Beast became the X-Men’s Henry Kissinger, so Wolverine put a stop to him

polygon.com:

If you know the X-Men’s Beast from 1992’s X-Men: The Animated Series or the X-Men movies, you may picture him as a bouncing blue scientist who uses three-syllable words where one-syllable ones would do. He’s the cheerful brainiac of the classic X-Men lineup.

You’re not wrong; that version of Henry McCoy is very often present in Marvel Comics as well. But in the Krakoan era, the pressure and power of being put in charge of the “CIA” of a mutant nation has pushed Hank McCoy’s pragmatism and intelligence to full-on sociopathic war criminality.

In the pages of X-Factor and Wolverine — both written by Benjamin Percy since 2020 — he has tortured, framed, and lobotomized in the name of “mutant safety.” He’s created bioweapons, tricked his operatives into killing innocents, and exacerbated a teammate’s addiction so she’d be less likely to pick up on his crimes. Lately, he finally went too far and got found out. Percy’s twinned X-Men books are racing toward a meaty (as in spilled guts) confrontation between Wolverine and Beast, and it’s going to be delicious when this blue bastard gets what’s coming to him.

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As might be expected for a Wolverine comic, this image is gory — but believe me, this guy deserves it.

The understanding of Beast’s potential for villainy dates back to the mid-1990s, when writer