Captain America is the One Who Turned XMens Beast into a Monster

Captain America is the One Who Turned X-Men’s Beast into a Monster

The X-Men’s Beast is known as a soft-spoken and brilliant scientist, but he has a monstrous dark side too – and it’s all Captain America’s fault.

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Captain America is the One Who Turned XMens Beast into a Monster

Marvel’s Beast, of X-Men fame, is known for being one of the more erudite mutants, as intelligent as he is strong (perhaps more so), and a stalwart ally of many heroes in the Marvel Universe, including the Avengers. However, he’s not without his darker side; on occasion, Beast can slip into a more Machiavellian-esque “mad scientist” persona, and depending on the current writer. is either reluctant to adopt this way of thinking or embraces it wholeheartedly. In Secret Avengers #16, he has his doubts, but Captain America of all people reassures him about his methods.

In Secret Avengers, Captain America, Black Widow, Moon Knight, Nova, War Machine and others make up the new roster of the team. Unlike the regular Avengers, the Secret Avengers are styled after a ‘black ops’ team, hunting down and neutralizing threats before they become a danger to the public at large. In Secret Avengers #16, Beast is concerned over exactly how to destroy a Doctor Doom-constructed machine, and failure to do so means the destruction of Cincinnati.

Beast eventually figures out a solution: he can turn an atomic Soviet-made car into a neutron bomb, complete with enough power to destroy one of Von Doom’s pylons. Of course, it will kill everyone within a smaller blast radius of its own. Captain America gives the go-ahead, and Beast quickly converts the car. The plan is a success, but Beast is consumed with guilt, wondering how many people he killed. “How many people did you just save?” responds Captain America. “You’re a clever man, Hank. Do the math. It’ll help you sleep.” Captain America doesn’t know it yet, but this ends-justifying-the-means attitude is exactly what sets Beast off on his path of darkness, eventually culminating in the Krakoa era of the X-Men.

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The small exchange between Captain America and Beast is quite similar to the debate about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Some say the bombing was the best possible way to end the war without resorting to an Allied invasion of Japan, which would almost certainly result in tens of thousands of dead soldiers on both sides; others say the mass murder of civilians was morally reprehensible and couldn’t possibly be justified at all. For the record, Captain America was frozen in ice before the bombings, but in Captain America #7, he strongly objected to the plan, forcing the government to place him in suspended animation (this was, however, part of the Heroes Reborn event of the 90s and thus incongruent with current canon).

It’s more than a little ironic that Captain America, the man who will rarely, if ever, compromise his moral standards for the sake of the mission, inspired Beast to act in the complete opposite fashion. In the Krakoa era, Beast is perfectly content playing realpolitik with the rest of the world, regardless of what the rest of the world thinks of him. Beast is not a monster, but thanks to Captain America, he is capable of monstrous acts.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/captain-america-x-men-xmen-beast-monster-marvel/

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