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Marvel
Comics Character Profile - The Beast
| Name |
Henry
(Hank) McCoy |
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| Nationality |
American |
| Powers |
Mutant.
Heightened strength, speed, agility, and endurance |
| Affiliations |
X-
Men, Champions, Avengers, Defenders, X- Factor |
| 1st
App. |
X-
Men #1 September 1963 |
| History-
Prior to
his birth, Hank's father was involved in a nuclear accident
and was exposed to a massive dose of radiation. It is this that
is thought to have led to the Beast's mutation that was evident
from birth. Hank grew into a highly muscled, agile young man,
he won awards at school for his sporting prowess. Despite his
gorilla like appearance, Hank was highly intelligent and was
later to become a renowned scientist. He was recruited as a
founder member of the X- Men and took the code name The Beast.
He was later employed as a genetic researcher at the Bran Corporation
and it was her that he developed a serum designed to give him
a more human appearance. The serum actually did quite the opposite,
it caused him to grow blue fur and increased his already beast
like appearance. Hank learned to live with his new appearance
and did not loose his expansive use of vocabulary or his sense
of humour. He left the X- Men and and made his name as an Avenger
and a Defender before rejoining the original members of the
X- Men to form X- Factor. Shortly after this, he was kidnapped
by Dr Carl Maddicks who turned him back to his original form. |
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