Daredevil's Disney+ Release Can Make Moon Knight Even Better
With Daredevil making the shift to Disney+, it can now enhance the Moon Knight viewing experience. Daredevil was the first of Netflix's grittier MCU series, featuring more visceral violence and adult themes. Marvel chief Kevin Feige has teased Moon Knight's heavy violence and brutality, which is one of many aspects that marks it out as unique from the current slate of MCU programming available on Disney+.
Moon Knight is the story of Marc Spector (Oscar Isaacs), a mercenary with disassociative identity disorder who becomes a conduit for the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu. The series is based on the Marvel comics character of the same name, who has a long history with the wider MCU stable of heroes since his debut in 1972. Over the years, Moon Knight has snatched Thor's hammer and has even assumed the Iron Fist mantle. The combination of Moon Knight's antiheroic character and Spector's mental health condition should provide Isaacs with a wealth of material to work with in the role.
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The arrival of the Defenders various series on Disney+ gives MCU fans the chance to reacquaint themselves with the more cerebral and darker elements of the Marvel universe before diving into Moon Knight. This is not only true for Daredevil, but also for shows such as Jessica Jones, which similarly tackled themes of mental health. In fact, when Jessica Jones debuted on Netflix, it gained critical acclaim for how it dealt with themes of misogyny, psychological abuse and the multiple ways in which people deal with trauma. Moon Knight should take a cue from the Netflix shows' delicate balance of superhero tropes with raw human emotion if it wants to successfully bring the
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