In the last episode of “Moon Knight” (for now?), Arthur Harrow finally frees the goddess Ammit, who immediately starts devouring the souls of those she deems to be future sinners, making her heart grow approximately 300 sizes that day. The more she devours, the bigger she grows, until she towers over Cairo, the size of one of the great pyramids. Soon enough, Khonshu also manages to grow the size of a behemoth (but presumably without devouring souls) and we get a massive showdown of two actual living Egyptian gods on the Giza necropolis.

Except the episode doesn’t care about that. This is no “Attack on Titan” with its massive Colossal Titans constantly walking in the background as an inescapable terror. We barely cut away to the god fight, focusing instead on a street-level fight between Marc/Steven, Layla, and Harrow and his goons.

One common criticism of superhero movies, be it DC or Marvel, is that they focus so much on exciting spectacle that they forget about the common folks. But “Moon Knight” makes it even clearer that the common folks of the MCU don’t care about dangers. You do see people running away in terror, but they seem to react more to the guys with guns than the two literal gods towering over them, gods that would quite literally change everything for those people. Instead, this is just another Wednesday for the citizens of Cairo, a new addition to the list of weird, potentially world-ending yet only mildly annoying stuff you have to put up with when you live in the MCU.