X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Beauty & The Beast (1994)

George Buza: Beast, Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy

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• Beast : Now that you see what my life is like, you'll understand what I have to tell you.

  Carly : Hank, please don't...

  Beast : We have to face it. I am a mutant in a world that fears and despises my kind. I thought for a moment we could live in that world together, but I know now that we cannot. Someday, with work and hope, the world will change. Until then, if you care for me as much as I care for you, you will understand why we must part.

• Jean Grey : [Beast is looking through a photo album when Jean walks in with a tray of food]  I thought you might be hungry, Hank.

  Beast : No. Thank you.

  [Beast then walks over to a mirror, then lets out an anguished roar and smashes the mirror] 

  Jean Grey : It's Carly, isn't it?

  Beast : Why did this have to happen to me? Why can't I be normal? It's not fair!

  Jean Grey : We must think of how our gifts can benefit the world.

  Beast : Gifts? I can't be close to any human! I can't take a chance of endangering them! My parents! My brothers and sisters! And now... now the woman I love.

  Jean Grey : Hank, I had no idea she meant that much to you.

  Beast : It was so much easier when I was consumed with my work. I could pretend that what other people thought of me didn't matter.

  Jean Grey : How does she feel about you?

  Beast : I think she cares for me.

  Jean Grey : That's wonderful.

  Beast : No! I won't allow her to be with me. It's too dangerous.

  Jean Grey : Maybe you should let her decide what to risk. Talk to her, Hank. Give her that chance.

• Beast : I'm sorry, gentlemen. Your anger at the inexorable alienation of late-20th-century life is sadly misdirected!