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Psylocke was a telepath. The most common usage of her powers was the manifestation of a "psychic knife," described as "the focused totality of her psychic powers," which she often used to disrupt the neurons of her foes by driving the glowing red blade into their skulls. At one point she gained telekinesis through circumstances as of yet unexplained.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock was the sister of Brian Braddock, and first appeared in his series, Captain Britain. Eventually, she dyed her hair purple and became a fashion model, and secretly worked for the psi-division of S.T.R.I.K.E., Britain's version of S.H.I.E.L.D. One of her assignments was to infiltrate the Hellfire Club, but Sage forced her to abandon the mission. A British crime lord, Vixen, hired Slaymaster to destroy the psi-division, and he managed to kill all but Betsy, her lover Tom Lennox, and Alison Double before Captain Britain defeated him.
When reality warped due to James Jaspers's powers, Tom sacrificed himself to delay a group of superhuman-hunters to let the Braddocks escape. Following the repair of the reality warp, an evil Captain Britain, Kaptain Briton, switched places with Brian, handed him over to the Technet (who were after him), and tried to rape Betsy. In self-defence, she fried his brain.
Betsy assumed his uniform and received training from Captain UK, another alternate Captain Britain, and became Captain Britain II while Brian was away, working for the covert British agency R.C.X. Vixen lured Betsy into a trap, where Slaymaster beat her almost to death, gouging out her eyes. Summoned by his sister's telepathic distress call, Captain Britain crushed Slaymaster's head under a rock.
Mojo and Spiral kidnapped her and implanted her with bionic eyes, gave her the name Psylocke, and made her the star of the Wildways program. The New Mutants got involved, rescuing Psylocke from Mojo, and took her back with them to Westchester. She decided to stay with the X-Men and learn how to better control her powers.Her role in the Mutant Massacre, including pulling information about Mister SinisterMister Sinister is a fictional character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics' universe. Sinister is a long-lived and scheming foe of the X-Men and X-Factor. He was first mentioned in Uncanny X-Men #212, by the villain Sabretooth, but he did not appear on-pan from SabretoothThis article is about Sabretooth, the comic book supervillain. For the sabretooth tiger, see smilodon. Sabretooth (Victor Creed) is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and an arch-enemy of Wolverine. He was created by Chris Claremont's mind, led to her induction into the X-Men. She was among the X-Men as they fought the Adversary in Dallas, in the event known as The Fall of the Mutants , and subsequently transported to the AustralianAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count OutbackFor the restaurant chain, see Outback Steakhouse; for the station wagon, see Subaru Outback. The outback is the remote and usually semi-arid interior of Australia. The marginally fertile parts are used for sheep or cattle farmingapart from this, tourism a by Roma. After a fight with the Reavers, Psylocke donned body armour to protect herself in physical confrontations.
After going through the Siege Perilous, Psylocke was found by the Hand, a clan of ninja, whose leader, Matsu'o Tsurabaya , contacted Spiral to swap the mind of his brain-dead lover, Kwannon , into Psylocke's body. Spiral not only swapped their minds, but somewhat mingled them, leaving each woman with traits from both of them. With some physical and mental conditioning, Psylocke (mostly Betsy Braddock's persona in mostly Kwannon's body) became Lady Mandarin, the Hand's prime assassin (and yet another nimbo).
When one of Lady Mandarin's missions pitted her against Wolverine, her psychic knife attack showed her his memories of her, breaking the Hand's conditioning, and she escaped with Wolverine and Jubilee, eventually going with them to Genosha on the trail of the New Mutants. There, they encountered Havok, whom Psylocke had psychically nudged through the Seige Perilous, acting as a Magistrate. Following the defeat of Cameron Hodge , the X-Men reunited and returned to New York.
In 1991, when the X-Men split into two teams, Psylocke joined Cyclops's Blue Team, and started flirting with him. When Jean Grey found out, the two women started fighting, but were interrupted by the arrival of Kwannon, in what was Betsy's body, calling herself Revanche, and claiming to be the real Betsy. Not even Wolverine's enhanced senses could tell them apart, and the Hand wouldn't give them any straight answers. It took an infection of the Legacy Virus to determine that Revanche was not Betsy, and she gave Psylocke the parts of her mind and powers that Spiral had left with her, trading them for her own missing parts.
Jean trained Betsy in her telepathic powers, and Betsy started a relationship with Warren Worthington III, the Archangel. When Sabretooth critically wounded Psylocke in his escape from the mansion, Archangel and Wolverine went with Doctor Strange into the Crimson Dawn to retrieve a magical liquid that could heal her. Side effects of the healing liquid were a red dagger-shaped tattoo over her left eye, a strange ability to slip into shadow, and a cold edge to her personality. Warren gave up a portion of his essence to free Psylocke from the evil influence of the Crimson Dawn, and the couple retired from active duty with the X-Men.
Psylocke later battled the Shadow King in a fight that disabled telepathic powers across the globe and destroyed her Astral form. She reappeared in a shadow form, another side effect of the Crimson Dawn, invisible to the Shadow King, and tricked him into over-extending himself so she could contain him within her own mind. To keep the Shadow King imprisoned, Psylocke had to keep her telepathic powers focused on containing him, and thus effectively lost the use of her telepathy.
During the "Six-Month Gap" before Chris Claremont's second stint as X-Men scribe, Psylocke gained the power of telekinesis and returned to active duty. She started flirting with Neal Sharra ( Thunderbird), and Warren broke up with her. Psylocke joined Storm's team to search for Destiny's diaries, but was killed by Vargas.
Her body was returned to her family's estate. Her spirit appeared to Bishop in a vision, but she was attacked by a skull-faced apparition and pulled through a glowing gate. Her ultimate fate is unknown.
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