Me, before X-Men '97: Two things I hate: nostalgia bait and when characters are brought back from the dead just because the fans want it.
Me, after ep 5: Listen here, bitches. I haven't had to endure 30+ years of Gambit abuse within the comics, the X-Office, and in the general public so you could Make a Statement about how Life is Cruel to an audience old enough to have learned that a long time ago! Y'ALL BETTER BRING REMY BACK ASAP!
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Bringing my childhood crush back on screen and killing him so quickly? Haha. Fuck you.
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Gambit piece for @/YrnBeanz on twitter!
A redraw of this Patrick Brown piece with Gambit's classic outfit: https://www.deviantart.com/patrickbrown/art/Gambit-858114163
Commission info: https://cadhla182.tumblr.com/Commissions
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So I know I've been fixated on this, but the more I think about it, the more signs are pointing to the timeline getting reset. Upon rewatch, there are just so many things about the events of ep5 that simply don't add up if this was meant to be permanent.
First, there was that weird psychic blast that hit Madelyne/Jean right before the attack. What was that about? Could it have been Cable? Possibly. But it seems awkward when it happens right before he shows up in the flesh anyway, so my guess is it had to do with someone else. But who?
It might be a stretch, but given what happened in ep6 with Xavier on his way back to Earth now, I could see it being Charles trying to warn them from the future via time travel tech. I might be way off base on that one, but we've certainly seen weirder things happen.
Also, Rogue wearing a version of her famous first-date-with-Remy dress in the comics only to dance with Magneto while Remy dies without knowing that she'd chosen him is a detail that stands out like a sore thumb. That didn't happen by accident. This was a very deliberate choice by the writers and unless the point of it was to just be intentionally cruel to Gambit AND Romy fans, (and I kind of doubt it was) this is going to come back somehow. These writers have been very reverential to the comics and they had to have known how fans would react to that. If those events aren't going to change so Rogue dances with Gambit instead, (paying off that line in ep1 about suffering her hand for a dance) then why do it this way? To heartbreakingly end one of the most iconic and popular relationships from X-MEN TAS, which was built up over 5 seasons, with no payoff at all? How is that an ending that would satisfy anybody?
Maybe I've got my tinfoil hat on a little too tight right now, but I just don't see any way that this is going to stick. I don't know if the attack will be prevented entirely, (probably not, tbh) but something about that night is going to be changed. You don't establish that the whole reason Cable's here is to stop the attack and then have him completely fail at stopping it.
Maybe Cable, Xavier and Forge put their heads together, get Cable's tech working properly and manage to warn everyone in time to make a difference.
In fact, I read a brilliant theory the other day that Xavier would use Madelyne/Jean as psychic conduits to make the X-men and everyone at the gala remember what happened before the attack starts, giving them enough of a heads up to save themselves. And ep5 was literally titled 'Remember It'; I mean, it could be more perfect.
AND since Sinister was behind the attack, how fitting would it be for Cable (the product of Sinister's machinations) to be the one who thwarts him?
What if Cable and Xavier manage to warn everyone in time, all the mutants of Genosha band together with the X-men to take the Wild Sentinel down and then afterward the gala happens, but with Rogue dancing with Remy this time?
I don't know... that's probably wrapping things up too neatly (and the teases of Remy becoming Death are piling up fast, so we can't rule that out) and I'm sure there are going to be consequences to the Sentinel attack that stick even if they do reset things, but narratively, this would make a lot of sense, not to mention finish the story in a way that doesn't leave Gambit/Romy fans utterly depressed and miserable.
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*breathe in, breathe out*
Okay.
Gonna only say this once.
NEITHER ROGUE NOR GAMBIT WERE CHEATING ON/DISLOYAL TO EACH OTHER DURING TAS OR 97. They "deserve" each other because they really do love each other, but BOTH OF THEM ARE TERRIBLE at making that clear. It's made crystal clear within ep 5 that Rogue and Erik weren't in a relationship; that she and Remy ALSO weren't in a relationship; and in TAS, REMY AND BELLE WEREN'T MARRIED.
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