
Beast is often seen as a villain now, but he wasn’t always. For many years, from the 1960s to the 2000s, he was a cheerful, acrobatic hero – more like Spider-Man than the brooding Wolverine. A much darker version of Beast appeared in the ‘Age of Apocalypse’ storyline, and that version eventually found a way into the main Marvel universe. He secretly replaced the original, heroic Beast on the X-Men. This evil Beast later joined the villain Onslaught, then disappeared. The original Beast returned, but over time, he began to adopt the darker personality and traits of the evil version who had impersonated him in the 1990s.