Warning! Spoilers ahead for Uncanny X-Men #6!Marvel just revived one ofGambit’smost underrated powers in a unique way, making the card-throwing mutant even more powerful and a major asset to Rogue’sX-Menteam.Gambit is known for his suave charmand iconic playing cards he charges up in battle, but that’s not all the cajun can do, as the X-Men reveal Remy LeBeau has telepathic superpowers.
InUncanny X-Men#6 – written by Gail Simone, with art by Javier Garrón – theX-Men’s new member Calicogoes into a rage, knocking out Wolverine, and Gambit is the only one who is able to talk her down. When Gambit talks to Calico, he has her look into his eyes and gets her to admit she’s a mutant, despite Calico normally insisting she’s not.
Rogue explains Gambit has a unique way with people, whether it’s charming them or getting under their skin, subtly hinting at Gambit’s forgotten telepathic ability to influence people to agree with him.
Marvel Revives One of Gambit’s Lesser Known Abilities, Making Him Twice as Powerful
Uncanny X-Men#6 – Written By Gail Simone; Art By Javier Garrón; Color By Matthew Wilson; Lettering By Clayton Cowles
Gambit is known for his ability to charge and detonate objects with kinetic energy, buthe can also use his kinetic energy in other ways, such as generating a static field to protect himself from psychics, and by creating hypnotic tones in his voice to hypnotize people. Though Gambit doesn’t often flaunt his more psychic abilities, he has used them on occasion to forcepsychics like Psylocke from reading his mind.Other telepaths, like the villainous Shadow King, have evenacknowledged Gambit’s hypnotic voice and telepathic abilities as significant threats.
Gambit’s hypnotic tones, established in his introduction, make telepathic powers one of Gambit’s oldest mutant abilities.
In Gambit’s first appearance – inUncanny X-Men#266, by Scott Lobdell and Roger Cruz – Gambit uses his telepathic powers to easily hypnotize the Shadow King and two hounds. A young Storm is surprised by his abilities, noting the villains can’t help but be drawn to Gambit’s words, as if in a trance. Gambit’s hypnotic tones established in his introduction make telepathic powers one of Gambit’s oldest mutant abilities, and with Gambit now using his powers to encourage the new wave of X-Men, it makes him twice as powerful and a formidable leader.
Gambit Is The Unrecognized Powerhouse Of The X-Men And His Secret Powers Prove It
Gambit is irrefutably a top-tier smooth talker, but his low-level psychic abilities and hypnotic voice play a large role in his charm, making his psychic powers a fascinating secret weapon for the X-Men. One significant aspect about Gambit many overlook is how powerful Gambit initially was, withGambit needing Mister Sinister to cut out a piece of his brainso he could control his abilities. If Gambit hadn’t dampened his powers, he could have been an omega-level threat with absolute molecular control of kinetic energy and full-on telepathic powers.
X-Men Just Unlocked Gambit’s Ultimate Form, Changing His Iconic Cards Forever
Gambit unleashes his most powerful transformation of all time as he becomes Galactus' new herald, charging his cards with the power cosmic.
Though Gambit’s psychic powers are relatively low,Uncanny X-Men#6 showcases how useful they are in leading the next generation of X-Men by connecting to people in ways Rogue and Wolverine can’t. Despite losing his potential tobecome an Omega-level mutant, Gambit is rapidly growinginto one of the X-Men’s most influential heroes, especially now that Gambit is using his psychic powers and has comeinto possession of the magical Eye of Agamotto. In retrospect,Gambit’samazing abilities and powerful charisma make him one of theX-Men’sfinest and an ideal leader for the next generation of heroes.
Uncanny X-Men#6is available now from Marvel Comics!
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