Truth be told I can see Psylocke as an Omega.
Iceman and Elixer are both confirmed Omega mutants, but you don't see them at ridiculously powered levels, but you know they have ridiculous potential, what stops them is their personality/persona, which causes their power levels to flip flop, same with Psylocke, truth be told same with Jean-- the paragon of the Omegas. She has the potential to surpass Xavier and Frost.
Lets look at the facts
1. Back in the heyday of Psylocke British body days, her Psychoblast had actual physical impacts on the real world not just on the mental plane, with it she killed her alternate reality brother who was trying to rape her etc go look up her psycho-blast for images.
2. Psylocke has consistently been shown able to bypass psi-barriers and shields that other telepaths except Jean find impossible to overcome. For instance the famed psychic knife has affected both a helmeted/psi-shielded Juggernaut and Magneto on separate occasions.
3. After her resurrection Rachel Grey-also a confirmed Omega, states Betsy's TK and Psi-Shields are beyond and more powerful than anything she has seen. Psylocke's response--"Not my fault." Of course in true Omega fashion Psylocke's psi-powers flip flop.
4. Despite trading bodies, she still maintains her psychic abilites...yes I understand Spiral mixed genetics between the Asian and British bodies, but still the fact is Betsy's psi-form maintains itself and evolves. Kwannon was a basic human with some "empathic potential" whatever the F. that means. Putting Betsy's X-gene(we infer we never really know the full background of what Spiral did) into Kwannon's body made her the Totality of her Psychic powers deus ex Psychic Knife/mountain smashing Teke Psi-ninja goodness?! And during the sisterhood ark she flip flops between her two available bodies like it was nothing, after getting over the Red Queens magics and brainwashing on her own, something Emma couldn't do without a little help from an obscure Phoenixy red head we all miss.
5. Emma and Xavier seem to be more skilled I will give them that, but Omegas like Rachel and Psylocke are more powerful. Emma psi powers don't manifest in the real world from what I remember. Psylocke can use the psychic knife as a flash light if she was so inclined. Also examples of psionic mutants who manifest their telepathy in the real world--the Greys...Jean, Nate, and Rachel, who oddly are also TP/TKs.
6. Her psi-form can handle tremendous psychic energies--I.E when she "synched" her TK with Rachel's to block and redirect a Sh'iar spacecrafts energy beam back to them in orbit, while they were both on the ground, or when she funneled the combined psi-energies of her, Jean and Cable's TP, and redirected it as an attack into the Phalanx neural net, during the Phalanx covenant.. Also Shadowking used her as the trigger and epicenter of a tremendous psi-bomb into the Astral plane, which disabled all TPs and psychics on Earth. We assume the Crimson Dawn allowed her to survive that. But survive and then thrive she did, only to trap and neutralize the Shadowking in the end...something Xavier was never capable of or willing to do.
7. She seems to have some subconscious control over what psi powers she seems to manifest at the time-- a symptom of being an Omega mutant, from what I have seem of all the confirmed Omegas on the list cough cough Scarlet Witch, Nate Grey, Rachel Grey, Iceman, Elixir, Jean Grey. . .good lord Franklin RIchards...he is almost as bad as Betsy in terms of power sets or lack thereof.
So there you have it, seven facts to look at in terms of Psylocke's omega status. My theory is she subconsciously puts limiters on herself...1. She knows she is a little blood thirsty, and she doesn't want to put in the same trap a la Jean's Dark Phoenix control issues. 2. She admits to being an action junkie. She likes the thrill of physical combat, and while she can disable an enemy from a distance with her TP, she rather go for the karate chop, katana blade and jump kick.
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