Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.

The show “Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.” illustrates that those parts of the Marvel universe deserve their chance to shine too and that not every show in the Marvelverse has to speak in one voice.The new stop-motion series, which stars Patton Oswalt as the voice of the titular character, is both as ridiculous as it is quirky and a smart alternative for Marvel fans who’d like a break from those big-screen stories.Modok.Marvel Modok.Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Season 1 Download.

Imagined as a parody of half-hour sitcoms, this joyful Claymation’s lead character is known as M.O.D.O.K., which stands for Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. The character, which is 90% giant floating head in a canister with tiny limbs in a jar-shaped hoverchair, was originally part of a pantheon of 1960s-era Marvel oddities that came out of widespread fears of nuclear and medical experimentation.That character had been a normal man named George, who submitted to experimentation in the hopes of increasing his intelligence but mutated into a giant head and became a supervillain — albeit one with Wile E. Coyote-style schemes that ultimately shocked him when they failed. The new series reimagines M.O.D.O.K. not as a result of experimentation but as someone born with his oversized head and tiny body who was thus inspired to invent his famous hoverchair; his endless plots to take over the world are posited as the logical end result of childhood bullying.Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Season 1 Download.

“M.O.D.O.K.,” as you might imagine, is not a series that takes itself at all seriously: There’s an entire episode that revolves around 1990s-era band Third Eye Blind, and the company M.O.D.O.K. loses to a rival tech startup, GRUMBL, is called A.I.M. (Though the name — Advanced Idea Mechanics — is taken from the comics, older viewers will most likely think of the acronym for AOL’s early instant messaging service, which was shuttered in 2017 by Oath.)Unlike the live-action Marvel shows fans are becoming accustomed to on Disney+, neither the characters nor the fans have to work through the traumas of the Earth-shattering Blip or the deaths of Iron Man and Captain America.Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Season 1 Download.