British beauty Elizabeth Braddock is older twin sister of Captain Britain a mutant, former fashion model, and Charter Pilot. She is a long-standing member of the X-Men, Leader of Excalibur, and Founder of the reformed Captain Britain Corps, multi-versal alternate versions of herself.
What do you guys think about her famous swimsuit? I personally believe that it was great in the 90's, but now it seems very dated and not in tune with her current character. I really hoped that Remender would have changed it to a stealth/battle suit (keeping in tone with the X-Force outfits), but that has yet to happen. In my opinion, if he wants her to be taken seriously as a character by non-Psylocke fans, please take her out of the thong. Also, what with her being a close combat fighter, you'd think she'd tie her hair up? Someone has had to have given it a tug at some point.
Agreed, she's been in that costume for way too long. The hair would make more sense in an ponytail but i can let it slide due to the comic world likes to do impractical things choice wise. I'd like too see a stealth suit of some kind
@EnSabahNurX: I would like to see a stealth suit as well. @The Stegman: I like her the way she is too, but it would be nice to see a different costume. Everyone else has several.
They've changed her costume before and it just never really took. Remember the head-band with the scarf look? Then they tried something new when she was with the Exiles, but it was generic and lame. The "swimsuit" with leg and arm wraps is iconic and that's totally in right now. ;)
@sesquipedalophobe: why on earth would she need robot hands? i like the idea of her wearing red, but she's got no use for a mask or a coat and especially not clunky metal gloves :P
I don't think there's anything particularly dated about Psylocke's suit. It's not overly flashy in terms of colors, and doesn't have any needless/superfluous attachments.
I'm usually one for not over-objectifying female comic characters, but Psylocke is one that's never bothered me. She's a ninja/martial artist/acrobat type character, and thus wears an outfit that reflects those skills without being too revealing. Hell, the bottom portion of it is the only thing that's really all that revealing, and that usually depends on the artist drawing her whether she's covered up back there or not.
She's a ninja/martial artist/acrobat type character, and thus wears an outfit that reflects those skills without being too revealing. Hell, the bottom portion of it is the only thing that's really all that revealing, and that usually depends on the artist drawing her whether she's covered up back there or not.
I agree. I like Psylocke's current costume. I like the colours, stripe motifs on her arms and legs, and the general design of it. It reflects who she is as a character, and makes her distinguishable from other characters. I also agree that the thong bottom is the only silly thing about the costume, but only when it exposes so much of her behind that it's just looks ridiculous. It looks fine and tastefully sexy when it's crawn like its cut low enough. Generally speaking, the costume lands safely on the sexy side of the sexy/silly dictonomy I usually apply to the costume designs of female comic characters.
Lol as long as they don't do the Armor Psylocke thing again I'm game. Then again does it matter? In 10 years she'l where the swimsuit again all the Marvel characters are wearing their old costumes or ones modled off of them.
In issues #14 & 15 of UXF Psylocke wears a costume that seems to be a modified version of her swimsuit. I personally like it a lot. Having her bands connected is far more practical and gives her more coverage as well and the overall aesthetic is still the same as her usual get-up.
@ragdollpurps: Remender confirmed on Twitter that that is Psylocke's new costume! Jerome Opeña also said he was asked to design something similar to Betsy’s classic uniform. He said that he still might tweak it a bit in upcoming issues, but it will stay pretty close to how it was seen in issues #14 and #15.
I really like the new costume! It stays true to her classic look, yet it's been modified to cover her just enough to give her credibility. It looks like it's made for kicking ass instead of exposing ass.
Realistically, are guys attracted to girls who wear painful looking swimsuits all the time? Seriously, that thing has got to be smelly after wearing it for 20 years, it's disappointing that a former fashion model is STILL wearing that thing. The purple theme I can live with, but at least give the beautiful young woman something she can be proud to be seen in.
ironically we had a Psylocke costume contest for artists running for 4 days before this discussion got started and no one managed to ever link it up here.
You cats are slackin.
There was some most excellent ideas thrown in there. :)
Looks like the new look will be permanent. Good I'm kinda sick of he Thong-kini. Maybe now her "fap' fans will find something else to like about her other than her being a half nekkid ninja, they "fap" to.
Could go for a full ninja costume...but that kinda takes away the individualism that makes it easy to spot her when dancing around with all the other ninja's. Other than that, I tend to favour the AoA version.
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