Beast (Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy)
TMDB
Modern, Comics: After the destruction of Ship, X-Factor disbands and Beast returns to the X-Men at Xavier's School as its resident medical genius.
Cinematic
A mutant doctor and X-Men member from the alternate universe seen in The Marvels. When Binary brings Monica Rambeau to the X-Mansion, he examines her and theorizes that she fell through a tear in space-time into a parallel reality. He then goes to update Charles Xavier.
Comics
Henry McCoy is a mutant scientist and founding X-Man who also served with the Avengers, the Defenders and X-Factor, his body shifting from ape-like to blue-furred to feline over the years. He built the Jean Grey School, joined the Illuminati, and ran the Krakoan intelligence agency X-Force, where ruthless secrecy turned him on his friends. After a fatal clash in 2024 he resurfaced as the Chairman of the gene-terrorist group 3K.
Fox films
A mutant scientist and Xavier's student and ally. In 1962 he builds Cerebro and joins the first X-Men, and a failed cure turns him into the blue-furred Beast. Later he serves as Secretary of Mutant Affairs, fights at Alcatraz and injects Magneto with the cure, becomes UN ambassador, and is killed by a mob in 2015.
X-Men: The Animated Series
Henry McCoy, a blue-furred mutant scientist who is one of Charles Xavier's first students and a founding X-Man in this reality. He is jailed after the Mutant Control Agency raid and later pardoned, fights the Friends of Humanity, joins Spider-Man against the Brand Corporation, and falls for a patient while working at a New York hospital.
Marvel Anime (Madhouse)
Scientist and X-Men member in the Madhouse anime. When Jean Grey lost control of the Phoenix Force and sacrificed herself, the team disbanded and he became a university professor. He returned when Professor X reformed the X-Men and joined the trip to Japan to find Hisako Ichiki. He carries a portable Cerebro and a serum against the mutant gene virus.
Timeline 20 events
- Silver · Comics: Recruited by Professor X after helping his parents escape the Conquistador, Hank joins the first class of X-Men as the Beast and fights Magneto at Cape Citadel.
- Bronze · Comics: Working at the Brand Corporation, Hank drinks a mutation serum he has isolated and his change into a furred form becomes permanent.
- Bronze · Comics: After declaring he has dropped his civilian identity, the Beast is accepted onto the Avengers roster at Avengers Mansion.
- Modern · Comics: Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, Angel and Jean Grey form X-Factor, posing as mutant hunters from the X-Factor Complex.
- Modern · Comics: After the destruction of Ship, X-Factor disbands and Beast returns to the X-Men at Xavier's School as its resident medical genius.
- Modern · Comics: Beast completes the Legacy Virus cure from his own and Moira's notes, and Colossus gives his life to spread it.
- Modern · Comics: Genosha is wiped out by Wild Sentinels, and Beast and Jean Grey find Emma Frost among the few survivors.
- Modern · Comics: Held and tortured on Alcatraz by Osborn's forces, Beast is freed by the X-Men, who raise Asteroid M as the sovereign mutant home Utopia.
- Modern · Comics: Beast designs and builds the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning in Westchester at Wolverine's request and becomes its vice principal.
- Modern · Comics: Siding with the Avengers in the Phoenix crisis, Beast joins a mission to Hala and later watches Cyclops, as Dark Phoenix, kill Professor X.
- Modern · Comics: Hoping to stop Cyclops, Beast brings the teenage original X-Men forward in time to the present.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Beast dies in the destruction of the transport ship during the final incursion and is brought back when Doom's Battleworld is undone in 2016.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Beast builds the technological backbone of the new mutant nation of Krakoa under Professor X.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Having killed and remade Wolverine, Beast carries his lab out of Krakoa in a colossus form and starts cloning himself and Wolverine.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Beast is atomized by his own black hole gun while trying to save Wonder Man, but his consciousness is uploaded to a synthetic body.
- 1962 · Fox films: Hank, a CIA researcher, builds the Cerebro prototype and is exposed as a mutant when Xavier and Magneto approach the CIA.
- 1962 · Fox films: Division X is attacked by Shaw's Hellfire Club and retreats to Xavier's mansion, where Hank builds suits for Havok and Banshee.
- 1962 · Fox films: His cure serum backfires and turns him into the blue-furred Beast, and Havok gives him the name (timeline: original).
- 1962 · Fox films: During the Cuban Missile Crisis he flies the Blackbird and fights Azazel, helping foil the Hellfire Club.
- 2015 · Fox films: A mob of Human Majority protesters drags Beast from his Upstate New York home and kills him (timeline: original).
home of
enemy of
Apocalypse, Wolverine (Logan), Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Milbury), Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), Angel (Warren Worthington III), Emma Frost, Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock, variant), Sebastian Shaw
allied with
Moira Mactaggert, Wolverine (Logan), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Storm, Professor X, Maria Rambeau, Monica Rambeau, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel (Warren Worthington III), Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Kitty Pryde, Havok, Banshee
travels to
Savage Land, Genosha, Mars, Hala
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