In which Betsy Braddock (no co.) spills the beans to her brother about how she killed a child...

[wonderwomanhero]

Hello fellow S_D'ers! How are thee today? It is I, Lucrezia Borgia. I give you a few scans from Uncanny X-Force #6

I love Brian's o_0 face in the last panel. Also, what the heck is with the character designs in the second panel? Her nose, good god, the nose.


Oh my god, these facial expressions are priceless. I'm betting someone is going to icon them, lol.



DUN DUN DUN! It was all a not-technically-fake Danger Room setup! What do you guys think about Betsy and Warren rekindling their relationship? I suppose it's okay, if anything to erase what was left of the godawful Neal Shaara relationship...

Comments

[icon_uk]

I didn't like this idea when Jem used a holographic simulation to see how her boyfriend Rio (Who she knew had issues with being lied to) would react to her telling him she'd been playing him for a fool as two different people for months, and then (when the simulation told her to bog off) continuing the charade.

I didn't like it when Gwen Cooper used a mindwiping drug on her fiance (a decent, honest man) when she admitted to having had an affair with a co-worker in Torchwood, so she could console herself that she HAD told him, even if he would never remember his vehemently negative reaction to it.

I still don't like it here.

[wonderwomanhero]

GAH! TORCHWOOD. Ugh...
I wish Torchwood was on Showtime or HBO or something...that way, the gay sex scenes would be more graphic and hot.
Am I the only one that wants another female on the X-Force team? Betsy is of course, my favorite comic book character ever, but as the lone female...it's not...really...uh....well...I mean, I know Logan had to go all WTFISWRONGWITHYOUGUESWHATYOUARENOTONTHETEAMANYMORE with Laura during Second Coming....but...would it kill them to get some more female members? Where is Domino?

[selke]

I think I'd pay to see Captain Britain kick a flower pot.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I don't see how those situations really compare, though.

With Jem and Gwen, it seems like they're telling their partners something they have a right to know, but that they themselves have consealed for whatever reason, and that their confessions are done for selfish reasons.

Here, Brian isn't in the need to know, and Betsy's using the danger room to express her fears and sort out her emotions before she undertakes highly dangerous missions of a questionable nature. She's doing it for her health while being mindful of security concerns, not scam emotional support.

[big_daddy_d]

Gwen Cooper used a mindwiping drug on her fiance (a decent, honest man) when she admitted to having had an affair with a co-worker in Torchwood

Never was interested in Torchwood..but reading that and more of what you said below put the nail in the coffin for me. I'll stick with Doctor Who..although Amy annoys me half the damn time and really don't like how she pines for the Doctor when she has a fiance, now husband.

[khamelea]

I never got past the very first episode of Torchwood, with one main character being introduced as he's using "alien pheromones."

So skeevy.

[cherrybomb]

Brian has the best facial expressions EVER. Somebody needs to icon this like NOW.

[sindra]

You're welcome.

[roguefankc]

Thank you! =)

[mullon]

And yet, I could still care less about her. She's like the female Gambit.

I'm not sure someone understanding your motivation is impressive if they still thinks it's horrible.

[recognitions]

You mean you couldn't care less.

[arilou_skiff]

Huh, I saw this exact setup in an anime recently, actually. (a crappy anime, but still)

Did they ever do the "play out confessions in the holodeck" thing in Star Trek?

[icon_uk]

Reg Barclay does it a time or two, but he has holo-addiction and social interaction issues at the time. He expresses himself in a holo-environment much better than in the real world, most of the time.

Similarly, Seven of Nine creates a version of the Voyager for herself, which is identical to the real one, but one where she opens up emotionally, socialises and is generally more human than Borg (She also engages in a romantic relationship with holo-Chakotay, which at least says her human taste in men tends towards the painfully dull) which she will not allow herself to be with real people at the time.

[terrykun]

"Sis... I am disappoint."

[arilou_skiff]

Brian disapproves -10

[nezchan]

Facial expressions, eh?

[screamsheet.wordpress.com]

Not being too familiar with X-Men, I thought it was kind of a cool setup showing a very psychologically damaged woman. I thought the, "Just tell me you understand" was her sort of controlling the simulation, providing her with some forgiveness she'll never really get. But I get the feeling that the X-Men's Danger Room probably doesn't work in the way I'm thinking.

On a total other note, whose crotch is Nightcrawler inspecting in that last panel?

[dr_archeville]

I'd assume the Danger Room would have files on not only the powers of several known mutants/superhumans but also their personalities (so the simulations could act like the real ones would act). So it could be that Holo!Brian is acting as close to how Real!Brian would act (based on computer models), and that she was not in control of his reactions.

I'd also say icon_uk's points on the matter are all quite good.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Did they ever actually end the Warren/Paige relationship? In my head, I kinda see him getting back together with Betsy without even thinking, and rembering about two months later that he actually had a girlfriend already.

[dorksidefiker]

Ah, but that would be like acknowledging that the GenX kids still exist in 616 besides Jubilee and the nearly unrecognizable Monet.

[schrodingers_fangirl]

I'm all for Betsy and Warren getting back together. I liked their relationship when they were together previously.

[auggie18]

Well, huh. That's...interesting.


Why exactly did Betsy join X-force? I don't remember her being that hip with the killing before, though I missed a large chunk of her history. (Big period after the body swap.)

I'm cool with her and Warren starting up again. The two of them have a lot in common and his relationship with Paige was weird. It didn't do any favors to either of them characterization-wise, though Paige really got the shaft there.

[icon_uk]

She should hold out for her (hopefully now legal age) linguist

[schala_kid]

I was loving this until I saw that it was a hologram.

But I guess Betsy can't really tell Brian since she's in X-Force, they can't tell anyone.

As for Betsy and Warren, I don't know I haven't read stuff about them since I was a kid and I just remember really liking that couple so I am looking back with rose colored glasses. Was it good? I like to think it was.

[icon_uk]

There wasn't actually a lot of it that I recall.

[thehefner]

"Where has Xavier's lofty ideology brought us?"

I'm a very casual X-Men reader, who hasn't been following this series, doesn't know the details, and knows almost nothing about Betsy or Brian as characters...

... But even so, that question depresses and disappoints the hell out of me.

[fifthie]

XAVIER'S IDEOLOGY BROUGHT US TO one mutant suddenly turning out to be completely insane and having world-scale reality warping powers which she for no reason that anyone knows decided to use to erase almost all mutants from existance

XAVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

[kusonaga]

And here I was thinking 'why is Brian in his old uniform?'.

The Danger Room thing is a bit of a cliché, but I like Betsy, I like Brian and I like Warren (and I especially like Betsy and Warren together). Her dismissal of Fantomex is nice as well, considering his actions, but still not very team player-y.

[ravenous_raven]

Just a clarification: is this Asian Betsy or British Betsy? The art makes it hard to tell.

[icon_uk]

Pretty much has to Asian Betsy as Caucasian Betsy is long dead, no? (Alas, I never warmed to Ninja hooker-wear Betsy)

[blackruzsa]

That's.... painful. And not very reassuring either.

[ogrebear]

Talking to a hologram means she'll only get whatever response she programmed in. So this conversation is frankly invalid- esp as any kind of support!

[bj_l]

Hologram conversation or not: She has died for Xaviers dream at least twice, Brian.

[wizardru]

This is the X-men. How many of them HAVEN'T died once or twice? Wolverine's got a frequent flyer card; half of the X-men died on national TV. Betsy has been resurrected multiple times, it's true....but it should also be noted that they've saved mankind and/or mutantkind multiple times because of that dream. Not to mention the universe several times, for that matter.

But I guess Marvel has decided that Xavier's original dream has to be looked on as foolish and naive, now.

[lascoden]

Wouldn't it be awkward if she actually had the conversation, thanks to her telepathy?