Hit Monkey Fact — November 3, 2026

Today's Fact

The most disciplined killer in the Marvel Universe botched his very first contract in Tokyo — and the mistake rewired his whole code.

HIT-MONKEY'S FIRST HIT KILLED THE WRONG MAN — AND HE THREW HIS GUNS AWAY CRYING!

The Featured Fact

Guided by the ghost of the nameless assassin whose death he was avenging, the macaque reached Tokyo with one name on his list: Hideki Hiyashi, a politician who had helped General Kato order the slaughter of his troop. In Hit-Monkey Vol. 2 #1 (2010), the novice killer opened fire on Hiyashi — and hit the man's innocent assistant instead.

The reaction separated him from every professional on his list. Anguished at taking a life that was not on it, Hit-Monkey threw away his guns, fled the scene in tears, and had to be talked back into his own revenge by the dead mentor scolding him from beyond the grave.

That botched first shot became the foundation of the legend that followed. The assassin who wept over one bystander grew into the urban myth other killers whisper about: a monkey who hunts only killers, whose later war on Kato's organisation — guarded by Bullseye himself — was fought under a code written by his earliest failure.

Why It's Obscure

Most assassins remember their first kill with pride; his is the reason he only ever aims at people like himself.

Tokyo

Target number one — Hideki Hiyashi was the first name on the revenge list, a politician in General Kato's chain of command.

The miss

One bullet, wrong body — The assistant's death was accidental, and every retelling of the origin pauses on the monkey's horror at it.

Guns down

A killer quits, briefly — He abandoned his weapons and the mission on the spot; only his mentor's ghost argued him back.

The code

Killer of killers — The bystander's death is the origin of his rule: the list contains murderers, never bystanders.

Gallery

The Hit-Monkey #3 cover, the macaque in his suit, and Bullseye — the professional waiting at the end of the Kato contract.

Hit-Monkey in a suit holding a pistol on the Hit-Monkey issue 3 cover — **Learning on the job**The Hit-Monkey #3 cover: suited, armed and surrounded by targets — a professional image earned only after his first hit went heartbreakingly wrong.

Hit-Monkey the macaque assassin comic art — **The Tokyo lesson**The macaque assassin in his early campaign against Kato's organisation, when one stray bullet taught him what his targets never learned.

Bullseye in his costume with target emblem holding a pistol comic art — **The other professional**Bullseye, Kato's hired bodyguard — a killer who has never once cried over a bystander, and the measuring stick for everything Hit-Monkey refused to become.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

Hit-Monkey (Earth-616) — Marvel DatabaseCharacter history recording the Tokyo attack on Hideki Hiyashi, the accidental killing of his assistant, and the macaque abandoning his guns in anguish, citing Hit-Monkey Vol. 2 #1.
Hit-Monkey — Multiversal OmnipediaBiography confirming the same sequence: the attack on Hiyashi, the innocent assistant's death, and the retreat until the assassin's ghost pressed him onward.
Hit-Monkey History — Superhero DatabaseIndependent retelling of the first target: Hit-Monkey shot Hiyashi's innocent assistant and ran away crying before resuming the hunt for General Kato.