Moon Knight which premiered today on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar is a markedly different take on the mentally-troubled character than what comic fans are familiar with. For one, Moon Knight’s anti-hero traits are focused upon more on the Marvel series. Moon Knight is not quite Batman but with dissociative identity disorder, as the character has often been described. It’s more what if the Punisher meets Wolverine meets DID. In the comics, Moon Knight’s Batman comparisons stemmed from the fact that they both had no supernatural abilities — like Bruce Wayne, Marc Spector relied on gadgets, combat skills, and physical training. But on the new Marvel series, Moon Knight draws super-strength and super-healing from his link to the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.
Moon Knight is a snooze fest. Most of it is about MacGuffins — first an artefact, then a sarcophagus, and later, a god’s tomb — and as the hero and villain chase, find, and procure them, the new Marvel series becomes too plot driven.
