Steven Grant And Marc Spector In MOON KNIGHT (2022-) S01E04 | “The Tomb”

Hey, did you know that Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera novel is available free on Wikisource or Project Gutenberg? Did you also know that it is completely gloriously bugfuck bonkers?

When the ballerinas are talking they hear a noise outside, and the head ballerina goes to check it out with the knife she always has, straight up ready to stab a ghost

The phantom shows up at the dinner party between the new and old managers and nobody says anything because they all think he's with the other guys

He doesn't have any dramatic entry to the masquerade ball - he's just wandering around in a cape with DON'T TOUCH THIS GUY embroidered on it in gold, and when somebody does he grabs them and glares at them, because come on, man, my cape asked you to do one thing

The phantom’s name is Erik. We know this because my dude is constantly talking about himself in the third person like an anime imouto

Ever wonder why there's suddenly a horse in the musical? Turns out it's because he just fuckin' steals one. Dude gets himself a basement horse.

His lair is a house on an underground lake with specifically surreal "middle-class" decorations. Dude has, like, cabinets from Pottery Barn

Except for his own room, which is all in black, and where this goth motherfucker sleeps in a literal coffin because "One has to get used to everything in life, even to eternity"

Dude goes out shopping and makes lunch. Christine specifically talks about eating some shrimp and a chicken wing that he'd set out like fuckin' Pagan Min

Christine has way more spine and agency than in the musical. Erik doesn't just randomly decide to bring her back from the first abduction; she deliberately butters him up over two weeks to convince him she'll come back if he lets her go

Then when Raoul demands to know where she's been she's like buddy I was at the corner of Nunya and Business

It's also her own idea to stay so Erik can see her sing on stage one more time

Erik's eyes specifically glow in the dark. This is relevant because one night Raoul thinks he sees glowing eyes out on the balcony. He tries turning the light on and off a couple times, and they're still there, and not answering when he calls out. So he is sure it's the Phantom and shoots him with a gun. There's some blood and Raoul's brother is like dude you shot a cat, and it's never mentioned again, so I guess there really is a cat out there with a scar and a very weird story

The phantom claims that the chandelier just did that

And that's before it gets really insane.

look how cute he is holding his hand<3

japanese macaques ♨️  planning to print this on washi tape!

Marc and Steven seeing the other sarcophagus whilst escaping:

Pesach is coming up so I’m gonna say this

When I first got into Moon Knight I forgot two things

Marc is a non practicing Jew

He’s not close with his family for obvious reasons. Namely being legally dead among other things

But I immediately just thought

How does he celebrate Passover???

His family is ORTHODOX JEWS

HE’S THE AVATAR OF AN EGYPTIAN GOD

passover would be hell

I thought it was like he’d just be singing Dayenu really really awkwardly, shifting around in one of those gray folding chairs at the table, trying to ignore Khonshu standing directly behind him for the sole purpose of making it more awkward, possibly joking at random like it’s a stand up comedy situation because he would

I genuinely just thought he had a really really shitty holiday season, and somehow forgot he was non-practicing for a solid amount of time

the best part about making someone else’s post viral is not having to deal with the notes.

JAKE LOCKLEY WITHIN 2 MINUTES OF BEING INTRODUCED

THOR

Bruno to that one woman in town