Yet, in the end, Gambit charges enough cards and knocks the dupes together, forcing Madrox to revert to a single person. Madrox’s ability to create dupes allowed David to dabble with different genres, letting him redefine Madrox as a person as different aspects of his personality moved to the forefront of different dupes. In his attempt to stop dying—something that happens a lot in X-Men comics—Madrox ends up altering reality, to the point that every person in the Marvel Universe is a duplicate of Madrox: Deadpool, Cable, Hulk?