George Buza

George Buza is the voice of Beast on X-Men: The Animated Series, the 1990s Saturday-morning mutant hour that refused to stay cute. Comic-book continuity, a previously-on that taught children serial pain, the Phoenix Saga as children's television with homework. Buza's Beast supplies scholar gravitas inside the blue hide — prejudice as metaphor, a brain in a body the playground wanted to treat as a monster.

File this as X-Men: The Animated Series first, George Buza second — then notice they share a climate. Fox Kids 1992–1997, Beast as the work. s01e01: Night of the Sentinels, Part I: comic continuity on Saturday morning, prejudice as metaphor already the lecture. s01e03: Enter Magneto: soap-opera gravitas in leather jackets, Marvel's TV breakthrough years before the feature films.

Marvel's TV breakthrough years needed voices that sounded like a soap and a sermon. TV Flash files Buza as that register. On this desk he is 1990s animation craft: a Beast who talks like literature in a kids' timeslot, the reason the cartoon still plays as a serial instead of a toy commercial with claws.

s01e03 keeps the run from looking like a single still. Enter Magneto: soap-opera gravitas in leather jackets, Marvel's TV breakthrough years before the feature films. Same Beast, same X-Men: The Animated Series, 1992–1997 still on the spine. The 1990s catalog uses that middle weather on purpose.

A last coordinate: s03e13. The Dark Phoenix, Part III: children's television refusing to stay cute — serial pain as the actual superpower. George Buza as Beast is the reason to replay it. X-Men: The Animated Series remains the climate; no extra plot required.