Originally Posted by
MetalPsyc
Yeah, despite:
- Never having wore Betsy's specific Hand/Psylocke costume
- Never having the Betsy's butterfly signature
Marvel wants to keep selling the Psylocke-Betsy-Ninja brand with Kwannon but forgetting Psylocke IS Betsy cause she was also Psylocke before her ninjafication.
I'm cool with the butterfly is being used metaphorically for Kwannon since it's related to her Japanese culture. But powerwise, the butterfly sig is essential to Betsy and it could also be related to her Otherword heritage (fairies and all).
It seems, Marvel is slowly finding Kwannon's identity and bulding her own version of Psylocke. They've stopped using the butterfly sig for her and colored her hair consistently black recently.
Id be more interested in Kwannon if she has her own identity and not heavily depending on what Betsy has build for the Psylocke brand.
So far she's been written pretty interesting in Hellion (especially the plot with Sinister), but the premise of the X-Men/Mutant community trusting her for supervising the "wild card" members of the community still doesn't bode well with me. She's supposed to be one of the wild cards, the unknown. The X-Men/Krakoan should've not trusted her that well. Again, it feels like she's being used as if Betsy-Psylocke would've and once had (Utopia's head of security/supervising Magneto).
Her role in Rosenberg's UXM made more sense. She's a ruthless assassin, feels like one of the strangers in the X-Men community and speaks mostly japanese.