Hit Monkey Fact — November 2, 2026

Today's Fact

The quietest assassin in Marvel took a team job — and a second, secret job inside it.

HIT-MONKEY JOINED DEADPOOL'S MERCS FOR MONEY — AS S.H.I.E.L.D.'S SECRET SPY!

The Featured Fact

When Negasonic Teenage Warhead joined Deadpool's mercenary venture, the Mercs for Money found a new teammate waiting at their base, sent without notice by S.H.I.E.L.D.: Hit-Monkey. The official story, which Deadpool swallowed, cast the macaque as a liaison between the team and the agency. The real assignment was surveillance — the monkey was there to monitor Negasonic.

The roster then changed hands. Domino assembled her own Mercs — Gorilla-Man, Machine Man, Masacre and Deadpool himself — to rescue Negasonic from Umbral Dynamics, which had been using her to power the radioactive Presence. In Deadpool & the Mercs for Money Vol. 2 #5 (2016), after the rescue, Hit-Monkey and Negasonic both signed on under Domino's leadership.

It is a perfect cover, when you think about it. A spy who files no written reports, attends every briefing, and is underestimated by every person in the room — including, apparently, the intelligence agency's own liaison story. S.H.I.E.L.D. did not send the Mercs a mascot; it sent them an auditor with a gun.

Why It's Obscure

A one-panel personnel decision in a Deadpool spinoff quietly made the assassin a double agent.

The cover story

Liaison, allegedly — Deadpool was told Hit-Monkey's presence was S.H.I.E.L.D. coordination. The monkey's actual brief was watching Negasonic.

The takeover

Domino calls the shots — The second Mercs incarnation answers to Domino, assembled to clean up Umbral Dynamics' radioactive mess.

Vol. 2 #5

2016 — Hit-Monkey and Negasonic Teenage Warhead join Domino's Mercs for Money following the defeat of the Presence.

The asset

Silent by design — Nobody interrogates the monkey about what he has seen, which is precisely what makes him ideal for the watching brief.

Gallery

The Hit-Monkey one-shot and limited-series covers, plus Domino — the leader named in today's fact.

Hit-Monkey one-shot comic cover with the suited monkey aiming two oversized pistols at the reader — **Where the legend started**The cover of the Hit-Monkey one-shot: a suited macaque dropping toward the reader, a pistol in each hand, billed as the world's greatest assassin.

Hit-Monkey limited series issue 3 cover with the bloodied monkey in sunglasses holding a pistol among playing cards and targets — **The professional at work**The third issue of his limited series: Hit-Monkey bloodied, shades on, pistol raised, playing cards and target cards swirling — the mercenary years in one portrait.

Domino with her eye marking firing two pistols in comic art — **Domino, named in today's fact**Domino — Neena Thurman, white-skinned, eye-marked, guns blazing — the mercenary who took the Mercs for Money away from Deadpool and gave Hit-Monkey his orders.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

Mercs for Money — Marvel.comMarvel's official team history: Domino forms the new Mercs with Gorilla-Man, Hit-Monkey, Machine Man and Masacre to rescue Negasonic from Umbral Dynamics and the Presence.
Hit-Monkey (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseThe character record: S.H.I.E.L.D. sent Hit-Monkey to the Mercs unannounced, Deadpool was told he was a liaison, and in truth he was monitoring Negasonic.
Mercs for Money — WikipediaWikipedia's roster history confirms Domino's incarnation — Domino, Deadpool, Gorilla-Man, Hit-Monkey, Machine Man, Masacre and Negasonic Teenage Warhead.