Ok so Moon Knight Episode 1 was pretty wild and God Ammit we have some big fan theories
about what could be going on in the show.
Throughout this video we’re gonna be discussing what we think could be going on with Steven’s
mother, Ammit’s Plan, why Jake may already be in the series and a lot more.
Full spoilers ahead so if you haven’t had a chance to check it out then check out now.
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With that out the way, my name’s Paul bringing the fan theories to ya’ll now let’s get
into Moon Knight.
Ok so Episode 1 of the show sees Steven Grant living a pretty lowly life.
We’re even introduced to the character through the song Man Without Love by Englebert Humperdink
and the guy spends his days either at work or leaving voicemails to his mother.
Now the first theory I wanna dive into is how his Mummy is as dead as a Mummy.
Second Mummy joke of the video.
Incase you don’t know, in the comics, Marc is actually the main personality and therefore
if his mother was alive she’d be like ‘where’s my son and why is he talking in a crap cockney
accent?’
We’ll get into that accent more later on but I don’t think that Mrs. Grant actually
exists and this is why Steven is leaving voicemails and receiving post cards instead of talking
to her directly.
In Episode 1 we actually get a shot that focuses our attention on the post cards being sold
at Steven’s workplace and therefore Marc could be buying them, writing them out and
then sending them to himself so that it keeps up the illusion everything is fine.
This would also explain why he’s buying goldfishes and I think that the nemo looking
one we meet at the start of the episode died.
This is why when Steven goes to the pet store the assistant says he was in the day before
asking for one finned gold fishes because Marc wanted to make it look like nothing had
changed.
Huge shoutouts to Todd Vincy on our last video for pointing out that the second Goldfish
doesn’t eat any of the food Steven puts out because it was likely already fed by Marc.
Now if we look at the comics there’s also a big indicator that Steven’s mother is
dead.
Marc had quite a rough childhood and his mother Wendy sadly passed away when he was very little.
Trauma at a young age is actually one of the main factors that causes DID and it might
actually be his mother’s death that set off his personality split.
The Moon Knight collection by Jeff Lemire actually shows us the first time that Steven
was created and Marc very much viewed him as an imaginary friend.
Looking beyond this we know that Fernanda Andrade has been cast as Wendy Spector and
with the actress being quite young, I doubt she was old enough to have a kid Steven Grant’s
age.
Thus she’ll likely be popping up in flashbacks and down the line we might actually see the
events that led to her death playing out in the series.
This would explain how Marc’s DID was formed, explain all the voicemails and postcards and
also be quite a big twist if you’re someone who doesn’t watch 20 theory videos a week
and have everything all figured out because you refuse to let yourself enjoy anything.
Congratulations.
Now it’s time for a joke.
Who should Steven gone to see after he broke his jaw.
A Cairo-practor.
Ey, Cairo ey ey.
Anyway one of the big criticisms about Oscar Isaacs performance as Steven is of course
his goofy London accent.
Just to clarify I find it quite funny and actually like what he’s doing with it BUT
there are a lot of people online that out and out hate it.
However!
Lend me your ears because I actually have a theory that it might be bad on purpose.
Now we know from the secret agent TV spot that Marc is going to be inline with his comic
book counterpart and that the character will be an American mercenary.
Him actually being American would explain why his British accent isn’t that good and
it would make sense as to why Steven sounds a bit off.
He’s likely only developed this persona recently so he wouldn’t have everything
down and would just be doing a bad one because no americans can do british accents.
Can you, be honest now.
Write your, write your best british accent in the comments.
Bowwal of waaawaer.
Anyway this sort of ties into another point that’s getting a lot of criticism.
As many of you know, Marc is Jewish but this has been completely skipped over in the show
and it’s caused a bit of controversy.
Marc being Jewish was purposely placed into the comics because the writers wanted to explore
the relationship between and Egyptian God and A Jewish person due to it’s roots in
religion.
This seems to be absent from the show though they could also reveal it through Marc when
we start to learn more about him.
Right now we are mainly seeing things through the eyes of Steven so I hope that it pops
up down the line at some point.
If we look at the IMDB cast we also apparently have Elias Spector popping up who in the comics
was a Rabbi that would end up bringing this altogether.
Now Ammit’s plan is still a mystery at the moment and we know that Arthur Harrow desperately
wants the Golden Scarab.
TV Spots have revealed that he eventually gets this and that it takes him to what I’m
guessing is Egypt.
Resurrecting her is a big part of his plan so that he can create heaven on earth or as
I call it, my life if I hadn’t been forced to go see Morbius for this channel.
Now at one point in the episode Harrow weighs the souls of two people.
The first of these is a young man and the second is an old woman.
The former lives whilst the latter dies and if we look at Harrow’s ranks, it seems to
be full of guys just like this.
Something seems off and instead I think that Ammit is just recruiting those that are strongest
so that Harrow has more of a chance of ressurecting her.
An old woman likely has little use in fighting a war and thus she’s killed.
Now in mythology Ammit is also known as the soul devourer and it makes sense that she’d
have to eat souls in order to power herself up.
Good souls would probably replenish herself more than bad souls would and I think the
good people are being killed so that Ammit can feed whereas the bad ones are being allowed
to remain behind to become soldiers.
And speaking of bad souls we are still yet to be introduced to Jake Lockley, the third
personality that inhabits Marc’s body.
However however however, perhaps the Jake personality is the person that we’ve been
dealing with whilst most of us have assumed it’s Marc.
In the episode Steven discovers a phone with several missed calls from a woman named Layla
who could potentially be a love interest for the character.
She has been hitting his phone up quite a lot and seems genuinely concerned about him.
Secondly, all the scenes we get with Marc make him out to be a bit of a wreck who’s
barely holding it together as he’s trapped behind a mirror.
In the comics Marc is a cold blooded killer that isn’t really a ladies man and though
he has a love interest in a woman named Marlene, he’s always trying to keep a low profile.
That’s what this Marc seems to be doing too and if we are right about him buying post
cards and goldfishes to hide the truth it doesn’t make sense that he’d set up dates.
This would have the potential to set Steven off to learn the truth and therefore I kinda
think that it’s actually Jake who organised the date.
Marc probably also knows enough about Steven to know hes a vegan and the more that I think
about it the more likely it is that it’s probably Jake behind all the date stuff.
Jake might have even ate the fish or something and then Marc would’ve had to rush out to
get another one so that Steven didn’t suspect anything.
I’d love for there to be a big twist that reveals Jake has been there the entire time
and we just didn’t know it because we were so fixated on the two.
Lastly huge shoutouts to TeesPV who pointed out that if you scan the QR code in the museum
that it actually takes you to the Marvel website for Moon Knight.
Great easter egg that I didn’t even pick up in our first breakdown and it’s always
nice to see when people do your job way better than you do it.
My hope is that TeesPV is actually one of my offshoot personalities like Kevin Spoilers
and in a way…yeah…now I think about it I actually found that easter egg.
See ya chump.
Anyway that concludes the video and I’d of course love to hear your thoughts on the
theories and if you have any then make sure that you leave them in the comments below.
Wehave five weeks ahead of us of this mind bending moon knight series and I will be back
at some point down the road to discuss these theories more indepth as well as what we’ve
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