Marvel Comics/Beast

**Beast** (Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy) is a mutant from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Ape Physiology:** It is possible that Beast's mutation is a result of genetic atavism, genetic traits that resurface in a species after many generations of dormancy. He also possesses neotenous characteristics, which would explain why he has a modern brain with an ape-like physique.

Due to a Secondary Mutation, Beast transformed from his original ape-like physique to a more cat-like one. A subsequent mutation affected him, and he required the help of his past self to stabilize his new appearance.

* **Enhanced Strength:** In his teen years, Beast was able to lift about one ton. From breaking chains to headbutting through a solid metal wall, he always made full use of his physical prowess by combining muscular strength with agile kinetic buildup. After his mutation into a blue simian form, his strength was increased to the point where he could lift about 10 tons, enabling him to smash through brick walls with a single punch, toss a small car, and tie an iron barbell into a knot.
	+ **Enhanced Leap:** Beast's strength extends to teh muscles in his legs, allowing him to leap a height of 32 feet hight and 50 feet in a standing broad jump.
* **Enhanced Speed:** Beast can run and move at speeds that are slightly beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete despite his abnormal size. He can run at speeds up to 40 miles per hour for short distances, particularly if he runs on all fours. This also allows Beast to attack opponents before they can react and pull their trigger fingers and keep up with opponents who can move at low-level superhuman speeds.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Beast's highly advanced musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than that of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him. He has also commented that, after his mutation into a feline-like form, he no longer needs a full night of sleep, although it is unknown if he still retains this side effect of his stamina after regaining his ape-like form again.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Beast's bodily tissues are harder and more resistant to certain types of injuries than the bodies of normal humans. His physiology can withstand great impact forces, though he can be injured by many types of conventional weapons, such as standard firearms and bladed weapons. He can also withstand physical impacts, such as falling from several stories, without suffering any broken bones or sprains.
* **Enhanced Agility:** Beast's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. While in his simian form, he has the agility of a great ape combined with the acrobatic prowess of an Olympic level gymnast. He can walk on a tightrope or a slack rope as easily as most people can walk on a sidewalk. He can also walk on his hands for many hours or perform a complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts, such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or surpass any Olympic record in gymnastics.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:** Beast's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are on levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. His training with the X-Men, as well as his experience battling enemies, has granted him the reaction time to evade gunfire. He can react at low-level superhuman speeds, even catching smaller missiles mid-air with his feet. His reflexes are a partial reason why the Beast is so agile and fast despite the abnormal bulk of his ape-like form.
* **Enhanced Dexterity:** He can perform many tasks with his feet as easily as with his hands. His manual and pedal dexterity are so great that he can write using both hands at once or tie knots in rope with his toes.
* **Enhanced Regeneration:** Beast's metabolism enables him to repair mild to moderate injuries much faster than a normal human. For instance, he can recover from minor ailments, such as a severe cold or fever within a few hours. More severe injuries, like broken bones, heal within a span of few hours. He cannot, however, regenerate destroyed organs or severed limbs.
	+ **Disease Resistance:** Beast possesses a highly advanced immune system, which is a partial reason why he is able to recover from mild ailments, among other forms of sickness, within a few hours.
	+ **Toxin Resistance:** Beast also possesses a high immunity to foreign chemicals, such as tranquilizers and certain types of poisons.
	+ **Thermal Resistance:** Due to a combination of his healing powers and his fine coat of blue fur, Beast is resistant to freezing temperatures. This was evident even before he attained his ape-like form, as he was frozen solid by Iceman for a short time and survived with a moderate case of shivers once freed.
	+ **Longevity:** Beast has a slight degree of slowed aging due to his own healing abilities. Despite being 40 years of age since the time of Cassandra Nova's attack, he still retains the physical appearance and vitality of a man in his prime.
* **Psychic Resistance:** Beast possesses moderate resistance to telepathic manipulation and was able to resist Cassandra Nova's high-level telepathic powers for a short time until she used his fears of devolving into a mindless animal against him.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Beast possesses enhanced, acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals.
	+ **Enhanced Vision:** He can see distant objects more clearly than a normal human.
		- **Night Vision:** He also possesses cat-like night vision that allows him to see in near-total darkness.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing:** He can hear distant sounds more clearly than a normal human.
	+ **Enhanced Olfaction:** He can identify and track someone purely by scent over open terrain.
	+ **Enhanced Tactile Sense:** His hands and feet are sensitive enough to detect electronic signals through solid walls and floors.
* **Pheromone Manipulation:** Beast has the ability to secrete pheromones to attract members of the opposite sex.
* **Claw Manifestation:** Beast sports retractable, 3" razor-sharp claws at the tip of each finger and toe. Their natural edges, coupled with his physical strength, are sufficient to rend most conventional materials, including flesh, wood, stone, and even metal with little effort and enable him to climb up vertical surfaces by wedging his fingers and toes into the smallest of cracks.

#### Former Powers

**Black Vortex Empowerment:** When Beast submitted to the power of the Black Vortex, the cosmic energies infused into him augmented both his genius intellect and mutant capabilities, boosting his already impressive powerset and understanding of the universe to new heights.

* **Flight:** Beast could fly under his own power.
* **Enhanced Cognition:** His brain and analytical thinking had been boosted to unprecedented levels, making his mind comparable to that of a quantum computer, enabling him to fabricate a detailed map of the space-time continuum which would enable him to predict and act on any and all possible outcomes that may occur.
* **Energy Blasts:** Like all others who were altered by the Black Vortex, Beast could discharge potent blasts of energy from his being at will.
* **Cosmic Awareness:** Either from a combination of his natural intellect or interaction with the Black Vortex, Beast had achieved a form of epiphany that entitled him enlightenment to the truth of the cosmos.

**Symbiote Empowerment:** While on Ulgriath, Beast bonded to a symbiote that escaped from Haze Mancer's collection that adapted to his unique powers. While bonded to it. Beast's appearance was similar to his demonic form, and it augmented his physical strength and enabled him to summon symbiote-augmented demons as extensions of his body. This symbiote later separated from him to return to its homeworld.

* **Summoning**

**Sorcery:** Taking Doctor Strange's advice, Beast decided to delve into magic and many of its practices. Dabbling in the mystic arts granted Beast with an odd new form, one in which he can channel immense amounts of magical powers, including:

* **Teleportation**
* **Time Travel**
* **Portal Generation**
* **Transformation**

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect:** Beast is one of the eight smartest people on the planet. He has six Ph.D.s, including one in biophysics. A world-renowned biochemist, Beast's greatest asset is his keen scientific mind. As the X-Men's resident technological and medical genius, he possesses extraordinary expertise in genetics, biochemistry, and electronics. He discovered the hormonal extract that is the chemical cause of mutation and cured the Legacy Virus. Among his technological feats, Beast has designed and built Cerebra, a time travel device with the X-Club, a machine that separated the Evolutionaries from cosmic rays, and a thermonuclear reactor.
	+ **Biophysics**
	+ **Biochemistry**
	+ **Genetics**
	+ **Technology**
	+ **Medicine**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Beast is an excellent hand-to-hand fighter. He gained his initial combat training from Professor X and continued his tutelage in combat gymnastics from Captain America. He typically uses a freestyle form of combat that allows him to make full use of his great strength and agility. During times of anger, Beast is known to resort to brawling and street-fighting tactics.
* **Multilingualism:** He is fluent in several languages, including English, German, French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, and Latverian. The Black Swan has also been teaching him a few extinct languages.
* **Strategics and Tactics:** He is a capable leader who had led his own team of Defenders with fellow X-Men Iceman and Angel as teammates. Even when he is not the leader of a team, he has been a key member in some of the greatest team accomplishments.
	+ **Leadership**
* **Indomitable Will:** Beast's dedication to science and the co-existence between humans and mutants is unwavering. He never gave up on finding a cure for the Legacy Virus and has great compassion for both humans and mutants alike.

### Weaknesses

* **Animal Instincts:** For years, Beast has had to come to terms with his increasing animal instincts, which come with each new mutation. Cassandra Nova took advantage of this fear by making him act like an animal much to his humiliation until Beak managed to break him out of her control. Due to Beast's transformation into a cat-like being, he has developed a carnivorous taste for flesh, which he is conflicted over.
* **Vulnerable Senses:** Due to his animal-like mutation, the only other weakness that Beast has is the fact that his heightened senses can be taken advantage of.