Real Name: Remy Etienne LeBeau
Legal Status: Unregistered mutant, criminal record
Occupation: Adventurer, reformed thief
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Marital Status: Married
Group Affiliation: X-Men, leader of the Louisiana Thieves Guild, former operative of Sinister
Relatives: Jean Luc LeBeau (adopted father), Rogue (wife), Bella Donna (ex-wife), Jacques LeBeau (grandfather, deceased), Henri (brother-in-law, deceased), Mercy (sister-in-law; Henri's wife)
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #266 (1990)


Height: 6'1" / 1,85 m
Weight: 175 lbs. / 79kg
Eye Color: Burning red
Hair Color: Brown


Powers: Through physical contact, Gambit can convert an object's potential energy into kinetic energy. He also has superb agility.
Weapons: Gambit carries a deck of playing cards which he is able to charge with bio-kinetic energy and has been known to use a fighting staff against his opponents.
Various Information: He can open almost any lock. And with his power to charge objects with explosive energy, what he can't open he can blast down. Now as a member of the X-Men's Blue Strike Force, he uses his phenomenal power to protect people in need. He can turn anything into a weapon, but he especially likes to use the playing cards he always carries, in true gambler fashion. Gambit loves to have fun and never takes anything seriously. "Life is a game!" he often says.


History: Orphaned at birth, Remy LeBeau spent his early years fending for himself on the hard, cold streets of New Orleans. He survived by picking pockets - teaching himself the tricks of the trade through trial and error, and eking out a modest living. However, he had yet to learn an important lesson: restraint. Remy unknowingly tried to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the legendary Thieves Guild of New Orleans.

Jean-Luc took the boy under his wing, adopting him. In time, Remy mastered the ways of the guild - as well as those of its chief rival, the New Orleans Assassins Guild. To seal a peace pact between the organizations, Gambit married Bella Donna Boudreaux, granddaughter of the assassins' patriarch. But Bella Donna's brother, Julien, objected to the arranged union and challenged Gambit to a duel. Severely wounding his opponent, Remy was forced to flee New Orleans to prevent war between the guilds.

Gambit wandered the world and plied his skills as a master thief, aided by his mutant ability to charge objects with explosive energy. During this period, he worked as an operative for the master geneticist known as Mr. Sinister. Unable to control his burgeoning talents, Gambit submitted to an operation whereby Sinister siphoned off a considerable portion of his power. In return, Gambit helped Sinister assemble a team of super-powered assassins - unaware his benefactor would dispatch the Marauders to annihilate the Morlocks, an underground community of mutant outcasts. Ignorant of the true motive behind Sinister's machinations, Gambit even led the Marauders into the Morlock tunnels. The outlaw team of mutant adventurers known as the X-Men were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape the Marauders on their own - but the majority perished.


Severing his ties to Sinister, Gambit partnered with the X-Men's weather witch, Storm, who had turned to thievery after being transformed into an amnesiac child. When Storm regained her memories and true age, she sponsored Gambit's admission to the X-Men. Although technically married, he became enamored of his teammate Rogue, blessed and cursed with the ability to absorb other mutants' thoughts and abilities through skin-on-skin contact. The feeling was mutual, but the two soulmates were condemned never to touch. After sharing a forbidden kiss, Rogue learned Gambit's dark secret: his complicity in the so-called "Mutant Massacre". At Rogue's request, the X-Men left Remy to fend for himself in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. Eventually, Gambit rejoined the team and reconciled with Rogue.