Jake Lockley

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'Moon Knight' post-credits scene explained: How [SPOILER] sets up ... (Inverse)

The unique Marvel series ends with a bang that many fans were anticipating. What does 'Moon Knight's after-credits scene mean for the MCU's future?

This is a monumental change to the Moon Knight story in many ways. Unlike so many other MCU shows, Moon Knight isn’t a one-and-done. Moon Knight Episode 6 didn’t need to answer every question. Just like the abrupt transition in Episode 4 where Marc suddenly appeared in an asylum, the post-credits scene in Episode 6 opens with Harrow in a similar situation, seeing sand where there isn’t any. So while this may be a surprise, it’s definitely not unexpected. Just as Marc and Steven were able to bounce back from the afterlife, apparently Harrow can too.

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'Moon Knight:' Meet Marc Spector's Third Alter — Jake Lockley (Marvel Entertainment)

"Marc Spector has no idea how troubled he truly is."

“But he’s such a stylish Jake. It's like if [you met him, you’d] be like, ‘wow, so you're Jake Lockley,’ in a way that you're kind of enamored and scared at the same time. It just feels like it was just a really fun chance to let the instinct of, after having played these two guys, imagining what else could be in there and the excitement of shooting that scene.” Diab “loves that he’s a Latino” character, and even as Jake walks through the hospital pushing Harrow’s wheelchair, he’s humming a Guatemalan hymn. “The thought of, ‘He's just going to have the one line that he speaks, it should be in Spanish.’ There's something that's ominous about him, the kind of control that he has versus, you know, both Marc and Steven that have been so off foot. And, for those looking for more Jake, a repeat viewing of the season might be in order, too. Heading into Episode 2 " Summon the Suit," Moorhead explains, “When [Marc] is talking to himself in the pyramid at the end of the episode, you'll notice it's actually a three sided pyramid that are progressively more and more broken. Almost in unison, both Benson and Moorhead confirm, “That is intended to be Jake.” The one that he kicks out and smashes is actually a tiny, tiny little clue to look out for three instead of two.” While also trying to ride this line that it's not literally going to be a creature from the descent popping out. Going so far back as Episode 1 " The Goldfish Problem," cinematographer Gregory Middleton points out that after Steven wakes up in bed following the cupcake truck chase, “There's a shot of a [split] of mirrors and there's this barely third reflection.” Barely three reflections. Rather, the team focused on “everyone else who's totally unfamiliar with the character and the dynamic,” recognizing “we have to make sure that the mystery works as satisfying for the newcomers to the Moon Knight story.” Episode 3 " The Friendly Type" offers more clues to Jake’s role in everything, as racing through Cairo neither Marc nor Steven knows who’s in control and carrying out some of these bloody deeds.

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Moon Knight includes massive post-credits scene in its final episode (Radio Times)

The end credits scene for Moon Knight's finale in episode 6 finally confirmed a major fan theory about Marc Spector and Steven Grant.

As in this end credits scene, Jake is usually a driver – though in the comics he was a New York cabbie, with connections to the criminal underworld that were useful to Moon Knight’s crime-fighting. How exactly Jake was created in this TV version remains to be seen – as does whether we’ll see him again. He’s more of an assassin, a true “fist of Khonshu” who has no trouble executing people in cold blood. Later, when the duo escaped from an imagined mental hospital, Marc had to free Steven from a sarcophagus – but you also see another unopened sarcophagus standing in a room, which neither of them attempts to open. Well, in the comics Moon Knight almost always has his alternate Steven Grant and Marc Spector identities, and Jake Lockley is usually right in there with them. There had been clues for a while that Steven wasn’t the only extra identity Marc had.

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Moon Knight: Who is Jake Lockley? (Metro)

Throughout its six-episode run on Disney Plus, Marvel series Moon Knight has transfixed viewers, as they were transported to a world where ancient Egyptian gods ...

On top of that, we have to ask what happened to Marc and Steven at the end of Moon Knight to result in them winding back up at Steven’s apartment in London? In the final episode of the series, this happened once again when Marc was fighting Harrow and was on the verge of defeat, before Jake presumably emerged to save the day. In the episode 6 finale post-credits scene, fans were finally introduced to a significant character after weeks of anticipation – Jake Lockley, the third identity played by Oscar Isaac after Marc Spector and Steven Grant.

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The <em>Moon Knight</em> Season Finale Asked More Questions ... (Esquire.com)

We break down what happened in the 'Moon Knight' finale and what it means for the futures of Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and Scarlet Scarab.

For our money, a version of Moon Knight that dialed down the focus on Khonshu, Ammit, and the suspiciously Eternals-esque council of gods who creep on humanity from the sidelines, would've been a much better ride. Khonshu's inside, by the way, introducing Harrow to Lockley. Then? Lockley executes Harrow. If we're being honest, the permanence of Harrow's death probably depends on whether or not Ethan Hawke wants to return to the MCU after Moon Knight. (Considering how close he is with Isaac, we'd be willing to be he'll come back to the party.) Regardless, if/when Isaac returns, there will be three of him! Though Moon Knight found itself lost in the metaphorical and literal desert more often than not, it was nice to see Grant and Spector, as Mr. Knight and Moon Knight, respectively, finally fight alongside each other without bickering. In Moon Knight's mid-credits scene, we see Lockley pick up Harrow from the psychiatric hospital and toss him in an all-white limo. Admirable! Spector and Grant share a tender moment—as two Oscar Isaacses do—before resurrecting in the real world. Now, for the week of May 1, Chef Feige is serving up the season finale of Moon Knight, paired with the premiere of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (Check back here this Friday for Esquire's coverage of Doctor Strange. Which, we promise, is worth coming back for.

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Who are Jake Lockley and Scarlet Scarab in the Moon Knight finale? (Polygon)

Moon Knight's final episode makes a new Egyptian superhero out of Layla, the Scarlet Scarab — and finally reveals the third personality of Steven Grant and ...

And comics can’t help us much here, because Layla is an almost entirely original character to the Moon Knight TV series. Jake isn’t the only star of Moon Knight’s credits scene: Khonshu has picked up some modern threads and modern conveyance. A nattily-suited Khonshu is a staple of Moon Knight comics, and he looks just as good in live action as on the page. Moon Knight has been hinting at the existence of a third personality since early in the series, sprinkling the story with moments when both Steven and Marc experienced the blackouts that usually indicated the other one was taking over. Now we know exactly who was in there: The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s take on Jake Lockley. There’s not much we know about him at this point. There’s a third personality neither of them are aware of, and his name is Jake Lockley.

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Moon Knight ending explained: what happened in the postcredits ... (NationalWorld)

Who is Jake Lockley, and what does Moon Knight's postcredits scene mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe? By Alex Moreland. Wednesday, 4th May 2022, ...

Sitting in the back of the car is Khonshu – Harrow taunts him weakly, pointing out that there’s nothing Khonshu can do without an avatar now. “Meet my friend Jake Lockley,” continues Khonshu. The driver turns around: Jake Lockley is another facet of Marc and Steven’s personality. That Ammit doesn’t immediately judge him seems almost to shake Harrow’s faith in her, but before it can truly sink in she makes him her avatar, embodying him in the fight against Khonshu and Moon Knight. He freed Marc and Steven, that’s true – but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an avatar. Someone – it’s not immediately clear who, we don’t see their face, only that they’re wearing black leather driving gloves – collects Harrow from the hospital, escorting him out of the hospital in a wheelchair. It’s a disaster: Ammit appears is laying waste to Cairo, and the gods are powerless without human avatars. Layla agrees to become Tawaret’s avatar, and is transformed into a new superhero. Layla begins the episode reeling from Marc’s apparent death, and ready to take on Harrow alone – or die trying. Khonshu urges Moon Knight to kill Harrow, but he refuses: a pre-emptive strike like that, taking away Harrow’s choice to change, is exactly the sort of retribution Ammit metes out, and exactly why they’ve been fighting against her. As Khonshu’s avatar, the Fist of Vengeance, Marc and Steven confronted Arthur Harrow – but arrived too late to stop him releasing Ammit. Marc and Steven wake up in Steven’s London flat – it’s not clear how much time has passed, or where Layla and Harrow now. The tide of the fight turns when Marc blacks out, reawakening to find Harrow bloody and bruised at his feet.

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The <em>Moon Knight</em> Finale Credits Scene Finally ... (menshealth.com)

The Moon Knight Episode 6 finale finally introduced Jake Lockley, Marc's third persona, in its post-credits scene.

This figure brings Arthur outside and tosses him into a limo—and in the back of the limo, Arthur meets Khonshu. Khonshu is very leisurely sitting, and essentially tells Arthur that he's still got his fist of vengeance. This, too, was Jake. Some theorists also believed that one of the conversations in the asylum scenes with "Dr. Harrow" was Jake as well. At the actual end of the show, we saw Marc and Steven still in tune with one another. The only difference now is that Steven and Marc were awake at the same time, operating in coordination. Marc and Steven wanted to live their own life, and Khonshu (voiced with such wonderful wry frustration by F. Murray Abraham) held through with his end of the bargain. After six episodes establishing the identities of Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) and Steven Grant ( British Oscar Isaac), then each identity denying the other exists, then each realizing the other has basically existed all along, and then, finally, becoming BFFs with each other, Moon Knight finally found its team up in its finale.

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What is Jake Lockley Like in the 'Moon Knight' Comics? (Distractify)

The Marvel series 'Moon Knight' finally introduced Marc Spector's third, more violent personality, Jake Lockley. What is Jake like in the comics?

Although Jake is a bit more bloodthirsty in the Moon Knight television series, his purpose in the comics is quite similar to the show's version of Jake. Someone's got to do the dirty work of being a superhero after all. Marc is ashamed of the way Jake operates. However, the comics version of Jake is quite different than the Moon Knight personality. As Distractify previously reported, the comics version of Steven Grant is similar to Bruce Wayne. Jake's strength in the comics is finding valuable informants in people that Steven wouldn't even consider, like the homeless man Crawley, or Gena Landers, the owner of Gena's Diner, per Marvel. Jake Lockley is also one of Marc Spector's identities in the Moon Knight comics.

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'Moon Knight' Director Mohamed Diab on the Season Finale, Oscar ... (Variety)

"Moon Knight" director Mohamed Diab talks introducing Jake Lockley in the season finale and creating the first Egyptian hero in the MCU.

There has to be a scene at the end that connects us to the MCU. But I think they decided, “You know what, the surprise is that there isn’t, and what’s going to make this show unique is it doesn’t need anything else.” The best compliment we get on the show is when people tell us, “This doesn’t feel like a Marvel show. It feels like a standalone show that feels more dramatic, more dark, grounded.” I feel like we succeeded in bringing Marvel more to our corner. “Moon Knight” is becoming a national pride in Egypt. People treat it like the Egyptian “Black Panther.” They love that behind the camera, there are Egyptians; in front of the camera, there are Egyptians. There’s Egyptian music that the world is enjoying. My answer is this is a show that needs to be watched once and twice and three times. I had to take her to Disneyland and tell Princess Elsa and Anna, “Please tell her that her hair is beautiful.” She never saw anything on TV that looks like her. Thank God I had the chance to do that on this show. Do you feel like the show ends with a definitive answer to that question? Maybe it’s going to be a journey like what happened with “WandaVision.” I wish one day, if there is an expansion, I would be a part of it. If you ask me, I would tell you that “Moon Knight” is here to stay. But the Jake scene certainly suggests that there is more story to tell. All of that suggests a wide-open future for Mark/Steven/Jake and Layla — something Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab, who directed the first, third, fifth and sixth episodes of “Moon Knight” — definitely hopes to help make happen. Marvel recently referred to the episode as the “season finale” of “Moon Knight,” not the series finale.

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