Naturally comic book publishers fold a lot of ideas together to create solid concepts for characters. People like assassins, people like redemption stories, people like monkeys, so obviously we should mash all that together and create an awesome character! That awesome character is today's Z-Lister, Hit-Monkey!
As told in "Hit-Monkey #1" in 2010, there was once an assassin on the run from enemy agents who passed out in a snowy forest, but was rescued by a group of Japanese Macaques. These monkeys treated the assassin and allowed him to stay with their clan, the assassin spent his recovery time training by fighting snowmen. There was one monkey who didn't accept the assassin, but this monkey watched as the assassin fought his training dummies. The monkey watched very closely. When the assassin was beginning to die the monkey clan tried to help him recover, but the rogue monkey attempted to stop them and used the assassin's skills-which the monkey could imitate-to fight his own clan. The monkey clan banished the rogue monkey from the clan for his display of violence. As the rogue monkey left on his own, he saw a group of men hunting down the assassin. The rogue monkey raced back to warn his clan, but when he got back the assassin and the monkey clan were all murdered. The rogue monkey used the assassin's moves and spare firearms to murder the men responsible and then took a solemn vow to exterminate all assassins under the alias Hit-Monkey.
Hit-Monkey later appearing in a Deadpool story where he was on a mission to kill the Merc with a Mouth, but Spider-Man also involved himself by trying to stop Deadpool and Hit-Monkey from killing each other. Hit-Monkey accidentally wounded Spider-Man and felt bad about it, proving Hit-Monkey's only gripe is against hired guns. In order to trick Hit-Monkey, Deadpool dressed up as Spider-Man and faked his death. When Hit-Monkey arrived at the funeral to pay his respects, Deadpool bursted out of the casket and tried to kill Hit-Monkey. Another interception by Spider-Man resulted in both killers with webbed-up guns that would backfire on firing. Deadpool shot the webbed-up gun regardless because of his incredible healing factor, seemingly killing Hit-Monkey. But nobody ever found the body. Hmmm?
If DC Comic's Detective Chimp isn't hard core enough for you, Marvel Comic's Hit-Monkey is right up your ally. Hit-Monkey is a ridiculous concept taken completely seriously in the context of his own story, I seriously hope they use this character again. At any rate they could use him in one of the inevitable "Deadpool" movie sequels. This guy sells movie tickets and plushies! Thanks for reading!
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