Codename:
Gambit
Real name: Remy LeBeau
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 175 lbs
Place of Birth: New
Orleans, Louisiana
Relatives: Jean-Luc
(foster-father), Henri (foster-brother, deceased), Mercy (sister-in-law)
Past: Gambit can
charge objects with kinetic energy, causing them to explode. He is extremely
agile and quick, and well trained in the martial arts. His thoughts are
hard to control, and his voice is somewhat hypnotic. As the adopted son
of the leader of the Thieves' Guild of New Orleans, Gambit is also, needless
to say, a phenomenal thief. When Remy was forced to marry his lover Belladonna
to keep the peace between the Theives' Guild and her family's Assassins'
Guild, her brother Julien challenged him and was killed. As a result, Gambit
left New Orleans and apparently ended up in Seattle, where he did some
work for Sinister. In addition, at this point in time Gambit's powers were
flaring out of control, and he has Sinister perform an operation that lowered
them to normal levels. His last job was to assemble a group of operatives
and help them to infiltrate a secret, closed community. These "operatives,"
now known as the Marauders, were let into the Morlock tunnels, where they
commenced the slaughter known as the Mutant Massacre. Gambit tried to stop
them, and was almost gutted by Sabretooth. He did manage to save a little
girl named Sarah, who would one day grow up to be Marrow. Months later,
Gambit ran into the de-aged Storm when they both tried to rob the same
house. The two became a team, and escaped the Shadow King's minions, who
were chasing Storm, and ended up at the ruins of the X-Mansion just in
time to be captured by the Genoshan Army and taken to Genosha for trial.
Upon Professor X's return, Gambit became a charter member of the X-Men's
Blue Team, but always seemed as if he had secrets, which of course, he
did. He very shortly became enamored of Rogue, and the two have pursued
an on-again, off-again relationship ever since. When Belladonna was injured
by the Brood, Gambit faced down the immortal Candra to obtain a cure for
her wounds. While he was an X-Man, however, he could not escape the shadow
of his past, and when the X-Men were captured by Nanny, working for Magneto,
Gambit was put on trial and the full extent of his actions was revealed.
The X-Men escaped, but while Rogue refused to allow Gambit to die in the
collapsing citadel they had been in, she left him to fend for himself in
the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. Somehow, however, he reappeared while
trying to steal the Crimson Gem of Cytorrak, and help Storm and Shadowcat
defeat an ailing Juggernaut. Gambit agreed to return to the X-Men, mainly
for his self-respect and for his love for Rogue. At the time, Gambit was
under the influence of a wraith who constantly threatened him and his friends
if he didn't agree to stay with her forever. Apparently, Remy had made
his way back into Magneto's Antarctic citadel and was starving to death
when he came upon the wraith, a dead mutant girl's psionic essence. This
Mary Purcell bonded with him and allowed him to survive until he reached
the Savage Land, where someone called "The New Son" helped him get back
to civilization. In return, Gambit now runs errands for the New Son, whose
ultimate goal is to reconcile man and mutant. When the X-Men finally found
out about Gambit's parasite, the energy girl fled with Remy to her old
hometown, where she tried to force him to merge with her and become a new
type of hybrid lifeform. While Gambit wrestled with her, Rogue charged
in with a containment unit, which ultimately dispersed Mary. The full effects
of this ordeal are not yet known, as Mary had been subtly manipulating
Gambit's body and increasing his powers to ever-higher levels. Recently,
he travelled to the past, where he encountered Candra and stopped her from
discovering Apocalypse's secrets, helped his father's younger self, and
saved his Tante Mattie from a mob. In order to get home, he had the Sinister
of the era reactivate his full potential power. This upgrade allows Gambit
much more range in his powers. He can detonate things at a distance, without
physical contact, and he can also charge organic matter, which he never
could before. This makes him very dangerous, because he could technically
blow you up from the inside out just by thinking about it. In addition,
his power is now hyperactive, to the point where the slightest emotion
can set off an explosion around him. His power can even heal mortal wounds,
like the stab wound he received from Bullseye. Finally, he now generates
a permanent static energy field around his body. This is what allows him
to touch Rogue: his static field dissipates her power. Unfortunately for
Gambit, two events have disrupted his life recently: his father disappeared,
leaving him in control of the nearly decimated Thieves' Guild of New Orleans,
and the New Son turned against him, hiring many assassins to kill Gambit.
Eventually, New Son revealed that he was actually an alternate reality
version of Remy, who had come to our Earth to prevent it from being destroyed.
Gambit fought the New Son and trapped him between moments in time. Eventually
the New Sun (new name) broke free, confronted Remy and brought him to his
own world. He forced Remy to actualize his full abilities, but then tried
to kill him, as it was the New Sun's own attempt to resurrect the Old Kingdom
that had destroyed his own world. Gambit, however, had no interest in the
power or in dying, so he pushed all of his power into the New Sun, causing
him to explode when a statue impaled him on its spear. Remy was narrowly
rescued by Courier, and returned to our Earth, his powers returned to normal.
Present: It appears
that Gambit will live a very long time, as he seems to be the "LeBeau"
who is the head of Stark-Fujikawa in Bishop's future. This longevity might
be a result of him taking the life serum of Candra at some point in the
future.