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word of advice : contains spoiler for X - Force # 49!As a foundingX - Menhero becomes one of the mathematical group ’s deadly villains of all time , they ’re also undergoing a jaw - drop power - up that has turned them into a one - man army . Not every mutant haspowers apotheosis for fight , and some carry weapons to make up for vulnerabilities in a dangerous world . However , this hoagy - work - villain has gone further , turning themselves into a living armory .
InX - Force # 49 , fans witness Beast ’s continued slide into villainy , as the former hero sandwich raids a Naval weapons station to remember atomic cloth . Save for take to the woods X - Force in a previous issue , this is the first time fans have seen Beast ’s telefloronic armour in action . The suit of clothes turn Beast into a force of nature , as he unleashes DOE blasts which tear normal humans to shreds and shrugs off auto gunman fire like it ’s not even there .
However , Beast ’s armour is just the hint of the iceberg . At the issue ’s end , it ’s revealed why he needs atomic fabric -Beast is building a ignominious - hole bombwhich he intends to utilize to immobilise the mutant army of Arakko , currently under the bidding of tempest and Apocalypse . believe they ’ll get in the way of his own plans , Beast is planning to take one thousand of mutant off the board , rob the X - human of the back - up they ’ll need to win the battle againstthe human extremist group Orchis .
Hank has gone from founding 10 - Man to one of the biggest threat to mutant selection …
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Beast Has Become a One-Man Army
Hank’s Telefloronic Armor Makes Him an Evil Iron Man
Beast ’s new armour is a stolen invention ofthe mutant inventor Forge , who was developing ways for non - combat sport to help protect each other in parking brake situations . For the last few years , Forge has been work with plant - base technology , developing things like self - growing metropolis and seeds that rapidly bloom into teleportation gates . AsBeast launches grenades and live mystifying - ocean pressure , it ’s clear this armor was Forge ’s ancestry - soaked chef-d’oeuvre .
The X - Men ’s loss leader just unlock the full extent of his power , with Marvel confirming he has become a " god " to get the better of mutantkind ’s ultimate foe .
Since betraying X - Force , Beast has start relying heavy on telefloronic tech . Not only hashe developed arm to take down his fellow heroes(including agrisly anti - curative factor gunthat wipe out the quarry with viral plantlife ) , but he ’s also booby - trapped his body . When Wolverine tried to kill Hank in an earlier face - off , Beast ’s dead body abruptly sprang back to life , piloted by a hidden fungal consciousness left behind as a ambush . Beast has also get a way for his awareness to inhabit on through an USA of plant - based zombies , though thankfully X - Force recently used time travel to prevent that special design from coming to realisation .
For all his wickedness , Beast is one of the X - Men ’s smartest heroes , and having been there from the starting , he experience every one of the mutants who are prove to catch him .
X-Men’s Lovable Founder Has Become Truly Evil
Not Only Is Beast Despicable, But He’s Guaranteeing Mutantkind’s Extinction
start in 2020,X - Force volume 6has been the story of Beast ’s gradual stock into evil . Charged with protecting the mutant nation of Krakoa with his own CIA - like black ops mathematical group , Hank quickly began to overreach . former crimes see him spot on fellow mutants and torturing Colossus in a public show of force , and he ’s only gotten bad over clock time . Beast destabilise the country of Terra Verde because their own plant - technical school threatened to rival his , and laterturned a brain - damage Wolverine into his personal bravo . By the end of his tenure as X - Force ’s loss leader , Beast had a secret prison in which he was experiment on fellow sport , and had coif up a serial publication of failsafes to take over the world in the far future as the ' God of all Mutants . '
Beast ’s plan to attack the Arakko mutants makes him a major player in the last battle of the Krakoan Era .
Marvel has repeatedly dashed any hope that Beast is n’t responsible for his actions , especially since fans to begin with theorise that he ’d been replaced by his alternative - macrocosm enemy Dark Beast . cite past stories where Beast go too far , X - Forcehas made a compelling case that Beast has always been an egotist who conceive he knows better than everyone else around him . Being given X - Force - and unblock from any tangible oversight - the mightiness has just go to his head , pave the road to damnation .
As the hug drug - Men face their final engagement , they ’re assembling a newfangled team pattern after the Avengers - one that whole change the game .
gratefully , X - Force have grapple to stop each of Beast ’s program so far , and yet they ’ve failed again and again to either kill or arrest him . For all his evil , Beast is one of the X - Men ’s impertinent heroes , and having been there from the head start , he knows every one of the variation who are seek to catch him . That ’s why X - Force did something unfeignedly unexpected …
The New Beast Is the X-Men’s Only Hope
But the Marvel Universe Isn’t Big Enough for Two Hanks
To catch the demoralize Beast , X - Force latterly activated one of Hank ’s hidden supply of clone bodies , uploading his memory and personality from back when he worked with the Avengers . By removing 40 years of Marvel stories from the fiber , this has created a ' new ' Beast who is appalled by the modern - day version ’s crimes . However , believing X - Force plan to kill him , this new Beast dead ringer has escapedWolverine ’s team and sought out his former good friend - the Avengers known as Wonder Man . The new Beast believes that only by stopping his original ego can he show to the X - humankind that he ’s capable of becoming a good gentleman and rejoin the heroes .
One satisfying element of this ' Beast vs Beast ' combat is that it tiesX - Forcefully into the final chapter of the Krakoan Era , which is presently playing out in Marvel ’s otherX - Mencomics . The mutant army of Arakko are the most powerful plus mutantkind have , and would be a critical force in the final struggle against Orchis . Beast ’s plan to"store"them in a opprobrious pickle for his succeeding use would essentially guarantee that Orchis win the mean solar day , bolt down off most of mutantkind , andsummon the AI god get laid as the Dominionto Earth . Hank has go from founding X - Man to one of the large threat to mutant selection . However , that also imply that if the originalcanstop him , it will be a heroic act that might just corrupt him a second chance .
However , this is n’t a fight of equals . The original Beast ’s telefloronic armor has turned him into a power plant like to Marvel ’s mightiest beings , and he likely has a lot more tricks up his sleeve . As Wolverine , Colossus , Domino , Sage and the rest of X - Force rush to kill Beast , they ’ll find Hank is more powerful than all the premature time he beat them or slip through their hold . Hopefully , the new Beast can serve give X - force play the edge they need to advance , and perhaps win a second opportunity with theX - Menin the bargain .
ex - Force # 49is useable now from Marvel Comics .
