Warning: spoilers ahead for episode 1 of Moon Knight on Disney Plus.
Moon Knight fans think they’ve spotted a crucial detail about Steven Grant’s relationship with his mum in the Marvel series that’s bound to break hearts if it turns out to be true.
In episode one, which was released on Disney Plus this week, Oscar Isaac was introduced as bumbling British museum gift shop worker Steven, who is later revealed to also be an American mercenary called Marc Spector, who has Dissociative Identity Disorder.
One morning, Steven is in his flat leaving a voicemail for his mum while sticking up a postcard he’s received from her on his goldfish Gus’ tank.
However, some viewers believe that the reason why Steven leaves voicemails for his mum rather than speaking to her on the phone may be because she’s not around anymore – and so Marc might be the one who’s actually sending the postcards.
‘Someone said the reason Steven only leaves voicemails to his Mum and gets postcards is because she’s dead/distant and Marc is actually the one leaving the postcards when he’s fronting to keep Steven from being upset and I haven’t known peace since,’ one person tweeted.
Another person said that after rewatching the first episode, they’re ‘pretty sure’ that the postcards that Steven received were sold at the museum where he works, ‘so Marc is probably writing them for Steven and pretending they are from his mum’.
Someone else wrote that they have a ‘gut feeling’ that Marc is behind the postcards as in order to prevent Steven from becoming ‘suspicious’ about Marc or the fact that he’s a conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.
As if we didn’t already feel sorry for Steven… now we just want to give him a big hug.
In the first instalment of the show, Steven goes to bed one night before waking up the next day in a completely different location, where he promptly becomes embroiled in a car chase with men firing guns in his direction.
It’s there that he first crosses paths with Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), a menacing cult leader who has a whole community under his thumb and serves an Egyptian goddess called Ammit.
Harrow realises that Steven is in possession of a gold scarab that he wants, although viewers are yet to find out its significance.
When Steven wakes up back in London, he’s convinced it was all a dream, until he spots Harrow following him on the bus.
After being confronted by Harrow at the museum, Steven is chased by an Egyptian jackal, only surviving after Marc insists that he allow him to take over their body so that he can summon the suit of Moon Knight.
The episode ends with Moon Knight walking towards the screen, after Steven finds a phone belonging to Marc – containing numerous missed calls from someone called Layla and one from Duchamp – stashed away in his flat.
Moon Knight is available to watch on Disney Plus with new episodes released on Wednesdays.
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