unnecessarily deep autism dive into a single side character from the robot monkey show lol
this guy ⬇️ is Mandarin. He is responsible for kicking off the plot and ruining lives via silly antics.
He was the leader of the hyperforce until he was banished to space prison for being too power hungry. We don't see a whole lot of him as leader, but note how he has the same robotic modifications as everyone else.
Shortly after banishing him, everyone was put into a stasis for 50(?) years. Mandarin was alive and aging the whole time until they meet again, 50 years later. Most of his electronics are destroyed/rotting away.
Gonna skip a bit ahead here. Mandy fucks up one too many times and is MIA for the rest of the series. He's replaced by Mandarin... 2! (I'm gonna call him Skelemandarin to distinguish the two). He's a clone made of formless (a sort of black sludge). He's not dead, but he isn't exactly alive either.
I only recently noticed this... he's modeled after Mandy before the cybernetic prosthetics! He still has arms and ears. Inch resting considering the person who made Skelemandarin was more familiar with him as a baby rather than as a leader...
Regardless he's still just as cruel and heartless as before lol. He loses one of his hands, but he doesn't seem to bleed.
The next time we see him he's starting to spiral. He's losing fur and weight, and has a new prosthetic claw to replace his hand.
He's thrown into acid and loses the left side of his face.
He just keeps deteriorating and getting more fucked up.
What is his fucking problem. I wasn't expecting a show about robot monkeys to have such deep lore. Watching his perpetual downward spiral over 52 episodes was cool as fuck btw you can watch the entire series for free on yt just sayin ❤️
