Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host paul Aka Poon Knight and this video we're
breaking down the new Moon Knight Tv Spot.
Shown at the super bowl this new trailer has lots of never before seen footage that makes
it look like one of the best Marvel shows we've had so far.
Throughout this video we're gonna be pointing out all the hidden details in it and also
going over our thoughts on what could be happening.
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now let's get into Moon Knight.
Ok so the tv spot opens with the marvel studios logo rotating like that hands of a clock and
this has been done for a specific reason. Moon Knight is very much a creature of the
night operates when the sun goes down.
However we know from the first trailer that Steven Grant also has trouble sleeping so
it ties in with the time that he spends at night awake playing with a rubiks cube.
We’ve seen shots of him tying himself to the bed and he's also unsure over whats a
dream and whats reality.
Incase you don't know the character Oscar Isaacs is playing has dissociative identity
disorder and he's torn between his personalities.
These include Steven Grant who we've spent the majority of the trailers with. Marc Spector
and Jake Lockley.
Marc Spector was a mercenary and after an excersion in Egypt that left him at deaths
door he was brought back to life by the god Khonshu.
Told that he'd be his Avatar on Earth, Marc became Moon Knight and the rest is history.
Now when the first trailer dropped we put out a video discussing how we think that when
Marc went over a cliff in the trailer that he was saved by the snap. Though many people
believed he'd simply transform into Moon Knight, we know from the character's rich history
that this rarely happens in the day.
Thus I came up with the theory that he got snapped away and then when he was brought
back the character wound up safely on the ground.
This is because the Russos discussed the mechanics of it and they said that say you were in the
air mid flight and got snapped, you would be brought back grounded so that you wouldnt
just appear and fall to your death.
However the opening of the tv spot ends that theory I think as we catch Khonshu behind
him. Khonshu has brought the character back to life at several points and in the Charlie
Huston 2007 run he stalked Marc, often bragging about this.
Now Marc's other identity, Jake Lockley was a cab driver he created to attack street level
crime. Lastly is Steven Grant who seems to be the persona in all of the marketing and
he'll likely be the main person we see things through the eyes of. He was a high roller
Bruce Wayne style character. But don’t call him Batman, he is NOT Batman. He’s a rich
guy who makes a cool plane and gadgets and fancy metal boomerangs that come back…NOT
BATMAN!
Marc often jumps back and forth between his personas but he has no idea how he got to
that point or whats led up to it. It's kinda like when you switch characters on GTAV and
Trevors just randomly in the desert.
This definitely happens in the scene after the truck one as he's wearing the same clothes
when he goes over the cliff as he is when he's driving it.
Khonshu is a terrifying figure that will constantly stalk the character and we know from the first
trailer that he follows him wherever he goes. In the Charlie Huston Run he even appeared
as his Nemesis Raoul Bushman and antagonised him throughout the run. Bushman was on the
mission in Egypt that went awry and led to Marc being at deaths door.
In the Huston run he killed him and ripped his face off which is why Khonshu appeared
looking like Nicholas Cage when he wanted to take his facee....off.
Now Steven constantly tries to delay or ignore the call of Khonshu and hes transforms seemingly
against.
In the spot we see him shouting whilst kicking a mirror and if you watched our first trailer
breakdown then youll know that Mirrors appeared throughout it.
There was a scene where Steven left the museum at night and two of his reflections remained
behind, likely symbolising Marc and Jake.
Later on in the bathroom scene which we know is where Moon Knight fights a jackal you can
also see a reflection standing there. I believe that this is Marc constantly trying to get
out and that he'll appear in mirrors along with Jake talking to him. This will give Oscar
Isaacs the chance to do a sort of Norman Osborn thing where he goes back and forth in a mirror
and has scenes wrestling with him self.
Marc seems to be a mystery as a person on the phone calls him in the first trailer which
signifies Steven is repressing this Marc.
This phone also had an image of either a crocodile or alligator and it somewhat ties into our
theory about what's going on with Arthur Harrow.
Now get a good look at Harrow who seems to have a mysterious connection to Steven. In
the comics Arthur Harrow carried out human experiments and he had done this dating all
the way back to the holocaust. In the 80s he was working on quote unquote pain research
and he helped by a mysterious organisation leading him into conflict with Moon Knight.
The show version seems to be markedly different and it is possible that he's the embodiment
of a god, much like how Moon Knight is.
At one point we see moving scales on his arms and if you look at the top of these they have
Crocodile heads on them.
This could be the God Ammit who had the head of a crocodile. Ammit was deemed unruly by
Anubis and he got nicknamed the Devourer of Souls.
In the comics Moon Knight clashed with a character called Dr Emmet was was really Ammit so there
is prescident in the source material.
Anubis, the god of the dead would also weigh a dead person's heart to see if they were
worthy to enter the underworld and the scales could be referring to that.
Harrow seems to have special abilities as we see him with a scepter and potentially
hes the character shooting the purple lightning out the sky. Purple magic has appeared throughout
the mcu and we've often discussed how it pulls from the dark dimension. This was shown at
the end of Doctor Strange and also in Agatha Harkness who tapped into the dimension when
casting spell.s
Now Harrow can also hear the voices in Steven's head so yeah, that's the direction I think
he'll be going. A crocodile also appeared in the first trailer when we could catch one
in the floor of the musuem and yeah...Godd Ammit it's him.
Puns are still golden.
Now there is the possibility that he's a combination of other Moon Knight characters as Harrow
hasn't really appeared that much in the comics.
Ethan Hawke has stated that he has looked to cult leaders like David Koresh to mould
his character and from the first trailer we know people are willing to bow before him.
In a recent-ish issue of Moon Knight, number #189, Moon Knight tangled with a cult leader
called the Sun King who was an avatar of earth.
Either way there's a heavy themes towards gods in the teaser and in recent runs, Khonshu
has been expanded along with the rest of the Egyptian pantheon. They are revealed to have
been in the Othervoid and they basically just use humans as play things.
Seeing gods on Earth using humans as avatars to fight would be pretty exciting and really
expand upon the Egyptian myth.
We a;los see shots of him in Egypt and in a temple which may be his MCU origin here
or could be him returning to Egypt to fight Arthur Harrow.
Now There’s a reason that this show takes place in or at least part of it takes place
in the British Museum as it houses the world’s largest collection of Egyptian antiques. A
key item could be here which is why both Harrow and Moon Knight are there as Moon Knight tries
to stop harrow unlocking something in the great pyramids.
Pyramid iconography appears throughout the trailer and when we get that cool cape shot,
you can also catch a pyramid to the right. Looks a bit like the glass one at the Louvre
and i'm sure that this is probably a real location so let me know if youre familiar
with it.
Inside there's a pyramid and yeah pyramids pyramids pyramids.
When he transforms we can also catch the top of a spyre which looks like a pyramid...and
yeah...it's all connected.
Museums make up a lot of the teasers and intrestingly the British Museum also used a set for the
Illuminati's base in the Multiverse of Madness trailer. It seems the theme of Phase 4 is
museums with Eternal’s partly taking place in the Natural History Museum also in London.
Blade also came across Dane Whitman there in the post credits scene so there's potentially
lots of callbacks.
Now we know from the press releases that Steven will also don his Mr Knight costume at some
point and it's gonna be really interesting to see how this is tied in. Potentially it
might be the suit of one of his many personalities and I'd love it if each one had their own
costume.
We also learned in these releases that Moon Knight will be a lot more brutal as Kevin
Feige has stated it pushes the boundaries of violence in the MCU. This could open up
the creatures of the night aspect of the Marvel Universe as we know Blade as well as Black
Knight are coming.
Moon Knight looks unlike anything Disney and Marvel have put out which is what makes it
so exciting. As the movies head into the wild fan service which isn’t necessarily this
seems to be off doing it's own sort of thing.
I absolutely love the teaser and the moon iconography in it. We get MK catching a Moonerang
and there's also a moon that's the same shape in the night sky. There's the awesome cape
shot which looks like it and the teaser ends with him jumping across the sky to the moon.
M-o-o-n that spells Moon and I love this new teaser.
Did you catch that pyramid by the moonerang, is there anything we missed, let me know punk
in the comments section below.
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