WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Sweet Girl, now streaming on Netflix.
In the Marvel Universe, fans are eagerly awaiting Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector, aka Moon Knight. This street-level vigilante might not be a household name just yet, but comic fans associate him with characters like Daredevil and the Heroes for Hire, which means it's just a matter of time before he catapults into the mainstream. At the center of Marc's story is his dissociative identity disorder, shaping personalities that are truly dangerous in the field. But while fans wait on this Disney+ series, Netflix gave fans an idea of what a Moon Knight movie would look like using Sweet Girl.
Moon Knight, created in 1975 by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, has been elevated in recent years at Marvel, appearing in more cartoons, comics, and even rising up the Avengers ranks. The former boxer and military operative was betrayed on a job, but the moon god Khonshu offered him a second chance at life in exchange for becoming his avatar on Earth. This empowered Marc to beat people down, basking in the idea of vengeance, which helped fracture his mind. He would go on to create different personalities, including the millionaire Steven Grant, who's similar to the playboy figure of Bruce Wayne, and cab driver Jake Lockley, who does things on a grounded level, disguised as a civilian in areas like New York. However, Marc's struggled with keeping the personalities separate, sometimes forgetting who he is and battling to stay in control.
In Sweet Girl, a similar thing happens to Rachel after her dad, Ray, loses his wife and goes on a revenge mission against BioPrime, a Big Pharma company that stymied drugs and inadvertently killed people like Rachel's mom. As the film goes along, however, the audience begins to realize Ray's not the one doing the killing -- it's actually Rachel. She projects her dad from her trauma, as she actually saw an assassin murder Ray as part of the cover-up. And this winding road is a dramatic one for Rachel, which makes it feel like something Moon Knight would be a part of.
Sadly, Rachel's trauma broke her mind, and she's forgotten her identity, believing she's Ray and imagining herself at his side as the voice of reason. This descent is why Meeker, an FBI agent, keeps trying to coax Rachel back to the surface, reminding her she's in the driver's seat. It's similar to Marc's battle, which alienates his peers and causes other heroes to wonder if he's truly worth trusting.
Fortunately, in recent comic book stories, therapy has helped remake and keep Marc's mind intact, with his divine mission and supernatural origins not controlling him as much as they used to. And maybe someday he can heal like Rachel does at the end of Sweet Girl when she gets the politician behind the scandal arrested, finally able to move on to a more peaceful existence.
To see how Rachel's story compares to Moon Knight's, Sweet Girl is streaming on Netflix.