Moon Knight Episode 4 Poses 8 Questions & Headscratchers
Warning: contains SPOILERS from Moon Knight episode 4.
Marvel's Moon Knight episode 4, «The Tomb,» has some particularly intriguing developments that offer more questions and headscratchers than the previous episodes — here are eight of them, explained. After Marc Spector's (Oscar Isaac) powers are removed upon Khonshu's imprisonment in episode 3, Steven Grant must find Ammit's hidden tomb with Layla (May Calamawy) to stop the mission of Ammit's avatar, Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke). Ammit's whereabouts, however, lead to extreme danger and a seemingly deadly fate for Marc Spector.
As the MCU Phase 4 continues, Marvel works like Moon Knight are adding bold elements and introducing newer characters with the intention of putting a fresher take on the post-Infinity Saga MCU. Moon Knight helps set up an Endgame-rivaling war supported by elements introduced in The Eternals and Loki. Upcoming MCU sequels like Thor: Love and Thunder and Doctor Strange Into The Multiverse of Madness are becoming more ensemble-based and, therefore, introduce the potential of adding bigger elements to their plots. Moon Knight is no different, continuing the MCU's trend of taking older themes and elements — which, in Moon Knight's case, include supernatural and mystical aspects — and spinning them with a new twist.
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While previous Moon Knight episodes provided questions relating to character motivations and MCU connections, episode 4 begins to evoke doubts about the show's very reality. An episode that otherwise hearkens back to archaeological adventures like Indiana Jones and The Mummy with Steven, Marc, and Layla discovering Alexander the Great's missing tomb in Moon Knight,soon transcends into a
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