Hero Profile: Beast

Day two of my X-Men theme week. And today’s profile centers on Hank McCoy, the brilliant blue Beast. Hank is one of the oldest characters in comics to do the whole “don’t judge a book by its cover” thing. You know, he looks like some sort of blue monster, but is in fact so crazy smart he has given notes to Tony Stark and Reed Richards. Interestingly, though, his appearance wasn’t quite so…jarring. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s get to it, Beast!

Only thing dangerous about
original beast is that he can
strangle people with one hand.

Henry “Hank” McCoy was born in Dundee, Illinois. (Side note, way to represent the Midwest, Hank.) His father Norton was an employee at a nuclear power plant and was exposed to high levels of radiation for several years before the birth of his son. Which kind of explains why Hank looks the way he does. No, he wasn’t always blue and furry, but his body was always oddly proportioned. His limbs were a little too long, and his hands and feet were a little too big. He was also crazy smart, like the kind of genius that only appears in comics. But I’ll get to that later. His unusual body and high intellect didn’t earn him a lot of friends in school. His nickname in school was Magilla Gorilla. A name that is about as cruel as it is accurate.

Like most mutants, Hank’s mutation didn’t fully manifest until puberty. As if growing up isn’t complicated enough without adding in super strength and simian like agility. His increased strength and speed did allow him to be a high school football star for a little while, as well as smartest kid in Illinois public school history, until his fellow students and local mutant haters started targeting him with hate crimes. A young man is born naturally bigger and stronger than most is hailed as a hero on the football field, but the oddly proportioned nerd starts doing well in school, and people start throwing rocks and calling ya a freak. People suck. It’s around this time that Charles Xavier arrives at the McCoy home and offers Hank a place at his school. Hank leaps t the chance to be at attending a prestigious, legitimate private school, and also be among “different” kids like himself. He’s accepted as an X-Men, and given the codename Beast.

Fun fact, he was originally supposed
to be black haired, but tech limits
at the time made him blue.

Hank excels in both the X-mansions advanced training simulator the Danger Room, and academically under Xavier’s watchful eye. Basically, if you can study it, Hank was damn good at it. Be it advanced mathematics, chemistry, physics, or classical literature. He and the team’s first mission against Magneto went really well, as did their following missions, but Hank became stressed overtime due to the need to keep a secret identity. He took a brief sabbatical, and became a pro wrestler. He helped another mutant pro wrestler (what a coincidence) named Unus the Untouchable enhance his own powers before rejoining the X-Men.

While it was fun being an X-Man, Hank left the team just after turning twenty. Something about not being one of “the strangest teens of all,” was his reasoning. He joined the Brand Corporation, a genetic research facility. He does well at the company, and even starts dating a lab assistant named Linda Donaldson. Hank is able to isolate a hormonal extract that somehow enhances mutations, allowing even normal humans to gain superpowers for a short time. He takes the formula himself when several armed goons try to take his research. He didn’t need to, his powers gave him an edge from the get go, but he worried that his build was a little too conspicuous now that he was a well-known scientist. The formula enhanced his mutation, causing him to grow long grey fur (which later turned blue), sharpened his teeth, made his hands and feet grow sharp claws, enhanced his senses, and even gave him a mild accelerated healing factor. He easily trounces the would-be thieves, but reveals in his new super bestial powers for too long. He misses the deadline to take the formula that would have reversed the process. He was a Beast, permanently. He also finds out that Linda worked for a criminal empire, so breaking up with her was rather easy.

How does one blush, when one is covered in blue hair?

After this, he becomes a dual member of the Avengers, and the X-Men. He is also a member of the Defenders, think an Avengers team that deals with the really weird stuff like demonic invasions. And he even rejoins his old X-Men team as a part of X-Factor. I think Hank is trying to make up for being the kid last picked for baseball or football by being on as many teams as possible. He’s also become a vocal political activist for Mutant Rights, as well as a respected scientist. He created a cure for the Legacy Virus, an infection that originally targeted Mutants that later became a plague on all Mankind. He keeps his powers after M-Day, but doesn’t stay long with the X-Men after, feeling that Cyclops’ increasingly militant agendas to protect Mutants are too extreme for his taste. He sides with the Avengers during the Avengers vs. X-Men miniseries, feeling that the risk of the Phoenix Force’s return greatly outweighed the benefits.

After Cyclops is arrested, breaks out of prison, and starts attacking the US government to get his hands on the Mutants popping up after the Phoenix’s destruction, Hank decides to do something about it. After a talk with Iceman, Hank realizes that the best solution would be to bring the original X-Men team forward in time. He hoped conversing with his more idealistic younger self would help Scott get back on the proper path. This is a rather desperate gambit, given how time travel usually screws things up more, but it’s revealed that this is Beast’s only option because he is in fact dying. Apparently the Phoenix’s return also affected his mutation, and the physical changes are killing him. Young Hank figures out how to stabilize current Hank, thus saving his life. Hank remains at Wolverine’s Jean Grey School for Gifted Youngsters as a teacher while his younger self gets into a bunch of hijinks. But that’s this whole separate thing.

How do you stop a rampaging Beast? Recite Shakespeare at
him. Of course, it's so obvious.

Originally, Hank’s Mutation essentially combined the human body with our more simian relatives. The result is a powerfully built human being with long limbs, a lot of muscle, and incredible physical abilities. He’s super strong, fast, agile, and dexterous. He’s as gifted with his feet as he is with his hands. After taking his mutation enhancing formula, he shifted to an even more bestial appearance. His more animal form has shifted slightly over the years from a sort of trollish look to that of a mountain lion. Right now he’s back to the big blue troll look.

Hank is also immensely intelligent, having PhD’s in Biophysics and Genetics, fluent in about ten languages, and is a gifted student of literature, philosophy, psychology, art, history, art history, anthropology, linguistics and music. Like I mentioned above, if you can study it, Hank McCoy is excellent at it. Oh, and he’s also an electronics expert and makes regular upgrades to Cerebro and the Danger Room. Maybe the phrase Renaissance man should be updated to a “Real McCoy.”

Beast has appeared in a number of X-Men related franchises. For some reason they don’t ever really seem to go into his Avenger’s days. Go figure.

Monkey feet don't seem so bad now, do they, Dr. McCoy?

Beast was a major character in X-Men: The Animated Series. He spends pretty much the entire first season in prison, having been arrested when the X-Men attacked a Sentinel facility. This was mostly for political reasons, Magneto tried to break him out in the third episode. He’s eventually freed and returns to the X-Men. I’d say his most important episode is number 23, “Beauty and the Beast.” In it, Hank falls in love with a blind patient named Carly. She is also quiet taken with Beast, despite the hairy hands. Her father is a bigot that detests Mutant’s even though one is trying rather desperately to help his daughter. Carly is later kidnapped by the anti-Mutant group The Friends of Humanity. Beast kind of loses it, berates Carly’s father for hating Mutant’s when the So-called FoH are the ones that kidnapped Carly, and would have taken on the entire hate group alone, had the other X-Men not stepped in. Wolverine saves the day by revealing FoH Leader Graydon Creed is the son of a Mutant. Despite Beast’s feelings for Carly, and her father realizing what a short sighted prick he’d been, Beast ends the relationship out of fear for Carly’s safety. Good guy Beast.

You'd think all that hair would make wearing a suit impossible.

Hank McCoy is introduced in the second season of X-Men: Evolution as the Chemistry and PE teacher at Bayville High, the school that the teen X-Men attend for some reason. In the episode “The Beast of Bayville” it’s explained that years ago Xavier approached Hank to be one of the first Mutants at his school, but this version of Hank rejected the offer. He kept ‘the beast’ at bay first with strict mental discipline and then a serum he’d developed. But, ‘the beast’ grew stronger with time. Eventually his repressed mutation fully manifests in his blue ape form and he goes on a rampage. He’s calmed by X-man Spyke reciting his favorite Shakespeare monologue. Afterwards he stays on at the X-mansion as the new Mutant instructor, being that it’s the one place he can still teach and not be ridiculed or hated for his appearance. He has a very funny episode where on a field trip with some of the X-Men in the Redwood Forest, he gets captured by Bigfoot enthusiast. It’s about as hilarious as an episode can get.

He is finally introduced in the X-men movies in X-Men: The Last Stand, portrayed by Kelsey Grammer. In this universe he’s a former X-Man that now is on the President’s Cabinet as the Secretary of Mutant Affairs. He rejoins the X-Men when he learns that the Mutant “cure” is being used as a weapon against Mutants, but still helps defend the source of the Cure (the Mutant Leech) from Magneto’s forces. He ultimately wins the day, Wolverine first distracts Magneto before Beast launches at him and sticks the Master of Magnetism with three Cure darts, stripping him of his powers.

God, their sinks must always be clogged.

A young Beast, and the only actual original X-man, is portrayed by Nicholas Hoult in X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past. I don’t hate this Beast but they do a lot of weird stuff with him that I don’t really agree with. This version is a scientist working for the CIA who embraces the “don’t ask don’t tell policy,” until Xavier accidentally outs him. This Hank’s Mutation is shown to be unusually simian feet (something that his comic book version has never had). He and Mystique have a weird sort of bonding/romance centered on their physical differences. They have a falling out, though, when Beast thinks he’s figured out how to use Mystique’s blood to alter their powers. The idea was that his formula would alter their physical appearance and reset them as normal. They’d keep their powers, just getting a new look. Instead, his formula enhances the original Mutation, giving him his beasty look. The entire experience is more than a little weird. Don’t get me wrong, Mr. Hoult did a fine job, it’s just the whole bit about the ape-like feet felt really forced. Like the writers were going out of their way to make a relatively “normal” Mutant extra-Mutanty so he could have a quick romance with Mystique.

In DoFP, Hank is revealed to be the only Mutant still at Xavier’s mansion. He’s basically Charles’ nanny/bodyguard. In the time between the movies, Hank has apparently perfected his original formula, allowing him to return to his human form so long as he remains calm. Apparently adrenalin cause him to revert to his Beast Mode. They give some well thought out lie about how he's using it to blend in, when we all know it's just an excuse for Nicholas Hoult to not be in what I assume is a very hot costume/make-up for the films run. The formula also let’s Xavier walk again for…reasons. Poorly explained ones at that. Beast helps out to stop Mystique from killing Bolivard Trask, and later when Magneto hijacks the Sentinels. After Wolverine returns to the future, he’s greeted by the “current” Beast, an uncredited Kelsey Grammer.

Beast is a great X-Man. His duality, the animalistic appearance combined with rare super intellect, while having been done before has never been done better. Much like fellow Mutant Nightcrawler, Beast should have every reason to reject and hate humans in the way they have rejected and hated him due to his monstrous appearance. Instead, he’s a staunch advocate for peace between the two groups. And, unlike other geniuses like Tony Stark, Beast never rubs his genius in other people’s faces. Sure, when he knows something he’ll inform you. And he’ll occasionally quote Shakespeare, but overall he’s a reserved sort of genius. He’s the Brilliant Brute, the Beast. Next time, Angel and his rather tragic tale.

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Hero Profile: Cyclops

It’s time for another Theme Week! The X-men are one of my favorite superhero teams, and the individual members make up a good chunk of my favorite superheroes. It's a team that has to battle social prejudice as well as the costumed supervillains. They've got a lot on their plate. Fun fact for ya, Stan Lee admits that he and Jack Kirby kind of copped out with the X-men’s origin. Stan Lee explained that “I couldn’t have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, ‘Why don’t I say they’re mutants.' They were born that way.” And, arguably, it is kind of a weaker background.  Despite this, the X-men have become one of the most iconic superhero teams that the world has ever seen. It’s also one of the most diverse super groups, having members from all walks of life, from all over the world. And how did it start? With four white boys and a white girl. It was the sixties, I don’t think diversity was even really a thing yet. Let’s get to it, the original X-man, Cyclops.

You know for a covert ops
style team, they used a lot
of bright colors.

Scott Summers grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, where his father Air Force Major Christopher Summers was stationed. The family consisted of the two aforementioned Summers’, plus mother Katherine and Scott’s little brother Alex. They were happy times, but like for most heroes it ended prematurely. Christopher had taken the family out in his de Havilland Mosquito, an old British cargo plane, when they were attacked by aliens. It’s a comic book universe, this kind of thing happens at least twice a year. Scott and Alex are fitted with the one parachute, and thrown out of the plane just before its shot down and their parents abducted by the Shi'ar Empire. Why didn’t the USAF OFFICER make sure his plane was outfitted with enough parachutes for everyone? A rant for another time. The trauma of seeing his parent supposed death has haunted Scott ever since. This was most obvious with his powers, it’s explained the main reason he can’t control his powers is because of mental blocks he formed after the incident.

After being rescued, Scott and Alex were separated. Scott spent a few months recovering from the ordeal in a hospital, while Alex was adopted by the Blandings family. Scott spent most of his youth in the State Home for the Foundlings in Omaha, Nebraska. The facility was run by Mr. Milbury, an alias for the shapeshifiting and immortal minion of Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister. Sinister was obsessed with Scott and his bloodline, for reasons I’ll explain later. It’s because of this obsession that he actively kept Scott from being adopted, wanting to keep him isolated and vulnerable. Sinister put Scott through a battery of tests and cruel experiments. Sinister used his shapeshifting powers to take on the guise of a boy named Nate, Scott’s roommate and bully. Again, to keep Scott off balance, miserable and vulnerable, all the better to follow Sinister's evil plans. Yeah, Sinister is a rare sort of sick weirdo, his manipulations and interferences in Scott’s life only gets worse as Scott grows older. The one good thing that Sinister did for Scott was give him his first Ruby Quartz glasses, which helped alleviate Scott’s headaches. It’s a side effect of his powers. Once he turned sixteen, Scott ran away from the orphanage and starts wandering the US. He eventually finds himself in New York City. While there, he cuts across a construction site. This would have been no big deal, had his powers not fully manifested at that exact moment. The powerful beam that erupted from behind his eyes knocked off his glasses and blasted a crane. Again, hormones are dicks. The rather large bit of construction equipment would have crushed a crowd of onlookers had Scott not blasted it a second time, destroying it. Unfortunately, the crowd thought that they were being assaulted by the mutant and went after him in a lynch mob. Scott escapes, and continues wandering. He crossed paths with a supervillain named Jack O’ Diamonds, whom he defeated, and then Charles Xavier. Xavier revealed to the young Mutant his own Mutant powers, and offered Scott a place to live and control his powers. Scott immediately accepts and became the first official X-man.

They're actually a good team, when not fighting over
Jean. So, like twice a year, they're a good team.

He is soon joined by Hank McCoy aka Beast, Warren Worthington III aka Angel, Bobby Drake aka Iceman, and finally Jean Grey aka Marvel Girl. She drops the alias pretty quickly, just an FYI. Scott takes up the codename Cyclops. The visor he wears in costume makes it appear as if he only has one eye, hence the name. They train together for a short time before going on their first field mission. Which was against Magneto. The Master of Magnetism had planned to destroy a military base with its own missiles. Huh, kind of a simple for Mr. Eisenhardt, not going to lie. While Magneto was superior in terms of experience and power, the X-men had a five on one advantage and above average teamwork. They sent the Master of Magnetism packing and saved the day. Not bad for their first time out. A short time later, Cyclops was officially appointed the X-men’s field leader.

Since then Scott has made a name for himself as one of the greatest X-men. He was the only original X-men to remain with the team after a disastrous mission on the evil living island Krakoa. He felt that the...strangeness of his life would make it impossible for him to adjust to 'civilian' life. He’s left and returned to the X-men several times. Fathered the immensely powerful mutant Cable with a clone of Jean Grey named Madilyn Pryor, whom was created by Mr. Sinister. Side note, what a jerk. Created a new Mutant team called X-Factor with his old teammates. Gone back in time with Jean Grey, and stopped one of Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister’s first evil plan. Inadvertently creating Sinister’s obsession with the Summers’ family. Married Jean, and, unfortunately, buried her as well. More than once. Loving the Phoenix has a few draw backs. After the events of M-Day, where the majority of Mutant’s lost their powers, Cyclops and a good percentage of the remaining mutants create an island home they name Utopia. The gathered Mutants also made Cyclops the leader of the small Mutant Nation.

I've always liked the over the chest belt thing he's got
going on here. Not really sure why.

Things become heated between Utopia and the rest of the world when it’s revealed the Phoenix Force was on its way back to Earth, its target for a host being Hope Summers, Cyclops’ time displaced adoptive Granddaughter and the Mutant Messiah. Captain America, the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. and so on see this as a potential doomsday scenario, while Cyclops sees it as Mutant Salvation. He believed that Hope infused with Phoenix power could bring Mutant’s back from the brink of extinction. This difference of opinion leads to an all-out war between Cyclops’ X-men and the Avengers. During said battle, Cyclops and a team of X-men transport Hope to the Blue Zone of the Moon. That special area that has air in it. The Avengers quickly follow, after getting a tip from Wolverine. During the ensuing battle on the Moon, Iron Man attempts to disrupt or weaken the Phoenix, but only succeeds in splitting it and fusing it together with the five Mutant’s present. Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus, Colossus' little sister Magik, and Namor, the Submariner. The Mutant’s take up the name the Phoenix Five and use their new reality warping powers to defeat the Avengers and make a unified peaceful world. For about a week, before they start losing control. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and all that. Once the corruption of the Phoenix Five becomes apparent, the Avengers start a counter strike. After three of their members fall in battle, Cyclops (now more or less insane with Phoenix power) kills Xavier, and absorbs the remaining Phoenix fragment from Emma Frost and becomes the new Dark Phoenix. The X-men and the Avengers team up, weakening Cyclops enough that Hope could absorb the Phoenix. She and Scarlet Witch then destroy it.

Scott and Kurt get into a lot of trouble
together in X-men: Evolution.

Cyclops is arrested and held in a Ruby Quartz cell. He’s sick with grief over having killed Xavier, but claims he would do it again, given that his actions had the desired effect. Mutants began popping up all over the world after the Phoenix’s “death.” Like any of us really thing the Phoenix is gone forever. Coming back is kind of its thing. A short time later, Cyclops is freed from prison by Magik, and created his own Xavier School in the old Weapon X facility. From the first X-man and hero of Mutant kind, to the next generation of Magneto. Funny how life works, isn’t it?

Cyclops powers are directly tied to solar energy. His body is constantly absorbing any sort of ambient light, heat, or other energy source, which is then released from his body in the form of his optic blasts. They’ve come up with different reasons why he can’t control his powers, it’s usually because of a physical blow to the head during his escape from the falling plane, or from the psychological stress the event put on his young mind. Either way, he can’t stop the concussive force from his eyes except by closing his eyes. His body having a sort of mental shield that protects him from his own powers. His eye beam isn't heat, but a concentrated concussive force. So it doesn't melt stuff, but feels like being hit with a battering ram. 

Interestingly, his brother’s Alex and Gabriel (born in space after his parents were kidnapped) are both immune to his powers. As he is largely immune to their powers. Essential, because all three Summers’ boys absorb some form of energy, they absorb the energy their siblings discharge. Protection via Biology, sweet.

Cyclops has appeared in nearly every X-men related thing, ever. Sometimes he’s a major character, other times he’s more or less a cameo, but if it’s about the X-men, he’s typically in in it. The one big exception being in X-men: First Class, where his brother Alex takes the spot on the original X-men team. Because of this, I’ll focus only on the two shows I like the most and the movies. For time sake.

Hate what he did to get the costume
But it's an awesome look.

Cyclops is a major character in X-men: The Animated Series. He’s the stoic, no-nonsense leader of the team. He and Jean are together for the series run, and despite this Scott fights Wolverine for her on a few occasions. He meets the majority of his family over the course of the show, his brother Alex (the two don’t recognize each other), his father Christopher (after being kidnapped he becomes a space pirate going by Corsair) and his son Cable (who never stops to say “Hi mom and dad,” whenever he stops by this point in history. Inconsiderate).  In the series finale he, Jean and Wolverine go to stop Magneto from creating a Mutant rebellion following an attack on Xavier. During the battle they realize Magneto’s magnetic powers could amplify Jean’s telepathy, which in theory meant they could amplify Xavier’s, getting him in contact with his lover Lilandra, Empress of the Shi’ar empire, and save his life. Scott’s comment “He’d do it for you,” seems to sway Magneto while he debated giving up leading the Mutant revolt to save Charles. It’s a good series, check it out.

He’s one of the main characters in X-men: Evolution. This version differs in a number of ways, Scott’s a teenager, more extroverted, and more confident. He's still the first "X-man" but it's implied that Charles Xavier has reached out to, and possibly trained other Mutant's before the series starts. For example, Storm. Also, he and Wolverine have a sort of mentor mentee relationship throughout most of the series. Oh, sure, they still clash about a fair number of things, Wolverine's a brute force and intuition type of leader while Cyclops is about strategy and finesse, but it was clear, to me at least, that he still greatly respected Wolverine and that Wolverine is proud of the leader that Scott becomes. It's also kind of nice where there is no tension between the two of them because they're in love with the same woman. It's refreshing. Scott and Jean are close, but it’s in that weird they-should-totally-be-dating-even-they-know-it-but-they’re-not relationship that TV keeps trying to make me believe is a thing. By the shows end he becomes an instructor at the Xavier Institute alongside Jean. Oh, and this series' Rogue has kind of a thing for him, so yeah, complications arise. Still, a very good show, and a good Cyclops, despite the differences.

Do I even need to say that this is bad?

Now to the movies. Cyclops is pretty bad in the movies. I don't blame actor James Marsden for this, he does the best he can with the part he's given. Things start off okay, sure he and Wolverine’s complex rivalry is reduced to “we hate each other, deal with it” but overall he’s still more or less true to the comics. Stoic leader, most trusted X-man, dating Jean, fighting Wolverine over Jean, that sort of thing. Movie 2 has Cyclops gone for a good two thirds, he and Xavier being kidnapped at Magneto’s plastic prison. He’s given a mind control formula and used to defend William Stryker’s secret base at Alkali Lake. His optic blasts destabilize the damn build over the Weapon X facility, inadvertently leading to Jean’s death as she holds back the deluge of water and lifts the X-jet out of the way. He’s depressed at the start of X3 and is killed off in the first half hour. Phoenix empowered Jean apparently killing him as they kiss upon being reunited. He’s got a cameo at the end of Day’s of Future Past, confirming that at least the events of X2 and X3 were changed because of Wolverine’s meddling in the past. Oh, and confirming that he still doesn't like Wolverine touching his girlfriend. The more things change, right? I rate the movies in order, One’s the best, Two’s okay, and I want to find the guy that wrote Three and punch him in the throat. What can I say? I’m passionate. I'll save my feelings for First Class and Days of Future Past for tomorrow.

 Cyclops is set to appear in X-men: Apocalypse. Here’s hoping they don’t waste their new timeline.

I like Cyclops. He’s a competent leader, very smart and gifted with his powers. He’s one of the longest running X-men, and it’s because he loves what he does and is trying desperately to live up to the expectations of his surrogate father, Charles Xavier. Sure, as leader’s go he’s a little wooden, but we can’t all be Wolverine or Iron Man. He’s had a rough life, and puts on a tough face to keep himself together. He’s a complicated character that seems to have been pushed back a lot in recent years because, well, the world seems to love Bad Boys, and Wolverine is a pretty serious Bad Boy. I doubt he can ever really go back to the man he was, not with what he did to Xavier in the Avengers vs. X-men story, but I hope that doesn’t mean he’s going to be written off as a villain/Anti-hero forever. I guess we can only wait and see. He's the Courageous Captain, the Supreme Strategist,  Cyclops. Next time, the X-men’s resident super genius, Beast.

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