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On Krakoa, Apocalypse summons Rogue, Gambit and Jubilee, informing them of the situation and uses Rogue's powers to weaken the gate enough for it to be destroyed. However, the resulting magical explosion encases her in a flower coffin. Betsy takes Rogue, Gambit and Jubilee to the older Excalibur lighthouse but finds that Morgan has burned it down.
Gambit employs three distinctive plot elements found in other Wolfe stories. The means by which poison is administered is very similar to the means used in " Cordially Invited to Meet Death ". A tape recording is made in an Italian restaurant, one which also appears in " Poison à la Carte ".
Gambit (Remy Étienne LeBeau) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.The character was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee.
A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include: Bubbles in the television series Trailer Park Boys
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
The metaphorical sense of the word as "opening move meant to gain advantage" was first recorded in English in 1855. [3] [4] Gambits are more commonly played by White. Some well-known examples of a gambit are the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4) and Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4).
The gambit was named after Philip Grosvenor, a fictional character in a short story by Frederick B. Turner published in The Bridge World, [1] who first discovered the gambit accidentally, and over time developed its theory and deployed it deliberately. The story depicts Grosvenor as often frustrated by opponents who are too obtuse to fall for ...
In books and other works, the subtitle is an explanatory title added by the author to the title proper of a work. [1] Another kind of subtitle, often used in the past, is the alternative title , also called alternate title , traditionally denoted and added to the title with the alternative conjunction "or", hence its appellation.