Irredeemable "This is who I've Always Been." - Dr. Henry McCoy is...Evil By Design 

100% disagree that Beast is supposed to be evil. Every character has evil versions, and Hank being a scientist is why people tend to turn him evil since Mad Scientist trope, hell even Mr Fantastic isn't safe.

Remember even the watcher told MCCOY TO HIS FACE THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE HIM.

Beast suffers from the flaw that a lot of scientists, including Pym suffer from. They sometimes forget to ask if they should when they ask if they can.

I think one of the best descriptions of Beast I’ve heard came from the podcast Cerebro by Spencer Ackerman; Beast is Xavier’s best student when it comes to assimilation. And he’s the best example of a character that embodies the US history of medical ethics. He wants to be seen as exceptional, dependable and fit in. He goes to be a hero after graduating and what does he do? Joins the big Avengers team. Why? Because he wants to be seen as a hero loved by everyone, not just a hero of mutants. Is he willing to basically sell a homeless black woman whose powers have mentally impaired her so that he can have the research material to synthesise a “morally good” cure to the legacy virus? Yes. And he believes that he’s doing things for the greater good. Heck, his relationship with Abigail Brand, often the head of Sword, is pretty telling. She’s essentially his ticket into authority and, if she approves of things, it must be good to him because she’s in power. Even though she’s basically Joss Whedon’s answer to what would happen if the US’ war policy in the Middle East was made into a person. It doesn’t matter to him because she’s still in power and doing what he perceives to be good. Heck, he ignores red flags like how she said he looked sexy and reminded her of her dad… and her brother is just a Green Beast. Heck, whilst it’s definitely escalated a bit too much, giving him a chair of power as the Krakoan CIA head? With all his besties who have overlooked everything before on the council? Heck, he accidentally wiped out a South American country and the worst thing he got was a scolding from Jean who just quit the team. Frankly, the only reasons why he hasn’t been put in the hole is because Krakoa puts the most expendable into the hole when they do crimes. No one was missing Oya, or Madison Jeffries, or Nekra… even though she rocks. But they also put people who they can’t just ignore when it gets too much. Such as Nanny and Orphanmaker. Beast was toeing the thin line of respectability, similar to characters like Fenris. And, like things Ein und Zwei, the moment he stopped and the moment his crimes were too big to ignore, that was only when they acted. However, like many fans, Hank’s peers and friends clung to the idea of him as their friend. So, unlike Fenris, they let him tinker and have enough stuff to get away and not be beaten the moment he steps back on the scene. Side note, in an interview Fabian Nicieza did, the guy who wrote the Threnody story, he apologised for being the guy behind the downward spiral of Hank.

I'm not the Hero you want, I'm the Monster you need.

Don’t forget during the Legacy Virus he had no problem offering evil scientists and dictators like Doom, Wizard, Hyde, Namor, Osborn and the rest all kinds of power if they cured the virus.

I loathe what Marvel does to Beast. Hank was never evil. We have Dark Beast for that.

Dude now this is a great video . The biggest threat to the X-Men seemingly always comes from within. Look at the resurrection story line: instead of making themselves stronger and learning from their own mistakes the X-Men became increasingly arrogant and sloppy. No wonder it was so easy for Beast to go full evil.

Interesting discussion. I think this is the fun side of comic characters. The fact that we can relate to them ALL on certain levels. We all have good and evil inside. It's the plot paths, and their actions that make us judge them as more good, or bad. Magneto is one of my favorite characters in the X-Men universe because I can understand where he's coming from, even as a bad guy.

he was a clown ass mascot in his avengers run.

At first I thought you were bonkers, but after listening to you I have to admit you make a compelling.

Bro this one the best breakdown of a character ive ever watched keep cooking fam this what we need💪🏿

This is a very comprehensive analysis of Beast! More power to your channel! 🎉

Depends on when we are talking about. Are you saying from the 60s forward he was designed to go bad? Then no. If you mean since the late 90s, just as the Extreme and Belt Pouch era was fading, then yes. The problem is that a lot of what we love in our characters actually comes from the earlier era. Comic book fans know each writer is different and we will try to wait out a bad arc. But something changed at the end of the aughts... heroes as villains became the norm. All the smart guys go bad. Everybody's strengths had to be twisted into weakness. There was always some of that in comics but it really spread such that it effected ALL the characters in rapid succession. Originally we would have told those stories as elseworlds or what ifs... but now they had to be mainstream. Just like bringing the x-men forward abandoned the branching timeline approach to time travel making many worlds. So when we say we want old Beast back... are we saying we don't want one afraid of his own mutation? No. But we do want one who might do horror to himself in a desperate bid to save himself, but not one who would have space stations full of human victims of experimentation and murder his friend and use a tortured, lobotomized version as a mass produced weapon of war.

This video fills in the gaps real well when it comes to getting to know more. Very informative. 👍 preciate it!

Nice video! Keep it up, very informative about the things I've missed about Beast :)

Nice video to have in the background while working from home. Subscribed :)

Love the video and all of the input. Just please get some clearer pictures. Some of them were quite pixelated.

I disagree with the claim that Beast was supposed to be evil. However, there was no going back from the path he was put on since the early 2000's. Even The Watcher called him out on it, and called The Beast "disgusting". When The Watcher, a being who claims non-interference, goes out of his way to personally give you a "reason I hate you" speech you know you're damaged goods. Like, the worst.

Great theory about his time with the Avengers, but the writers of that comic were a bit "by committee" at that time, bringing us the horrid Ms marvel impregnated by a being shed then have an incestuous relationship with, and Yellow jacket hitting his wife. The writers just wanted some "humor" and Beast, off the cancelation of The Champions, was available. Bad writing as character development is a Marvel staple

During his tenure as an Avenger, he used to get captured and beaten regularly. Panther, Wasp and Pym were always getting roughed up. Cap, Thor and Iron Man would come and save the day. At least Wonder Man was his bestie then. I'm surprised you didn't talk much about his time as a Defender, as it seems he always struggled to find a place to belong, always returning to being an X-Man.

Wow. Guess the fans loved Dark Beast more than I thought.

Now they have another version of him. Thts in the present using one of his clones and memory’s of him when he was good. I wonder how tht will go.

Have we truly seen Hank's Happy Farm, or are we not there yet

I missed that part. How did that get past Professor Xavier?

Amazing and thought provoking analysis

Wasn't that Beast dealing with Threnody the Dark Beast from AOA?

Thought that was Garrosh on the thumbnail.

Been loving your videos, but hard disagree on this one. The reason “dark beast” resonated way back in the day, was because it was SUCH A STRETCH from the character fans loved and knew. I’m a genX fan (the actual generation, not the x-team. 😂) so Hank’s personality I read as far back as 85 has always been somewhat jovial/fun/playful that coincides with his intellect. Also in the 70s the “X-books” weren’t a whole corner of the universe, so mutant characters, particularly from the original class showed up in the Avengers or the Champions (or Spider-Man’s amazing friends😂) nothing more to it than not wanting cool characters to fall by the wayside just because Claremont wasn’t using them.

This is the reason why I rather read classic comic books

It pains me to say it but you might be right.

Sorry can't agree, I think ppl just want to see the good in everything destroyed.

Cat Beast...😂

It would make sense, That is why Xavier recruited him to try to prevent him from going evil

This "New" Beast is Dark Beast. :/ He keeps jailed the original McCoil. Please read the wikia of Dark Beast.

What's with guys in black face????

Beast is good. The blue beast

or could just be that crappy writers like to be lazy and make hank evil

The problem isn’t Hank Mcoy being a villain. That has been accepted willingly throughout x-men history. So no need to defend that. The problem is Percy. He’s a bad writer. There was no explanation or reasoning behind why Hank was behaving out of character. Hank has always made poor decisions. But there was always an understandable reason why Hank was acting immoral. So the problem is Percy’s poor storytelling and no true understanding of the characters

I don't care what anyone said 🤔 this is ridiculous --- everything today is for shock value 🤔--- for money & sales-- plus this is what 73% of the writer do in Comics today & that is to destroy comics & the characters within it 🤔🤔- it goes to show us what's wrong with the people writing today. & U wonder why the sales are so low & shops are closing down. ---78% new books no good.

Be careful when taking about recessive genes. Some animals regress when forced to get primitive like in the woods or the jungle. Some humans too.😮 Maybe?

I personally think that this evil version of Beast is some kind of variant from an alternate universe and the real beast has been sent away somewhere trying to get home. I refuse to believe that this is his natural state of being.

I totally disagree with him going evil ,I could understand more animalistic.But a lion isn't evil because it dominates it's territory.Evil has malicious intent .

😂😂😂 i think Beast is awesome. HATERS are just born to HATE

The idea that the design changes throughout the years being an aspect of mutant genes being in flux instead of the obvious answer.... each of these depictions is from a different artist and author.... you reaching so hard your arm socket must be made of adamantium