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there are a good many people out there who enjoy comics. any argument you make about any one aspect can be vehemently argued by a member of the opposing camp.

given this, I would like to have a friendly and intelligent discussion on the merits of the character Gambit. by intelligent, I mean thought out and articulated rebuttals - i.e. no "Gambit is gay because he has boobs", but on the merits of references from canon and structured argument.

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I submit that gambit is a very deep character, but like all comic book characters, developed into a more complex and interesteing character as his story, amidst other stories, progressed. From my research [1] I have ascertained that people

1) love gambit
2) hate gambit
3) don't care either way

For those that are of the first group, much more support[2] can be found than that of the second group. For those of the third group, obviously if you don't care, you are going to say anything because why waste your time on something about which you have no interest. I have also found that those of the second group are not nearly as vocal as the first, or as anti-[character] fans can be (see: Jar-Jar Binks, Joel Schumaker's Batman movies) But again, people are less like to rant about characters they don't like.

character complexity: I believe that character complexity leads either to an attractive mysteriousness or to an annoying hassle. As far as character complexities go, gambit is not nearly as complex as wolverine - but this can be attributed to the fact that writers kept diversifying wolverine's past and eventually clean it up with the whole weapon x (or 10, however you want to see it) storyline. Gambit is adopted, he is a thief, he is a mutant...

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[1] three or four google searches
[2] number of sites dedicated to

incomplete thought...