Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight series will look to incorporate the Marc Spector identity, though it appears this persona will be introduced through Steven Grant.ĭisney+’s Steven Grant is a mild-mannered museum gift shop employee initially unaware of his alternate personalities - including Spector and Moon Knight. He funds his superhero career through his mercenary exploits, cultivating a group of friends and partners comprised of Jean-Paul “Frenchie” DuChamp and Marlene Alraune. Spector alleges that Khonshu reached out to him, and picked him as Khonshu’s avatar on Earth to become the Moon Knight. The comics maintained a degree of ambiguity as to whether Khonshu is real or a product of his disorder, but he’s later confirmed as a real otherworldly entity. The Jewish son of a rabbi and former Marine and CIA operative turned mercenary, Spector is killed by his oldest nemesis and fellow mercenary Raoul Bushman while on a mission in Sudan, but is then suddenly revived by the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu. Marvel Comics’ Moon Knight begins and ends with Marc Spector. The character’s unique personalities and experiences make for cerebral and intimate storytelling that should get fans excited for the future. The character’s most praised comics tend to tackle themes of mental health, trauma, and the struggles of maintaining autonomy. Marc Spector - the hero’s alter ego - suffers from a dissociative identity disorder, splitting his personality with four others. The acclaimed Daredevil series (now having completed its migration from Netflix to Disney+) was able to get away with much more due to its loose connections to the MCU, so Moon Knight could be the first litmus test for the streamer on how grounded and grim its willing to go.
Though it feels like almost every upcoming MCU production gets touted as a big shake-up to the formula, the psychological nature of the superhero’s source material, on top of the talent attached to it, is what should make fans (and prospective ones) hopeful for what’s to come. Like the former, Moon Knight takes on darker subject matters than what the mainstream Marvel Cinematic Universe has audiences accustomed to.
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