Moon Knight got here to an in depth on Wednesday, as episode 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe sequence hit Disney Plus. The season finale picks up with Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) after an intense emotional journey via the Egyptian realm of the lifeless.
It seems like Marc goes to recuperate after being gunned down by cult chief Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), who has apparently launched trapped loss of life goddess Ammit upon the world.
Nevertheless, our hero might not have the ability to use his superheroic Moon Knight talents, because of the supply of his energy — the moon god Khonshu — being imprisoned by his fellow gods. He additionally has to search out out what occurred to his spouse, Layla El-Faouly (Could Calamawy), after he received shot.
It is time to step into the realm of SPOILERS for episode 6. This present takes place after the occasions of Avengers: Endgame.
Khonshu rejected
A resurrected Marc and restored Steven obtain equilibrium, utilizing their mixed Moon Knight and Mr. Knight talents to battle Harrow’s hench-people on the streets of Cairo. Layla has accepted the possibility to change into the avatar of Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility, and has gained superpowers of her personal.
Marc is seemingly defeated, however he blacks out and wakes as much as discover Harrow and all his goons crushed. They lure Ammit, however Marc refuses to kill them. He then calls for that Khonshu launch them.
Layla seems superior as Taweret’s avatar.
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The moon god seemingly agrees. Steven and Marc get up again in the identical establishment they received caught in after dying, they usually reject the Duat manifestation of Harrow’s analysis. They get up in Steven’s London house, the place they’re chained to the mattress.
“I can not imagine you reside on this frickin’ mess,” says Marc, earlier than slamming onto the ground.
It looks like the second within the establishment was a step in Marc and Steven pushing again towards actuality, and the scene within the house was actuality. Nevertheless, the subsequent scene throws all of that into query.
There’s some extraordinarily cool motion on this episode.
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A midcredits scene and an entire new persona
The additional scene finds Harrow in a London psychological establishment (possibly Layla introduced him right here?), the place a really Oscar Isaac-sounding man in black involves take him out — in additional methods than one. Harrow will get an inkling that one thing is amiss when he sees a hospital employee mendacity in a pool of blood.
He is then bundled into a elaborate white limo and comes face-to-face with Khonshu, wanting extraordinarily dapper in a white Mr. Knight-style go well with. Harrow is assured that the moon god cannot harm him, prompting the divine being to disclose that he by no means needed Layla as his new avatar.
“Why would I want anyone else, when he has no concept how troubled he actually is?” says a cocky Khonshu. “Meet my buddy, Jake Lockley.”
Jake Lockley is seemingly on board with Khonshu’s murderous mission.
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The divider comes down, revealing Oscar Isaac in a peaked cap — Marc’s third persona.
“Immediately is your flip to lose,” Jake says in Spanish.
He raises a silenced pistol and blasts Harrow a number of instances, earlier than driving off into the London streets.
Within the comics, one in all Marc’s most distinguished personalities is cab driver Jake Lockley, whose specialty is gathering info on the streets. He is received an entire bunch of connections within the prison underworld, hinting at his morally questionable outlook.
Oscar Isaac’s look within the present mirrors his comedian ebook counterpart.
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Apparently, Jake’s MCU counterpart is completely on board with Khonshu’s murderous methods and could possibly be a manifestation of the darkish deeds Marc dedicated throughout his time as a mercenary. We beforehand received hints of Jake’s existence when he stabbed a bunch of Harrow’s males and Marc noticed a mysterious shaking sarcophagus within the Duat psychological establishment. It is possible Jake tried to assault Duat-Harrow as effectively.
The ultimate scene in Steven’s house might’ve been an phantasm created by the moon god to maintain his avatar’s much less cooperative personalities in verify. Or Jake took over in Cairo, and managed their shared physique on the return to London.
It is unclear the place this story will proceed. We’ve not had a season 2 announcement for this present, but it surely looks like Khonshu might emerge as a significant MCU risk.
Scarlet Scarab battled Nineteen Forties superheroes the Invaders within the comics.
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Scarlet Scarab
To defeat Ammit and Harrow, Layla accepts Taweret’s energy and turns into the MCU’s model of Scarlet Scarab — a little-known character who battled World Struggle II superhero crew the Invaders within the ’70s. Layla’s costume is not very scarlet, but it surely seems infinitely cooler.
“Are you an Egyptian superhero?” a woman asks after Layla saves her from being crushed by a van in Cairo, to which she replies within the affirmative.
We do not know what occurs to Layla after Marc rejects Khonshu, however she’ll undoubtedly present up once more. Perhaps she and Sam Wilson can examine notes on deflecting bullets with their steel wings?
Battling gods
Outdoors of Jake Lockley displaying up and Layla gaining superpowers, the remainder of the episode seems like pretty customary Marvel fare. An enormous crocodile and creepy hen skeleton battle among the many pyramids, a bunch of gods’ avatars are killed, Moon Knight/Mr. Knight and Scarlet Scarab have an superior team-up — the standard.
In some way, the large crocodile is among the simpler components to wrap your head round on this episode.
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Fascinatingly, Ammit chooses Harrow as her avatar regardless of his scales not balancing. She causes that her earlier avatar — Alexander the Nice — had balanced scales however that received her trapped for two,000 years. I suppose this proves the gods’ willingness to throw their very own guidelines out the window when it fits them.
Observations, Easter eggs and WTF questions
- Jake finds Harrow at Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital, which is presumably named after iconic artist Invoice Sienkiewicz. He drew the first situation of Moon Knight’s 1980 solo sequence.
- The limo — license plate SPKTR — pays homage to Mr. Knight’s comedian ebook mode of transport. He makes use of it to get to New York Metropolis’s crime scenes in fashion.
- The CGI impact of Ammit’s head showing on Harrow’s cane is a bit tacky, however Ammit’s towering bodily kind is superior.
- Why did not Harrow inform his goons to search out Layla in Alexander’s tomb?
- The way in which Tawaret’s ears quiver is extraordinarily cute. In distinction, her talking to Layla via lifeless troopers is humorous in a creepy sort of manner.
- It looks like Dr. Harrow’s ft began bleeding as a result of Marc and Steven reconciled his Duat manifestation along with his true self.
That is it for Moon Knight for now, however your subsequent dose of Marvel is not distant. Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity hits theaters Friday, and Ms. Marvel kicks off on Disney Plus on June 8.
