Moon Knight Successfully Puts Mr. Knight Into A New Context
gamerant.comWarning: The following article contains spoilers for Moon Knight Episode 2.
The second episode of Moon Knight has arrived, bringing with it new characters and alter egos for Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant. While the latest episode of the Marvel series is once again mainly focused on Grant’s struggles with dissociative identity disorder, the highlight of the episode comes in the form of an alter ego that fans have been waiting to catch a glimpse of. Apart from making an appearance in one of the official posters for the series, fans had not seen Mr. Knight in action, until now.
Comic book readers will be aware of Mr. Knight and what role he plays in the Marvel Comics, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are meeting him for the first time. The latest Moon Knight episode manages to put Mr. Knight into a whole new context, changing his personality from the confident and intelligent version of Grant’s alter ego from the comics into a comical superhero, who is like a breath of fresh air in the otherwise dark series.
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As part of the latest episode of Moon Knight, Isaac’s Grant is seen refusing control to his alter ego Marc Spector, the mercenary who is revealed to be Egyptian god Khonshu’s avatar. When Spector’s wife Layla El-Faouly, portrayed wonderfully by Egyptian-Palestinian actor May Calamawy, shows up, it becomes obvious that things are going to get further complicated.
Despite Spector’s repeated warnings, Grant shows Layla the mysterious golden scarab. It is later revealed that it is in fact an amulet that belongs to the Egyptian Goddess Ammit, and Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow plans to use it as a compass to find her tomb. Keeping the scarab in her possession, Layla later arrives at what seems
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