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The telepathic and telekinetic mutant Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock uses her psionic energy and skills as an assassin against Super Villains intent on harming humans and mutants alike. She joins the X-Men as Psylocke and serves Otherworld as Captain Britain.
From Pilot to Psychic Powerhouse
Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock is the daughter of Sir James and Elizabeth Braddock and is born in Braddock Manor, England. Betsy is their second child, and like her twin brother Brian, AKA Captain Britain, her life is secretly manipulated by the extradimensional Merlyn; unknown to them, their father hails from Otherworld, and had been sent to their Earth (Reality-616) by Merlyn to sire a champion.
The twins share a close connection, but as they mature the adventurous Betsy also grows close to their elder brother Jamie. By the time their parents die, apparently in a lab accident but really murdered by the computer Mastermind, Betsy becomes a charter pilot. When Mastermind’s agent Christopher Thorn, AKA Dr. Synne, tries to kill Jamie, a concerned Betsy fetches Brian, but as she flies them home, Synne’s psychic attack causes her to crash. When she comes to, Synne’s illusions makee Betsy attack her brothers, seeing them as monsters.
After Synne was defeated she and Jamie were taken hostage by Johann Shmidt, AKA Red Skull’s agents. Freed by Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, and Captain Britain, Betsy learns the latter is her brother Brian. Perhaps because of Synne’s mental intrusions, Betsy begins to develop precognitive powers. She takes up modeling, while her powers grow to include telepathy.
Agent Matthew recruits Betsy into Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies’ (S.T.R.I.K.E.) Psi-Division, and she becomes fellow psi Tom Lennox’s lover. Because her father had been a member, she is sent to infiltrate the Hellfire Club, but is warned off by Tessa, AKA Sage, for her own protection. During one of their parties, she meets Warren Worthington III.
Vast Telepathic Powers
Betsy can generate a telekinetic katana, or direct her telekinesis through her fists to strike as if she has superhuman strength. She can lift several tons with her mind, form telekinetic force fields, and manipulate objects with delicate precision. She can also generate psionic illusions.
Jamie’s manipulation of her quantum structure renders her completely immune to external mental manipulation, even from telepaths as powerful as Amahl Farouk, AKA Shadow King, and virtually immune to reality-warping, although both Wanda Maximoff, AKA Scarlet Witch’s “House of M” reality warp and Jamie have still proven capable of affecting her; presumably, though Jamie has “tightened the strings” to make it much harder for reality manipulators to affect Betsy, there are still small gaps, which he was aware of and which sufficiently powerful manipulators might take advantage of given enough time and determination. Jamie also makes Betsy invisible to some unspecified cosmic entities; neither the First Fallen, his agents the Foursaken, nor the Crystal Palace’s internal sensors can detect her.
As Psylocke, Betsy’s original powers were precognition, telepathy, mental bolts and mind control; some of her psychic powers have apparently been restored, but exactly which is currently undetermined. When the Omniversal Guardian Roma resurrects her, Betsy is briefly invisible to all mechanical detection devices, and she can generate a “psychic knife” to stun or kill opponents.
The Crimson Dawn gives her the power to travel via shadows, and to become virtually invisible in them. After swapping powers with Jean Grey, AKA Phoenix, Betsy can fly, create force fields, move objects with her mind and generate energy blades.
Betsy is an exceptionally skilled martial artist, often preferring to fight hand to hand rather than rely on her telekinesis. She is also a trained pilot. Her Captain Britain costume gives her superhuman strength (lifting 90 tons), flight and a force field. She sometimes wears lightweight armor. Mojo gives her bionic eyes that act as remote cameras; though she loses these after being body-swapped.
Assassin Adversaries
While substituting for her brother as Captain Britain, she is blinded by the vicious assassin Slaymaster. Betsy gives back the mantle of Captain Britain to her brother and refuses new eyes, relying on her psychic abilities to see. The other-dimensional, monstrous, mechanical TV mogul Mojo and his reluctant servant, six-armed Rita Wayword, AKA Spiral, later kidnap Betsy. Mojo gives her camera eyes so she can spy for him on the X-Men and it’s at this time that she goes by the codename Psylocke.
Psylocke goes up against the powerful telepath Amahl Farouk, AKA Shadow King, and telepathically traps him in the astral plane. Later, while Psylocke is on a mission with the X-Men to find Irene Adler, AKA Destiny’s diaries, she is slain by Vargas. A part of her psyche lives on in her compatriot Anna Marie, AKA Rogue, and this part keeps the Shadow King prisoner, though he escapes. Psylocke eventually sends his psyche to another reality, Earth-6141.
Close Compatriots
As her mutant psychic abilities develop, Betsy occasionally aids her brother in his missions, working as a charter pilot. She then embarks on a modeling career before working for S.T.R.I.K.E.—a British government agency similar to America’s S.H.I.E.L.D.—in their Psychic Division. During her service, she partners with Linda McQuillan, AKA Captain U.K., substitutes for her twin brother Captain Britain and infiltrates the Hellfire Club.
Betsy joins the X-Men, originally as a spy for Mojo but unknown to her, and becomes one of their strongest allies, going up against Malice and the Shadow King. She shares a romantic relationship with team member Warren Worthington III, AKA Angel, for a time. She also has a romantic relationship with Victor Creed, AKA Sabretooth, and later Nathan Summers, AKA Cable, while she’s on the X-Force, and later trusted girlfriend Rachel Summers, AKA Askani.
Matsu’o Tsurayaba transforms Betsy into a psychic assassin against her will. She makes peace with it but he later provokes her hoping that she would kill him so he’d no longer suffer at the hands of James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine.
She allies herself with other Super Hero groups including the Sisterhood of Mutants, Exiles, Excalibur, Crimson Dawn, the Corps, and the R.C.X.
During her time with the Exiles, she and Earth-295’s Sabretooth become lovers. While on X-Force, she and Fantomex have a relationship, including his female clone Cluster, but it gets messy so she ends it. The spurned Fantomex makes several attempts on her life, leading to some physical fights between them that ends with her taking her psychic knife to his ego.
Betsy later shares a romantic relationship with Rachel Summers, AKA Marvel Girl, and together they protect the peace on the British isle from the sorceress Morgan le Fay and her Furies.
Betsy can generate a telekinetic katana, or direct her telekinesis through her fists to strike as if she has superhuman strength. She can lift several tons with her mind, form telekinetic force fields, and manipulate objects with delicate precision. She can also generate psionic illusions.
Jamie’s manipulation of her quantum structure renders her completely immune to external mental manipulation, even from telepaths as powerful as Amahl Farouk, AKA Shadow King, and virtually immune to reality-warping, although both Wanda Maximoff, AKA Scarlet Witch’s “House of M” reality warp and Jamie have still proven capable of affecting her; presumably, though Jamie has “tightened the strings” to make it much harder for reality manipulators to affect Betsy, there are still small gaps, which he was aware of and which sufficiently powerful manipulators might take advantage of given enough time and determination. Jamie also makes Betsy invisible to some unspecified cosmic entities; neither the First Fallen, his agents the Foursaken, nor the Crystal Palace’s internal sensors can detect her.
As Psylocke, Betsy’s original powers were precognition, telepathy, mental bolts and mind control; some of her psychic powers have apparently been restored, but exactly which is currently undetermined. When the Omniversal Guardian Roma resurrects her, Betsy is briefly invisible to all mechanical detection devices, and she can generate a “psychic knife” to stun or kill opponents.
The Crimson Dawn gives her the power to travel via shadows, and to become virtually invisible in them. After swapping powers with Jean Grey, AKA Phoenix, Betsy can fly, create force fields, move objects with her mind and generate energy blades.
Betsy is an exceptionally skilled martial artist, often preferring to fight hand to hand rather than rely on her telekinesis. She is also a trained pilot. Her Captain Britain costume gives her superhuman strength (lifting 90 tons), flight and a force field. She sometimes wears lightweight armor. Mojo gives her bionic eyes that act as remote cameras; though she loses these after being body-swapped.
Assassin Adversaries
While substituting for her brother as Captain Britain, she is blinded by the vicious assassin Slaymaster. Betsy gives back the mantle of Captain Britain to her brother and refuses new eyes, relying on her psychic abilities to see. The other-dimensional, monstrous, mechanical TV mogul Mojo and his reluctant servant, six-armed Rita Wayword, AKA Spiral, later kidnap Betsy. Mojo gives her camera eyes so she can spy for him on the X-Men and it’s at this time that she goes by the codename Psylocke.
Psylocke goes up against the powerful telepath Amahl Farouk, AKA Shadow King, and telepathically traps him in the astral plane. Later, while Psylocke is on a mission with the X-Men to find Irene Adler, AKA Destiny’s diaries, she is slain by Vargas. A part of her psyche lives on in her compatriot Anna Marie, AKA Rogue, and this part keeps the Shadow King prisoner, though he escapes. Psylocke eventually sends his psyche to another reality, Earth-6141.
Close Compatriots
As her mutant psychic abilities develop, Betsy occasionally aids her brother in his missions, working as a charter pilot. She then embarks on a modeling career before working for S.T.R.I.K.E.—a British government agency similar to America’s S.H.I.E.L.D.—in their Psychic Division. During her service, she partners with Linda McQuillan, AKA Captain U.K., substitutes for her twin brother Captain Britain and infiltrates the Hellfire Club.
Betsy joins the X-Men, originally as a spy for Mojo but unknown to her, and becomes one of their strongest allies, going up against Malice and the Shadow King. She shares a romantic relationship with team member Warren Worthington III, AKA Angel, for a time. She also has a romantic relationship with Victor Creed, AKA Sabretooth, and later Nathan Summers, AKA Cable, while she’s on the X-Force, and later trusted girlfriend Rachel Summers, AKA Askani.
Matsu’o Tsurayaba transforms Betsy into a psychic assassin against her will. She makes peace with it but he later provokes her hoping that she would kill him so he’d no longer suffer at the hands of James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine.
She allies herself with other Super Hero groups including the Sisterhood of Mutants, Exiles, Excalibur, Crimson Dawn, the Corps, and the R.C.X.
During her time with the Exiles, she and Earth-295’s Sabretooth become lovers. While on X-Force, she and Fantomex have a relationship, including his female clone Cluster, but it gets messy so she ends it. The spurned Fantomex makes several attempts on her life, leading to some physical fights between them that ends with her taking her psychic knife to his ego.
Betsy later shares a romantic relationship with Rachel Summers, AKA Marvel Girl, and together they protect the peace on the British isle from the sorceress Morgan le Fay and her Furies.
As her mutant psychic abilities develop, Betsy occasionally aids her brother in his missions, working as a charter pilot. She then embarks on a modeling career before working for S.T.R.I.K.E.—a British government agency similar to America’s S.H.I.E.L.D.—in their Psychic Division. During her service, she partners with Linda McQuillan, AKA Captain U.K., substitutes for her twin brother Captain Britain and infiltrates the Hellfire Club.
Betsy joins the X-Men, originally as a spy for Mojo but unknown to her, and becomes one of their strongest allies, going up against Malice and the Shadow King. She shares a romantic relationship with team member Warren Worthington III, AKA Angel, for a time. She also has a romantic relationship with Victor Creed, AKA Sabretooth, and later Nathan Summers, AKA Cable, while she’s on the X-Force, and later trusted girlfriend Rachel Summers, AKA Askani.
Matsu’o Tsurayaba transforms Betsy into a psychic assassin against her will. She makes peace with it but he later provokes her hoping that she would kill him so he’d no longer suffer at the hands of James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine.
She allies herself with other Super Hero groups including the Sisterhood of Mutants, Exiles, Excalibur, Crimson Dawn, the Corps, and the R.C.X.
During her time with the Exiles, she and Earth-295’s Sabretooth become lovers. While on X-Force, she and Fantomex have a relationship, including his female clone Cluster, but it gets messy so she ends it. The spurned Fantomex makes several attempts on her life, leading to some physical fights between them that ends with her taking her psychic knife to his ego.
Betsy later shares a romantic relationship with Rachel Summers, AKA Marvel Girl, and together they protect the peace on the British isle from the sorceress Morgan le Fay and her Furies.
HEIGHT
5'11" (both bodies)
WEIGHT
155 lbs. (both bodies)
GENDER
Female
EYES
Originally: Blue, Cybernetic: Purple, Currently: Purple
HAIR
Originally: Blonde, dyed purple, Currently: Black, often dyed purple
Universe
- Marvel Universe
Other Aliases
- Psylocke, Bee, Betsy, Lady Mandarin
Education
- University graduate
Place of Origin
- Braddock Manor, England
Identity
- Secret
Known Relatives
- James Braddock Sr. (father, deceased), Elizabeth Braddock (mother, deceased), James "Jamie" Braddock Jr. (brother), (Brian Braddock (Captain Britain, brother), Meggan Braddock (Meggan, sister-in-law)
Powers
- Telekinesis
- Psionics
- Telepathy
- Precognition
- Mind Control
- Martial Artist
- Superhuman Strength
- Flight
- Force Field
Group Affiliation
- Excalibur