The big news last week for the X-Men franchise was the decision to focus on the romance between Magneto and Mystique, but where does that leave Beast and could he become an agent for Apocalypse in the next movie?

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While a focus of the first movie in this trilogy, First Class, was the relationship between Mystique and Beast, it seems like with events changing in the last movie and even more for the next one, this love affair came to an end. But what will the effects be on Beast?

In the Age of Apocalypse comics, in the alternate dimension he came from, Hank McCoy was a mad scientist working for Mister Sinister in his breeding pens, intent on breeding more powerful mutants according to Apocalypse's "survival of the fittest" ideology.

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However, while Sinister was methodical and rational in his experiments, McCoy sadistically delighted in causing pain to his lab subjects and in the cruelty of his experiments, which is why he was nicknamed the Beast both by prisoners and Sinister's Elite Mutant Force.

Mister Sinister is another character who has been rumored for the next movie and this is how he could work into the plot. While this is an alternate dimension and they haven't revealed if the movie will deal with that, it is an avenue that Beast could take after he struggles with containing work for the X-Men.

The character also could become an agent of Apocalypse and possibly be one of the Four Horseman as it has been rumored that one of them could be a familiar face that we all know.

X-Men: Apocalypse is set to open in theaters on May 27, 2016.

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