Since its premiere last calendar month , Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaurhas managed to cement itself as one of the best Marvel cartoons in years . Much of that can be owe to the show ’s characters ; beyondLunella and Devil , the the great unwashed that inhabit the Lower East Side of New York all have personality and finger like they have something going on beyond getting caught up inthe heroes ’ orbit .
That also extends to the villains that have pour down up in the show ’s first rivulet of episodes , like Laurence Fishburne ’s Beyonder and Jennifer Hudson ’s Mane . This hebdomad ’s installment , “ Teacher ’s Pet , ” adds another colored baddie to the show ’s roster in the form of the Rat King . Per the installment ’s logline , Lunella ’s assigned to take tutelage of her class ’ hamster , which start out as an easy gig until Devil grow jealous of the small rodent . When the hamster break missing after being accidentally freed , Lunella goes looking for it , and breaking wind up becoming cognisant of the Rat King ’s macrocosm .
Disney provided io9 with an exclusive clip of the young episode , wherein the King put in himself to Moon Girl with the sewer rats under his statement . When io9 talk to Moon Girl’sSteve Loter and Rodney Cloudenbefore the show ’s premiere , they explained that they were given free reign to tweak the fictional character into the show ’s panache . That continues with the Rat King , who use his rat United States Army to steal the half - eaten intellectual nourishment from New York eating house . Voiced by Daveed Diggs of Hamilton and Snowpiercer fame , the King sing with a portentous theatricality meet of his comprehend royal house . With howstylish and musicalthe show has proven to be in the past , maybe we ’ll also discover Diggs put his vocal music to the trial as he sings about his grand , rat - powered master plan .
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