Character » Psylocke appears in 2473 issues.
Eh? Did she trade bodies or something?
I only remember her as Asian.
Eh? Did she trade bodies or something?I only remember her as Asian.
How can it be a 50/50 split with 9 votes casted?
How can it be a 50/50 split with 9 votes casted?
She always looked Asian to me...Ethnicity does not matter I guess.
British Betsy will always be the best. Asian had a few good moments, but was convuluted with body swap retcons, crimson dawn powersm, licking Scott's face, and writers not knowing what to do with her leaving her as nothing more than sex kitten wallpaper and thong riding vag shots.
I voted for the Asian Psylocke
But having her back as a British woman is not at all bad... not even if she decided to go with her natural color hair which is blonde! Watch out Emma a real blonde is on the way. But the Asian Psylocke will be such a waste if she won't be used... she has a stronger fan base and much recognized, I do not see why they can't have two Psylocke... one as Kwannon now on her own body with TK and Betsy having her telepathy and some acquired skills from Kwannon.
Asian!
-C'mon, when you think of Psylocke .... you think: "Cool Asian Ninja Psychic"
and she was soo more badass and looked incredible as Asian,
she was my favourite asian character, and now she's not asian anymore, she's just lost her edge.
I like british psylocke.....
But i have to say Asian psylocke is pretty awesome
Psylocke is awesome in general... so yeahhh
Original British is wayyyy better :)
Thats one of the reasons I loathe Asian Betsy. People think "Cool Asian ninja psychic" There is no characterization. No depth. They just see thongkini and psychic knife. I agree that most people recognize Asian Psylocke because that was a time when comics were at its high and plenty of people came on board. I feel many who say "thats when i got introduced to the character when she was asian" are missing out on so much. I feel they should try and hunt down as many issues of Psylocke from the old days to see just how mch better than the asian incarnation she really is. Especially during the outback period. The people that say British Betsy was too "girly" must not have been reading the same woman. Yeah she was feminie but it was such a great contrast with the warrior she really was. She was deadly in her own way. She used her tp much more effectively instead of "PSYCHIC KNIFE" everytime. She was dangerous and to tell the truth softened in her ninja days. British Betsy was brutal, ready to kill, sneaky, psycho blasting, and badassI also dont like how she has been typecast into the token asian character when in relaity SHE IS NOT ASIAN!



Thats one of the reasons I loathe Asian Betsy. People think "Cool Asian ninja psychic" There is no characterization. No ... [more]
ASIAN !!!!!!!
asain by far...you guys need to vote by the way. 48-52% not good
The Devil Tiger said: ASIAN !!!!!!! That's a white woman...........I choose British. There was a serious character flaw that involved ... [more]
I voted asian but after seeing blonde betsy i want to change my vote bring her back blonde and hot lol
British Psylocke, and she's the only Psylocke as far as I'm concerned. Asian Psylocke never should have happened.
I read Matt Fraction's X-Position last week. He explained that the whole rigmarole with the Sisterhood was just to bring Betsy back... because he wanted a different ethnic character on the team. He said that it was looking too white so she stayed Asian.
Nobody has ever drawn her looking Asian! EVER! Kubert made her eyes pointy at the ends and that's about it. The best they do is make her look tanned... That's hardly going to stand out among a team that's just spent the last year in San Francisco :p
" I read Matt Fraction's X-Position last week. He explained that the whole rigmarole with the Sisterhood was just to bring Betsy back... because he wanted a different ethnic character on the team. He said that it was looking too white so she stayed Asian.Nobody has ever drawn her looking Asian! EVER! Kubert made her eyes pointy at the ends and that's about it. The best they do is make her look tanned... That's hardly going to stand out among a team that's just spent the last year in San Francisco :p "Yes, I noted it too even Jim Lee's version doesn't really come as some body who is of Japanese descent but then again so is Storm who is supposed to be African.
"Yes, I noted it too even Jim Lee's version doesn't really come as some body who is of Japanese descent but then again so is Storm who is supposed to be African.I do not like the reason why she was brought back to the team, in fact, I hope they come up with a good explanation how Psylocke was extracted from the Exiles so easily."Because fans hated her in Exiles?? ;)
" I read Matt Fraction's X-Position last week. He explained that the whole rigmarole with the Sisterhood was just to bring Betsy back... because he wanted a different ethnic character on the team. He said that it was looking too white so she stayed Asian.Nobody has ever drawn her looking Asian! EVER! Kubert made her eyes pointy at the ends and that's about it. The best they do is make her look tanned... That's hardly going to stand out among a team that's just spent the last year in San Francisco :p "He had to bring Elisabeth back for that? Thanks to him, there's a Warehouse full of mutants to chose from, surely he could have chosen some of them.
Also what was your thinking behind bringing back Psylocke's original body, only to fry it and put her back in her second one? Nothing against “Asian Psylocke,” I'm just curious…
To be brutally honest? I saw more value in bringing a character of color into the book than yet another white face. When I came in there were a whole lot of dudes and a whole lot of white folk around; I wanted very much to diversify the genders and the colors of the team somewhat without turning the thing into a Benetton ad or the cast of “Voyager” or whatever. I figured, since we were already asking people to buy a story in which a magic, bodiless psychic spirit performed a grand act of transdimensional psychic necromancy, that your suspension of disbelief had either long ago shattered or was impervious to anything I could throw at it...so why not?
Besides, going forward with Psylocke, we'll see that while she might look the same on the outside, inside is a different matter...
" I read Matt Fraction's X-Position last week. He explained that the whole rigmarole with the Sisterhood was just to bring Betsy back... because he wanted a different ethnic character on the team. He said that it was looking too white so she stayed Asian.Nobody has ever drawn her looking Asian! EVER! Kubert made her eyes pointy at the ends and that's about it. The best they do is make her look tanned... That's hardly going to stand out among a team that's just spent the last year in San Francisco :p "Agreed, not too mention the fact that they finally got her out of a bathing suit and into a real costume, and then they put her right back into the bathing suit again! Its like, if you nabbed her from Exiles...shouldn't she have at least been wearing her Exiles uniform?
This is what I raised in a thread I made months ago.
When Jamie Braddock brought her back, why in an Asian body and not with the British body?
was it a bad writing? because that was a good point to really return her to her original body and even be blonde again, as compared to this weird revival of her body. As far as I remember she is supposed to be immune from magic and psychic attacks... oh well.
Mr. Falcon, shouldn't have made that excuse of white Folks as if there is something wrong with the picture. There is no race issue with the team so why make one? Besides I agree with you guys that Psylocke even in an Asian body is still British. Karma and Jubilee (if they return her powers) could have been a good choice.
"how gross. So is that why the entire sisterhood, minus lady deathstrike were all, "white folk"?"Beats me. The whole ridiculous storyline was just to bring an Asian character to the X-Men... So they could have just walked her in through the door and I've have been happier with it instead of the mess with the "Sisterhood".
"Agreed, not too mention the fact that they finally got her out of a bathing suit and into a real costume, and then they put her right back into the bathing suit again!"Indeed. Yet another example of Mr Fractions complete disregard for this little thing called 'continuity'... and more evidence that he & Greg Land are just pervs who want to use female characters in very little clothing.
I miss her puffy sleeves...
either, asian or british she MUST keep her purple hair, i feel that it's her trademark.
however, i do prefer her being asian, as i am a purple-haired asian myself. ;]
as for powers, all her original ones.... but the whole butterfly thing... i never liked
and i wish she could keep her shadow powers but they wouldnt work outside the context of the story
These two. They were drawn well.
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