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We all love a happy ending and, thankfully, Deadpool & Wolverine delivered one. Sure, Deadpool probably gets the girl (and the Dogpool) in the end and Logan ends up in a universe where he didn’t get all his friends killed, but that’s not the ending we’re referring to; we’re actually talking about a different character getting their very own happy ending. Apparently, Channing Tatum’s Gambit might have made it back to his own universe in the end and the evidence was right in front of our eyes the whole time.

A month after Deadpool & Wolverine was released, Ryan Reynolds released a semi-deleted scene from the movie that shows Gambit, played at long last by Channing Tatum, having escaped The Void with the help of a “Marvel Sparkle Circle” and now in a version of the X-Men film universe. The implication is that Gambit, at long last, is free to be his fabulous self at long last.

Why did we say “semi-deleted” scene up there? Because the footage was used in the movie – just not in a way most of us noticed. During the usual Marvel end credits scene, in which Deadpool proves that he didn’t get Johnny Storm killed after all, there are several TVA monitors in the background. The second from the left on the bottom row shows a version of this footage. We just didn’t notice because we were all so shook from hearing Chris Evans rattle off the most profoundly obscene string of profanities that we’ve heard for a very long time.

That means that, somewhere in the vast multiverse that the MCU is trying to build, Channing Tatum is living his best life as Gambit, and that news fills our hearts with joy. He deserves his happy ending after all this time.

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