Shadow Moon
The ex-convict who becomes Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard and errand runner.
Shadow Moon is the protagonist of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods. Let out of prison two days early after his wife Laura dies in a car crash, he learns she died alongside his best friend Robbie, with whom she was having an affair, and that the job Robbie had promised him is gone. With nowhere else to go, he becomes the bodyguard of the con man Mr. Wednesday, who is Odin.
Quick Facts
- Appears in
- American Gods (novel, 2001; TV series)
- Played by
- Ricky Whittle
Facts from the source article.
Background
On the road with Wednesday he meets Czernobog and the three Zorya sisters, one of whom gives him a silver coin from the Moon for protection. Arrested for breaking his parole, he escapes with help from Czernobog and Mr. Nancy. At the end he goes to Rock City, confronts the wounded Loki and Odin's ghost, and tells the gods gathered for battle that neither side has anything to gain, so they go home. Ricky Whittle plays him in the television series, and Gaiman has written two short-story sequels about him.
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