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M.O.D.O.K. (also called Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.) is a 2021 Stop Motion adult animated show based on the titular supervillain created by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, the voice of the title character.

Once upon a time, A.I.M. was the biggest name in villainy but the economy has hit them hard. To survive, the company gets absorbed by GRUMBL, a thinly veiled expy of Google, much to the ire of M.O.D.O.K. who finds his workplace rival Monica Rappaccini thriving in this new environment. And M.O.D.O.K.'s home life isn't that much better, with his poor work/life balance spelling that a divorce might be coming sooner rather than later.

The show's first season dropped on Hulu in May 2021 and after a year of uncertainty about a potential Season 2, the show was cancelled in May of 2022.

In the Marvel Comics multiverse, this show takes place on Earth-1226.

Tropes used in M.O.D.O.K. (2021) include:
  • Actually a Doombot: Anomaly in Episode 8.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Unlike other realities in the Marvel multiverse, Asgardians do not have Super Toughness. If anything, they seem more fragile than a human.
  • Alien Invasion: Hexus has their sights set on Earth.
  • Awesomeness By Analysis: Melissa's power as an Alpha Bitch which she teaches to her father.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: M.O.D.O.K. ends Season 1 by conquering the world and bringing about his utopia, even managing to kill the Avengers. Though he considers it a Bittersweet Ending given how his victory came at the cost of his family's death.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: The main two villains are Hexus the Living Corporation trying to conquer Earth and Anomaly, a teenage version of M.O.D.O.K. from twenty years ago who tries to push his future self back on the path to conquest.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: The Ciegrimites. The Hedonists they may be, their non-stop partying will cause people to literally party themselves to death. They even killed the Brood.
  • Beyond the Impossible: In one Bad Future, M.O.D.O.K. somehow drowned in the toilet. It's even lampshaded that his head is bigger than a toilet bowl and literally cannot fit in there.
  • Brilliant but Lazy: M.O.D.O.K. is a genius but he's too caught up in Zany Schemes to put his intellect to work. Melissa seems to have inherited it as she's able to repair M.O.D.O.K.'s hover chair but is generally only concerned with being an Alpha Bitch.
  • Broken Pedestal: M.O.D.O.K. was once Monica's idol until she killed an Avenger on her first day and he took credit for it.
  • Cephalothorax: M.O.D.O.K. of course, though here he was simply born with an unusually large head. He passed the mutation onto Melissa.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: "If This Be... M.O.D.O.K.!" hints that M.O.D.O.K.'s family is a secret before later episodes makes clear that all of A.I.M. knows about them.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • M.O.D.O.K. may be a supervillain who seeks to Take Over the World, but even he considers Melissa's Alpha Bitch tactics to be "so mean".
    • Even the supervillains consider Lou to be be a weirdo.
  • "Friend or Idol?" Decision: Essentially what Anomaly tells M.O.D.O.K. in "Days of Future M.O.D.O.K.s". M.O.D.O.K. can either stay a C-list supervillain with a troubled family life or, if his family dies, he can use that trauma to become a better supervillain and conquer Earth. The latter is chosen for him, though he ends Season 1 trying to find a way to bring his family back.
  • Fun with Acronyms:
    • Melissa was named after Melissa Etheridge though she claims her name stands for "Mental Entity Living to Induce Seriously Sinister Anarchy".
    • Lou says that his name stands for "Lanky Organism Undeniably Irresistible and Syphilitic". He doesn't know what the last word means and he doesn't want to.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Anomaly and Arcade's robots in Episode 8. They're built so perfectly that they have perfect recall, something no organic has.
  • I Hate Past Me: And the feeling is mutual. There clearly is no love lost between M.O.D.O.K. and Anomaly.
  • Honest Corporate Executive: Tony Stark of course. He outright says he's trying to dismantle GRUMBL's insidious control of society.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Why the Super Adaptoid joins forces with Anomaly. He does this quite frequently and the family just resets him whenever he does it.
  • OOC Is Serious Business: Averted hard. Despite several clear warnings throughout "O, Were Blood Thicker Than Robot Juice!", M.O.D.O.K. clearly doesn't pick up on the fact that his family are imposters until he sees Robot!Jodie's synthetic flesh peel off.
  • Paradox Person: The Anomaly, as reflected by the name. The Time Travel that created him was Ret-Goned but thanks to the time crystal stuck in his head, he manages to endure.
  • Screw Yourself: Monica made an Opposite Sex Clone of herself with which to produce an offspring.
  • The Sociopath: Melissa self-identifies as one. Aside from her love for her family, she does seem to tick most of the boxes.
  • Unknown Rival: Iron Man knows who M.O.D.O.K. is but the Arch Enemy feelings are not mutual.
  • The Unreveal: The Avenger that Monica killed on her first day. All that's said is that the Avenger was so noteworthy that everyone would know who it was.
  • Villains Out Shopping: The show in a nutshell. It's a family dramedy about a man stuck in a mid-life crisis. It's just that the man is M.O.D.O.K.