About

Moon Knight is an upcoming Disney+ series featuring the superhero Moon Knight from the Marvel Comics series, portrayed by actor Oscar Isaac of Dune, Star Wars and Spiderverse fame. Due to the character's cult following from the comics and the Disney+ series being the first attempt at an adaptation of the source material, Moon Knight was widely discussed upon the trailer release in early 2022, as well as referenced in memes.

History

On August 25th, 2019, Marvel President Kevin Feige first announced Moon Knight along with other series at D23 Expo, with the crowd loudly expressing their excitement. This event was recorded and uploaded to YouTube on August 25th, 2019, by the official Marvel Entertainment YouTube^[2] channel, gaining over 500,000 views in three years (shown below).

Three years later, on January 17th, 2022, the first trailer for the series was released on the Marvel Entertainment YouTube^[3] channel, quickly gaining over two million views in under two hours. The trailer showed the main character, Marc Spector (played by Oscar Isaac), as well as gave the audience a glimpse of the Moon Knight costume in action (shown below).

Online Presence

This series announcement and trailers quickly caused a lot of celebration in the community, as Moon Knight has been a consistently memed character for years, with one of his most prevalent formats being uploaded to Imgur on October 10th, 2018, by the user THISISYELLING^[1] (shown below).

On January 18th, 2022, a day after the trailer was released, there were already YouTubers uploading deconstruction and easter egg videos on it, such as the YouTube^[4] channel New Rockstars, which released a video about the trailer's details and earned over 800,000 views in two days (shown below).

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