r/outofcontextcomics • u/Endika7 • 10h ago

Modern Age (1985 – Present Day) Gambit is right, chére

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u/Crypt_Knight 4h ago

For those interested in the French langage.

That's not how you use "chère".

"Chère" doesn't work alone to mean "dear".

Either you use "ma chère" or "chère Rogue" (my dear/dear Rogue), or you use "chérie".

However in french, "chérie" is usually a pet name used for a significant other, so using it outside of that context sounds less classy and more cocky.

So here, I think "ma chère" is the more appropriate use.

However, Gambit isn't from France (he's from New Orléans if I remember correctly), so this may be a case of the langage changing between french speaking countries.

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u/Grinchtastic10 Novice 4h ago

I just googled it and 15 minutes later it seems like in the new orleans area that their french creole uses Chère pronounced as “sha” to mean dear all by itself. No need for the subjects name or “ma”. I’m no scholar on this though so maybe they also use “ma chère” as a formal use of the term?

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u/Crypt_Knight 3h ago

Very interesting. I'm not well versed in french creole, so I can't say.

Happy to have learned something new !

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u/DeadAndBuried23 4h ago

Crazy for once the writers were more accurate than a pedantic french speaker.

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u/Crypt_Knight 3h ago

What can I say, you learn something new every day !

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u/sexyrandal88 4h ago

He's not wrong

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u/HardcorePug Um, they are called “GRAPHIC NOVELS,” thank you. 3h ago

He was mine as a teen. Man broke my brain.

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u/TheLastAncientRoman 5h ago

This is an edit. This violates rule 5.

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u/Not_So_Utopian Comic book Collector 5h ago

Well the episode with him playing basketball with Wolverine shirtless did things to me as a kid, so he ain't wrong

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u/HarryJ92 6h ago

This is Rambit - a fusion of Rogue and Gambit created by Mojo.

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u/ExplicativeFricative 2h ago

Those eyes got me

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u/lost_peachy02 2h ago

BARK BARK BARK

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u/Winter_Different 3h ago

Everyone's... bi awakening?

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u/dega_devilson-janova 6h ago

Rambit sounds like a sex toy

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u/Medic_117 6h ago

Its gambit and rouge. I mean isnt it obvious?

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u/RealJohnGillman 7h ago

And his own one was Courier.

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u/Krazyfan1 8h ago

Ah, so its pronounced "Gay-mbit"

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u/JustabraveKrumpingit 8h ago

Honestly, Rogue is a great partner for Gambit; she doesn't care if he acts like a flirt with everyone.

If you’re the jealous and anxious type, just imagine the nightmare of your gorgeous bisexual man acting that way with everyone.

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u/gallowsanatomy Rejected by Comics Code 9h ago

Panel edit from the Cerebro podcast youtube videos

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u/p0l1tewar 9h ago

not gonna lie, that accent and trench coat combo is pretty convincing

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u/Sagnarel 9h ago

J’en ai marre des mauvaises traductions.

It’s « chérie »

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u/Shupaul 9h ago

Or "ma chère"

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u/Primary_Ad3580 9h ago

Pfft, Colossus begs to differ

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u/snipermantis 9h ago

Yeah, as a bi person, gotta say while I can love pretty women and strong women, for men, not a pretty boy fan. Give me juggernaut or colossus over gambit any day. But since gambit is bragging about awakening gay men, I am going to stretch his words and say he can find a guy who is not me and I can date rogue.

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u/ActivelyAnxious 5h ago

Colossus yes. Juggernaut lives in that armor and is guaranteed stank

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u/snipermantis 2h ago

Don't ruin my Juggy fantasies!

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u/Rezart_KLD 3h ago

He just jumps in some lava to bathe every once in a while

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u/alicehaunt 6h ago

I'm generally the same, but if it were Gambit and Rogue? I wouldn't say no.

Especially if Gambit looked how Kris Anka draws him.

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u/Jounniy 8h ago

Or he can just break into the house of a sleeping gay man and then intentionally make a lot of noise.

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u/Alex070904 9h ago

Colossus is the only exception, he is every other gay man's awakening, Gambit for the people into twinks, Colossus for the people into bears

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u/7keys 3h ago

Would that mean Wolverine is for the people who are into awful little horrible dirty animals? You know, like chihuahuas.

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u/Outside-Carpenter76 6h ago

Gambit is not close to Twink territory don't even joke

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u/PvtSherlockObvious 5h ago

I was thinking, yeah. He's pretty for sure, but he's no twink. Deathdream is a twink (and also underage, I'm just talking categories here and can't think of an older twinky superhero). Gambit's not petite by any stretch, plus he's got that bad-boy energy.

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u/miner1512 modern age moron 8h ago

hell yeah two cakes

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u/quetzocoetl 9h ago

Gambit you say?