Who is Moon Knight’s secret third personality? Marvel’s show teases mystery

The fourth episode of the series is available. Moon Knight has really hit its stride as a series, but the show hasn’t run out of secrets to reveal or twists to tease. “The Tomb” had new characters, new locations, and a whole new way of looking at Marc Spector and Steven Grant’s messy relationship. It also revealed another thing: viewers were given the hint of a third character lurking in the shadows.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Moon Knight through episode 4, “The Tomb.”]

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“The Tomb” concludes with Marc trapped in what appears to be his own mental space, in the form of a sterile, white mental hospital ripped straight from Marvel’s own Moon Knight comics. Marc and Steven find Steven in a stone skull sarcophagus. Just before they run into Taweret (hippoheaded Egyptian goddess), they walk by another room that has a sarcophagus.

This one’s a lot creepier, standing upright and shaking from side to side as if someone was trapped in it, and they understandably pass it by unmolested. It’s the series’ most obvious hint so far that there is a third personality sharing Marc and Steven’s body, but it’s not the first.

This was the result. Moon Knight’s second episode, “The Friendly Type,” when Steven experiences a blackout while battling some minions of Arthur Harrow’s and wakes up to find they have all been violently subdued — and Marc has no memory of killing the men either. As in “The Tomb,” Moon Knight Without dwelling upon it, one moves quickly on.

But for the savvy viewer, this could call into question every other one of Steven’s blackouts that Marc has not directly corroborated. Was it really Marc, who recently left his wife because he fears for her safety, who asked Steven’s cute coworker out on a date? If not, then who?

Who are Moon Knight’s other personalities?

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In the course of Marvel Comics history, Marc Spector’s head has belonged to many people (including, in 2011’s Moon KnightSeries from Alex Maleev and Brian Michael Bendis, characters based on Spider-Man and Captain America. But in the character’s first comics, he had only three aspects: Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Jake Lockley.

The three personalities allowed the hero to have a life in every strata of superhero society: Moon Knight/Marc Spector as the trained mercenary-turned-vigilante/avatar, Steven Grant as the billionaire who funded all that, and salt-of-the-earth cab driver Jake Lockley, to keep tabs on the criminal underworld.

Are you Jake Lockley from Moon Knight?

It’s hard to say. We are at the moment. It is reallyFind out about the hidden third persona Moon Knight on Disney Plus is that they are even more violently capable than Marc, and that doesn’t exactly fit with the comics version of Jake.

However, Steven on the show is quite different from the suave billionaire in comics. We could be looking at a total retread of Jake as well — or a completely original personality locked up in that sarcophagus.

You have two episodes left and one creepy asylum you can escape. Moon Knight can’t keep this secret under (mummy) wraps for much longer.