Spoilers: After days of meditation, the sorceress Betsy Braddock of Earth-13054 manages to trap Betsy’s consciousness in an oil lamp. The Captain Britain Corps gather and head to Starlight Citadel to ask Saturnyne to restore Betsy-616. The Corps explain that after the duel Betsy had nowhere to return to and was left in a sort of limbo bouncing from one reality to another. Saturnyne refuses to let them take Betsy’s spirit through the Citadel’s doorway to Earth-616. The Corps decide to take matters into their own hands and hand over the oil lamp to Excalibur through the Avalon gate.
Once Kwannon incapacitates the fake “Betsy”, Excalibur places her in a table to perform a ritual to bind Betsy’s soul to the body. After many failed attempts, Excalibur worries that Emma will close the gateways to Otherworld for good. Kwannon deduces that it’s Betsy herself sabotaging the spell. Kwannon breaks the oil lamp and Betsy’s spirit flees to the Otherworld. Kwannon volunteers to go after Betsy. Kwannon says Betsy lost part of herself she didn’t even miss until she realized it was gone and displays the butterfly on her hand.
Kwannon heads to Avalon and follows Betsy’s powerful psychic trail to an elf village where Betsy’s spirit is hiding in a well. Kwannon says Betsy drives people away by building walls and won’t give up until she finds her. Betsy appears before her and asks Kwannon to leave. Kwannon says the terrible things between them have been done to them and there’s nothing they can’t do. It isn’t to be solved; it merely is. Kwannon asks Betsy to come with her, but Betsy reveals she feels defeated and a failure. Kwannon says Betsy’s pain is destroying herself and other and offers to take her home within her own body. Kwannon comforts her and reveals that Betsy won, that the Captain Britain Corps reformed and that she’s the nexus of all of them. Kwannon and Betsy team up sharing one body and return to Avalon. Betsy’s spirit returns to her body and coughs up Malice’s collar! Malice flees and attempts to possess Rogue; however, Rogue resists the possession. Without anywhere to go, Malice flees to the gateway to Krakoa. Malice is now on the loose in Krakoa and she could be anyone.
“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.
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This issue was ok. I’m still hating the depiction of Betsy. She’s been beaten lots of times in her life but she’s never been broken, she’s never given up fighting. That’s why she’s a hero
Yeah, Betsy fleeing from everyone because she feels she's a failure is kinda out of character. Vargas has defeated her in the past, and when she returned to life, she was just fine.
But, if the story happened exactly how these spoilers tell us, it's sweet that Kwannon was the one that convinced her (instead of forcing her) to returned and even comforted her, indicating that the bad blood between them is finally over.
Anyway, it's kinda weird to see Betsy's spirit running away and being full of these negative feelings, because if I remember correctly, there was no indication whatsoever of her feeling that way in that issue where she woke up in the body of that queen counterpart of hers in that alternate reality...
...Or was there?
She wasn't being chased in that issue. Here she's being pursued.
I hope we get a resolve to the butterfly next issue was hoping it would happen here but another long wait for the next one.
Rictor kinda got on my nerves but he was fasting so cant blame him for being bitchy when he's probably starving 😆
So, the queen issue was for nothing... i dont't like it - again. Banshee Betsy didn't sound again like her. And if that's sinister body te should put malice on it
19 editions and no glimpse of the old psylocke so far
I'm glad that Tini finally wrapped the whole Kwannon vs Betsy thing, but I'm not a fan of how Betts has been written basically as having the mentality of a bratty teenager. She's unrecognizeable.
I've come to wish Tini to be gone from this book. Keep To and Arciniega, but her voice for the characters is bad. I get why some people like her writing style, and it started of good, then has had fits and starts since then. She's a good writer too. Just not for this book. I want someone who gets Betsy, understands her, and can actually give a shit to write her well.
I loved other Betsy with other Kurt. They are the gentliest X-Men together. It was deja vu to see them interact from Claremont's Bloody Bess and Kurt. I am 100% sure Bloody Bess is real Betsy in Claremont's mind free of the body swap crap. I'd like to read our universe Betsy and Kurt team up and come closer.
Since their separation Kwannon has been writen so good in her title books Fallen Angels and Hellions but Betsy, I dont like how shes writen since her origibal body returned.
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