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7. Marvel's Hit Monkey: What It's About
Hit Monkey is summed up pretty well in his name: he’s a monkey who nights as an assassin. You know, normal superhero stuff. The character was created by Daniel Way and Carlo Barberi in 2010 with Hit-Monkey #1.
In Marvel’s Hit Monkey, “A wronged Japanese snow monkey, mentored by the ghost of an American assassin, as he cuts a wide swath through the Tokyo underworld in this darkly cinematic and brutally funny revenge saga.”
Hit Monkey’s origin starts when an assassin shows up to his tribe’s shelter in need of help, Hit Monkey is skeptical. He refuses to help his community aid the man. Armed men storm the tribe in hunt of the man, shoot the assassin, as well as kill Hit Monkey’s family. Thus, initiates the tale revenge and the inception of the teacher ghost assassin.