Maybe you’ve heard of them Benjamin Percy ( X-Force, Wolverine, the upcoming X Lives of Wolverine / X Deaths of Wolverine ) Maybe it was the time that he cut off my ear and made me eat it as punishment. But it fell to the new X-writers to reckon with all that baggage, as Betsy took up the mantle of Captain Britain in Excalibur and Kwannon (now taking the name Psylocke in her own right) became the field leader of the Hellions. Either way, Jonathan deserves a proper X-Men Monday sendoff so I asked a few of his friends to share their favorite Hickman memories. Finally, in 2018's Mystery in Madripoor comic by Jim Zub and Thony Silas, both Betsy and Kwannon were returned to their original bodies. 2) Following the beginning of Marvel’s Hickman era of X-Men in the Dawn of X and X of Swords event, the X-Men line of comics will move into the Reign of X, what is effectively the second part of life on Krakoa for the mutants.

Psylocke starred not just in X-Men comics, but also video games and even 2016's big-screen blockbuster X-Men: Apocalypse, where she was played by Olivia Munn. Despite the complicated situation of a white woman's mind in an Asian woman's body, the resulting character became immensely popular. But in 1989, Betsy's mind was transplanted into the body of a Japanese ninja assassin, later established to be a mutant named Kwannon. Perhaps a nod to Jonathan Hickmans work on the X-Men series. Betsy Braddock, started out as the English sister of Brian Braddock, a.k.a Captain Britain. The designs look reminiscent of that of Jubilee from the X-Men.

One of the most popular X-Men characters from recent decades is also one of the most complicated.

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