2026-2027 Rumor/Leak List - New Year, New Thread!

Being forced to accept the body swap and decades of subsequent growth of both women as a result, I can really only speculate on the missteps of the recent separation of the two.

And on that front, I find it endlessly frustrating that Kwannon gets saddled with Betsy's codename and power signature, while Betsy herself gets stuck being a female version of her Brother's mantle.

And she reads that way. The character spent, what, three decades as an Asian ninja assassin who thrives in shadow, but has seamlessly and immediately transitioned back into a posh British hero who fights with broadswords and dragons and is brightly colored and speaking on behalf of not one, but *two* nations on the world stage. She just freed herself from one forced identity theft situation, and just gets tossed into yet another one because Marvel spent a few minutes, at best, working through her character arc since her introduction, and now she's just Marvel's New Lipstick Lesbian for some reason?

Krakoa introduced a lot of concepts I liked/loved, but I absolutely fucking loathe what they've done to Psylocke. Her entire history is absolutely meaningless now, and Kwannon is being treated like the character we've spent all this time with instead, because she's in the more marketable body.

I'm salty over the X-Books.
 
Wait. What? Is that @Piffy?!?!?

Looking at your profile, it seems I'm late to the party. But please allow me to offer up a belated but obligatory...
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Wasn't the original story that Betsy was physically altered by the Hand and manipulated by them because she lost her memories - in effect they tried to create a new person and identity? Honestly that was a probably more interesting story than the body swap concept.
 
fac said:
Wasn't the original story that Betsy was physically altered by the Hand and manipulated by them because she lost her memories - in effect they tried to create a new person and identity? Honestly that was a probably more interesting story than the body swap concept.
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The original story is essentially magical plastic surgery being used to make Betsy Braddock look Japanese so they could insert her into the Japanese underworld or something. I think the story is that whoever took over writing the book after Claremont misunderstood that, and so created Kwannon and the body swap story. Kwannon (in Betsy's body) dies of the Legacy Virus, and basically isn't seen again until shortly before the Krakoan era (when they get un-swapped) and she finally gets a backstory of her own while Betsy becomes the new Captain Britain.
 
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The original story is essentially magical plastic surgery being used to make Betsy Braddock look Japanese so they could insert her into the Japanese underworld or something. I think the story is that whoever took over writing the book after Claremont misunderstood that, and so created Kwannon and the body swap story.
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Yeah, they used Betsy as an assassin as she was unaware of her identity if I recall correctly (its been awhile) - I think the real problem on the creative side was that "sexy Asian swimsuit Betsy" got more attention and popularity - and fit into the whole Marvel Swimsuit Edition mindset of the 90's so they didn't want to change her back.

In any case, original look and/or Outback Betsy is needed.
 
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