Psylocke is a character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series. She was initially non-playable under her clone boss form, Dark Psylocke in the first game. Until she made her playable debut in the second game.
Character History[]
Elizabeth Braddock was born in England on December 8, 1986 and was raised in the small town of Maldon, Essex. Betsy was Sir James Braddock's second child and she, her twin brother Brian, and elder brother Jamie had a very privileged life. By the time she entered college, Betsy had become a charter pilot. After she and Jamie were taken hostage by the Red Skull's agents and freed by Captain America and Captain Britain, Betsy learned the latter was her brother Brian. At this time, Betsy began to develop precognitive powers. She dyed her hair purple and took up modeling. At the age of twenty-one, her psychic powers fully manifested, which grew to include telepathy. Agent Matthew recruited Betsy into S.T.R.I.K.E.'s Psi Division, and she became fellow psi Tom Lennox's lover. As she had inherited membership to the Hellfire Club from her father, Betsy was sent to infiltrate it but was warned off by Tessa for her own protection. She also met future boyfriend Warren Worthington for the first time during one of the Hellfire Club parties.
Unfortunately, Betsy was kidnapped from the Alps by Mojo and Spiral, being surgically given artificial eyes. Mojo mentally controlled Betsy, renaming her Psylocke, and had her star in a popular new show, the Wildways, using her to lure children around the world into joining his junior team show, the Bratpack. When Mojo captured some of Professor Xavier's New Mutants, the rest of the group went to the TV show reality to save their teammates. Betsy was found and rescued by Cypher and Warlock, and chose to stay at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, as her powers were mutant in origin.[6] Her bionic eyes were revealed to be cameras when Mojo transformed the X-Men into the X-Babies to film their adventures. Betsy and the New Mutants battled the de-aged X-Men to break them free of their brainwashing and defeat the spineless one.
The massacre of the Morlocks occurred shortly thereafter; Betsy was charged with helping the wounded and staying in telepathic contact with the members of the X-Men who were in combat with the Marauders. After the first strike, Betsy faced the savage Sabretooth in a brawl throughout the X-Mansion. Impressed by Betsy's courage, the battle-ravaged X-Men offered her a position on the team, which she accepted, adopting the code name Psylocke.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Story[]
In the game, she was still a member of the X-Men but was not a part of the Ultimate Alliance. She along with her teammates and other heroes attempted to fight an Odin powered Doctor Doom. Despite her best efforts, Psylocke was easily defeated by the god-powered villain, and made a version clone with Doctor Doom's powers. Clone into the new "Dark Psylocke", Betty Braddock became fanatically loyal to her new master and aided her fellow dark X-Men in attacking the Ultimate Alliance when Uatu the Watcher sent them back to Earth. Once again, Braddock was defeated in combat, but this time of Doctor Doom's control. Psylocke appeared in as a dark version of herself. She was a boss in Castle Doom along with Dark Cyclops. After his defeat, normal version Psylocke has freed self along with Cyclops and Colossus.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2: Story[]
Two years later, Psylocke joined with Nick Fury's secret Strike Force into Latveria, where she helped infiltrate Lucia von Barda's castle as a member of Bravo Team. After a cyborg von Bardas attacked New York and the actions of the Strike Team were revealed, Braddock continued to work alongside the Ultimate Alliance until the Superhuman Registration Act was passed and split the team down the middle. Psylocke would later help the rejoined Alliance battle the Nanite Fold.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3: Story[]
Psylocke returns as a playable character in the third installment of the series. In this, she is a member of the X-Men and X-Force. During The Ultimate Alliance's quest to secure the remaining Infinity Stone from falling into wrong hands such as Thanos, Psylocke, alongside Nightcrawler and Beast are being deployed by Jessica Jones to secure the Power Stone from the hands of Hellfire Club. Both Psylocke, Nightcrawler and Beast manage to join the alliance in time to defend Xavier Mansion from the Sentinels, who were deployed by Ultron as his last ditch to destroy the heroes, even after being trapped inside the Mind Stone by Vision. Once Deadpool (who was allowed to stay at the mansion as a chef) and the Brotherhood of Mutants (initially start out as enemies sent by Hellfire Club to steal back the Power Stone) join the alliance when one of Thanos' Black Order members Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive arrive on Earth to attempt to steal the remaining stones from the alliance's hands, Psylocke and her allies manages to escape to another dimension, which instead escape to Dark Dimension, but ironically learned Dormammu has the Reality Stone and briefly possess Doctor Strange. With the help from Elsa Bloodstone and Ghost Rider on freeing Strange from Dormammu's control before defeating him to secure the Reality Stone, despite a minor interference from Loki Laufeyson, Psylocke and her allies manage to escape back to their reality, where they temporarily reside at Attilan in a good timing to stop Maximus Boltagon from overthrowing the kingdom, until they proceed to their missions.
Many days after the presumed demises of both Thanos and his illegitimate son, Thane, while the Black Order are arrested by Nova Corps, Doctor Doom's invasion at Wakanda to steal the Soul Stone for his own end cause the alliance to reform once again. Despite being transported by Doom to the Negative Zone, Psylocke and her allies unexpectedly reunite with Fantastic Four, who was trapped there when chasing Doom across dimensions prior to a war against Thanos. With the help from Fantastic Four, Psylocke and her allies manages to defeat Annihilus and steal his Cosmic Control Rod to activate the portal to escape from Negative Zone with no one left behind. Although the escape door directions meant to go to Latveria, in order to stop Doom immediately before he can misuse the Soul Stone too far as he did to his own people, aside reviving a Celestial. After Doom is defeated, Mister Fantastic reveals that Doom's intention meant to save their universe from a newer threat that has been awakened from a clash between Thanos and Thane, but too dangerous to do it alone, and offering him to be part of the alliance. With Doom join the rank, the new battle against the newest unknown threat begins.
Gameplay[]
Trivia[]
- Psylocke is oddly enough very similar to Phoenix in the MUA series in terms of appearances.
- In Marvel Ultimate Alliance, both appeared made a clone as Boss Fights.
- In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, both appeared as playable characters, with Jean being part of the base roster while Psylocke was DLC. Although they are base playables in PSP/PS2/Wii versions.
- In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, both appeared as playable characters, albeit swapped from their previous role. Psylocke is part of the base game, while Phoenix is DLC.
- Being exclusive base playable and DLC in specific versions is similar to Hawkeye (Clint Barton). Hawkeye-Barton is PSP exclusive and Gold Edition DLC (the latter has him gain upgraded animations) in the first game. while Psylocke is a non-DS n-space version’s consoles exclusive and VVisions’ DLC in the second game.
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