{"id":293866,"date":"2025-12-01T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293866\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:16:07","slug":"avengers-doomsdays-kelsey-grammer-explains-why-beast-is-the-mlk-of-x-men-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293866\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Doomsday\u2019s Kelsey Grammer Explains Why Beast Is the MLK of X-Men &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/superherohype.com\/tag\/kelsey-grammer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Grammer<\/a> recently explained why Beast, the character he played in the X-Men movies, is very similar to that of a very famous civil rights activist. <\/p>\n<p>What did Kelsey Grammer say about Beast\u2019s role in the X-Men?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/media\/videos\/kelsey-grammer-on-avengers-doomsday-the-christmas-ring-if-his-family-is-complete-with\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Grammer was asked about the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. While he said he couldn\u2019t speak too much about it, he was overly excited to return as the character, who he likened to legendary activist Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come back as Beast has been one of the great experiences of my life,\u201d said Grammer. \u201cBecause I always loved the character. I always thought of him as sort of the Martin Luther King of the mutant generation. He stood for rights, for equality, just a beautiful character\u2026strong, tough, a little hairy, a little blue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Grammer\u2019s comments are not too out of place with how many fans view Marvel\u2019s X-Men. Comparisons between Professor X and Magneto and Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, respectively, have been drawn for many decades now, especially as the X-Men comics have geared more toward the prejudice and fight for equality that the mutants often face.<\/p>\n<p>Grammer has also likened Beast to MLK in the past, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&amp;v=xqk6yQFxEas&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Favengers-doomsday-kelsey-grammer-beast-hank-mccoy-return-tease%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jamie Kern Lima Show<\/a> in May that he believes that the iconic X-Men is the \u201cMartin Luther King of the Mutants\u201d due to his dignity and dream and his willingness to fight for it.<\/p>\n<p>Grammer is just one of many former X-Men stars set to return for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> when it releases on December 18, 2026. Alongside him, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, and more are set to star in the movie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsey Grammer recently explained why Beast, the character he played in the X-Men movies, is very similar to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6458,6460,96,97661,5396,6461,5228,6462,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-293866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-kelsey-grammer","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}