PSYLOCKE | CAPTAIN BRITAIN // like a butterfly: Psylocke: Ninja #2 Variant Cover by Jhony Caballero

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Psylocke: Ninja #2 Variant Cover by Jhony Caballero

17 comments:

Lady Braddock said...: More cope from the anti-Betsy crowd. Instead of being content and supporting the current X-titles, these same accounts who have spent years spreading hate-fuelled misinformation and pushing anti-Betsy propaganda are now doing everything they can to discredit and slander the people involved with the Psylocke: Ninja solo. It’s genuinely wild to watch.

Betsy’s name stays in rotation, her legacy continues to expand, and her ninja origin is getting a fresh retelling designed to welcome newer readers into her story. And that, more than anything, is what they don’t want because it directly undermines their tired narrative that she’s a “bad person” who deserves to be erased.

Too bad. I’m going to enjoy every minute of these next five months.; November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Rahsaan said...: Where is all this drama playing out? Like on what platform? 😆 I don’t use much social media, and am genuinely curious to see it. I often think that a lot of fandom would do well with a brief stay in a nice sanitarium where they’d receive in-patient therapy.; November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Blu Berri said...: You can look anywhere and find it - Twitter, Reddit, forums. Kwannon fans are willfully ignorant garbage people.; November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
PoetryInMotion said...: The entry in LOCG tops everything, they act as if Wong's Psylocke run is some sequel to War and Peace or something.

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/8157675/psylocke-ninja-1; November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Lady Braddock said...: Tim Seeley just deleted his Twitter account. Another creator ran off social media.; November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Rahsaan said...: That may or may not be the reason. He could have deleted it just because X is a toxic environment filled with bigotry and false information masquerading as news. Personally, that is the reason why I refuse to join.; November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Rahsaan said...: Not to mention, it is against my value system to support an Elon Musk endeavor. Seely may have decided similarly.; November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Some guy said...: Reading that has actually made me dumber. Yeesh.; November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Blu Berri said...: The great Xitter exodus happened months ago. It's a bit convenient that Selly would have waited now just as he writes Betsy as the dumdum Kwannon fans take issue to leave that hellscape.; November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Blu Berri said...: Yikes but not unexpected from them. Lol; November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Some guy said...: Fair point lol; November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Kiki M. Ishola said...: Betsy deserves all of it mini and more. Long time coming a story about Betsy and Elektra two non Asian females used as weapons by the Hand what's in common about them. Revanche ain't holding a candle to this story she is the bish who betrayed her faction for a Hand b@$t@rd and got what she deserved and to be fair she didn't even existed in the Claremont dream of Betts becoming a ninja.; November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Kiki M. Ishola said...: Good for him twatter X is full of poisonous grifters posing as Revanche stans perpetuating the lie Betsy is a nasty colonizer. Let them revel in their echo chamber sticking their heads in each others bottoms and patting themselves on their shoulders while their signaling is still trending; November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Some guy said...: The idea that Besty waking up in a body not her own MUST make her a colonizer is and has always been so culturally ignorant and illiterate. Only westerners could screech at that. Meanwhile, ‘isekai’ is literally one of the most popular genres of Japanese stories where characters wake up in bodies and lives not their own.; November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Rahsaan said...: Not sure that I will purchase this as I have everything since Hickman left after Inferno to be largely uninteresting. And this new post-Krakoa era has felt so much like they are trying to recapture the 90s (with way too many books… Quantity over quality) that I really haven’t enjoyed it and canceled my entire pull list. (Too expensive a habit to not find it enjoyable.). That being said, I’ll be curious to hear from all of you if this mini keeps to the canon that Betsy thinks this is her own body even if the Matsu’o, the Hand and Mandarin really know about Kwannon and keep it from her and if Spiral and Mojo’s machinations will also be part of the story since they played a part. One of my favorite issues of this story from the late 80s was the first issue of Acts of Vengeance where we see Psylocke’s brainwashing and throughout how Mojo and Spiral are spectating. At the time, we didn’t know how much of that was Betsy’s subconscious figuring them into what she was experiencing or if they were actively involved in the brainwashing. That question still remains unanswered (we know Spiral tricked Matsu’o and did the body swap without his permission), so I’m curious to hear if Seely addresses it.; November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Unknown said...: So there was another retcon after Nicieza realized he fucked up right? How did he fit Spiral and Mojo into it?; November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Rahsaan said...: Mojo and Sprial were featured heavily in Uncanny Vol. 1, Issue No. 256, “The Key That Breaks The Locke,” where we see Betsy’s conditioning by The Hand. Throughout the brainwashing, they are active spectators as Betsy faces challenge after challenge including severing ties to her loved ones, like Doug Ramsey, and murdering many others like the X-Men to collect Mandarin’s rings which some are in possession of. She even had to face Slaymaster again where he once again blinds her and she still defeats him with it being revealed that he is ultimately the Mandarin, and then she pledges her allegiance. There is a part of the brainwashing where we see Mojo and Spiral drag Betsy off to the Body Shopper and make her East Asian in a fever dream kind of way versus us seeing the actual medical procedure. The entire issue is like a dream sequence filled with a lot of chaos and real life people and events being mashed up and altered as our brains do in real life when we dream. It was actually pretty well written in that regard. The entire time, the reader doesn’t know whether or not Spiral and Mojo are part of Betsy’s imagination since both played a crucial role in her life or if they actually really may be involved in her transformation and conditioning. As a kid when I read it, I thought it was the former. I don’t think Claremont has ever gone on record to say what his intent was with them in the story, so I’d be curious to know if he had planned to reveal that they were part of her transformation when the story was that there was one body and Kwannon was not a concept, let alone a canonical character.

If there is ever a forum to ask Claremont about this, and any of us are there, let’s please do.; December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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