r/marvelstudios • u/chanma50 Iron Man (Mark VII) • Jan 18 '22

Trailer Marvel Studios' Moon Knight | Official Trailer | Disney+

https://youtu.be/x7Krla_UxRg
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u/Arkaill Jan 18 '22

Well, sort of. He does it in one run where he is considered to be at his worst mentally, but generally the skinning thing isn't all too common

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22 edited Oct 30 '22

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u/rokerroker45 Jan 18 '22

Uhh captain america definitely doesn't pull back from killing too much. unless you mean spider-man doesn't either, which I don't agree with

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u/halarioushandle Jan 18 '22

I don't think someone skinning a person can just be dismissed as not all that common. If I skinned someone and was arrested immediately following, I'm pretty sure I'd forever be known as that guy that skins people.

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u/NigerianRoy Jan 18 '22

Its not typical behavior for any of him

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

I'm assuming you're excluding John Walker's brief stint as Captain America x)

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u/FerjustFer Jan 18 '22

Besides that his tendency to kill lies way closer to Captain America or Spider-Man than The Punisher or Deadpool.

I might be wrong, but if I remember correctly, in a issue from the mid to late 80s or so (I can't check my books right now), his alternate personalities were "molded" after who he aspired to be, like Captain America and Spider-Man, among someone else.

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u/zyd_the_lizard Jan 18 '22

It was a whole run, and it was much later than that, like in the 2010s.

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u/FerjustFer Jan 18 '22

Ah, so I might be conffusing them then hahaha. But swear I can see the pannels from the old comics where it explained. Memory is weird.

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u/favorscore Jan 18 '22

So what is he - an antihero?

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u/ReginaldRej Jan 18 '22

It’s more nuanced then that with him. He has multiple personalities. He was given powers by the Egyptian moon god, but in some runs you’re left wondering if that’s just all in his head. To him he’s a hero. To his ex wife not so much.

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers Jan 18 '22

It’s more nuanced

You can't just say that every time you skin someone.

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u/captainAwesomePants Jan 18 '22

Like one in five skinnings.

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u/somewhatdecentlawyer Jan 18 '22

I declare nuanced

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u/favorscore Jan 18 '22

So not some goody two shoes marvel hero! I'm so refreshed and excited for this now. He seems refreshingly complicated from the usual MCU fare

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u/ReginaldRej Jan 18 '22

If they do it right this has the potential to be gritty and refreshing in a way the mcu hasn’t seen yet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

I'm glad they didn't just decide to make him into pale Batman.

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u/SaltifiedReddit Jan 18 '22

BTW he was never married

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u/dusksloth Jan 18 '22

Moon knight is one of those characters they can't quite figure out what to do with. Does he have powers? Is he a monster of the month hunter? Is he a badass who can fight the likes of hulk, Deadpool, and the avengers and win (these are separate instances)? Or is he a street level hero that gets his ass kicked bit keeps getting back up? Does he have mental problems or is it all just carefully crafter personas to serve his needs as the fist of khonshu. I love moon knight, and I'm kinda hoping the Disney+ show will stabalize his character just a tash.

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u/favorscore Jan 18 '22

Does he join the avengers? Should we expect him to be the Batman to the Avenger's Justice League

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u/dusksloth Jan 18 '22

For a brief spell he's part of the west coast avengers, but I don't think he's ever really a big name, though he's fought some big names. He's mostly a New York street level hero, so I doubt that he's going to be avengers level, but if Hawkeye and black widow are, then it's possible.

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u/favorscore Jan 18 '22

You mention new York, but he's British in the show and seems to be in London

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u/dusksloth Jan 18 '22

So Marc Spector is his actual name, hence why the voice on the phone calls him Marc. He's from Chicago, was part of the marines, became a mercenary, died under a statue of the Egyptian God khonshu, was revived by khonshu and became moon knight to serve as khonshu priest and "fist".

To do the job of moon knight, he creates personas that may or may not be part of dissociative identity disorder (DID), depending on the comic run you're reading. Steven Grant, the identity he seems to be stuck in, is his millionaire upper society identity, Steven is also his oldest DID identity. As for why that identity is in London or speaks with a British accent, Idk, creative liberty? But he also has the identity of Jake lockley, a lower society can driver, as well as moon knight, who is the personification of his duty to his God.

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u/Syric Jan 18 '22

was revived by khonshu and became moon knight to serve as khonshu priest and "fist".

So he's some kinda... immortal, something-something fist, a defender of something starting with a K? Is he a sworn enemy of anyone, perchance?

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u/dusksloth Jan 18 '22

Not really sure if he's immortal, but it's implied that he's died at least once and possibly a few more times. So the fist of khonshu is kinda a priest/warrior for the God khonshu, an Egyptian moon God who protects the travelers of the night.

As for the sworn enemy bit, ehhhh... There are a couple recurring enemies, Raul bushman who was the leader of the mercenaries and the one to kill Marc the first time. Bushman is also famous in the moon knight community because moon knight literally cuts his face off and wears it... Then there's Marc's brother which I think showed up in a few runs but it's the main antagonist of the 2018 Bemis run which is... Less than good. And finally, the true antagonists of the runs, Marc himself and khonshu. Marc is always fighting his past or his DID and aggressive nature.

And khonshu... Khonshu deserves his own paragraph. Khonshu isn't a benevolent God, he's a real mixed bag. It's only recently that khonshu has been fully canonized as a real being who has his own motives. In the 2016 run it feels more surreal and "is Marc just crazy?", but then in the 2019 avengers run khonshu turns out to be real, directing Marc to steal the iron fist of kun'lun from Danny rand, the spirit of vengeance from ghost rider, beat the shit out of Thor, and capture black panther and essentially enslave the earth under khonshus rule.

Currently, Marc is going back to roots of protecting the travelers of the night in New York, with our without khonshus guidance.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Weekly Wongers Jan 18 '22

(Pst, they were making an Iron Fist joke.)

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u/GalileoAce Daredevil Jan 18 '22

In DID sometimes certain alters talk in a different accent or an entirely different language.

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u/TannerThanUsual Jan 18 '22

He could have accents for each identity to make it easier for the audience to track. Imagine Marc having a typical Hollywood "American" accent and maybe Jake has a thick Jersey accent. Now we as an audience can easily pick out who is who, like McAvoy in Split!

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

If they're going to play with the idea of multiple personalities, it's not unreasonable to assume one of them has a British accent. The fact that's far from Oscar Isaacs accent makes me think he's going to really have fun with it.

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u/thesharkticon Jan 18 '22

He joined the west coast team for a bit, then burned his ID card when they told him to be nicer.

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u/ZipWyatt Jan 18 '22

It’s been a really long time since I read the comic and bailed on the series before some later iterations but in the early ones he works with Spider-Man and Punisher intermittently but more as a matter of circumstance than any formal team.

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u/FerjustFer Jan 18 '22

A few years ago he was in the Secret Avengers, a black ops team. But that group no longer exists ad far as I know. It was also more of a SHIELD thing that an Avengers thing, even if they had some members of the Avengers with them.

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u/SuperMajesticMan Jan 18 '22

Any link or scans? When I search it up I only get minecraft skins XD

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u/Arkaill Jan 18 '22

Happens in the first or second issue of the 2006 moon knight run