Channing Tatum jokingly suggests he won’t reprise hisMCUGambit role fromDeadpool & WolverineinAvengers: Doomsday. Despitethe cancelation of Fox’sGambitsolo movie, Channing Tatum fulfilled his dream of playing a live-action Gambit on the big screen inDeadpool & Wolverine, where Tatum’s Gambit fought Cassandra Nova’s army alongside other pruned variants.Deadpool & Wolverine’s endingdoesn’t explicitly reveal Gambit survived Alioth in the Void, but it’s made clear that the resistance team made it out alive.
Speaking toExtraat CinemaCon 2025,Deadpool & Wolverinestar Channing Tatum jokes he may not play Gambit inAvengers: Doomsday. Channing Tatum was one of the names revealed inAvengers: Doomsday’s cast announcement, leading fans to deduce that Tatum’s Gambit would appear alongside other X-Men actors in the upcoming Phase 6 movie. However, Tatum also jokes that he may only use the chair fromAvengers: Doomsday’s cast announcement to watch the movie. Read Channing Tatum’s full comments below
“Personally, all I was guaranteed was a chair. They said that I have a chair, and I can at least watch the movie from the chair. You know, and it was just my name, it wasn’t exactly Gambit. So, I work in the world of just like, of binary yes or no’s, and I’ve only been guaranteed so far a chair to watch the movie in, so that’s where I’m at.”
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Channing Tatum jokes thatAvengers: Doomsday’s cast announcementrevealed all the actors appearing in the Phase 6 movie, but not their characters. Tatum may be trying to underplay Gambit’s role inAvengers: Doomsday, asDeadpool & Wolverinenever confirmed Gambit was able to exit the Void, nor did it suggest where Gambit could go next.Since all otherX-Menactors inAvengers: Doomsday’s cast come from Fox’s originalX-Mentrilogy, Channing Tatum’s return inAvengers: Doomsdayraises many questions about the plot, especially considering that Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Jennifer Garner, and Wesley Snipes are all missing fromAvengers: Doomsday’s cast at the moment.
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Although Channing Tatum may only be joking that there’s a chance he won’t play Gambit inAvengers: Doomsday, his comments do serve as a reminder that the multiverse opens many possibilities most fans may not consider at first.Just like Robert Downey Jr. is set to play Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man, any actor confirmed forAvengers: Doomsday’s cast could be playing a new variant of a different character. Chris Evans also returned inDeadpool & Wolverine, but he played a Human Torch variant instead of Steve Rogers. Likewise, Channing Tatum playing a brand-new character inAvengers: Doomsdayfalls within the realm of possibility.
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Channing Tatum’s return alongside the originalX-Mencast opens the door for speculation. If Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman don’t joinAvengers: Doomsdaysoon, that would suggest Tatum’s Gambit will be brought directly from the Void while Earth-10005’s mutant heroes remain unaware of the Avengers’s fight against Doctor Doom. Otherwise,the X-Men variants who will fight Doctor Doom alongside the Avengers inAvengers: Doomsdaycould have their own Gambit, who’d be a second Gambit variant also played by Channing Tatum.
