Featuring in Marvel writer Jason Latour’s first Spider Gwen Annual issue of the year, a character called MODAAK bears an uncanny resemblance to the Republican presidential candidate.
The mock-up appears to be a spoof of MODOK – a fictional mobile organism designed by scientists that goes off the rails and becomes a killing machine.
omfg donald trump is officially a marvel villain pic.twitter.com/xUumSq48um
— spider-boy™ (@sarcasticIwt) July 3, 2016
While Trump’s appearance as Captain America’s nemesis in the comic can only be speculated to be an allegory for the political situation in the US, the fact that MODAAK stands for “Mental Organism Designed as America’s King” shows just what Marvel thinks of the billionaire businessman.
The original MODOK character’s strange appearance prompted a hilarious moment in animated series The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes when Thor struggled to describe his enemy.
“It’s some kind of… that is a very big head,” the very confused Norse god said.
Images from inside Latour’s comic show the tanned supervillain taking a beating from a female Captain America, while uttering the words: “Must make America…”
marvel has made a comic where a woke poc female captain america beats up donald trump while he talks about his hands pic.twitter.com/kmuGd3FcvE
— DESTROYMAN (@topbunkwanter) July 3, 2016
Trump is not the first presidential candidate to feature in a comic. Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have also been given the comic book treatment by publishers Storm Entertainment.
Storm Entertainment president Darren Davis said that the books were not meant to “proselytize for one party, one candidate, or one point of view.”
Marvel's newest villain is orange-hued, more than passingly racist, and less than subtle: Dubbed the Mental Organism Designed as America’s King, the Telegraph reports that "MODAAK appears to be a riff on US presidential candidate Donald Trump." In a comic released last week, MODAAK rags on "foreign filth" (said filth originates from Waco, Texas, but hey), and has small hands—then goes on to threaten to crush a black, female Captain America "in my powerful hands," only to quickly be knocked out. MODAAK itself is a send-up of MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing), a previous villain that was a killing machine that went off the rails. Trump isn't alone in his comic book fame, notes RT: Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were previously spoofed by Storm Entertainment.
