Moon knight a new action adventure series coming to disney plus a very famous marvel
character for many years mark spector he was a mercenary he
was left for dead in the egyptian desert and he now may or may not
be infused with powers from khonshu the moon god or he might just be crazy this is what
disney plus is doing for the mcu it is growing it is expanding it thank you thank you so much
Welcome back everyone this is going to be my brand new marvel moon night video oscar isaac and marvel
just dropped a first look so we'll break it all down if you're brand new to the channel i'll be
doing videos for all the episodes when it does premiere so be sure to subscribe to get those
my loki episode videos are gonna start posting really soon too in the next week or so we're doing
a disney plus giveaway for memberships all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber and just
post all your theories about which marvel movies moon knight will cross over into in the future the
whole idea is that all these marvel disney plus series will cross over with the movies they set
up movies so i'll talk about which movies i think this series will help set up during the video but
you've probably been seeing oscar isaac posting all kinds of behind the scenes videos as they
get ready to start filming he's been posting his fight scenes his training with ethan hawk
ethan hawk if you didn't know is playing the main villain of moon knight i have some theories about
who that's going to be so i'll cover that in a second but in the past couple of days the official
announcement they posted was to confirm that yes of course oscar isaac is playing moon knight in
the mcu as if we didn't already know that i think it's just because they're getting ready
to start filming episodes right now he doesn't have any of his own social media accounts so
marvel posted this to their main account but it was oscar isaac himself who drafted the post in
the caption read we are moon knight i'll explain what that means in a second if you're a long time
fan of the character you probably know exactly what's going on but in addition to the general
announcement he also posted a bunch of concept art as part of this and a bunch of pages from the
all new all different moon knight run in marvel comics those are important because they kind of
retell his origin story so they're good jumping on points for people who are completely new to
the moon knight character so it makes sense why marvel would be pulling from that story for the
moon night disney plus series i'll explain that story line in a second because it connects it
to some of the other stuff they've done in the marvel disney plus series like what happened on
the wandavision episodes and what's happening with doctor strange 2 multiverse of madness but marvel
always changes the comic book story just a little bit when they're adapting stuff for the tv shows
and for the marvel movies so just expect the same treatment it won't be exactly like the comic book
run but if you have no idea who moonite is some people refer to him as marvel's version of batman
i'll explain why that is he's not really their version of batman that's an oversimplification
it'll make more sense when you understand how his multiple personalities work and how he's presented
in stories but moon knight is generally one of marvel's darker characters as kevin feige jokes
in that teaser video at the beginning of this he draws his power from the egyptian moon god khonshu
or he might just be crazy the truth is that he's both he suffers from dissociative personality
disorder he has three main personalities that we'll probably see on the tv show
his real name is mark spector but his first alternate personality is called steve grant
that's his millionaire playboy personality usually you find him out on the town throwing his money
around funding charitable organizations going to parties with the rich and famous of manhattan he
lives in the new york city area but his main role is to basically fund all of mark spector's actions
as moon knight because he creates a lot of his own technology that he uses his second personality is
jake lockley he's this very unassuming cab driver who's kind of violent but who he uses mostly to
gather information that he couldn't otherwise get is this really high profile millionaire playboy
persona but then there's the other mr knight persona who's a relatively newer addition to
the moon knight story the mr knight version of the character works inside the confines of law is less
quick to violence it is much more willing to work with police than the other personas so he's sort
of a more balanced version of the character but just general origin story for the character so he
started out as the rebellious son of this jewish rabbi then he became a heavyweight boxer then a
us marine who fought in combat the more modern retellings of his origin story sort of changed
which conflicts which wars that he fought in just to move the timeline up but eventually he leaves
the marines to become a straight-up mercenary and earn this fortune so that's where all of his money
comes from so he's super rich but he earned all of it doing this super shady stuff as a mercenary
but it's during his time as a mercenary that he winds up meeting a man called frenchy who
becomes sort of his version of whistler to make a blade reference so his origin story is moon knight
actually begins on one of these random mercenary missions that he's doing for a person called raul
bushman who's hired him to help him erade these precious artifacts from an egyptian archaeology
dig site the bushman character who hired him to help steal all this stuff winds up killing the
lead archaeologist he has a daughter who's also there called marlene that he tries to kill mark
spector stops him but in the process almost winds up dying himself just as he's about to die the god
khonshu appears to him saying that he'll keep him alive if he agrees to become his avatar on earth
so obviously mark specter agrees gains all of his powers and abilities as moon knight and his
relationship with khonshu becomes a lot like black panther's relationship with the panther goddess
boss a lot of people think that black panther's power comes from the heart-shaped herb because of
the way the black panther movie portrayed it but black panther all the black panthers actually get
their superpowers from the panther goddess maybe they'll get into that during black panther to
sort of clarify that because they burned all the heart-shaped herb during the first black panther
movie so how are you going to create another black panther well you just clarify that they actually
get their powers from the panther goddess but the different superpowers the khonshu grants to
moon knight are very similar to black panther's abilities enhanced strength endurance speed a
healing factor the difference is though is that because khonshu portrays himself as the moon god
moon knight's powers are tied to the phases of the moon and depending on the phase his powers
are amplified even more so for example he's most powerful when the moon is full and weakest during
a new moon or waning crescent as you see here in this handy chart for those of you that don't know
the phases of the moon also because of his multiple personalities disorder his mind is
more resistant to psychic attacks and he can use those alternate personalities to increase his pain
tolerance during fights just metaphorically jumping from one personality to another
and while all this is going on khonshu will appear to him in visions give him visions of other things
that come off like hallucinations playing into the way that he seems mentally unstable sometimes
and he himself questions whether or not what he's experiencing is actually real but like the
other avengers like black panther he uses a lot of technology to enhance himself like black panther
he creates a lot of his own customized tech vehicles aircraft all funded by the money that he
made while being a mercenary so after moon knight accepts con shoes offer he frenchy and marlene go
back to america where he begins to act as moon knight but in order to distance himself from his
passes mercenary in disguise's identity he creates these three different personalities different
identities grant the millionaire playboy jake the violent cab driver and then the moon knight
persona marlene eventually falls in love with him becomes one of his confidants who knows his secret
identity and helps him in addition to frenchie the way they explain his craziness his mental
deterioration is that he actually develops the multiple personality disorder directly as a result
of trying to juggle all these different fake personas so when he first becomes moon knight he's
just pretending to be all these other personas but eventually becomes so complicated trying to juggle
all these different lives that he's leading and he develops multiple personality disorder
the way iron man got around that back during the first iron man movie is just to say you know what
this is way too complicated everybody i'm iron man tony stark is iron man they're gonna also
play with that trope of the secret identity in spider-man 3 no way home just because
mysterio doxed spider-man at the end of spider-man far from home so everybody knows that peter parker
is spider-man but they have a funny way of playing with that idea and whether or not people believe
it or whether people think that it's fake but that's a whole other storyline during spider-man
3. so i'll talk about that when we get that first big trailer but as the reader of moon
knight stories or when we're watching the episodes of the moon knight series we're meant to question
whether or not he's pretending to be one of these personas or if he's legitimately crazy and can't
control each of the personas like sometimes mark spector will be watching news broadcast with
footage of moon knight fighting criminals from the night before and he himself will question whether
or not this is all happening in his head like did i just imagine that i was moon knight and that i
have this relationship with khonshu eventually we actually learn more about khonshu's true origin
story as well so in that all new all different run they sort of clarify that Khonshu is not actually
the egyptian god of the moon he's actually one of the elder gods which will sound familiar like he's
way older than the actual egyptian gods so here's our connection to wandavision one of the greatest
elder gods was C'thon i talked about him during my wanda vision videos because they introduced
the darkhold during that series scarlet witch's chaos magic and at least in the comics C'thon
is the god of chaos that's where chaos magic comes from from him and he wrote the darkhold so khonshu
comes from the same pantheon that cathode comes from he came into existence around the same time
but he himself khonshu does have parents that are other elder gods that are more powerful
that'll also be important for what's happening during this storyline that marvel's adapting or
it seems like they're adapting for the tv show and the whole reason why khonshu chose mark spector as
his avatar on earth offered to save his life was because of the way the old gods have lost some
of their power and influence in present day all the elder gods are sort of trapped in this pocket
dimension called the overvoid and with the rise of technology people around the world have stopped
believing in miracles as much most of the god's power their influence on earth comes from the
prayers of their followers so as technology plays a bigger role in people's lives they just stop
believing in all these crazy things that the gods do for them and khonshu explains that mark spector
is actually very weak spirited his mind was already nearly fractured so it was very easy for
him to manipulate mark spector into becoming his avatar on earth and even though khonshu is kind of
nasty sometimes he's very selfish just like most gods we'll see what gore the god butcher has to
say about that during thor love and thunder but khonshu was actually trying to prevent some of
the other elder gods from his pantheon from escaping that pocket dimension the overvoid
where they're trapped and taking over the main mcu dimension and these other elder gods like seth his
father amon ra are doing the exact same thing that khonshu did with mark spector they're manipulating
other characters in this storyline promising them power and wealth if they'll become their avatars
on earth moon knight starts to see visions of manhattan covered in sand with giant pyramids it
looks like it's becoming ancient egypt and it's just meant to be a vision of what might come to
pass that these other elder gods are successful and taking control of the main mcu dimension it's
very similar to what dormammu was doing in the first doctor strange movie manipulating kaiselius
and the other followers to gain entry into the main dimension so that he could take over absorb
it into the dark dimension moon knight was also a member of the defenders in the past doctor strange
was a big defender's character for a long time so all this multiverse alternate dimension elder
god stuff makes him a big doctor strange crossover character but i don't expect to see him in doctor
strange too multiverse of madness but i do think eventually he and doctor strange will share a
crossover story also because he's something of a supernatural based character in the mcu he's
a prime crossover candidate for projects like the new marvel blade movie in any other darker
mcu supernatural series or movies that they wind up doing as for ethan hawk's villain character
right now just based on the fact that they seem like they're adapting the all-new all different
moon knight story based on all the stuff that oscar isaac is posting here to the marvel account
the best theory is that he's actually playing the main villain of that arc who's called sun king
he's like a version of moon knight but he gets his power from khonshu's father amon ra the god who
the egyptians worshiped as the sun god but who's really just another more powerful elder god in
their pantheon so his character is just another regular human like mark spector who's also kind
of crazy to begin with who also became amun ra's avatar on earth and gained special powers just
like moon knight did when he became conscious avatar so marvel phase four rolling very hard
in the multiverse trope like we have the loki series that's coming up very multiverse based
series makes sense that moon knight is also kind of a multiverse type of character because of his
relationship with konshu in the way khonshu exists within the mcu right now they haven't said whether
or not they have a plan for moon knight season 2 they've only confirmed that loki in the what if
series are going to get season twos but they did say a long time ago that some of the marvel disney
plus series will get multiple seasons they're just waiting to announce which ones will until
each of them premiere in the next few years but everyone post all your reactions to oscar isaac as
moon knight in the mcu i feel like he's going to crush this it's going to be really cool and let me
know which other marvel movies you want to see him cross over with in the future right now the series
is supposed to premiere sometime next spring maybe early summer like around this time next year i
think there's a lot of evidence that we're gonna get that spider-man 3 no way home trailer sometime
in the next week or so so of course i'll do a video for that when it posts but leave all your
video requests in the comments below and i'll name a giveaway winner when i post my next marvel video
no surprise there are a lot of spider-man 3 rumors flying around about sinister 6 stuff
so also do a video about that in the next couple of days too because there are a lot of rumors
about big characters coming back from the tobey maguire movies i just did a big video about kit
harington's black knight character in the eternals trailer and his future in the avengers movies
you can click here to watch that and click here for my brand new loki episode 1 trailer video
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys tonight!