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M.O.D.O.K.
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Official logo
Genre
Created by
Based on
Directed byEric Towner
Alex Kramer
Starring
ComposerDaniel Rojas
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Paula Haifley
  • Whitney Loveall
EditorsChris Rogers
Jessica Shobe
Running time23–25 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkHulu
ReleaseMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21) –
present (present)

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., or simply M.O.D.O.K., is an American stop motion adult animated television series created by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt for Hulu, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series is produced by Marvel Television.

Patton Oswalt stars as M.O.D.O.K., a supervillain struggling to handle his company and family. Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Beck Bennett, Jon Daly, and Sam Richardson also star. M.O.D.O.K. was officially announced with a series order at Hulu in February 2019, as part of a group of series based on Marvel characters that were intended to lead to a crossover special titled The Offenders, with it being produced by Marvel Television. Oversight of the series was moved to Marvel Studios in December 2019 when Marvel Television was folded into that company. The cast was announced in January 2020, with writing and recording completed later. Stop-motion animation for the series is provided by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

M.O.D.O.K. had its 10 episodes released on Hulu on May 21, 2021. Upon its debut, the show has been well received by critics and audiences. With praise going to the animation, writing, references from other Marvel properties and the voice acting, particularly with praise going to Oswalt.

Premise

After spending years failing to gain control of the world and battling superheroes along the way, M.O.D.O.K., having been removed from his company A.I.M. after it falls into bankruptcy and is sold to the rival evil corporation GRUMBL (Just Be Evil), begins to deal with his taunting family while facing a mid-life crisis.[1][2]

Cast and characters

Main

  • Patton Oswalt as George Tarleton / M.O.D.O.K.:
    A floating robotic engineered head who is the former leader of A.I.M. and is obsessed with having control and conquering the world. He dislikes superheroes and his rival supervillains, believing he should be superior to them, before facing a mid-life crisis with his suburban New Jersey family.[1][3][4]
    • Oswalt also voices George Tarleton / Anomaly: The younger college-aged M.O.D.O.K. who becomes displaced in time and threatens to wipe out his future self's family so that their plans for world conquest can be secured.
  • Aimee Garcia as Jodie Ramirez-Tarleton:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s Judeo-Mexican American wife who questions his role as the superior supervillain. She decides to pursue a new career change after running a mom-blog, earning money to support their family before becoming a supervillain herself, gaining attention from a superhero, which was said to go "beyond expectations for typical sitcom wives".[1][5][3] In episode 8, she uses the nom de plume of Jodie Ramirez-Modok.
  • Ben Schwartz as Louis "Lou" Tarleton / L.O.U.I.S.:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s socially awkward 12-year-old son who is different from the rest of his family, and does not have a care in the world.[1][3][5] He claims his name stands for Lanky Organism Undeniably Irresistible and Syphilitic; the last word that he chose, he admits that he thought sounded cool. The character wears a blue sweatshirt as a nod to Schwartz voicing characters associated with that color in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, and Sonic the Hedgehog.[6]
    • Schwartz also voices Lou's robotic duplicate and adoptive twin brother, with the pair being treated as the same person and collectively known as "The Lous."
  • Melissa Fumero as Melissa Tarleton / M.E.L.I.S.S.A.:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s popular 17-year-old daughter who shares her father's appearance. She is the most popular girl at her high school and wants to gain her father's approval as a supervillain.[1][3] She is also openly bisexual.[7] She claims her name stands for Mental Entity Living to Induce Seriously Sinister Anarchy, but M.O.D.O.K. named her after Melissa Etheridge.
  • Wendi McLendon-Covey as Monica Rappaccini / Scientist Supreme: M.O.D.O.K.'s workplace arch-nemesis whom he is forced to work with.[1]
  • Beck Bennett as Austin Van Der Sleet:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s new boss in his twenties who is from GRUMBL, a large tech company that invests in and takes control of A.I.M., He is also revealed to be in allegiance to Hexus, the Living Corporation.[1][5][4]
  • Jon Daly as Super-Adaptoid:
    A robot who has high ambitions as an artist and hates being enslaved as M.O.D.O.K.'s servant. It is revealed near the end of the first season that he always somehow betrays the family and they simply reset him all the time. Despite this, the family sometimes forgets he exists.[1][3]
  • Sam Richardson as Gary Garoldson:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s one armed loyal henchman who is constantly optimistic.[1] He is gay as he has a husband named Big Mike who is a trucker.

Guest

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"If This Be... M.O.D.O.K.!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerJordan Blum and Patton OswaltMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
George Tarleton, a.k.a. MODOK, is the leader of A.I.M. who is constantly challenged by his subordinate Monica Rappaccini and lives in the suburbs with his lifestyle vlogging wife Jodie, his awkward son Lou, his popular teenage daughter Melissa, and the depressed and under-appreciated Super-Adaptoid. As MODOK declares success over stealing Iron Man's boot, he fails to acknowledge Jodie's achievements. He later discovers that A.I.M. is losing money and Austin Van Der Sleet, the head of tech company GRUMBL, offers to buy them. MODOK is reluctant, but Austin wins him over with a pitch, However, MODOK discovers too late that he has lost control of A.I.M. To prevent his agents from getting laid off, MODOK tries to stop Austin from signing them away, but ends up accidentally controlling Jodie while she is having a meeting with Austin about expanding her business. MODOK is too late to stop Austin, but convinces him to have his agents keep their jobs. At dinner afterwards, Jodie tells MODOK that she wants a divorce.
2"The M.O.D.O.K. That Time Forgot!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerGeoff Barbanell and Itai GrunfeldMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
Jodie forces MODOK to move out and they find an album for Third Eye Blind, whose concert MODOK and Jodie failed to attend in their college years. MODOK and his A.I.M. subordinate Gary break into S.H.I.E.L.D. to steal a time machine so that MODOK can take Jodie back in time to the concert. She reluctantly agrees, but they arrive too early. MODOK's younger self sees his older counterpart and follows them into the future. MODOK and Jodie have fun at the concert, but she realizes that he was trying to kill a young Austin to reclaim his job. The younger MODOK, angered at his older self's ineptitude, fights him, but the time machine's crystals get shattered and embedded in the younger MODOK's face, displacing him from time. MODOK and Jodie realize they are stuck after inadvertently ruining Monica's future and that they missed the concert because Jodie was pregnant. They watch themselves growing together as a family and prevent themselves from time traveling, but it erases their development and MODOK and Super-Adaptoid move out.
3"Beware What from Portal Comes!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerBrett Cawley and Robert MaitiaMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
MODOK has the weekend with his kids while Jodie is set to promote her new book. Austin invites MODOK to a GRUMBL conference as a "guest of honor" and MODOK brings the kids. While Lou enjoys the hotel accommodations, Melissa voices her disapproval of the situation, so MODOK brings her to the party and reveals that he must impress GRUMBL's superiors. However, Austin humiliates him and Melissa deduces that Austin invited MODOK to make him look bad. She teaches her father to exploit other people's flaws so that he can control them psychologically. This works, but he refuses to "play the long game" and decides to summon the Brood so he can save the party. Instead, he accidentally summons Ciegrimites, who party non-stop. Using Melissa's tactics however, MODOK saves the party anyway. Afterwards, MODOK discovers that Melissa simply wants his approval and promises her that she does not need to visit him all the time. Meanwhile, Austin's superiors are revealed to be an unknown alien species.
4"If Saturday Be... For the Boys!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerPatton OswaltMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
MODOK decides to go to a Soho bar, only to discover he lost his status with the other A-list villains. The Leader, Madame Masque, and Mister Sinister challenge him to steal Captain America's shield. MODOK goes to the Bar with No Name and recruits D-list villains Armadillo, Poundcakes, Melter, Angar the Screamer, and Tenpin with the promise that they are stealing money. MODOK calls upon Super-Adaptoid to drive them, but they keep making various stops and MODOK begins to sympathize with the villains. After accidentally revealing his plan and getting Super-Adaptoid stolen by teens, MODOK makes it up to the group by buying them meatloaf, only for Melter to die of excitement in the morning. Meanwhile, Lou posts a YouTube video of him eating ten PayDays and Jodie takes him to A.I.M. to ask MODOK to have the videos removed. Instead, Jodie gets drunk with Monica over MODOK while Lou befriends Monica's daughter Carmilla. Later, Monica creates a serum that will make Lou allergic to peanuts while Super-Adaptoid is kidnapped by the younger MODOK.
5"If Bureaucracy Be Thy Death!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerCullen CrawfordMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
In a flashback, Monica was excited to work for MODOK, but he took credit for her killing a major Avenger. After attending Melter's funeral, MODOK becomes inspired to perfect his legacy at A.I.M. by firing a black hole gun at Avengers Tower to kill Iron Man, but has to go through channels that will take three months. Meanwhile, Monica's research into manatee soldiers gets stalled as she has not taken any vacation days. MODOK and Monica decide to team up to get her plans approved and deplete her vacations days. Their plan is successful, but Monica outs the plan to Austin and she and MODOK fight each other. Austin has MODOK demoted while Monica becomes the new Scientist Supreme. However, she is forced to work on GRUMBL approved projects and recalls how MODOK did believe in her work despite his behavior. As MODOK sulks in front of Avengers Tower, Monica's new position is revealed to be part of Austin's plan on behalf of Hexus, the Living Corporation.
6"Tales from the Great Bar-Mitzvah War!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerLauren Sodja OteroMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
MODOK creates a trash portal to Asgard and accidentally kills Balder when he tosses a shredder down it. Jodie calls MODOK and asks him to look after Lou. While attending Lou's Bar Mitzvah recital however, MODOK becomes annoyed by his son performing magic and disposes his wand down the Asgard trash can, but Lou enters the trash can in, after the wand. MODOK follows, but witnesses Lou getting taken away by Kobold Goblins and damages his flight mechanism; forcing him to get goats to pull him. He finds his son, but the latter has become a success as a magician and kicks MODOK out when he does not appreciate him. MODOK teams up with some Asgardian warriors and they go to war with the Goblins until MODOK finally admits to Lou that he wants people to like him and build a utopia so that no one can hurt him. Lou uses his magic to pretend to kill MODOK, who happily accepts his hobby. While speaking with the rabbi, MODOK realizes that Lou pursued magic to cope with the divorce. Meanwhile, Super-Adaptoid decides to work with the young MODOK.
7"This Man... This Makeover!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerYolanda CarneyMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
One month prior, Jodie was approached by a publisher who told her that she needs to acquire fame in order for her book to become popular. After encountering Wonder Man, she began a relationship with him in the hopes of having him fight MODOK and increase her publicity. After revealing her current relationship to him, MODOK gets sent into an emotional spiral. At Gary's suggestion, MODOK approaches Melissa to give him a makeover and attends Jodie's book party. After MODOK provokes Wonder Man into punching him, Jodie kicks him out for the attention. However, Wonder Man discovers that she had been using him and tells her that she is just like her husband. Unbeknownst to MODOK and Jodie, the publisher was a disguised Super-Adaptoid acting on behalf of young MODOK, who hires Arcade to assist him further. MODOK reads Jodie's book and cleans himself. As he prepares to give Jodie the divorce papers, she tosses them and takes him back. Meanwhile, Melissa and Lou use a drunk gun and bond over how their parents have changed.
8"O, Were Blood Thicker Than Robot Juice!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerBrett Cawley and Robert MaitiaMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
MODOK awakens to a very subservient family who are happy to have him back. However, he eventually discovers that they are robots and that his real family have been kidnapped by his younger self, who intends to kill them. Using Melissa's GRUMBL watch, the family control their Roomba to create a message with marbles. While the robot Jodie trips on them and smashes her face, MODOK appears oblivious to this before revealing his own deception and destroying the robots. He locates his family, albeit paired up with more identical robots, before everyone learns that they are in Arcade's Murder World and are forced them to fight for the real family members. The family manage to get the real MODOK, Jodie, and Melissa, but leave two Lous. Young MODOK disavows Arcade's plans, who leaves in anger, and damages MODOK. Angered, Jodie rips young MODOK in half and Melissa uses his circuitry to fix MODOK. Following this, the family, the extra Lou, and a reset Super-Adaptoid go to dinner.
9"What Menace Doth the Mailman Deliver!"Eric Towner and Alex KramerGeoff Barbanell and Itai GrunfeldMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
MODOK decides to become the perfect employee at A.I.M. by becoming a mailman. However, everyone is confused by his behavior, with Monica believing that he is plotting to remove her as Scientist Supreme and becoming paranoid. Hexus tells Austin to move up the launch of the GROME, a smart device, to commence their invasion more quickly. When Austin learns that they plan to kill his dog Sherlock, he tries to stall the device's completion, but MODOK reveals that he can fix the flaws and is assigned to it. Gary believes that Austin is to blame for MODOK's behavior and plots to kill him. Monica's paranoia worsens and she accidentally fuses Austin with Sherlock, though she later undoes this. After completing the device, MODOK unexpectedly meets with Iron Man and has him buy his and Monica's A.I.M. shares. Iron Man buys the company, thwarting Hexus, while Gary kills Austin. Appreciating her work, MODOK invites Monica and Gary to join his new company, A-I-M-2 while Hexus plots revenge on MODOK.
10"Days of Future M.O.D.O.K.s"Eric Towner and Alex KramerJordan BlumMay 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
As the Lous prepare for their Bar Mitzvah, MODOK and Jodie realize that they need to bring other kids to the party. MODOK has Melissa take him to the mall so that they can invite other kids through the guise of them auditioning for a show, but MODOK ruins it. As MODOK invites his friends to the party, the Lous admit that they simply want to dance with their father and he complies. Melissa learns through Whirlwind that MODOK appreciates her ice skating and Jodie tells MODOK that she is not ready to get back together, but wants to stay close. However, young MODOK arrives, having faked his death. Calling himself the Anomaly, he prepares to kill MODOK's family, but freezes time. He reveals to MODOK that across multiple timelines, he always fails. He does succeed in one, but only after his family dies. Loving them dearly, MODOK struggles with the decision, but the Anomaly makes it for him and kills them. In MODOK's utopia, the Avengers are dead and MODOK has the Anomaly tortured to death in a failed attempt to bring his family back.

Production

Development

In February 2019, it was announced that Marvel Television was developing an adult animated television series based on M.O.D.O.K., with a series order at Hulu, along with ones based on Hit-Monkey, Tigra and Dazzler, and Howard the Duck, that were intended to lead up to a crossover special titled The Offenders. The series was created by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, both of whom were expected to write for the series and executive produce alongside Jeph Loeb.[12][13][14] Brett Crawley, Robert Maitia, Grant Gish, Joe Quesada, and Karim Zreik also executive produce.[15] In December 2019, Marvel Television was folded into Marvel Studios, which carried subsequent oversight of the series.[16] The following month, Marvel decided not to move forward with Howard the Duck, Tigra & Dazzler, and The Offenders, with M.O.D.O.K. and Hit Monkey continuing as planned.[17]

Following Marvel Television getting absorbed into Marvel Studios, Blum stated that Kevin Feige was supportive of the show and told him to "keep going" with the concept. Blum was allowed to give the series its own multiverse designation and chose Earth-1226 in honor of his son's birthday.[18] In April 2021, Blum revealed that a second season is planned.[7]

Casting

The series' announcement revealed that Oswalt was set to voice M.O.D.O.K.[19] In January 2020, the announcement of Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Beck Bennett, Jon Daly, and Sam Richardson as the series' cast was confirmed.[1]

Writing

By that October, Oswalt confirmed that writing and audio recording for the series had concluded,[20] under the working title Bighead.[21] In January 2020, Craig Erwich, Hulu's Senior Vice President of Originals, revealed that "a few episodes of" the series had completed recording,[22] Oswalt stated that Marvel allowed him and the creative team to include a variety of popular and relatively unknown characters in the series, which include several superheroes and members of X-Men-related teams.[3] Blum stated that due to rights issues, the only characters they could not use were Stilt-Man, Paste-Pot Pete and Turner D. Century. Prior to the cancellation of The Offenders, Blum was brought on to overlook the other shows and had even thought up about what the crossover would have entailed. He added that not much had changed storywise when it was decided to make M.O.D.O.K. a standalone series.[23]

Animation

Work on the stop-motion aspects of the series was revealed to have been completed by October 2020 with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios providing the visuals for the episodes, which had "every frame [packed] with crazy detail".[20] During the series' New York Comic Con online panel later that month, Oswalt revealed that Stoopid Buddy Studios created "innovative technology" that used handheld-styled cinematography techniques for the stop-motion puppet designs of the characters and environment.[4]

Music

Daniel Rojas serves as the composer for the series.[20]

Marketing

In September 2020, Hulu revealed the series' logo,[24] and Entertainment Weekly released first look images for the series on October 9, 2020,[25] ahead of a panel that was held during the virtual New York Comic Con later that day, where Blum and Oswalt presented two clips from the series and a behind-the-scenes B-roll.[5]

To promote the series, Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum co-wrote a miniseries for Marvel Comics titled M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games. The comic quickly establishes the existence of M.O.D.O.K.'s family from the Hulu series into the mainstream Marvel Universe, albeit as a trio of Super-Adaptoids that were copied from his hallucinations brought upon by a glitched program in his head.[26]

Release

M.O.D.O.K. premiered on Hulu on May 21, 2021, releasing all ten episodes simultaneously.[15] On that same day, the first episode released on the Star content hub of Disney+ with a subsequent weekly window.[27]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 7.77/10 based on 28 critic reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though its tendency toward too-muchness may test some viewers' patience, slick stop-motion, a killer voice cast, and a seemingly endless well of jokes make M.O.D.O.K. an entertainingly chaotic diversion."[28] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100 based on 7 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[29]

Glen Weldon of NPR gave the series a positive review, comparing it to Robot Chicken and stating, "Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. was expressly created to cordon off one tiny, weird, backwater corner of the Marvel Universe, and go nuts. Which is exactly what it accomplishes, in a fun, if Robot Chicken-flavored, way."[30] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter gave the series a more critical review, comparing it to both Robot Chicken and Harley Quinn, saying that it "falls short of Harley Quinn territory and lands smack-dab in the middle of Robot Chicken country," and finally stating that "The voices and pell-mell references are the biggest reason why a 10-episode weekend binge of Marvel’s MODOK amounted to such easy, quickly digested entertainment. Whether or not you think the series wants to amount to more than that — and I feel like it really does, and perhaps someday could — depends on you."[31] Eric Francisco of Inverse gave the series a positive review, stating that "In its own tragicomic corner, outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, M.O.D.O.K. shines as a nuanced portrait of a supervillain trying to have it all" and that "M.O.D.O.K. has strengths all its own, primarily as a too-real tragicomedy about a life gone awry and a marriage crumbling into dust," while adding that "It isn’t as funny, vulgar, or insightful as Harley Quinn ... Nor is it as boundary-expanding as WandaVision."[32] Siddhant Adlakha of IGN gave the series an 8 out of 10 rating, stating that "Marvel’s farcical M.O.D.O.K. series is a refreshing, mile-a-minute comic self-parody. Every line is a laugh, and Patton Oswalt is pitch-perfect as the iconic supervillain, whose Frankenstein origins are traded in for a streamlined saga of ego and ambition, blended with both a modern workplace comedy and a surprisingly moving family sitcom."[33]

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