‘Moon Knight’ Officially Got the Perfect Chance for a Revival
Jeffrey is a freelance features writer at Collider. He is an MPA-accredited entertainment journalist and a Tomatometer-approved critic based in the LA area. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Radio, TV, & Film and a Bachelor of Arts in Theater.
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When Marvel began producing shows for Disney+, it took some big swings, succeeding with hits such as WandaVision and Loki, but also had some significant misses, like Secret Invasion. One of those disappointing misfires was Moon Knight, which wasn't the exciting series that fans had envisioned. However, after two seasons, Daredevil: Born Again offers the perfect blueprint for Marvel Television to take another shot at Moon Knight in a similar format.
'Daredevil: Born Again' Proves That Small-Scale Stories Can Work on Disney+
When Disney+ first launched, executives were hesitant about putting any programming that wasn't family-friendly on the streaming service, limiting content to a PG-13 rating at most. However, that all changed when the Netflix-era Marvel television shows were finally added to Disney+ in 2022. Although Marvel's Netflix franchise originally concluded with The Punisher Season 2 in 2019, its inclusion on Disney+ ultimately led to Daredevil's return in a new revival series, Daredevil: Born Again, which faithfully continued the Netflix legacy of darker, TV-MA-rated shows. The first season, which saw all the major cast members of the original series reprising their roles, proved to be a success, both critically and with viewers.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What MCU Superpower Would You Have? Strength · Spider-Sense · Invisibility · Chaos Magic
Eight honest questions about how you actually are: your first instinct when things go wrong, what your friends rely on you for, how you handle stress, what your real flaw is. Answer them and we will tell you which power you would wake up with. The best ones in the MCU are never random, because they always say something about the person who got them.
💪Super Strength(Hulk)
🕸️Spider-Sense(Spider-Man)
🫧Invisibility(Fantastic Four)
🔮Chaos Magic(Scarlet Witch)
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What is your first instinct when something goes wrong? Go with the honest answer rather than the heroic one.
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How do you handle being the centre of attention? Every hero on this list answers this differently.
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What do your friends rely on you for? They would all name the same thing about you.
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How do you deal with stress? Nobody picks the healthy one, and that is fine.
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What is your actual flaw? The useful thing here is picking the true one.
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What kind of help do you actually give people? Everybody has one default, whatever the situation is.
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How do you want strangers to see you? Answer for the first ten minutes, not the first year.
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What would you want a superpower for? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your power.
The Gift Is Given Your Power Is…
Four powers, and four completely different kinds of person behind them. Here is what you would wake up with, what it would cost you, and why the MCU keeps handing it to somebody exactly like you.
Super Strength
You get the power that is really about taking the hit so that nobody else has to. Strength in the MCU always lands on people who were already carrying too much, which is exactly why it suits you.
- Your instinct is to put yourself between the problem and the people, and you do it before anybody has thought to ask.
- Bruce Banner is the most interesting version of this because his story was never about lifting things, it was about control.
- The catch with strength is that people stop checking whether you are alright, since you have made a habit of looking like you always are.
- You would be the one everybody calls at two in the morning, and you would answer every single time.
Spider-Sense
You get the power that never switches off. Spider-sense is a gift and a nervous system on permanent alert, and the people who get it in these films are always the ones who were already worrying about everybody.
- You read a situation faster than you can explain it, and you are usually right in a way you cannot show your working for.
- Peter Parker is the template because he takes on more than he can hold and then apologises for not holding it well enough.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrived in July 2026 and put him back to being local, broke and permanently on call.
- The cost here is real, since a power that warns you about everything also means you are never quite off duty.
Invisibility
You get the quietest power in the building, and quietly the most useful. Invisibility comes with force fields for a reason, because the people who prefer not to be seen are usually the ones holding a shield around everybody else.
- You notice everything, largely because you spend more time observing a room than performing in it.
- Sue Storm is the strongest member of her team and the least interested in anybody saying so, which is very much your energy.
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally gave the family a proper MCU home in 2025 and made her the centre of it.
- Your risk is that being unseen becomes a habit rather than a choice, and the people who love you would like a look in.
Chaos Magic
You get the biggest and least comfortable power on the list, the one that runs directly on feeling. Chaos magic is not really a superpower in the MCU so much as an emotional state with consequences attached.
- You feel things at a volume other people do not, and you have spent years managing that rather than being managed by it.
- Wanda is the best written character Marvel has, precisely because her power and her grief turned out to be the same thing.
- WandaVision remains the high point of Marvel television, and it works because the spectacle is only ever a symptom.
- The warning attached to this one is simple. A power that answers to how you feel is only ever as steady as you are.
Daredevil: Born Again perfected Marvel's new television model, proving that shows comparable to the ones that saw great success on Netflix, such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage, could perform on Disney+. Comic readers may recall that in the late 1990s, Marvel Comics launched a new imprint titled Marvel Knights. These edgier, street-level stories were still set in the main Marvel 616 continuity, but they were more self-contained narratives rather than being connected to major events. With Daredevil: Born Again serving as proof that the Marvel Knights formula can work on-screen, the door is open for more revivals to follow suit.
'Moon Knight' Didn’t Stick the Landing When It First Premiered
Although 2022's Moon Knight had a strong lead in Oscar Isaac, the miniseries didn't have the quality or the impact that viewers expected. The story was tonally uneven, spending too much screen time on the character's mythological origins without properly establishing the Moon Knight persona and powers. Ethan Hawke's talents were also wasted in the role of a one-off villain from the comics, Arthur Harrow, who was hardly one of Moon Knight's most formidable foes.
Additionally, subplots involving the Egyptian deities came off as odd and goofy, and there weren't enough scenes of Moon Knight in action, facing off against his unique gallery of villains. Once Spector summons a magic costume, which makes him nigh-invulnerable and capable of surviving impalement, why does it give him a grappling hook? When Moon Knight debuted in the pages of Werewolf by Night #32, his costume, weapons, and gadgets weren't magical; they were provided by a group of villains called the Committee. The series also wasted Moon Knight's iconic "Mr. Knight" alter — the less said about that, the better.
'Moon Knight' Needs a Revival That Follows in 'Daredevil: Born Again's Footsteps
The Moon Knight miniseries aired when Marvel and Disney were hesitant to delve into more mature, adult-skewing shows. Now that the model is a proven success with Daredevil: Born Again, which will conclude with its third and final season in 2027, it's time for Marvel to bring back Moon Knight in a new series. The new series should recontextualize Marc Spector for the MCU, ditching the magical suit and grounding the character.
A new Moon Knight series should also send the character back to the streets of New York City, where he can face off against darker and edgier villains, such as Morpheus and Stained Glass Scarlet. The previous miniseries didn't even properly introduce Raoul Bushman, the character's archenemy, beyond a brief reference, which is an omission worth rectifying on its own. It'd be crucial for any new Moon Knight show to incorporate Moon Knight's aide, Frenchie, who pilots the iconic Moon-Copter. Any fight scenes should be grounded, gritty, and brutal, which Daredevil: Born Again absolutely excelled at delivering; although Moon Knight possesses enhanced abilities, his powers have limits, and his battles should take a more physical toll.
Marvel announced Marvel Zombies: Fist of Khonshu for Halloween 2028 at New York Comic Con, but that animated project does not confirm a live-action return for Isaac's Marc Spector. A Moon Knight revival could still learn from Daredevil: Born Again, even as that series approaches its conclusion: smaller-scale conflicts can give its hero's personal struggles more room to breathe. Hopefully, one of the franchise's most underutilized heroes will get his own revival in the form of a show that actually fits both the character and his comic book roots.
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