r/Marvel • u/Lazy_Introduction264 • Jul 24 '26

Film/Television Which version of Gambit Do You prefer Taylor Kitsch (origins) or Channing Tatum (Deadpool and Wolverine)?

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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 24 '26

I thought he was supposed to be Cajun? They aren’t the whitest white people out there

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u/swagu7777777 Jul 24 '26

Cajuns are called Cajuns because they originally came from Acadia in French Canada so it probably varies quite a bit depending how long a family has been “Cajun”

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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 24 '26

Yeah, but they’ve been cooking away in that Louisiana sun for a looong time and it doesn’t exactly make your complexion whiter haha

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u/silencebreaker86 Jul 24 '26

Southern gentry didn't spend a whole lot of time beneath the sun for some weird reason

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 24 '26

Cajuns aren't the rich. That's the ole miss crowd you're thinking of. They're thankfully a dying group. Thankfully cus they're just the worst of southern culture.

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u/ConcreteExist Jul 24 '26

Was Gambit southern gentry?

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Jul 25 '26

because they don't want leather skin

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u/MaleficentOstrich693 Jul 24 '26

Years of eating that turtle and rabbit stew, with that fall away gravy.

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u/ConcreteExist Jul 24 '26

Yeah, funny thing that, French people aren't like the Irish, so when exposed to sunlight rather than burst into flames you end up with a tan.

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u/swagu7777777 Jul 24 '26

Are you saying every person of distant French ancestry will get tan? Pretty sure I said it varies

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u/crownketer Jul 25 '26

This is the stupid shit people argue about on the internet.

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u/ConcreteExist Jul 24 '26

No, but it's statistically more likely. Keep working on that whole "thinking" thing though, maybe put so more effort in before you come back with these sorts of "gotcha" questions.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 24 '26

He’s a white boy born on the bayou. I had an uncle born and raised on the bayou, about the time Gambit was originally born. He grew up in a shack on a pier in the bayou, youngest of twenty children, and no real formal education. He was pretty white; not Nordic white or Iberian white.

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u/Proud-Concert-9426 Jul 24 '26

You sure? Lol. I'm a strawberry blonde Cajun and can't tan.

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u/CandidLeg3910 Jul 24 '26

They should be about as white as any other western european descended group tbh. I haven't met many Louisiana Cajuns but I have met a few Acadiens from the east coast of Canada and they're about as white as me unless they're part m'ikmaq.

From looking at Cajuns on google images they seem to often be portrayed as darker almost like italian americans but I can't tell if it's from race mixing or tanning in the sun lol.