Marvel fans on Reddit think they know Giancarlo Esposito’s MCU role
Between Giancarlo Esposito’s mercenary-like costume for “Captain America: Brave New World,” the rumors surrounding his character’s MCU trajectory, and the potential creation of “Moon Knight” Season 2, there seems to be a chance Esposito will bring Bushman to the franchise. If this is the case, odds are one or more clashes between him and a vengeful Marc Spector are in the cards. Using their comic history as a guide, their combat could introduce a level of brutality never seen in the MCU.
In the pages of Marvel Comics, Moon Knight and Bushman are bitter rivals after the latter leaves Spector to die in the Egyptian desert. After several bloody clashes, their feud comes to a head in “Moon Knight” #2 from 2006, where the Fist of Khonshu gets the upper hand on his longtime adversary. In hopes of bringing their war to an end, he carves off Bushman’s face, killing him for a time. Like nearly everyone in comics, though, Bushman eventually returns from the grave, only for him to again come up short against Moon Knight and all of his powers in a brutal fight, where he’s impaled on a machine gun.
Try as Marvel Studios might to keep the MCU largely family-friendly, in the case of Bushman and Moon Knight’s rivalry, it’ll have to go into R-rated territory. Their battles are known for their brutality, so not going all-in would be something of disservice to their history. Of course, it remains unconfirmed if Giancarlo Esposito is even playing Bushman in the MCU and if “Moon Knight” Season 2 is happening, so we’ll just have to wait and see if such confrontations are possible in the first place.