Between Giancarlo Esposito’s mercenary-like costume for “Captain America: Courageous New World,” the rumors surrounding his character’s MCU trajectory, and the potential creation of “Moon Knight” Season 2, there appears to be an opportunity Esposito will carry Bushman to the franchise. If that is so, odds are a number of clashes between him and a vengeful Marc Spector are within the playing cards. Utilizing their comedian historical past as a information, their fight might introduce a stage of brutality by no means seen within the MCU.
Within the pages of Marvel Comics, Moon Knight and Bushman are bitter rivals after the latter leaves Spector to die within the Egyptian desert. After a number of bloody clashes, their feud involves a head in “Moon Knight” #2 from 2006, the place the Fist of Khonshu will get the higher hand on his longtime adversary. In hopes of bringing their warfare to an finish, he carves off Bushman’s face, killing him for a time. Like practically everybody in comics, although, Bushman ultimately returns from the grave, just for him to once more come up brief in opposition to Moon Knight and all of his powers in a brutal battle, the place he is impaled on a machine gun.
Attempt as Marvel Studios would possibly to maintain the MCU largely family-friendly, within the case of Bushman and Moon Knight’s rivalry, it’s going to have to enter R-rated territory. Their battles are identified for his or her brutality, so not going all-in could be one thing of disservice to their historical past. After all, it stays unconfirmed if Giancarlo Esposito is even taking part in Bushman within the MCU and if “Moon Knight” Season 2 is going on, so we’ll simply have to attend and see if such confrontations are attainable within the first place.