After his post-credit appearance in The Marvels, Kelsey Grammer has stayed relatively quiet on Beast’s future in the MCU, but has now hinted that there could be more to come. Grammer played the iconic X-Men member Hank McCoy, aka Beast, in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. While critics and audiences did not receive that movie well, Grammer’s Beast was universally praised. The actor would also have a brief cameo as Beast at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014. In 2023, Grammer reprised the role of Beast one more time, this time as a CGI character in the post-credits scene of The Marvels.

Grammer sat down with Comicbook to talk about Fraiser season two, and they asked him about the future of Beast in the MCU. While Grammer said he couldn’t talk about it, he did mention that there have been conversations. Grammer also talked about the warm audience reaction to his cameo. Grammer said:

“There’s nothing I can talk about. What I do know is that there was a huge sort of outburst when I showed up at the end of
The Marvels
, I guess it was. The response was really almost… it wasn’t unexpected. There’d be some response, but it was pretty overwhelming, and so there are some conversations.”

The Future of Beast in the MCU

The Marvel’s post-credit scene saw Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Paris) wake up in another reality where her mother, Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), was still alive working alongside the X-Men. Yet in this new reality, she is not Monica’s mother, and is the superhero Binary. It is unclear now if Monica Rambeau is in the same Fox X-Men Universe (dubbed Earth-10005) from Deadpool & Wolverine or if this is an alternate universe that shares some similarities to the past X-Men movie timeline. This would not be out of the question as Patrick Stewart returned as Professor X but from Earth-838 in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Hugh Jackman played many different Wolverine variants in Deadpool & Wolverine, with the films’ Wolverine coming from another X-Men timeline.

The obvious answer to where Beast could return is in Avengers: Secret Wars. That film will adapt the 2015 comic Secret Wars, which saw various realities in the Marvel Multiverse smashed together in a patchwork reality known as Battleworld. Grammer’s Beast, Jackman’s Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool, and likely both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men could play a role in this. It is possible that The Marvels post-credit-scene could tie into The Fantastic Four: First Steps in some way, and Grammer could reprise his role as Beast in that film in some capacity.

Grammer’s Beast could team up with any of the other geniuses littering the Marvel Universe, such as Mister Fantastic, Phastos, Bruce Banner, or even the incoming Doctor Doom, to save the multiverse from incursion threats that could destroy the entire multiverse. This could even be the plot of Doctor Strange 3, as the sorcerer could assemble his own version of the Illuminati he saw from Earth-838. He would need the smartest minds, and Grammer’s Beast would fit the bill.

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