Why does beast look like a cat

Geez, comics, why are you so mean? Stagnate more already! For a little while Hank returned to human form, but he contracted a virus, because although he is a doctor, Hank apparently spends a lot of time licking money he finds in the street. The virus simultaneously made Hank stronger and stupider. Like beer! The only cure for Hank's condition was reupholstery, so he blue himself again. He replaced our Hank for a while and dyed his fur to match, at which point he was presumably Dark Blue Beast.

Another other-dimensional Beast. This one was mutated into an amphibian thing with demonic goat legs, because there is an infinite number of universes and sometimes you land in a really silly one.

OK, it's not on-the-record, but ever since Disney bought Marvel I'm pretty sure it's in continuity. The trouble with Cat Beast is that his every change of expression tended to look like a new Cheezburger meme. In his first proper appearance in the X-Men movieverse not counting a fur-free cameo in 's X-Men 2 Beast was played by Kelsey Grammer and styled to look a bit like the classic blue ape version and quite a lot like a presidential smurf.

Of course, Beast wasn't too keen on his new cat-like look. For one thing, the mutation caused him to lose a lot of his manual dexterity as his once nimble simian hands were downgraded into clumsy paws. Beast eventually grew used to his new appearance, and so did fans. While the cat makeover was initially a shocking change to this classic character, Marvel kept Beast's catlike appearance around for over a decade. Still, Beast's look wasn't done changing.

There are still a few more entries left. The divisive "Avengers vs. That one action set Cyclops down an extreme road as he cut ties from most of his teammates and led his own group of revolutionary X-Men. This series of events led to Beast's return to the X-Men after a period of estrangement, and Beast's return started with a bang. Not only was Hank going through another gradual and painful mutation, he decided on a drastic course of action to try to shock some sense into his old teammate Cyclops.

Beast traveled back in time and brought the original teenage X-Men forward in time -- including a young, human version of himself. That happened just as Beast's mutation went critical, causing his body to change one more time. With the help of his teen self's intellect, Beast came out the other end of his mutation in a new form, one slightly more apelike than his classic form -- and without the distinctive haircut. This is the form that the adult Beast still has today. While adult Hank's form has been stable over the past four years, the teenage Hank's just got a shake up.

After being brought forward in time, the teenage Hank was shocked by what happened to his adult self. He vowed to not go down the same path as the older Beast since he saw the danger of self-experimentation. Still, it might be Hank McCoy's destiny to mutate. While teen Hank has steered clear of scientific experiments, he has recently taken to sorcery after a mission with Doctor Strange and began dabbling in the dark arts.

This different kind of experimentation ultimately led Beast down the same road his adult self went down. In "All-New X-Men" 16, Beast meddled with a spell in order to stop an invading army of demons and save his friends. He partly did this because his own amateur magic show had made Earth vulnerable to demonic attack. The spell, which literally attached itself to Hank, unleashed a new, gray-furred demonic Beast, one packing plenty of magic power. Unlike other beast forms, though, Hank was reverted to his human form not long after unleashing this new beast mode.

Whether or not this is the last time we've seen this demon Beast remains unclear. Beast's thoughts at the end of the issue seem to indicate that the form will return in the future, although the Beast we've seen in the "X-Men Blue" promo art is human in form.

How or if this new form will appear again remains a mystery. Perhaps for the first time ever, Hank will be able to alternate back and forth between his human form and a demonic Beast form? The teenage Beast's storyline continues in the "Inhumans vs. A lifelong obsession with comics led him to Wizard Magazine in and then to writing gigs for The Robot's Voice, Marvel. The device is a high-powered sensory stimulant in the form of a ball of string, which Beast had alluded to as being his greatest fear.

Once restored, he is quick to put on a suit and tie and help Wolverine with a hyper-magnetic device. He, along with his teammates, are taken from the Mansion by the government agency S. However, Beast is not a particular fan of the policy and secretly violates his stance by providing Spider-Man with a holographic disguise to enable him to continue teaching at Midtown High after his secret identity has been exposed.

Despite his personal feelings about the Superhuman Registration Act, Beast enlists his services to the Initiative program after the war's end, to assist in the training of the next generation of superheroes. The X-Men and various other mutants attend the funeral of a young mutant boy named Matt Landru who has been killed in a road traffic accident and muse on what this means for mutant-kind. Beast plans to find a way to reverse M-Day.

He is unsuccessful in his research, but the final part shows him holding a child wearing a three-eyed smiley face shirt saying "Evolution" on it as a promotion of the Messiah Complex. Beast summons several X-Men to the fight. Beast is endangered by the Hulk when he is saved by several of his teammates. Charles shows them what he saw and Beast is shocked and apologizes to Hulk.

Beast is later seen at the Mansion when it is attacked by the Sentinels, who have been taken over by an unknown person. When Iceman arrives at the school with the New X-Men, Beast works with Prodigy and is able to stabilize the mortally wounded Hellion, as well as the other New X-Men and X-Men injured in their battles with the Purifiers and the Marauders , respectively.

He is later present during the battle on Muir Island and is among the first to reach Professor Xavier after he is accidentally shot by Bishop. Xavier's body soon disappears. He's also is seen closing down the ruins of the X-Mansion and taking Martha Johansson with him.

He is also still seeing Abigail Brand, who requests that he take a weekend off from the X-Men so that she can 'tamper with him extensively'. He helps Tabitha Smith , teaching the young and flippant woman to use research instead of brutal strength to fight her enemy, a mutant with sedation powers called Nuwa. Only after they stop tube-grown super Nazis, does Nemesis agree. They also recruit Madison Jeffries as well.

Together, they created a time-travel device so that they could travel into the future and retrieve the mutant Messiah. However, because they created a device for time travel in so little time, the side-effect of the device is that the user's biology breaks down upon entering the future, so it will automatically bring the person back in thirty-two and a half hours. Despite his ethical protests to the contrary, Cyclops decides to use it on them, offering the antidote in return for the Skrulls' retreat.

In order to save mutantkind from the effects of M-Day, Beast and Angel had to gather a team of specialists to help them. They then returned to Graymalkin Industries to meet their final member Dr. Kavita Rao who was formerly trying to cure mutation. Beast and the X-Club traveled back to in order to find Dr.

Nemesis's parents and discover the origins of modern mutation. During the mission, they also fought an early version of a Sentinel created by the Hellfire Club, and inadvertently caused the San Francisco earthquake. However, when they returned to the present, they found that their DNA evidence had been buried beneath where the Dreaming Celestial was standing in the park. After being captured, Beast became a test subject for the Omega Machine designed by Dark Beast to eradicate mutant powers and place them in Weapon Omega while being held prisoner on Alcatraz Island by Norman Osborn, along with Professor X.

Beast is shown getting weaker and mentions losing his claws while hooked up to the machine. Beast is seen briefly in Utopia: Part Six with Professor X and Emma Frost on a hospital table with the X-Men regaining his strength, but his current condition is unknown.

Yuriko Takiguchi died of natural causes shortly after, and Beast spoke at his funeral. Beast seemed increasingly disillusioned with Cyclops' leadership and methods, such as allowing Magneto to become a member to his time under torture under the Dark Beast. However, shortly after joining her in space, Brand's co-commander, Henry Peter Gyrich hired by Norman Osborn begins to round-up the aliens residing on Earth, in a xenophobic attempt at avoiding another Secret Invasion.

As a result of Henry's plan, he has even made moves against Brand, resulting in her, Beast, and the dragon Lockheed, becoming fugitives from S. Beast later returns in an issue of Uncanny X-Men to attend the funeral of his friend and teammate, Kurt Wagner, where he confronts Scott Summers and blames Kurt's death on Scott's increasingly militant and extremist attitude to protecting the mutant species at all costs even at the cost of sacrificing his friends to do so.

Despite his issues with Cyclops, Beast remains on Utopia to help deal with the attacks being made by Bastion.

After Bastion is defeated Beast walks away from the X-Men while being criticized by Namor for turning his back on the mutant race. Beast sides with Wolverine and the Avengers and goes to meet the Phoenix Force in space. Henry McCoy wondered why he wasn't one of the "lucky ones". If he had to remain a mutant, why did he have a power that made him look and sometimes feel like a beast?

He continued to struggle for the acceptance of others. As a man of arts and letters and the sciences, Beast was very much the Renaissance man, and while his peers in the intellectual community knew this, he never received a Nobel Prize or got invited to the National Academy of Sciences as they still considered him very much a mutant.

He even knew what it was like to be jilted by the proverbial Beauty — his recent fear of human emotion had caused him to turn away from long time lover Trish Tilby, who had finally seemed to find the error in her ways as far as attitude towards his secondary mutation. Despite his ongoing battle with the demons of loneliness and rejection, he was an inveterate prankster and wit, and besides his brutish exterior, Beast was the most literate and eloquent of the X-Men, possessing a million-dollar vocabulary.

Equal parts biochemist and activist, Beast focused on the X-Men's goals of building better relationships between man and mutant. In immersing himself in this campaign, Beast held hope that in the world he and the other X-Men dream of, he'll finally be known more for the genius within than for the creature outside.