Moon Knight Episode 3 — All The Clues And Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

Time Stamp: April 13, 2022 3:11 PM

Moon Knight’s third episode teases a new villain, a new personality, and a new dimension for the MCU.

The MCU has well moved past the need to directly reference the comics from which it mines its stories–direct nods and references to the books are becoming more and more rare in the Disney+ TV shows especially as they continue to forge a new and surprising path with vaguely familiar characters. This certainly isn’t a bad thing–Marvel Studios now has enough lore all on its own to make for plenty of meta-references and winks to fans. Still, even with that in mind, it is sometimes worthwhile to take a look back at the inspiration to hazard some guesses as to where things might be headed.

So, that’s exactly what we’re going to do with the third episode of Moon Knight, “The Friendly Type.” After all, we’re now officially at the halfway mark for this season and things are looking pretty bleak for our heroes to put it lightly.

Here are four key points in this week’s episode that you definitely don’t want to miss, including a possible third personality for Marc and a brand new villain.

Layla and Friends

This episode opens with some details about Layla’s past, confirming she’s something of a Robin Hood for stolen artifacts and black market trade, though in her own words she does “keep a little” for herself to help pay the bills. Who could blame her. None of this is explicitly from the comics, but it does help solidify the connection between Layla and the character she’s based on, Marlene, the daughter of an archeologist who later became Marc’s wife.

Jake?

Abrupt cuts and missing time are a pretty common theme for the show, but this episode featured a moment that should give you some pause–one where apparently neither Marc nor Steven were able to recount what happened. In the comics, Steven and Marc aren’t the only personalities occupying the body, there’s also Jake Lockley, who in the comics is more a man-of-the-people cabbie than a violent murderer. That doesn’t mean much for us here, though, considering the complete overhaul the show gave Steven Grant. Anything could happen.

Mogart

The late Gaspard Ulliel is introduced in this episode as all around shady guy, Anton Mogart, who in the comics becomes the villain Midnight Man. He’s called Midnight Man because he’s a thief who always strikes at the stroke of midnight (no, really) so we can assume that something will be done to update this character should he make another appearance in the show. Tragically, Ulliel passed away shortly before the premiere of Season 1, so if his story continues, it’s likely he will be recast.

The Overvoid

Unsurprisingly, Marc and Khonshu are not the only avatar/god duo on Earth. Plenty of other Egyptian deities have them as well, though they maintain a strict hands-off rule for interfering in the affairs of humans. We get to meet a handful of them in The Overvoid, an extra dimensional space–one of many in the MCU these days–that is a nod directly to some of the more modern Moon Knight comics which began to play with this idea. Afterall, Moon Knight’s origins weren’t always as cut-and-dry as being a very literal vessel for Khonshu–in the early, early days he was more a Batman type with a vaguely mystical costume. The more hardcore mythological elements of the story weren’t solidified until later, and have continued to evolve over time.

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