Moon Knight
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He serves multiple narrative purposes in the Disney+ series that also introduces us to a new Marvel hero.
As Marc Spector, Isaac gets to be the badass mercenary and superhero Moon Knight.
But as Steven Grant, one of Marcs alternate personalities, Isaac gets to be the audience surrogate.
Hes always running late.
His only friends are a living statue and a one-finned fish named Gus.
Shy, in general, is not a flavor of hero were used to seeing from any Marvel property.
Hes intelligent and well-read but not a STEM genius.
But we havent gotten to him yet.
The security guards cant remember his name.
Something is off, however.
Hes either too scatterbrained for his own good, or something other than Gus is fishy.
None of this makes rational sense.
Steven doesnt want trouble and tries to give the scarab to Arthur, his body resists.
Someone else seems to take control.
Steven blacks out and wakes up covered in blood, seemingly having killed the guards.
Occasionally Steven blacks out and comes to just after committing more violence against Arthurs men chasing him.
(See whatMoon Knightis doing here?
Eventually, Steven disassociates from the chase entirely.
He wakes up in bed, safe in his ankle restraints.
It was all a dream … right?
She also calls him Marc and claims to recognize Stevens voice, but not the accent.
This, as far as we know, is Marc Spector.
Marc warns Steven to stop before he gets himself in trouble.
The lights start flickering.
An intimidating figure who looks like hes wearing aSleep No Moremask chases Steven down the hallway.
But to Steven, hes another thing that goes bump in the night.
As Steven could probably tell you, Ammit was an Egyptian deity known as the Devourer of the Dead.
Arthur uses his cane to judge Steven, but Ammit does not give a definitive reading.
Theres chaos in you, Arthur says.
First of all, hot.
Arthur demands, over the museums PA system, that Steven give him the scarab.
Steven freezes while Marc paces back and forth, reflected an infinite number of times behind him.
If this is going to be a show about talking to yourself, it will be visually interesting.
Its also very much anOdd Coupleshow.
Steven and Marc share a body, but they are not alike.
Its very soothing, despite the stress of the situation.
Can Oscar Isaac talk tomein the mirror and tell me everythings going to be okay?
Would that we could all get an assist from a more confident version of ourselves.
In Stevens case, he is along for the ride.
The fact thatMoon Knightdoesnt call this out is nice, actually.
The twoAvengers-adjacent characters can exist in the same universe without becoming each others Easter eggs.
That said, the other missed call on Marc Spectors phone is from Duchamp.
This is a reference to Jean-Paul Duchamp, a.k.a.
Frenchie, who is Marcs BFF in the comics.
Its reminiscent ofThe Leftovers, another fictional rapture-like event that spun the globe into a collective existential crisis.
How is the average person expected to tell a cult leader from a superhero?
No, just me?
Since Steven doesnt remember asking his co-worker out, does that mean Marc asked Dylan out on Stevens behalf?
He definitely did, right?
We dont know much about Marc Spector yet, but wingman is not the first thing I would guess.
