Spoilers: Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus and Northstar head to Westchester aboard the Blackbird. The Sisterhood teleports in their Headquarters, and the Red Queen casts a spell so that Jean's hair lock can find where her body is. Maddie orders the Mastermind sisters and Psylocke to stay and deal with the X-Men. She then takes Chimera, Spiral and Deathstrike with her to seek Jean's body. Emma Frost, Storm, Dazzler and Karma arrive at their hideout and prepare to fight them. Meanwhile, the Red Queen and the others arrive at the destroyed grounds of the old Institute, in Westchester. Domino is there waiting for them, and Cyclops' group also shows up. Back in San Francisco, Dazzler tries to reason with Psylocke and bring her back to her senses, but it's hopeless. Dazzler then generates a huge beam of light and ends up blowing off Betsy's face. Psylocke manages to break free for a moment and uses her psi-knife on herself. In Westchester, while the Sisterhood is keeping the X-Men busy, the Red Queen transfers her consciousness inside Jean's body, but it backfires. Inside Psylocke's mind, the real Betsy is at war with her evil self, and ultimately kills the evil being inside of her. Cyclops explains to Maddie that Domino had already taken Jean's corpse out of her coffin, switching it for another body, one that isn't able to contain Maddie's psyche. In San Francisco, Dazzler tries to wake up a seemingly dead Psylocke, when Betsy suddenly awakes in her Asian body! Spiral, feeling the Red Queen's defeat, teleports all the sisters out, and they disappear. Emma communicates telepathically with Scott and tells him that the X-Men just gained a new member: "Betsy Braddock - Psylocke. Telekinetic psychic. Ninja. Back home. At last." Back at the Graymalkin Industries, Beast confronts Scott and Emma about the secrets both of them have been keeping lately. He says he's taking the X-Club on a mission and that he'll have a conversation with them after he comes back.Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Uncanny X-Men #511 Spoilers
Spoilers: Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus and Northstar head to Westchester aboard the Blackbird. The Sisterhood teleports in their Headquarters, and the Red Queen casts a spell so that Jean's hair lock can find where her body is. Maddie orders the Mastermind sisters and Psylocke to stay and deal with the X-Men. She then takes Chimera, Spiral and Deathstrike with her to seek Jean's body. Emma Frost, Storm, Dazzler and Karma arrive at their hideout and prepare to fight them. Meanwhile, the Red Queen and the others arrive at the destroyed grounds of the old Institute, in Westchester. Domino is there waiting for them, and Cyclops' group also shows up. Back in San Francisco, Dazzler tries to reason with Psylocke and bring her back to her senses, but it's hopeless. Dazzler then generates a huge beam of light and ends up blowing off Betsy's face. Psylocke manages to break free for a moment and uses her psi-knife on herself. In Westchester, while the Sisterhood is keeping the X-Men busy, the Red Queen transfers her consciousness inside Jean's body, but it backfires. Inside Psylocke's mind, the real Betsy is at war with her evil self, and ultimately kills the evil being inside of her. Cyclops explains to Maddie that Domino had already taken Jean's corpse out of her coffin, switching it for another body, one that isn't able to contain Maddie's psyche. In San Francisco, Dazzler tries to wake up a seemingly dead Psylocke, when Betsy suddenly awakes in her Asian body! Spiral, feeling the Red Queen's defeat, teleports all the sisters out, and they disappear. Emma communicates telepathically with Scott and tells him that the X-Men just gained a new member: "Betsy Braddock - Psylocke. Telekinetic psychic. Ninja. Back home. At last." Back at the Graymalkin Industries, Beast confronts Scott and Emma about the secrets both of them have been keeping lately. He says he's taking the X-Club on a mission and that he'll have a conversation with them after he comes back.
*sigh* Telepathy was fun while it lasted.I'm just happy she's back to Earth-616. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell Asian tk Betts is better than no Betts at right.
ReplyDeleteYou know, at first I was quite angry for Betsy remaining a telekinetic (the body switch was quite predictable, so I was already expecting that). But now that I think of it, maybe it was a good decision from Fraction, after all.
ReplyDeleteThe X-Men already have four telepaths with Emma and the Cuckoos (even if Emma leaves the X-Men after Utopia - I hope not; I'd love to see her and Betsy bickering with each other all the time!) - five if we count Karma. On the other hand, there are no telekinetics on the team now, since Rachel is in space, Jean is still dead and Hellion may join Jean in the future (plus, his telekinesis skills suck), so maybe Betsy could be more useful with her current powerset, in the end.
And I'm glad to know that she wasn't owned by Emma!! (sure, she was owned by Dazzler, but I can accept her being defeated by a FRIEND... the partial face blow-up was kinda unnecessary, though)
"Telekinetic PSYCHIC" ?? Does this mean she will have telekinesis and telepathy?
ReplyDeleteStill wonder why Fraction said that his mission was to "simplify" Betsy,yet we still have Psylocke with TK...That guy is such a liar.If Betsy ends up as both a telekinetic and a telepath,then Fraction actually made Psylocke more complicated.
ReplyDeletehow many times betsy has to defeat her evilself...jamie had manipulated her in way she had not to be handled by anyone else and so?! immunity totally inored,thay didn't even try to give explanations... and so on betsy at war with her evil self?! she has just defeated lady mandarin and now again...totally sucking... but i'm happy she's back and at least well reintroduced by emma no matter which body, psylocke's good as long as she's psylocke...nuff said... i suppose she's telepath too now or else how has she moved her psyche to the other body?
ReplyDeleteActually, in hindsight, I now believe that Claremont's original plan to use magic and plastic surgery to transform Betsy into an Asian woman would have been far less convoluted than the body swap plan in the 90s that had occured after his run on Uncanny. Techically, Psylocke would have still been British, but had the appearance of an Asian woman. The one body transformation by means of magic and surgery would have facilitated an easier transformation back to the "old" British Psylocke than the Revanche and Kwannon swap, which is complicated and muddles Psylocke's pre-asian history. I'm glad Psylocke has returned to the pages of Uncanny. Now, we need her to get greater representation in the Wolverine and X-Men animated series.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Centurion
great so this story was all for nothing. fuck this.
ReplyDeleteThis issue was definitely not as bad as the folks at the message boards make it out to be (some of those people just love to complain, I think)...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the issue - I thought, for the most part, characters were handled well, the story wrapped up nicely and the art was pretty good. I really liked the interaction between Betsy and Dazzler - I hope that continues. Fraction should just leave Storm and Karma alone, let them be in Black Panther and New Mutants, and give Betsy and Dazzler as much attention as he's giving Cyclops or Emma or Beast.
I think Psylocke definitely has telepathy and telekinesis based on the Fraption and how she knew the Sisterhood was dead when Maddie died. Best part, though, was that she was using her psychic knife correctly! Definitely seems like a weird way to bring her back and "simplify" her (there wasn't any other way than to do the doppelganger thing?)... but whatever, aside from some off moments throughout, the arc was fairly enjoyable.
I hate that the only time she made use of her psychic knife she was using it on herself. The psychic knife is telepathic, I don't understand why the British body was a telepath but when the same Psylocke went back to the Asian one she had telekinesis all of a sudden. This doesn't make any sense. It took all of those psychics to put Psylocke into the British body. It took all of that power. It was branded "the return of Psylocke" with Maddie claiming she was one of the strongest telepaths ever. And then she just happens to be able to kill that body from the inside and magically go into her own?? And then, at the end of the day, there's the buttfloss yellowface fake Electra. Hmph.
ReplyDeletewell maybe stating how the legacy virus affected the british body her enhanced tp was enough to make it happen...still it doesn't explain how they all avoided the manipulation immunity jamie gave her...anyway i totally agree with mirage,some points were quite debateable and the story a little bit simplicistic but i did not dislike it after all
ReplyDeletecan someone explain to me who's on the cover then? if it isn't jean or emma? if the phoenix doesn't appear at all why is that the cover lol.
ReplyDeleteThat's the cover because Marvel wanted to create buzz and draw people's interest... all marketing.
ReplyDeleteI still think that the writers have a lot to explain to us about what they are doing with Psylocke... to confuse and no context...
ReplyDeletePsylocke aside, I think the writing is the problem here. Personally, I powered through the issue in less than five minutes. There is just not that much text and I feel like all these characters, which have such long and great histories, are coming off as flat one-dimensional. It’s as if someone browsed the character bios and starting writing. I honestly feel like after reading all the comments from everyone here, there were dozens of better ideas just floating around because everyone seems to love and understand this character so much.
ReplyDeleteI know that’s kind of harsh, but I am disappointed at how all these characters that I like seem like strangers. It wasn’t all bad, I really liked the opening to the arc in the cemetery, and a few spots here and there, but it did end up being the Scott and Emma show, as many people here predicted.
And Psylocke kind of looked like Evangeline Lilly from Lost.
I get that Greg Land is a bad artist but c'mon. If you have a plot that requires a character to have an Asian and Caucasian body, please differentiate between the two. How hard is it to trace an Asian face?
ReplyDeleteyesss, asian tk psylocke.. i`m very happy with that. you should get over it, buch of whiners... it`s just a comic book character...
ReplyDeletego fraction!! do whatever you want, as long as you keep betsy on panel...
I don't really care about the TK, so long as Betsy's on panel, talking and PSYCHIC KNIFING instead of using that stupid katana.
ReplyDeleteOk - I know it was an intense moment, but after Alison blasted Betsy in the face... her "Hold on, Baby Girl...", comment.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one that thinks it's a bit... intimate?