#edna mccoy

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"A Beast Is Born" from X-Men #49

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sometimes Hank has a backstory where Charles removes the memory of him from everyone including his parents minds. sometimes Hank is close with his parents into adulthood and they're extremely loving and supporting. is there any branch between these two or is it just weird?

It's just weird, unfortunately. It's kind of a representative of the great contradiction of Charles Xavier, where he ranges from gentle and wise to doing some cartoon supervillain shit, seemingly without any repercussions for his actions. It's also a very good representation of how writers have made Charles increasingly morally dubious over the years and have rewrote a lot of the innocuous stuff of the O5 to be as strange and as damning as possible, because man in wheelchair scary.

So, in the initial version of Hank's backstory, Charles erases the memories of Hank's powers from the minds of those in his hometown.

X-Men V1 #53

But later when they revisit this story, Charles just fully erases Hank from everyone's minds completely, including his family, his football team, his friends, his girlfriend, etc. It's a completely insane, egregious thing to do.

X-Men Origins: Beast

At best, I can say possibly some wires got crossed while researching the original origin, and when they saw Hank say "None are any longer cognizant that there was once a boy called beast!", they took that to mean Charles wiped the minds of everyone. It's overkill, it's insane, and it's not something I at all care for.

It is, in any case, canonically very inconsistent with everything else before and after this. Hank has been seen with his parents after his blue mutation kicked in, with no issues. Hell, Charles literally brings Hank to his parents house once when they are in the area anyway looking for another mutant.

X-Men: Hidden Years #10

There isn't really a real answer, Mike Carey just decided to do something really strange in X-Men Origins. It's been a while since I've read the whole series, but I remember the other stories also being seemingly creepy with how they portray Charles, which obviously is incredibly loaded with a man in a wheelchair.

I think there was a missed opportunity to try and curtail some of these inconsistencies in Krakoa, where perhaps in one Moira timeline, Charles really does wipes everyone's minds because he's trying to speedrun mutant liberation or whatever, but in any case, I think the original one where Charles just erases the memory of Hank's powers so he's just remembered as a random athletic student is what makes most sense with previous and subsequent canon of Hank's parents, who as you say have consistently been portrayed as incredibly loving, to the point of being the only people who Dark Beast couldn't kill because he had never experienced the warmth or love of his parents before.

X-Men Unlimited V1 #10

So, it is just weird, but I feel pretty confident in saying X-Men Origins: Beast is not the definitive Hank McCoy origin, and can be safely disregarded unless you're using it for something specific.

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This arc is mostly about Hank and his first girlfriend, Jennifer Nyles, who we saw in an older flashback story back in the late 60s from the before times for the X-Men...

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"A Beast Is Born" from X-Men #49

Radioactivity usually doesn't make people "better than normal", but to be fair to Norton, they do live in the marvel universe

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"A Beast Is Born" from X-Men #49

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So yeah, Hank’s mom is not a fan of the much more... blue and furry version of her son... also I could really go for some Keema Masala right now...

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"A Beast Is Born" from X-Men #49

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"A Beast Is Born" from X-Men #49