring both to Apocalypse. Gambit and Lila would be found by the X-Men Exodus and Dazzler[8]. Brought back to the surface, Gambit would tell Rogue that her son would be kidnapped, and would be hit by Rogue for letting Guido take her son. Despite this, Gambit and Lila would join a strike force of X-Men being gathered to storm Apocalypse's citadel to save Magneto, Charles and recover the M'Kraan Crystal[9].

Storming Magneto's citadel, Gambit would come across the Dark Beast who had been beaten by his escaped slaves, and drag him along with the X-Men so that he could not raise any alarms. Finding the crystal, the X-Men would find that Apocalypse had left a trap for them. Gambit would help fight off the forces of Apocalypse. When his teammate Colossus would go mad over the fact that his sister was sent with Bishop and Destiny into the M'Kraan Crystal to stabilize reality, Gambit would be forced to kill him to prevent him from injuring everyone. Ultimately, the X-Men would succeed in stabilizing reality and slaying Apocalpyse, but not before the Human High Council would send nuclear bombs on Apocalypse's domain[10]. Nuclear Armageddon would be avoided thanks to the secret intervention of Jean Grey, something that everyone would believe that Magneto was responsible[11].

Return to the X-Men

Gambit would rejoin the X-Men, who would begin to rebuild America and restore it's government. Magneto would become the head of the Department of Mutant Affairs, and the X-Men would be charged with rounding up all those who willingly aided Apocalypse. Primary among those would be Sinister, whom, unaware to Gambit and the other X-Men had blackmailed Magneto into staying away by threatening to expose the truth as to how the Earth was saved.

In this new capacity as bounty hunters, Gambit would join the X-Men in their premiere mission: capturing the Hellions which would go off as a complete success[12]. When mutant activity was detected in Mexico, Gambit would join Magneto, Quicksilver and Sunfire to investigate. There they would find the reality hopping Exiles (which included former X-Men Blink, Sabretooth and Apocalypse's son Holocaust) were searching an abandoned lab owned by the Dark Beast for information on the M'Kraan Crystal. Not understanding why their former comrades would side with one of their greatest enemies, a fight would break out. The Exiles would easily defeat Gambit and the other X-Men and leave the scene, leaving them to wonder what they were up to[13].

Gambit would return to the X-Men just as a revenge plot by abandoned X-Man Paige Guthrie would be stopped. Before Paige's death, she would reveal Magneto's deception to the group[14]. Telling his teammates the truth, Magneto would lead the X-Men to Liberty Island to apprehend Sinister[15]. A fight would break out between the X-Men and the Sinister Six. During the fight, Cloak would swallow up Gambit, Dazzler, and Nightcrawler in his Darkforce Dimension. Storm would attempt to save them, but only Nightcrawler and Dazzler would return. They would tell Storm that Gambit was lost in that realm, and is presumed dead[16].

Attributes

Powers

Telekinetically charges up lifeless objects with an explosive result. This is so powerful as to shred Colossus in his armored form and kill the nigh invincible Wolverine (servant of Holocaust).

Weaknesses

Gambit's eyes are light-sensitive, which temporarily impairs his vision when exposed to bright light.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Bo-staff, playcards

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