Gambit: 10 Lessons It Must Learn From X-Men Failures

8. A Proper Costume

What would you prefer? Yellow spandex? Yes, actually, to be honest. Hollywood often struggles with putting a superhero costume on screen and having it not look stupid since, well, people running around in colourful costumes just looks inherently goofy. That's why all these real-life superhero types engender ridicule rather than respect. Not that the outfits of the movie X-Men have been a whole lot better, going down the utilitarian/S&M black leather route of The Matrix. It's just as naff and nonsensical. But that's not a patch on the sort of stuff Gambit wears in the comics. His get up in X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn't great, but at least those were clothes you could imagine somebody wearing in real life. Not a good person, or a person with any sense of style but, well, compared to the comics, it was the height of fashion. Since his introduction in the nineties Gambit's rarely been seen without his costume which couldn't be more nineties if it was comprised solely of belts and pouches: trench coat, weird neon pink armoured top and blue breastplate, and that weird headpiece like somebody cut the face out a ski mask. Get Tatum something proper to wear.