Hit Monkey Fact — November 6, 2026

Today's Fact

A four-foot macaque in a stolen suit once ran a gauntlet of two of Marvel's loudest fighters and walked away from both.

HIT-MONKEY OUTFOUGHT SPIDER-MAN AND DEADPOOL BACK-TO-BACK — THEN SPARED THE MERC!

The Featured Fact

In the 2010 Deadpool arc usually called the monkey business storyline, Deadpool was hired to take out Hit-Monkey and discovered the job was far above his pay grade. The little assassin fought Deadpool to a standstill and left him alive, judging that his heart was not truly in the killing.

Spider-Man swung into the same mess after mistaking the situation, and Hit-Monkey handled him too — evading the web-slinger, returning fire with unsettling precision, and escaping a hero whose spider-sense normally ends fights before they start. Two marquee fighters, one very small monkey, no clean wins for the humans.

The arc, written by Daniel Way with art by Carlo Barberi, ran across Deadpool Vol. 4 #19-21 in 2010 and remains the clearest demonstration of why other assassins in the Marvel Universe quietly fear a monkey in a tailored suit.

Why It's Obscure

A macaque holding his own against a spider-sense and a healing factor deserves more than a footnote.

DEADPOOL VOL. 4 #19-21 (2010)

Daniel Way's three-issue arc is the definitive Hit-Monkey showcase outside his own miniseries, pairing him against Deadpool's chaos and Spider-Man's reflexes.

THE SPARE, NOT THE KILL

Hit-Monkey's code is the point of the story: he kills killers, and Deadpool, for all his body count, did not read as one to him that day.

SPIDER-SENSE VS. SNOW MONKEY

Spider-Man's precognitive edge usually trivializes gunmen. A fighter small, fast and unpredictable enough to keep him busy is a genuine rarity.

BETWEEN SOLO SERIES

The arc landed the same year as Hit-Monkey's own three-issue miniseries, Marvel clearly testing whether the character could carry scenes with its biggest names. He could.

Gallery

Hit-Monkey aiming two pistols — **Twin pistols.** Hit-Monkey in his signature suit, both guns drawn — the exact sight Deadpool and Spider-Man had to deal with.

Cover of Hit-Monkey Vol. 1 #1 — **First solo cover.** The cover of Hit-Monkey's own 2010 miniseries, released alongside his Deadpool guest run.

**The gauntlet.** Deadpool and Spider-Man, the two fighters Hit-Monkey faced down in a single storyline.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

Deadpool Vol. 4 #19 — Marvel Database Issue entry for the opening chapter of Hit-Monkey's clash with Deadpool and Spider-Man.
Hit-Monkey (Earth-616) — Marvel Database Character history covering the Deadpool arc and his code of killing only killers.
Hit-Monkey — Marvel.com Official character profile on the assassin macaque.