Warning: Contains spoilers for Moon Knight episode 1.

In Moon Knight episode 1, the Disney+ series gets off to a strange start, but it’s talk of gods is already subtly hinting at a huge twist to Steven’s alters compared to the original Marvel comics. Moon Knight has already made some changes to the character of Moon Knight and how he is presented. In the comics, Marc Spector serves as the primary, while Steven, a millionaire, is an alter – however, Moon Knight is presenting Steven as the primary from the audience’s perspective, and he’s a far cry from a millionaire.

In Moon Knight episode 1, “The Goldfish Problem,” during Steven Grant’s (Oscar Isaac) work at the museum gift shop, he tries to inform his manager that the posters for the Egyptian Gods exhibit are wrong, portraying only seven gods where there should be nine. His manager quips that they were probably fired and dismisses his protests. Later on, Steven is reading a book on Egyptian Gods to try and stay awake and a page about The Ennead, a fictionalized version of which is represented in Marvel comics and now the MCU, is shown and mentions that all nine gods of the Ennead came from one original god who was not depicted.

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The imagery of the nine gods that make up the Egyptian Ennead creates a clear parallel to the main character of Moon Knight, who lives with DID and contains multiple individuals. However, this depiction of the Ennead suggests that the Moon Knight TV show might be working to make this central character significantly more complex. In the comics, Marc Spector serves as primary for the character with four other alters: Steven Grant (a millionaire), Jake Lockley (a cab driver), Moon Knight (the vigilante), and Mr. Knight (the character’s liaison to civilians in need). So far, the Disney+ Moon Knight has only named Steven and Marc, and rather than serving as a separate alter the vigilante costume and powers seem to be an ability. This means, that even adding Jake and Mr. Knight, Moon Knight only gives the viewers four possible alters, but the repeated portrayal of the nine gods of the Ennead suggests that the central Moon Knight character could have as many as nine alters in total.

One of the big implications that would be made if Moon Knight does show Marc to be just one of nine alters comes from Steven’s manager’s dismissal of the number of portrayed gods in the Ennead. Both Steven’s highlighting of missing gods and his manager’s suggestion that they might have been fired, suggest, on a meta-level, that not all of the Moon Knight alters are still around. It is not uncommon for people living with DID to find that some alters fade over time as they become less necessary while others new alters might develop in response to different stimuli. While Steven seems unaware of his DID on a surface level, both Khonshu and Marc are clearly cognizant of it and might know that there are some alters who are missing at this point.

While Moon Knight’s portrayal of the Ennead is setting up the gods and their powers for later, the way that it is lingered on at key moments for Steven suggests one other large plot twist for Moon Knight’s MCU alters. The text on the page about the Ennead suggests that the original central figure was never seen. While the central figure for someone with DID is known as the primary and is the alter that is present most often, the notion of a central figure for Moon Knight’s character that is never seen makes this complicated but pushes further towards the idea that in Disney+’s adaptation of Moon Knight for the MCU, the central character will be given a much more fleshed out and complex portrayal of DID and his alters than appeared in the original Moon Knight comics.

Moon Knight releases new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.

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