Does Gambit have telekinetic powers?

Updated on May 5, 2009 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

I noticed in the Wolverine commercials that Gambit seems to be manipulating his trademark exploding playing cards via telepathy. Is that correct? Gambit popped up after I lost interest in the X-Men, but my impression is that his power is to load objects with energy that then explode when he throws them. Can he move such objects with his mind in the comics now (powers change all the time), or did the filmmakers just do this because they thought it looked cool?

Or, maybe he isn’t doing that, but is merely shuffling the cards through the air and they froze this with a Matrix effect? Just wondering.

Oh, and who’s the woman who turns all silver sparkly? I have to admit, I don’t recognize a good half of the characters in the commercials.

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  • Solid Jake

    Your take on his powers is correct. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I hear his powers are generally rather ill-defined.

    The sparkly-woman is Emma Frost. She’s a powerful psychic who can also make her skin as hard as diamonds.

    Some of the others include Wraith (K-Mart Nightcrawler), Blob (you know who that is), and Deadpool (talkative insane mercenary with Wolverine-style healing factor), in increasing order of how badly they were ruined in the movie.

  • Emma Frost?! The White Queen? (Yes, back in the Claremont/Byrne days, I’m on firm ground.) Since when can she turn her skin diamond hard? Isn’t being one of the world’s greatest telepaths enought?

  • Ah, I think Deadpool is supposedly headed for his own movie.

  • Solid Jake

    “Since when can she turn her skin diamond hard?”

    According to Wikipedia, it’s a secondary mutation she developed “during the destruction of Genosha.” Apparently it was as a replacement for Colossus, who was dead at the time. (He got beter, I assume.)

    “Ah, I think Deadpool is supposedly headed for his own movie.”

    God willing. I hear the 4 minutes or so we actually get to see Reynolds as Wade Wilson are pretty awesome, so a movie with him as Deadpool might get me to forgive them.

  • Plissken79

    Ryan Reynolds’ brief appearance in the Wolverine film is among its best parts (I actually enjoyed the film, but it is no Iron Man or Dark Knight). Perhaps he will have a film of his own as

    (SPOILERS)

    The Weapon XI character Wolverine and Sabretooth fight at the end was not the Reynolds character

  • Solid Jake

    ALSO SPOILERS

    (I’m actually going to see the movie for the first time tonight, but that won’t stop me from discussing it as if I know what I’m talking about!)

    Weapon XI/Deadpool was played by Reynolds’ stuntman, but I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to be Wade Wilson, post-evil-experiments. (It does not speak highly of the movie that this is not more clear.)

    Given that one of the post-credit sequences show that he survived, it would seem that they’re going to use this as his origin for any future movies.

  • Hey, Ken…

    If you think that’s mindblowing, how about this: Emma Frost is now Cyclops’ new lover after Jean Grey died (somewhat permanently this time)?

    Eh? Eh?????

    Anyway, the “secondary mutation” can’t be used simultaneously with telepethy. Emma can either turn her skin into diamonds OR use telepathy. It’s actually an intriguing concept… it lead to the idea that several of the X-Men weren’t using their powers to the full extent. It turns out Iceman, for example, could also transform his entire body into liquid and the Beast was more cat-like than ape-like.

  • Good grief, that’s why when you’re away from comics for a while it takes waaay too much effort to get back into them. (X-Men especially.)

  • fish eye no miko

    If they give Deadpool his own movie, is he going to be able to talk? I mean, isn’t one of the main draws of the character his literally insane sense of humor?

  • Foywonder

    After seeing Wolverine last night I really don’t care if they make another sequel or not. That movie was so lousy it all but killed any interest I have in Wolverine or any further X-Men sequels.

    {SPOILER}

    You have a mutant whose power is that he can shoot guns with super speed and pinpoint accuracy and send him out to kill Wolverine, but do you bother to give him the special gun you keep handy that fires adamantium bullets that are supposedly the only weapon that can penetrate Wolverine’s skull? Of course not! That would be thinking logically.

    Then you reveal that shooting him with said bullets still won’t kill him but if you manage to fire one into his brain it magically turns into an amnesia bullet, which is what they do at the end to explain why Wolverine lost his memory.

    {SPOILER OVER}

    Did I mention how much that movie sucked?

  • rockrocky77

    the movie was still better then X-Men-The Last Stand.

  • Solid Jake

    Just got back from it. A few points, with SPOILERS:

    I agree with Foy, the story was asinine and full of holes. “Zero never stood a chance without these [adamantium bullets].” Well no shit Charlie Chan, you just got through making him invincible. WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST SEND ZERO WITH THE BULLETS?

    I have no idea what the hell Gambit’s powers were supposed to be in this movie. If I were a Gambit fan I’d probably be kinda pissed, but he made out well enough compared to most.

    Emma Frost is only in it for a few minutes toward the end, and apparently isn’t psychic in this universe. Laaaaaaaame.

    Wade Wilson is almost certainly the same person as Dudepeel in the end, although if I didn’t already know they were the same guy in the comics I’d have been pretty damned confused. It was really poorly explained. My theatre got the Deadpool ending that shows he survived, so hopefully if he gets a movie they’ll fix all the dumb crap they screwed up.

  • GalaxyJane

    I’m with Ken on this one. I quit reading all the X-comics when Claremont left (the first time, I gather he has made a few returns to the series since then) and it is really strange to see characters that I’d never recognise if they didn’t share their names with the original versions. Shame, I was always partial to Emma Frost.

    I had to choose between expensive nerd hobbies and comics ended up losing out to RPGs, Brit Sci-fi and bad movies. That said, I love me a good Marvel adaptation, unfortunately this doesn’t really sound like one.

  • Reed

    Or, for another perspective, the movie was fun and a perfect popcorn movie. I have talked to several of my non-comic reading friends that saw the movie and all enjoyed it. I know that isn’t any kind of statistical sampling, but there you go. I enjoyed it.

    I had no idea that there was more than one possible post-film sequence. The one I saw didn’t have anything about Deadpool. Which is good, because I detest that character.

    The girl with the Diamond Hard Skin is probably Diamond Lil instead of Emma Frost. She doesn’t exhibit any mental powers, and Stryker specifically only mentions her “diamond hard skin”. Diamond Lil was a member of Omega Flight, and then Alpha Flight.

    I didn’t actually bother reading the credits so I don’t know if they named her Emma Frost. Then again, wasn’t one of the window-dressing mutant students in X1 Emma Frost? If so, then this one probably is too.

  • @ Reed: I think the end credits say it’s “Emma.”

    Plus, it seems like I’m the only current reader of X-Men here. :) I dropped off right before the Age of Apocalypse storyline, but recently returned to the fold. The storytelling’s still rather scattershot, but Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon wrote some pretty great stuff during their runs.

  • tim

    it wasn’t fully established that movie emma didn’t have mental powers. this is supposed to be her younger years still, and now she gets to be around professor X.
    I actually sort of understand why stryker wouldn’t give zero the bullets. since adamantium is so rare, he’d only have the handful of bullets he did, and he’d keep them for himself.
    I could personally do without a deadpool movie, as we’ve already seen it before when the character was known as hannibal king in blade: trinity.