Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and everyone's dancing in the Moon
Knight with the release of a tonne of new trailers and tv spots.
Throughout this video we're gonna be breaking down all the brand new looks and talking about
the hidden details, what they confirm and also the easter eggs that are hiding in them.
The show is just over one week away so this will be our final theories video before it
releases next week.
I've got a cold right now but I'm super hyped and I just wanna get right into it with the
featurette that was released last week.
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Ok so as has been stated the show is going to show things from the perspective of Steven
Grant and we'll watch as he learns about the otherside of his persona, Marc Spector.
This kinda goes against the grain as in the comics, it was Marc that was the dominant
personality and after he was introduced in Werewolf by Night 32, we slowly started to
learn about his backstory.
Marc was the son of a Rabbi who came to view his coward as a father because he fled from
Germany during World War 2 in order to escape the Holocaust.
Because of this he trained to become a mercenary and this eventually led him on a mission to
an archeological dig out in Egypt.
Betrayed by one of the soldiers who went out there with him, Marc was left at Death's door
and it's here that he came across the target of the dig, The Shrine Of Khonsu.
Marc promised to become the God's Avatar on Earth and he ended up wrapping himself in
Khonshu's shrowd which came to be his costume.
After he returned to America, Marc created several personas including Stephen Grant and
also Jake Lockley.
The former of which was a playboy who used his connections with the elite to gain intel
whereas the latter was a cab driver who kept his ear to the street.
Over the decades this evolved into taking on a more psychological aspect and Marc was
diagnosed with DID or Dissociate Identity Disorder.
This ended up creating completely offshoot personalities within him that all wrestled
for control and the Fight Club analogy is used to basically show that he's a lot like
Tyler Durden which I shouldn't really mention cos...first rule of fight club.
Now we know from Interviews that the show is also meant to be based heavily around Memento
and incase you haven't seen it, it's basically a film about a man who has no short term memory
and we watch as the entire film plays out in reverse chronological order.
All of the scenes happen with the one that should follow it actually being shown to us
before hand and because of this we kinda learn the truth about what's really going on.
Now I don't think that the show will do that but instead I believe that we'll start off
with Steven working his mundane job in a museum which is where he'll be introduced to Arthur
Harrow and Khonshu who appears to be stalking the character.
He'll then likely find the phone in his home and this will then be when he starts to remember
his time as Marc which will fill in the egyptian origin story.
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Now I kinda think that this is confirmed as we find Steven in what looks to be a lockup
and in a reflection we can catch Marc explaining what's happening.
Steven finds a gun as well as an American Passport with Marc's name on it.
Steven is...jadging by the accent, he's a bladdy cockney, and therefore him having an
american Accent is pretty shocking...ta say the least.
Thank you...
and the oscar goes to.
The oscar isaacs
Anyway I think this is likely him unearthing the truth about Marc and discovering a room
full of his belongings that helps him to fill in the blanks on what exactly is going on.
There's also a what appears to be a golden scarab in here and the wings on it spring
open.
I'm guessing that Marc got this from his trip to Egypt and we'll kinda segway from here
into learning about his time in Egypt.
We do see in one of the trailer shots that Ethan Hawke's Arthur Harrow has it levitating
in his hand almost like a compass so this might be the macguffin that they're all after.
Now this bag seems to be quite important and if you look at the trailers, namely the point
where Marc is chased by Khonshu, he appears to also be carrying it.
I've got no idea what it's got in it but it's gonna be interesting to see how this factors
into everything and why both Steven and the God wanna get it.
Now we're yet to be shown Jake in any of the teasers and to keep things simple I think
that they might focus things solely on Marc and Steven.
It's possible that these two sides end up getting their own moon knight costumes and
this actually could be hinted at in the trailers.
During one shot we see where the character appears to be in the Mr. Knight costume.
This was recently introduced into the comics and it's much more of a sophisticated persona.
I say recently, probably like 10 years ago but 2020 has just been never ending.
However from here he transforms into the more typical looking version of the suit and I
think that this might be during a scene in which Steven passes over control to Marc and
the costume warps around him as he takes over.
Hints of this control going back and forth seem to be going on during the van chase scene
that we see play out and at one point, Steven's eyes flicker almost like he's in REM sleep.
There is a major focus on dreams in the trailers and we've watched as Steven has tied himself
to the bed, put lines of sand around where he sleeps and also placed tape over the door
so he can see if anyone has opened it.
I think the whole idea of the Day and Night song will have also have been chosen for
a reason.
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Potentially Steven is the persona he takes on during the day and then it's at night which
is when he switches to Marc.
Now if you're gonna let me reach for a second it could also be playing on the phrase Night
and Day which means two complete opposites.
This could be represented in Steven and Marc, one is an American Secret Agent whereas the
other...e's a lavely cockney bloke.
Mirrors are used throughout the teasers as well and we have the reflection in the water
as Steven walks into the museum, the one in the bathroom when he transforms and also the
one in his home when he sees that his face is badly bruised.
Beyond this the teasers and trailers are absolutely literred with them and there's even a point
where we can one in the reflection of some Museum glass that remains behind.
They're clearly playing with this idea of the two personalities going back and forth
in them and I think it's gonna be interesting to see as they battle not only the bad guys
but also themselves.
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This isn't a pyramid scheme and you're in denial if you think our egypt puns smell bad
enough to make Pharoah moan.
Urrrrr.
What's an Egyptian's favourite chocolate.
Pharoah Rocher...
Anyway moving on.
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Now the show seems to be taking place in two major locations.
The first of which is London and we're getting a lot of things there such as the typical
red buses that you usually see.
One of these has a GRC advert on it which was heavily discussed in Falcon And The Winter
Soldier.
The Global Repatriation Council helped to rehome those brought back by the blip and
because of this we know that those elements at the very least are taking place after Avengers
Endgame.
The full add says reuniting you with your better half which could be a play on how half
of all life was snapped away but it may also be a nod to Marc and Steven speaking with
each other.
I think the majority of the show early on will take place in London and that it's from
here that we'll travel to Egypt which is shown heavily in the introducing Moon Knight Featurette.
This would explain why Marc has an American passport as he would need it for travelling.
Huge shoutouts to Erik Voss at New Rockstars for pointing out that the Passport was created
in December 2018 meaning that it happened just after the snap which took place earlier
that year.
I think it would be so cool if we got a flashback to Marc picking up this passport when it was
first made and then we followed him out to Egypt as he met Harrow for the first time.
Harrow is quite a mysterious character and just in the same way that Moon Knight is an
avatar of Khonshu, I think Arthur will be one for another Egyptian God.
In the comics Harrow was a mad scientist that made a handful of appearances in the 1980s
and it looks like they've completely changed things up so that we can't really guess at
what's going on in the show like we'd be able to with an established character like Mephisto.
Ethan Hawke has stated in interviews that he's very much like a David Koresh type character
which does give us a hint towards what could be going on.
In real life Koresh was a cult leader that claimed to be a prophet sent by God and Harrow
could also be doing this in the name of an Egyptian one.
Now in the teasers, there's several images of Crocodiles throughout the trailers and
not only did one appear on Marc's phone background but it also seems like Harrow has two crocodile
head tattoos.
Now there are two possibilities over who this could be with the first being Sobek, the crocodile
god.
However there's also Ammit who's known as the devorer of souls and I think that it'll
more likely be them.
Ammit actually appeared in the comics during the Jeff Lemire run and it posed as a psychologist
called Dr. Emmet.
This took place in a psychiatric hospital called Mercy Hospital For The Mentally Ill.
It was very much in the same vein as the opening of 12 monkeys with the staff attempting to
convince him that his life as Moon Knight was a fantasy and that the ward was where
he'd been since he was a kid.
Over time he broke through the illusion and discovered that it was actually located in
a vessel outside of time and space known as the Othervoid.
The graphic novel that collects this run is brilliant and it has some fourth wall breakdown
moments such as Marc transforming into Steven who's an actor on a TV show called Moon Knight.
We jump to that and basically see things all play out from behind the scenes of a set and
then when they shout action and start filming, we're back with Marc watching it all play
out for real.
Now why I think it might be Ammit is because in that run, Emmet sends her orderlies after
Marc when he tries to escape and these are revealed to be Jackals.
If you cast your mind back to the trailer you'll remmeber that Marc was bashing one
out in a bathroom...not like that mate, and everyone, including you thought it was a werewolf.
Well Kevin bloody spoilers said it was a Jackal and we can see in the new TV Spots that one
jumps after Moon Knight in it.
I'm guessing that this is the one he fights in the bathroom and then it chases him through
the night.
Maybe next time you'll listen to your daft old uncle Kevin spoilers ey.
Also that's Maria Rambeau in the Doctor Strange Trailer i'm telling you, f**k off with your
Johnathan Majors as Kang s**t you f**king f****
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Anyway an interesting shot that links to the aforementioned graphic novel comes when we
see Marc inside what appears to be a psychiatric ward and he's banging his head.
I would love to see some of the fourth wall breaking elements of this book play out in
the show and it would be crazy if they did some of the elements where the director yells
cut and it pulls back to show Steven is just on a tv set.
That would actually be the perfect way to do a Kevin Feige Cameo or something and that's
what I'm hoping for.
Anyway that's all the major elements of the new TV spots that I thought were worth talking
about.
Sorry if I sound a bit run down, got a bit of a cold from looking after the kids Day
and Night ey.
Sorry about that, probably doing everyone's head in how much I keep bringing them up at
every opportunity.
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With that out the way thank you for sitting through the video, I’ve been Paul and I’ll
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Take care, Peace