At one point, Rogue left the X-Men after she kissed Remy and absorbed a portion of his memories, learning of his role in the Morlock Massacre. The feeling was mutual, but the two soulmates were condemned never to touch. Remy soon fell in love with his fellow X-Man, Rogue, blessed and cursed with the ability to absorb other mutants' thoughts and abilities through skin-on-skin contact. Later, when the X-Men's founder Professor Charles Xavier returned from a long period of traveling in outer space, Storm sponsored Remy's admission into the X-Men. Remy helped her escape her enemy, the malevolent psionic entity known as the Shadow King, and they became partners. Storm had been transformed into an amnesiac child who had turned to theft as a means to survive. However, he did manage to save one young Morlock girl who would one day grow up to become the X-Man named Marrow.Įventually, Remy encountered Storm, a member of the outlaw team of mutant adventurers known as the X-Men. Seeing the horrific results of his actions, Remy attempted to stop the massacre but was almost killed by the Marauder named Sabretooth. Remy did not realize that Sinister would employ the Marauders to massacre the underground mutant community known as the Morlocks. As a result, Remy was now in the geneticist's debt, and Sinister subsequently charged the thief with assembling the team of assassins called the Marauders. Sinister removed some of Remy's brain tissue to reduce his power levels, thus affording him a greater degree of control. Sinister for help in controlling his powers. At one point Remy had approached the master geneticist Mr. He employed playing cards he charged with kinetic energy as his trademark weapon.

Remy wandered the world as he plied his skills as a master thief, aided by his mutant power to charge objects with explosive energy. Remy killed Julien in self-defense, but was excommunicated and banished from New Orleans in an attempt to maintain the nonaggression pact between the two guilds.

However, Bella Donna's brother Julien objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. As part of a peace pact between the Thieves’ Guild and their rivals, the Assassin’s Guild, a marriage was arranged between Remy and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of the head of the Assassin's Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy in off the streets and adopted him into his own family. Later, when he was around ten years old, Remy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then-patriarch of the Thieves’ Guild. Soon after, Remy was placed in the care of a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery. They believed he was the child that had been prophesied to unite the warring Guilds.

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana (presumed)Ĭreators: Chris Claremont, Jim Lee, Mike CollinsĪbandoned at birth due to his burning red eyes, the child who would one day become Remy LeBeau was kidnapped from his hospital ward by members of the New Orleans Thieves' Guild who referred to the child as 'le diable blanc' - the white devil.

Occupation: Unknown formerly thief, adventurer Relatives: Jacques LeBeau (foster grandfather, deceased), Jean-Luc LeBeau (foster father, deceased), Rochelle LeBeau (foster grandmother, deceased), Bella Donna Boudreaux (ex-wife), Henri LeBeau (foster brother, deceased), Mercy LeBeau (sister-in-law), Theoren Marceaux (cousin), Etienne Marceaux (cousin, deceased), Marius Boudreaux (father-in-law, deceased), Julien Boudreaux (brother-in-law, deceased) Aliases: Death, Le Diable Blanc, Robert Lord, CajunĪffiliation: Formerly Marauders, Horsemen of Apocalypse, X-men, X-Treme Sanctions Executive, X-Treme X-Men, Unified Guilds (patriarch), Thieves Guild (patriarch)

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