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Iron D 2151th Post

 
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| "Courtesy of Faqs.org..." , posted Sat 29 Mar 23:51
quote: Whew, I normally don't touch this sort of thing, but it at least dates back to when I read these comics. Betsy Braddock was originally a blind psychic British woman. For various bizarre reasons, Mojo and spiral gave her mechanical eyes and made her in to a Japanese ninja (hey, it's more entertaining this way, especially when you remember the Mojoverse is entirely based around television)
--- Psylocke, Revanche, Kwannon, Betsy Braddock ... help?
The two Psylockes are an unusual matter. After the fun with the Siege Perilous, Betsy Braddock was caught by the Hand, a bunch of techno- demonic ninjas, and apparently turned into an Asian woman (UXM #256), for reasons too vague to go into here. While odd, and apparently mainly an excuse to draw Betsy in a bunch of tight-fitting quasi-Asian outfits, it was still accepted that Psylocke was Psylocke. She just looked... different.
Then Revanche entered the scene (X-Men #20). She looked just like Betsy's old body, but had an Asian name (Kwannon). Confused yet? In another retcon, the unconscious Betsy apparently was discovered by the original Kwannon after tumbling out of the Siege. Kwannon, who looked just like the new Betsy's Asian form, touched her and got psychically zapped by Betsy, somehow passing both Betsy's powers and personalities to Kwannon, while passing Kwannon's personality to Betsy.
Enter the Hand. The head of the Hand, Matsuo Tsurayaba, was in love with Kwannon despite her belonging to a rival ninja clan. Now, apparently the original Betsy was not turned into an Asian, but the Asian body of Kwannon was brainwashed by the Hand into believing that she was Betsy. In this they had help from the demonic dancer of Mojo, Spiral. Meanwhile the original Betsy's body was programmed by Spiral, behind the scenes, to still think it was Betsy but remember that it was Kwannon once, just to bug Matsuo. All of this was sorted out in X-Men #31-32.
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