Marvel Comics/Psylocke

**Psylocke** (Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock) is a mutant and Otherworlder hybrid from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Telepathy:** Psylocke has powerful telepathic powers that allow her to interact with, affect, and manipulate the minds of other sentient beings over long distances. When she makes use of her telepathic powers, a large butterfly-like image is usually cast by her.

In combat, Psylocke takes advantage of her powers to read her opponents' minds to anticipate their movements seconds before they make them, giving her the opportunity to counter faster.

* **Psychic Weaponry:** Described as "the focused totality of her psychic powers", Psylocke can create psychic blades with razor-sharp edges of pure mental energy which she can plunge into the minds of her targets to disrupt the neurons of her foes. These blades are able to kill.
* **Psychic Blasts:** Psylocke is capable of projecting psionic force bolts which can affect a victim's mind to cause pain, confusion, unconsciousness, or even death.
* **Astral Projection:** She has the ability to project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical plane. While under the effects of the Crimson Dawn, her astral form was normally undetectable.
	+ **Astral Manipulation:** On the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate aspects of her environment.
* **Telepathic Cloak:** Psylocke has the ability to mask her presence from others. Her abilities can go undetected and are very difficult to track, even by powerful telepaths such as the Shadow King. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** She has the ability to create elaborate illusions to make herself seem to be invisible, look like someone else, or fabricate experiences and events that are not truly happening.
* **Mind Manipulation:** She is capable of controlling the minds of others.
* **Telepathic Sense:** Psylocke possesses enhanced psionic senses that enable her to track other sentient beings in her immediate vicinity by their unique psionic emanations, especially if they pose a threat to her well-being. She can scan large areas and detect the psyches of the inhabitants of a city to learn of their condition.
* **Paralysis Inducement:** She has the ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
* **Memory Manipulation:** She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
* **Precognition:** Psylocke's psychic abilities originally manifested as precognitive dreams. She was able to predict that her brother would be attacked by Lord Hawk and that the Reavers would kill her and her X-Men teammates. It is unknown if she still possesses this ability.

**Telekinesis:** Psylocke has the ability to psionically manipulate and control matter, allowing her to move and levitate objects and living beings. Although she can move objects from a distance and fly as other telekinetics do, she has shown little inclination to do either in combat situations. Her telekinetic abilities have been described as robust in the sense that she found that using her powers in forceful ways is easier than in delicate and fine manners. However, over time she displayed more control over fine matter.

* **Flight:** She can personalize her telekinetic powers in such a way to propel herself through the air at variable speeds.
* **Force Field Generation:** She is capable of creating telekinetic shields of all sizes to deflect or decelerate incoming attacks. She can also alter the size and strength of her shields.
* **Energy Blasts:** She can fire telekinetic blasts that are capable of pushing back groups of people, including superhumanly strong ones.
* **Psychic Weaponry:** Psylocke's telekinetic powers have great versatility, as she has used it to construct psionic weapons that can damage a target physically, mentally, or both at some point. She has shown skill in creating multiple types of psionic weapons that differ in size and power to use in combat, such as a katana, a crossbow, and a spiked flail.
* **Invisibility:** She can use her telekinesis to render herself invisible by modifying her molecular structure.
* **Enhanced Strength:** She can enhance her physical strength with her telekinetic powers.
* **Enhanced Speed:** She can enhance her physical speed with her telekinetic powers.
* **Enhanced Agility:** She can enhance her physical agility with her telekinetic powers.

**Psychic Resistance:** After being resurrected by her brother, Psylocke has been shown to have an immunity to certain psionic attacks, such as mind reading and illusions.

**Magical Resistance:** Psylocke's brother has altered her at a quantum level in order to make her more resilient to the multiversal entity known as the First Fallen. His changing of her personal being has granted her immunity to magic.

**Reality Warp Resistance:** In addition to immunity to magic and psionics, Psylocke has been made immune to alterations to the space-time continuum.

#### Former Powers

**Crimson Dawn Empowerment:** After being nearly beaten to death by Sabretooth and being saved by exposure to the Crimson Dawn, Psylocke mysteriously manifested a unique set of abilities. Her fighting skills were also enhanced immensely.

* **Teleportation:** Psylocke could use shadows as teleportation gates. Although this form of teleportation was not as controlled or precise as other variations of teleportation abilities used by others, it could cover huge distances. On one occasion, she transported the X-Men from America to Africa within a few seconds.

**Technological Invisibility:** Psylocke was invisible and immune to all manner of electronic tracking and tracing before going through the Siege Perilous. This ability did not carry over when she was transferred into a new body.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Originally, Psylocke had advanced training as a fighter from S.T.R.I.K.E. As an X-Man, she was taught in combat in constant training sessions with Wolverine and other X-Men. After swapping bodies with Kwannon, she acquired all the fighting knowledge the assassin had, being classified as a master martial artist, though the specific fighting arts she had mastered have never been revealed. As a ninja, she is presumably skilled in various ninjutsu techniques.
* **Armed Combat:** She is also skilled in the use of all ninja weapons.
* **Stealth:** She is skilled in ninja stealth methods, silent movements, infiltration, concealment, covert methods, escape and evasion, ninja espionage, and acrobatics.
	+ **Espionage**
	+ **Acrobatics**
* **Aviation:** Psylocke worked as a charter pilot and, thus, has experience in controlling airplanes. On several occasions, she has piloted the X-Men's Blackbird.

## Equipment

* **Starlight Sword:** To enter the Otherworld contest as one of the Swordbearers of Krakoa, Psylocke tricked Saturnyne into forging the Starlight Sword, a replacement for the Amulet of Right as the conduit for her Captain Britain powers. The Starlight Sword was crafted from a piece of the Starlight Citadel, made of an unknown material. The wielder of the sword steps into the role of Saturnyne's champion of the Otherworld.
* **Captain Britain's Uniform:** As Captain Britain, Psylocke wears a costume that provides her with several abilities. Her uniform appears to be cast only when she is in possession of either the Amulet of Power (which has been destroyed) or the Starlight Sword.
	+ **Flight:** As Captain Britain, she has the power to propel herself through the air.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Wearing the Captain Britain uniform grants Psylocke increased strength. The limits of her strength are not known, but an example of this strength was when she destroyed firearms with her bare hands.
	+ **Enhanced Durability:** She seems to manifest enhanced durability while wearing the uniform. She was able to jump from the top of the Braddock Lighthouse, falling several meters to the ground with no injuries. Assuming she manifests similar abilities to her brother while wearing the uniform, it may be assume that this is due to her subconsciously emitting a force field around her body.
* **Bionic Eyes (formerly):** Psylocke was once given bionic eyes that acted as remote cameras. She lost these after being body-swapped. These eyes protected her from any blinding lights.