Moon Knight: Why Khonshu Hates Steven So Much
Khonshu doesn't look kindly upon Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) in Marvel's Moon Knight, and the reason for his hate is pretty simple. On Moon Knight, Isaac plays American mercenary Marc Spector as well as British museum employee Steven Grant. Marc lives with dissociative identity disorder, with Steven being one of his alternate personalities, or alters, while the two also share another partnership of sorts.
Marc is the avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, with Marc fighting Khonshu's battles in modern times as Moon Knight. Khonshu takes a swift disliking to the much more timid Steven right off the bat, and from his perspective, the reasoning is very simple. As Khonshu's human avatar, Marc ventures into danger, while Steven does the opposite. Steven is a far meeker individual, and the fact of Marc having to share a body with him, and Steven's seemingly greater control over their transfers, clearly vexes Khonshu. Early on in Moon Knight, when Steven finds himself in the Alps, overwhelmed by his sudden dislocation and unable to understand the presence of a voice in his head. The first episode of Moon Knight shows Khonshu's frustration with the understandably confused and frightened Steven when the latter attempts to hand over the Scarab of Ammit over the attacking followers of Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke).
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With Marc as his human vessel, Khonshu has what he believes to be an ideal vehicle for fighting battles and emerging victorious in quite brutal ways. Steven's more mild-mannered and intellectually-oriented approach to danger is choosing flight over fight. From Khonshu's perspective, he has a far more direct and reliable means of
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