Marvel is no stranger to turning characters on the far edge of their universe into household names. Before James Gunn came along no one knew Rocket Raccoon and Groot, now there’s an entire generation who are probably more familiar with them than Superman.

In May, Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum are looking to capture some of that lighting in the stop-animation series M.O.D.O.K for Hulu.

After years of losing to earth’s mightiest heroes, the mental organism designed only for killing has run Advanced Idea Mechanics into the ground. During the show’s TCA presentation, Oswalt and the cast talked about briging this show to life.

-Oswalt and Blum credit the comics by creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee as the main inspiration for the character we see. They cited not having to stretch in the way of interpretation as the source material through the years developed its own satire on the tropes of comics.

-Melissa Fumero and Ben Schwartz play the children of MODOK. Fumero’s character “Melissa” is the only child that resembles MODOK’s unique shape but the producers cleverly wrote her in a world that never acknowledges that. Oswalt describes her as a queen bee mean girl. Meanwhile Schwartz’s character “Lou” is physically normal and his season one story arc involves an AIM Bar Mitzvah.

-Aimee Garica voices MODOK’s wife “Jodie”, a woman pursuing her female empowerment. We’ll see a lot of conflicts as she comes to terms with the biggest weight in her life being her husband supervillain.

-Beck Bennet voices MODOK’s series nemesis “Austin” a corporate merger manager.

-In a special look at the show much of the music we hear is very 90’s including MODOK singing Third Eye Blind’s “Semi Charmed Life”. Producer Jordan Blum confirmed the band will be on the show in puppet form doing a special cover.

-When Oswalt and Jordan first approached Marvel about a show, the company had a list of other characters they wanted them to go after. Once the pair developed the unique style of MODOK and their adult comedic take on him, Marvel fully supported the adaptation.

-We will see some surprises in the way of characters or actors from the Marvel Universe. The panel did not give specifics but did say there would be something here and there.

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K season one debuts on Hulu, May 21.