Spoilers: Once the X-Men establish the island-nation of Krakoa, Psylocke is in charge of meeting ambassadors from all over the world to explain what Krakoan medicines and technology are capable of if their countries recognize the nation of Krakoa. When the Friends of Humanity attempt to launch an assault against the Krakoan embassy in New York, Psylocke reaches Cable telepathically and asks X-Force to deal with the unwelcome guests. Psylocke also explains why mutantkind has granted amnesty to former criminals. Professor X contacts Ppsylocke and orders her to return to Krakoa as the X-Men have succeed in stopping the new Sentinel program. The Five are able to bring the X-Men back from the dead and mutantkind celebrates. All, except for Jubilee, who allegedly died before mutant backup was possible. Jubilee’s loss ended up encouraging mutants to unite and establish Krakoa. As it turns out, Xavier and Magneto are hiding Jubilee in a No-Place, for she has the power to reset the timeline if she dies.
“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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So weird to me seeing Betsy still as Psylocke and in the thong lol
President Kelly probably like, “You don’t look like the woman I once manhandled because she couldn’t save my wife after that giant hurt her real bad! That woman was covered all in armor and had different features. and her you are in basically no clothing at all and with totally different features!” 😂
Is this Psylocke supposed to be Betsy or Kwannon? I know that in the 1990s this body and codename were being used by Betsy - but then again, in the 1990s there wasn't an island-nation of Krakoa, so...
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By the way, has anyone here ever played (or at least heard of) a video game titled Zanki Zero? I watched a longplay of it some years ago, and only today it occurred to me that Hickman's resurrection protocols are quite similar to that game's gimmick - you control a group of people who wake up in a desert (and dilapidated) island, and during their adventures to try to return home and find out how (and why) they ended up on that island, some of them are killed... and then brought back in a cloning machine. And every time they "come back to life", all their memories are preserved.
Of course, this doesn't mean Hickman copied or was inspired by this game (the version in English was released only some months before HoX/PoX, not to mention it wasn't a very popular game - and this kind of "immortality by cloning" has been used before in other sci-fi works), and the resurrection doesn't work exactly the same way (the clones are brought back as kindergarteners and then age into young adults, then middle-aged adults, then old people, then die and all of this happens in a matter of days, so the characters need to be repeatedly cloned again). Still, it was a nice coincidence between two works I enjoyed.
I always thought that Hickman got his resurrection protocol from the remake of Battlestar Galactica where the cylons were cloned and resurrected via upload/download.
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