Psylocke-- regrown a personality? Possible spoiler

Colossus sketched her naked, she flirted with a teenage boy, and telepathically attempted to lure Havok into the bedchamber long before the Kwannon body swap.

She's been portrayed as sexually adventurous since Claremont put her on the X-Men.

Edited by Kipe - 02-Mar-2012 at 7:33am

Storm's having no problem with nudity and such was more a result of her cultural background than viewing sexuality as some type of seductive weapon in the same vain as Gambit or Enchantress. As you put it she had no problem with it...and I don't think that a passionate sexual (or not, since we never were sure if Storm and Yukio were more than friends) relationship means that someone is out and about with their sexual prowess or allure.

Hmmm...by artistic depiction do you mean the actual costume or posing and stuff?

I ask because I just always go back to those Jim Lee days and see how Psylocke flirting with Cyclops and I remember it looking far more "intense" because of her posturing and the type of "emotions" Lee was trying to evoke with the art.

I'll just kinda leave it at agree to disagree about the Storm thing because this is about lil ol' Betsy LOL...

I really enjoyed Psylocke during the Outback era. That's pretty much it. After that, she seems to have become very much a character that writers and readers can assign whatever qualities / personality traits that they feel like in order to make her more or less appealing. Characters without strongly defined personalities have the luxury of doing anything, saying anything, and being anything without consequence. Psylocke is a character that could do much of anything, like Jean Grey, and people would consider it fair and in-character (short of wholesale slaughter and, well, Psylocke's even done that). Anything can be in-character if your character lacks, well, character.

That said, Remender's done a lot to change my opinion of the character within the context of his storyline. Remender's Psylocke (and Gillen's by way of adapting what Remender did) is pretty cool--but mark my words: Psylocke is just going to fall back into the ditch she was in before someone thought she was worth giving an actual personality. It's cyclical for characters like her. She's really awesome when she is handled well (any character is), but she stands with a huge selection of comic book characters from which, if you randomly sampled a storyline involving her, very little legitimate substance can be derived. Much of Psylocke's existence, short of stories about her specifically and the changes she goes through, lend nothing to the story--and she does the same in turn.

Edited by InsipidLust - 23-Mar-2012 at 10:33pm

I honestly stopped caring for her once she became the Ninja-Psylocke.. I didn't mind the British version that suggested the X-Men kill Havoc and had a bit of manipulative streak. I know I am in the minority there, but I never cared for that change.. I always felt it was unnecesary and they could have gone that route with a new character and/or transform an existing asian character in that fashion.