![]() Bryce is still able to respond and speak to him in English, so we as the audience infer Monkey’s meaning from Bryce’s responses and Tatasciore’s excellent voice acting. The communication barrier is one of the key elements of Hit-Monkey: Monkey speaks entirely in monkey sounds that are only subtitled when he speaks to other animals. “It felt like an area to explore that was jumping off from what they did so nicely in the graphic novel.” “There’s a natural comedy that comes from having to tolerate somebody, especially somebody who can't communicate, has a very violent streak, and happens to be a monkey,” said Speck. Of course, there’s a lot of humor to be mined from the interactions between Monkey and Bryce. The Bryce we see before his death is the kind of character Monkey risks becoming, a worrisome fate for anyone. “To us that was poignant and funny.”īryce’s flaws make him a perfect foil for Monkey, who begins the season as a total innocent but later ends up wearing the identity of assassin just as well as he wears his tiny little suit. “He’s a ghost, and he’s having to look back at the mess of his life,” said Gordon. He also has more of a tragic streak than his comic counterpart. "We wanted to paint with a lot of different brushes and not just focus on the assassin plot." He’s a jerk, but he’s a jerk you find yourself rooting for in spite of his many, many flaws. He’s a loner whose life was upended because of violence, sending him down a dark and destructive path. However, in the show, we learn a lot more about Bryce. ![]() All we know is that he was double-crossed on a job, and that he wants to guide Monkey on his journey to get revenge. In the comics, the Bryce character is unnamed and his background is a mystery. ![]() “We wanted to paint with a lot of different brushes and not just focus on the assassin plot,” said Speck in a phone interview with Mashable. This dynamic between the comic’s main characters was something that Speck and Gordon expanded upon in developing the show. Hit-Monkey’s showrunners and executive producers Will Speck and Josh Gordon quickly became obsessed with his origin story, admiring how it balanced the tragedy of Monkey’s loss with a unique buddy comedy dynamic. You wouldn’t expect this bonkers revenge story to make you cry, but Hit-Monkey pulls it off by investing heavily in Monkey and Bryce’s strange, yet oddly beautiful, relationship.Īn obscure character from the corners of the Marvel universe, Hit-Monkey made his first appearance in a 2010 comic by Daniel Way and Dalibor Talajić. The premise for Marvel’s Hit-Monkey is gloriously insane: A Japanese snow monkey (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) teams up with the ghost of an assassin named Bryce (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) to take down the people who massacred his entire tribe. Welcome to Thanks, I Love It, our series highlighting something onscreen we're obsessed with this week.
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