Recap 2015 — Across the Battleworld
2015 brought two major chapters of Betsy Braddock’s story to a close. G. Willow Wilson concluded the all-female X-Men team’s run with a subterranean adventure, while Simon Spurrier’s X-Force reached its finale with Psylocke confronting Fantomex and the consequences of the team’s increasingly fractured mission.
The regular Marvel line was then interrupted by Secret Wars, as the collapse of the multiverse gave way to the patchwork reality of Battleworld. Although the main Betsy was largely absent during the event, several alternate versions of Psylocke appeared across its many domains, offering different interpretations of the character until the Marvel Universe was restored.
X-Men #23
Psylocke and the X-Men investigate a supercell that hit a festival in the Black Rock Desert.
X-Force #14
X-Force finds out Cable has been using Fantomex to kill other superspies, and Psylocke and the others try to take him down.
Nightcrawler #10
Psylocke is broken freen from Shadow King's control and sends Nightcrawler to the Astral Plane to face him.
X-Men #24
Psylocke, Monet and Rachel fight hivemind creatures inside a cave, but one of them hits Betsy's arm pretty hard.
X-Force #15
X-Force defeats Fantomex and Psylocke psycho-stabs him. The team fires Cable in the end.
X-Men #25
While Psylocke's still down, Rachel taps into hers and Monet's TK to lift heavy rocks inside the cave.
Nightcrawler #12
Psylocke and Nightcrawler talk about his relationships with Bloody Bess and Amanda Sefton.
X-Men #26
The X-Men leave the cave, save the civilians and defeat the sentient rock after finding out about an experiment that gave it consciousness.
Secret Wars #2
ALTERNATEBetsy Braddock of House Braddock is the sister of Higher Avalon's baron Brian Braddock after the former baron Jamie Braddock is sentenced to death.
Inferno #1
ALTERNATEPsylocke is part of a small group of X-Men that tries to free Illyana, but ultimately fails.
Giant-Size Little Marvel: AVX #1
ALTERNATEIn Marville, the children living on X-Men Way, including Psylocke, are rivals of the children living on Avengers Street.
Inferno #3
ALTERNATEThe assembled X-Men – including Psylocke – engage Illyana’s demon horde in battle.
Master of Kung-Fu #3
ALTERNATELady Mandarin, the mistress of the School of Spirit Blades, is one of the great masters who compete for the Emperor’s throne in trial by combat.
X-Men '92 #2
ALTERNATEAfter hearing Professor X’s psychic distress call, Cable gathers X-Force to the X-Mansion, only to find his dead body.
Secret Wars Journal #4
ALTERNATEIn the Sentinel Territories, Psylocke has been hiding for almost a decade by faking her death but sacrifices herself to help free Northstar's husband.
Inferno #4
ALTERNATEThe X-Men have gone into hiding to plan their next moves.
Secret Wars: Secret Love #1
ALTERNATEPsylocke and Archangel are seen kissing.
X-Men '92 #3
ALTERNATEPsylocke decides to stay at the mansion and rehabilitate Xavier to follow the psychic traces of his attacker back to its source.
X-Men '92 #4
ALTERNATEPyslocke unleashes Warwolves to attack the X-Sentinel, helps the Professor defeat the Shadow King and join the X-Men.
A-Force #5
ALTERNATEThe members of A-Force, inclusing Psylocke, fight the zombies from the Deadlands who have invaded Arcadia.
Uncanny X-Men #600
Betsy and every other mutant alive are gathered by Cyclops to show humans that mutantkind means no ill to mankind.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
1 comment:
Thanks to Secret Wars, we had lots of Psylocke(s) in 2015!
Even though the A-Force one was likely killed by the zombies, the other alternate Psylockes made up for that. We had a pre-body switch one in Inferno, a Lady Mandarin one fighting Shang-Chi, a '92 one being more efficient than all the other X-Men COMBINED... and even though the child version in the AvX tie-in only appeared in two panels, her mischievous smile watching Illyana kicking the Avengers' asses was great!
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