She briefly served with the Avengers, until she was badly injured during the events of Disassembled.īrian later returned to Earth and reclaimed the mantle of Captain Britain, with Kelsey taking on the alias of Lionheart.
Kelsey, unlike Brian, chose the sword, becoming a very different Captain Britain. Waking in a ring of standing stones, a vision of Brian Braddock offered her a second chance and the traditional choice between the Sword of Might and Amulet of Right. Although she saved them, she suffered severe injuries and died en-route to medical facilities. In 2004, The Avengers writer Chuck Austen introduced a new Captain Britain in that series, Kelsey Leigh, a single mother and schoolteacher Caught up in a battle between the Avengers and the Wrecking Crew, Kelsey intervened to protect Captain America and the Wasp. Betsy, as Psylocke, became a long-serving member of the X-Men and Brian became a founding member of new X-team Excalibur.Įventually, Brian semi-retired and became one of the rulers of Otherworld alongside his wife, the shapeshifter Meggan. This marked the last time the Marvel UK line published a solo Captain Britain comic and, as of March 2022, the last time Marvel has ever published a Captain Britain solo series.Īround this time, Captain Britain's creator Chris Claremont, who was then writing the X-Men, started to use Brian and Betsy in those comics, raising the characters’ profile for Marvel readers outside the UK. Shortly after Moore left the series, it was relaunched as the lead story in its own 1985 anthology title, Captain Britain Monthly.
Most notably, Alan Moore wrote most of a long arc ( A Crooked World) that was serialised in Marvel Super-Heroes, The Daredevils and Mighty World of Marvel. It was also revealed that Merlin and his daughter Roma had created a Captain Britain Corps spanning a huge number of alternate universes, with Brian just one of its many members.Īfter Captain Britain Weekly ended, Brian’s adventures continued in solo Captain Britain stories within several different Marvel UK anthology titles. Brian's transformation was revealed to be part of the family's destiny. Stories eventually introduced Brian's siblings, Jamie and Betsy, and revealed that their deceased father was one of Merlin’s servants from Otherworld. Considering himself to be no warrior, he chose the amulet and was transformed into Captain Britain. When the facility was attacked by villain Joshua Stragg, Brian tried to find help - but was nearly killed when his motorbike went off the road during a chase.Ī vision of Merlin appeared to the badly injured Brian, giving him a choice between an amulet and a sword. A studious youth from a wealthy, aristocratic family, Brian was a promising physicist who took a fellowship at a nuclear research centre. The first Captain Britain, introduced in 1976 as the lead of a new Anthology Comic, the eponymous Captain Britain Weekly, was Brian Braddock. The title has been used by three major characters, all of British origin Brian Braddock, Kelsey Leigh, and Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock. Captain Britain is a superhero created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe for the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics.
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