Marvel’s latest Disney Plus series, Moon Knight, took its bows with its final episode in classic Marvel fashion: A shocking revelation delivered via credits scene. Also in classic Marvel fashion, Moon Knight’s credits scene opens many more questions than it answers, and its final episode is long on hints and short on concrete resolution.
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Here’s everything we were left wondering at the end of Moon Knight’s finale, and how Marvel Comics might have the answers.
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for all of Moon Knight, in case you hadn’t figured that out.]
Moon Knight’s credits scene reveals a secret the show has been keeping since its second episode: Marc and Steven are not the only people in their head. There’s a third personality neither of them are aware of, and his name is Jake Lockley.
In the course of Marvel Comics’ history, Marc Spector’s head has belonged to many people (including, in 2011’s Moon Knight series from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, personalities based on Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine). But in the character’s first comics, he had only three aspects: Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Jake Lockley.
The three personalities allowed the hero to have a life in every strata of superhero society: Moon Knight/Marc Spector as the trained mercenary turned vigilante/avatar; Steven Grant as the billionaire who funded all that; and salt-of-the-earth cab driver Jake Lockley as the eyes and ears of the criminal underworld.
Moon Knight has been hinting at the existence of a third personality since
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