BEAST/HENRY MCCOY
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1
Known Relatives: Edna & Norton McCoy (parents)
Group Affiliation: X-Men, formerly X-Factor, Avengers, New Defenders, and Champions
Powers: Enhanced Strength, Agility, and Speed
As brilliant in mind as he is powerful and agile in form, the Beast's intelligence and sense of humor served him well through-out his years as a premier member of the X-Men. Later while performing an experiment to cure him of his mutancy, he drank the formula, turning into the big blue guy we know today. His powers then became increased while his mind remained intact.
Beast was once a member the Avengers, the Defenders, X-Factor and, eventually returnedto the X-Men. As one of the world's foremost biochemists, Hank is working with Moira MacTaggert to
cure the Legacy Virus plaguing mutant-kind and now human-kind, too. For a while, Beast was locked up, while his AOA counterpart, the Dark Beast, was impersonating him. Beast escaped,
while the Dark Beast had allied with Onslaught, and later, the Brotherhood. He is currentlydating news anchor, Trish Tilby.