Moon Knight Episode 4 Review: The Things Get Freaky Crazy

moon knight Episode 4 full Indiana Jones On us, to deliver the biggest episode yet in the Marvel series of events. However, instead of just undertaking a classic tomb-breaking adventure in Egypt, moon knight It should take things a step further in the direction of total head scratching “WTF!” And the final chapter of Episode 4 definitely does that! With only two episodes left, moon knight He certainly set some ambitious risks to be resolved, both for the character and his world.

Here’s all that happened moon knight Episode 4 “The Grave” (Spoilers)! PLUS: Scroll below for the biggest questions from Moon Knight Episode 4 to explain!

All these imprisoned gods…

moon knight Episode 4 begins with a pickup from the end of Episode 3, where the moon god Khuncho is imprisoned in a statue (or ushabti) ​​to help Mark Spector and Laila plot a path to Amit’s grave. We see an Egyptian avatar take a statue of Khuncho into a room inside the Great Pyramid and place it on a shelf alongside dozens of other statues that are also supposed to serve as prisons for the other Marvel deities.

trailer for Thor: love and thunder Also premiering this week is the movie that will see the life of the gods threatened by a being called Gorr The God-Butcher (Christian Bale). can moon knightPreparing for a master jailbreak that has any connection with Thor 4?

It’s a killer in the desert

The other installment of Moon Knight Episode 3 cliffhanger left Mark Spector/Stephen Grant/Moon Knight helpless and helpless in the middle of the Egyptian desert. Well, this bad situation is only made worse because Layla (Mae Kalamawi) is stuck trying to protect Mark (not to mention her life) from a truck full of bad guys with some big guns. Lily proves cunning, killing the bad guys with their own munitions, while Stephen is finally back on his feet.

Stephen and Laila follow Khoncho’s direction and climb him across the desert toward the site of Amit’s grave.

Desert Heat

As Stephen/Mark and Lily play catch-up with the cult Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) to reach Amit’s grave, the love triangle between Mark, Stephen and Lily gets a little hotter. Finally, Stephen and Lily kissed (embarrassingly!) just as they were about to enter the grave; In the lead up to that fraught moment, Stephen confesses to Lily that Mark pushed her too far to stop Concho from drafting her as the next avatar.

Of course, Mark and Stephen have some serious personal tensions about Stephen and Layla’s bonding – although Mark was somewhat thankful that Stephen told her the truth about Khoncho’s desire to recruit her. Having said that, Mark gets Stephen to punch a good lollipop in the face to kiss his wife.

Amit’s great voice

Inside the tomb of Amit proves to be a complex labyrinth, the structure of which is like the symbol of the Eye of Horus. Stephen’s knowledge of the six paths of Horus helps him and Laila find their way through the tomb and discover the tomb of the last incarnation of Amit: Alexander the Great!

Being in Amit’s tomb also brings the case of Laila’s deceased archaeological father to the fore, forcing some long-awaited resolution on that front as well (more on that below…).

Marvel goes full horror

Exploring Amit’s Tomb also brings us what are arguably the most Marvel horror scenes in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe saga.

Mark and Lily’s rush to arrest Harrow misses many warning signs that the cult of Harrow’s followers was facing a horrific fate. Well, Stephen and Layla really can’t ignore things anymore when they stumble upon a room where a witch priest from Amit is carving organs from one of Harrow’s unlucky followers, in preparation for Amit’s resurrection.

Lily ends up getting the worst of it all, as a zombie priest nearly gets her caught. Lily has always pushed the monster into the abyss. Meanwhile, Marvel fans everywhere stayed up watching moon knight Episode 4 When you first fall you lose all hope of sleeping after this sequence.

If that’s what Marvel Studios would like to fear in horror, then bring on Blade, Ghost Rider, and the entire Midnight Sons franchise!

The truth about Mark and Laila’s father

Lily doesn’t get a second to breathe after taking out the zombies before Arthur Harrow returns to her face and tries to get into her head about Mark’s connection to her father’s death. And this time, Harrow’s manipulation works (even if Layla doesn’t give him the satisfaction of showing it).

As Stephen reaches the climax of discovering Amit’s ushabti inside the “esophagus” of Alexander the Great, he quickly descends to the bottom where he is encountered by an angry Layla. Laila asks Mark to take charge and force him to finally admit the truth: his “partner” in a mercenary group’s “greedy” murdered her father along with everyone else at an archaeological excavation site. Laila blames Mark for bringing the “murderer” through her father’s path, and for making their entire relationship an indulgence in a twisted journey of guilt.

The question here: Is Mark running completely honest?

While Mark may not have killed Laila’s father, there is still a mysterious (and ruthless) third figure lurking within Mark/Stephen. If this is the “partner” Mark is referring to, then his tragic romance with Layla is more doomed to failure than we thought…

dead (or something like that)

the end of moon knight Episode 4 will break the minds of Marvel fans everywhere!

When Harrow comes to pick up Marc and Layla’s Ammit mecha, Marc tries to make his way out, only for Harrow to draw a pistol and shoot him twice – apparently fatal. But instead of dying, Mark wakes up in a completely different reality: one in terms of each character and plot moon knight They are apparently delusions of Mark Spector’s mind, taken from the mental institution where he is ill. In the reality of this mental hospital, Harrow is Mark’s doctor, Layla is a fellow patient with whom he has a relationship, and “Moon Knight” is just a homemade action figure that Mark holds. Dr. Stephen Grant is a TV show hero (with his own fake show, WandaVision style). The drugs make Mark feel dizzy and barely function, and despite the best advice from “Doctor Harrow,” Mark refuses to accept this new, unbridled reality he’s trapped in.

moon knight Episode 4 ends with Mark discovering that “truth” isn’t the case at all, when he finds Stephen Grant trapped in a coffin in one of the asylum rooms and releases his other self. The two snuck out of the asylum wing (don’t bother investigating this sinister coffin bearing their third character!) only to find the doors guarded by a human hippo in Egyptian costume. Both Mark and Stephen (and us the audience) fear F.

What is the reality of the asylum in Moon Knight Episode 4?

The big questions covered in this episode – and there will be many theories. However, a long time ago moon knight Comic fans may realize that this is the MCU version of a notorious core element of the character: a psychological world where the various Moon Knight characters coexist and interact with each other, as well as Khonshu and other mysterious entities and deities.

Is Mark Spector dead?

Mark/Stephen is likely hanging somewhere between life and death after being shot by Harrow. But Mark was here before: on the night Khuncho found him dying and revived him as an avatar of the Moon Knight. As shown, moon knight Comics over different years have found fun ways to play with Mark’s personality disorder and the way his mind organizes (or gets lost in) his characters. “Doctor Harrow,” he says the quiet part out loud when he says he’s a “psychologist”; If Mark were to insert his broken psyche into some sort of working order, he would likely unlock the mysterious power needed for him to survive – and defeat Harrow.

Who is the third character of Moon Knight?

Most likely is Jake Lockley, the other character Mark Spector/Moon Knight often uses in the comics. In the MCU reimagining, “Jake” appears to be a more violent and unscrupulous character than “Marc Spector” – Stephen’s “darkness” to “light”, with Mark being in the middle of those scales. Jake could end up being a pivotal switch for this character on the show. Finally connecting Mark, Stephen and Jake and finding a balance to coexist might be the decision to end Mark’s inner “chaos” and finally establish “Moon Knight” to be a major hero in the MCU.

What is the Egyptian hippopotamus goddess at the end of Moon Knight Episode 4?

We’ll have to wait and see the full explanation – but there is an Egyptian god who is a hippopotamus: Ahti, who is he described as “Malignant Hippopotamus Goddess.” In Egyptian culture, hippos were generally representative of strength and turmoil – which is very much an example of the Moon Knight. Ahti was considered a strange and ominous goddess due to her animal relationships (hippopotamus body, wasp head) – so once again, you’d be a perfect representative of this evolution in Moon Knight!

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