It certainly makes sense for Whitman to be in the world of Moon Knight beyond a mere museum appearance. In Marvel Comics, the character becomes the troubled Black Knight after wielding the Ebony Blade featured in a post-credits scene from Eternals; a scene which also connects via voice cameo to a highly anticipated supernatural reboot movie already in the works at Marvel: Blade.
But to add Whitman to Moon Knight at this stage of his MCU evolution would have likely frustrated fans who were eager to see him as the Black Knight and not just a regular man going about his business, according to Slater. “My feeling was if we got Kit Harington to show up and he doesn’t suit up and he doesn’t kick ass, as a fan I’m pissed off.”
Slater added “There’s only so much you can do to tease those reveals before people get frustrated. There was no space in those first two episodes to have him suit up and play Black Knight in the storyline, so we ultimately decided that it didn’t make sense to make this connection. But it was something we definitely talked about a couple days in the room.”
Choosing to add a brief appearance from Harington as Whitman would also have been an expensive move for the Moon Knight team, and if Whitman had not been in his superhero guise during the series, Slater indicated that it would not have been worth the price to include him. “If I see [Whitman] show up I want to see him go full Black Knight. Just seeing an interaction where he walks past and goes ‘Oh hey Steven,’ who responds ‘Oh, hey Professor Whitman!’ It felt like that would be a waste of the money it would cost Kit Harington in there.”
