Who Is Beef? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Beef is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Buford Wilson , with over 118 comic issue appearances. The super-strong mutant Beef, Buford Wilson, would be the second to the last mutant youth to be recruited into the original Hellions.

Who is Beef?

Origin The past of Buford Wilson was never clarified. His being recruited to the Hellions team could have happened one of two way: The Massachusetts Academy was the home of a student body hovering around 1,000 teens who attended. Though not all were mutants, some were baseline humans. It's very likely that Beef was one of the other mutants on campus that Emma didn't find suitable for battle when first selections of her Hellions took place. But, would deem him worthy after the need of a mutant with super strength was needed. Emma may have simply began another search too find more candidates and found Buford then and he never was a student prior to the search. Either way his membership into the team occurred rather rapidly. Once recruited Emma would give him a code-name, dubbing him "Beef." Beef was very protective of Emma.

Key facts

Beef is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Following The Line Along The Middle". The character is published by Marvel. With 118 recorded issue appearances, Beef ranks among the most featured characters in comics.