Recap 2016 — The Uncanny Alliance
2016 opened a bold new chapter for Betsy Braddock as she joined Magneto’s strike team in Cullen Bunn’s Uncanny X-Men. With mutantkind threatened by the Inhumans’ toxic Terrigen Mists, Psylocke reluctantly embraced Magneto’s more aggressive mission while continuing to challenge the methods and moral compromises of her new allies.
Bunn’s characterization of Betsy was warmly received by fans, who praised her strong voice, formidable abilities and central position within the team. Her increasingly uneasy partnership with Magneto carried her through Civil War II and toward the escalating conflict between mutants and Inhumans, setting the stage for Inhumans vs. X-Men by the end of the year.
Uncanny X-Men #1
Psylocke joins Magneto's X-Men as the team investigates a shady company taking advantage of mutants afraid of the Terrigen Mist.
X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever #2
Bailey Hoskins catches Psylocke and other X-Men training in the Danger Room.
Uncanny X-Men #2
Magneto's team finds out the Dark Riders are targeting healers, so Psylocke sends Monet and Sabretooth to protect Elixir.
Uncanny X-Men #3
Psylocke and Magneto protect Triage against the Dark Riders, and Betsy probes their minds, finding out where they are based.
Uncanny X-Men #4
Psylocke heads to Egypt in order to ambush the Riders at their base but ends up trapped in a pyramid herself while the Riders teleport to Genosha.
Uncanny X-Men #5
Psylocke and her team defeat the Dark Riders by detonating Genosha. Betsy later declines Storm's offer to join her team in Limbo.
X-Men '92 #1
ALTERNATEPsylocke has joined the X-Men and witnesses Maverick warning them about a new thread: Alpha Red.
Uncanny X-Men #6
After probing Archangel's mind, Psylocke picks up something related to a small town, where later she finds out New Angel preaching to mindless townspeople.
X-Men '92 #2
ALTERNATEPsylocke is reluctant to buy Maverick's story, but after mutants are turned into vampires, she heads to Transylvania with the X-Men to meet Dracula.
Uncanny X-Men #7
Psylocke and Magneto follow Warren to a Clan Akkaba hideout where they end up facing Genocide, son of Apocalypse.
X-Men '92 #3
ALTERNATEStorm, Psylocke, Bishop and Dracula find the School destroyed as Alpha Red reveals that his vampires cannot be harmed by the sunlight anymore.
X-Men '92 #4
ALTERNATEStorm unleashes Bishop and Psylocke against Alpha Red’s army of mutant-vampires.
Uncanny X-Men #8
Psylocke defeats Fantomex at the Akkaba Hidden City, where she finds out an army of Archangel drones.
Civil War II: X-Men #1
Psylocke reads Storm’s team’s minds and finds out that a new Inhuman called Ulysses has the power to profile the future and is being used to prevent tragedies around the world.
Uncanny X-Men #9
Psylocke is being pursued by Archangel drones and is hit with their toxic feathers but summons her own Archangel to help her.
Civil War II: X-Men #2
Psylocke disagrees with Magneto's handling of the Ulysses situation and decides to leave his team.
Uncanny X-Men #10
Psylocke helps Warren merge with Archangel once again and tells Magneto off for employing Fantomex and Mystique on the down low.
Uncanny X-Men #11
Psylocke attends a party at the Hellfire Club NY branch, where she finds out Magneto and Monet have joined their Inner Circle.
Civil War II: X-Men #3
Psylocke joins Storm's team as she doesn't believe Ulysses should be sacrificed. Her new team ends up engaging in a fight with Magneto's team.
X-Men '92 #6
ALTERNATEThe X-Men are tending to Lila Cheney’s security when they are forcibly teleported to outer space by Fabian Cortez.
Uncanny X-Men #12
Psylocke is offered to join the Hellfire Club as The Black Queen, as she finds out a piece of gray matter was used by Someday Enterprises to deliver secret messages.
Uncanny X-Men #13
While facing weaponized mutants from Someday Enterprises, Psylocke reveals she has felt a psychic presence “buzzing” all around them during battle.
Civil War II: X-Men #4
Psylocke rejoins Magneto's team and lashes out at him, questioning his approach after his falling out with Medusa, the Inhuman Queen.
X-Men '92 #7
ALTERNATEPsylocke senses The Brood are not really enemies, but allies who are as much mutant as the X-Men.
Uncanny X-Men #14
Psylocke takes off with the X-Men to stop an attack by weaponized mutants. She later cuts ties with Magneto and leaves his team.
X-Men '92 #8
ALTERNATEPsylocke and the X-Men fight the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to protect the Brood.
Uncanny X-Men #15
Psylocke targets threats against mutantkind on her own, when she comes across Mystique and psychically stabilizes Raven's chaotic mind.
X-Men '92 #9
ALTERNATEAfter the X-Men manage to return to Earth, Professor Xavier beg them to listen to Apocalypse, who warns about a new threat: Xodus the Forgotten.
IvX #0
Six months ago, Emma Frost enlists the help of Magneto and his team as she has a plan against the Inhumans.
IvX #1
Different X-Men teams have united and dash towards New Atillan as they have decided to finally attack the Inhumans.
Uncanny X-Men #16
HALLUCINATIONJean Grey and the Cuckoos trap Karnak in a never-ending illusion where he faces many X-Men.
X-Men '92 #10
ALTERNATEPsylocke witnesses all humans being turned into mutants in order to face a Xodus the Forgotten.
“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.
6 comments:
Nice recap! But what about X-Men: Apocalypse?
Justin, have no fear... I'll provide the recap for the film...
Psylocke looks shifty-eyed, barely talks, manifests her psychic knife across Pox's threat, chokes the shit out of the Beast with her psychic whip after somersaulting and slicing a car that he threw at her in half with her psychic katana. She then slinks off from everyone looking more shifty-eyes than ever.
@Justin, the recap only covers her comic book appearance
Haha Rahsaan. Are you Tazirai on CBR?
Very happy for the recap of Psylocke. She was many highlights in 2016, well deserved highlights. The author of this blog is really the biggest fan of Psylocke nowadays.
Not her busiest year, but not a bad year for her, either. Bunn did a good job with her, and the X-Men'92 Psylocke had her share of good moments.
I hope she won't disappear this year, after IvX is over.
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