Narrative works based on mystery are based on their effectiveness and the interest they arouse in the public, such as the miniseries moon knight (2022) and most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they need to offer us different twists throughout the development of their plot to impress and keep their eyes fixed on the screen. and the episode “The Tomb” (1×04) of the adventures starring Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector is exemplary in that regard.
In the script signed by Alex Meenehan, Peter Cameron and Sabir Pirzada there are several surprising swerves; even one capable of blowing our heads off because he manipulates our notion of reality about what happens. But the first of real relevance that occurs is related to the egyptian tomb that the dangerous Arthur Harrow of Ethan Hawke and his gang, on the one hand, and Steven Grant and the Layla El-Faouly of May Calamawy, on the other, are searching hard for.
Some try to resurrect the goddess Ammit so that she unleashes her horrible power of justice throughout Minority report (2002) and the pair with the protagonist of moon knight, prevent it. The key to this is found in said funerary enclosure, and these characters descend there, putting their lives in danger. But what we wouldn’t guess in a million years is the identity of the deceased to which they dedicate such an underground construction. Nothing less than Alexander the Great.
A Fascinating Historical Character in ‘Moon Knight’
The oldest architect of the Macedonian Empire He is one of the men who has caused the greatest controversies and pure fascination among historians who specialize in Antiquity, and enormous rivers of academic ink. Born in the year 356 BCE, he had the philosopher Aristotle as a teacher and fell out with his difficult father, Philip II, for his new marriage to the point that he threatened to declare him a bastard son.
When he died violently in 336, he sat on the throne of Macedonia after having rid himself of his other claimants, subdued the rebellious peoples who tried to shake off the Macedonian yoke taking advantage of the situation of the monarchical succession and, until the confused day in that Alexander the Great kicked the bucket and they put his corpse in the lost tomb what is seen in moon knightconquered the world.
Or, at least, the vast area of it between Greece, the Indus Valley to the East and Egypt to the West. Thus, he managed to take revenge on the Persians by occupying their empire and yet in his thirteen years from leaderHe also served as Greek hegemon, Egyptian pharaoh and king of Asia, Media and Persia and, by demolishing so many border walls, he fostered the cultural exchange of the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE).
Ammit’s voice
The Persians controlled Egypt since the year 343, as they had done before between 523 and 404, and Alexander the Great ended a domain that was abhorred in 332, earning the gratitude of the residents in the country of the Nile. They considered him their liberator and believed that he was a direct descendant of King Nectanebo, representative of Amun and, therefore, son of that celestial deity. And that was how they decided to name him pharaoh.
In moon knightwe discover how Ammit’s voice, according to the Steven Grant of Oscar Isaac before his sarcophagus; namely, the last avatar of the goddess with crocodile head and the rest, lion from the waist up and hippopotamus down. What does not contradict in Marvel fiction what we know about the conqueror of Macedonia admired by Julius Caesar and Napoleon, a very religious subject who practiced polytheism usual of his time.
And, according to the chronicles, Alexander the Great passed away in 323 BCE without being able consolidate your empire, in the royal palace of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and only thirty-two years old. But how the circumstances in which it happened they are dark and there are speculations about various lethal diseases or even poisoning, the writers of moon knightIf you want, you can tell us that those who opposed Ammit set out to destroy him and they succeeded.
Alexander the Great was already in the Marvel comics, but not like this
However, we do not have a narrative basis in the Marvel comics for this story with the Macedonian as a servant of the Egyptian goddess. But he does show up. In number three of Adventures into Weird Worlds (1951), goes through a strange blue fog with his soldiers and travels about 10,000 years back in time, until The Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, and found the Greek dynasty. And another mist makes them return later to the corresponding time.
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And, according to number 457 of The Incredible Hulk (1997), when Alexander the Great fights against the Persians to seize Egypt in 330 BCE, a powerful mutant beholds the battle: En Sabah Nur, the villain of the film X Men: Apocalypse (2016), played by Oscar Isaac himself, who reprimands his people for worshiping the conqueror and manages to make him flee from his own domains due to the sinister laughter that escapes him due to the young man’s pretensions to divinity.