Questions like the following may surprise you if you don't know much about them before asking. x men Comic book readers have declared Hank McCoy, the fuzzball genius beast, to be one of the most evil characters in the series. This is not a new development, even if it is something that has happened since then. X-MEN: The Animated Series and fox movies It built its mainstream reputation over 20 years ago. The Beast has been down the darkest path for years, and now the series is trying to stop him.
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As previously mentioned, the comic book version of Hank McCoy has been down a path of ethically questionable and regularly downright evil choices since the '90s, but Beast's character arc Krakoa era—The soft reboot planned by writer Jonathan Hickman in 2019 is scheduled to end in 2019. Refreshing the entire new row— is defined by Hank's acceptance of his monstrosity.
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As head of mutant intelligence and operator of Krakoa X-Force iteration, Hank's morals in Mutant Utopia start out stinking and gradually deteriorate.From committing genocide to neutralize threats to the country's mutant diplomacy. Terra Verde-In the end, the Beast ended up controlling the country from the shadows. Utilizing Krakoa's cloning technology to create multiple copies of himself to act as mutant circuitry and soundboards. With a near-endless series of assassinations and experiments on humans and mutants in remote areas, even Hank's most loyal allies find it difficult to save him, believing that he has his hands dirty for the benefit of mutants. I realized that I was heading down a path that I didn't know.
Following the fall of Krakoa, Last year's Hellfire Gala, Hank is now a full-fledged villain, and the remnants of X-Force are determined to bring down the former Director for his crimes.So let's move on to this week's story. X force #48, Ben Percy, Robert Gill, Guru-eFX, Joe Caramagna, a brief but important tangle between the team and the Beast. The conflict between X-Force and the Beast, who infiltrated X-Force's new base in the North Pole to steal Krakoa's biotechnology, is not the actual heart of the matter, but rather the custodian and de facto leader of X-Force. Sage is concerned that the Beast almost found it. One of the Beast's still intact clones of himself lies in stasis, waiting for his mind to be imprinted on him. Her plan concerned the remaining members of X-Force, especially Wolverine, who had a bitter personal conflict over using Hank's clones as sock puppet soldiers. another Adding to Hank's never-ending list of horrors, using the backup of Cerebro that remains in Hank's mind, the rest of which were erased when he went berserk, may be able to stop him from becoming the monster he has become. Currently it is possible to create a version of the beast that does not exist.
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As I said earlier, Hank was done bad.The horrors of his experiments with mutant growth hormone and the Legacy Virus, his horrifying treatment of Sliday (giving her life to Mister Sinister for possible amputation and experimentation on her), and his involvement with the group. like the illuminati (And it goes without saying that he sided with the Inhumans when the mutant species faced extinction once again. Terrigen Mist Crisis), you can't take the mind of the beast back a few years and think everything will be fine.Hell, I can't undo just a little bit. decades And I think it will. Fortunately for Sage, the remaining backups she has access to date back to when Hank was the new Defender. In fact, in a rare moment in Marvel's ever-sliding timescale, X force #48 shows an editor's note indicating when this beast's brain came from: circa 1985. new defender #142.
The fact that Hank wasn't the loathed beast until this far back speaks to how despicable a character he has been for so long, but as Wolverine insists to Sage, Hank McCoy himself What is it that you are creating? They are just as essential to Hank in the New Defenders as they are to the Hank they are hunting here and now. And he quickly proves it when she brings the clone online. He can say „stars and garters“ and jump up and down. like a furry clown However, the Clone Beast manages to grasp Krakoa's technology and surprisingly quickly manages to manipulate would-be allies, escape from captivity, and learn what his „future“ self has been up to. That same nature, that intelligence, that danger is still there, but it is the clone beast's ability to transform itself into its own image that will ultimately determine how this battle for the very soul of Hank McCoy is resolved. It's about how you react.
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By the end we're left wondering X force #48, Clone Beast wanders the frozen wasteland alone to confront himself.But as he reads his own dark report, a single tear falls from his eye as X-Force finds a highly unlikely ally in the hopes of bringing the Beast to task. It seems to indicate that there is a possibility that — and x men The comics could have found a way to either bring Hank's soul back from the darkness or give him the mother of all do-overs.
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