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Moon Knight Battle of the Week RESULTS: Moon Knight vs. Green Arrow

The dust has settled and only one of these heroes is left standing. Which one is the victor? Come find out!

Moon Knight being the latest Character of the Month means we're going to give him plenty of praise on the homepage (Khonshu should be happy with that). We'll promote some of his stories, ask why you love him, and even showcase his best covers. But being the Character of the Month means we're also going to test his ability as a combatant. Moon Knight's first challenge: Green Arrow! Should the anti-hero defeat DC's Emerald Archer if they got into a fight? According to the voters, the answer is yes!

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The Fist of Khonshu earned 55% and Oliver Queen received 39%. Only 6% think this fight is too close to call and has the potential to go either way. So, why does the majority believe Moon Knight can defeat the accurate hero from DC? You'd think Green Arrow's accuracy and variety of trick arrows would give him an immediate edge, right? Oliver's superb abilities at range are indeed a big advantage, but Moon Knight has decades of experience against marksman.

Not only has he danced around the Punisher's gunfire and even caught an arrow, but his crescent daggers are often used as an equalizer. Spector really has a thing for using his throwing weapons to disarm or disable his enemies. He's commonly used them to injure hands, destroy weapons, and most recently, he cut a bullet in half. Dealing with the onslaught of arrows Oliver can dish out won't be easy -- and if he does get tagged, he has ridiculously high pain tolerance -- but it's not impossible for him to handle this obstacle, either. And, if he does close the gap, his effective hand-to-hand abilities means he has what it takes to eventually earn the win. However, proper use of Green Arrow's trick arrows (if you're reading GREEN ARROW, you know they can be very effective) could be a game changer. Anyway, let's see what a few Comic Viners said about this brawl.

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Chaos Burn

"Moon Knight has a history of dodging projectiles such as bullets and arrows, and I think even if they do tag him, Moon Knight clearly shows the pain resistance to be able to close the gap before Green Arrow does too much damage. Moon Knight could easily throw projectiles of his own (well practiced crescent darts, truncheon etc.) and put Green Arrow's aim off enough that the arrows don't hit their mark. And once Moon Knight gets into close combat, I believe he will overpower Green Arrow relatively quick, emerging with a few cuts and scratches of his own - though that never bothers Khonshu's avatar...."

TDK_1997

"Interesting match-up but I don't think Ollie would stick for long. I mean he has a range advantage because of the arrows but Marc isn't going for the first time against an opponent who relies on long range combat and uses weapons of that kind. The best example for him dodging something that is shot at him is from the most recent Moon Knight series where in #2 he basically cut a bullet in half with his moon daggers,so it seems like an arrow wouldn't be much of a problem for him. That being said he will pretty quickly cut the range in half and maybe he will even be just too close and will rely on a h2h combat which just puts him above Oliver and that will make him fall.

But of course there is another scenario which isn't much likely to happen but there is a chance,Oliver to trick Marc. I mean that one explosive arrow may be just too much and to be enough for Ollie to win. If it is set at the right place and it explodes it might make MK a little bit dizzy and then he will be an easy target."

Omnicrono

"I'm leaning toward Green Arrow for the slight majority in light of the battle scenario. Moon Knight has never encountered a ranged fighter quite like GA. The man is arguably the most talented and tricksy marksman on Earth in the DCU, and he'll have plenty of cover from which he can maneuver his opponent into position on this battlefield. So if GA keeps his distance, maybe even gains the high ground quickly, he pretty much has this one in the bag... in my opinion.

That's not to say GA has to always keep his distance either. His martial arts skills are nothing to scoff at, allowing him to go toe-to-toe for a while against some of the greatest close-quarters combatants in the DCU, such as Black Canary and even Batman. Moon Knight is going to have a difficult time even if he does manage to get in close. At the very least, GA should be able to hold his own in an up-close confrontation... long enough to seal the deal with a trick arrow or two, for which Moony has no answer."

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Is there someone you want to see Moon Knight duke it out with? Feel free to make future battle suggestions in the comments below or via Twitter!



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I think Moon Knight takes the majority.

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@tparks: Fair enough, that's very good reasoning! And honestly I wouldn't put it past Gregg to make that kind of close match up between street levellers (hint, hint) ;)

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@lvenger said:

@tparks said:

Moon Knight vs Shredder.

Please make this happen!

I predict a "too close to call" vote being a majority.

How come? There are a lot of edges on Moon Knight's side in this battle that enabled him to win here. Why wouldn't that be the case against Shredder?

I think they're pretty even in skill and physicals. If Moon Knight is using his better tech, he should win, but if it's a straight up fight, I think it would be pretty even.

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v midnighter or bane

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Moon Knight vs Bronze Tiger

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Or, I see a lot of streetleveler style battles being pitched here. What about pitting him against some supernatural characters? One of Moon Knight's beats is the occult and that's a cool aspect of him. I'd like to see a battle that reflects that.

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A 'Moon Knight runs the gauntlet' with Batman's rogues gallery would be good.

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@tdk_1997 said:

I feel honored to be one of the people with the argument of the battle.

Congratulations dude. You earned it.

Thanks man!

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@tdk_1997 said:

I feel honored to be one of the people with the argument of the battle.

Congratulations dude. You earned it.

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Hell. Cool that MK won. Some VERY cool battle proposed out there, by the way. Please make one of them happen!!

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Just some ideas off the top of my head:

Moon Knight vs. Deadshot

Moon Knight vs. Owlman

Moon Knight vs. Bane

Moon Knight vs. Prometheus

Moon Knight vs. Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)

Moon Knight vs. Predator

Moon Knight vs. Ozymandias

Moon Knight vs. Hush

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@cdiddyman911: which is probably the majority of people who frequent this site.

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@tparks said:

Even before the TV show though, Green Arrow was still hundreds of times more popular then Moon Knight, even among comic readers. There are people who read Marvel Comics who don't know who Moon Knight is to this day.

His small following of fans love him, but he is pretty much a no-name to everyone else.

Yep. As I said, I wasn't disagreeing on that.

Most avid comics readers know him nowadays

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All right, I'll play:

Moon Knight vs:

Marv from Sin City, no weapons

Kingpin, no weapons

Pre-powered-up Tombstone

Crossbones

Karnak

Silver Samurai

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Moon Knight vs Bane

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He should battle JPV Batman or Black Panther. Prometheus? Captain America? Wolverine? Earth-3 Owlman? Deadpool? Or is the next one another team battle? Mk deserves a good challenge.

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Moon knight breaks an arrow after catching it and pretends it's pierced through his head while laughing at green arrows stupid hat.

He should fight Tim drake next. That would call for some heated arguments.

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The only thing this match did, was make me realize how awesome a Moon Knight tv live action series would be.

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@tparks said:

Moon Knight vs Shredder.

Please make this happen!

I predict a "too close to call" vote being a majority.

How come? There are a lot of edges on Moon Knight's side in this battle that enabled him to win here. Why wouldn't that be the case against Shredder?

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I think Moon Knight vs Scorpion (MK) would be a good fight.

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The new green arrow has no chance of winning, but the one before the reboot would straight up destroy Moon Knight, not only is he accurate and has a big variety of trick arrows, he mastered hand to hand combat and multiple fighting techniques from the world's best martial artists, including the trainer of Deathstroke

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I feel honored to be one of the people with the argument of the battle.

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Here are some Moon Knight Battles:

- Moon Knight vs Black Canary

- Moon Knight vs Deathstroke

- Moon Knight vs Cyborg

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Moonknight vs Kaine?

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Moon Knight is a monster street level. I read Green Arrow like religion and I had to pick Moon knight. Pain tolerance and brutality are through the roof. Hand to hand he is a knockout artist.

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Moon Knight w/powers vs Batman or Moon Knight w/carbonadium armor vs Batman

Moon Knight vs Gambit

Moon Knight vs Joker & Harley Quinn

Moon Knight vs Nightcrawler

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Wow, Moon Knight is one of my fav characters and I kinda feel honoured you guys posted my argument! This month of Moon Knight is going great!

Praise Khonshu

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Ollie: "Yeah, well, I still have a TV show."

Moon Knight: "*cough*-sore loser-*cough*"

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Reasonable

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Pfft.

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Moon Knight vs Shredder.

Please make this happen!

I predict a "too close to call" vote being a majority.

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I'd like to see Moon Knight vs someone he'd obviously lose to... just to get some compelling accounts for MK doing his damned best to take out someone from a higher weight class, and absolutely refusing to stay down.

Also, love that image mash-up for this fight... it really does make MK to be a scarier version of Batman (note: I didn't say better, just scarier, because he's clearly off the reservation a little).

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I dare for the next battle next week to be Moon Knight vs Captain America seeing how Moon Knight never really lost to steve, i think. /By not losing, i mean never squared off against Steve and if anybody got scans or a comic issue to prove me wrong please let me know b/c i want to see these 2 battle.

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@tommythehitman: That would be... Paradise...

@dagmar_merrill: Aaaaaunt Maaaay!!!! FTW!!!

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@k4tzm4n:

Moon Knight Vs Jason Todd

Moon Knight Vs The Shadow

Moon Knight Vs Shang Chi

Moon Knight Vs Judge Dredd

Moon Knight Vs X

The last one could be good.

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@k4tzm4n: How about Moon Knight VS Deadshot? Bullseye? Joker? Black Canary? Wildcat? Harley Quinn? Aunt May?

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@lvenger said:

The arguments for Moon Knight were definitely more compelling than the cases made for Green Arrow. Marc's pain tolerance, superior close quarters skills and reactions make for the perfect counter to Green Arrow's ranged edge and agility in combat. People could have used Pre New 52 feats for GA but I didn't see many of those come into play during the debate.

Yea I think people could have put up a better argument for Green Arrow

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Like to see MK vs Catman or Crossbones

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moon knight vs batman next!

Moon knight vs deadstroke

Batman vs Moon Knight would be awesome.

I mean they're both somehow the same.

They'd be good fights, but I can't see an argument being made for Moon Knight taking a majority in either.

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moon knight vs batman next!

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@tparks: His small following of fans love him, but he is pretty much a no-name to everyone else.

The sad... Sad truth...

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Batman vs Moon Knight would be awesome.
I mean they're both somehow the same.

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The better man won.

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