Why The Real Moon Knight Is Barely In Episode 1
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Moon Knight, episode 1
The real Moon Knight is barely in Moon Knight episode 1, as Marvel elected to build up to Marc Spector taking control and having an action scene. One of the big selling points for Marvel Studios' Disney+ series was Oscar Isaac essentially playing multiple characters thanks to Moon Knight's dissociative identity disorder. Marketing made it clear that Steven Grant and Marc Spector were the primary personalities Isaac plays in the series, with Spector the one comic readers best known as the hard-hitting vigilante. However, the real Moon Knight is barely in the first episode.
While Moon Knight episode 1 doesn't wait too long to tease the multiple personalities, Steven Grant is the one viewers follow for the majority of the episode. Steven is a British museum gift shop employee obsessed with Egyptian mythology. Viewers watch his normal life and then see him in the countryside where he's being chased by Arthur Harrow's men. Just as the various events get too dangerous for Steven to handle, though, he blacks out and wakes up to find himself in a new location or in the aftermath of Moon Knight's violence. Moon Knight episode 1 keeps up the veil of secrecy about what happens when Marc is in control until the very end when the real Moon Knight emerges to fight a jackal.
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The small role for Marc Spector in Moon Knight episode 1 is quite surprising, as it means the show deliberately hides the more recognizable and capable personality. This results in Moon Knight episode 1 lacking in the action department, as Steven is not a fighter like Marc. This raises the question as to exactly why Marvel Studios would want to hide the
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