Post by Hank McCoy on Oct 8, 2008 7:46:42 GMT -5
Hank McCoy A.K.A Beast
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Canon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/etc):Copy rights Marvel
Characters civilian name:Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy Ph.D.
Code names/Aliases:Beast
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Mutant
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Gender: Male
Age:unknown
Apparent Age:unknown
Hair: blueish-black
Eyes: blue
Height and weight: 5’11” and 402lbs
Appearance:Once a big blue simian like man, thank to an acceleration of his mutation Beast has a more feline. His body covered in blueish-black fur; However, where human have mainly four finger and the opposable thumbs, beast has three on both his hands and feet. Both with razor sharp claws. His face favoring his feline side while still holding on to his human features.
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Super Powers:
Genetic Atavism: It is possible that Beast's mutation is a result of genetic atavism (or genetic traits that resurface in a species after many years of dormancy). He also possesses neotenous (or traits in a descendant that resemble those of an ancestor organism, like a chimpanzee trait in a human) characteristics, which would explain why he has a big modern brain with an ape-like physique.
Due to secondary mutation Beast transformed from his original ape-like physique to a more cat-like physique.
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. He has experienced a further increase in his physical strength after mutation into his current feline/lionesque form, though the exact amount of weight he can lift isn't known. It is known, however, that he can lift more than 25 tons.
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, 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 at gymnastics apparatus. 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 would 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.
Superhuman 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 and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human 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.
Learned Abilities:
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 even 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.
Equipment: None
Weaknesses (Must Have):Beast (for the most part) is still human, he can still be hurt by nearly the same things.
Background:Born the son of Norton McCoy, a nuclear plant worker, his father was exposed to the radiation, that thou left him unchanged the it altered his genes, and made his son a mutant. Unlike most Hank’s mutations showed at birth. unusually large hands and feet. He was also endowed with an innate superhuman intellect. In high school, Hank was a star football player and held a thirst for knowledge. But do to his looked he earned the nickname “Beast.” However, one classmate named Jennifer came to know the real Hank after he began tutoring her in biology. On the night of the junior prom, Jennifer insisted that Hank accompany her as her date, and stood up for him after he was teased. He was asked to leave once it was common knowledge he was a mutant.
Shortly after, through a turn of events, Hank was invited to join the X-men. Not one to turn down the thought of a private institution that offered him limitless academic opportunities. Hank joined Professor Xavier at his school. A bright student in both academics and his workouts in the danger room. Hank completed his doctorial studies under Xavier and graduated. Taking a position as genetic researcher at Brand Corporation, under Carl Maddicks. It is here that he discovered the MGH, the Mutant Growth Hormone. He went to tell Maddicks his finding but soon learned that Maddicks was planning to steal top secret government documents. Taking it upon himself to Stop the doctor, Hank took the serum and became the simian beast. However having stayed in that form for too long Beast found he couldn’t change back. Often wearing mask to hide his new physique.
After receiving his doctorate in genetics and being considered one of the world's experts on mutations and evolutionary human biology, Hank left Brand to join the Avengers , the Defenders, and later joining with some original X-men to form X-factor. Before, returning to the X-men. Since then he has helped find a cure for Legacy virus, and undergone his second mutation.
Personality :A Renaissance man, Beast is both intellectual and a physical person. Often falls into the same question, “Why he wasn’t the lucky ones?” Battling with bouts of loneliness and rejection. He struggles to be accepted outside his physical features. He has recently developed a fear of human emotions. A fear that keeps him at a distant from others in the romantic sense.
Thou this he is still a prankster and witty person. A man with a million dollar vocabulary. Beast holds on to the hope that man will one day accept mutants. It is a dream he shares with all X-men and Hoping that he will be seen at the Genius and not the beast.
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Brief Sample Roleplay
It had been a long time since Beast left the X-men, since the start of the war, he had noticed the growing tensing in the mansion. It wasn’t long before some had gone to join the Untouchable. Beast himself found he was drafted into a war, he didn’t agree with. The thought of involving mutant and superhumans. However, Hank understood the need to serve ones country and what was going on in the middle east was wrong. Yet, it was the death of his mentor and friend, Charles Xavier, that drove Beast to his decision.
His thought of the past interrupted by the shriek of a passing prehistoric bird. It flew gracefully in the sky as Beast hung up top a tree. Hidden in the mist of the jungle of the savage lands. Beast allowed himself to drop to the ground. His aerobatic skills evident as he moved from branch to branch before landing on the ground below. It wasn’t his home but at least here Beast could escape for a while. He needed time for himself, away from the X-men for a moment, Away from the war.
Nonetheless the time was growing when he would have to return, as he walked towards his cave-hidden home, he found himself wondering, what happened to the world, that he left behind.
