Originally Posted by
shadowbox
Nerd rage incoming
I have been a fan of Psylocke since seeing her in the Marvel Superheroes arcade game when I was a child. I had my mom buy me the toy that had her sword light up. I drew her, I bought every game she appeared in, and sought out comics that she played a major role in. I didn't learn about her past until I started looking X-Men up on the internet and while I did find it weird, I chalked it up to comics being comics. In the past 15 years, the character has died, been resurrected, sucked into an alternate reality, plucked back to 616, plugged into her original body, transferred back, had her original body destroyed, faced a wraith that looked like original body etc. Literally ANY of those times would have been fine to take her back to square one if they felt so inclined. But instead, we get that slapped together in a weird miniseries. Like!? This comes 2 years after having a small role as an antagonist in a Summer blockbuster and like 2 days after making her a playable ninja in Future Fight. Water u dewin!? It's not like she was constantly speaking in haiku and lounging in kimonos, embodying some full on stereotype.
I'm taking this decision comes hot off the trail of ScarJo/Ghost in The Shell and Tilda Swinton/Doctor Strange but instead of acknowledging those faux pas, this is kind of doing the same thing: taking a recognizable Asian face and replacing it with a white one. 27 years of ink, pixels, figurines, animation cels, and casting calls thrown aside lol. At least she'll make the Guinness World Record for THE most confusing comic book heroine ever conceived. Here's hoping that since they changed Blink and Domino for live action projects, they don't feel the need to cast a white actress should she ever appear in anything in the future. Sheesh.
It feels so weird to feel this strongly about this but imagine they made Beast human again: yeah, thats how he started but any fan younger than 60 didn't grow up with that being their hero.
(Also the costume is trash garbaj. Dodson and Yu can't even seem to agree on what the shoulders are supposed to look like.)