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Gotta admit, Beast's defense to Emma Frost makes sense. Xavier set up X-Force and put him in charge, and the Quiet Council has let him do things as he saw fit. You don't set up the mutant CIA if you don't want them to do awful CIA stuff. I mean, he's still in the wrong, but he points out the Council's culpability.

I think what's making me enjoy this is that Beast is just mask-off terrible in a way that the other X-books aren't. It's like the difference between watching say, The Shield and saying "LMAO these cops are awful, I love it" because the show is about bad cops, versus uncomfortably watching Law & Order and saying "Uhhhh, that was definitely police brutality but also no one seems to care?" It's both a difference in terms of scale and presentation which makes Beast spiraling down into crimes against humanity territory fun for me rather than frustrating.

I do wonder how the perhaps inevitable reset of Beast's crimes/personality might play out. There's the "It was Dark Beast all along" option, but they could also do what they did Iron Man after Civil War when his mind was reset to a backup from before he built all the gulags, since Krakoa already has a convenient backup conceit and we haven't seen that kind of drama played with yet. Either way it's gonna be an all-time great copout.