Hollywood just cash in on the most popular character without giving the other a chance! thats why the comics will always be more sucessful, such a variety of well developed characters!

Gambit was not more popular than Wolverine, Which is why Wolverine appears in every xman line up, New Avengers, has two ongoing solo series. Gambit has had two ongoing series both of which have been cancelled. Not that i dislike Gambit on the contrary I think he is great.

But digression aside there, the problem that will always be faced in a team movie is the amount of time they can put to character development.

They would not have done Gambit justice i don't think. I remember hearing rumours of Van Damme playing him at one point *shudders*

I have to admit the reason why i felt so let down would have been because of my love of the books.
you say look what they did to Colossus in the TV stuff, at least they did something with him!!
just think of the film and see just HOW under developed the characters are.

i have to admit im a bigger fan of Gambit than wolverine, but hey, im just one person!

i also agree witht he 'alienation' of hardcore fans, and lets face it, theres alot of them!

I did, however, love the first movie in those terms (sticking to the books) and even though the second deviated from the comics i loved that one too!
which just shows how disasterous the third one was

See, I really didn't like Rogue in the movies. At all.

She was the one the kids were apparently supposed to "associate with" in the films. That butchered her character for me.

Obviously, just my opinion

I am also a big fan of the books. However I never expected them to make a direct comic to film adaptation. The sheer level of continuity they would need to explain makes it implausible. As for the cartoon doing something with Colussus - he was in one episode, and that was a fairly poor one.

Of course it is! If Gambit was more popular then he would have more sales than Wolverine. Or are you saying that people like Gambit more but prefer to buy the Wolverine comic instead?

As for Cyclops being worst character conversion that isn't fair. Cyclops is the worst Xman in the comics and low and behold in the films...

What they did to Rogue in the films was a crime. there was barely anything that remotely connected her to the comic Rogue, bar her powers and slightly her relationship with wolverine.

X-men evolution i found was quite good, a bit 'kiddy' you could say but i loved it! it did sometimes veer off track from the regular x-men storylines but even the comics all have seperate titles and often dont follow eachother!

Yeah Wolverine in the animated series was alright. He acted tough but kept getting beat up, just like in the comics

And yes Rogue was bad. She needed more Southern spunk like in the comics.

X-Men Evolution was funny. I enjoyed watching it when it was on.

She would have needed to have stolen someones powers or deviated from the comic more by giving her more powers