How Moon Knight's Mental Health Representation Was Important (But Faltered)
Warning: Contains spoilers for Moon Knight season 1.
The MCU broke new ground with the portrayal on Moon Knight of a character with dissociative identity disorder (DID), and while the representation was good, there were some bad moments that let the franchise down. When Marvel first announced that they were going to adapt the Moon Knight comics for a Disney+ TV show, the primary concerns were how they would handle the more graphically violent subject matter and whether they would be able to sensitively portray a character with DID. The original Moon Knight comics were not always consistent in describing how Marc Spector’s alters worked, and this is compounded by the fact that terminology and clinical understanding has changed since the Moon Knight comics first debuted in 1975.
When the Marvel Cinematic Universe first came to the big screen, the original Avengers team was far from diverse in any forms of its representation. In the more than a decade that has passed since then, the MCU has made great strides in improving its representation and diversity. 2018’s Black Panther was a huge milestone for the franchise, while more recent properties have started (slowly) to show the truth of Kevin Feige’s promise to include more LGBTQ+ representation. With the character of Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) in Eternals, Echo (Alaqua Cox) in Hawkeye, and a progression in the story of Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) to bring him more in line with his comic book character, the MCU has also introduced representation for the Deaf community.
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Moon Knight attempts to continue this shift in the MCU’s representation of marginalized communities. Oscar Isaac’s character
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