
29/05/2025
Infamous Entertainment
Brendan Philips
An Infamous Opinion
They Ruined Moon Knight — And Steven Grant Never Deserved This
“This wasn’t Moon Knight. It was Moon Wrong.”
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When Marvel announced Moon Knight, fans of the comics felt the hype deep in their bones. We weren’t expecting a crowd-pleaser — we were hoping for something dark, brutal, and unapologetically unhinged. A supernatural Punisher. A violent answer to Daredevil’s raw Catholic guilt. A descent into madness where even gods fear what they’ve created.
Instead, we got a confused tone, a cartoonish main character, and a version of Moon Knight that wouldn’t scare a Disney Channel villain.
And worst of all?
They destroyed Steven Grant.
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🧠 Who Was Steven Grant?
Let’s not mince words. In the comics, Steven Grant is a core component of Moon Knight’s shattered psyche — a function, not a gimmick.
• He’s a wealthy businessman, suave and composed.
• He’s Marc’s ticket into high society — the “Bruce Wayne” of the trio.
• He’s useful. Strategic. Intelligent.
• He funds Moon Knight’s war on crime and gives him a legit public mask.
• And when he talks? People listen — because Steven Grant walks into a room like he owns the building.
The comic version of Steven is a refined weapon in Moon Knight’s arsenal — not a safety blanket, not a punchline.
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🎭 Who Did We Get?
In Disney’s watered-down take? Steven Grant is:
• A timid, awkward British shop clerk.
• Completely unaware of his condition or purpose.
• Emotionally fragile, socially inept, and constantly stammering.
• A nervous sidekick in his own head.
• A joke.
He’s a different character entirely. They kept the name and threw away everything else.
Why? So Disney could give the audience a “relatable” entry point.
They didn’t trust the character.
They didn’t trust the audience.
And worst of all — they didn’t trust the darkness.
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⚖️ Let’s Talk About Daredevil
Remember Daredevil on Netflix? That was how you adapt a dark Marvel character:
• Matt Murdock was morally tormented.
• The fights had weight.
• The villains were terrifying.
• The trauma was real.
• It wasn’t safe. It wasn’t PG. It was damn near sacred.
Moon Knight should’ve followed suit. Instead, we got a goofy tone shift every time Steven appeared on screen. Where Matt Murdock questioned his soul, Steven Grant couldn’t even order dinner.
Marvel had a blueprint. They just ignored it.
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🩸 Moon Knight Is Not a Joke
Here’s what comic fans know:
• Marc Spector is a killer turned crusader, haunted by Khonshu and fueled by trauma.
• Steven Grant is the financier — not the fool.
• Jake Lockley is the street-level enforcer who collects dirt and breaks bones.
• Khonshu isn’t a wise-cracking skeleton. He’s a manipulative, alien god that uses Marc like a puppet.
• And Moon Knight? Moon Knight is a monster to monsters. The last thing evil sees before it’s punished.
This isn’t light-hearted Marvel fare. This is the underworld.
And they turned it into a Disney+ drama with a CGI hippo.
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👎 They Missed the Point Entirely
Moon Knight isn’t about “quirky alters.”
It’s about what happens when a broken man turns his shattered mind into a weapon.
The comics understood that Marc’s disorder wasn’t just a flaw — it was the very thing that made Moon Knight terrifying. He out-crazied the crazies. He didn’t joke his way through fights. He beat the hell out of the worst humanity had to offer — and scared gods while doing it.
What Disney gave us was a neutered, scared, PG version of schizophrenia filtered through a gift shop employee with a silly accent and zero agency.
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🔥 Final Verdict
They took a cult-favorite antihero with the coolest mental health-based mythos in Marvel and turned him into a soft, sanitized shell.
They replaced violence with whimsy.
They replaced tension with jokes.
They replaced Steven Grant with a punchline.
And they had the nerve to call it Moon Knight.
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🗯️ Says:
Steven Grant wasn’t “too dark.”
Marc Spector wasn’t “too complex.”
Jake Lockley wasn’t “too risky.”
Marvel just got scared.
And they gave us Moon Knight for babies instead of the brutal, brilliant bastard we deserved
But hey , thats just