Realistically? Yes.
Realistically? Yes.
Honestly I think two possibilities: One, they want the headlines or two they want to have their own version of Betsy that they can incorporate better in a Captain Britain movie.
I don't think Marvel vvery much care about the people who found Psylocke offensive before, since they had soo many chances to revert her in the past but chose not to.
I do think it's a mistake for her, since it's too much a part of her brand now and it would've been easier to retcon her as half Asian or something, but we'll see where this goes or even if it sticks.
I always thought Ninja Psylocke was Marvel wanting a "bad girl" similar to Elektra in the X-Books.
Personally, I have always prefer her as British Betsy.
I love her early appearances in the X-Books in her original body/persona, with New Mutants Annual 2 being a firm favorite.
Now... if only Marvel would bring back those puffy sleeves...
I think this is one time where you'll find quite a few people with varying political viewpoints all in agreement. I liked Asian Psylocke, but I also understand why that character rubbed certain groups on both sides of the aisle the wrong way. I also liked Caucasian Betsy, too, and it doesn't bother me one bit if they're changing her back to her original form.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
Her being made a white woman again in some mini is stupid, I liked her as the Asian look and hope that she goes back to it someday...and just because she's white again doesn't mean that she'll have any more to do with her brother than she did before, and it's not her original body, she stole Styx's body and used it somehow to make a new body or something like that, so she's still in somebody else's body, so it's still all messed up...
But yes I do think that the two things are connected...
It’s crazy to think that Betsy has spent more time as an Asian woman than a white woman
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As for her physical form, come on, this is comics. There are a bazillion ways to get her back into something resembling her old form. It doesn't take a particularly clever writer to accomplish that. Just don't remember to keep the purple hair and give her a new costume.
To my view, this is a blow to diversity. Hopefully, Psylocke will continue to explore Asia and remain a link to Asian characters in a less problematic way. And perhaps, eventually, we will see the return of Revanche/Kwannon. A storyline exploring Britain's past with the orient would be welcome. Psylocke: Opium Wars.
Oh yeah, that'll make everyone happy! Most people today don't even understand that history, I don't think Marvel wants to dredge it back up(it certainly won't earn them PC points). I do think there should be justice for Kwannon, though. I'd do her as a Chinese mutant warrior with the psi-knife and shadow teleporting powers outright in the MCU and leave telepathic/pre-cog/Arthurian magical Elizabeth Braddock for the Captain Britain line.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!