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[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=blue][center]Hank McCoy[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1]
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[hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=6ecff6][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[b][color=blue]Name:[/color][/b] Dr. Henry Phillip McCoy
[b][color=blue]Aliases:[/color][/b] Beast, Hank
[b][color=blue]Age:[/color][/b] 43
[b][color=blue]Gender:[/color][/b] Male

[hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=blue][center]Appearance[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[b][color=blue]Height:[/color][/b] 5 feet 11 inches
[b][color=blue]Weight:[/color][/b] 223 pounds
[b][color=blue]Build:[/color][/b] Muscular
[b][color=blue]Eyes:[/color][/b] Blue
[b][color=blue]Hair:[/color][/b] Blue and covers his body
[b][color=blue]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] Blue
[b][color=blue]Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:[/color][/b] 

[hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=blue][center]Psychology[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[i][color=blue][center]Genius*Kind[/center][/color][/i]

[b][color=blue]Personality:[/color][/b] Beast is generally a caring person, who works hard for those he knows. Of course, he has problems blending in with crowds, but that doesn't stop him from trying to show the world just how smart he is.

[hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=blue][center]History[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
Henry "Hank" McCoy was born and raised in Dunfee, Illinois, the son of Norton and Edna McCoy. His father worked at a nuclear power plant where he was exposed to massive amounts of radiation during an accident. Norton was completely unharmed, but the radiation affected his genes and, as a result, his son was born a mutant. Unlike most mutants, Henry showed signs of mutation from birth: unusually large hands and feet. A prodigy, Hank was also endowed with an innate superhuman intellect and during adolescence he gained the power of simian-like augmented agility, reflexes, and strength.

While attending Bard College, thanks to his powers, Henry became a star football player as a teenager and earned the nickname Magilla Gorilla. Hank hid his mutation and thirst for knowledge in plain sight - until the school asked him to leave after he was exposed as a mutant. Hank's remarkable athletic abilities and brilliance attracted the notice of Professor Charles Xavier, who was forming the original X-Men. Xavier offered Hank, who excelled in the classroom, the chance for unlimited academic opportunities at his prestigious School for Gifted Youngsters. The costumed criminal named El Conquistador, however, also took note of his abilities and captured McCoy's parents in order to force McCoy to aid him in his criminal schemes. With the help of Prof. Xavier and the X-Men, Henry defeated the Conquistador and then joined the X-Men as their fourth member, taking the code-name "Beast".

Under Prof. Xavier's tutelage, Hank's days were rich with differential equations, Proust, and workouts in the Danger Room. With the X-Men, Hank battled Magneto,[10] the Vanisher,[11] the Blob,[12] the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,[13][14] Namor,[15] Unus,[16] Lucifer, and many others. At one point Hank became discouraged with humanity and quit the team to start a brief a career as wrestler.[16]

Hank immediately became friends with Bobby Drake. Hank dated a librarian, Vera Cantor, but he kept his identity as the Beast a secret from her. Hank and Bobby briefly battled Maha Yogi while on a double date.[17]

Hank was sought out by Kraven the Hunter, who wanted to hone his skills in battle against the Beast. Kraven drugged Beast to dull his reflexes, but it caused Hank to regress to a more feral state and he went into a berserker rage. Hank would have killed Kraven if his teammates hadn't separated them.

A brilliant student, McCoy completed his doctoral studies and finally left the X-Men and Professor Xavier's school to take a position as a genetic researcher with the Brand Corporation, a division of Roxxon Oil. There he began working with Dr. Carl Maddicks and started a romance with his assistant, Linda Donaldson.

He then isolated the hormonal extract that created mutation. The resulting serum acted as a catalyst for activating latent mutations for short periods of time (this serum would become the basis of the Mutant Growth Hormone). Dr. Maddicks grew increasingly envious of Hank and witnessed his new discovery.

Eager to inform his superiors of his discovery, Hank overheard Dr. Maddicks plotting to steal his research. Unaware of the consequences, Hank drank the serum, trying to disguise his appearance, and underwent radical, physical changes. Hank grew gray fur over his entire body, his muscles expanded, ears became larger and pointed, claws sprouted, and his canine teeth became larger, resembling fangs. The serum further increased his superhuman agility, endurance, speed, and strength, as well as enhanced his senses, and granted him an extraordinary healing factor.

After stopping the security guard from stealing his work for Dr. Maddicks, Hank realized that he had failed to keep track of the time. Because Hank hadn't taken the antidote within an hour, he permanently remained in his altered state. Dr. McCoy was now a beast, in body as well as in name. Angry, Hank attempted to exact revenge on Dr. Maddicks, but stopped short of strangling him. Dr. Maddicks was shot by Linda Donaldson, who had actually been a spy for the Secret Empire all along.

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