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Moon Knight's First Solo Comic Had a Very Problematic Initial Marvel LGBTQ Character
Today, we look at how Moon Knight's first solo comic book adventure featured one of Marvel's earliest LGBTQ characters and it was...not good.
In "Things That Turned Out Bad," I will spotlight plotlines by writers that probably weren't a good concept at the hour and have only become more problematic in retrospect. I'll try to stick with stuff that's more on the ill-conceived side of things than flat-out offensive (like generic racist stereotypes of characters during the 1940s), but some of these definitely edge into just flat-out offensive territory.
A number of readers have written to me about this one over the years, and I figured with the Moon Knight TV series over, now is as nice of a moment as any to explore this ill-advised introduction of an LGBTQ character in Moon Knight's first solo comic manual story.
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WHO IS MERKINS AND WHAT IS HIS CONNECTION TO MOON KNIGHT?
After his initial introduction as Marc Spector, a mercenary who was hired to beco
Jean-Paul DuChamp is a well established associate and friend of Marc Spector and his Moon Knight alter ego, having debuted in 1975, though their relationship will be tested as part of writer Charlie Huston’s exploration of both characters. This profile will highlight some of the character’s lengthy history with a concentrate on points relevant to its inclusion here.
Writer Doug Moench christened Moon Knight’s pilot “Frenchie” when he created DuChamp and Celestial Knight for a story in Werewolf By Night #32 in the summer of 1975. DuChamp became a soldier in the French Foreign Legion, ostensibly to forget a soured relationship with a secret agent named Isabelle Kristel, which was followed by becoming a soldier of fortune. During an operation at some location on the African continent DuChamp met Marc Spector who gave him the nickname “Frenchie”. The first of many adventures the two men had came about when they accepted to work with another mercenary named Raoul Bushman. Bushman planned to steal gold that had been discovered in an archeological delve of an pharaonic tomb. The dig’s leader, Peter Alraune, and nearly everyone else save DuChamp, Alra
My previous essays reviewed two Progressive visions of manliness. Michael Mann’s HBO series Tokyo Vice reduces contemporary Japan to racism, sexism, and homophobia. Michael Bay’s Ambulance relatedly gives us a contemporary America where ethnic minorities, strong, independent women, and gay protagonists vanquish an evil pale man. Instead of boldness and greatness, we fetch misandry and woke tropes.
Our visual storytelling in TV and cinema, whether aiming at prestige or popularity, is increasingly concerned with denying the bewildering variety of human experience rather than learning from it. In the name of multiculturalism, our elites provide us not merely anti-culture but perhaps misanthropy, hatred of humanity. Instead of facing up to the difficulties involved in our increasingly confused freedom, instead of thinking about human nature and our transcendent concerns, we get shots at therapy mixed with hysterical blaming of the past.
Disney is also part of this tendency. Their new Disney+ Marvel series Moon Knight offers a Progressive vision of therapy curing the evils of manliness, but with a new trick: Egyptian mythology—gods running around doing mysterious and dramatic
Moon Knight Star Oscar Isaac Responds To Disney's Stance On 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac has recently responded to Disney's stance on Florida's “Don’t Speak Gay Bill” - downright rejecting the policy and claiming it to be an “absolute ridiculous law.” Disney and Isaac go way back and possess been working together for nearly a decade now.
Their collaborative relationship first began when Isaac landed the role as Poe Dameron in the acclaimed Star Wars trilogy as well as the Resistance animated series. Now, Isaac is about to reunite with Disney for the highly-anticipated MCU series, Moon Knight. He stars as the character of Marc Spector, who has been dubbed as a novel “type of superhero for Marvel.” Spector is a mercenary who happens to also live with dissociative identity disorder. Throughout the Marvel Studios series, Spector becomes the human vessel for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu and must use his powers in order to defeat the villainous cult leader Arthur Harrow.
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The “Don’t Say Gay Bill” (more formally referred to a