>>150070455

I'm still wondering if Doc and Jackson were setting up a reveal that it was actually the Monarch that set into motion 24th's death

> In Season 2, 21 reveals to 24 as they're escaping Henry Killinger's cell that he'd killed the Monarch's pet cat, Mr Mostly Mittens, by accidentally sitting on him
> Cut to post-24's death, where Dr Mrs The Monarch and the Monarch are having dinner discussing 21's behavior of talking to his friend's dead skull. Monarch downplays it as normal, since he still talks to HIS dead best friend- Mr Mostly Mittens, who's been stuffed and mounted behind the dinner table. Monarch clearly loved that cat
> During the Shallow Gravy mid-season special, during Monarch's interview after 21's, he claims to be the one to have "broke up the band", which in context might be Shallow Gravy but he might be alluding to something else
> When he finds 21's "I for an Eye" revenge list, he's offended that he's not listed as one of the suspects for 24's death and pencils himself in
> The Moppets deny being the ones responsible for 24's death, even as they're killed by a vengeful 21 and the other henchmen for it
> It would absolutely be within the show's themes to be setting up the Monatch and 21's close friendship, thinking mystery of the death of 24 has been closed, for it to be a late game reveal by the Monarch that the whole thing was an elaborate, long game vendetta against 21 for killing his best friend by killing HIS best friend, growing close with each other only to make the Monarch's eventual backstab hurt that much more