[Ogrebear]

Thank you very much.

I am going to be using your suggestions to create an create a version of Dr Hank McCoy aka Beast in his early Avengers days- just trying to figure which metatype, and 'class' to add to these suggestions for Academic types.

If Beast is a no-go perhaps the son of Peter Claris aka the Professor from Changeling.

[Doc Brian]

I can't remember the exact timeline for Beast.  If you mean his pre-fur days, Ork would work fine.  Post-fur, I suppose he could be a Sasquatch, but it would probably be better to use SURGE mutations.