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This is a tough one for me.   Both versions started out with essentially the same origin.  The Beast initially looked basically human, with some brutish characteristics.  Then he was forcibly mutated further into the classic fuzzy blue version.  Then he was de-mutated back to the brutish look.  The Ultimate Beast is holding at that point now.  The MMU Beast was un-de-mutated back to the fuzzy blue look, then secondarily re-un-de-muated to a cat-like “Beauty and the Beast” version of the character.

The Beast was among the most enjoyable characters in the Marvel Universe.  Then Grant Morrison got a hold of him and turned him into the dour grumpy cat dude he is today.

The Ultimate Beast was dead for a good while.  His resurrection story (he almost died, but didn’t, Professor X & Nick Fury conspired to keep him hidden so he could work on a cure for the legacy virus) kind of sucked.   As of this writing, he may or may not be dead again thanks to Ultimatum.

Winner – Classic MMU Beast.  Way better than the current MMU Beast of the maybe-maybe-not dead Ultimate version

Tomorrow – Magneto!

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