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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The period when Bobby can't properly control his cold powers is another part of his history that shouldn't get skipped. Loki amplifies his abilities while using him against Thor, and Bobby is left dealing with the consequences afterward. Mo...
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Bobby does try to build a life beyond the original X-Men. He goes to college, studies accounting, and serves with the Champions and the Defenders. Hank and Warren remain part of his wider superhero history, but that history isn't confined t...
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Even the way Bobby looks when he uses his powers develops early on. The original snowy appearance gives way to a more solid, icy one as he gets better at controlling what he's doing. That makes his progress visible. There is a difference be...
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Bobby Drake is the youngest of the original X-Men, and that sticks to him long after the team stops being a group of students. He jokes around, gets distracted, and can seem less serious than the people standing beside him. It's easy for th...
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X-Tinction Agenda brings Cameron Hodge back into the picture, and by then there is already so much history attached to him that his presence changes the situation before another fight even starts. Warren knows what this man is capable of do...
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Charlotte Jones is important to this stretch of Warren's story because he needs relationships that can exist outside the people who transformed him and the people who knew him before. She meets him with the blue skin and dangerous wings alr...
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Cameron Hodge makes Warren's situation even worse because this is somebody who was already inside his life. It is one thing to know Apocalypse is dangerous. Hodge had access through a relationship Warren trusted, and that makes the betrayal...
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Bobby's role in getting through to him is one of the most important parts of the whole change. When Warren is serving Apocalypse as Death, his friends cannot simply assume that recognizing them will be enough. They are facing someone who ha...
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The physical change is a huge part of why this version of Warren stands out. The blue skin and metal wings make him immediately recognizable, but the wings also change the kinds of danger he brings into a scene. The original Angel could car...
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Archangel needs his own conversation because there is a lot more happening to Warren here than a different costume and a more dangerous set of wings. By the time Apocalypse gets involved, Warren has already been through an awful sequence of...
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Coming back to the original five in X-Factor should be an opportunity for Warren to build something with people he knows. The idea is to reach mutants who need help by posing as mutant hunters, then get those people somewhere safe. You can...
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The Morlock story is a particularly uncomfortable part of Warren's history. Callisto takes him because she wants him as her consort, and he ends up being treated like something she has decided she is entitled to keep. Storm has to confront...
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Being one of the original X-Men does not mean Warren spends his entire life content to stay in the same place. He has a history outside Xavier's school, and that helps him feel like someone who can make his own decisions instead of always b...
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His original power is also worth spending some time on. Flight can sound pretty ordinary when it is sitting beside telepathy, optic blasts and a person who can cover a battlefield in ice. Put Warren in the actual situation, though, and bein...
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Angel is an interesting one to go back through because knowing what happens to Warren can almost swallow up the character he was before it. There is a lot of history there before the metal wings, and I want to give that version of him some...
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Hank's recovery isn't settled the instant Infectia kisses him. There is an unstable period afterward, and his full return to his blue, furry appearance and restored intelligence comes in X-Factor #33. By then, getting that familiar Beast ba...
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The part of Hank's X-Factor story that deserves real attention is what happens after Pestilence infects him. His strength increases as his intelligence deteriorates. Using his strength makes the situation worse, so the ability that helps hi...
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Early X-Factor puts Hank through another physical change when Carl Maddicks captures him. Maddicks is trying to find a way to help his son Artie, and Hank ends up looking human again while retaining his mutant physical abilities. That could...
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Hank also has a life outside the X-Men that is worth remembering when the original five come back together. He spends time with the Avengers and the Defenders. He builds friendships outside Xavier's school, including his friendship with Won...
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Then you get the change that makes Hank immediately recognizable as Beast, and it comes out of his own scientific work. While working at Brand Corporation, he uses an experimental formula on himself to disguise his identity and investigate...
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