Moon Knight's Identity Mystery Tease Risks Repeating Marc's Origin Problem
Warning: Spoilers for Moon Knight episode 2
Moon Knight episode 2’s identity tease risks a repeat of the hero’s origin story problem from the classic comics. Moon Knight’s early stories were criticized for their handling of Marc Spector’s condition and how it came about. A reveal about the MCU character’s past raises the possibility that it’ll head in a similar direction.
Moon Knight is known for having Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Originally, the hero had three distinct personalities: Marc Spector (a mercenary), Jack Lockley (a taxi cab driver), and Steven Grant (millionaire). Later, the comics introduced other alters for the character. Thus far, the MCU has shown off two of Moon Knight’s comic personalities. The focus has primarily been on Steven Grant, who has come to discover that the personality he shares his body with is the avatar of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon. During Moon Knight episode 2, some of the details regarding Moon Knight’s past became much clearer, but a lot was left unexplored.
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One line in the episode seemingly hinted at the reason why Marc developed DID in the first place. Shortly after meeting Steven, Layla (May Calamawy) asked if Steven Grant is Marc’s “latest fake identity”, which reveals that like the comic book character, Marc created fake identities during his activities as a mercenary. In the comics, this tied into the explanation for his struggles with DID. It was established that he developed his Jake Lockley and Steven Grant personas to hide his true identity, but juggling three separate lives made him unable to tell what was real from what was fake. But this interpretation was considered
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