Marvel's Moon Knight Show Is Getting Review-Bombed
Marvel's new series, Moon Knight, is getting review-bombed on IMDB for a particular moment in the first episode. Review-bombing is a modern practice where a fandom shows its disapproval of a project by inundating review sites with negative reviews. Usually, this is done in response to a particular creative decision or fans disagreeing over a project's treatment of canon, wherein this case it's being done due to a character acknowledging the Armenian genocide.
Moon Knight follows the titular Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac) as he faces villain Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) a cult leader associated with the Egyptian goddess Ammit. In the first episode of Moon Knight, Harrow lists off some horrible events in history that Ammit could have prevented, including the Armenian genocide. The Armenian genocide took place during World War I as a means to systematically destroy the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Armenians through death marches through the Syrian Desert as a means of forwarding the Turkish Nationalist Movement. As a result, the Turkish government maintains that the deportation of the Armenian populace was a legitimate action that cannot be described as genocide, but 31 countries (including the United States) have recognized the actions as such.
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According to Comicbook, the review-bombing of Moon Knight on IMDB is in response to the acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide in the MCU series. Turkish citizens who don't acknowledge the genocide as fact have been bombarding the site with denials of the atrocity. Many have publicly responded, including Isaac himself, who asks fans who love the show to leave a
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