Relationship

The most recent pseudo-pairing for Hank is with Jen Starkey (aka Animalia). I really DISLIKE this pairing. It just seems way too off-kilter for me, so I want to look at Jen Starkey and profile her, while also giving everyone the run-down on these two. Jennifer Starkey first showed up in X-Men #4 (2024) as one of two new people with adult-onset mutation (Ben Liu being the other). The X-Men came to Jen's rescue in Detroit and brought her back to Alaska with them. In issue #6,

Dr. Cecilia Reyes came onto the X-Men scene mostly to help deal with the legacy virus. Uncanny X-Men #351 (1998) is primarily an origin story issue for her. She's a surgeon and picks up a job at Mother of Mercy Hospital in New York...for one day, getting fired due to bigotry and letting Pyro leave the hospital. Before this she met and moved in with the X-Men, so she returns and pretty much becomes their "call if you need me" physician. Uncanny X-Men #351 It's not until lat

Trish Tilby was a long-term girlfriend for Hank. They initially met in X-Factor and had an on-again/off-again relationship that lasted until Hank's third mutation. X-Factor #7 Trish first showed up in X-Factor #7 to report on the "mutant menace" around the X-Factor building. In X-Factor #8, when they watch the tv interview, Hank finds Trish to be a unpleasant for her anti-mutant ways. It should be noted that early X-Factor was set up by Warren Worthington III as a group of

Before he joined up with the X-Men, Hank had at least two short-term girlfriends in high school. Jennifer Nyles At some point, Hank had a friend/girlfriend named Jennifer Nyles in high school. X-Men Origins: Beast. Issue #1 In Marvel Comics Presents #85-, we learn that Charles Xavier mind-wiped Jennifer Nyles, and Hank loses his shit. Marvel Comics Presents #85 marvel comics presents #86 Jennifer, as we learn, was the girl that Hank completely confided in. She even ditched h

One thing that gets mentioned, but is never really explained, are Hank's sex pheromones - which he has more control over after his second mutation. What I gather is that after his second mutation, Hank basically had to run through a second puberty in his blue furred form. With the ability to choose when he could secrete his sex pheromones, he kind of went through a "wild libido" phase. Let's dive right into this with X-Factor #54 (1990), which is actually later in a linear

One of Hank's more interesting girlfriends was Vera Cantor. Vera has two phases: conservative librarian and new wave librarian. He first meets Vera in Uncanny X-Men #19 at the library where she works. Uncanny X-Men #19 Hank does see Vera a few times during Uncanny X-Men as in issues #22 Uncanny X-Men #22 He we see Hank and Bobby going out with Vera and her roommate Zelda in Uncanny X-Men #27. Uncanny X-Men #27 In Uncanny X-Men, Hank and Vera date off and on. It's rather ca