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The Psylocke(s) Problem and How to Solve It

Case Study (Credit: Russell Dauterman) Greetings, wonderful people. Today, I'm writing you a new entry that will focus on a topic which I'm very interested in. You see, I'm a huge X-Men fan. I love them beyond words. Among the many mutant characters though, Psylocke is far and above everyone else for me. The story of Psylocke is complicated; beginning with a character named Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock, a psychic, she's the twin sister of the then-Captain Britain, Brian Braddock. She joined the X-Men in the mid '80s after her own tenure as Captain Britain had ended horribly wrong (got her eyes taken out by a supervillain!). She had a purple-dyed hair and she was also an ex-spy of S.T.R.I.K.E., basically the British version of S.H.I.E.L.D. Amazing repertoire on this lady! She then got the code name "Psylocke" from Mojo, an X-Men super villain hailed from a place called the Mojoworld, plus a pair of cybernetic eyes after she got abducted by him and h...

X-Men: The Movie

An Imagining (Credit: Jim Lee) I know. What the hell is this, right? Well, I woke up today and decided that I want to make a brief general summary of an X-Men story that I've been cooking up for a while. It would begin with a scene where one of our protagonists, Jean Grey a.k.a. Marvel Girl, arrives at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester County, New York. This however is not a story of a teenage Grey arriving at the school for the first time. It's just a callback to that; she's an adult now. She goes back to the school to visit her old professor, Charles Francis Xavier a.k.a. Professor X, because why not reunion? Anyway, Grey would meet the other previous students of the school. In order of appearance: Henry "Hank" McCoy a.k.a. Beast who would answer the door for her, Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops who's currently in a heated debate with Warren Kenneth Worthington III a.k.a. Angel, and Robert "Bobby" Drake a.k.a. Iceman who jus...