I think it would’ve been better if Moonknight was just as brutal as he is in the comics Like a loose canon, unlike Hulk, Moonknight can be some quirky, lovable, egypt-loving goofball, an incredible mercenary that can stand his own against people like Winter Soldier (I assume) or a psycopathic murderer
As a longtime huge fan of Moon Knight, I was extremely happy with the show. It was very different from the comics, but I think it pulled off the tricky balance of focusing less on action and superheroics to be a character study. But I definitely agree it’s too bad they never played with the ambiguity of whether or not Khonshu was real. You can only do that once before revealing he’s truly real, and they should’ve done that.
For the villain, they did indeed just make an original villain and then give him a name from the comics. Ethan Hawke gives a good performance, but his character doesn’t grow very much and he could’ve been given more to do.
Damn… talk about saying what I'm thinking, man. It's always sad when you can't share the version of a character that you've loved for years with people who (for one reason or another) just never got into comics. I thought that was supposed to be the point– to proselytize the comic canon using a more familiar medium. It's turning into a place to reverse engineer all of the cool artistic choices made by many creators over literal decades of stories into the lowest-hanging fruit on what feels like a withering MCU vine.
Probably my favorite aspect MCU Moon Knight is the different costumes for different Alters, I feel that makes him a more interesting character and thats pretty much the only thing I wish gets adapted into the comics from the show. But the problem is that they made the Steven suit Mr. Knight, if they made him an original suit itbwould have worked so much better, Mr. Knight should have been used a symbol of how Marc is maturing as a hero or as a 4th Alter that woudl be used for more analytical purposes
35:06 Welp. This aged well after Marvel announced the end of Jed Mckay's run with a "Death of Moon Knight" event that will inevitably bring him back as the MCU version. Still a great book to follow along with though. Sad to see it leave.
If they'd made Moonknight a hard boiled street level detective story where he occasionally fights some monsters and also chases down drug dealers and the like while dealing with his DID that would have been great. Add some darker violence and that would take people for a ride. It absolutely would have been something that's never been done in the MCU.
I know for a fact this comment will never be seen by almost anyone due to how late it is but I would just like to say as someone who loved this show when it came out and was introduced to marvel through the MCU that this video and other like it are really eye opening for me. As much as I enjoy the MCU for what it is hearing about the changes makes me wish for a more faithful adaptation of the comics, especially for a character as nuanced as Moon Knight. I don’t know much about him as before the pandemic my exposure to marvel was almost exclusive to the MCU with the occasional comic or video, I had a collection of comics but they were more there because my mother grew up with and loves marvel comic and got them for me rather than for me. But after I started watching more video essays and got into stuff like Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and even the comics that I do own I wish the MCU was more accurate or had something that could fill that void. Something akin to how the DCAU or DCAMU were in contrast to the DCEU. The parts where you had the comic panels up with the voice acting especially made me wish we got to see that out of the show than what we got, especially with Steven Grant and Mr. Knight (and this is coming from someone who you would have described as the perfect target audience at the time who loved Steven’s character to death.) Personally I still think the show had some cool stuff that could work in concept but it was simply too early to experiment with new stuff as it alienates audiences from how Moon Knight is in the comics. Which is a shame cause all of the stuff you have mentioned that we missed is stuff in the show that while they kinda existed they weren’t explored nearly enough or it wasn’t even something I noticed, for example I never knew Moon Knight was Jewish before this video. All this makes me wish that A. Someone who actually cared to adapt the source material was working on either the MCU or some other series (like a MAU like how the yostverse almost was) was in charge of doing a Moon Knight adaptation and B. That I owned some Moon Knight comics so I could read about this character (gonna have to be something I pick up and start collecting.) All this is to say that this is an amazing well researched video.
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I think it would’ve been better if Moonknight was just as brutal as he is in the comics
Like a loose canon, unlike Hulk, Moonknight can be some quirky, lovable, egypt-loving goofball, an incredible mercenary that can stand his own against people like Winter Soldier (I assume) or a psycopathic murderer
Hey what’s the song at 31:31 that’s playin in the background?
As a longtime huge fan of Moon Knight, I was extremely happy with the show. It was very different from the comics, but I think it pulled off the tricky balance of focusing less on action and superheroics to be a character study. But I definitely agree it’s too bad they never played with the ambiguity of whether or not Khonshu was real. You can only do that once before revealing he’s truly real, and they should’ve done that.
For the villain, they did indeed just make an original villain and then give him a name from the comics. Ethan Hawke gives a good performance, but his character doesn’t grow very much and he could’ve been given more to do.
25:12 – 25:51
At least you were wrong about 99.9% of this part with Kamala
14:04
Damn… talk about saying what I'm thinking, man. It's always sad when you can't share the version of a character that you've loved for years with people who (for one reason or another) just never got into comics. I thought that was supposed to be the point– to proselytize the comic canon using a more familiar medium. It's turning into a place to reverse engineer all of the cool artistic choices made by many creators over literal decades of stories into the lowest-hanging fruit on what feels like a withering MCU vine.
Oh man that starlord scene from endgame rlly pissed me off, apparently it even pissed off Gunn
There is literally less then 5 mins of Moon Knight in the Moon Knight show. Total rubush
Naa man that was a good show, it least it established the character properly and that multiple personality plot was good af
12:08 meanwhile, boys can take any transformer and be like oh yes, this is me
i feel like since they beat konshu mentaly, they wont keep these powers, going back to there comics! Konshu will just keep in thier mind!
Is there a compilation video of all the comic dubs in this review? Because those were so incredibly well done.
Probably my favorite aspect MCU Moon Knight is the different costumes for different Alters, I feel that makes him a more interesting character and thats pretty much the only thing I wish gets adapted into the comics from the show. But the problem is that they made the Steven suit Mr. Knight, if they made him an original suit itbwould have worked so much better, Mr. Knight should have been used a symbol of how Marc is maturing as a hero or as a 4th Alter that woudl be used for more analytical purposes
35:06 Welp. This aged well after Marvel announced the end of Jed Mckay's run with a "Death of Moon Knight" event that will inevitably bring him back as the MCU version. Still a great book to follow along with though. Sad to see it leave.
Wasn't bushman in luke cage?
Really loving this channel
I need Randomguy to voice the whole lemire run
If they'd made Moonknight a hard boiled street level detective story where he occasionally fights some monsters and also chases down drug dealers and the like while dealing with his DID that would have been great. Add some darker violence and that would take people for a ride. It absolutely would have been something that's never been done in the MCU.
I know for a fact this comment will never be seen by almost anyone due to how late it is but I would just like to say as someone who loved this show when it came out and was introduced to marvel through the MCU that this video and other like it are really eye opening for me. As much as I enjoy the MCU for what it is hearing about the changes makes me wish for a more faithful adaptation of the comics, especially for a character as nuanced as Moon Knight. I don’t know much about him as before the pandemic my exposure to marvel was almost exclusive to the MCU with the occasional comic or video, I had a collection of comics but they were more there because my mother grew up with and loves marvel comic and got them for me rather than for me. But after I started watching more video essays and got into stuff like Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and even the comics that I do own I wish the MCU was more accurate or had something that could fill that void. Something akin to how the DCAU or DCAMU were in contrast to the DCEU. The parts where you had the comic panels up with the voice acting especially made me wish we got to see that out of the show than what we got, especially with Steven Grant and Mr. Knight (and this is coming from someone who you would have described as the perfect target audience at the time who loved Steven’s character to death.) Personally I still think the show had some cool stuff that could work in concept but it was simply too early to experiment with new stuff as it alienates audiences from how Moon Knight is in the comics. Which is a shame cause all of the stuff you have mentioned that we missed is stuff in the show that while they kinda existed they weren’t explored nearly enough or it wasn’t even something I noticed, for example I never knew Moon Knight was Jewish before this video. All this makes me wish that A. Someone who actually cared to adapt the source material was working on either the MCU or some other series (like a MAU like how the yostverse almost was) was in charge of doing a Moon Knight adaptation and B. That I owned some Moon Knight comics so I could read about this character (gonna have to be something I pick up and start collecting.) All this is to say that this is an amazing well researched video.