Moon Knight: Why Does Only Marc Have Power?
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Moon Knight episode 1!
While Marvel's Moon Knight introduces viewers to Oscar Isaac's Steven Grant, it seems as though only his alternate personality Marc Spector can access the power of Moon Knight. Having released its first episode on Disney+, Moon Knight opens with a massive mystery about Steven Grant and his mundane life working in a museum gift shop, discovering that there's so much more going on than he knows. Caught in the middle of a conflict surrounding a golden scarab, Grant is forced to give up control to Marc Spector's Moon Knight, a personality sharing his body who seems to be the only one capable of using the power given to them by a god.
In Moon Knight episode 1, Steven Grant struggles to stay awake for as long as he can, believing that he sleepwalks, seeing as how he often wakes up in strange situations. In truth, Grant has other personalities that take over when he sleeps, though this first episode reveals that Grant has begun to lose control even when he's awake, finding himself in conflict with a man named Arthur Harrow (played by Ethan Hawke). This is thanks to Marc Spector, the other personality vying for control, who is also the vigilante Moon Knight, chosen by the Egyptian god of the moon known as Khonshu.
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While Grant may have been introduced to viewers first in Marvel's Moon Knight, Steven is actually an alternate personality of Marc Spector, who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Given Grant's confusion, it seems as though Marc intentionally kept his alter in the dark about their life as a vigilante to protect him. However, this current conflict over a golden scarab has certainly
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