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Warning : SPOILERS for Betsy Braddock : Captain Britain # 1One sports fan - favoriteX - Menhas a backstory that is simply far too complicated and convoluted for the MCU , and unless the party deepen one key element , Psylockewill never pass to the big screen . The charactermade an appearance in 2016’sX - humans : Apocalypsebut never return to the FoxX - Menfilms and has yet to arrive in the MCU . Unfortunately , Betsy Braddock : Captain Britain # 1reveals that the backstory of the character will prevent that from take place for a very long meter .
Written by Tini Howard with art by Vasco Georgiev , Betsy Braddock : Captain Britain # 1 history the liveliness of Braddock herself , now known as Captain Britain . But as a talking show legion interviews her , the referee isreminded of Psylock ’s complicated historywhich span decades . “You’ve been a supermodel , a charter pilot , a ninja , a consistence snatcher , a sport , and a twin,“says the interviewer . “Now you keep to wear upon that which is n’t yours , calling yourself Captain Britain while you ’ve not in favor with Britain at all . "
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Psylocke’s History Is Just Too Much For The MCU
Psylocke has indeed worked as a pilot and a ninja , and she is a mutant . But the the true is far more complicated : Psylocke is actuallytwopeople , not one . Betsy Braddockwas first introduced inCaptain Britaincomicsin 1976 , but appear inNew Mutants Annual # 2a tenner by and by as Psylocke . She eventually join the X - adult male , was captured and became the brainwashed assassin " Lady Mandarin " ( receiving a young body in the procedure ) . But it was n’t a newly created body , but the body of a woman who already survive advert Kwannon .
It is here that the account of Psylocke catch even more complicated . Kwannon claim thatshewas the actual person and Psylocke was an pseudo . To make subject worse , Kwannon pass but was finally resurrectedin the same tarradiddle that un - swapped the bodies of herself and Braddock . As of 2019,Betsy Braddockis Captain Britain andKwannontook the name Psylocke , and the two have remained separate ever since . The entire affair is just too foresighted and convoluted for the MCU to ever accommodate dependably … unless Marvel merges Braddock and Kwannon into one someone .
The identities are dissimilar , however , and it is more likely than not that Marvel will simply discount Psylocke ’s character for now . The X - Men have raft of other charactersnever before seen in picture show , such as Sunspotor Polaris , who could replace Psylocke ’s function on the team in plastic film . Regardless , ifPsylockeever does appear in the MCU , carry her backstory to be radically changed from that of the comics .
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