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The Hood killed Gambit. Parker Robbins, a small-time crook working for the entity called Oblivion, shot him with a handgun loaded with Oblivion-powered bullets while both were hunting the same artifact in the Lazarus Chamber. That is the whole verdict of the Death of Gambit case, the third and final investigation in Season 9's Death of Apocalypse event, and this guide gives you every answer to close it: the Persons of Interest, the deduction entries, the one clue almost everyone misses, the Black Panther red herring, and the final-truth solution that reveals who killed Apocalypse himself once all three cases are done.
The case unlocked July 16 and the event closes August 20. Solving it takes about two minutes with the answers below.
Death of Gambit: The Answers
Enter these on the deduction page after collecting every clue. The killer and the Persons of Interest are confirmed across sources; the report entries are grouped by what each field asks for.
Field | Answer |
|---|---|
Persons of Interest | Gambit, The Hood, Black Panther |
Assailant (the killer) | The Hood |
Weapon | Handgun |
Object of desire | Tablet of Death and Entropy |
Corpse examined | Apocalypse |
Power source | Oblivion / Oblivion's Power / Cosmic Energy |
Red herring | Black Panther, Phoenix Force residue |
Reward: the Gallery Card "Cards on the Table (The Mystery of Thebes #5)", plus 100 Units once all three cases are complete.
One requirement before any of this registers: you must collect the clue words first. The deduction page only accepts words already in your inventory from the Investigate screen, so the list above is a solution to fill in, not a way to skip the clue hunt. The next section covers the collection step, including the clue nearly everyone misses.
Where to Find the Case and Every Clue
Open the Events tab, select Death of Apocalypse, and pick the Gambit mission in the bottom-right of the case hub. On the Investigate screen you get an illustrated crime scene dotted with glowing sparkles; click every one to unlock its dialogue and the keywords that drop into your clue inventory.
- The clue on Gambit's chest. One sparkle sits directly on Gambit's body and is the single most-missed clue in the case. The deduction page will not complete without it, and because the game does not flag which clue is absent, a missing chest clue reads as a wrong answer instead of a missing one. Check the corpse before you leave the scene.
- Read the Hood and Emma Frost exchange. The dialogue between them states the motive outright, so if you read instead of speed-clicking, most of the deduction fills itself in.
- Sweep the frame edges. As in the earlier cases, a sparkle near the border is easy to skip, and one uncollected clue fails the whole submission with no explanation.
Who Killed Gambit, and Why It Was Not Personal
The answer is deliberately anticlimactic. The Hood was not hunting Gambit; he was hunting a rock. Gambit had slipped into the Lazarus Chamber to fulfill a promise to the Thieves' Guild, started searching Apocalypse's corpse for the Tablet of Death and Entropy, and happened to stand between a thief and the prize that thief had come for. There was no duel and no last words, just a bullet from a man who wanted the same artifact. The pistol was no ordinary firearm either: it fired rounds powered by Oblivion, the cosmic entity Parker Robbins answers to, which is what let a street-level crook put down a mutant of Gambit's caliber.
The case matters beyond its own verdict because it is also an audition. The Hood is confirmed for the Season 9.5 roster arriving August 7, and this event doubles as his introduction: he shows up with his signature pistols and Oblivion-charged bullets, strongly hinting at a Duelist role. NetEase gets to remove a fan favorite and trail the next hero in the same cutscene.
How the Deduction System Works
If this is your first case in the event, the two-phase system is worth thirty seconds of explanation, because the game teaches neither phase well. Phase one is Investigate: an illustrated scene where you click sparkles to bank clue words into an inventory, and where the counter, not your intuition, tells you when you have them all. Phase two is Deduction: a written report full of blanks that each accept exactly one clue word, plus a Persons of Interest section that takes three names. A wrong entry costs nothing but time; the page simply refuses and returns you to the text without saying which slot failed, which is why a single uncollected clue, like the one on Gambit's chest, reads as a wrong answer rather than a missing one. There is no attempt limit, no combat, and no penalty for guessing beyond re-reading.
The Black Panther Red Herring
The case plants a false lead worth understanding, because it is the thread that connects Gambit's murder to the season's larger mystery. Early clues surface Phoenix Force residue, a spear-mark signature that points straight at Black Panther. It leads nowhere on Gambit's case. The Phoenix Force energy is real, but it belongs to the investigation into Apocalypse's own death, whose corpse carries the same signature, not to the Hood's robbery. Black Panther is a Person of Interest you must enter to close the case, and simultaneously a suspect the evidence clears. Recognizing that the Phoenix Force clue is misdirection on this case is exactly what the final-truth stage rewards.
The Final Truth: Who Killed Apocalypse
Completing all three murder cases, Wolverine, Psylocke, and Gambit, unlocks the event's final chapter. Click the coffin at the center of the hub to open it, and rather than another sparkle hunt, it presents a short three-slot puzzle. The solution:
Slot | Answer | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|
Left slot | Bloodless Corpse | Wolverine's case: Apocalypse and Logan were both drained of blood |
Top-right slot | Undead Energy | Psylocke's case: the arrow that killed her carried it |
Bottom-right slot | Phoenix Force | Gambit's case: the residue that framed Black Panther |
Placing all three correctly closes the season's central question. The three deaths were never separate crimes; each left one piece of the signature on Apocalypse's own corpse, and assembling them is the point the whole event was built around. For the full solutions to the two earlier cases that feed this puzzle, see our complete Death of Apocalypse answers guide.
Who Is The Hood, and Why Him
For players asking why a C-list crook gets to kill a fan favorite: that is the point of the casting. Parker Robbins is a street-level criminal whose entire power set is borrowed, a cloak and boots taken from a demon that channel the cosmic entity Oblivion. He is not a mutant, not a god, not an Avenger; he is a thief who lucked into cosmic hardware, which makes him the perfect instrument for a murder that is about the artifact, not the victim. A hero of Gambit's tier does not lose a fair fight to Parker Robbins, and the case is careful to establish that it was not one: it was Oblivion-charged rounds and an ambush over a stolen tablet.
The thematic rhyme with the season is deliberate too. Apocalypse was harvesting divine faith to ascend; the Hood is a nobody wielding borrowed cosmic power to steal a relic of death and entropy. Both are stories about small hands reaching for forces far larger than themselves, which is exactly the note Season 9's Egyptian death arc keeps striking. When he arrives as a playable Duelist in Season 9.5, that borrowed-power identity is likely to define his kit as much as his pistols do.
Rewards and What They Are Worth
- Cards on the Table (The Mystery of Thebes #5), the Gallery Card for solving Gambit's case, the fifth in the season's collectible set.
- 100 Units for completing all three cases. Modest on paper, but free Units are the scarcest routine income in the game's economy, and this is roughly two minutes of work per case; where they go furthest is covered in our currency guide.
- The final-truth reveal, the answer to who killed Apocalypse, which the season has been building toward since launch and which sets up the next chapter of the storyline.
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How This Fits the Rest of Season 9
Death of Gambit closes the detective event, but it sits inside a stack of Season 9 deadlines worth planning around:
Activity | Closes | Note |
|---|---|---|
Death of Apocalypse (all three cases + final truth) | August 20 | This event; about ten minutes total now that every case is solvable |
Resurrection of the Horsemen | September 11 | The parallel mission track that resurrects these same victims; see our Horsemen event guide |
Season 9.5 update | August 7 | The Hood joins the roster, turning this case's killer into a playable Duelist |
The narrative threads tie together cleanly: the detective event names the killers, the Horsemen event brings the victims back, and the mid-season patch adds the culprit of this very case as a hero. If you want to play the Strategist who leads that resurrection, our Jubilee guide covers her kit.
Solving Checklist
- First: open the Gambit case from the bottom-right of the Death of Apocalypse hub and click every sparkle, including the one on Gambit's chest.
- Second: enter the Persons of Interest, Gambit, The Hood, Black Panther, and fill the report from the answer table above.
- Third: claim the Cards on the Table Gallery Card and, if you have finished all three cases, the 100 Units.
- Fourth: click the coffin and solve the final truth, Bloodless Corpse left, Undead Energy top-right, Phoenix Force bottom-right, for the reveal.
- Before August 20: make sure all three cases and the finale are claimed. Event rewards do not return, and the claims are manual.
FAQ
Who killed Gambit in Marvel Rivals?
The Hood, Parker Robbins, a small-time crook working for the cosmic entity Oblivion. He shot Gambit with a handgun firing Oblivion-powered bullets while both were hunting the Tablet of Death and Entropy in the Lazarus Chamber. It was not a personal grudge: Gambit simply stood between the Hood and the artifact he came to steal.
What are the Death of Gambit answers?
Persons of Interest: Gambit, The Hood, and Black Panther. The report identifies The Hood as the assailant, a handgun as the weapon, the Tablet of Death and Entropy as the object of desire, Apocalypse as the examined corpse, and Oblivion as the power source, with Black Panther and the Phoenix Force residue as the red herring. Solving it awards the "Cards on the Table (The Mystery of Thebes #5)" Gallery Card.
Where is the hidden clue in the Death of Gambit case?
On Gambit's chest. One sparkle sits directly on his body and is the most commonly missed clue in the case. Because the deduction page does not tell you which clue is absent, a missing chest clue causes the whole submission to fail as though an answer were wrong, so collect it before leaving the Investigate screen.
Is Black Panther involved in Gambit's death?
No. Black Panther is a required Person of Interest and a deliberate red herring. The Phoenix Force residue that points at him belongs to the separate investigation into Apocalypse's death, whose corpse carries the same signature, not to the Hood's robbery of Gambit. Recognizing that misdirection is what the final-truth stage rewards.
How do you solve the final truth of who killed Apocalypse?
After completing all three cases, click the coffin at the center of the event hub to open a three-slot puzzle. Place Bloodless Corpse in the left slot, Undead Energy in the top-right, and Phoenix Force in the bottom-right. Each clue comes from one of the three murders, and assembling them reveals the season's central answer and sets up the next chapter.
What reward do you get for the Death of Gambit case?
The Gallery Card "Cards on the Table (The Mystery of Thebes #5)" for the case itself, and 100 Units once all three cases, Wolverine, Psylocke, and Gambit, are complete. Completing all three also unlocks the final-truth reveal. The event closes August 20, and rewards are claimed manually, so collect before then.
Is The Hood coming to Marvel Rivals as a playable hero?
Yes. The Hood is confirmed for the Season 9.5 update arriving August 7, and the Death of Gambit case doubles as his introduction. He appears with his signature pistols and Oblivion-charged bullets, which strongly points to a Duelist role, making this case both the resolution of a murder and a trailer for the next roster addition.
