įollowing the Hunt for Wolverine, when Braddock was restored to her original body, Kwannon was reborn in her original body as well. Choosing to die on her own terms, Kwannon confronts Tsurayaba, who complies with her request to kill her rather than waiting to succumb to the disease. As the disease progressed, Kwannon’s psychic abilities increased, allowing her to clarify her own distorted memory. Īfter accepting that she is not the original Betsy Braddock, Kwannon becomes a member of the X-Men, shortly thereafter contracting the Legacy Virus. In hopes that, due to Kwannon’s low-level psychic abilities, the powers of the high-level telepath Betsy Braddock would be able to save her life, Tsurayaba sought the help of the sorceress Spiral, who instead transferred the women’s minds into each other’s bodies rather than simply recovering Kwannon. She discovered that she was formerly The Hand’s prime assassin before incurring brain damage and falling comatose as a result a battle with her lover Matsu’o Tsurayaba, a high-ranking member of the Hand. In Kwannon’s first appearance, using the codename Revanche, she traveled to the United States to confront Braddock, believing herself to be the real Betsy Braddock due to amnesia caused by the body swap. ĭuring the Dawn of X, Braddock subsequently took up her brother Brian’s former title of Captain Britain, forming a new iteration of Excalibur with Apocalypse, Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Rictor, to protect the Kingdom of Avalon. After destroying Sapphire Styx from the inside with assistance from a fragment of Wolverine’s soul, Braddock reconstitutes her original body with the villain’s remaining soul power.
During the Hunt for Wolverine storyline, the psychic vampire Sapphire Styx absorbs the entirety of Braddock’s soul, leaving her body dead. In the Claremont-written X-Treme X-Men #2 (2001), the character dies, her comic book death lasting until 2005's Uncanny X-Men #455. While her memories return, she retains her new appearance and skills, including the ability to manifest the focused totality of her telepathic power in the form of a “psychic knife.” A 1993 story by Fabian Nicieza would retroactively establish that Braddock’s changed appearance was the product of a body swap between Braddock and the assassin Kwannon. Under the name Lady Mandarin she briefly becomes the Hand’s supreme assassin. In a 1989 story, an amnesiac Betsy is kidnapped by The Hand, who brainwash her and physically alter her to take on an East Asian appearance. After being rescued by the New Mutants and taking up residence at their mutant-training academy, Braddock is formally invited to join the X-Men and officially adopts the codename Psylocke, becoming an enduring fixture of the team over the next three decades. In New Mutants Annual #2 (1986), Claremont integrated Betsy Braddock into the X-Men franchise. 1976) as her first cover appearance, published by the Marvel Comics' British imprint Marvel UK. Publication history Betsy Braddock Ĭreated by writer Chris Claremont, Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8 (Dec. For 29 years of publication history, the character was body-swapped in-story with the assassin Kwannon, who took on the Psylocke codename after Braddock claimed the title of Captain Britain. The first character to use the Psylocke moniker, Betsy Braddock, was initially a supporting character in the adventures of her twin brother Brian in the original Captain Britain series, adopting the codename upon joining the X-Men. Psylocke is the name of two connected fictional superheroes appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Psylocke #1 (2009) featuring the body-swapped Betsy Braddock version of the character, art by David Finch and Jason Keith. Art by Mahmud Asrar and Matthew Wilson.Ĭaptain Britain (vol. 4) # 19, depicting both characters called Psylocke: Betsy Braddock (left) and Kwannon (right). Textless variant cover of Excalibur (Vol.
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