Warning: The following contains spoilers for Moon Knight Part 1.
world Moonlight Knight On Disney Plus, it’s dark, dangerous, and light. The film manages to strike an almost perfect balance between humor and serious themes, while also introducing characters that save the world from Egyptian gods that others don’t believe in.
This tonal balance is reflected in many of the show’s most memorable quotes. While some of the most memorable quotes can speak to the nature of humanity, others are just a character mocking others. These quotes manage to reflect the tone, personalities of the characters, and the audience’s enjoyment of the show.
A little girl humorously predicts Steven’s future
“Is that bad for you? Being rejected by Reed?”
In the first episode, Steven tries to teach a little girl visiting a museum a little bit of Egyptian history. She asks him this question sarcastically in response, and it seems to be her comment about his age, but ends up carrying a bit of prophecy.
While that question might have gotten Steven in trouble at the time, he wasn’t as successful at the time of his death. Instead, Mark eventually accepted him and brought them both back to earth. Some fans speculated that the little girl could be Tawaret or her avatar, but the season finale revealed that wasn’t the case.
Harrow is reading Human nature is dark
“People don’t want to hear good news. They’d rather embrace fear, embrace pain.”
As Moon Knight finally reveals, Arthur Harrow has some sort of dark past that he’s trying to repent of. However, his confession is ultimately an attempt to help Amit take over the world. His inability to let go of the past and move on to his redeemed version is what really makes him believe this statement.
Harrow believes that human nature is dark and capable of doing many bad things, because he is. He only sees the good in people who, like him, focus on eliminating the bad.
The blacksmiths saw another side of Harrow’s beliefs
“It’s hard to dig into the pain of the past. It’s easy to get bogged down and focus on the things that hurt us.”
While Haro assumed that people wanted to focus on their pain and fears, the anonymous blacksmith Leila sought help with to get back to Egypt took a different view. She sees pain as a trap, not something one is willing to cling to.
Her warning to Leila is more about Leila’s grief over the loss of her father as she returns to the country she came from and the country where he was killed. While the impersonator is not at fault, Lyla is sometimes distracted by her grief and her relationship with Mark and Steven could deteriorate further, but unlike Harrow, Lyla sees grief. pain and suffering beyond oneself. The bigger picture of a person’s confession.
Harrow didn’t know Steven at first
“You’re confused.”
This particular line is innocuous enough in the grand scheme of the show, but it’s the use of the word “chaos” that makes it so appealing to fans. After all, “Chaos Magic” got its name from Wanda’s Vision It’s as magical as Wanda Maximoff has it.
The confusion here actually refers to Harrow having trouble reading Steven’s scales, as Steven has more than one identity in the body. However, this line also reflects that something unusual happened to Steven, as the magic of the Egyptian gods is at work, and the chaos could also imply Khonshu’s control over him without any doubt. he never knew.
Leila is tired of the decisions made for her
“You made a deal? He’s going to disappear from my life? Do you think maybe I should realize that?”
While there seems to be a lot of tension between Layla and Marc due to the secrecy of their marriage, if there’s one thing she hates about their relationship, it’s that he makes the decisions for her. . Layla is a very independent and capable person, so it pisses her off every time Marc decides that he knows what’s best to protect her.
When Steven reveals that he and Marc made a deal to have Marc disappear forever after they saved the world from Ammit together, Layla is shocked that it was yet another decision affecting her without consulting her. Miss. She then learns that Mark has made sure that Khonshu can’t use her as an avatar either, which doesn’t bode well for Steven.
Tavarette won’t let her go too far
“Now I’m talking to you through the dead, so what?”
Tawaret creates a lively and humorous contrast to Khonshu and Ammit in the story. Audiences already trust her because she always seems to care about everyone’s best interests — humans as well as gods. She also doesn’t seem to let anything affect her when guiding spirits through the Duat.
Her personality even shines when she sends her voice over the corpse to try to get Lyla to hear her. Although Layla initially didn’t like talking to a communication god this way, she changed her mind and she and Tawaret made a great team.
Mark accepts Steven’s role in his life
“You are the only superpower I have.”
When Mark decides to refuse the reeds and get back with Steven on the sands of Duart, the decision could cost him a peaceful afterlife, but he doesn’t care.
A lot of Mark’s interactions with Steven at the beginning of the film play out as if he’s Steven’s protector, that Steven is a burden he has to carry. However, the memories revealed in episode 5 prove that this is not true, and Steven actually saved Mark as a child. Mark finally accepts this and brings them both back to earth.
Leila made a deal
“We can work together without me making myself a slave.”
When Khonshu and Layla believed that Marc was dead, Khonshu did what Marc feared: he tried to convince Layla to become his avatar. Layla refused, seeing how much the decision had hurt Marc.
It’s not entirely wrong that Layla believes Khonshu is the manipulator and the one who actually runs the “partnership”. The deal she concluded with Tawaret was very different from the one in Khonshu, where Layla had every right to compare with slavery.
Steven stands up against Khonshu
“We’re packed now, so you have to deal with me now.”
When Steven discovers the truth about the gods, he is afraid of Khonshu. After traveling to the afterlife and seeing Mark’s childhood memories, everything changes. Steven realizes that the fighting ability and courage that Marc possesses also exists in him.
After that, he was more willing to represent Marc against Khonshu, no longer fearing God would hurt him. This is a real turning point, as Steven and Mark can even consider who goes first in hand-to-hand combat.
Leila gives a young girl hope
“Are you an Egyptian superhero?”
Layla is hesitant to become Tawaret’s temporary avatar, even though it would give her strength in the fight against Ammit. She wants to be completely her own. However, the power that Tavaret gave her not only allowed her to fight Amit but also save many people.
The little girl she saves sees Lyla’s costume, wings, and powers and wonders if she’s an Egyptian superhero, something unheard of in the MCU. Leila said freely that she was, and that it may well have been her turning point. Layla is a student of Egyptian history who steals stolen antiquities and returns them to their rightful owners. She’s an MCU-appropriate version of the comic book hero Scarlet Scarab.