Real name: Remy LeBeau
          Occupation: Master Thief
          Identity: Secret
          Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no
          criminal record
          Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
          Group affiliation: X-Men
          Base of operations: New Orleans
          First appearance: UNCANNY X-MEN #266
          Height: 6'1"
          Weight: 175 lbs.
          Eyes: Red
          Hair: Brown

          Known Powers: Gambit is a mutant who possesses
          the normal human strength of a man of his age, height,
          and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.
          Gambit has the mutant ability to tap into the potential
          energy contained within an object and transform it
          into kinetic energy. He can then use this kinetically-charged object as a
          projectile which explodes on contact. The object of choice is usually playing cards,
          which he can throw with deadly accuracy. Gambit may have an innate
          empathic/telepathic ability to pursuade people to his liking, this is
          usually considered his "charm" over people.

          History: Little is known about this charming Cajun's past in New Orleans as Remy
          LeBeau, except that he was once a well-trained member of the ancient Thieves
          Guild, and already in full control of his mutant power. LeBeau befriended Storm
          and stayed with her when she finally rejoined the X-Men. No stranger to the world
          which is unsafe for mutants and humans alike, Gambit now finds his home among
          the X-Men, the only family he has left.

Real name: Remy LeBeau
Former aliases: None known
Identity: Secret
Occupation: (current) Adventurer,
(former) Professional Thief
Legal status: Citizen of the United States
with no criminal record
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Marital status: Separated from his wife
Known relatives: Jean-Luc LeBeau
(father), Bella Donna Boudreaux (wife,
                                          separated)
                                         Base of operations: (current) Xavier
                                          Institute, Salem Center, Westchester
                                          County, New York State, (former) New
                                          Orleans, Louisiana; Paris, France; Cairo,
                                           Illinois
                                         Group affiliation: (current) X-Men,
                                          (former) Thieves Guild (New Orleans)
 

History: A homeless boy wandering the streets, Gambit was adopted by Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the council of the Thieves Guild, a criminal organization based in New Orleans. As part of a peace pact between the Thieves Guild and their rivals, the Assassins Guild, a marriage was arranged between Gambit and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of the head of the Assassins. However, Bella Donna's brother Julien objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. Severely wounding Julien, Gambit was forced to flee New Orleans to prevent war between the two guilds.

     Gambit wandered the world as he plied his skills as a master thief, aided by his mutant power to charge objects with explosive energy. He employed playing cards he charged with kinetic energy as his trademark weapon. At one point Gambit  agreed to assemble the team of assassins called the Marauders for Mister Sinister. Gambit did not realize that Sinister would employ the Marauders to massacre the underground mutant community called the Morlocks.

     Eventually, Gambit encountered the X-Man Storm, who had been transformed into an amnesiac child and who had turned  to theft. He helped her escape her enemy, the Shadow King, and they became partners. Later, when Professor Charles Xavier returned from a long period of traveling in outer space, Storm, having regained her memory and true age, sponsored Gambit's admission into the X-Men. Gambit has remained on the team ever since and fell in love with his fellow X-Man Rogue. Recently, however, Gambit and Rogue have grown apart. As for Bella Donna, she has become Gambit's enemy. Recently, the X-Men learned of Gambit's role in the massacre of the Morlocks. Guilt-ridden, Gambit has left the team, at least temporarily.

     In the alternate future in which the X-Man Bishop was born, Gambit has become an aged figure who witnessed the betrayal of the X-Men by one of their own members. Bishop suspected Gambit was the traitor until he learned how Xavier's  mind spawned the malevolent entity Onslaught.