The character’s evolved significantly since his days in that 'real' first class, of course.
year FIRST CLASS is set in!) His gimmick was basically that he was a hairless,
incredible-agile gorilla man who also happened to be absurdly smart. While his
hunched posture and over-large hands and feet made him look simian in these
early appearances, a series of “secondary mutations” made him look
progressively more feline over the years as he’d adventure with the likes of
X-Factor, the Defenders and even the Avengers in addition to the “strangest super-heroes
of them all.” His genius-level intellect would remain a constant, though. Goes to show all you maniacs: brawn comes and goes, but smarts are forever.
Beast has actually shown up a few times in the movies already. His first appearance
was a quick cameo on a TV in X2 as a talk-show guest chatting up mutant affairs
and he was a major player in THE LAST STAND. The latter movie established him
as mutantkind’s de facto ambassador to human America: an ex-X-Men who’d put aside
adventuring for politics at some indeterminate point in the past. Eventually, he'd master government dealings enough to became the president’s Secretary of Mutant Affairs.
By X3, Beast is
comfortable and proud of his feral mutation, walking around freely in public
without fear of embarrassment or harassment. The Beast of X2, however, doesn’t have a single blue hair on him and, while that’s logically explained by the crew
changing ideas between movies, it’s fun to interpret the discrepancy as being a
result of a disguise (perhaps a holographic one, as he's often used in the
comics.) Believe it or not, speculating on that actually gives a greater
context for his arc in the new movie.
romance with Mystique. Though, they’re both blue and monstrous in the comics, they’ve never
had anything close to a romantic relationship before. Hank’s dated various human girls
while Mystique’s had trysts with Sabretooth, Azazel, Forge and even Destiny. It looks like her arc in FIRST CLASS will see her growing more comfortable with her scaly, natural appearance while, conversely, Beast’s attempts to suppress his own
abnormalities backfire on him.
years after his debut in the comics, Beast often disguised himself with a serum injection
that accelerated mutation and gave him a furry coat. He'd use a second injection to reverse the transformation but, after waiting too long to administer it once,
he was stuck with the fur permanently. The trailers hint at something similar to this, as we see Hank struggling to suppress a fast-acting transformation after dropping a syringe. Presumably, he’s trying to repress the more extreme parts of his mutation with a serum until, ultimately, his own nature wins out.
In the trailers, Hank and Raven bond over a mutual desire to “be normal” even though, later on in the movies' timeline, they end up embracing their monstrous appearances. It seems, then, that the choice is
involuntary for one and voluntary for the other. Considering how no history between
the two is ever alluded to in THE LAST STAND and how Mystique made such a
strong declaration to Nightcrawler in X2 about how she shouldn’t ever have to disguise
herself, I suspect their romance will be short-lived; broken off
by a disagreement on the value of “hiding.” Tragically, Mystique
may be driven into the arms of Azazel while Beast will only come to peace with
his appearance in middle age.
That’s my conjecture, anyway. We'll find out how on-the-mark it is come June 3rd.
Tom Pinchuk’s
the writer of HYBRID BASTARDS! & UNIMAGINABLE. Order them on Amazon here & here. Follow him on Twitter: @tompinchuk
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