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Henry "Hank" McCoy, better known as Beast, is one of the main protagonists of 1992-97 animated superhero series X-Men: The Animated Series and its 2024 sequel series X-Men '97, as well as a guest character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. He has been with the team throughout its history. He has extensive knowledge in chemistry and biology, whose own research was used to nearly destroy mutantkind.
He is voiced by George Buza.
History[]
X-Men: The Animated Series[]
Hank became one of Charles Xavier’s original X-Men and helped them make the world safer for humans, acting as their doctor. He helped to create the Danger Room, the X-Men's training room. Initially his physical mutation was enlarged hands and feet. However, at some point he grew blue fur all over his body.
He was also the only X-Men to continue to work outside the school, as a medical researcher in a New York hospital. It was there he fell in love with one of his patients, Carly Anne Crocker. Carly’s father hated the idea of a mutant treating her and demanded that he cease seeing her when she became ready for the surgery.
When the X-Men discovered a young girl named Jubilee, Beast was in his lab when she saw him. While viewed by the girl, he expressed interest in some scientific endeavors and talked to himself. Once she started to roam around, Jubilee took out Wolverine while under the impression that he was trying to kill Gambit. Upon learning, he and Morph laughed together at their teammate before he revealed his claws, threatening the two. Jubilee left the Xavier Mansion sometime afterwards and was captured by a Sentinel. Learning of her captivity, Beast went with some members of the group to save her, where he expressed how his parents became aware of his powers. While the team moved closer to the Mutant Control Agency's facility, Rogue asked Beast what made them like they were. Beast gave multiple reasons and even brought up television as a possibility. Once Wolverine rejoined the team, Beast and Morph joined him in sneaking up the gate. With Morph needing a boost to get over the fence, Beast and Wolverine assisted him and were met on the other side by a guard, of which was soon taken down by Storm. Once the group made their way inside the building, Wolverine stopped the team once he smelled the inferred detectors. Beast asked him if he could sense them and learned that he was able to get their scent with his noise. Beast moved past the detectors by grabbing the ceiling's instruments and got the other side, of which allowed him to disable to the security systems. Once he got on the other side, he was joined by the rest of the team and prepared to open a door, which consisted of armed guards on the other side.
When the Friends of Humanity kidnapped Carly after her operation, Wolverine infiltrated their ranks and Beast started a mad rampage, determined to save his love no matter the cost. After the X-Men rescued her, Beast told her that he couldn’t see her any longer, as she was in constant danger when around him. He told her he hoped he would be able to return to her when mutants and humans could live in peace together.
Later, when Spider-Man came to the Xavier Mansion, Beast was the only one who understood the situation Spider-Man was in, having been there once himself. McCoy referred Spidey to an old friend of his, Doctor Herbert Landon, who was working on a cure for mutation. Little did Beast realize that his "old friend" was really working on a poison to kill all mutants, making humans dominate over mutants. Thanks to Spider-Man, Wolverine, Beast, and incidentally Hobgoblin, Landon’s scheme was foiled and Landon became a half-mutated creature as a reminder of the day.
X-Men '97[]
Roberto awakens after his run-in with the FoH, and is greeted by Cyclops, Storm, Dr. Hank McCoy (Beast), and Jubilation Lee (Jubilee). The X-Men question Roberto about where the FoH got their hands on Sentinel tech. Roberto proves less than cooperative as he simply wants to go home. Jubilee tries to help Roberto open up with a trip to the Danger Room, only to be frightened off when Wolverine (Logan) scares him off after he mouths off at Jubilee.
While Wolverine, Jubilee, and the others manage to find Roberto and keep him safe from the FoH, Cyclops and Storm approach Gyrich about the FoH and their Sentinel tech, which they could have only obtained with the help of Bolivar Trask, the scientist who created the Sentinels and has been missing for years. Gyrich refuses to cooperate, believing himself justified in assassinating Xavier, and arguing that mutant equality would mean the end of humanity: "Tolerance is extinction." With Gyrich refusing to be of help, Scott and Storm call in their trump card: Jean Grey, who uses the psionic supercomputer Cerebro to directly probe Gyrich's mind. After a disturbing apocalyptic vision, Jean pinpoints Trask's location: the Sahara Desert.
In a junkyard in the Sahara, the X-Men confront Trask, who has built a second Master Mold and begun building a new army of Sentinels. These robots, however, prove no match for the X-Men, who handily destroy the Sentinels and decommission the Master Mold. UN armed forces arrive shortly afterwards to arrest Trask, who dejectedly proclaims that the existence of mutants reminds him, and others like him, that humanity's days are numbered. Cyclops, however, has reason to feel optimistic and that peace between humans and mutants may not be as remote a possibility as some may fear: "We all win when men like him fail."
Abilities[]
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Beast uses his abilities to take control of one of the Sentinels in order to turn the tide of the battle.
McCoy is a blue, beastly X-Man with incredible strength and acrobatic prowess. As a globally recognized expert on mutations and evolutionary biology, he also has extensive knowledge of genetics, biochemistry and various other scientific fields, despite his animalistic appearance.
McCoy is fluent in German, Latin, Spanish, Japanese and Russian and other languages, well-versed in literature, history, philosophy, art and music, and is also an accomplished keyboard player.
Personality[]
Beast is a genius and is normally very kind. Although he can fight like the most violent of fiends, he is very gentle and enjoys a good poem. He has knowledge of most 16th century liturature. He can be found quoting Shakespeare, reading works such as Animal Farm and Dostoevsky, and collecting the magazine Philology Quarterly. His specialty is organic chemistry. Dr. McCoy has a laboratory at Xavier's mansion. Among his scientific credits, Beast created neural inhibitors to suppress Dark Phoenix, deduced that the Phalanx's rate of assimilation was proportional to electrical conductivity and rerouted a satellite signal to contact Forge on the matter, and modified the Blackbird with Shi'ar technology for spaceflight. He is shown to be a pacifist and is very loving and laid-back, especially with Jubilee, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm and Cyclops.
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