THE BEAST

Name: Henry "Hank" McCoy

Group: X-Men

Former groups : The Avengers, Defenders and X-factor

Origin: Illinois

First appearance: The Uncanny X-Men#1

Known Relatives:

• Edna and Norton McCoy (parents)

BRIEF HISTORY

Hank McCoy was born mutant, being his powers an extreme agility and the ability of using his feet almost as good as his hands, but being blamed with a desproportionate body. He has also a brilliant mind, and he loves studying sciences.

Hank was founder member of the first group of X-Men, with the Angel, Cyclops, the Iceman, and Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). They all together fought the first mutant foes and world menaces, but Hank desired to get a Ph degree at the University, so he left the group to became a brilliant doctor in biochemicals.

During the course of his works, he drank one of his experiments, turning into a beast-looking being with the body covered by blue hair. His own powers became then increased, and his mind kept intact.

During a period, he joined the avengers, but returned quite later with the X-Men. Before this, he spent some time with the first X-Factor team, when they still pretended to be mutant hunters.

He recovered his human form for some time, used by Dr. Carl Maddicks as an essay with a new experiment supposed to give human appearance to his own son, Artie Maddicks. Unfortunately, after being kissed by Infectia, he began to lose intelligence, much faster when using his powers, but during the first confrontation with the Smilefaces of Hodge from The Right (just at the beginning of Inferno, Apocalypse's former ship returned him to his blue form at to the top of his intelligence as well.)

He rejoined the X-Men after the Shadow King crisis, and is currently working with Moira McTaggert and Xavier on the Legacy virus.

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