Get ready for X-Men: Apocalypse with our history of Psylocke!
Psylocke is finally coming to film.
Not so, my little students of mutant history.
The imprint created the character Deaths Head, and even published original Star Wars comics.
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Anyway, one of the Marvel U.K. books wasCaptain Britain.
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Betsy even servedasCaptain Britain for a time!
So how did that all happen?
In this tale drawn by Alan Davis, Betsy is kidnapped by the media obsessed alien Mojo.
The New Mutants must race into the Mojoverse to save Betsy and defeat the corpulent alien.
Mojo experiments on Betsy, brainwashing her, enhancing her powers, and replacing her eyes with bionics.
Mojo rebrands Betsy as Psylocke and sends her against the New Mutants.
Xaviers students manage to free the newly created Psylocke and welcome her to the X-Men.
Not exactly the most fearsome power in the world, but hey, it was unique.
This was underscored in Betsys first encounter with Sabretooth.
Soon, everything about the character, including her ethnicity, would change…
PSYLOCKE?!?
Okay, somehow Claremont and Marvel pulled this one off without being horribly offensive, so…yay!
And her dream came true in a very strange way.
Perk up now Daredevil and Iron Man fans, things are about to get strange and cool.
When Betsy awoke from being Siege Periloused (is that a verb?
), she couldnt remember her past.
She awoke around China and was taken by the head of the Hand ninja cult (Daredevil!)
and was once again used in a twisted experiment.
Betsy took the identity of Lady Mandarin and was now in Kwannons body.
This helped Betsy regain her memories and rejoin the X-Men as the suddenly deadly Psylocke.
Now think about this, before Betsys power consisted of making psychic butterfly projections.
Now, thats an upgrade.
Its kind of like giving Rainbow Bright a chain gun.
Psylocke in her new form fitting costume was often the centerpiece of Lees X-men covers and slash pages.
This established Psylocke as something of a femme fatale in the X universe.
Soon, the two women settled their differences and Kwannon joined the X-Men as Revanche.
After Psylocke was gutted by Sabretooth (X-TREME!)
her new lover Angel, Doctor Strange, and a few other notables found a cure for Betsy.
The cure came with new shadow teleporting powers (X-TREME!)
and a crimson eye tattoo (X-TREMELY X-TREME!).
These new shadow powers made Betsy icier than ever before and drove a wedge between her and Angel.
Her inclusion in X-Force solidified Psylockes status as one of the deadliest mutants in the Marvel Universe.
She rejoined the X-Men and is currently a hand chosen member of Magnetos Uncanny X-Men.
Now, you know youre an elite badass when freakin Magneto wants you on his crew.
IfX-Men: Apocalypsegets her right, Psylocke might be bigger than ever before.
