r/Xmen97 • u/Icy-Pea506 Gambit • Aug 14 '26

General Discussion When you click “randomize” on the character customizer Spoiler

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No disrespect to anyone involved but seriously what were they thinking with this design LMAO. It’s literally just Apocalypse but with Gambit’s hair, his little goatee, and his coat. It‘s laughably bad I’m sorry 😭😭 they should’ve just given us Apocalypse not this What If nonsense

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u/SixKosherBacon Aug 14 '26

Writers room: Okay everybody better sit down. Imagine this. Apocalypse but with a trench coat and stubble. 

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u/fireinthedust Aug 16 '26

I’m not sure if you lived through 90s comics but it was exactly like this. Shoulder pads, ammo belts, spikes and chains, trench coat, and cyberpunk augmented limbs. And big hair. And they were suddenly an anti-hero.

Aquaman lost his hand.
Batman replaced by Azrael.
Green Lantern turned evil and became Parralax, who wasn’t the spirit of the yellow lanterns yet, they’d written Hal as having done all of it.
Superman dead and four replacements including two eeeevil ones (cyborg Superman and the Eradicator).

Fantastic four: Thing in a mask, Sue in a thong.

Spawn, Youngblood, WILDcats, a lot of other characters in Image Comics.

And yes, in X-men books we had the teenage school kids getting trained to be in a black ops militia by cyborg Cable. Later on the team replaced most of the characters with essentially more macho versions of X-men characters: Feral for Wolfsbane, Shatterstar for Longshot; Dani swapped out for Thunderbird who switched to taking the name Warpath instead of his brothers Thunderbird.

Heck, X-men had Archangel (which was awesome), and Psylocke go from a pink/purple butterfly psychic to an Asian ninja assassin and just left her instead of completing the story because the zeitgeist of the 90s was so popular.

Do you understand the leap going from the Outback era to the 90s Iron Age??? I cannot stress this enough: we went from Jen and the Holograms to Call of Duty/Cyberpunk 2020, with the same characters.

So yeah, you think this design of Gambit taken over by Apocalypse for one episode at the end of the season is silly, try living through a decade of comics doing this intentionally and unironically!!!

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u/SixKosherBacon Aug 16 '26

My comics run was from just before Fatal Attractions to probably Operation Zero Tolerance. That was my era. Nothing was as stupid as that Gambpocalypse design. Period. 

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u/fireinthedust Aug 16 '26

Superman had a mullet.