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,

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

By the time Hank was in elementary school, the principal pulled his parents aside because Hank was starting to get into trouble, taking things apart to understand them. He was the smartest kid in the school and they ended up putting him in an accelerated program. It might seem a little odd to bring up Hank's parents, but there is an important dynamic between Hank and his parents the affects his personality and his life. Norton McCoy had been working at a nuclear power plant i