‘Moon Knight’: Who Is Jake Lockley ? Oscar Isaac Teases Third Personality
🦋So far, Moon Knight fans have seen two personalities in the protagonist, played by Oscar Isaac: Steven Grant and Marc Spector. Plus, they’ve also seen Steven’s and Marc’s superhero alter egos: Mr. Knight and Moon Knight. But the Marvel show has only just gotten started, which means viewers could still meet more personalities in the future. Thanks to a recent tease from Oscar Isaac himself and a mysterious hint in Moon Knight Episode 3, some fans strongly believe Jake Lockley will soon take up residence in Steven’s body.
🦋Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector/Steven Grant in ‘Moon Knight’ | Gabor Kotschy/Marvel Studios/Disney+ Oscar Isaac recently teased more Moon Knight personalities in future episodes
Moon Knight Episodes 1 and 2 introduce viewers to Steven Grant, a (former) museum gift shop employee who experiences strange blackouts due to his dissociative identity disorder. He then learns that he shares a body with Marc Spector, a violent mercenary who takes out villains as an avatar named Moon Knight. In an attempt to help Marc defeat bad guys, Steven creates an avatar known as Mr. Knight — a more posh version of Moon Knight, complete with a three-piece suit.
🦋According to Isaac, Steven/Mr. Knight and Marc/Moon Knight may soon have another partner. As ComicBook reported, the actor recently attended a red carpet event, where an interviewer asked him a question about Moon Knight. He and the interviewer spoke in Spanish, so not everyone caught on to the conversation. However, someone on Twitter shared the video, earning translations from fellow fans.
“You’re evolving. You’re doing two amazing characters here. How difficult was it for you personally?” the interviewer asked.
“Maybe more than two. It could be. You have to watch the series,” Isaac replied.
Isaac didn’t give any more details, but his comment caught the interest of Moon Knight comic book fans who remember Jake Lockley.
🦋Who is Jake Lockley? Moon Knight’s third alter could make an appearance
In the Moon Knight comic books, the titular hero has at least three personalities. The Disney+ show has only introduced two, which means there’s certainly source material for more. One common comic book personality is Jake Lockley, a cab driver who acts as an informant.
As GamesRadar notes, the comics revealed that Marc Spector used all these alter egos to gain access to different areas of the criminal world. For example, Steven Grant was a wealthy man who interacted with white-collar criminals. On the flip side of that was Jake Lockley, who had several contacts in the criminal underworld. He would use these contacts to stay informed on his enemies’ doings, thus keeping himself ahead of the game.
🦋Fans haven’t seen a physical manifestation of Jake Lockley in the Moon Knight series yet, but some people think he was teased as early as episode 1. Steven landed himself a date with his co-worker at a steak restaurant, but he’s not the one who asked her out. It could have been Marc, but he didn’t seem to show much interest in dating during his mission. So, could it have been Jake?
‘Moon Knight’ Episode 3 might have hinted at Jake Lockley coming soon
🦋Moon Knight Episode 3 might have provided the biggest hint yet that Jake is lurking somewhere inside Steven. In one scene, Marc and Steven go back and forth trying to take down some of Arthur Harrow’s (Ethan Hawke) men. Steven/Marc end up getting knocked out, but they awaken to find one of Arthur’s men violently stabbed to death. Both Marc and Steven insist they didn’t kill him — so who did?
Jake Lockley could slowly be making his way to the forefront of Moon Knight’s personalities. And if this killing is any indication, he may be the most dangerous identity yet.
🦋 ‘Moon Knight’ Episode 3 Ramps Up Speculation About Jake Lockley 🦋
Moon Knight‘s third episode is more conventional than the first two: An action thriller starring mercenary Marc Spector. This brings the show closer to what many comics fans expected in the first place, but it also loses some of the quirky charm that came with Steven Grant’s fish-out-of-water role.
🦋Moving the main cast to Egypt, we see Arthur Harrow hunting for a secret tomb while Marc fights people across the roofs of Cairo. Soon after, both men end up on trial before a panel of ancient Egyptian gods, confirming to the audience that Marc’s supernatural boss Khonshu is kind of a freak. While the other gods’ human avatars seem relatively well-adjusted, Marc and Arthur (the current and former Khonshu avatars) are transparently messed-up—something Arthur uses to make an argument that Khonshu is “abusive” and should be thrown in God Jail.
Marc and Khonshu argue for a reprieve, but it’s contingent on Khonshu remaining a passive bystander to mortal conflicts. By the end of the episode, he’s already broken this law by performing a kind of time-travel spell on the night sky, turning back the clock in order to use an ancient star map. As predicted, he ends up in the slammer—which is bad news for Marc and Moon Knight’s superpowers.
🦋We also get some more insight into Marc’s relationship with his estranged wife Layla, teaming up to meet with antiquities collector Anton Mogart (Gaspard Ulliel), aka Marvel’s Midnight Man. This is where Steven’s talents come into play because while he’s definitely not good in an emergency, he has Egyptian historical knowledge that Marc simply lacks. Steven can decode a map hidden in a sarcophagus belonging to Mogart—and when things get hairy with Mogart’s bodyguards, Marc can swiftly take over for the resulting action scene. The makings of a useful partnership!
But is it always Marc taking over? This episode flips the script on earlier action scenes, which involved a panicked Steven having no idea what Marc is doing with his body. Now we see Marc actually fighting onscreen—but he doesn’t have full control over their shared body either. At one point Marc “wakes up” to find several of his opponents stabbed to death—something he initially pins on Steven, an implausible theory because Steven is a wimp. So who was it ?
🦋A lot of Marvel comics fans are guessing Jake Lockley:
In the comics, Jake Lockley is the third of Moon Knight’s alternate personalities—a cab driver who does the boots-on-the-ground investigating for urban crime storylines. This blue-collar role contrasts with Steven Grant (who in the comics is a suave, Bruce Wayne-style business tycoon) and Marc Spector’s mercenary action hero persona.
However, the MCU’s Moon Knight has already made some drastic changes to comics lore, beginning with Oscar Isaac’s dorky English reimagining of Steven Grant, and continuing with last week’s usage of the “Mr. Knight” costume. So while Marc and Steven are clearly sharing a body with a mysterious third persona… we have no way of knowing if it’s Jake Lockley. And if it is Jake, then it could be a very different version from what fans expect.
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