Moon Knight Is Being Review Bombed
AsMarvel Studios' latest offering on Disney Plus, Moon Knight has been wowing audiences with its engaging story and pretty gosh dang incredible action scenes. Many have been citing the car chase, in particular, as a real standout moment. Whether it's due to the cinematography or the power fantasy of shoving a cupcake into an enemy's face, it's difficult to deny the appeal.
However, there's one oddly specific aspect of the Oscar Isaac-led series that has inspired a focused, vitriolic reaction from a certain section of its audience. There's one scene in particular that some might see as fairly innocuous, if a bit morbid. Those who saw the newly-released first episode of Moon Knight will likely remember the scene featuring Ethan Hawke's creepy antagonist Arthur Harrow explaining his viewpoint to Isaac's Steven Grant. Aiming to bring the Egyptian goddess Ammit to power, he brings up various historical atrocities as examples of what could have been avoided if Ammit had been able to intervene.
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Amid mentions of the obvious, like Hitler's horrific regime and the Roman tyrant Nero, Arthur also brings up the Armenian Genocide as an example of another avoidable disaster. This refers to the targeted annihilation of Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, widely considered one of history's greatest tragedies. But what some might not realize is that the modern Turkish government officially considers the Genocide to simply have been a mass deportation, and refuses to acknowledge it as an actual genocide.
This viewpoint is apparently mirrored by many Turkish people, a number of whom have begun review bombing the otherwise generally well-lovedMoon
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