Somewhere, someone is pitching making a Braddock become Captain Krakoa!
(So what does Krakoa's flag look like anyway?)
Somewhere, someone is pitching making a Braddock become Captain Krakoa!
(So what does Krakoa's flag look like anyway?)
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
I wouldn't be mad at Betsy Braddock getting "Revanche" as her codename if she can't be Psylocke. Might as well chaotically confuse everyone even more lol.
I actually like the idea of Betsy as a Ninja Captain Britain. Unfortunately, although the interviews stated that she retained all her previous power and skills they also said that there's giong to be a new direction for Betsy- which we all know now: the typical Knight CB (with telepathic power).
But then again, her current power set is not being clearly explained and there weren't any interesting use/demonstration of her power as the new CB.
- We don't see her having super strength;
- We don't see her being invulnerable;
- We rarely see her flying (it's there but not noticeable enough);
- Her telepathy skills were being reduced as a commmunication tool only - no mindtrick, illusion, psychoblast etc.
- Her telekinesis skills were being reduced to only projecting a sword and a small shield - no other tk weapons, tk blast, tk-bubble/dome etc.
- Her fights were mediocre, with a small exception when she's in Queen Betsy universe - when she's not CB.
Power-wise, currently she's not that exciting. Just meh compared to what she was before.
she has psychicly atacked jaime several times, used her powers on the soldiers to see if brian was around AND just mindcontroled brian, she used her tk to lift rogue from the boat in issue two, she has been using psychic daggers like a ranged assault.
Betsy has been tanking damage without ever being knocked out this entire run, do you need the characters to AWEEEEE at her with a description of the focused focality of her brittainess ?
most of your points are just blantantly incorrect from someone that clearly hasnt read it with any shred of good faith or basic attention.
Last edited by Ferro; 03-01-2021 at 11:10 AM.
I feel like if the only way you can enjoy Betsy and consider her a great character is by "impressive" power feats then you might not be a fan of the character lol.
Betsy's current depression is something new for the character but it's also a long time coming. She's always been the "strong" so it's interesting to see that seeing Kwannon face to face and coming to terms with all she's done has finally broken her. Idk what her running around swinging a psychic sword is supposed to do other than be a cool moment that she's already had before.
Last edited by Psycwave; 03-01-2021 at 11:54 AM.
Oh! Do you think we'll see some X-Corp/Excalibur crossover action since Tini is writing both? Now that CB met that alternate reality Warren and met a version of him that loved her in her OG body I'm sure she's gonna have a ton of thoughts swirling around when she finally makes it back properly.
What was people's issue with Psylocke when she was in Revanche/Kwannon's body?
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She doesnt show better strength compared to the other members and Betsy had the most ridiculous fight with Isca and "died".
Most of her psi-attack failed (lol). It's so unmemorable as if it was non existant. Even mindcontrolling Brian and ranged psi daggers was not done by her (probably Morgan LaFey in her body)
Her power feats is just one aspects that's been degraded for Betsy. We also have issues with characterizations, dialogues and imbalances for the characters in the book. She loses her confidence, and being stripped away from what made her awesome. There are things we love about pre-ninja Brit Betsy and there are things we love about Ninja Betsy (be it tp/tk or both). CB Betsy just hasn't been that exciting and so far, I haven't fall in love with her.
Look guys, I don't hate this new Betsy and have been trying to keep being positive and keep reading/buying Excalibur.
I'm glad Apoc is out of the way now, so the book can focus more on her and the team. I also love the Braddocks dynamics in the book.
But there are issues and things that need to be addressed in the book especially regarding to our Betsy.