The MCU is about to get a whole lot darker. Literally and figuratively.

It has officially turned to MoonKnight week, with the first episode premiering tomorrow on Disney+. As the official first Disney+ show of 2022 and following 4 amazing live-action shows in 2021, I can’t lie when I say that I think a lot of us hold some high expectations for MoonKnight. And do I think it is 100% going to deliver? Oh heck yea. But before I get way too ahead of myself, I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to listen to the full podcast predictions episode that explains all of our thoughts about this show. You can click the Spotify link directly below or hit the button to find your preferred listening platform.

So who is MoonKnight? MoonKnight is, and this could be almost lack of better words, an alterego of a man who suffers from DID (which I will get into in a moment). He is a mercenary who was gifted his powers by an Egyptian god, which ties this very closely to Egyptian mythology (yay!). As a big fan of Egyptian mythology, I am super excited to see some of it played out throughout the show and I think it is very cool to bring more of these cultural ideas into the MCU, as we already have Norse mythology with Thor and Loki. Now, as I mentioned before, MoonKnight, or the man who has the MoonKnight blessing, suffers from DID, which stands for Dissociative Identity Disorder. This means he essentially has three different alters, although someone who suffers from DID on average has 15 and could have up to 100 different alters. Alters are three different people who can be aware of one another but usually when it first starts to show they may not be. Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Jake Lockley are the three ‘regular’ alters that MoonKnight has and Marc and Steven are both mentioned in the trailers. So for clarity moving forward, I’m going to refer to him as Marc, just to make it easier for everyone to follow, but he does have at least the two alters in the show that we have seen.

Something that is really interesting about MoonKnight is one of the groups he is a member is, which is the Midnight Sons. Now you may not have heard of this group before, but no worries, I got you and I will explain why this is coming up at the present moment. Members of the Midnight Sons include:

• Blade
• Doctor Strange
• Ghost Rider
• Iron Fist
• MoonKnight
• Morbius
• Werewolf by Night
• Wong
• + others

There are others to the team, but I wanted to list some key members that I think many of you would recognize. Looking at this list, many already exist in the MCU, are on their way, or have a show that just so happened to get moved over to Disney+ within the last month. They also, and I am so sorry for this, happen to band together at one point to fight the devil himself, Mephisto. This is all mainly important to say that we might see a team-up such as this one make an appearance further down the MCU road.

What’s certainly going to be interesting is that the villain in MoonKnight clearly uses magic of some sort, at one point summoning an ancient Egyptian being from the floor. It will be interesting to see what type of magic it really is, whether it is something new or a relic of things we have already seen in the MCU. The villain seems to want to unlease the full chaos that MoonKnight can bring, much of it likely being held back by the fact that Marc is suffering from DID. Since DID is caused usually by traumatic events, it might be good to note that Marc’s DID may have manifested from his mercenary alter-ego. Seeing what he likely has seen and the things he has done, it is very possible he created a safe place to go to escape the memories. If this is a sticking point in the series, it will be interesting to see how drastically Marc’s DID is portrayed in upcoming works.

Last but not least, in the podcast, Taylor and I go down a very, very big hole relating to the magic in this series. For the best explanation make sure to listen to the full episode, but I will try my best to bridge the gap. When chaos is mentioned in the trailer, we have to be aware that one of the few other times in Phase 4 it has been mentioned has been in relation to Wanda’s Chaos magic. Is there a possibility the magic and power MoonKnight has is related to the Chaos magic of the Scarlet Witch? We both are certainly believers that there is and that the next few phases are going to bring us some high-power and intense moments in relation to this type of magic.

As we are one day away from the first episode premiere of MoonKnight, make sure you set your plans for tomorrow and are ready to watch and enjoy what has been sounding like an absolutely amazing show. We will be following up a few days later with all of our reactions plus our theories leading off the first episode, so keep an eye out for that. I hope everyone is hyped because I have a good feeling that Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “MoonKnight”, Stephen Lambrechts, Techradar