Moon Knight Copies Sony's Venom - But Avoids Its Worst Mistakes
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Moon Knight.
Marvel’s new Disney+ series Moon Knight copies the core character conflict of Sony’s Venom but avoids its worst mistakes. The latest MCU series follows mild-mannered Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) as he struggles to balance his life as a museum gift shop assistant with his dissociative identity disorder. Experiencing fragmented memories and a belittling voice inside his head, Grant becomes aware that he’s sharing control of his body with both Marc Spector, a skilled international mercenary, and Khonshu, an Egyptian god.
This dynamic reflects that of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom in Sony’s movies. The investigative journalist is also forced to share his body with a superpowered alien symbiote that’s constantly demanding violence and human brains from Eddie. The central conflict of the Venom movies is rarely between Brock/Venom and whichever nemesis they’re up against, it’s between Brock and Venom as they vie for their own independence. While Grant’s dissociative identity disorder shares similarities with Brock and Venom’s symbiotic relationship, the opening episode “The Goldfish Problem” demonstrates that it can avoid the biggest pitfalls of the Venom movies.
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Venom and Moon Knight also have a more off-kilter comic feel than many of their fellow comic book movies. The big set-piece in the opening episode of Moon Knight, soundtracked by Wham! finds Steven in a mountainside car chase while driving a van full of cupcakes. Tonally, it’s very similar to outlandish scenes where Venom takes control of unwilling people and animals as he tries to save Eddie. The main difference between Steven and Eddie is that
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