Rogue & Gambit (subtitled Power Play for the collected edition) is a 2023 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics. The series is written by Stephanie Phillips, with art by Carlos Gomez and color art by David Curiel and Federico Blee.
Set in the shared Marvel Universe, the series is part of the X-Men franchise and stars the titular Rogue and Gambit, a married couple of heroes who aren't managing to get much downtime to maintain their relationship.
That situation doesn't improve when one of Rogue's adoptive mothers, the recently resurrected Destiny, turns up with a vague but urgent request. Her precognitive powers see trouble coming, and it's up to Rogue and Gambit to persuade another mutant, Manifold, to help them stop it.
Rogue & Gambit (2023) contains examples of the following tropes:
- Batman Cold Open: The first issue opens with a very intoxicated Gambit fighting his sometime allies, the Thieves' Guild of New Orleans. Rogue intervenes to help him. The fight scene sets up their relationship stresses, but has no direct link to the rest of the story.
- Recycled Title: The series was originally published as Rogue & Gambit, the same title used for their 2018 limited series. It's retitled Rogue & Gambit: Power Play for the collected edition.
- Retronym: The series becomes Rogue & Gambit: Power Play for the collected edition, to help disambiguate it from the original 2018 Rogue & Gambit series.
- Textplosion: As with many of the other Krakoan era X-Men books, the series uses text 'data pages' to deliver information outside of the usual comic layout.
- The first issue includes Manifold's mission report on Lady Deathstrike's escape, complete with censor boxes to hide the swearing.
- The second issue includes a magazine interview with Rogue, with an interviewer who tries to dig into her relationship with Gambit rather more than expected.
- Vagueness Is Coming: Destiny tells them that a threat is coming and they must react, but refuses to provide any details. Justified as she's deliberately withholding some of the information from her visions, and directly tells Rogue as much.
