10 X-Men Characters Writers Need To Stop Using
2. Beast
Many remember Hank McCoy as the verbose, lovable heart of the X-Men in the '90s cartoon. Indeed, it’s hard not to fall in love with that characterization, but modern Beast is less cuddly science nerd, more deranged mad scientist.
This recent radicalization has led Beast to take insane risks and indulge in some rather shady activities. He joined the Illuminati to secretly represent the X-Men without telling his teammates when the fabric of the multiverse was at stake. He again risked space-time itself by bringing the original five X-Men to the present day, again consulting none of his teammates in the process. And now on Krakoa, Beast leads X-Force with the mentality of “do what’s best for all of mutantkind, no matter the cost”.
Far be it from us to say that characters can’t change, but with Beast, he seems to have strayed so far from his moral core that writers would be best to take a break on the character.