Moon Knight's Costumes Are Way Deeper Than You Realize
Warning: Contains spoilers for Moon Knight season 1.
In Marvel’s Disney+ Moon Knight series, the costumes are symbolic but also hide a deeper meaning. It’s common for superhero costumes to contain symbolism in one form or another, and plenty also use color theory. But Moon Knight’s costumes go a step further in how they tie to the content thematically and in doing so they hint at what Jake Lockley’s future Moon Knight costume will be.
In Moon Knight, the alter Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) is the avatar for the Egyptian god Khonshu, a position that grants him a special suit that can be summoned, and which grants healing powers. The alter Steven Grant (also Oscar Isaac) finds that he can summon his own version of the suit, but his appears as a sleeker, more modern style of suit. While Marc’s suit is definitively gray, Steven’s suit is a near-white shade of gray, representing Steven’s innocence and relative purity in relation to Marc.
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While the colors of the two Moon Knight suits bear a fairly obvious connection to the respective alters’ moral standings, they also represent parts of the moon itself. Steven Grant’s Mister Knight outfit is reminiscent of the bright white parts of the moon’s surface, known as the highlands. Meanwhile, Marc Spector’s Moon Knight costume is a mix of grays that represent the lunar maria. Each lunar mare is a dark part of the visible side of the moon – a basaltic plain. Not only are these basaltic plains darker than the highlands, but they are the result of unseen traumatic impacts that take place on the dark side of the moon. This correlation highlights how Marc takes a place between the light and the dark and how he weathers the
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