Oh, Gambit, definitely. He was irritating, but there was always the potential that a different writer could give him more depth or take him a new direction. The tone of various X-men altered enough from author to author that it was completely a possibility - just look at, say, the treatment Illyana Rasputin got (though in this case she was taken from interesting to lame).
Cousin Oliver, on the other hand - what can you do with him? He's this irritating kid. In the context of the Brady Bunch world, there was no way you could add depth - if he stopped being irritating, he'd just be Bobby. The only thing you could do with Oliver is possibly turn him satanic, as with Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son (the only movie I have ever thought him properly cast in).
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Date: 2006-09-26 03:34 am (UTC)Cousin Oliver, on the other hand - what can you do with him? He's this irritating kid. In the context of the Brady Bunch world, there was no way you could add depth - if he stopped being irritating, he'd just be Bobby. The only thing you could do with Oliver is possibly turn him satanic, as with Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son (the only movie I have ever thought him properly cast in).