History Recap / MoonKnight2022S1E3TheFriendlyType

** It's somewhat unclear if Osiris and his avatar are in league with Harrow or if they're simply sympathetic to him, given the Ennead's obvious dislike of Khonshu. It's ''possible'' that he simply thought letting Harrow have a last word with Khonshu was a kind action to a falsely-accused former avatar, since he wasn't actually there for the EvilGloating.

* CallBack: Bek mentions that Mogart and Layla's last encounter was in [[Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier Madripoor]].

* ContinuityNod: While Marc is inspecting the Ennead's meeting place inside the Great Pyramid, one of the gods' portal gates for their avatars depicts the likeness of the feline deity Bast, though [[Characters/MCUBlackPanther her avatar]] doesn't join the proceedings.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Khonshu calls a meeting of the Ennead, even though the gods exiled him before and might seal him in stone for provoking them. It doesn't work, and the gods threaten to imprison Khonshu in an ''ushabti'' statuette if he keeps meddling in mortal affairs, and follow through after he helps Steven and Layla locate Ammit's tomb by rewinding time by a thousand years in the night sky.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy: The Ennead are content to reside in the spirit world and act only as PowersThatBe instead of directly interacting with mortals like [[Characters/MCUAsgard the Norse gods]] do, and banished Khonshu because the missions he assigns his avatar, the Moon Knight, threatened to reveal their existence. Khonshu considers them lazy and calls them out on it during Harrow's trial. It is later revealed that Osiris's avatar Selim is in fact in league with Harrow, implying that Osiris himself at least is far more involved in this plot than first thought. The same is likely true for Hathor, who according to her avatar Yatzil shares some possibly romantic memories with Khonshu, and advises Marc to look for Senfu's sarcophagus, as it contains hints to the location of Ammit's tomb.

** Harrow all but outright states that Marc was the one who killed Layla's father, though Marc denies this when she asks if it's true. [[spoiler: This is actually subverted, as Harrow was lying his ass off. Marc was ''there'', but he wasn't the one to kill Layla's father.]]

* SpitefulSuicide: When Marc tries to do a HighAltitudeInterrogation (which was Khonshu's idea) on the teen member of the goons, the teen almost immediately cuts his own scarf to fall to his death rather than tell Marc anything.

* UncertainDoom: Mogart is last seen riding off after having been hit in the back by one of Marc's crescent blades, though whether he survived his wound remains to be seen.

* ItBelongsInAMuseum: Layla explains that this is what drives her career as an AdventureArchaeologist; she steals antiquities to return them to their rightful owners.

* ItBelongsInAMuseum: Layla explains that this is what drives her career as an AdventureArcheologist; she steals antiquities to return them to their rightful owners.

[-Written by Beau [=DeMayo=] and Peter Cameron & Sabir Pirzada and directed by Mohamed Diab.-]

Steven comes to terms with discovering an alter named "Marc" and learns more about the situation he finds himself in.

Marc races to stop Harrow from awakening Ammit.

** Marc's first blackout where he wakes up in a taxi to the airport: It's easy to assume that this was Steven taking control, but then he has a second blackout where someone who was definitely ''not'' Steven takes control. Was the first blackout Steven and the second the unknown third alter? Or were they both the third alter, putting a different frame on their later actions in that they initially tried to get away?
* AndIMustScream: Khonshu is sealed inside a stone statue, and it's suggested that he can still hear what's happening around him, something Harrow takes advantage of to gloat.

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: We're introduced to Anton Mogart, who, unlike his comic book counterpart, doesn't go by the "Midnight Man" alias.
* ContinuityNod: While Marc is inspecting the Ennead's meeting place inside the Great Pyramid, one of the gods' portal gates for their Avatars depicts the likeness of the feline deity Bast, though [[Characters/MCUBlackPanther her Avatar]] doesn't join the proceedings.
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Marc regains consciousness in a taxi, he instantly sees the exact same thugs that he was fighting on the rooftop before he lost consciousness.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Khonshu calls a meeting of the Ennead even though the gods exiled him before and might seal him in stone for provoking them. It doesn't work, and the gods threaten to imprison Khonshu in an ''ushabti'' statuette if he keeps meddling in mortal affairs, doing so after he helps Steven and Layla locate Ammit's tomb.

* DarkestHour: There's a moment where both Moon Knight and Layla are seemingly defeated by Mogart's men. But then Layla has a HeroicSecondWind and turns the tables in their favor.

* ExactWords: Harrow claims to simply be seeing the desert when questioned by the Ennead, which is true, but omits the actual ''reason'' he's in the desert. Since the gods don't know where Ammit's tomb is and Marc doesn't either, they can't disprove his claim.

** Up until the audience is properly introduced to Marc, all of the events between Steven's blackouts were never shown, playing up the NothingIsScarier split-personality mystery. This comes back once more when violence occurs that neither Marc nor Steven can fully explain, hinting that a third personality is emerging.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy: The Ennead are content to reside in the spirit world and act only as PowersThatBe instead of directly interacting with mortals like [[Characters/MCUAsgard the Norse gods]] do, and banished Khonshu because the missions he assigns his Avatar, the Moon Knight, threatened to reveal their existence. Khonshu considers them lazy and calls them out on it during Harrow's trial. It is later revealed that Osiris's avatar Selim is in fact in league with Harrow, implying that Osiris himself at least is far more involved in this plot than first thought. The same is likely true for Hathor, who according to her avatar Yatzil shares some possibly romantic memories with Khonshu, and advises Marc to look for Senfu's sarcophagus, as it contains hints to the location of Ammit's tomb.

* HeroicSacrifice: Khonshu turns back the night sky to help locate Ammit's tomb, even though the gods will imprison him for doing so after being warned not to.
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Khonshu tells Marc to dangle one of Harrow's disciples -- a teenage boy -- off a cliff to interrogate him, saying the fear will make him talk. Instead, to Marc's dismay, the boy cuts his scarf to kill himself, with Khonshu casually saying he thought it would work.
* HollywoodDarkness: The scene in the desert during the solar eclipse is clearly shot at sunlight with a night filter on.
* IdiotBall: Every single time Marc gets into a fight in this episode, Steven insists, against all reason, that he stop attacking and surrender control. In one scene he is trying to peacefully settle a fight against black market criminals well into said fight when everyone is out for blood. Later Steven forcibly takes control during the fight with Mogart's forces to try and order a time-out, which only succeeds in getting him repeatedly impaled.

* InternalizedCategorism: Implied to be what's happening with Harrow, which also colors his own KnightTemplar tendencies. Despite trying to espouse a BlackAndWhiteMorality (then judging the rest of the world with Ammit's power), he confesses to the stone statuette of the imprisoned Khonshu that he in fact once enjoyed the kind of brutal violence and justice Khonshu tasked of him. However, he seeks to move away from it, which likely also explains his turn to Ammit.
* {{Irony}}: The Ennead claims that Harrow "has committed no offense". While this isn't actually true, Marc and Khonshu are trying to stop him primarily for something [[PreCrimeArrest he ''will'' do]] but hasn't done yet, which is the M.O. of Ammit herself.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Marc uses physical violence against a mook to press information from him about Harrow's location. He doesn't succeed because a TapOnTheHead from another baddie behind him knocks him out.
* JekyllAndHyde: Marc and Steven are both horrified by the acts of violence the other seems to have committed while they were blacked out, but it soon becomes clear that it's neither of them, but a third alter who's clearly more bloodthirsty than Steven or Marc.

* LickingTheBlade: One of the goons fighting Marc stops to lick his knife, taunting Marc. [[TalkToTheFist Marc just takes the opening to deliver punches to the mook's face as he's doing it.]]

* MouthOfSauron: At the meeting of the Ennead, the gods speak through their avatars since they're imperceptible to everyone else.

** At the exact moment Moon Knight hits Mogart with a crescent blade, a clock can be heard sounding midnight bells. In the comics, his character was known as "Midnight Man".

** Harrow exploits this trope to make himself more believable to the gods at his hearing, assuring them that he feels sorry for Spector who is clearly a very ill man who has been taken so much advantage of by that awful moon god and conned into believing that Harrow would ''ever'' try to free someone like Ammit.
** While the other gods are clearly pissed off at Khonshu, they are far more sympathetic to Marc and give him the opportunity to speak for himself when Harrow claims that Marc is unwell. One of them even outright says that the meeting is a safe space for Marc to tell them if he's been exploited or abused by Khonshu.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Downplayed; Harrow presents Marc's dissociative identity disorder as something that makes him an unreliable witness, easily manipulated by Khonshu, though he also expresses pity for Marc (though his sincerity is dubious at best).

* ProperlyParanoid: Yatzil remains behind after the meeting of the Ennead to speak with Marc and quietly tell him another way he could find Ammit's tomb, saying that she isn't sure who to trust as Ammit has followers everywhere. Surely enough, we learn that Osiris' avatar (and by extension possibly Osiris himself) is possibly in league with Harrow.
* PsychoKnifeNut: The trio of goons show shades of this, with being members of Harlow's cult and all that. One licks the blade to try and intimidate Marc while the youngest kills himself with no hesitation just so Marc can't interrogate him.

** Harrow all-but outright states that Marc was the one who killed Layla's father, though Marc denies this when she asks if it's true.
** Khonshu was exiled for his actions threatening to reveal the Ennead's existence to mortals, with the gods preferring to sit back in the spirit world and let their Avatars handle things in a way that won't risk revealing their existence.

** It appears a third, violent personality is emerging aside from Marc and Steven, as Marc wakes up after blacking out to find he has slaughtered a bunch of Ammit's cultists, which Steven also denies being responsible for.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At one point during the fight with the thugs Marc blacks out only to wake up in a cab with the driver saying he wanted to go to the airport, apparently in an attempt to get out of the fight and Cairo in general.
* SealedGoodInACan: Khonshu is sealed in a stone statuette for manipulating the sky.

* SpitefulSuicide: When Marc tries to do a HighAltitudeInterrogation (which was Khonshu's idea) on the teen member of the goons. The teen almost immediately cuts his own scarf to fall to his death rather than tell Marc anything.

** Layla is a total ActionGirl, but when up against a trained opponent that's bigger than her she finds herself outmatched and has to rely on some inventive [[CombatPragmatist pragmatism]] to beat him, such as throwing glass in his face and stabbing him after he had initially turned his back.
** Steven successfully assembles a star map that would lead him and Layla to Ammit's tomb... but then points out that the night sky doesn't look the same as it did thousands of years ago because stars drift over time. If they didn't have a moon god on their side, the map would've been useless.

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Invoked by Khonshu who moves the moon and creates a solar eclipse in an attempt to cause enough commotion to summon the other gods, in order to present his case against Harrow.

* VillainsNeverLie: Played with:

* WouldntHurtAChild: Marc is reluctant to hurt the teenager that is fighting on Harrow's side, choosing to slap him rather than outright punch the teen and is left deeply unsettled when the teenager chooses to kill himself rather than give away Harrow's location.

** At the start of the episode, Marc suggests calling on the other gods to stop Harrow, but Khonshu points out that he has little leeway with the other gods and they might punish him further for even daring to call them. He then immediately organizes a meeting of the Ennead anyway as he is ''that'' desperate to stop Harrow and they're out of options, doing so by pissing them all off with a grand display of power. Unfortunately, Harrow takes advantage of the Gods' dislike of Khonshu and Marc's own instability to discredit them before they can even make any tangible claims towards him.
** Khonshu was already unpopular with the other gods, but in this episode, he gives up the last bit of leeway he has with them. When Steven and Layla technically find the map to the place they're looking for, they can't use it because it's based on the position of the stars -- which, over two thousand years, have drifted from where they were on the night when it was hidden. Khonshu decides to help out by rewinding the skies to that night, knowing it's an offense punishable by imprisonment in a small statue.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Up until the audience is properly introduced to Marc, all of the events between Steven's blackouts were never shown, playing up the NothingIsScarier split-personality mystery. This comes back once more when violence occurs that neither Marc nor Steven can fully explain, hinting that a third personality is emerging.

** It's somewhat unclear if Osiris and his avatar are in league with Harrow or if they're simply sympathetic to him, given the Ennead's obvious dislike of Khonshu. It's ''possible'' that he simply thought letting Harrow have a last word with Konshu was a kind action to a falsely-accused former avatar, since he wasn't actually there for the EvilGloating.

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* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The gods have a meeting place inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Marc is reluctant to hurt the teenager that is fighting on Harrow's side, choosing to slap him rather than outright punch the teen and is left deeply unsettled when the teenager chooses to kill himself rather than give away Harrow's location. [[spoiler:Considering his origin story, it's very understandable]].

** At the end of the episode Khonshu is unpopular with the other gods as it is, but in this episode, he gives up the last bit of leeway he has with them. When Steven and Layla technically find the map to the place they're looking for, they can't use it because it's based on the position of the stars -- which, over two thousand years, have drifted from where they were on the night when it was hidden. Khonshu decides to help out by rewinding the skies to that night, knowing it's an offense punishable by imprisonment in a small statue.

** Steven successfully assembles a star map that would lead him and Layla to Ammit's tomb... but then points out that the night sky doesn't look the same as it did thousands of years ago. If they didn't have a moon god on their side, the map would've been useless.

* BadassNormal: Even without transforming into Moon Knight, Marc is able to take on Harrow's disciples through sheer fighting skills and ingenuity.

* LickingTheBlade: One of the goons fighting Marc stops to lick his knife, taunting Marc. [[TalkToTheFist Marc just punches his face as he's doing it.]]

* SpitefulSuicide: The teen Marc tries a HighAltitudeInterrogation on cuts his own scarf to fall to his death rather than tell Marc anything.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Marc is reluctant to hurt the teenager that is fighting on Harrow's side, and is deeply unsettled when he chooses to kill himself rather than give away Harrow's location.

** Harrow all-but outright states that Marc was the one who killed Layla's father, though he denies this when she asks if it's true.

** It's somewhat unclear if Osiris and his avatar are in league with Harrow or if they're simply sympathetic to him, given the Ennead's obvious dislike of Khonshu.

[-Written by Beau DeMayo and Peter Cameron & Sabir Pirzada and directed by Mohamed Diab.-]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Layla is a total ActionGirl, but when up against a trained opponent that's bigger than her she finds herself outmatched and has to rely on some inventive [[CombatPragmatist pragmatism]] to beat him, such as throwing glass in his face and stabbing him after he had initially turned his back.

* WillingChanneler: All the hosts at the gathering inside the Great Pyramid.

* ChekhovsSkill: Konshu shows the ability to tamper with the sky by creating a solar eclipse at the start of the episode to draw the Ennead's attention. Towards the end of the episode, he uses this power to rewind the night sky so Steve and Layla can track down the location of Ammit's tomb.

** He also didn't consider that such a large gesture as altering the sky would alert Harrow and give him time to prepare for the trial. By the time Harrow is called forth, he quickly discredits Konshu and puts them on the defensive before they can bring forth any reasonable evidence.

** At the start of the episode, Marc suggests calling on the other gods to stop Harrow, but Khonshu points out that he has little leeway with the other gods and they might punish him further for even daring to call them. He then immediately organizes a meeting of the Ennead anyway as he is ''that'' desperate to stop Harrow and they're out of options, doing so by pissing them all off with a grand display of power.Unfortunately, Harrow takes advantage of the Gods' dislike of Konshu and Marc's own instability to discredit them before they can even make any tangible claims towards him.
** At the end of the episode Khonshu is unpopular with the other gods as it is, but in this episode he gives up the last bit of leeway he has with them. When Steven and Layla technically find the map to the place they're looking for, they can't use it because it's based on the position of the stars -- which, over two thousand years, have drifted from where they were on the night when it was hidden. Khonshu decides to help out by rewinding the skies to that night, knowing it's an offense punishable by imprisonment in a small statue.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Layla is a total ActionGirl, but when up against a trained male opponent that's bigger than her she finds herself outmatched and has to rely on some inventive [[CombatPragmatist pragmatism]] to beat him, such as throwing glass in his face and stabbing him after he had initially turned his back.

* {{Irony}}: The Ennead claims that Harrow "has committed no offense". While this isn't actually true, Marc and Khonshu are trying to stop him primarily for something he ''will'' do but hasn't done yet, which is the M.O. of Ammit herself.