monition : Contains SPOILERS forWolverine # 32As one of Marvel Comics ’ originalX - Men , the bomber known asBeastis a mutant icon known to any devotee of the dealership . Having swear out alongside the cristal - Men , the Avengers , and even the Defenders , Hank McCoy has always done what he call up was effective to hold mutantkind . But his action as the head of Krakoa ’s X - Force have proved that Henry is becoming a Beast in more than just name .

With Beast ’s blood further and further into outright villainy , it only makes sentience that he ’d create a unexampled identity operator to go with his new expectation . And with the name " Dark Beast " already occupy by his alternate - reality ego , Wolverine # 32(by Benjamin Percy , Juan José Ryp , and Frank D’Armata ) reveals that the former Avengers Cuban sandwich is now denote to himself as Beast Prime . It ’s a sign of Hank ’s arrogance , but also a necessary change , seeing as he ’s gone from solo hero to the head of a villainousstrikeforce made up of his own clones .

Beast Prime Is More Than Just A Name

glutton # 32picks up with Beast , now identifying himself as Beast Prime , at the capitulum of procedure for his Weapons of X program , man by mindless dead ringer of Wolverine and subservient clones of himself . In one of the outcome ’s datum pages , he explains the abstract thought behind his Beast Prime moniker as a way of maintain his hierarchy among his less ego - justifying holding himself above his clones by stating , “ Familiarity breed contempt , as they say . ” While this sort of dusty and calculating outlook is one that buff have derive to expect from the former X - gentleman’s gentleman in late years , it ’s a far cry fromthe person the Bouncing Beast used to be . And it ’s even more terrific when the implication of his new mind-set are really considered .

Beast Is No Longer a Hero - He’s a System

Throughout the issue , Beast Prime essentially depicts the Weapons of X as a well - oiled system all strung-out on his ascendancy . By literally lift himself over his fellow Hanks as Beast Prime , he ’s absorb a clear line of superiority over those he considers his subordinates , yet another index number of just how detached he ’s become even from his own man . Not only that , but it ’s clean that despite his own long - establish horse sense of self - importance , he no longer sees himself as a hero sandwich , but as the heart and soul of a larger , colder system . The Weapons of X ’s base is a gigantic , skeletal eubstance Beast Prime can control , and it ’s no co-occurrence that he sit in the place of the brain .

Beast Prime Must Die So Beast Can Live

mayhap more so than any other member of the XTC - Men before , Beast ’s descent into outright villainy is heavy to abnegate and potentially the most drastic of all . His assassinations and ill-usage of his own clones draws a clear line in the sand between the buff - favorite and joyful hero he once was and the undeniable monster that he ’s become . But with such a clear picture right at the forefront of every lecturer ’s head , it ’ll be that much easier for readers to go for the potentialreturn of Beast ’s expansive selfif he can indeed be resurrected using honest-to-goodness memory imprint after the inevitable downfall of Beast Prime .

The Bouncing Beast was always a fan - favorite X - Man thanks to his cheerful and humorous personality . But behind that amiable facade , there was also a stale intellect that Hank McCoy has now fully embraced . X - Menfans may hanker for the return of theBeastthey love , but it ’s exculpated that Beast Prime has become a different someone - one devoid of mercy , and with bountiful plans for mutantkind .

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