Why Moon Knight Is So Much More Violent Than Other MCU Shows
Marvel's Moon Knight is much more violent and brutal than the previous MCU series featured on Disney+. Moon Knight's action feels closer to Marvel's Netflix series such as Daredevil or Punisher rather than previous Disney+ shows such as Loki and WandaVision. Featuring a street-level vigilante struggling with multiple identities, why is Moon Knight more violent in comparison to prior Disney+ series?
Created in 1975 for Marvel Comics by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, Marc Spector is an ex-CIA operative turned mercenary who nearly died in the desert after being abandoned while on a job. Finding an ancient tomb, Spector believes that he was saved by the Egyptian moon god known as Khonshu. Upon his return home to New York, Spector chose to embrace his new status as Khonshu's Fist, serving as the god's high priest and operating as the Moon Knight. While many think Spector is simply delusional (due to the existence of other personalities in his head given Marc's dissociative identity disorder), it would come to be revealed in the comics that Khonshu is indeed real and had chosen Marc as his agent.
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With a divine calling from his new god, Marc Spector's efforts to protect the streets of New York often result in his all-white cape and cowl becoming red, stained with the blood of his foes in the comics, and the same is true for the MCU adaptation Moon Knight. Shots featuring violent imagery abound in Moon Knight, from Moon Knight relentlessly beating an unseen opponent who seems to already be down in a destroyed and dimly lit bathroom, to others that show Oscar Isaac covered in blood. Marvel Studios is being intentional about matching the dark brutality and violence Moon
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