>>79793275Oldfag here who's been reading X-Men stuff since the 1980s.
I liked her in her original form, when she was this kind of classy upper-class British psychic. Once she became what she is now, I feel that most writers had no fucking clue what to do with her which would be both interesting and true to the character. I mean, what you basically had was this person who was 1/2 classy upper-class British woman and 1/2 ambiguously-defined oriental stereotype with no defined background, backstory or substance, and that latter half is mostly what was on display. How the fuck do you write something like that in a manner which is remotely identifiable to any reader?
Uncanny X-Force is the first and only time since, like 1990 that I didn't actively dislike this version of her. I felt like Remender was able to create a vision of the character which rung true and had a legitimate emotional core to her.
Aside from that, though, what you've mostly got is this weird artifact of Jim Lee's desire to draw a sexy ninja character and Chris Claremont's creepy transformation fetish who's coasted on visuals for decades.
