Hank is the strongest and most intelligent member of the first team. In front of outsiders, he presents the image of a university researcher with glasses, while among his own people, he will put down his airs and bend away like a gorilla barefoot. In combat, he can lift a ton of things. He has unimaginable speed and flexibility, and can make difficult moves that amaze acrobats, such as climbing on flying missiles, walking on almost vertical walls and fighting on steel wires. He is a technical expert of the team, helping professors mend equipment and make their own weapons; He often blurted out a long list of scientific terms to make others roll their eyes. His later exclamations "My stars and garters" (stars and medals) even impressed the enemy. Although Hank was eloquent and had a good sense of humor, he was teased by the youngest iceman from time to time, and cat-and-mouse fights between them were very common at that time.
In the early stories, Hank can get along with ordinary people easily without worrying about danger. He dated girls with the Iceman, and also dated Vera Cantor for a while. Vera Cantor was a rather pedantic librarian, but he didn't establish much affection. During this period, Hank's description was relatively dull. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the X-Men magazine was on the verge of closure, Hank became the first member to leave the team after graduating from college, and made it clear that he would work for the mutant's future in other positions. He joined Brand Company, a famous gene research company, became a rookie in the department of biochemistry, and became friends with a female assistant, Linda Donaldson. His colleague Carl Maddix gave him the cold shoulder. Hank is determined to develop a drug to give ordinary people temporary special abilities and let people know more about mutants.
However, he found that Linda and Matties were working for the criminal organization "Secret Empire". They drank imperfect medicine to fight spies, and as a result, they were covered with hair (gray hair at first, then blue). But this is not his second mutation), and he can't develop an antidote to the original state, so he can only live as a veritable beast from now on. Air Force intelligence officer Baxter came to investigate the mysterious orcs. Hank had to pretend to be a normal person with a clay mask and corset, but in a wrong fight with Iron Man, he found himself unable to control his cruel beast and seemed to kill his opponent, so he ran away. In fact, Iron Man was not injured. This scene was created by the illusion master of the old villain of the Brotherhood to confuse Hank. He and his accomplices didn't know that the beast in front of them was a member of the X-Men. They thought he was a newly awakened mutant and wanted to bring him in, but Hank recognized him and got out in time. When he was injured, he broke into Baxter's house by mistake. His wife Pasti saved him, and he learned the ins and outs from his nonsense. Pie is actually the hero of a female cartoon "Pie Walker" in Marvel Comics in 1950s. She has worshipped superheroes for a long time. Although she has no super powers, she hopes to join the ranks of heroes. After saving Hank this time, she took the initiative to help him hide in front of her husband. Hank weighed the situation and confirmed that he had nowhere to go. Just as The Avengers was recruiting new members, he introduced himself. Captain America and Iron Man welcome him to join us after understanding his background.
Hank became the third mutant player in The Avengers (and the only one at that time), which made him feel at home again. Pie also wanted to join The Avengers and found Hank, threatening to reveal his identity without help, but Iron Man quickly told her, "We already know!" "Pasti, who refused to give up, found that her husband was involved in a series of conspiracies, broke up with him in disappointment, and got a set of strengthening clothes when she helped The Avengers, becoming a new hero Hellcat, but for various reasons, she didn't stay in The Avengers.
In the cartoons in the early 1980s, Hank was an important member of The Avengers. During this period, he was more active than before, like joking, even playing pranks, but his academic demeanor was almost gone. He became friends with Wonder Man, a hero who came back from the dead. The appearance of half man and half beast also troubled him to some extent. Anti-mutants take this as evidence that mutants are demons, but his heroic career has also won the trust of many others in mutants. However, Hank still reserved a special place for his old friend in X-Men. Once he found that no one answered the phone at school, he went back to investigate alone and was involved in another attack in Wan Ciwang. On another night shift alone, he received the news that the dark phoenix had gone crazy. He rushed to help the Avengers without leaving any instructions, and didn't report it in time afterwards, just left a dictation on the computer.
Hank's mother finally learned about her son's change. She resisted him for a while, but when Hank was chased by the villain, she stood up to protect her son and made up. In another reorganization of The Avengers, Hank and everyone are manipulated by a telepathic woman, Yue Long, who tries to seize power. Afterwards, he decided to temporarily leave the team to adjust his life, but after a long time, he said goodbye to the Avengers and only attended some major events as a preparatory member. In the mid-1980s, Hank reorganized a team of marginal heroes, including the Guardian, his old friends Angels and Iceman, and even the Moon Dragon. Until the secret World War II, Yuelong succumbed to the temptation of darkness again, leading to the collapse of the defenders, and Hank and others fell into semi-retirement again.
The return of Gene Gray, who was considered dead in the Phoenix incident, contributed to the reunion of the top five X-Men. Angel and his old classmate Cameron Hodge planned a project called X-Factor, and these people continued to realize the professor's ideal, promoting themselves as bounty hunters and catching dangerous mutants. The practical purpose is to protect and train these mutants. Hank met his girlfriend Vera a few years ago, but was immediately kidnapped by a hired mutant criminal. The main messenger is his former laboratory colleague Dr. Maddix. Matix's son Artie is also an abnormal mutant, so he tried to develop a cure, but to be on the safe side, he decided to find an experiment, so he targeted Hank. Hank was just injected with drugs when a group of anti-mutation armed forces found them. Maddix let Factor X take Hank and Artie. He died under the gun. Hank later found out that he really lost his hair in his early years (he still retained his basic abilities). It seems that Maddix's medicine does have some effect, but the formula has been lost.
After that, Hank lived a normal life happily, but it didn't last long. The villain Apocalypse launched an extermination offensive against mankind, transforming angels into apostles of death, and three apostles of hunger, war and plague appeared. Among them, plague can spread strange viruses. Hank didn't die after being infected, but his intelligence gradually deteriorated. Every time he uses extraordinary physical strength, his intelligence will drop by one level and he will eventually become like a child. This situation continued until the apocalypse and the angel woke up. A woman who can make people furious tries to control the iceman. Hank was moved by this woman's strength when he was protecting his friends. Once again, he underwent drastic physiological changes, became a hairy orc again, and his intelligence rose to a high level.
X-factor experienced several backwardness, and finally five members returned to the X-Men. In the era when the gold team and the blue team stood side by side, Hank was mainly on the blue team of Laser Eye. During this period, his own theme stories were few, and he mainly appeared as a technical consultant of the team, including equipment research and development and physical examination, as well as giving questions to freshmen and so on. He has some short cartoons named after himself, such as helping a young student find his missing family in The Beast, but these stories are not very important. After the X executioner's song incident, the virus that was fatal to mutants was released to the earth, and Dr. Hank and Dr. Mora began a long and arduous analysis and treatment research.
At this time, due to historical changes, a time and space named "Apocalypse Times" appeared. In this time and space, Hank McCaughey, known as the dark beast, is a typical mad scientist and is famous for doing experiments on prisoners without restraint. When The Age of Revelation became a parallel world, the Dark Beast was one of the few people who crossed the earth on 6 16. He continued his killing career, soon found his counterpart in the world, began to investigate his past, and then killed his old acquaintances one by one (only when he killed Hank's parents, he couldn't do it and gave up). When Hank found out all this, he was imprisoned by the black beast, and the black beast disguised himself as him and entered the school. His external characteristics are basically the same as Hank's, and no one noticed any difference except Professor X. At this time, he was occupied by the idea of monster onslaught, playing hard to get, and recruited him as a subordinate, but soon the saber-toothed tiger and the witch rescued the real beast, and the dark beast had to hide again.
After the stormy war, Hank has been staying on the X-Men with a reduced number, and there has been no substantial progress in the research on the virus, while the social pressure on mutants is increasing. Hank, who has been in the laboratory for a long time, is getting more and more depressed. It was not until Maura gave her latest progress to the X-Men before she was killed by the witch that Hank finally developed a treatment, but soon found that it had to be implanted in a healthy person to activate it, and the implanted person would die. Hank put the medicine away in disappointment, but he didn't want to see Guinness, who was riddled with the virus, steal it, inject it himself and sacrifice his life to make it take effect.
When Storm decided to look for a diary without Professor X, Hank left with her, but soon he was in distress in Spain and met a mysterious haunters Vagars, who was easily wounded by him and watched his teammate Psylocke be killed in front of him. Teammate Sage (Tessa) treated Hank in a coma with her own spirit, which gradually led to a second mutation, from the appearance of an orangutan to a cat like a lion.
Desperate Hank went back to school. At this time, as the secret of the school became public, a large number of students entered, and he was also busy with new lessons. His main job is to teach science courses and medical care, and he also served as an unsuccessful after-school tutor. Laser Eye called on his team to actively participate in off-campus public welfare activities, and Hank was one of them. He met Brand, a green-haired woman of alien descent and an agent of the Tian Jian Bureau of Investigation. Although he was dissatisfied with her use of the X-Men's spy skills, he gradually liked him in the battle with * * *, and took part in the anti-alien invasion work in Tian Jian.
After the event house, most mutants in the world lost their superpowers, and this race is on the verge of extinction. Hank was exhausted and couldn't find a solution, so he had to ask their enemies-those crazy people who are proficient in biotechnology for advice. The dark beast reappeared to trick him into cooperating with himself, but in fact it was just to find a chance to continue his living experiment. After all the strategies failed, Hank visited the magician's strange doctor and the woman suspected of being a scarlet witch, and finally had to admit that the catastrophe caused by magic was difficult for him as a believer in science.
After the school was destroyed again, the main force of the X-Men moved to San Francisco, and Hank followed. During this period, he was ordered to trace the chains and Bishop that disappeared in the future, and conducted a lot of complicated and futile space-time investigations. He has noticed that the laser eye is getting colder and colder, and he is very upset; During the dark dynasty, Osborne imprisoned Hank and let the dark beast impersonate him to join the dark X-men. Fortunately, the laser eye saved him in time. However, in Utopia, a mutant shelter, Hank finally found that Laser Eye had been secretly planning some shady and bloody actions to survive, and felt unbearable. He finally left the X-Men and rejoined The Avengers after a long absence. He served as the technical support for Steve Rogers' Secret The Avengers, and went to Washington, DC, which was attacked by the Nazis in the event of The Source of Fear, and witnessed an old friend who had become a member of parliament staying on Capitol Hill until his death.