So much so they he created his own donut steel OC Indian man to get with Psylocke that all the fans hated.
He's white so it was against his fetish
Psylocke belongs to Greycrow
>>150143154That’s Kwannon though
Bump
>>150143108Psylocke was one of Claremont's own creations, and he was one of those writers who got way too attached to a lot of characters he created or ones he worked on a lot.The Psylocke and Archangel pairing was one of the things that happened during the 1990s era after he left Marvel. When he came back and took over writing X-Men again, he didn't really read anything from the years he'd been away and didn't care about any of it.He also brought up a 1980s Dazzler comic where Warren was trying to romance Dazzler despite already having a girlfriend at the time, this one comic apparently tainted Claremont's opinion of Warren so much that he felt Archangel wasn't 'worthy' of Psylocke, so he wrote comics where Betsy virtually threw herself at the new guy until Warren took the hint and broke up with her. He created the OC Indian just because there wasn't an Indian X-Man yet, he was created just a few years too early for everyone to hate him for being a worthless diversity hire.
>>150143984Damn. I haven't read anything of their relationship but Betsy and Warren both being rich kids who have grown more worldy through being in the X-Men seems interesting. Also in future adaptations, would you want the bodyswapping, Betsy to just be Asian and still related to Brian, or for her Psylocke form to be her British white look with purple hair? I dunno what is best. Just an idea.I don't read much X-Men. But them alongside Polaris and Havok are more obscure pairings I'm interested in. Also in TAS I think, Polaris is with Bobby? Was there a comic arc with them or was that TAS only?
>>150144515Betsy needs some kind of gimmick to separate her from the other psychics on the team. She did not stand out at all until around 92 when they decided she would be the adrenaline freak that loves to get in close and brawl with enemies even though she could fight them from a distance with her powers.
>>150144515No, there was a love triangle where Bobby and Alex vied for Lorna's affectionsIt was the proto-Scott/Jean/Logan in a lot of ways
>>150144704In the comics, Lorna was literally created to be Bobby's love interest, but then the book changed writers just a few months later and the new writer paired her up with his own new OC Havok. Lorna supposedly left Bobby because he was too immature, and he took the break-up really badly, later writers revealed he took it even worse than it originally seemed, John Byrne's X-Men Hidden Years had Bobby ragequit the team over it, Chuck Austen's run basically said all of Bobby's later relationships had failed because he'd never gotten over losing Lorna, and he'd never liked Havok because of it. So naturally, Bendis made him gay.In the cartoon, Lorna leaves Bobby for Alex and fakes being kidnapped rather than just breaking up with him like a normal person would.
>>150143108Claremont despises Angel with a passion as seen by the infamous scene where he got rid of Angel the second Byrne quit the book via having Xavier tell Warren to fuck off when Warren basically finally had it out with Xavier keeping a killer like Wolverine on the team and demanding Xavier either fire Logan or have Warren quit the team
>>150144690Didn't they explain that with the psychic knife also being telekinetic in nature? Or did they not actually, and just used that as part of the rule of cool?Psylocke being more focused on telekinesis alongside Jean would make more sense to me with Psylocke creating more potent short-range extensions of telekinesis while Jean focuses on lifting stuff far way and manipulating a lot of stuff. Emma being able to have diamond skin which allows her now to focus on just wearing people down telepathically since she can tank physical attacks and then inflict mental attacks. Jean is the most balanced when not Phoenix while Charles and Emma are more telepath focused. Psylocke and Jean being more telekinetic is ok. Jean being pyrokinetic as well from being Phoenix like Pyro is wouldn't be bad in my uneducated opinion. Though there a lot of fire based characters.Also Psylocke not having to do the mental tug of war like telepaths and not having to strain under heavy objects like JEAAAANNNN had to in the 60's with her weak and inferior female constitution is fine. Just kidding about the female stuff since only Stan did that mostly but that is the natural way to nerf telekinesis which can be overpowered like how Sue became with her similar way of creating force fields/constructs that is just another way of doing telekinesis and how they sometimes they nerf that from what I heard happened in the movie.>>150144704>>150144944Damn that sucks. The triangle I mean. Bobby having a hard time getting over it seems good but taking it that hard is kinda lame. Wonder who Bobby should have got with if Bendis didn't happen. Emma or Firestar would've been based. Though I dunno I haven't read New Warriors to see if I would like Justice either.>>150144944Holy based.
>>150146077Originally, Psylocke and Emma were just telepaths, Jean was the one who was also telekinetic. When Claremont returned to Marvel in 2000, he had Betsy suddenly become a high level telekinetic as well.After Bendis took Kitty away from his book, Jason Aaron's X-Men was setting up Bobby/Firestar, but he left the book and Bendis got control of Iceman too.
>>150146077Psychic knife was always telepathic in nature until the second Claremont run, when Betsy lost her telepathy and became a strictly telekinetic. Afterwards it was changed to switching from both telepathic energy and telekinetic energy on the fly depending on the situation
>>150146220Damn. Amazing Friends bros...Iceman having both Firestar and Emma would've been funny considering their relationship only found in the comics with her being the prior mentor/Mystique type figure. Bobby also kinda had Justice's personality anyway when he started out from what I remember of Avengers vol 3 as well. Firestar might've liked a more grizzled and experienced version.>>150146281Then in the 90's, her with the psi-knife is only for telepath stuff? Am I mistaken in thinking there are zero panels of her with destroying something with it? I'm only a Capcom guy when it comes to X-Men interpretations of certain things so I assumed the psi-blade/knife is also physical. Also I guess I don't mind her being both but some rules would be nice.
>>150146489Was only be telepathic and physically harmless.
>>150146653Lame. Also have they done any psi-shuriken shaped like her butterflies? That's a no-brainer idea I feel like must have happened.Finally, Betsy should just change her outfit to like an isekai looking armor that still has some Jim Lee looking elements to it so that she can have some weeb elements mixed with her British background. Last time I checked she had the union jack incoprorated in a weird way in her armor as a cape and it looked bad.Also have they ever done a story where she's sucked into Camelot or Weirdworld and did a fantasy adventure like with Warren? That'd be cute if she got to act like a princess.
Psychic knife was only telepathic in nature until the aftermath of the Psi-War event when Betsy's telepathy and Jean's telekinesis got swappedSo as a result Jean only had TP for a little bit and Betsy only had TK, which she honed and turned into a telekinetic katana (sidenote during this era Jean was able to transform her double telepathy into a Firebird made out of psychic energy and the talons would work like the psi-knife)Betsy's telekinetic katana could function similarly to the psychic knife, scrambling brains and such. But it also could affect physical matter and when she focused enough energy she could cut through pretty much anything Betsy kept just the TK for years (meanwhile Jean's TK returned and that was actually a sign that she was becoming the Phoenix again and she died in Morrison's run soon after)Betsy got lost in the multiverse for a bit and the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants summoned her and resurrected her in her original body until the X-Men were forced to kill her again and transferred her back to the Asian body.After that experience she got her telepathy back. And basically swapped which power she had depending on the writerSome writers preferred her with high end telepathy, psi-knife and a physical metal katanaOthers let her have both the telekinesis and telepathy Eventually she started experimenting with different forms of psionic weapons, presumably made out of TK because they had physical mass. Bow and Arrow, Crossbow, Morningstar mace. But swords and blades were still the most used
>>150147179Which one do you prefer anon? I guess just a small amount of telepathy for me and mostly just enhancing swords and making some psychic contstruct weapons as well as the brain scrambler knife all seem ok to me. But damn even her abilities are a slight continuity nightmare.
