Originally posted by blue_beast
listen people i dont underatand why are you taking this personal and attacking me i am just having a nice debate, more then that i WANT you to prove me i am wrong because i am a fan of beast hell look at my nick name i am a fan of beast and i want you to prove me i am wrong but you cant because lets face the facts? all your strength feats that show nothing special in the first place are like 50-60 years old when beast was a new character and the writers didnt know how to establish his strengthand again can you show more recent feats of him doing anything that puts him in at least calss 5 category? hell not even recent feats even from his blue ape days anything?
funny, I was reading some old back issues today with Beast in them.
Xmen #27, Beast Grabs Sinister by the Jaw, then throws him straight through a brick wall, disorienting him.
Sinister had just taken a full shot to the face from rogue several pages earlier- didn't even stop him from talking. Sinister even seemed to enjoy it.
That's fairly good evidence that the two (ape-beast and classic rogue) were somewhere in the same league. In case you're not familiar with Sinister- his durability is insanely high. a class 2 or 5 wouldn't even be able to scratch him.
There's lots of other examples if you bothered to read some comics. Beast has super strength, but not enough to be considered a powerhouse on a team with the likes of Colossus on it: His primary value was that of a geneticist/scientist, and that's typically how he's written.