Olivia Munn's Psylocke didn't really have all that much to do in X-Men: Apocalypse, so it makes sense to consider her for a leading role in X-Force to make up for it.
The character's something of a favourite among the X-Men faithful, with the former Captain Britain co-lead having had a consistent presence on the team since she first collided with them in 1986. For the past decade or so she has, however, held a certain kind of synonymy with X-Force, having co-led the offshoot with Wolverine for the majority of its existence.
Apocalypse teased but a fraction of the character's powers, but X-Force - granted the freedom of that hard 'R' - should do much better. Indeed, Munn herself would be afforded a greater level of space to manoeuvre this time too, especially since the character - at least in the Rick Remender series - tended to be the guiding force of the team.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
