Psylocke: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Psylocke after and before.jpg|thumb|350px|Psylocke, after and before.]]

 

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* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: Literally. A team up with [[The Incredible Hercules| Hercules]] revealed that during an earlier team up, the two flirted with each other and then slept together. Before they departed, Hercules told Psylocke that her beauty was "unforgettable"...And yet, back in the present, he did not seem to remember her at all. This made Betsy punching him in the jaw.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Butterflies, it's a symbol of her telepathy. They also represent her [[Pretty Butterflies|gracefulness]] and [[Butterfly of Transformation|change]]. Especially when she switched bodies with her brother, thus becoming Captain Britain, gaining new psychic powers, and eventually joining the X-Men.

* [[The Atoner]]: In '''Uncanny X-Force Vol. 2''', Psylocke is trying to not kill anymore, since it has become similar to an addiction to her.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Kaptain Briton, [[Brother-Sister Incest| her brother]]'s evil counterpart from an alternate reality, attempted to rape her. Fortunately, she discovered her previously minimal psychic powers, which are more formidable than she believed at that point. Unfortunately, Captain Britain, her brother, was trapped in the alternate universe were Kaptain Briton hailed from, he too faced this at the hands of the villainess, Sat-Yr-9, just without any ability to fight them off, this adds to Brian's [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|ever growing list of never-mentioned-after-rape experiences]].

* [[Back from the Dead]]: While protecting Rogue and Beast, she was once stabbed fatally by a man known as Vargas. Who the villain beaten Rogue and Beast earlier. One year after her death, Betsy awoke where she had died and unaware of how she had survived. She was soon reunited with the X-Men. It is later revealed that it was her older brother, Jamie, who had saved her with his [[Reality Warp|reality warping]] powers.

* [[Badass Princess]]: In the [[House of M]] reality, Betsy became this and heir to the British throne and sister to Captain Britain, the King.

* [[Bi the Way]]: In ''Uncanny X-Force'', Betsy has a brief sexual relationship with Cluster and no one even mentions the fact that they are both women. This is slightly complicated by Cluster who is a male aspect of Fantomex. Although, she does not show any attraction to Weapon XIII, the third is also another male aspect.

* [[Blind Seer]]: Kind of. After loosing her eyes, Psylocke can use her psychic powers to see through the eyes of everyone around her. Occasionally seeing the future.

* [[Dye Hard]]: [[In-Universe]], Psylocke was originally a blonde, just like her twin brother. After the body-swap, it seems to be her natural color.

* [[Electronic Eyes]]: After Slaymaster blinded her, Spiral replaced her eyes with electronic ones, these instantly adjusts to light and broadcasts her adventures back to Mojoworld. Later, as Kwannon, in Psylocke's orginal body was dying of the Legacy Virus, she send the electronic eyes to Psylocke.

* [[Exposed to the Elements]]: In a 1990s issue, the team goes to Siberia. Since Psylocke's costume exposes most of her arms and legs, she adapts by putting on a short jacket (Which she does not close up).

* [[Eye Scream]]: During her brief time as Captain Britain, Slaymaster inflicted this on her.

* [[Flying Brick]]: Granted by her Captain Britain/Lady Briton costume.

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Psylocke and the ninja, Kwannon, is one of the few permanent examples. It was not a clean switch, Psylocke received Kwannon's martial arts training while Kwannon's telepathy got a power upgrade. Both ladies retained their original abilities and Psylocke's face is still recognizable (Later, she was confirmed be in Kwannon's body now). Essentially both of them still have a bit of their old bodies in their new ones and both can use Psylocke's "psychic knife." Eventually, Kwannon joins the X-Men herself as Revanche and remained with them, until her death from the Legacy Virus.

* [[Male Gaze]]: Obviously, she gets this a LOT. It's a rare issue which does not show her butt to the readers.

* [[Mercy Killing]]: At his request, she did this to Matsu'o Tsurayaba, the person who switched her body with Kwannon.

* [[Mind Rape]]: This is how Psylocke killed Kaptain Briton. Later, in ''Uncanny X-Force'', she does this to her twin brother, Brian, in order to kill their older brother, James. Because Brian hesitated to do it. During this time, the older Braddock sibling was manipulated by Horoam'ce, the devil goat, who wants to seize the Multiverse and wanted to get into the Starlight Citadel to do so.

* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Subverted. Psylocke is not the best endowed of the X-girls. Though probably the most revealing, due to her "ninja" outfit.

* [[Ms. Exposition]]: She's infamous for over describing her powers, usually a variant of "The focused totality of my telepathic powers."

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Not as much with the [[Most Common Superpower]], but for twenty years she was stuck with a costume that was pretty [[Stripperiffic| stripperiffic]]. Also, do not forget that she is the poster trope for the [[Over-the-Shoulder Pose]].

* [[Never Be Hurt Again]]: In ''Uncanny X-Force'' Vol. 1, {{spoiler| In order to save Fantomex, she sacrificed her ability to feel sorrow}}.

* [[Over-the-Shoulder Pose]]: During the '90s and early 2000s, this is so common. Many artists and fans actually call this the "Psylocke Pose."

* [[Race Lift]]: Justified. Mainly, due to her [[Freaky Friday Flip]] with Kwannon, the ninja. She turns from a British Caucasian girl to Japanese.

* [[Retcon]]: Betsy's transformations was originally used to explained away as Spiral and Mojo's altering her with plastic surgeries and magic, hence why Wolverine can still recognize her face. It's implied that her camera eyes are still intact. However, Fabian Nicieza did not know of the explanation and introduced Kwannon, stating that Brian's twin sister's body had been swapped with hers. Later, he retcon that explanation, stating that both bodies were swapped, results are that they were incomplete and both ended up with a bit of each others' powers and features. In addition, Kwannon ended up with the camera eyes, until she was stricken with the Legacy Virus, she [[Eye Scream|blinded herself to remove them]] before she dies.

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Many art of hers likes to focus on her legs and butt.

* [[Smug Super]]: Has the tendency to be extremely condescending.

* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: Just like her brother, Brian, and fellow British superheroine, Spitfire.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: '''The ninja bathing suit.'''

 

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