Detective Monkey

Real Name: unknown Age: 4 Power Source: seemingly natural Appearance: Detective Monkey is a black-furred chimpanzee around 4 feet tall. He has large blue eyes and is not particularly different from a common chimp if not for his constant attire of a trench coat that drags slightly beneath his feet. He carries a large magnum in its inner pocket and sometimes wears a derby, but it is often lost in the heat of the case. Superpowers: Detective Monkey has the strength, agility, and natural abilities of a fit male chimpanzee. His senses are notably keen with a peculiar attention for detail. He possesses intelligence a step beyond any known ape, though noticeably behind any common man. Detective Monkey has some acknowledgment form the Empire City police, and is a very gifted shot with his trusty revolver. Affiliation: Empire City Police Department, legally licensed Private Eye Biography: born into captivity the Chicago Zoo to Bongo and Chichi the chimps, the good detective escaped in his late monkey teens at age 1 when his feeder neglected to guard the door. While he appeared to disappear off all records, his recently expired ability to speak has revealed that he had a series of misadventures involving truckers, Mafiosos, time travel, and puppeteers. These occasionally brought him to Empire City, when criminals who evaded the police were strangely found bound, gagged, and slightly pooped with evidence on their person. Inevitably, Monkey was picked up by another kindly stranger to leave town before he could the accomplishments could be traced to him. Eventually he found himself in Empire City, coincidentally without random travelers to bring him elsewhere. It lived off the streets and amusing dances for food and change in parks, though now wielding a trench coat and revolver. His marksmanship is presumed to have come from encountering firearms in his travels and mimicking them, but this does not explain his particularly good shooting or where he got the gun. His ability to solve crimes with no visible evidence is either attributed to some inexplicable animal instinct, or unimaginable luck and coincidence, but he has yet to capture an innocent man (injuries are another thing…). Eventually, the police were forced to acknowledge his prowess for crime solving, granting him some legal power and authority as a law officer. Detective Monkey seems to also have a peculiar moral sense of people, almost immediately befriending or be-foeing people with large hugs or comical raspberries (accordingly).