112 Facts About Betsy Braddock

Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Captain Britain and the X-Men.

Betsy Braddock was initially a supporting character in the adventures of her twin brother, Brian Braddock, as the original Captain Britain, before temporarily becoming the superheroine Captain Britain herself and later joining the X-Men in 1986 as Psylocke, a codename coined by the villains Mojo and Spiral.

Betsy Braddock established that she had psychic abilities, the full extent of which were unknown, though no explanation is given for these powers.

The next major change for the character came in the 1986 relaunched Captain Britain series, where Betsy Braddock stands in for her brother as Captain Britain, and is rendered blind by the supervillain Slaymaster.

The now-amnesiac Betsy Braddock is taken in by the Hand, who brainwash and physically alter her to take on an East Asian appearance so that she can blend in in Hong Kong.

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Betsy Braddock now believes herself to be "Lady Mandarin", the Hand's supreme assassin.

At this point, Kwannon, a new character with the physical appearance of Betsy prior to the Hand's manipulation, claims to be the original Betsy Braddock, accusing the Japanese-featured Betsy of being an impostor.

At the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, Editor-in-Chief C B Cebulski and writer Jonathan Hickman revealed that Betsy would become the new Captain Britain, leading a reformed Excalibur consisting of herself, Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, Rictor and Apocalypse, to protect the Kingdom of Avalon, with her former identity of Psylocke being taken by Kwannon, who would lead the Fallen Angels title.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock was born in England and was raised in the small town of Maldon, Essex.

Betsy Braddock's met future boyfriend Warren Worthington for the first time during one of the Hellfire Club parties.

Betsy Braddock was in Tom's mind when he died; feeling his death, she was left traumatized.

When Brian went overseas, Matthew convinced Betsy Braddock to become the new Captain Britain, wearing Kaptain Briton's modified costume.

Betsy Braddock was kidnapped from the Alps by Mojo, brainwashed, given cybernetic eyes, and, as "Psylocke", became the star of his new show "Wildways".

Brian and the New Mutants rescued her, after which Betsy Braddock moved to the X-Men's mansion to recover, exactly where Roma, Guardian of the Omniverse, needed her to be.

Betsy Braddock used herself as bait to lead him away from the injured until the X-Men arrived to help her.

Betsy Braddock reappeared amnesiac on an island near China, where the Hand, a ninja clan, found her.

Betsy Braddock's merged their genetic structures, leaving both women with physical and mental traits of the other, and with each possessing half of Betsy's telepathic power.

Betsy Braddock's gained highly remarkable fighting skills and learned to focus her telepathic power into a "psychic knife".

Betsy Braddock rejected her role as Lady Mandarin and escaped with Wolverine and Jubilee, eventually going with them to the island nation of Genosha, where the New Mutants had been kidnapped along with the X-Men's leader, Storm, by Cameron Hodge.

Betsy Braddock then joined the Blue Team led by Cyclops, for whom she displayed an obvious attraction.

Unable to discern which was truly Betsy Braddock, both stayed with the X-Men, maintaining an uneasy coexistence.

Subsequently, she aided Storm against the Shadow King, who tricked Betsy Braddock into initiating a psychic shockwave that disabled all other telepaths, leaving him unchallenged on the astral plane.

In Valencia, Betsy Braddock died in combat with the man known as Vargas while protecting Rogue and Beast, who were badly beaten by the villain.

Betsy Braddock's was buried at the Braddock family estate and a memorial to her was erected at the X-Mansion by Beast.

One year after her death, Betsy Braddock awoke where she had died, unaware of how she had been resurrected, and was reunited with the X-Men, helping them against the Saurian Hauk'ka, and Mojo and Spiral.

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Betsy Braddock was reunited with Brian during the Scarlet Witch's "House of M" reality storm.

Jamie was abducted by the Foursaken before he could fully inform them of the imminent threat; trying to rescue him, the X-Men were easily captured, except Betsy Braddock, who found herself invisible to the Foursaken's senses.

Meanwhile, determined to confront her fear, Betsy Braddock began rigorous training to prepare herself for their next encounter.

Betsy Braddock's returned to Earth-616 to let Brian know she was alive.

Betsy Braddock returned to the Crystal Palace, became involved with teammate Sabretooth, and promised to honor her mission as an Exile.

Somehow, Betsy Braddock became trapped between parallel worlds and was rescued by Madelyne Pryor – now calling herself the Red Queen – who controlled her to join the Sisterhood.

Betsy Braddock led the X-Club in a mission to raise Asteroid M, which was at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, to serve as the X-Men's new base of operations and a haven for mutantkind, called Utopia.

Enraged, Betsy Braddock tracked Matsu'o down, finding him terribly disfigured as the result of Wolverine's yearly revenge on Matsu'o for his role in the murder of Mariko Yashida.

Betsy Braddock engaged Wolverine in a brutal fight which ended in a truce.

Betsy Braddock battled Sublime's associates with the help of Fantomex and her teammates.

Betsy Braddock appeared to have lost her immunity to telepathic attacks and reality alterations, as Proteus easily possessed her.

Betsy Braddock had been using her telepathy to help Warren control the "Archangel" persona in his mind, which led to the two rekindling their previous relationship.

Betsy Braddock stabbed Archangel with the Life Seed, killing Warren and creating a new being in his likeness in the process.

Betsy Braddock took up the Lady Briton mantle to rescue Fantomex and was ultimately forced to kill Jamie in order to prevent his future self from destroying the multiverse.

Betsy Braddock imprisoned his psyche for good into Omega White, whose ability was to eat psychic energy.

Betsy Braddock's rescued Fantomex from Weapon XIII at Cluster's request, but left them once more.

Bishop's alliance with Betsy Braddock's group put them at war with Cassandra Nova – the Revenant Queen – who wished to unleash her revenants on Earth.

Betsy Braddock ultimately stabbed her to death, breaking her vow not to kill again.

Betsy Braddock's group teamed up with Cable's X-Force in order to rescue Bishop and Hope Summers, both kidnapped by Stryfe.

Betsy Braddock ultimately used her mind blade to scramble Fantomex's brain.

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Betsy Braddock offered her the chance to work with a blank slate clone of Archangel he had come across earlier.

When Warren and Archangel merged, Betsy Braddock started working with him to restore the man she once knew and loved.

Once Ulysses, an Inhuman with the ability to forecast the future, emerged, Betsy Braddock briefly changed alliances, siding with Storm's X-Men in opposition to Magneto's team, who wanted to eliminate the boy.

Betsy Braddock found out Magneto had secretly employed Mystique and Fantomex and made an alliance with the Hellfire Club, much to her annoyance.

On her own, Betsy Braddock tracked down and defeated threats to mutantkind such as Omega Sentinels, Sauron and the Nasty Boys.

Betsy Braddock faced Mystique, stabilizing the shapeshifter's psyche once and for all.

When Beast discovered that the Terrigen was saturating and would soon render Earth completely uninhabitable for mutants, Betsy Braddock joined the rest of the X-Men in their war against the Inhumans, seeking to destroy the cloud while the Inhumans fought to protect it.

Betsy Braddock's then walked away, feeling like the world and the X-Men were better off without her.

Betsy Braddock called for help and Rogue, Bishop, Archangel, Gambit, Fantomex and Old Man Logan came to her rescue.

Betsy Braddock's sent the X-Men to the Astral Plane to deal with Farouk and remained behind to maintain the necessary mental link back to the physical world.

Betsy Braddock found out the Shadow King was keeping Charles Xavier's soul trapped in the Astral Plane, and under the Professor's guidance, she managed to fight Logan and Gambit, both possessed by the Shadow King, contain the psychic infection in London and protect the civilians.

Suspicious of X, as now Xavier started to call himself, Betsy Braddock travelled to the Astral Plane herself to make sure Fantomex wasn't fooled into giving up his body.

However, when Betsy Braddock tapped into a psychic network to undo Proteus' reality-bending madness, the Shadow King took the chance to return to the physical world.

Betsy Braddock was selected by Kitty Pryde to join a team with Storm, Rogue, Jubilee and Domino and hunt for a resurrected Wolverine, facing Viper and her Femme Fatales along the way.

Once inside, Betsy Braddock discovered the psychic husks of all the victims Sapphire had claimed over the centuries, including a fragment of Wolverine's soul that she had been unable to purge from herself.

Betsy Braddock's later explained to Jubilee that after Sapphire was destroyed, she was able to use the soul energy she left behind to re-create her original body.

Immediately after reclaiming her original body and legal identity as Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock, Betsy returned to the Xavier Institute, where Jean Grey helped her cope with such a major change.

Betsy Braddock traveled to England and reunited with Brian and Meggan and met her niece, Maggie.

Betsy Braddock engaged Angel head-on and used a massive psychic strike to free Warren from Nate Grey's control, which unintentionally released his Archangel persona.

Warren and Betsy Braddock had a falling-out, and he blamed her for unleashing the darkness within him.

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Betsy Braddock broke Nate Grey's control over Storm and soon joined forces with Jean Grey and other psychics to defeat X-Man once and for all, but the X-Men were all seemingly killed.

Betsy Braddock's could read and project thoughts over long distances; control minds; manipulate people's minds and possess them; subdue and tap into other's powers; affect people's memories; project mental illusions; and generate psi-bolts that could stun, injure, or kill others.

Betsy Braddock's was powerful enough to telepathically "shout" to her teammates in Australia while she was in Washington, D C without the aid of any type of power-enhancing machinery such as Cerebro.

Betsy Braddock possessed limited precognitive powers that occasionally allowed her to envision probable future events, or to see quick flashes of the immediate future.

Betsy Braddock has not been seen using this ability since her imprisonment of the Shadow King in the astral plane; during a mission against Stryfe, she mentioned to Nightcrawler that she no longer possessed this ability.

Betsy Braddock's can create telekinetic shields of various sizes and strength, and her telekinesis has been said to be strong enough to shatter mountains.

Betsy Braddock's is immune or at least highly resistant to other psionic-based powers like the Savage Land Mutate Vertigo's disorientation power, or Nocturne's mind possessing abilities.

Betsy Braddock's is at least partially resistant to magical manipulation.

Betsy Braddock is shown to have levels of telekinesis sufficient to increase the strength and power of her physical blows as well as ward off attacks via force fields and telekinetic "blasts or bursts".

Betsy Braddock's was able to overcome Archangel with her newly strengthened and increased telepathy – a feat that had previously been beyond her power.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock has been classified as a master martial artist, though the specific fighting arts she has mastered have never been revealed.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock has been involved in a series of romantic relationships during the years.

Betsy Braddock was murdered while trying to defend her, during which time she was telepathically linked to him.

Betsy Braddock's is an Asian ninja, though no explanation is given as to the circumstances of her ethnicity.

Betsy Braddock's possesses the ability to generate psychic blades that can affect physical matter as well as living beings.

Betsy Braddock's frees the captured X-Men and has a brief reunion with Logan, for whom she bears an obvious grudge.

Betsy Braddock's is depicted as a member of the Force Warriors, a select group of telekinetics who rebuild the telekinetic shields that protect Fortress X on a daily basis.

Betsy Braddock's is in a relationship with the Age of X version of Iceman.

Betsy Braddock has not only the Crimson Dawn tattoo over her left eye, but additional tattoos on the right part of her face.

Betsy Braddock is first seen as a mysterious hooded female that sneaks up undetected behind Logan and telepathically destroys his consciousness.

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Betsy Braddock's is the new Red Queen and one of the Lords Cardinal of the new Hellfire Club.

Betsy Braddock is seen by Shinobi Shaw's side as they watch the trapped Scarlet Witch.

Betsy Braddock's is taken back to Emma Frost's base of operation and Emma later tells Jubilee and the rest of the team that Betsy will be transferred back to her brother in England as soon as her recuperation is completed.

In Excalibur, the Earth-9620 Betsy Braddock has no tattoos at all and her eyes are completely blue, with no visible iris or pupils.

Betsy Braddock is a member of the underground resistance against Black Air, the security service that rules Britain.

Betsy Braddock's is first seen as part of the Excalibur team that goes on a mission to rescue Douglock from the Black Air headquarters.

Betsy Braddock was actually the rightful heir of the throne, being a few minutes older than her twin brother Brian, but she had stepped down in his favor, as she preferred traveling and adventuring with her lady-in-waiting, Rachel Summers.

Apparently, this Betsy Braddock acted as a godmother to Wild Thing, the daughter of Wolverine and Elektra, and she trained her in the use of her psychic powers.

Betsy Braddock's was introduced as a colonel for the British Secret Intelligence Service along with her partner Agent Dai Thomas.

Betsy Braddock's is a telepath and, judging by her own assertion, the most powerful in England.

Betsy Braddock's eventually managed to resist his control, albeit briefly, and pleaded with Xavier to kill her.

Betsy Braddock's consciousness survived somehow moving into the comatose body of a Japanese girl called Kwannon.

Betsy Braddock's somehow retained her telepathic powers in Kwannon's body and even gained the new ability to create a blade that can cut through most materials, even a Sentinel.

Betsy Braddock's was recruited by Bishop into his new X-Men after angrily informing Cyclops that he had turned his back on the X-Men and the good they can achieve after he refused to help a group of mutants being attacked by Sentinels solely because he thought it would make the Xavier Institute look bad.

Betsy Braddock confronted Bishop about his comments about their future marriage, and from what he says, it is implied that Betsy Braddock was killed before Bishop traveled back in time.

Xavier returns from the future revealing himself to be alive and Betsy Braddock begins living at the Xavier Institute as a student.

Betsy Braddock's is seen again after the Ultimatum wave hits New York.

When Reverend William Stryker attacks the school planning to kill every student, Betsy Braddock uses Cerebro to send a telepathic message to any mutant that can help save them.

Subsequently, a young woman appears claiming to be Betsy Braddock, having "jumped" her consciousness into another body before her death .

Jean Grey unmasked this Betsy Braddock as being a fake, revealed her to be Mothervine, who set out to destroy both Utopia and Tian.

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Betsy Braddock joins the other X-Men in attempting to incapacitate Cable and the New Mutants, but the New Mutants flee.

Betsy Braddock comes across Storm just as most of the X-Men on her side either defected over to Magneto, or found themselves killed or captured by the Sentinels.

Betsy Braddock has made many appearances in media other than comic books as both Captain Britain and Psylocke.

Betsy Braddock was included in IGN's "Battle of the Comic-Book Babes" contest in 2005, winning the first two rounds against Aspen Matthews and then Natsumi and Miyuki, before losing to Emma Frost .

Betsy Braddock emerged victorious from the following year's "Battle of the Comic-Book Babes" in 2006, winning the consecutive rounds against Deena Pilgrim, Rachel Summers and Black Cat.

Days of Future Past writer and producer Simon Kinberg said Betsy Braddock is a favourite of his, and said the director and producer Bryan Singer "thinks she's a neat character so there's certainly a chance she'll be in an X-Men movie some day".

Betsy Braddock was chosen as one of the 20 "muses" of video games by Brazilian magazine SuperGamePower in 2001.