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| Biographical Information | |
| Real Name: | Hank McCoy |
| Alias: | Beast (codename) Mr. McCoy |
| Age: | Mid-to-late-30s |
| Species: | Mutant |
| Originally From: | Dundee, Illinois USA |
| Relatives: | Unnamed parents |
| Affiliations: | X-Men Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Bayville High School (formerly) Researcher |
| Interests: | Teaching at Bayville High (formerly) Teaching at Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted Youngsters |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Dark blue/black |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Height: | 5'11/6'4 |
| Character Information | |
| Powers: | Enhanced superhuman strength (as Beast) |
| First Appearance: | Growing Pains |
| Voiced by: | Michael Kopsa |
| GALLERY | |
- "I can see now that teaching mutants will require entirely different skills. "
- —Hank McCoy about the X-Men when offered the job to be their mentor
Hank McCoy is one of the adult members of the X-Men. He is a mutant who originally appeared human before his X-Gene became unstable causing him to turn into a beastly figure, he stepped down from teaching at Bayville High School to work with the X-Men as their mentor.
Must See Episodes[]
Personality[]
Personality-wise, Hank is a very friendly and warm-hearted man when he isn't affected by beast's anger. He was also very smart, which was implied; when he was shown to understand Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Hank also has a genius intellect and is also sometimes refined. Although he does like to have fun - especially with snowball fights.
Physical Appearance[]
In Hank's beast form, he has long, grey-almost blue fur, relatively long arms and opposable thumbs on his feet, much like a giant gorilla.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Originally, Hank had a more human disposition, but an adverse reaction to a serum he developed to suppress his mutation caused his mutation to change, giving him full-bodied, blue fur and an ape-like physiology. Hank's mutant physiology grants him superhuman strength (he was seen bending a steel girder in the episode Day of Reckoning II) speed (by running on all fours) stamina, reflexes, balance, endurance and agility, as well as large paws with opposable thumbs; instead of feet which he can use to grasp objects or climb almost any surface and terrain with superhuman dexterity.
History[]
Notes[]
- Production Art - Beast
- Hank was a teacher at Bayville High School before he turned into Beast.[1][2]
- For Christmas Beast and the Professor sit in front of the Christmas tree together, drinking hot chocolate.[3]
- Rogue and Beast are both shown several times being rescued, but have no lines.[4]
- Rogue, Wolverine, Blob, Beast and Spyke were all captured by the military and sent to Area 51.[4]
- Rogue, Storm, Wolverine and Beast all appear in No Good Deed, but have no lines.[5]
- Beast can possibly understand, and speak Mandarin. He was able to listen in on what happened in China after they bombed one of the domes. [6]
- Charles Xavier saw The Future where Beast is still a member of the X-Men.[7]
- Jean Grey was the first character to loose control of her powers in the series.[1] Hank McCoy was the second,[2] then Wanda Maximoff was next [8] with Evan Daniels being the fourth,[9] and finally Rogue was the fifth and final character.[10]
Trivia[]
- Beast is one of the main few X-Men who wasn't de-aged for the series, acting as a mentor and teacher to several other X-Men.
- He appears more grey than blue, his original color.
In other media[]
- This is Beast's second role in an animated X-Men cartoon, his previous role was in X-Men: The Animated Series and would return in X-Men '97.
- He was a main character in Wolverine and the X-Men.
- He would appear in X2, X-Men: Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool 2, and Dark Phoenix. He would make a cameo in The Marvels.
- He appeared in X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, X2: Wolverine's Revenge and Marvel Super War.
Appearance[]
| Season Two | ||||||||||
| Growing Pains | Power Surge | Bada-Bing Bada-Boom | Fun and Games | The Beast of Bayville | Adrift | On Angel's Wings | African Storm | Joyride | ||
| Walk on the Wild Side | Operation: Rebirth | Mindbender | Shadow Dance | Retreat | The Hex Factor | Day of Reckoning I | Day of Reckoning II | |||
| Season Three | ||||||||||
| Day of Recovery * | The Stuff of Heroes | Mainstream | The Stuff of Villains | Blind Alley | X-Treme Measures | The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | ||||
| Self Possessed | Under Lock and Key | Cruise Control | X23 | Dark Horizon I | Dark Horizon II | |||||
| Season Four | ||||||||||
| Impact | No Good Deed | Target X | Sins of the Son | Uprising | Cajun Spice | Ghost of a Chance | Ascension I | Ascension II | ||