10 X-Men Characters Writers Need To Stop Using
8. Captain Britain/Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
Though Betsy Braddock now goes by Captain Britain, she is best known by her other codename, Psylocke.
Betsy was born as the younger twin sister to Brian Braddock, the original Captain Britain. Once she joined the X-Men, Psylocke went under a, let’s say extreme transformation when her white British aristocrat persona was put into the body of Kwannon, an Asian woman who was promptly dismissed from her body.
In recent years, appropriation has become less of a cool fashion trend and more understood as the horrible extension of racism that it is. Betsy Braddock is now back in her original body, but the sheer fact that she lived 30 years as an Asian woman is hard to forget and she carries that legacy into every comic she appears in.