X-Men Apocalypse: Psylocke

There's a story on why Psylocke is a character close to my heart. She wasn't prevalent in any of the cartoons I watched and it took me until my teen years to get into the comics. Plus, it's really hard to start something when it was started in 1963 and I'm a person who needs to begin at the start. You should have seen my disappointment at Doctor Who. But that's a story for another time.

When everyone my age was collecting Pokemon cards and I had no money for them so I drew my own like a little weirdo. My brother had just started getting into Overpower cards with his friends. Now I can bring up Overpower cards to ninety percent of the people I know and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about. To the ones that do a very merry cheers to you friend. Come and lets talk about this small joy of the universe. No, for real. Let's talk.

So, to the people who don't know, Overpower cards were comic based cards and there were actual tournaments that took place so it was a legit card game. Most of what I learned about characters started with these cards. My brother taught me how to play and I was soon hooked but what really got me was all the characters. I'd go through the binders of cards to "build my deck" when in reality I was looking at the art on the cards and getting fascinated by certain characters. One of them was Psylocke. It was one of those love at first sight for the absolute aesthetics of her.

Of course, I had to learn all about her. Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock a.k.a Psylocke has quite the story behind her. What got to me when I was younger was that she had been "bodyswapped" into the badass ninja-esque body that I'd fallen in love with. And she's stuck there. Her previous body was dead. Talk about body dysmorphic disorder. It always made me sad to think about but it's not like any story comic wise has a pleasant history.

To be completely honest i don't know why she's in the movie. She seems like a huge filler character with no plot whatsoever. She's really cool looking and that's it. I hope people who see the movie actually take the time to read up on her and not just think she's cool looking. There's too much awesome behind those looks to let it go overlooked.

Without further ado let's get to this fard.

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