Anna Daniels
When a superhero comic announces that there’s going to be a wedding, there’s about a 50/50 chance that it’ll actually happen. For every Reed Richards and Sue Storm, whose wedding went off without a hitch (so to speak) thanks to a veritable army of superheroes making sure no villainous wedding crashers showed up, there’s Batman being left at the figurative altar or the Flash having his fiancee erased from the timeline right before the ceremony.
With that kind of track record, fans were understandably wary when X-Men: Gold #30 hit shelves in 2018 with the promise that Kitty Pryde and Colossus were finally going to tie the knot after being an on-again, off-again, dead-sometimes item for nearly 40 years. Sure enough, when it came time to put a ring on it, Kitty instead turned intangible and bailed, leaving a whole X-Mansion full of guests feeling pretty awkward — and giving a couple of them a window of opportunity that they weren’t expecting.
Since they already had a cake, a ring, a crowd full of their friends, and even a Rabbi hanging around to perform the ceremony, Rogue and Gambit decided that they shouldn’t let it all go to waste. Gambit popped the question, and with Kitty and Colossus giving their approval, they were married on the spot. All things considered, this might be the best thing that ever happened to the two of them. Anyone who’s ever paid for or planned a wedding will tell you that just showing up to find that someone else has already done the hard work of setting it up is a best-case scenario.
The relationship was definitely aided by the fact that Rogue had finally gained complete control of her powers and, since she turned out to be a little more traditional than you might expect, a last name. The happy couple got the spotlight in their own new series, Mr. and Mrs. X, but as for whether they’re in it together for the long haul, that remains to be seen. If superhero weddings are 50/50, the actual marriages have even longer odds.
Written by: Looper
