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hello and welcome to staying awake i
have a sleeping disorder
i can't tell the difference
between my waking life
and dreams hello and
we'll catch you on
you're bloody useless
stevie stephen
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i can't tell the difference
between my eyes and dreams
thank you
lost the contact lens
hope you find it
thanks
yeah oh my god you're alive what's wrong
with you
mark why did you call me mark
it must be very difficult
a voice in your head
shut up
this chaos
embrace the chaos
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welcome back everyone marvel finally
dropped their moon knight trailer video
so we'll break it down there's a whole
bunch of easter eggs here and i'll
explain what's going on how this fits
into marvel phase four but i will be
doing videos for all the episodes so be
sure to subscribe to get them all it is
gonna be hardcore in a way you haven't
seen since netflix daredevil episodes as
i say during the trailer it's going to
premiere during march 30th we'll just
start at the beginning of the trailer
footage and go through shot by shot
talking about easter eggs as we go along
and i will explain moon knight's
backstory and who the other characters
are like who ethan hawk's villain is and
who werewolf by knight is which is the
character that he's beating up in the
bathroom when he's in his full moon
knight superhero costume moonite the
character debuted in the werewolf by
night comics which is why werewolf by
night is such a big crossover character
in the moonlight series and marvel is
doing a separate disney plus halloween
special for werewolf by night later this
year also no coincidence that they're
releasing the trailer tonight during a
full moon big werewolf by night easter
egg but they don't really give you a ton
of the story during this trailer it's
just meant to kind of introduce you to
the character and the idea of his
multiple personalities he has
dissociative identity disorder so when
we see him in the trailer here in bed
and he's throwing that rubik's cube up
that's meant to be a metaphor for the
way he changes between multiple
personalities and he doesn't always have
control of that like later in the
trailer he's talking to someone on the
phone that might be a version of marlene
from the comics who's his love interest
who calls him mark spector on the call
but he is in his steven grant persona so
he doesn't know who mark spector is like
why did you call me mark my name is
steven he has four different
personalities five if you count the moon
knight persona when he's in the full-on
superhero costume acting as moon knight
he was born mark spector but then after
he becomes moon knight because he wants
to use his powers to fight crime he
develops a bunch of different
personalities steven grant is one of
those it's like this gruff cab driver
he's like a matches malone type of
character so what oscar isaac said he
did to differentiate between the
different personas so that you know who
you're watching like which persona he is
when he's on screen he uses a different
voice for each different persona so when
he's talking to this woman here and
she's kind of chiding him for not being
a good employee he's in the stephen
grant persona but it sounds like they've
changed some of his alternate
personalities just a little bit like
this version of steven grant does not
seem like a gruff cab driver what winds
up happening though is that eventually
after time because he's jumping between
different personalities so much he
begins to lose the ability to
distinguish between them in what's real
and what's fake so he doesn't know who
the real person is like is he really
mark spector pretending to be moon
knight or is he really moon knight
pretending to be mark spector or say
steven grant pretending to be mark
spector or mark spector pretending to be
stephen grant so that's what he's
talking about in the trailer when he
says i have a sleeping disorder the
memories of the things that he does when
he's in these other personas feel kind
of like dreams to him the reason why the
marvel studios logo is rotating like
this like the custom version of the logo
is meant to represent the changing
phases of the moon because obviously in
the trailer when he's fighting werewolf
by night that would have to be during a
full moon in the whole ideas his powers
are tied to the phases of the moon so
he's most powerful during a full moon in
the original comics mark spector started
out as a mercenary and then he obviously
became moon i developed the alternate
personalities including steven grant so
it's not totally clear in this trailer
here if when he's walking into this
museum if he's an archaeologist and
they've just changed his backstory a
little bit or if he's just using the
stephen grant persona to get more
information about what's going on at the
museum i would expect a few minor
changes to his backstory but if it's not
clear in the trailer footage when he's
in these clothes all the scenes he's in
the steven grant persona when he starts
to see visions of himself in the moon
knight costume that's just you
witnessing his dissociative identity
disorder manifesting this is the actual
konchu god appearing to him in this
hallway here the whole idea is that he
has a psychic connection with moon
knight and that's how he grants him his
powers so if you're not familiar with
konshu he's not actually the egyptian
moon god that's just what he pretends to
be he used to be worshipped by the
egyptian people as the moon god he's
actually part of a group called the
elder gods who were banished to this
little pocket dimension called the other
void and he can't enter the main marvel
universe but it's very easy for him to
communicate psychically with people so
from a young age conscious believes that
mark spector has a fragile enough mind
that it would be easy enough for him to
use him as his finger puppet avatar on
earth so kanchu is not meant to be this
benevolent god he has no interest in
actually helping anyone but himself and
when he anoints mark specter moon knight
giving him all his powers he basically
makes him his avatar of vengeance on
earth enacting his vengeance on whoever
konshu wants to get revenge against and
a lot of times that puts him at odds
with the other marvel hero characters
but mark spector himself does try to use
his powers for good when he can most of
moon knight's actual powers and
abilities are just like upgraded
versions of captain america's powers
enhanced strength speed durability
healing factor all tied to the faces of
the moon so he's stronger faster during
a full moon than during other periods
one of the other cool abilities that
they've given him recently because of
the logic and the way that konchu's
powers work as he gives into him lunar
base powers is that he can actually
control thor's hammer like he can take
thor's hammer from him without being
worthy because it's created from uru
metal which is a lunar ore probably not
gonna see them do that in the mcu
anytime soon but it would be cool to see
him interact with some of the other
avengers because he does have some
spider-man level quips in him so when
they have this funny moment in the
elevator where he feels like he's seeing
this hallucination of konshu it's
probably konchu trying to get him to do
something and mark spectre just not
completely being on board with it yet
but if it wasn't clear nobody else can
see konchu doctor strange and other
really powerful marvel characters might
be able to detect that somebody else is
speaking to mark spector psychically but
it is only a psychic connection so
kanchu cannot physically manifest in the
main mcu universe in this scene of him
creeping through the museum at night
when he passes this exhibit there's a
statue of a tum or almond raw that's
actually konchu the god's father within
their pantheon of gods that they come
from my early theory is that ethan hawk
is actually playing the sun king and he
is the avatar on earth of conscious
father and it winds up being this war
between avatars in this war between gods
at the same time it's not clear exactly
what's going on with this phone call i
do like the idea that he has an
old-school flip phone that really gives
you a flashback to the early 2000s love
the alligator wallpaper here too kind of
reminds you of alligator loki even
though there isn't a huge connection to
the loki series in the kang multiverse
war this has a bigger connection with
say like doctor strange multiverse of
madness the more supernatural characters
like the marvel blade movie with
mahershala ali or kit harrington's black
knight character
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sure you're ready for that mr whitman
there have been rumors that they're
going to cross over in the moonlight
series like moon knight will eventually
show up either like in the blade movie
but eventually definitely avengers 5 and
bigger supernatural crossover movies the
way ethan hawke described his villain
character is that he's kind of like a
cult leader like you see everyone in the
street bowing to him here that's kind of
like the sun king in the moon night
comics and it also seems like when he's
talking to moon knight he knows what's
going on with him more than anyone else
like he sees chaos inside him and tells
him to embrace that as if he's seeing
something in moon knight that he also
sees inside himself this seems like him
inside a mental institution which
happens several times in the moonlight
comics the scene of him in the car seems
like him switching between personalities
and not realizing how he got here the
egyptian pyramids just to help place you
where this is all happening this scene
actually seems like him getting ready to
get his powers like it seems like he's
inside one of the pyramids or one of the
archaeology dig sites standing at the
base of conschu's statue but this is him
inside his mark spectre persona but here
when he's running with this bag here
where it seems like this crazy look on
his face with the same outfit from
before this is him back in the stephen
grant persona and this is a scene of him
switching between the stephen grant
persona to the full-on mark specter moon
knight persona with the robes just
manifesting out of him that's why i say
when he's stephen grant he's already got
his powers so this gives you a good look
for what it's going to look like on
screen just visualizing the way his
powers work then like i said this is him
in a bathroom in a completely separate
scene just beating the hell out of
werewolf by night i like the way that
they've done the visual effect on his
eyes too like the glowing white eyes
then they just have a little tag scene
at the end of the trailer with him
jumping across the rooftops at night
against the backdrop of the moon but
just to explain werewolf by night
because he's actually going to be a
pretty big character in the series and
moving forward in marvel phase 4 as well
werewolves in the marvel universe
lycanthropy however you want to think
about it originated in the darkhold
which i know will sound familiar because
we just saw it in the doctor strange
multiverse of madness trailer and during
wand division with scarlet witch it's a
book of chaos magic so i guess you could
say that werewolves were created by
chaos magic the main version of werewolf
by knight jack russell who we're going
to see during the series is a descendant
of the first known werewolf who had a
lot of adventures featuring the dark
hold of the high evolutionary the wonder
gore mountains where scarlet witch and
quicksilver were born the first time he
ran into moon knight was when moon
knight debuted for the very first time
so it was inside the werewolf by night
comics werewolf by night number 32 in
1975 so moon knight was originally a
villain he was hired by this criminal
organization called the committee who
hired him to kill werewolf finite who
was the hero of that story but when
marvel introduced the character they
never intended for moon knight to be
like a really big deal he was just gonna
be a one-off villain in this werewolf by
night comic book he became so popular
that marvel was like please bring the
character back so they put him in a
bunch of backup stories in the hulk
magazine way back in the day which was
intended for more mature readers they
eventually gave him his own comic book
title in the early 80s they also put him
on the defenders the doctor strange
version of the defenders with hulk and a
bunch of other different characters not
the marvel netflix defenders roster he's
mostly shown up in big supernatural
stories but he's been a big avengers
crossover story he joined the avengers
at one point also the midnight suns
because we're going to be getting a
version of ghost riders soon we know we
have blade and just a bunch of other
supernatural characters that will be
showing up really soon if you spotted
any big easter eggs in the trailer that
i didn't talk about in the video just
write them below in the comments if you
have any big requests too just let me
know i will be doing more moon night
bonus videos before the series comes out
everyone click here for my eternals
deleted scene with kit harrington's
black knight character and click here
for my eternals deleted scenes video for
thanos and star fox thank you so much
for watching everyone stay safe and i'll
see you guys in the next one
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