Hit Monkey Fact — November 1, 2026

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

HIT-MONKEY'S GHOST MENTOR WAS A HALLUCINATION — AND DEADPOOL TALKED HIM OUT OF IT!

The Featured Fact

After the slaughter of his troop, the young macaque began seeing the spirit of the dead assassin his clan had sheltered — a spectral guide who pointed him toward the men behind the massacre, including the politician Hideki Hiyashi and, behind him, General Kato. For years that ghost was the closest thing Hit-Monkey had to a conscience, a commander and a friend.

The catch arrived in an unlikely diagnostician. When Hit-Monkey crossed paths with Deadpool again — in Deadpool Vol. 2 #61 (2012) — the mercenary revealed that he could perceive the phantom too, and credited that unsettling privilege to his own fractured mind. If the ghost were a genuine spirit, Wade reasoned, a sane witness would have been able to see it as well.

The logic landed where bullets never had. The apparition dissolved, and Hit-Monkey tore off his suit and bounded away from the assassin's life entirely — at least for a while. His next employer turned out to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. monster squad, which suggests the retirement functioned as more of a sabbatical.

Why It's Obscure

His deadliest advisor may never have existed — and it took Deadpool to deliver the diagnosis.

The guide

A voice from beyond — The murdered assassin's spirit steered the macaque's revenge, naming targets and urging him onward from his earliest kills.

The witness

Only one other pair of eyes — Deadpool alone could see the phantom, and he filed that ability under symptoms rather than superpowers.

The exit

Suit off, life changed — Convinced the haunting was his own mind at work, Hit-Monkey stripped off the assassin's wardrobe and vanished into the wild.

2012

Deadpool Vol. 2 #61 — The later Deadpool rematch doubles as an intervention, ending with an assassin talking a monkey out of a haunting.

Gallery

Comic art of Hit Monkey and the figure named in today's fact.

Page from Deadpool 61 where Deadpool tells Hit-Monkey the ghost guide is not real comic panels — **The intervention, in panels**Verified by eye: an actual page from Deadpool Vol. 2 #61 — Deadpool walks Hit-Monkey through the haunting (“That’s when he showed up, right? To guide you?”) and delivers the verdict: “…he’s not real.”

Hit-Monkey in suit and sunglasses leaping between buildings with a gun comic art — **Alone with the voice**Hit-Monkey in shades between skyscrapers, gun out — a portrait from the years when a dead man's spirit directed his aim and chose his targets.

Deadpool in red and black costume comic cover art — **Deadpool, accidental exorcist**Deadpool, named in today's fact — the only other person who could see the ghost, because, by his own cheerful admission, his mind works the same broken way.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Hit-Monkey (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseThe Marvel Database history records the spectral assassin guiding Hit-Monkey after his first murders, and Deadpool later revealing he could see the hallucination and persuading the macaque it was not real.
Hit-Monkey — WikipediaWikipedia's character history covers the dead assassin's guidance, the Deadpool story arcs, and Hit-Monkey's road from vengeance to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos.