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I_Abibde posted...

The best arcs for the character, if you ask me, are the ones where the writer keeps the reader guessing as to whether or not the Moon Knight has these powers ... or if he is imagining all of it. Does he have a voice in his head ... or is he hallucinating? Pretty cool stuff.

My problem with that is that some of the first Moon Knight stuff I ever read was when he was part of the West Coast Avengers, when they literally time traveled back to ancient Egypt, and it was pretty clearly established straight up that Khonshu is 112% real and absolutely chose Marc Spector as his anointed avatar and champion. Up to and including literally possessing him in a couple of issues and using him like a meat puppet.

So when you read a story later that is being more ambiguous about it, it's hard to buy into the ambiguity when my brain is going "No, there's no ambiguity, he is absolutely blessed by an Egyptian god who has given him magical powers. We have already established this."

That being said, Marc Spector IS crazy - that's something else that's 100% established. So the real ambiguity comes from the line between drawn where the magic stops and the crazy starts. If Marc hears Khonshu speaking to him in his head, is it REALLY Khonshu? Because it totally might be. Or it might be the crazy talking.


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