Because the collection progresses, bit by bit, MODOK makes a gentle transition in opposition to being a greater father. He is nonetheless now not nice after all, however he is k. He dances together with his son Lou (voiced via Ben Schwartz) at his bar mitzvah, recognizes his shortcomings to his spouse Jodie (Aimee Garcia), or even elicits a favorable emotion from his daughter Melissa (Melissa Fumero), which is tricky when you find yourself parenting any teenage lady, let by myself one with a dominant supervillain gene.
However then, in a twist acquainted to any person who is ever gained a call for participation to a highschool reunion and checked out themselves within the replicate at the similar day, MODOK is haunted via the person he was once twenty years in the past. On this case, it is literal: the time-displaced MODOK from the previous reveals his provide self and reminds him of what he sought after to be. Previous-MODOK displays his older self the entire futures that might happen: deaths by the hands of each and every Avenger, rest room center assaults, and, presciently, that one doable result that sees MODOK turn out to be the ruler of a utopian, unified Earth.
It is a setup that calls again to Physician Unusual’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) “one probability in 14,000,065” situation established in “Avengers: Infinity Conflict” and fulfilled in “Avengers: Endgame,” with one darkish distinction. Tony Stark (voiced via Jon Hamm in “MODOK”) has to come to phrases with how a lot of himself he will sacrifice, whilst MODOK can be triumphant provided that he sacrifices others — particularly, the circle of relatives that he labored so laborious to deserve. The key phrase there — the one who cemented the circle of relatives’s doom — is “labored.”
