Moon Knight - SPOILERS

trappedslider · Apr 28, 2022

MarkB said:
I'm just imagining one of those really emotional Black Panther afterlife scenes being totally photo-bombed by this Egyptian hippo-woman wandering through the background saying "Hi!"

I wish i had the skills to make an image of that

Umbran · Apr 28, 2022

Tonguez said:
According to one source it was an accident. Moonknight was created in 1975 as a supernatural hero who was a mercenary possessed by the Egyptian god Khonshu.
In 1989 the writer Doug Moench needed a name so called him Marc Spector after a friend but did not realise that the name was Jewish.

I disbelieve. That would mean that he went without a name from his first appearance in 1975, through the entire first two volumes of his solo comics which started in 1980 and 1985, respectively.

Please don't make me pull out the longboxes of comics from my closet to prove it. But I will if I have to.

billd91 · Apr 28, 2022

Tonguez said:
The great irony for me of course is that the Jewishness of the character didnt stop the writers invoking and empowering him via the pagan gods of Egypt

Well, he gets his power from Khonshu, he doesn’t worship him.

Tonguez · Apr 28, 2022

Umbran said:
I disbelieve. That would mean that he went without a name from his first appearance in 1975, through the entire first two volumes of his solo comics which started in 1980 and 1985, respectively.

Oops that should be 1980 not 89

Davies · Apr 28, 2022

Umbran said:
I disbelieve.

Nor should you. He's explicitly named Mark Spector in his first appearance in Werewolf by Night (1972) #32.

Umbran · Apr 28, 2022

Davies said:
Nor should you. He's explicitly named Mark Spector in his first appearance in Werewolf by Night (1972) #32.

Yeah. Just looked it up...

Now, I don't know when it is canonically established that he's Jewish. That probably comes later.

Umbran · Apr 28, 2022

Tonguez said:
Marc Spectors mother however was not Jewish by birth (and thus neither is her child)

Eh, you ought to be careful there. There are several different branches of the faith, and not all of them require strict matrilineal descent to be considered Jewish.

Davies · Apr 28, 2022

Umbran said:
Now, I don't know when it is canonically established that he's Jewish. That probably comes later.

If I'm reading this right, with the first appearance of his father in Moon Knight (1980) #37 in 1984.

Paul Farquhar · Apr 28, 2022

MarkB said:
I still feel like we're waiting for the other shoe to drop. A whole episode about reconciling the Marc and Steven personalities without even a mention of whatever third personality we had hinted at in the last couple of episodes.

With Marc and Steven both dead dead, Personality #3 is all that's left to save the day.

Paul Farquhar · Apr 28, 2022

MarkB said:
Maybe these suggestions of a third personality have been a lie - a lie told to Marc by Steven. Maybe that violent streak has been part of Steven all along, and it really was him who killed those people in Cairo.

I doubt they would ever go this way, but the could go full-Psycho and make the third personality the abusive dead mother.

I think it's more likely that #3 is the dead brother though, and is a good guy.

Moon Knight - SPOILERS

trappedslider

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Umbran

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Tonguez

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Davies

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Umbran

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Davies

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Paul Farquhar

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