10 Superheroes Who Have NEVER Been Killed

9. Beast

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Marvel Comics

Where Luke Cage has had to see several of his bestest buddies killed off over the years, that’s nothing compared to poor Hank McCoy. As a part of the famed X-Men, McCoy has seen so many friends killed off – yet, so far, Beast is the one X-Man always left standing.

Professor X, Jean Grey, Cyclops and even Wolverine are just some of the mutants to have experienced death, but Beast has proved to be the X-ception to the X-Men’s habit of their members dying with alarming regularity.

For Hank, there’s no particular secret to staying alive. Sure, he’s more often than not the smartest person in any room he finds himself in, although it’s not like he has any magical abilities or powers that keep him from death’s door.

Beast gets by on his smarts, and this emotional fur-ball has had to try and hold the X-Men together at plentiful points as the group deals with death after death of some of its most notable members. Luckily for Hank, he’s yet to experience the cold grip of death himself.

 
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