While Marvel Studios has definitely addressed the fallout from The Blip in its Phase 4 movies and TV shows, it hasn't been in the way many fans expected. For the most part, that traumatic five-year gap between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame has been glossed over, so it's no wonder fans have been curious about what some of the newly introduced characters were doing during that period.
We've had some answers, in fairness, such as Hawkeye's reveal that Yelena Belova was among those turned to dust. When it comes to Marc Spector, though, did he survive Thanos' Snap?
"In the writers room, we all collectively thought he survived the Blip, that he wasn’t blipped away," Moon Knight Head Writer Jeremy Slater told The Direct during a recent interview. "I think if he had been blipped and come back, it would be something that you would have to address. So we all kind of collectively assumed that he was part of the 50% that survived."
"[They] say in the show that Steven basically woke up about two years ago. That was the first time that they started living separate lives, and it was following the death of Marc’s mother. In the same way that Hawkeye had his hands full as Ronin because the criminal underworld was running rampant during the Blip time, I assume Moon Knight was keeping very busy. It was all being done in the shadows, and he was sort of taking out a lot of threats that never surfaced or saw the light of day."
In a separate conversation with ComicBook.com, Slater was quizzed about who asked that museum tour guide on a date in the first episode. As you may recall, Steven Grant had no recollection of this and we ended up assuming it must have been Marc. However, having seen the show, it's a little hard to believe he would interfere in Steven's life when he was trying to protect him from the truth.
"I think it has to be [Jake Lockley]," Slater confesses. "Marc doesn't necessarily make sense if he's trying to protect Steven from his life. It doesn't necessarily make sense that he would also be hitting on his coworkers. So for me, yeah, that has to be Jake. But your guess is as good as mine."
We have a few questions after watching Moon Knight, but many are unlikely to be answered until the character returns either in a movie or for a second batch of episodes on Disney+.