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The “Are you an Egyptian superhero?” scene would probably be more heartwarming if it didn’t feel like Disney giving themselves a massive pat on the back

If they’re too scared to take risks for an obscure character don’t expect big things for the well known heroes

I think one of the things that frustrate me recently with the MCU is how inconsistent it is with its "age-check". Moon Knight's afraid of getting too violent, but Doctor Strange MoM gets to have bisection, heads blown up, body horror contortions and disturbing imagery just fine in a PG-13 setting. Meanwhile, Deadpool 3 is confirmed to keep the R-rating, mostly because Ryan Reynolds and his team fought so hard for it, so there's literally no reason for Moon Knight to tiptoe so much on the violence department.

I mean to be fair, Batman eating absolute shit in The Batman is genuinely fucking hilarious because it hits the Jackass part of my brain and convinces me that he has broken ribs throughout the whole rest of the film. It makes me respect him more in hindsight for pushing through it.

I’m so glad you dived into Marks Jewish religion and how it plays such a pivotal role in his character. Making it such a small footnote was not only cowardly but hypocritical from Disney who claims to head diversity and representation in media. But calling Disney hypocritical is like calling water wet

I'm seriously starting to hate the troupe of "I've killed literally hundreds of people to get to you but I'm not going to kill you even though you're a genocidal maniac because that would make me no better than you" in media. Also this show did not do enough to make me hate Khonshu lol, it actually made me feel bad for him what with how much they shit talk him. As for your Spawn comparison, my mind actually went to Tom Hardy's version of Venom first with how they portray Steven as being a guy who wants to avoid fighting but is being controlled by someone who absolutely wants to do the opposite, Khonshu just struck me as a nicer and more reasonable version of the symbiote.

Your criticism of superheroes becoming the "bumbling funny man" is spot on. Too many superheroes feel like they are just the same guy just with different quirks attached. Spider-Man is bumbling funny man, but street level. Star-Lord is bumbling funny man, but space. Now Moon Knight is also bumbling funny man, but with DID. In the comics, it actually feels like these guys are radically different people, which makes it all the more fun when they clash or team-up. In comparison, the MCU versions of these characters might as well be brothers.

Ironically, the opposite happened to my favorite character. Hawkeye was changed from a fun, goofy-but-capable essential part of the Avengers to a boring, over-lookable hanger-on who had all his best comic traits stolen by other characters in the MCU.

He was definitely afraid that Moon Knight would be "MCU-ified" and I knew it'd happen, especially when Steven with a V wasn't correctly portrayed...ouch

Always love seeing a 30+ minute GodzillaMendoza video pop up in my feed. Was more curious about your take on the show than the show itself lol

People who defend this adaptation often say “X wouldn’t fit into the MCU, it would be too weird/it would conflict with y” My answer is usually that the MCU is obsolete if it forces mediocrity in their individual projects

imagine how badass an adult swim Moon knight animated series that was a 1 to 1 adaptation of the comics would be

The show feels like those fake comic panels edits of Moon Knight saying stupid things that he never said

The small snippets of Moon Knight from the comics seem way cooler than what we got from the show.

My issue was that their wasn't enough Moon Knight in the show doing actual Moon Knight things but rather focus on ancient gods and stuff like that and I felt that's what really dragged it down from being fantastic

I actually thought the fifth episode was a little better than the rest of the episodes for its willingness to touch on the more "trippy" aspects of the character and his grip on reality-the influence of MK V8 was pretty evident and it was a little more risky than the other episodes.

ItsJustSomeRandomGuy as Moon Knight in that little motion comic section was such a nice treat.

I genuinely did like the show, but everything you said here stands true, and would've only served to improve it. Steven is cool as he is, but the decision to make him a complete goof and then magically competent at the end along with tying him to Mr. Knight was weird, the boiling down of Jake to just being the Evil Alter and being an essential plot point that ends up just being bait for future projects instead of fleshed out in this show is just a really annoying choice when looking at the series in a vacuum (as the creators themselves intended), the misuse or just lack of use of key characters felt weird, the absolute underplaying and undertilization of Marc's Jewish Heritage and belief (and especially his father seemingly not being a Rabbi in this version, considering the changes with his mother) was one of the biggest missed opportunities to tell a really profound story that I've seen in a Marvel project. Plus, Kevin didn't do the show any favours by just straight up lying about how violent the show would be; like it's just clear as day that this show is not as gruesome as he made it out to be. I really did like a lot about the show, and I'd even say it was good. But, it could've been *great* and all they would've had to do was make the show that Kevin initially described this to be, one that didn't pull back, and wasn't afraid to portray some very ambiguous and disturbing subject matter to its audience without watering any of it down for them. But really, I just hope the comics keep doing their own thing, because this current run is peak moon knight, and I would hate for it or any of the runs that follow it to have to become as safe or constrained as the show.

"It'll happen to your favorite hero too" Man I can't wait for Wolverine (either Logan or Laura) to pop up in the MCU and be nothing like the comic counter part, turning his aggressive sarcasm into safe Twitter Sass, and for whatever reason after popping his claws for a fight, he'll retract them before every punch because he doesn't want to actually hurt his enemies because of his backstory he can't remember, because you just KNOW when they bring someone like Logan in they'll bring back his amnesia and in turn, the comics will be like "Ah ha the life you thought you knew? That was a FAKE backstory, those memories weren't yours, idiot!"

I just wish we got to see Jake Lockley's Moon knight suit during the final fight and have all the black outs payoff instead we got another black out and the fight was over.

“Funny little penis man tripping on his balls” Is the funniest fucking shit 😂😂😂🤣🤣 I’ve been cackling for 10 minutes.

"There's definitely not enough Egyptian superheroes." - Rather there's not enough non-American superheroes. And don't even get me started about Marvel's treatment of Polish characters...

The way people were talking about this show made me feel like I was going insane, im glad someone else felt the way I did about this show. By the way, your first Moon Knight video got me into the character and now he's my favorite marvel character! So thanks for that

The way I described this show and phase 4 of Marvel is from a quote from Green Goblin “Strong enough to have it all. To weak to TAKE IT!!”

When Khonshu left MK at the end, I was really hoping (though I knew we wouldn’t be so lucky) that it was setting up Marc to eventually pick up the suit again without Khonshu’s help, that way they could always bring Khonshu back and play with the idea of whether it’s all just in Marc’s head, PTSD from all the things Khonshu made him do when he was his avatar, or whether he was really back.

Honestly I'm kinda already going through this with She-Hulk, she's one of my favorite female superheroes and I could've honestly overlooked not as great CGI if the character's personality, themes, and writing stayed intact. Instead it seems like she's going to have to come into her own as an Avenger and that's just gonna be what her arc is, meanwhile a defining trait of her comics is that her Hulk form isn't something she's ashamed of or hides but is proud of, actually boosts her confidence, and is the state she's always in. Maybe they'll do her justice, but it is what it is and I'll try to just hold out hope for the series.

Title should have been "Xavier goes through the acceptance stage of grief".

I’m so tired of people saying “watch the new disney thing, it’s much better/different than the other stuff!”...because it never is. Cannot wait for the bubble to burst and we all turn our attention towards projects with a bit more passion, soul and actual effort put in.

It's becoming apparent to me that the MCU is actually one of the worst things to happen to Marvel (creatively, obviously not financially.) So much of what made these characters and stories interesting was sacrificed to make them more accessible to wider audiences to the point where many of them aren't even characters anymore, just quippy meme generators portrayed be conventionally attractive actors with generic cgi effects and bland and grim color palettes.

My biggest problem with Moon Knight, the show, is that I relate to Moon Knight on a level beyond most. I have DID myself, the whole "different minds in one brain" shebang. On top of that, I also have Bipolar Disorder and deal with a lot of personal trauma- so reading about Marc, Jake, and Steven left me genuinely like for once, I was understood in some level. It helped me to process and understand a lot of myself, and MK comics help me connect more with my father. On top of all this, I even relate heavily to that aspect of trauma shocking and distorting our feelings of faith. So when I watch the show and feel this impossibly sanitized version of the character, I just felt... Empty. Or angry. I read bad runs of the comic that left me annoyed, but I still could TASTE the passion. This show just felt utterly bankrupt on passion for the faith, for the mental side, for really caring about the character. It honestly hurts.

As someone who has been a long time fan of the comics I enjoyed the Moon Knight series for what it was but was disappointed in what it could've been. We got a good Moon Knight series when we could've had a great one 🌌🌙🌌

The final fight being cut still upsets me so much. They want us to believe that Moonknight just did A LOT of cool stuff without showing it and it left me wanting to see just how did things end up the way they did- Bro some stuff was on FIRE in the scene, and they refused to show it, this is evil, I hate megacorporations

whoever did the voice acting for those panels you've shown was phenomenal

Thank god someone made this. I am so tried of hearing the endless praise and whenever bringing up any criticism being shut down.

I remember the first trailer for Moon Knight had much more of a horror vibe that I was super on board with. It was like Steven was being haunted by Konchu. Then the show came out and there was a little bit of that in the first episode but it was mostly comedic and I couldn't help but be let down.

I feel like moonknight could’ve been a cool anthology series

I absolutely loved the show, but I know precisely jack all about the original character, now I feel bad for loving it so much because of how much it dicked over the actual fans of the character

Almost my exact thoughts on the show, just the definition of "mid" on such a unique character. I like that halfway through you had almost the exact same thoughts as Browntable did about the lack of payoff in these shows

One thing I loved about Doctor Strange 2 is how it addresses the issue of MCU heroes being generally incompetent bafoons, in DS2 Strange never depowered, in fact he's maybe at the most powerful and creative that we've seen him, it's just that the villain so far outclasses his very impressive skills that he can't just solve every issue. I honestly hope that's how they keep using Strange since I think it's a really fun way to utilize a character like that

This is essentially how I felt when Bendis took over the Guardians and making them more like their movie counterparts. Its why I honestly didn't get back into Guardians comics till after 2018. So I feel you even though people love the movie versions of those characters.

As someone who liked this show, and watched it with their family I can definitely say there is a degree of...Simplification to the character, but also not unexpected of the MCU. I think people saying its fresh and original are correct in the way that the show doesn't really feel like typical Marvel or Disney plots, even if its a lil toothless. As an example I was in Disney Land back when the final episode was airing and rewatched all the previous episodes with my parents in the hotel. And our talks about mental health and multiple personality disorders was interesting, perhaps even more so than the way the show had illustrated them. Which maybe that's what people are taking away from the show is more concepts than strictly whats being put to screen? I know I liked it and I'm a huge moon knight fan of the comics. Not to say I want this to be the end all be all for the character, because that's not true. I think the comparisons to Fist of Konshu at least make it clear to me that the MCU did the basic idea of mystisim super hero a lil better than those early runs. The unfortunate reality is I never expected Moon Knight to be like himself really, it just seemed like too complicated of a character to bring to screen without alienating people from the character and was MCUified. But I also don't think those concessions were a bad thing in this instance either. Comics, and by extension books as a whole just have a lot more room to say and do weird or unique concepts that most other media wont tackle. Having an easy to understand approximation of the character for people who want to get into the comics is kind of refreshing. My mom, who has never read comics just picked up Moon Knight From the Dead to read at work because shes interested to learn more about the character. Granted I will also admit however that based on prior MCU track records Moon Knight might become a lil more toned down in modern comics as a result of this show. We can hope otherwise but, that's probably the truth. But I still personally think this is probably one of the better MCU TV shows, and projects as of late. Im sorta sick of super hero tv shows and movies as a whole outside of stuff coming from other countries, but I thoroughly enjoyed what this show had to offer just on the pure basis that it wasn't like other projects. For as watered down as Moon Knight was, I think the show still has merit in introducing people to the character and getting new fans into his books.

31:39 Spiderman was indeed backpedaled to be a street level superhero again, at least that's what the No Way Home ending implied. I hope they keep it that way, this version of Spiderman has so much potential facing lower scale threats. e

The ending is really just the writer going "Then he did a backflip, snapped the bad guy's neck and saved the day!" from the Pitch Meeting series.

The writer/show runner straight up said he didn’t like Marc Spectre(you know, the main character) and he pitched it as “ghostbusters meets Indiana jones” which is the biggest slap in the face to moon knight fans ever

I wanna believe they were just testing the waters as a starter for such a deep character, fingers crossed the 2nd season gets closer to Moon knight and his comics

Fun Fact: the person who plays Moon Knight in all the motion comics played Superman in both Goku vs Superman Death Battles. Really cool tidbit I thought was worth sharing.

I honestly did not know about moon knight before this show, but hearing you talk about it makes me really intrested in the comics because it actually sounds pretty cool. Also I just like street level superheroes more

The fact that they had Mr. Knight acting all silly and goofy is sickening

I remember statements of an Inhumans movie being canned since the studio didn’t want to make a half-hearted adaptation. I guess this is what they meant and I don’t blame them

The show left me very unsatisfied and wanting for more. If anyone has any recommendations for Moon Knight runs let me know. I’m trying to get to know the real Moon Knight.

Lmao I love how dead wrong he was about Kamala's bracelet.

As much as the Moon Knight show missed the mark, after it ended I got the Legacy run, the Lemire run, and the first volume of the recent MacKay run. So it did something good, and I enjoyed the show either way

Those animated comic sections were amazing and represent exactly why I love Moon Knight.

Jeremy Slater himself said Jake being Evil alter would be least interesting and exciting part of the character and i think they would do like a loyal servant to Khonshu rather than a straight out psychopath. They could make him a charming guy he was in comics but it's hard to build his relationships with Crawley in next instalments

I remember being so hyped when he woke up in the mental home because I thought that all we had just previously was just a delusion and that mark was gonna break out of the mental home with Crawley and make his own Moonknight costume and become a vigilante and discover his other alter Jake and win the lottery or something idk but was disappointed when that giant hippo showed up and said they were dead

I enjoyed the moon knight series quite a bit, but I’m pretty curious to see what Xavier thinks about it .

Disney buying marvel was a curse

38:12 “pretty soon it’ll happen to your favorite character… and you’ll have to get over it too.” As a Ms. Marvel fan… I am HORRIFIED rn 😭

God honestly imagine if we had a show from the old daredevil show runners and writers with moon knight in a grounded story where we see a man make so many identities on his war of vengeance with bushman as the villain with him then starting to fall into madness with his mission and has his aliases become split personalities and break him. You could tell such a crazy story

There’s a good chance I’m wrong but I get a feeling Kevin Feige isn’t a fan of the comics these characters are from I also personally think writers should try to make the comics like the mcu, it really gentrifies the universe and characters and strips out the fantastical elements that makes me love superhero comics

Immediately can say I agree with you. Moonknight show wasnt bad but it really wasn't great like it could've been

Not only is this one of your greatest videos, but this is such an incredible summation of how I feel about marvel today. We are not the target demographic anymore. These compilations for silly people that go on for seven minutes plus are exactly what send me straight back to the comics to admire the version of moon night we have. He was such an obscure character, that literally nothing needed to be changed as far as bringing him into the MCU. those bad ass clips of him talking about being moon night and shit do more than the show ever could accomplish. as much as I respect your opinion and used to like the show, this definitely made me like the show less because my guy you are right

I do love how you end up introducing me to comics because you keep advocating for them to be brought up in the public eye than die out. Especially with Venom’s redemption arc. You make me wanna read some comics!

I honestly feel like Moon Knight shouldve been a grounded street superhero like Daredevil. Maybe Disney+ producers just couldnt afford a competent writing like Daredevil.

i was speechless about this show. not that it wasn’t bad but the fact that Kevin Feige can’t take a fucking risk just pisses me off. Edit: What I mean is I was expecting this show to be the new Daredevil and there isn’t any excuses for it not to be and the fact that Steven Grant wasn’t the rich persona that would’ve been interesting just shatters me caring about that persona and it was really rushed too and they also kept cutting fights out which was fine but that last minute fight with Harrow and the goons and they cut it of course, that just was not my cup of tea. They should’ve shown Jake that moment at that time and they didn’t and at that point I just gave up on caring about it.

Coming from someone who had family members that were victims of the Holocaust, I can't even begin to describe how pissed off it makes me that Disney practically ignored the Jewish elements of mark's character.

This show is the equivalent to making the Punisher a demon hunter, only difference is that casual fans liked this change here. Oskar Isaacs really dies the heavy lifting for this tho. Also at 5:54 the fact that these weapons were canonically made by the time traveling Avengers is so funny to me.

I feel like they took what made his character so special and interesting, and just removed it for the sake of making it "normal." Even the difference between something like the suit magically forming and him putting on the suit himself changes the character. DID is treated like a fun gimmick and not what it actually is aside from two scenes in episode 5. And they couldn't be bothered to represent the character being Jewish that much? Ultimately a very disappointing show that I knew would not work in the MCU given the standards. At least we have the comics for now, I'm gonna go read Declan Shalvey's run again for the millionth time.

Moon knight was supposed to be Disneys daredevil. It failed if you ask me.

Rest In Peace comic Moon Knight. You will be missed.

Join the Iron Fist fans. We’ve been suffering for a hot minute.

I’m glad that March gave us a artistic and loving adaptation based on a gritty, street-crime focused comic superhero where the main character has some personal mental baggage and is able to use their chest logo as a tool/weapon… and it was called The Batman lol. Also your story of you and your dad’s roommate talking about what you thought about the newest moon knight episode was LITERALLY ME with my coworker every week.

To me it felt like Marc was neutered into John MoonKnight and Jake lockley was turned into Marc Spector

I think I liked the show so much was because I really don't know the character. I appreciate what was given to me because I don't know what wasn't. The show definitely could have been more thoughtful about the conflict, but I think it was good regardless.

this is why shows like The Boys and Invincible are important AF...we need something to push against the MCU and balance things

Disney is so scared of gays, they rather give him the power to fly over having Frenchie piloting a helicopter

Dayum those motion comics are so frickin good, especially that section from the Jed mckay book. A really good run so far

Man I would have LOVED if they did a Moon Night show back when they were doing the Netflix shows

“…systematically kicked in the balls” is the biggest takeaway for me…

I really wish that moon knight was part of the golden era of Netflix with daredevil and punisher

Very good video. As someone whose best friend(s) has a form of DID/plurality, it made me happy that you used the proper terms.

the comic dubs in the video are really making me want to read a moon knight book, thanks

You handled this far more maturely than one would expect so I thank you for that. I know I would also be really pissed if they messed up my favs so good for you on looking on the bright side.

I feel like Moon Knight is open enough where Jake and Steven can be explained/fixed. I think Marc is really accurate (we just need more of him and his past). I'm hoping S2/movie fixes him and makes him more street level now that the big danger has been killed

Big props to RandomGuy for appearing in this. I smiled broadly when I heard his voice!

Oh wow my favourite Spider-Man channel posted today

Oh my God thank you for addressing the street level problem! Every super hero movie for the past decade or so has been "OH my god the end of the world!" "ALIENS!!" "This time it's the END OF THE UNIVERSE!" The best spidey comics in my opinion are the low key street level ones. That's why I still like the lizard and why I think ASM messed up his character, and that's also why I liked the new Batman movie. Batman wasn't doing it "to save the world", it started with one street level crime and slowly became a city wide threat, but I'm glad it didn't expand past a city wide threat.

I wanna say I really enjoy the voiced comic segments. I think it adds so much to the feel of the video and takes it to a higher level than a regular review. I don’t know what else to say but wow

Was this video edited before No Way Home? The ultimate backpedal lol

Love that you got Itsjustsomerandomguy for the Moon Knight dubs. I could watch a series of him doing that.

i wouldn't blame the show to much, because the pacing issues and limitations were due to the fact that show was 6 EPISODES. marvel needs to increase the amount of episodes for their limited series so they can have more time to build story.

I do have to give them credit though for how well they handled DID systems. It was actually quite accurate, rushed but accurate.

I think I can see where you're coming from, I can't agree with most of your points here in general but I understand why you feel this way.

Actually the turning back time bit and blocking the sun was more of Khonshu's doing, not Moon Knight's, granted he was helping with the time rewind moment but I thought that was more of a boost to get it done faster.

Your dad’s roommate look cool af ngl he looks like he could win 14 world titles ngl

You and your team did a wonderful job on this video, always a pleasure to watch another one of your videos ❤️ I finally have the income to become one of your patrons! Keep up the great work as always! :)

about the sponsor: established titles is a literal scam

*reads title*: so… a marvel movie?

Really loving this channel