• Creating Mind Links of Incredible strength, allowing her to communicate with others at a distance of up to 25 miles and to read others’ surface thoughts. This is only possible with willing subjects. She can also create mindlinks that enable others to speak directly to each other.
• Performing telepathic projections with a range of 25 miles. These projections allow her to tel empathically “see” the surrounding area. Note that both this and the preceding power manifest them selves as a glowing butterfly- mask.
• Perform a Mental Probe of Incredible power, allowing Psylocke to read any deep or hidden thoughts of a live subject. The Intensity of the FEAT is deter mined by the subject’s Psyche; she cannot read the minds of those with Psyche ranks greater than Amazing or penetrate psionic defenses with ranks greater than Amazing.
• Fire bolts of pure psionic force with Incredible strength at a maxi mum range of two areas. These bolts come in two varieties. Ps/ Bolts are forceful attacks against physical objects; they can affect non-living targets. Psycho-Blasts are energy attacks against a victim’s neurosystem. Since the Psycho-Blast has the potential to kill by literally shredding a victim’s mind, Psylocke does not use it unless her life is threatened. She uses the Incredible column to hit with these attacks. Psylocke may be able to further develop her powers along the lines of Professor X and Marvel Girl, but she has not yet done so.

Bionic Eyes: Psylocke is physically blind, but her eyes have been replaced by bionic implants given her by the extradimensional tyrant Mojo. These new eyes resemble normal eyes but have an increased sensitivity to infrared and ultraviolet light, allowing her to see in the dark if either light frequency is present. Devices that override or cloak items from mechanical scanners will also affect her eyes; she will not notice the hidden items. Unbeknownst to Betsy, her eyes have an additional function they are linked to recorders in Mojo’s lair. Thus Psylocke serves as a living movie camera who blithely transforms the X-Men’s exploits into fodder for Mojo’s movie studio.
Undetectability: The arch-sorceress Roma bestowed upon the X-Men the ability to be effectively invisible, undetectable, and unrecordable by any means, whether living or mechanical. The only exceptions are a witness’s naked eyes and the equipment in the X-Men’s Outback headquarters. Because of this, the X-Men can continue to operate without their presence being revealed by cameras, Sentinels, or other mutants’ Cerebro systems.

Brian and Elizabeth were born wealthy and inherited Braddock Manor upon their parent’s death. Betsy used her connections and beauty to build a career as a fashion model. She dyed her hair purple to make her more distinctive. When her mutant powers developed, her modeling career was shelved. She was recruited by STRIKE, the British equivalent of SHIELD. During this period, Betsy developed her combat skills and self-discipline.

After leaving STRIKE, Betsy was recruited by the Resources Control Executive (RCX), a branch of the British government more directly concerned with superhuman activity. They convinced Betsy to assume the identity of Captain Britain when Brian quit. They also took over Braddock Manor as their headquarters. Betsy was moderately successful as the new Captain Britain. During a battle with Slaymaster, Betsy was severely beaten and blinded. Brian resumed the mantle of Captain Britain and wreaked vengeance for Betsy’s assault.

Betsy retired from superheroics to rebuild her life. She developed the means to use her powers to replace her eyes. While recuperating in Switzerland, she was kidnapped and mentally enslaved by Mojo and Spiral. Mojo implanted bionic eyes, restored her appearance, and renamed her “Psylocke.” He then used Betsy as a tool to gain mental control of Britain’s children. The medium was a television show, “Wildways,” that carried Betsy’s subliminal psionic commands. Captain Britain and the New Mutants discovered the plot and rescued her.

Only Warlock and Cypher were aware of Betsy’s artificial eyes. For a time, Betsy lived at the X-Mansion in Long Island. She joined the ranks of the X-Men during the Mutant Massacre when she single-handedly repelled Sabertooth. During the recent “Fall of the Mutants” case, Betsy joined the rest of the X-Men and Madelyne Pryor in sacrificing their lifeforces in order to destroy their foe. When the battle ended, though, they found themselves alive thanks to the actions of Roma, Mer lin’s daughter. Betsy joined the rest of the X-Men and is maintaining the illusion of the X-Men’s deaths. She is now secretly working out of the base they wrested from the Reavers in the Australian Outback.