Disney Plus has put out a bunch of fun new shows ranging from reboots and continuations
like The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, to the ever popular Mandalorian, and of course,
the epicenter of today’s video, Multiple MCU Projects.
The latest of these shows is Moon Knight, a show about a Jewish man with Dissociative
Identity Disorder who is manipulated by the Egyptian god Khonshu to become a vigilante
and serve justice.
With the final episode of this series dropped on Wednesday, May 4th, and with Doctor Strange:
Multiverse of Madness coming out on Friday the 6th we felt it was necessary to talk about
what most people consider the best MCU Disney+ show.
I’m _______ with WickedBinge and this is Moon Knight: Good to Evil
Also, spoilers for every episode of the MCU show as well as potential spoilers for other
projects, past, present, and future.
So, do go watch the show if you have Disney+ and then come back here if you want to remain
unspoiled.
So of course we’re going to start off with the best of the best starting with the Good.
Earning our gold medal of good is the hippopotamus goddess Taweret.
Taweret appears at the end of Episode 4 and plays a major role throughout Episode 5.
She is an Egyptian goddess of childbirth and motherhood, and as brought up by Erik Voss
of New Rockstars can be seen as the loving mother Marc didn’t have.
In the show, she helps Marc and Steven in the Duat balance the scales of their heart
so they can move to the Field of Reeds.
She also plays a major role in Episode 6, where she has Layla become her champion and
Avatar like Marc is to Khonshu.
She is shown to be loving and caring and even tries to stop Marc from leaving the field
because he wouldn’t be able to go back if he left.
She even holds off the sand wave that would have swallowed Marc and Steven so they could
go back to Earth.
Now, maybe she’s eviler than we see because it seems she was imprisoned in an ushabti
like Ammit or Khonshu based on one that looks like her in the ending credits, but it’s
never confirmed in the show to our knowledge.
The silver medal of good goes to Steven Grant AKA Mr. Knight.
Steven is the character we are led to believe is the main character of the show, and like
many marvel properties, the main character is one of the best characters.
Now, the thing about Steve is he is actually an alter within the DID system of Marc Spector,
created when he was young.
Steven was created to function properly around his abusive mother whilst believing his mother
was actually a good person.
This is apparently called a “trauma free part”, designed to be as the name implies
trauma free.
This leads to Steven being a very nice guy all in all, he’s kind of bookish, a nerd,
but he;s never rude or angry, except after Marc reappears.
By the end of the series, Steven becomes much more confident and he does show that he loves
Marc’s wife, which can be considered weird to some but it happens in real DID systems
as well.
Steven doesn’t really do anything wrong so it makes sense to drop him here.
Egyptian superhero Layla Al-Faouly AKA The Scarlet Scarab is earning our bronze medal
of good.
Layla is a pretty major character throughout the show, being Marc’s wife who he separated
from to try and protect.
Layla obviously still cares for Marc, and cares some for Steve as well after finding
out about him.
In Episode 6, she works with Taweret, becoming her avatar and by proxy becoming comic hero
The Scarlet Scarab.
She not only frees Khonshu so Marc can come back but she also helps Marc fight off Harrow
to stop Ammit.
It’s even implied she’s the first hero for all of Egypt, which is a very big deal,
especially for her.
Because, yes she did steal a lot of artifacts in the past and does have fake federal IDs,
but she allegedly gave these stolen artifacts to their rightful owners, so we can’t really
hold it against her.
Rounding out the good section of our list is the character the show is named after,
Marc Spector AKA Moon Knight.
Marc is the host of the DID system, having created his alters in response to his abusive
childhood.
Marc later became a marine and went AWOL, ending up as a mercenary and eventual avatar
for the moon god Khonshu.
As the avatar, he tries his best to dole out the justice asked of him by Khonshu, killing
anyone the god deems as evil and worthy of justice.
Marc does show that he doesn’t want to kill anyone who doesn’t deserve it, such as Harrow
at the end of the show, and only wants to be separated from Khonshu.
He was even willing to fully give up his body to Steven once the deeds were done.
However, by the end of the show, he has fully accepted Steven and was even willing to sacrifice
himself to the Duat because he didn’t feel right leaving him behind, and you know how
we feel about self-sacrifice.
He’s still done a lot of terrible things, but we can’t in good conscience leave him
in the gray when you consider the sacrifice.
With the best out of the way we now move our way down to the less good but still not evil
section of our list, this is The Gray Area.
Starting off the Gray section of our list is Elias Spector.
Elias is Marc’s father and the husband of Wendy Spector, who we’ll get to later.
Elias seems to be a good father to Marc and Randall for the most part, that is until Randall’s
death.
After Randall’s death, he tries his hardest to still be a good father to Marc and help
him deal with the death and Wendy’s abuse.
However, when Marc as a teenager decides to leave because of his mother’s abuse, Elias
tries to convince him not to, he even seems complacent in her abuse, which means he can’t
rank in the good section.
There is a chance he tried to stop it but we never see that, so we have to call it like
we see it, and he lands in the gray.
Landing next on our list is Marc’s final known alter, Jake Lockley.
Jake doesn’t appear for very long, only making a physical appearance in the post-credits
scene of the final episode.
However, what we do know about him is that he is kind of a flirt and a mass murderer.
He is actually the main alter that Khonshu uses, and we see him pop up, or rather, we
see his actions a few times in the series.
He kills the Ammit cultists in Cairo in Episode 3, May be behind the bloody scene Steven gets
back to in Episode 1, and causes mass damage in Episode 6.
He is even the one who finally kills Harrow and by result Ammit in said post-credits scene.
However, he lands here because he is being manipulated by Khonshu as far as we can tell,
so he doesn’t fall further.
Rounding out the gray area of our list is Egyptian God Khonshu.
Khonshu is the Egyptian god of the moon and the night sky who has had multiple avatars
that he uses to fight crime and punish evildoers.
This was originally Arthur Harrow but eventually he chose Marc Spector because of his fractured
mind, specifically preying on Jake to be his true avatar.
Khonshu does not like Steven very much, calling him a worm and pretty much useless, and he
doesn’t care about the safety of his avatar usually.
Although, at the end of the series he does show care for when Marc comes back to life.
Khonshu is manipulative and cares about his mission more than anything else, but he’s
not bad enough to reach the Bad to Evil section, at least from what we can see.
Speaking of, we are now reaching the bottom of the barrel as we reach the Bad to Evil
category.
Starting off the bad to evil section is Wendy Spector.
Wendy was Marc and Randall’s mother, and seems like a good one at first.
After the death of Randall, she kind of goes insane and starts to become heavily abusive
towards Marc.
She drinks heavily and is actually physically abusive to him during his childhood.
This gets to the point that Marc runs away as a teenager and refuses to go to her shiva
when she dies.
Wendy doesn’t fall lower for a few reasons, one of which is the scope of her crimes, not
being world ending, but also because she went through the loss of a child and we understand
her pain, but it doesn’t make it better.
Ranking right outside our top three is Anton Mogart.
Anton is an antagonist in Episode 3, and he is a so-called “antiques collector” that
Layla and Marc go to, trying to find Senfu’s sarcophagus.
Anton is a haughty rich boy who doesn’t care too much about the artifacts themselves,
and has some history with Layla who was known to steal and sell similar artifacts.
It’s hard to rank him because he doesn’t have a lot of screen time but he does try
to kill Layla and Marc, and he seems to care very little about his people, and being a
criminal mastermind does rank him lower.
We do have to say Rest in Peace to his actor Gaspard Ulliel who died before the show aired,
however he still ranks here.
Earning our bronze medal of evil is Billy Fitzgerald and Bobby Kennedy.
We have to rank them together for a very obvious reason, the two of them are Harrow’s top
enforcers and are very little beyond soldiers for Harrow’s mission.
They follow Harrow’s orders without question, killing hundreds by the end of the series.
Even in the fake hospital formed by Marc in the Duat, they are implied to beat Marc and
possibly other patients like they do in the comics.
The problem is, they’re merely soldiers following orders after being brainwashed by
a cult, so we can’t in good conscience rank them lower, although they were already outclassed.
Stealing the silver medal of evil is the main villain, Arthur Harrow.
Harrow is the leader of what is essentially a cult who worships the deity Ammit.
He wields a magic staff utilizing the power of Ammit to judge the scales of anyone he
touches, and if their scales are unbalanced, he kills them.
This leads to him trying to free Ammit so she can rule the world with her style of judgment.
Now, Harrow used to work for Khonshu and even said that he quite enjoyed harming people
for the bird god, working for Ammit as “retribution”.
We later learn his scales are unbalanced and he was willing to give up his life as he does
believe what he preached, this does lead to him being killed by Jake, but that’s besides
the point.
Harrow has no morals beyond his religion and what the religion believes.
The only reason he doesn’t grab gold is because he is in service to the gold medalist
herself.
That’s right, crocodile god Ammit is grabbing our gold medal of evil.
Ammit is an Egyptian goddess who was banished by her fellow gods and imprisoned in an ushabti
hidden in the tomb of Alexander The Great.
Ammit is freed and almost instantly starts enacting her retribution and her form of “judgment”
that involves killing pretty much anyone who isn’t in her cult.
Ammit shows no care for the humans on the ground, especially after being betrayed by
Alexander.
Ammit does suffer from being trapped for 2000 years, and that would make anyone cranky,
probably give them a pretty bad crick in the neck, but that doesn’t make her actions
any better.
But before we go, we do have some salacious sinner medals to hand out.
Earning our Envy Medal is Steven Grant, Steven mostly lands here because he seems envious
of Marc’s confidence, Dylan’s museum guide job and does try to get with Layla, which
can be seen as a bit envious, although he grows out of it by the end of the series.
The Lust Medal very tentatively goes to Marc Spector.
Now, he’s not lustful in the usual way, but he does show intense feelings towards
Layla even after they got separated, and very obviously still loves her.
His mother, Wendy Spector, grabs our Wrath Medal.
We won't harp on this too long, but she does physically abuse Marc and pretty much kicks
down his door.
Crocodile goddess Ammit grabs the Gluttony Medal, because she grows bigger from eating
souls that were supposed to go to the Duat and cares very little for things beyond that.
Our Greed Medal goes to Anton Mogart, because he buys and subsequently hoards important
artifacts from all over the world and cares for nothing beyond having them, in the comics,
he’s known as Midnight Man and steals art for the fun of it.
Finally, Arthur Harrow is the one grabbing our Pride Medal, he is very prideful of his
cult, the power of the goddess Ammit and his mission, which is why he grabs it.
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