I'm with you. Ask people to describe Psylocke, and you'll get that she's a lethal antihero with a dark past seeking redemption.
Why would Betsy even want to be Psylocke? That's a codename she had during dark times. She was miserable and addicted to murder and she's been going away from that for the last few years. Betsy nowadays has found redemption. She makes more sense being on XMEN team being righteous than being on XFORCE being ruthless. That's like Jean wanting to be hero but going by Dark Phoenix instead of a more positive name.
Captain Britain also allows Betsy to join the MCU in a respected position without any of the baggage of "isn't Psylocke Asian?"
Psylocke only became popular when fans started thinking she was always asian anyway.
Last edited by RamaBird; 08-10-2019 at 12:11 PM.
Agreed.
Using that logic, why should she want to be Captain Britain? She was Captain Britain when she suffered a horrendous defeat at the hands of Slaymaster where her eyes were gouged out and she was Captain Britain again when she murdered her brother.
Last edited by Psyknight; 08-10-2019 at 02:23 PM.
Just popping in to express my appreciation for Psylocke no longer wearing yellowface, and that she's taken the mantle of Captain Britain from her abusive, weirdo brother.
I also don't get what's so good about her supposed respected position in the MCU if it removes her role as an X-Man, which is like 95% of her publishing history.
Last edited by Psy-lock; 08-10-2019 at 02:32 PM.
I might be misinterpreting what the OP said on Betsy getting a respected position in the MCU but I think they are probably alluding to the fact that Betsy as an X-character has less of a chance of being on screen since the go-to telepaths are always Charles, Jean and then Emma. However, her as a Captain Britain character would give her more screen time/ be more important and hence "respectable".
The problem is that she has only one story as Captain Britain so far. The one where she gets beaten and blinded by Slaymaster. All of her best stories are with the X-Men. What good is this supposed importance if she has almost nothing to do with Betsy from the comics? And it's questionable if it's actually an upgrade. Captain Britain never had a particularly respectable position outside of Marvel UK stories, Psylocke is definitely a more popular and iconic character.
3 years is a long history? In 1986 when joining up with the X-Men is the first time Betsy used the Psylocke code name. In 1989 she was reimaged by Jim Lee, as a Japanese woman(Kwannon's body). For almost 3 decades Psylocke was a British woman trapped in a Japanese woman's body who enjoyed thrill seeking, and defying death. Granted her struggle with killing really wasn't part of her character until the 2000's. And maybe trapped isn't the right the word, but Betsy eventually accepted the change forced on her until she recently created a new body for herself(her original appearance).
To be honest from a story perspective I feel it would make sense for both Betsy and Kwannon to abandon the Psylocke code name since it is tied to their bodies being swapped, but from a marketing stand point as I stated earlier it is a clever move by Marvel. They get to keep the marketability of both the name Psylocke and what is without question her most iconic look tied together, while doing away with the baggage of the body swap(Asian but isn't, etc) in today's culture. It also allows them to use Betsy's popularity with the more serious comic fans to develop her in a new direction, and bring something new to Captain Britain/Excalibur.
It doesn't. I only bought it up because of the possible implications bought about by the way Betsy and Kwannon were restored to their original appearances. Kwannon died not long after the body swap in Betsy's original body from the legacy virus. Betsy helped her soul move on/depart, at least that was the way it seemed at the time. But we learn that apparently that wasn't the case because there was enough of Kwannon's soul still present for both her and Betsy to come back from near death or whatever that was in the Hunt for Wolverine. That would seem to imply that the entire time Betsy's mind/soul was in Kwannon's body that at least a part of Kwannon's soul/psyche was also present. So my question was how much influence, if any, did that piece/part of Kwannon have on Betsy.
Last edited by MikaelNovasun; 08-12-2019 at 06:11 AM.
Even then it wasn't her body. The bodies were completely destroyed once they went through Spirals bodyshoppe. She made 2 new bodies that were almost indistinguishable. She mixed the womens DNA, powers and memories. It was a mess but both their original bodies have been gone since the Siege Perilous.