Moon Knight: Is Khonshu The Real Villain?

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This article contains spoilers for Moon Knight Episode 3.Like the vast majority of Marvel’s less mainstream heroes, Marc Spector doesn’t exactly have much of an expansive rogues’ gallery to draw from when adapting his story for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, there is one incredibly important antagonist from the comics who plays a major role in the Moon Knight TV series, and it may not be who you expect.

The primary antagonist of the Moon Knight series is Arthur Harrow, the ruthless cult leader and former Avatar of Khonshu played by Ethan Hawke. However, Harrow has only ever appeared in a single issue of the comics back in 1985. In truth, Moon Knight’s greatest foe in the original comics is none other than Khonshu himself.

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But to understand why Khonshu is such an antagonistic force in the comics — and the implications this carries for the MCU Moon Knight series — we must first take a look at Khonshu’s shifting role throughout the history of the Moon Knight comics. For starters, fans of the MCU series may be surprised to learn that Khonshu was an incredibly minor presence in the original Moon Knight comics by Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz.

In fact, Khonshu wasn’t even an active character within the story: he only appeared in the form of a lifeless statue, which Marc Spector believed was responsible for bringing him back to life after dying in Egypt. Marc claims that Khonshu saved him so that he could deliver vengeance to the wicked as Moon Knight, but his visions of Khonshu are never actually shown to the reader, implying that they’renothing more than hallucinations.

But while the question of whether Khonshu was real would continue to linger over the comic for decades