Psylocke was soooooo underused in X-Men Apocalypse ughhh

I've always loved Psylocke, she is one of my favorite characters of all time! Jim Lee's design for her, post body swap, is one of the best redesigns of all time.

Jim Lee drew her so good in the 90s....too good lol my young mind was very distracted by her n Rogue in the early 90s

haven't started the video yet, I am almost sure he is going to start the video with "so what I want to do here"

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jim lee's artwork . . . still the best

Psylocke in X:Men Apocalypse looks absolutely perfect, but she isn't a character so much as an action figure; she has maybe two lines of dialogue, explaining absolutely none of her motivations. She definitely has lots of badass action moments, but they didn't really even try to flesh her out as a person.

Holy shit, the X-men have gotten complicated since I was a kid.

one of my main complaints of X-Men Apocalypse is Psylocke was only a generic henchman

Psylocke is one of my favorite X-Men characters! I hated her in the new movie because Bryan Singer sucks at characterization of characters not named Wolverine, Magneto and Xavier.

Munn at least physically looks perfect as Psylocke. Like, she looks like she jumped straight out of the pages, so I do kind of hope they bring her back if (or rather when) they continue the film series and give her more to do. They at least left it very open at the end.

I kinda wish they'd have psylocke interact with captain Britain more because, despite the fact that they're twin siblings, they don't actually talk that much. I just think it would be cool to see more interactions between the two, with maybe psylocke checking in on her brother or either of them coming to each other for advice with certain situations.

Great break down of the history of Ms. Betsy Braddock, however, the fact that she is not a mutant was missed. It was covered in the old Captain Britain comics that Betsy and her brothers are decedents of the same race of extra-dimensional aliens as Merlin. Her abilities have more to do with how she understands her abilities to work, rather than how they actually work, which is the ability to alter reality. Her older brother Jack's insanity unlocks his raw potential, While Brian's inner focus resulted in his superhero physique and powers. In Betsy's case, it was her psyche.

The psyloche theme from SNES was really good

I definitely think that Psylocke needs her own movie.

I literally typed comics explained psylocke and this popped up. It's crazy how far you've come. short change my dude. short change

Psylocke is my favorite female Marvel hero.

I was introduced to Psylocke when she wore armor and had curly purple hair a little before the whole siege perilous thing. Didn't really like the new look for a long time. Until i went back and read the new mutant issues with her, giving a better understanding of her inner motivations n stuff. After that i saw how an uber sexy killer ninja badass fit her. So I like it now. If she is ever used more in movies, i'd like to hear her talk with a british twang, that'd be sweet.

How is it possible for one man to know so much about comics? Really been enjoying your X-Men videos!

I've always loved Psylocke since the early 90's. Definitely an underrated super hero it's all because of the many confusing and complex background of her story that kept her from being more recognizable.

Man, whenever I hear of astrolprojection I just remember how Jackie Chan Adventures explains how useless it is lol

She was completely underused

I had a huge crush on her in the 90's. =)

90s psylocke is the bet pylocke

She's important cause her costume is hot.

he starts every episode with: "so, what I wanted to do here is.."

I'm surprised you didn't talk about her second fight with Sabretooth that led to her getting the Crimson Dawn scar. But she's pretty convoluted anyway and that was a whole mess. Great vid!

There wasn't enough of Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse.

You videos are perfect. Whenever i want to sleep, i just put on my earphones and watch your stuff. Works like magic!

I think......if they had gone with a producer and director that actually loved the xmen we'd get a better movie.

Psylocke was one of my favorite parts of X-Men Apocalypse, but I just wanted MORE.

Psylocke is my favorite Marvel character. You pretty much nailed her history in this video. As for the movie, I see her as an introduction of Psylocke. Her arc was very minimum. She's pretty much a blank slate at the moment. Time for Deadpool or X-Force to picked up her as team member!

I think that Olivia Munn Psylocke's was Spot on. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her in film and more in Comics.

Psylocke character in the films were sorely underused as she is a huge part of The Xmen.

Probably my favorite member of the Xmen, too bad she's all over the place

Ugh, such a long convoluted background, with multiple overlapping layers of retcons by different writing teams ... my head hurts now.

psylock only had like two lines in flick. why was she in it anyway just to shoehorn a character into the movie. they should focus on plot and character development

With regards to her role in the movie, she is completely forgettable. She's given little screen time or lines so there's no way to care about her character.

my top favorite x-girl. i play marvel ultimate alliance 2 w/psylocke DLC. just to use her. thanks for the origin. your a scholar sir.

A buddy of mine got me X-Men #256 as a birthday present one year. One of the coolest gifts I've ever received :)

I've been subscribed for a while and your content is awesome and great. I only have one small criticism, the recording of your voice tends to be a bit heavy on the lows which sounds muddy from time to time and I have a hard time understanding. I think adjusting the EQ a bit would be great :) cheers

Wow. That was a great way to put it all together. I always thought Psylocke's character was just all over the place. Would love to see one about Emma Frost. :)

munn did about as well as she could have in that role. she was kind of just a henchman and the script didnt allow her character to be fleshed out, or to have much defining screen time

Rob, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Marvel's current landscape overall. Like do you believe that Marvel is slowly trying to kill the mutants off and replace them with Inhumans?

she was very underused in the movie, she needs to be in the x force movie, and it needs to be olivia munn playing the character. she actually cares about the character and I want to see her done justice.

Loved psylocke from Rick remendeirs xforce run

Psylocke was pretty good in the film but needed more screen-time and I didn't think he costume was quit right. Hope she returns in more films

Psylocke was great in what she had in the new Apocalypse movie. I was just hoping for a lot more. She barely had any dialogue. And, Olivia Munn is awesome.

Late 80s to all of 90s up until the image comics shake up marvel was so good

I enjoyed her role in the apocayps movie. Curious to see more of her. Not to mention Tara greaking NAILED IT

This video reminded me... Do an explanation of Longshot! He was one of my favorites back in the day, plus the whole Mojoworld story arc was awesome.

I'm glad that we finally get a true, PROPER Psylocke in the movies!! And she freaking looks the part too! Great job for the costume designer! Seriously I'm often so tired of comic book movies where instead of making "comic book" style outfits, they slap them in generic looking leather uniforms >coughcough

Psylocke suffered from the same problem all the villains suffered from in the movie. She was under developed and under utilized. If you removed her from the film it would not have changed much of anything. It's sad because Olivia Munn is great and I hope she gets to come back to the character in a script that does the character justice.

I was disappointed by Psylocke in the X-Men: Apocalypse movie. Not because of how she was portrayed but the lack of use. They made this big deal about her being in the movie but she had what may 10 mins tops of screen time. I think Olivia Munn did a great job and looked great but wasn't given her time to shine!

Olivia Munn as Psylocke is the best looking adaptation of a comic book character on the big screen

same problem everywhere i look, not enough consistency with continuity

They did Psylocke wrong in X-Men Apocalypse. Truly, they even made Apocalypse look weak.

Love your videos my friend..! I know quite a bit about a lot of characters but I always learn or re-learn something with your videos. Thanks so much. Nice speaking voice as well. Keep up the good work.

Psylocke is on a rampage ha

Thank you for sharing, keep doing what you do!!!

The common thing with Elektra (Soul Swap to a dancer before she die)& Psylocke(Mind Swap with Kwannon’s dead body)is The Hand

One of my all time favorite X-Men characters. Great video. I'll let you know how I feel about her after I see the movie. I'm skeptical but I'm trying to keep an open mind about it.

Great video as always, keep up the great work

This may seem ignorant, but simply in the little I know about the X-men/Marvel comics, the ingenuity of the authors and artists simply amazes me!

Thanks for the update. She has been one of my favorite X-men for a lone time although I haven't picked up a book in years

So much info to keep track off! Definitely rematch rewatching this video!

Thank you because I ALWAYS loved this X- Men character and NOW I understand her fully now.

Super helpful, totally worth watching

Love her. Really hope they bring her into the new XMEN reboot. She's one of my favs in MCOC .

you have my love and thanks for this video. As a fan, I ask if you would ever make a video on how you organize all your comic knowledge. Such as in a way that comic fans can figure out what connecting comics are worth reading. thank you again

Wait....The Xmen gave their lives as a sacrifice for Forge's spell to stop the Adversary. Roma resurrected them and then gave them the Siege Perilious to use should they decide to want a new life, but it was used to keep them from being killed by the Reavers because of the "fever dream" Psylocke had of the Xmen being killed.

Damn, Psylocke & Cyclops is kind of a tongue-twister. If you try to say their names over and over it morphs Psyche-lops.

Thanx for this! I'm hoping you make a video about X-Force soon as well.

How many times are they going to get her character wron on screen. In X-Men the animated series she was a thief and in X-Men the Last Stand, Wolverine and the X-Men and X-Men Apocalypse she was on the bad guys side. And of course the two live action versions could at laest give some reference to her English background.

psylocke's character in the x-men apocalypse movie was not well developed and actually kinda nonexistent. (i'll go into my opinions about her in comics throughout her history first, and then talk about psylocke in the movie, what i think could be better, and then also talk a little about psylocke's caucasian/asian race problems that they addressed by casting olivia munn) in the comics, from what i've gathered (after reading through most of her history starting from the captain britain comics), she is a hero at heart. she wants to do good for others, and to protect others. this was evident when she took on a metallic warrior form during uncanny x-men giant sized annual #11, fulfilling her heart's greatest desire to become a warrior and protect her friends. but over the years, she has been hurt, she has been manipulated, she has been traumatized physically and mentally, and she has been twisted around in the worst possible ways. coming out from the "body swap" (which originally was not meant to be an actual body swap by chris claremont.... and it was meant to be temporary, but after claremont left, his original story was messed up by fabian nicieza and was made permanent), psylocke's character was.... not the same. she was violent. and kind of heartless too. personally i blame this on bad writing. writers just wanted her to be the cold ruthless ninja but that isnt her character at all. not her true character, anyway. it wasn't until after the sisterhood event in the late 2000's that saw her reincarnation back into her original british body and then yet another body swap into her japanese kwannon body that psylocke's original personality started to show through again, during uncanny x-force. now, this is my favorite version of psylocke, the version that makes the most sense, in my opinion. rick remender's psylocke shows the most compelling character, which makes way for some of the most compelling stories that have been told with psylocke as a main character. was she violent during remender's run? yes. but she was also a good hearted hero at the same time. deep deep down, she knew what was right and wrong. but because of her history, there were times when she became a bit violent, and actually began to enjoy killing. immediately she would regret those feelings of violence, and there were even times where she chose to kill because she had to, not because she wanted to. the relationship between her good hearted morals and her addiction to bloodshed and violence was actually what I enjoyed most about rick remender's psylocke. it was much more interesting and much more compelling than both claremont's original psylocke and what psylocke became immediately following the body swap. now, in uncanny x-force vol 2, remender was no longer writing psylocke stories, and she once again kinda lost her character. tbh uncanny x-force vol 2 was just bad writing all around in my opinion. she was much better in the marvel now x-men series (especially once g willow wilson took over towards the end) and in the marvel now x-force series. neither of these series were great, but they were readable. psylocke was portrayed ok too, i think. but nothing beats rick remender's uncanny x-force vol 1. in current comics, she leads a team with magneto (well... magneto IS the leader, but psylocke is seen as second in command, and the female leader of the team). I haven't actually read all of the issues in this series yet but from what i've gathered, psylocke is portrayed pretty well by cullen bunn here too. again, doesn't really beat rick remender in my opinion, but still good. psylocke from 2010-present is what I want to see in future x-men movies since x-men apocalypse didn't do her justice. heck, they didn't even get her powers right. they seriously underpowered her telekinesis and didn't even give her telepathy, and did not put much focus on her ninja martial arts abilities either. since rick remender's run, I've seen her character as being truly heroic, but at the same time her character is conflicted and burdened, always struggling with right vs wrong because of the relationship between her morals and the violence in her that has been sparked by her convoluted but tormenting history. the movies have A LOT of really good source material to work with in making psylocke a badass psychic ninja, AND a compelling character that is actually useful to the story. i'm hoping they take that chance. ALSO, one thing that most people don't talk about is olivia munn's race. I think it's great that they chose her because she is half asian. It effectively addresses the problematic race issues that psylocke has, being a white british woman inside the body of a japanese ninja assassin. i'm super glad they chose her to address that problem. could they have picked someone else who is a better actress? eh, maybe. but i didn't pay too much attention to olivia's acting because she didn't really get much of a chance to do a lot of acting during the movie. but i really do appreciate munn's dedication to psylocke, all the training she went through to be in good enough shape for the character, and her research that she's done on psylocke's history and character. i think that dedication trumps any acting issues she might have had tbh, so i like olivia munn as psylocke. i get that not everyone will agree with me, but as a big fan of psylocke that's just my two cents. :)

I always remember that she saved the team.✊🙏 Acts of vengeance was amazing.

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing

Cool series! Keep them coming

Yeah man, keep it up. I really liked Olivia Munn’s Version of the character in that last movie, I think the role was cast well. And her costume was great, I think she did a great job

Wow, fantastic video. Thanks a lot!

Hey CE, do you think you could explain the Ultimate Nullifier? also showing key stories for and and all that good stuff? Thanks, and love your channel!

Do a "Jerry curls explained" lol

In The Xmen new movie psylocke was great.

of all the characters in the new movie Psylocke and Archangel we the least fleshed out. I had hoped for more story, but... that's just what happens with some late character additions

Thank you for this. I've always LOVED Psylocke, but didn't know her full story.

That’s fantastic, thanks for sharing

thanks for the video 👍 psylocke was my favorite character in x-men apocalypse! I wished they explained more but maybe bring her back later I hope!!

I remember psylocke's powers flipping back and forth between telepathy and telekinesis.

Favorite character by far! Love Psylocke!!!!

Thank you for the great video Rob! I have a question. Can you make a video about Starlins last Thanos run? :)

My first comic book crush right here.

is that background music nujabes?

I didnt know much about Psylocke until now!

FINALLY somebody did her history correctly. I've had to correct some people who didn't do much research at all. I appreciate what you did. Still a fan of the original and to me better Psylocke, thanks.

I like to participation in the movie but I thought they could have done more in the character development I hope Marvel finally takes overl

One of my favorites for almost twenty years.. man am I old

8:44 I remember reading this comic back in the day.

"Okay, but you're gonna have to write that down because I'm not gonna remember any of it!"

The movie did not spend much time to develop her character, so I do not blame Olivia Munn for her performance, which was mostly action scenes. She was competent, but her motivations were a cipher.

BTW: The black Ops X-Force was created by Cyclops. NOT Wolverine, but Wolverine was the team leader. Love the Psylocke coverage, thank you! She is my all time fav female hero! Also wished you had gone thru her power set and its changes. Maybe a follow up vid? As for the movie, it looked nice, but was a disservice to Betsy. No story for the audience to care about. They used her only for eye candy. Hope she is back with more screen time, dialogue, and lovin'!