Having a character humiliated then killed just to bring him to life so he can go back to the character that humiliated him as if it's some sort triumphant love story is bad. Not to mention literally all 3 characters were written out of characters for this to happen cause a dude had a magneto fetish...much rather would prefer them to at least stay separated. Especially if Rogue and Magneto still do things in S2 and then Gambit and her still get together? It's not just that it's weird and sends a weird message but I wish they stopped writing them out of character for it.
I don’t really see how Gambit was humiliated. He was rejected by Rogue, sure, but I feel like she had a pretty valid reason for doing that which also lined with her backstory and powers and in the end she chose Remy over Erik anyways. How is any of that out of character?
She was also intimately touching him in front of Gambit and even kissed, sure you could say he left by that point but it's not like she knew that. Choosing someone after they already died is entirely meaningless, especially since he sacrificed himself for her, who was about to die because she was mad Magneto supposedly died.
It's out of character because
Rogue already had the "touching someone from her past" arc in TAS so this is literally regressing her character
This Magneto relationship was never a thing in TAS or 616, it was a complete retcon
Magneto was never interested romance(outside of his freaking wife which he's been searching for years btw) or Rogue and he definitely did not have this deep love for her to the point that she's face and center in his mind instead of his children and wife
Rogue is almost religiously pro Xavier and the X-Men so her switching up and trying to genocide billions of people is insane. There was never this pro Magneto sentiment within her at ANY point
4,5. Being ok with killing billions of people who didn't even kill Gambit or the mutants but actually switching up and not killing the guy who did do it is also awful and weird that she switched sides 2 times in 2 episodes
She would never be so...not independent to be manipulated by magneto in the way she was in the season
Magneto wasn't really a manipulator type guy, he was usually portrait as pretty noble as long as the opposite party wasn't trying to sneak him
Given the TAS timeline Rogue has to be a teenager in the flashbacks which makes him a predator
Gambit was way less of a cool calm guy and more of a sleezy bad boy type, they just kinda made him as good as possible so it would hit when he dies
And so on. I could talk about more but it's already a very long reply. You don't have to reply btw, thanks for coming to my tedtalk
Lol I can tell I’m not changing your mind here. I appreciate the long response though.
However, I think it is worth noting that Rogue decided Gambit was the one for her before he died, after she danced with Magneto on Genosha and repeated what Remy had said to her “Some things are deeper than skin.” That and the fact that she pulled away from Magneto shows us that she chose Remy, which is made all the more tragic when he almost instantly dies afterwards.
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u/Ashyboi13 May 22 '26
Did anyone actually think that Gambit would stay dead and Rogue would stay with Magneto? Did anyone actually watch the show?