Post by notcable on Apr 26, 2010 21:20:00 GMT -6
Henry Philip McCoy
The Basics
- Real Name: Dr. Henry Phillip McCoy
- Alias / Codename: Beast
- Gender: Male
- Age: 40
- Affiliation: Hero
- Canon / Original: Canon
- Face Claim [if original]: HAHAHA. No.
Personality[/size][/font][/color]
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- Intelligent
- Witty
- Kind
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. Henry was every bit a human being plagued by duality: man/beast; genius/sports star; gentle giant/feral aggressor.
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.[/blockquote]Extraordinary Features
Powers & AbilitiesWeaknesses
- Superhuman Strength: The Beast has always possessed some degree of superhuman strength, the limits of which have varied at times due to subsequent mutation. During his teens, he was able to lift approximately 1 ton. After mutating into his simian form, and after this mutation eventually stabilized, his strength was increased to the point where he could lift about 10 tons, which was sufficient to smash through a brick wall with a single punch and to tie an iron barbell into a knot. Although the Beast has since mutated into a somewhat larger, more feline form his strength still remains at the 10 ton level.
- Superhuman Speed: The Beast can run and move at speeds that are slightly beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. He can can run at speeds up to 40 miles an hour over short distances, particularly if he runs on all fours.
- Superhuman Stamina: The Beast's highly advanced musculature produces less 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.
- Superhuman Durability: The 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. However, he can withstand physical impacts, such as falling from several stories or being physically struck by many superhumanly strong beings that would either severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no discomfort.
- Superhuman Agility: The Beast's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Like some of his other powers, his agility has varied at times due to ongoing and subsequent mutations. While in his simian form, he had the agility of a great ape combined with the acrobatic prowess of an Olympic level gymnast. He could walk a tightrope or a slack rope as easily as most people can walk on a sidewalk. He could 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 top any Olympic record in gymnastics. Upon mutating into his feline form, his agility remains roughly the same, though it has taken some time for him to become accustomed to the physical changes.
- Superhuman Dexterity: He can perform many tasks with his feet as easily as a human could do 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. Although he can still perform many of these same tasks in his current feline form, his dexterity isn't quite what it once was.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: The 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 cold, within a few hours. More severe injuries, like broken bones, can heal within a few days, whereas normal humans might take weeks or even months.
- Super-humanly Acute Senses: Hank possesses enhanced, acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals, enabling him to see and hear distant objects more clearly than a normal human, and identify and track someone purely by scent. He also possesses cat-like night-vision.
- Pheromones: Beast has the ability to secrete pheromones to attract members of the opposite sex.
- Claws and Fangs: The Beast sports retractable, razor sharp claws at the tip of each finger and toe. Their natural edge, coupled with his strength, are sufficient to rend most conventional materials including flesh, wood, stone, and even some types of metals. He also possesses elongated canines that he can use, if he chooses to do so, as effective weapons in close quarter combat situations.
- Genius-level Intellect: Henry McCoy possesses a genius-level intellect and is a world-renowned biochemist with great insight into mutant genetics and evolutionary biology: a peer of Professor Xavier, Moira MacTaggart, and Kavita Rao. He also has expertise in chemistry, physics, differential equations, electronics, nano-effusive devices, anatomy, philosophy, ancient cultures, art history, musicology, and literature. He is a polyglot. Beast is also an accomplished keyboard musician.
- Hand to Hand Combatant: The hyperactive, bouncing Beast is an excellent hand-to-hand fighter. He gained his initial combat training from Professor Xavier, and then continued his tutelage in combat gymnastics from Captain America. He typically uses a freestyle form of combat, similar to that of Spider-Man, that allows him to make full use of his great strength and agility. During times of anger, however, the Beast is known to resort to brawling and street fighting tactics.
- Mortal - Although, it is difficult to kill him. He can be killed by a bullet or stab wound. Disease can also kill him off.
Feral Form - Becomes the two s's, Savage and Stupid.
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The Role-Player[/font][/size][/color]Early Years
- Current Residence: With the X-Men
Henry McCoy is a mutant, born with the power of simian-like enhanced agility, reflexes and strength. He gained his first furry form after drinking a biogenic serum that he had developed that was supposed to suppress his mutant powers.
Henry McCoy's father, Norton, worked at a nuclear power plant where he was exposed to massive amounts of radiation during an accident. Norton was unharmed, but the radiation affected his genes, and as a result his son Henry was born a mutant. Unlike most mutants, Henry showed signs of mutation from birth: unusually large hands and feet. He was also endowed with an innate superhuman intellect.
Thanks to his enhanced agility, strength, and speed, Henry became a star football player as a teenager. He hid his mutation and thirst for knowledge in plain sight - until the school asked him to leave after he was exposed as a mutant. His remarkable athletic abilities and brilliance attracted the notice of Professor Charles Xavier, who was forming the original X-Men and offered Hank, who excelled in the classroom, the chance for unlimited academic opportunities at his prestigious School for Gifted Youngsters. The costumed criminal named El Conquistador, however, also took note of his abilities and captured McCoy's parents in order to force McCoy to aid him in his criminal schemes. With the help of Xavier and the X-Men, Henry defeated the Conquistador, and he then joined the X-Men, taking the codename "Beast."
X-Men:
Under Xavier's tutelage, Hank's days were rich with differential equations, Proust and workouts in the Danger Room. During this time he dated Vera Cantor, a librarian. He was sought out by Kraven the Hunter, who wanted to hone his skills in battle against the Beast. Kraven drugged to Beast to dull his reflexes, but it caused Hank to regress to a more feral nature and went into a berserker rage. Hank would have killed Kraven if his teammates hadn’t separated them.
A brilliant student, McCoy completed his doctoral studies and finally left the X-Men and Xavier's school to take a position as a genetic researcher with the Brand Corporation. There he developed a serum that acted as a catalyst for activating latent mutations. (This serum would become the basis of the Mutant Growth Hormone.) On drinking the serum McCoy underwent radical physical changes. He grew grey fur over his entire body, his ears became larger and pointed, claws sprouted, and his canine teeth became larger, resembling fangs. The serum also further increased his superhuman agility, endurance, speed, and strength, as well as endowing him with an extraordinary healing factor which repaired damage to his body as fast as it was created. An encounter with Quasimodo caused his life force to be virtually expelled, which resulted in the gray fur becoming blue and the loss of his extraordinary healing factor.
Avengers and the Defenders:
Eventually, McCoy left Brand, joined the Avengers, and publicly revealed his dual identity. Beast tracked down the X-Men and found them working in a circus, enthralled by Mesmero. Hank managed to snap the X-Men out of the illusion, just before Magneto arrived and transported them to his Antarctica base. The Phoenix and the Beast ended up seperated from the other X-Men, each group mistakenly believing the other to have died. During this time, he became the best of friends with Wonder Man.
Hank witnessed Phoenix' transformation into Dark Phoenix. He was among the X-Men who had to duel the Imperial Guard over Phoenix' fate. In the end, Phoenix committed suicide. Later, a Skrull posing as Jarvis poisoned Vera Cantor to blackmail the Avengers into retrieving a powerful gem called Resurrection Stone for him. Beast was able to save her with the help of Doctor Strange, Reed Richards, and Daimon Hellstorm.
After years of service with the Avengers, the Beast took it upon himself to reorganize another super-hero group, the Defenders, into a more formal combat organization. His X-Men cohorts Angel and Iceman served in the Defenders along with him, but the team collapsed after a climactic battle in which several other members seemingly perished.
X-Factor:
Following the return of Jean Grey, the Beast and his fellow members of the original X-Men formed a new organization, the first X-Factor, which publicly appeared to hunt down allegedly dangerous mutants but secretly taught them how to use their superhuman abilities. Shortly after the formation of X-Factor, the Beast was captured by the geneticist Dr. Carl Maddicks, who performed an experiment that caused the Beast to revert to his original, more human appearance. Some time later, however, the mutagenic powers of the mutant Infectia triggered the Beast's return to his furry, more animalistic look.
During this time, Hank dated television news reporter Trish Tilby. After Professor Charles Xavier returned to Earth following an extended period in outer space with the Starjammers, the Beast and his fellow X-Factor founders returned to the X-Men.
Return to the X-Men:
For years the Beast remained an active member of the X-Men as well as serving as the resident technological and medical genius at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
One of Beast's greatest challenges emerged with Stryfe's fatal techno-virus. Hank was already despondent, as he was turning thirty and questioned his life accomplishments. His frustrations became further compounded when Professor Xavier and Moira MacTaggart didn't ask for his assistance with the Legacy research, but it turned out Xavier was just giving him his privacy. Perusing through their data, he learned that the problem was more difficult than he had initially imagined. Hank always believed that, given time, he could solve any problem; the Legacy Virus had become his obsession. He went as far as making an unethical decision in giving Sinister information on the virus, since he had more resources and lesser moral baggage to inhibit him.
A turning point came when Dark Beast finished some of the formulas, occasionally prying more information from Hank, whom he imprisoned and replaced for a while. The most critical step toward a solution, though, was when Dr. MacTaggart discovered a cure due to Mystique's irresponsible manipulation of a virus strand. This was still incomplete and it took the Beast to design the cure. Based on Moira's notes, Beast concocted the anti-virus to much elation, but this good act soon was repaid with a heavy toll — Colossus had to sacrifice his life to release the remedy.
After mourning the loss of a teammate, Hank briefly left the school with Storm and her X-Treme team in search of Destiny's diaries. Hank underwent a Secondary Mutation that caused him to mutate further into a more feline creature after having his "latent genetic potential" jump-started by Psylocke. After an attack by Vargas that left Psylocke dead, Beast was gravely injured and returned to the Institute.
The combination of a loss of a friend and his further mutation caused Beast to become very insecure, feeling that he was devolving into an animal. He finally ended his relationship with Trish Tilby as she was afraid what would happen to her image if she was seen with him in public. After he discovered Cassandra Nova was inhabiting Xavier's body, Nova manipulated Beak into beating Beast so dreadfully as to place him into a deep coma. Hank eventually woke up, just in time for Jean Grey and Emma Frost to perform a psychic surgery and keep Xavier alive. Over time, Beast struck up a strong friendship with Emma, even collecting her shattered diamond form and arranging thousands of pieces into place. He also began claiming he was gay to the public.
Falling for John Sublime's trap, Hank uncovered that the human race would be extinct within a few generations. Working hard to keep the X-Men together and solve the human extinction problem, he turned to the drug Kick and got infected by Sublime. Corrupted, Hank caused a chain of events leading the world to ruin. Phoenix disinfected Hank of the Sublime parasite and traveled back in time to end the bleak timeline.
Hank was still an active X-Man, working with Cyclops on his squad. He also had recently questioned his intentions as far as mutant rights went, firstly during Kavita Rao's so-called cure, then later after the events of House of M. He seriously considered taking the "cure" but decided against it after vigorous urging by fellow team member Wolverine, because it would send out a bad message to other mutants.
After learning that the cure was developed by fellow geneticist Kavita Rao through experimentation on mutant corpses — as well as on the X-Man Colossus — Beast helped take down Rao's operation. When the villainous Hellfire Club attacked the X-Men, Cassandra Nova telepathically stripped away Beast's higher human consciousness, leaving him with only his animal instincts. After hunting Wolverine around campus (and even eating his leg), a student named Blindfold faced him down with a device he and Xavier had built in case his consciousness was ever lost. The device was 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 was quick to put on a suit and tie and save Wolverine with a hyper-magnetic device. He, along with his teammates, were taken from the Mansion by the government agency S.W.O.R.D. and airlifted to the alien Breakworld.
Decimation
During the Civil War, Beast, along with the other X-Men, assumed a neutral stance. However, Beast was not a particular fan of the policy and secretly violated his stance by providing Spider-Man with a holographic disguise to enable him to continue teaching at Midtown High after his secret identity had been exposed. Despite his personal feelings about the Superhuman Registration Act, Beast enlisted his services to the Initiative program after the war's end, to assist in the training of the next generation of superheroes.
He endeavored to find a way to reverse the de-powering effects of M-Day, and thus prevent the extinction of the mutant race, as not only had most of the current mutants lost their powers, but no new mutants were developing powers. To this end, Beast enlisted numerous villains, after having exhausted the help of the likes of Reed Richards and Tony Stark to help him understand the situation. Hank traveled to Transia, in search of the High Evolutionary, whose earlier cryptic comments aroused Hank's curiosity. Scaling Mount Wundagore, he and his group of travelers were confronted by the Knights of Wundagore.
Beast helped Professor X repair Cerebra as the X-Men were tracking down the first child to be born with the X-Gene since M-Day. He survived the Sentinel attack at the Mansion, worked with Prodigy, and was 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 was later present during the battle on Muir Island and was among the first to reach Professor Xavier after he was accidentally shot by Bishop. In the aftermath, Cyclops sent Beast to search for Professor Xavier, whose status was unknown by the X-Men. Beast closed down the ruins of the X-Mansion and took Martha Johansson with him.
Hank was part of the team setting up a new X-Men headquarters in San Francisco, California. He was working closely with Cyclops, Emma Frost and the rookie X-Man, Armor. He was also still seeing Abigail Brand, who requested that he take a weekend off from the X-Men so that she could 'tamper with him extensively'.
During the Skrull Invasion Beast discovered that the Super-Skrulls with X-Men abilities could be infected with the Legacy Virus. Despite his ethical protests to the contrary, Cyclops decided 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 gathered Madison Jeffries, Yuriko Takiguchi, Dr. Nemesis, Dr. Kavita Rao (who was formerly trying to cure mutation). Beast and the X-Club traveled back to 1906 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. Yuriko Takiguchi died of natural causes shortly after, and Beast spoke at his funeral.
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.
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- Name: Dakota
- Experience: I dun know.
- Characters: Tidus, Nova, Victor Mancha, Kick-Ass
- Custom Title: Beast with Brains
- Other Notes: Credit to Marvel Wiki for the powers, weakness, and history.
- Sample Role-Play Post:
The Keene Act. It was another way for the government to limit the rights of the citizens of America. It was like the Superhuman Registration Act, but people could still save the world. Of course they'd have to give their identity away to the government. Both were acts that should never have happened. Infringing on the rights of citizens was never a good thing. The government seemed to have forgotten this.
The X-Men were usually neutral in things relating to the government, such as the Superhuman Registration Act. Hank McCoy was neutral in the Civil War, but he helped the anti-registration side. Even now, Hank did not support the Keene Act. Stopping vigilantes would have the crime rate double and the police were usually unable to do much against super powered foes or a large number of people.
Standing in front of the rather large crowd of people, Hank looked over his notes. Each note gave details on the Keene Act and ideas on a better solution to the "problem." Upon opening his mouth to speak, a shot rang out. A bullet that was clearly intended for him had missed its target. Instead it hit a child. Many mutant haters had showed up.
The X-Men were usually neutral in things relating to the government, such as the Superhuman Registration Act. Hank McCoy was neutral in the Civil War, but he helped the anti-registration side. Even now, Hank did not support the Keene Act. Stopping vigilantes would have the crime rate double and the police were usually unable to do much against super powered foes or a large number of people.
Standing in front of the rather large crowd of people, Hank looked over his notes. Each note gave details on the Keene Act and ideas on a better solution to the "problem." Upon opening his mouth to speak, a shot rang out. A bullet that was clearly intended for him had missed its target. Instead it hit a child. Many mutant haters had showed up.