Alexander the Great

Coming in at six episodes, this series has quite the audience of viewers excited to see what happens next with Marc Spector and Steven Grant. Episode 4 of the ...

But, he does have it in his possession before it’s passed along to Layla by Marc when Harrow and his forces charge into the room. It is, however, in the casket…or should we say in Alexander? Steven has to stick his hand down the emperor’s throat and rip the ushabti from his gullet. His risk paid off, but it also meant being imprisoned in a ushabti just like Ammit which means Steven and Marc are now without the god’s powers and assistance.

The New Moon Knight episode introduces Alexander The Great to the show. Here's what the ancient king has to do with the series.

As soon as Steven opens up Alexander’s sarcophagus, he realizes that the great king was the voice of Ammit. And if that’s true, the Ushabti of Ammit is hidden at a place where no one can locate it. By looking at the Macedonian scriptures on the mysterious sarcophagus, Steven understands that the tomb he is looking at right now is of no one else but Alexander The Great. The fourth episode of Moon Knight was released recently, and it amazed us with a lot of new surprises.

The real-life story of Alexander the Great's missing tomb, in addition to what his presence in Moon Knight episode 4 could mean for the MCU.

Whatever the case, Marvel's Moon Knight doesn't offer enough information about the MCU’s version of Alexander the Great to make a definitive statement about the kind of person he was. However, since Ammit’s ushabti was sealed in his tomb, Alexander could have been the avatar who was said to have betrayed Ammit in episode 1, so if he wasn’t a hero from the start, then he could have at least become one by the end of his life. In addition to spending his life conquering people and establishing an empire, he was also noted to have had a violent temper and to be a paranoid megalomaniac who considered himself a god, none of which comes across as very heroic. Before his body could be brought to Macedonia, Alexander’s general, Ptolemy I Soter, stole it and took it to Memphis, likely in a bid to assert his right to the throne, and it stayed there until Ptolemy II Philadelphus transferred it to Alexandria. After that, Alexander's tomb was constantly raided by people looking to sell his things for money, with the original sarcophagus even being replaced with a glass one by Ptolemy IX Lathyros so it could be sold for coinage. The revelation of Ammit’s tomb also being Alexander the Great’s is treated as a major revelation on Steven’s part thanks to it having been missing, which matches up with the tomb's current status in real life. Poisoning was largely ruled out because of how long it took for him to die, but in a 2014 journal, Dr. Leo Schep suggested that white hellebore could have been used to poison him since its poison takes a while to kill someone (via Phys.org). Regardless, following his death, Alexander’s body was sealed in a golden sarcophagus with plans to carry it to Macedonia.

Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector/Steven Grant and May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly. Source: Marvel Studios. Article ...

He was a seemingly all-powerful conqueror who was able to take over hundreds of kingdoms, and in doing so, he was also beloved by many. When he pieces this all together, Steven comes to the conclusion that the person entombed here must have been Alexander the Great. This would mean that Alexander the Great’s long-lost tomb was not only discovered by Steven, but also that he was the final avatar to Ammit. It’s rumored that his body was laid in a gold sarcophagus, not unlike the one we saw in Moon Knight, although according to legend, it was filled with honey. Moon Knight draws on lots of Egyptian and ancient history, so it’s only fitting that Alexander the Great should get a mention. What we didn’t expect was that Ammit could actually be tied to an actual historical figure, let alone Alexander the Great. So what is Alexander the Great’s relevance in Moon Knight? Steven understands a lot when it comes to ancient Egypt — he can piece together maps of stars, read some hieroglyphics, and even draw the Eye of Horus and equate it to a map.

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What’s certain is that her appearance is a total cliffhanger that gets its inspiration mainly from Egyptian mythology, and not the comics. This particular one is standing up and is prominently placed in the shot. Steven then converses with Marc and tells him that the tomb before them belonged to Alexander the Great. In Marvel Comics’ Moon Knight Volume 8, the one written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Greg Smallwood, Marc is placed in a similar situation when he finds himself inside an asylum. He then admits to being present but says he had no part in the death of her father. We take a deep dive into the biggest Moon Knight episode 4 easter eggs to learn more about them.

If you can believe it, this scene wasn't actually originally in the script, but came out of an idea from both stars Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy, who wanted to ...

Calling the scene “one of the most fun” they had filming the show, Benson continues “And it was such a fun scene to direct. Layla is somebody who is on a very wild ride and isn't willing to just be the passenger.” “We had a lot of long conversations about exactly who Layla was outside of her relationship with Marc Spector and she became more and more interesting, as she had this very tumultuous relationship with her home of Egypt. And also, of course, May is Egyptian, and that was something where she was able to bring in a lot of her thoughts there,” Moorhead adds. And then how they rise to the challenge when they do it. As Benson tells Marvel.com, “It was really beautiful to see how encouraged May was to bring anything she felt necessary to this character, the amount of support she had to do that, even from her castmates. If you can believe it, this scene wasn’t actually originally in the script, but came out of an idea from both stars Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy, who wanted to work together more on the show.

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When Marc and Steven are trying to escape, they catch sight of a second sarcophagus: one whose contents are threatening to burst out in a truly menacing fashion. Moon Knight has made significant changes to the character of Steven Grant. For instance, in the comics, he's a billionaire. Is she here to help Marc Or is she in cahoots with Harrow? Fingers crossed we'll find out in episode 5. With Khonshu currently out of commission in the show, Moon Knight may be taking a different approach to Lemire's comics. "There's just an enormous amount of light in one part and darkness in the other," Moorhead said, "A more handheld, vérité approach in one and then a more still, smoother approach on the other." There is a comic book precedent for Marc being in a psychiatric hospital. Benson and Moorhead switched up the cinematography in order to fully drive home the contrast between the two settings. So when there's these gigantic shifts in the story, especially the one in episode 4 — which is so much fun — we try to deliver a whole lot of visual and tonal contrast really quickly all at once." "The surrealness comes from the subjective experience that Marc/Steven is having at the time," Benson continued. To say things get weird in episode 4 of Moon Knight would be an understatement. Marc rightfully gets the hell out of there. Even weirder is the fact that Marc is clutching a Moon Knight action figure, suggesting Moon Knight is another pop-cultural figure Marc enjoys.

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The scene where Layla and Harrow speak about her father was written in because Calamawy and Ethan Hawke wanted to spend more time on screen together. Is it going to be another person – and if that is the case, I don’t believe it’s a character we have already met. Overall, I thought it was the strongest episode of the series so far. When Marc smashed that window, I was fully expecting the desert to be on the other side of the door, reminiscent of the scene in The First Avenger when Captain America realised he wasn’t in the 1940s and escaped into modern-day New York. But no, the illusion, if it is an illusion, runs deeper than that. Thankfully, Marc smelled a rat, even in his heavily sedated state, seeing one too many details in the room for it to be coincidence – the cane, the Egyptian artefacts, the drawing of Khonshu, the repeated line about not being able to help him, those awful sandals – and made a dash for it. I was merrily watching Oscar Isaac playing second fiddle to May Calamawy in his own show and thinking about how, even though the series wasn’t going in the direction I thought it would, I was still really enjoying it.

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It feels like we should see this night in a flashback before the series is over — the clock’s ticking. Marc and Steven attempt to escape the hospital, pass another shaking sarcophagus in another room, and run directly into … how do I put this … a hippo. Said hippo is, in fact, the Egyptian goddess Taweret. She is played/voiced by Antonia Salib. Taweret is the goddess of childbirth and fertility. Marc opens the sarcophagus, and inside, amazingly, is Steven. In the chaos, all conflict is forgotten. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Normal Again,” a demon tries to make Buffy believe that she is institutionalized and all of her slayer memories are delusions. For Moon Knight specifically, this is based on Moon Knight volume eight, a 2016 run of the Marvel comic from writer Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood. In it, Marc Spector wakes up in an asylum run by Ammit (spelled alternatively Ammut in the comic and under the guise of a psychologist named Dr. Emmet) and is told that he has imagined his vigilante life. This is the first time they’re meeting face-to-face in the flesh — the longed-for moment! “It’s all been happening in your head” and “you’re actually a patient in an asylum” is a time-honored trope seen in films like Shutter Island and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and especially favored in genre television. Steven may tell Layla about Marc’s plan to give Steven the body and Khonshu’s plan to make Layla the next avatar, but he’s no saint. But that is not exactly what’s happening from a mental-health standpoint, and it’s not fair to Marc or Steven to say so. Steven gives the body to Marc so that they can talk. Oh, and Steven and Layla kiss, and Marc punches himself (a.k.a. Steven) in the face.

'Moon Knight' Episode 4 revealed Alexander the Great and Egyptian god Ammit to have a close connection in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And Moon Knight Episode 4 revealed that Alexander the Great acted as Ammit’s avatar. However, Moon Knight introduced the Egyptian Ennead and the idea of avatars. However, Harrow now follows Ammit. He used the golden scarab to track down Ammit’s tomb in Egypt in Moon Knight Episodes 2 and 3. “Following his death, Alexander’s body was sealed in a golden sarcophagus with plans to carry it to Macedonia.” Marvel’s Moon Knight Episode 4 had a mind-bending ending for Steven Grant/Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac), Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy), Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), and … Egyptian Hippo god, Taweret? Fans have dozens of questions about new Moon Knight episodes. As Tom Holland’s Spider-Man said in Spider-Man: Far From Home, “Thor was a myth.

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Harrow mentioned in Episode 1 that an avatar of Ammit betrayed her along with the other gods. Putting it into perspective, Alexander the Great, in the MCU, may have succeeded in expanding his empire through Ammit. It’s a nice touch for Moon Knight to put Alexander the Great into the narrative for various reasons.

Moon Knight Episode 4 goes deep into the tunnels of Egypt and answers history's biggest unsolved mystery about a certain pharoah's missing tomb.

By the time he turned 30, he had one of the largest empires in history. Although the location of his tomb is regarded as one of history's biggest mysteries, his success a military general is just as confusing. Alexander the Great is one of the greatest military commanders of all time because he never lost a battle, despite being outnumbered. Coincidentally, Ammit had the torso of a lion. Steven, being the Egyptian artifact expert he is, finds his way to the sarcophagus by following the path laid out by the Eye of the Horus. In the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not every mystery goes unsolved.