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In most of his earliest appearances, Gambit threw metal spikes instead of playing cards. He charged them with energy from his eyes instead of his fingers.
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Gambit can apparently sing like Hugh Boynton, a Cajun zydeco and funk musician from Louisiana. You can hear a very brief sample of two of his songs at Amazon.com and Funk45.com.
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According to Belladonna in Ghost Rider #26, Gambit has a mole of some sort on his . . . well, use your imagination.
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According to X-Men Legends, the console game that was scripted by former X-Men writers, Gambit uses the bo-staff primarily because it was the favoured weapon of his father, Jean-Luc LeBeau.
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Within the comics, Gambit has two favoured cards: the Joker and the Ace of Spades.
In the case of the former, the Joker is the wild card that can take on any value in a game, suggesting that Gambit is aware of his dual roles as thief and X-Man.
In the case of the latter, the Ace of Spades has come to be known as the card of death. In the Vietnam War, it was used as a psychological weapon by the American soldiers against the Viet Cong. According to SGM Friedman, the Vietnamese were thought to believe that the spade meant death and ill-fortune. In a bid to scare away Viet Cong soldiers and thereby avoid hostilities, it was common practice to litter the forested grounds and fields with the card. This story may, however, be apocryphal. Nevertheless, Gambit's identification with it may his acknowledgement of his role in the Morlock Massacre or simply a play on the fact that he is using cards as weapons.
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In Gambit #5 (Second Series), Gambit is wearing a Hong Kong Phooey sweatshirt.
A Hanna-Barbera cartoon that debuted in 1974, Hong Kong Phooey dealt with the adventures of Penrod Pooch, an anthropomorphic dog who fought crime in the guise of the martial artist, Hong Kong Phooey.
For more information, check out Don Marks' Toon-O-Pedia. Reruns are currently being shown on Boomerang.
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Gambit is a fan of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek.
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Gambit's favourite artist is M.C Escher, a Dutch artist primarily known for his surreal landscapes and mathematical tesselations.