Moon Knight Used Consultants (And Oscar Isaac) To Ensure Mental Health Was Treated Respectfully

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Marvel's Moon Knight is a bit of an odd duck in the greater comic book pantheon. His tangled origins began as a relatively straightforward (if culturally insensitive) '70s pulp hero riff on a secret agent turned mercenary but later evolved into a cerebral, supernatural trip through fictionalized Egyptian mythology and literal deities. And, to make things even more tricky to navigate, in the mid '80s, around a decade after Moon Knight was first created, it was revealed that the character suffered from a form of dissociative identity disorder, which radically changed the context of his various costumed alter-egos and secret identities. What were once invented covers to allow him to fight crime and gather information became legitimate alternate personalities that conflicted with one another inside Moon Knight's brain.

Now, obviously, there's a lot to unpack here and a lot that is a product of its time. In the '80s, genre fiction would frequently rely on sensationalized understandings of real world personality disorders like schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder as fodder for fantasy and horror. This was obviously the case with Moon Knight's DID make-over as it originally stood--but, if there's one thing comic books characters are good at doing, it's evolving. In the decade-plus that Moon Knight's mental health has existed at the crux of his character, strides have been taken to handle his disorder with more care, clarity, and less sensationalism.

Now, as Moon Knight is set to make his live-action debut played by Oscar Isaac in a brand new Disney+ TV show, the pressure to get it right is higher than ever. GameSpot sat down with series executive producer Grant Curtis to talk about the steps that were taken to