Gambit Returns In X-Men #200
I still have my copy of Uncanny X-Men #266 sitting in near mint condition in a box under my house. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that historic issue, it features the first appearance of a mysterious badass who happened to go by the moniker of "Gambit." It's sort of sad, but I still think of him as a relatively new character, even though that issue is almost seventeen years old now.
Aside from Wolverine, I'm pretty sure that Gambit has what is quite possibly the most convoluted history of the X-Mutants in the Marvel-616 universe (hurray for retcons, huh?); now that Remy is no longer the most emo-est version of Apocalypse's Horseman Death, he's apparently returning in X-Men #200 with the villainous Marauders in tow. Gasp! Horror! Shock!
When Gambit's ruthless decimation of the X-Men begins, will the team stand a chance?...
When the rubble clears, the X-Men won't be the same any more…and one member of this team won't survive!
Uh... no offense, but killing off characters just doesn't hold the same kind of permanency that it used to in the Marvel Universe. But, hey, the comic's being pencilled by the always-excellent Humberto Ramos, so I'll probably pick it up anyway.
Gambit's X-Citing Return In X-Men #200 [Marvel Online]
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Posted to Comics on 29 May 2007
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"It's sort of sad, but I still think of him as a relatively new character, even though that issue is almost seventeen years old now."
It is. It's really sad. Even sadder: I totally relate.
"...killing off characters just doesn't hold the same kind of permanency that it used to in the Marvel Universe."
How true. You know you have a problem when the list of people who have died and come back is longer than the list of people who have died and stayed dead.
He'll be back on the X-Men's side in the end if they want to keep their crappy continuity of X-Men: The End.