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This is What We Would Do If We Were Creating Moon Knight Season 2
Marvel’s Disney+ series Moon Knight not only brought one of the comics’ most complex characters to the screen, but it also introduced us to a new supernatural corner of the MCU, drawing on Egyptian mythology. Bolstered by fantastic performances from world-class actors like Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, and May Calamawy, Moon Knight deftly used a mystical, gritty superhero story to create a startlingly profound metaphor for trauma and healing via its protagonist with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Although Moon Knight concluded in May 2022 with the cliffhanger reveal of Marc Spector’s third alter, Jake Lockley, we haven’t seen much of the character since.
Isaac reprised his role in an episode of the animated, alternate universe series What If…? and recently teased that we may see the hero again “in [a] movie.” While it’s possible Isaac could’ve been alluding to a cameo in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday or alluding to a Midnight Sons team-up film, we still want another solo outing for Moon Knight. According to Isaac, a second season of Moon Knight is “not confirmed”, but here’s what we would love to see if it were confirmed.
We’d Have Marc and Steven Meet Jake Lockley
In the finale of Moon Knight, Marc Spector and Steven Grant’s master, Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon and the source of their power through his super-powered suit, releases them from his service. However, by the episode’s end, we learn that unbeknownst to Marc and Steven, they are still bound to Khonshu. The Spanish-speaking Jake Lockley, Marc’s second alter, captures villain Arthur Harrow from Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital, revealing himself with Khonshu in a limo outside.
Not only does this clarify why Khonshu was perhaps so willing to let Steven and Marc “go”, because he wasn’t really at all, since Jake was still in his service, and he seemed to be the most ruthless and violent of the three alters. In turn, this also explains the moments throughout the series where either Marc or Steven would regain possession of the body and see the result of violence neither of them could remember. Ostensibly, the bloodbaths occurred when Jake took control of their body and blocked them out.
The fact that Marc and Steven have another alter that Khonshu is aware of and they’re not makes for an incredibly rich, dramatic dilemma for a second season of Moon Knight. It would give the two alters another chance to work hand in hand, as we saw in the season finale, to discover Jake, and the meeting of the three alters would present an acting challenge only an artist like Isaac could pull off. There’s also plenty of rich tension and confrontation to be mined from the fallout with Khonshu for keeping this incredibly important piece of information from them and deceiving them. Season 2 of Moon Knight could set up a fascinating dynamic of Marc and Steven versus Jake and Khonshu, especially since there are only two bodies between the parties.
We’d Bring in More Scarlet Scarab
The introduction of Layla El-Faouly in Moon Knight was one of the first season’s high points. She was a strong, supportive character who began the series as Marc’s ex-wife and ended it as a hero in her own right by becoming the Scarlet Scarab, the avatar of Egyptian goddess Tawaret. Layla acting as Marvel’s first female Arab superhero is reason alone for more of her in a second Moon Knight season, yet the series left her relationship with Marc and Steven in a precarious place we would want to explore more. She and Marc seemed to be on a path to reconciliation; however, Steven also fell for Layla. Their love triangle is a tricky one to navigate, especially if Layla continues to be the Scarlet Scarab and serve Tawaret. We’d love to see more of Layla and Moon Knight fighting together, and could she perhaps be the one who reveals Jake’s existence to his other alters?
Furthermore, we learned in a flashback in Season One that Marc played a part in the death of Layla’s father, Abdallah El-Faouly, when he was a mercenary and his partner went rogue. Yet it seems Layla doesn’t know this detail of her ex-husband’s checkered past. The reveal of Marc’s involvement in the murder of her father would make for heart-wrenching drama in a Moon Knight Season 2, leaving Layla with an incredibly difficult choice to make between forgiveness and vengeance.
We’d Make Raoul Bushman the Season’s Villain
Earlier this year, Moon Knight creator Jeremy Slater revealed that Marc’s estranged partner from his mercenary days, Raul Bushman, was originally set to be the series’ villain before Arthur Harrow. Slater and the Marvel team had their reasons at the time for changing antagonists, mainly that Bushman would’ve come too soon after Kilmonger in the greater MCU timeline. But now that it’s been close to a decade since Kilmonger’s main live-action bow in Black Panther, we say it’s time to bring Bushman into the series.
Moon Knight is a show all about confronting the hard parts of one’s past to make themselves whole in the present. The first season of the show brilliantly and tenderly explored this theme in regards to Marc’s childhood and the abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother after she blamed him for the death of his brother, Randall.
Including Bushman in a Moon Knight Season 2 would allow for Marc, Steven, and Jake to explore that same theme but through a different lens of friendship and comrades rather than family. Given that Raul is generally regarded to be Moon Knight‘s arch nemesis, he’d make for a fascinating foil to Marc, since Bushman is more aggressive and even more morally grey than the Marvel hero.
Do you agree with our ideas for a Moon Knight Season 2? Let us know in the comments!
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