Wolverine #13: What We Did In The Shadows

[superboyprime]

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[mazway_75]

...Okay, seriously, when's the reveal he's been Dark Beast all along? Because that's more logical than Hank McCoy talking about "this island is our god."

[numeronone]

What We Do In The Shadows doesn't deserve association with this rubbish

[shakalooloo]

Um, yes, mind-controlling a country of people IS worse than terra-forming a dead planet.

A more scientific Beast, one that says things like 'oh dear' and 'fascinating' does show up in this month's Excalibur, so maybe this is some defective McCoy-Bot that's just covering while the real Hank is holidaying in Otherworld.

[mastermahan]

*Saves* you from annihilation? You nearly triggered a interspecies war, you stupid bastard. How do think humans would have reacted when they learned Krakoa turned an entire nation into plant zombies, complete with the citizens all trapped inside their own heads? You're lucky Percy rewrote the Terra Verdens in mid-story: from furiously attacking random humans for no reason to the most forgiving, rational people you could imagine.

And you couldn't even bullshit an apology to your victims.

[fra080389]

Blue Lelouch? So he will die at the end of this season.
Or maybe he is Schneizel...

[silverhammerman]

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.

[wizardru]

I remember when Hank was considered a hero. When he occasionally skirted or even went over the line due to stress, overwork or simply not sharing the burden he was carrying, not this realpolitik 'no bridge is too far if the results are to my liking' nonsense. If you told me this was Dark Beast, I would totally assume this was the case, because clearly this Hank has no moral compass any longer, if indeed he ever did.

[zachbeacon]

Putting aside Beast's ongoing character assassination ...

How stupid do you have to be to attack a party when its public knowledge the place is full of telepaths?

Actually, how stupid do you have to be to ATTEND a party when its public knowledge the place is full of telepaths?

Seems like a good way to give up your secrets to a rival nation.