Originally Posted by asgoodasded
i hope x-3 does well so they decide to make an x-4 AND INCLUDE GAMBIT! i mean damn he has always been one of the most popular charecters.. and vinnie jones has signed a contract to play juggernaut for x3 and x4 so heres hoping.....
Gambit? Not always, that's for sure. Gambit didn't appear until the mid-late 80's, which was a good 20+ years after the X-men were created. Gambit represents to me the worst of the X-men times. Stylistically, he had something going on, but thematically with the X-men, he just didn't fit. X- thief? Storm already fit that bill. Charged kinetic energy? Scott and Alex already had that type of power, and adding the playing cards didn't make it cool, to me. The writer that tried to hint around that Gambit might be a lost Summers brother (X-men 23-ish) dragged that tid bit out forever, and they never went anywhere with it. I guess that was my main problem with the late 80s early 90s X-men, and it's why I stopped reading for so long. They kept trying to weave this silly, 100 issue long threads into the book, with a million crossovers, and I got sick of trying to follow all the loose ends that never seemed to get tied up. gambit was a product of the time, and I didn;t care for the time. Many do seem to like the character, though... So it may just be me.
When I picked up New X-men #114 many years later, it was such a breath of fresh air, and I was ready to toss all my previous X-men stuff right out the window. But, I didn't, I love comics too much.
Anyway, The trailer for this film gave me a little hope. time will tell...