Well Beast I wonder what you really think about me. Probably you feel nothing but hatred for me. I don't blame you for that since I've done nothing but bring you misery and pain since I first revealed myself to you. I can remember how shocked and relieved I felt when I first glimpsed you on the monitor while my assassin Fatale was attempting to kill your comrade Bishop. I felt such hope that we could be comrades, friends and above all brothers. Two great minds working as one and sharing the same hopes and dreams. What a team we would have made. Alas the differences between us turned out to be far greater than the colour of our fur.
The trouble with you Hank is that your curiosity doesn't go far enough. You don't have the courage of your convictions and you burden yourself with irrational morality and worst of all you have a conscience. All of these things I'm afraid leave you fundamentally lacking as a true scientist. Still I didn't know that at the time and as I said before I felt elated at finally finding my twin after twenty years.
I soon found out about who you really were. Your membership of those nauseatingly righteous champions of justice known as the Avengers provided you with much publicity.
I learned all about your deeds with them and the Defenders and the X-men. I must admit that I found your scientific papers good reading and they confirmed to me that you were a worthy match for me. Sadly they also showed that you were more interested in the theory than the practice. The difference between you and me is that you might think of how you could manipulate the genetic structure of a living being and leave it at that. Myself I like nothing better than to improve on what nature has provided us with. My test subjects might disagree but who cares about them.
Anyway I had already changed my mind about revealing myself to you and offering you partnership with me. Instead I formulated a new plan. For the past twenty years that I have lived on your world I have stayed in the shadows hiding from that most powerful of mutants Sinister. In another reality and another lifetime I was his servant forced to do his bidding. It's true that I enjoyed my work and the experimentation but servitude to him had it's drawbacks. Basically I find that one of my unsurpassed genius should be shackled to the petty whims of another. I'm afraid Sinister and I are too alike to truly coexist and sooner or later one of us will have to go. I admit that at present I am not powerful enough to stand against him which is where you come in. Where better to hide than in plain sight. With a handy genetic alteration to make my fur blue like yours I am your exact duplicate. One Beast is replaced by another Beast and nobody will notice the difference hopefully. You see Hank I'm going to take your place in the X-Men. Then Sinister will never find me.
Well enough about Sinister now. Best to think of more pleasant things and nothing heartens me more than satisfying my curiosity, trying out a new experiment and even indulging in a bit of crass physical violence. In the course of finding out all I could about you from your nearest and dearest I was able to sample all of these delights. Shall I tell you all about it Hank. I'm sure it will help to take your mind of your present predicament.