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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Moon Knight also known as Steven Grant , Jake Lockley , Ronin , Fist of Khonshu , Lunar Legionnaire , Crescent Crusader , Paladin , Yitzak Topol , MK . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Moon Knight, Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley: different aspects of the same man. All serving Khonshu, the God of Vengeance, as his "Avatar"
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Origin
Rebelling against his rabbi father, Marc Spector was a heavyweight boxer, a U.S. Marine, and a CIA agent. Frustrated with the politics of the agency, Marc went on to become a mercenary.
Frenchie, MK's friend
In Africa, he met a French mercenary, Jean-Paul "Frenchie" DuChamp, who would become one of Marc's closest friends. While working for terrorist, Raoul Bushman, Marc began to question his choices.
In Sudan they stumbled across an archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune's excavation of an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb. There, Bushman killed the Archaeologist. Marc, feeling guilt, attempted to help, Alraune's daughter, Marlene Alraune escape. Annoyed with his betrayal, Bushman beat Spector and left him in the desert to die.
Barely conscious, Spector managed to return to the ancient tomb. Marlene was there with her father's men and brought Marc to rest near a statue of the moon god, Khonshu. Weak from his fight with Bushman and the elements of the desert, Spector died.
As Marlene cried over his body, Spector suddenly came back to life. It was his belief that Khonshu had brought him back from the dead in order to be the moon's knight of vengeance. Spector removed a cloak from the statue of Khonshu and confronted Bushman again, and this time, he came out victorious, thus Moon Knight was born.
Moon Knight is born
Returning to the states with Marlene and Frenchie, the trio decided to fight a war against evil. Spector used his fortune from his mercenary days to create some aliases to infiltrate different aspects of society. One persona was that of Steven Grant, a New York millionaire. In the guise of Grant, Spector was able to make high profile contacts. Spector also created the persona of Jake Lockley, a New York cab driver. Through Lockley, he was able to make several contacts "on the streets." It appeared as the act of juggling the different persona's put a strain on Spector's mental health.
When Moon Knight was just starting his heroism in New York City, a group of aristocrats called The Committee hired Marc to capture and retrieve Jack Russell, the Werewolf By Night. They were going to use Jack as a weapon to fulfill their desire to rule. Moon Knight did the right thing and let Jack escaped and later defeated the Committee. In later years, Moon Knight joined the Avengers West Coast when he became possessed by Khonshu which gave the powers based on the moon. This in turn alienated his friends Frenchie and Marlene. Moon Knight even had a relationship with Tigra that last until he resign. Things didn't goes so well after when Marc launched a premeditated attack against Doctor Doom, the Avengers scolded him for his actions, and Hellstorm was forced to exorcise Khonshu out of Marc's body when they were facing the ghost of the first Phantom Rider. Eventually Marc found out that it was Khonshu, not him, who wanted to join the Avengers West Coast, and with that in mind, Moon Knight denied to be in the active roster and burned his Avenger Identicard. Moon Knight has faced several hardships and has even died and been reborn again through the will of Khonshu.
In a final battle with Bushman, Moon Knight seemingly went over the edge. He used one of his crescent darts and carved off Bushman's face, giving him a true death's head. Both of his legs were also broke in this confrontation. Unable to continue his career as Moon Knight, Marc began taking more and more painkillers. His manner had gotten to the point that he alienated those around him. Frenchie decided there was nothing more he could do. In an argument with Marlene, Marc struck her in anger. Appalled by this, Marlene left.
Recently, Marc has begun to rebuild himself and his life. He finally got himself out of his wheelchair and has begun physical therapy with the help of Frenchie's boyfriend. Frenchie no longer will fly for Marc but one of Gina's sons. (Gina was one of Marc's contacts at the diner Jake would go to). Being a true agent for vengeance, Moon Knight has taken his fight back to the streets and seems to be making up for lost time. His sanity is even more in question as he constantly "sees" and "hears" Khonshu talk to him and give him foul suggestions. Khonshu has also taken the guise of the deceased Bushman.
The Committee hired the The Profile to take advantage of his unusual talents to take down Moon Knight, but his planned failed and he became an informant for Moon Knight himself. Moon Knight later investigate a string of murder which was perpetrated by his former sidekick, Midnight. Seeing that he had no choice, he was force to kill him. And during the Civil War, Moon Knight chose neither side because as what he had said to Captain America, the war is just like a game of "capture the flag".
When the Super-Human Registration Act became a law, Moon Knight felt that he didn't want the law to disrupt his work, so Marc tried to register. But Iron Man doesn't want to him to register, because of his pschological instability. So he assign a psychiatrist to flunk Marc for his psychiatric exam. The psychiatrist talked to Marc's other personalities but he begins to turn them all down, even threatening Marc for future imprisonment. Marc then demoralized the psychiatrist by seemingly getting possessed by his God, Khonshu, and speaks to him for his antisocial tendencies, as told by The Profile to him earlier. Not only that the psychiatrist approved Marc registration, but also bowed down before him and start worshiping him. After he leave, Marc came to see The Profile and they talked about the psychiatrist's encounter with Marc's different personalities was just part of an act to approve his registration.
Powers
He is highly trained in hand-to-hand fighting through his training as a boxer, marine, and CIA agent. He is not the conventional hero, as he will use drastic means and violence to stop criminals. It appears his many identities have given him some protection against psychic assaults. When he became the Fist of Khonshu, he adopted powers derived from the moon. Moon Knight had enhanced strength, stamina, and reflexes based on the phase of the moon. He is at his strongest at a full moon as he could lift the weight of 2 tons and at normal strength when there is a no moon, where he could lift at least 450 lbs. He can also see magical being that normal humans cannot see and night vision. Moon Knight can become invisible in a shadowed area large enough to cover him. And he has also some kind of "healing factor", his wound are quickly healed when shined in moonlight. This no longer seems to be the case as he had rejected Khonshu's from his body and Hellstorm's exorcism of the moon god. After suffering a crippling incident, he has had to rebuild his body back to form.
Alternate Realities
Marvel 2099 (Earth-928)
A female Moon Knight is featured fighting crime in the lunar city of Attilan. Her identity, abilities and motivations are never revealed.
Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610)
In the Ultimate Universe, he was first introduced as an ex-Navy Seal who participated in the Gulf War. He later worked in Roxxon Industries under the name of Paladin until Roxxon fell apart, and later becoming Moon Knight.
Moon Knight first fought Spider-Man as he thought that he blew up a building, and he later got involved into a gang war between Kingpin and Hammerhead. In the middle of the fight with Spider-Man, Iron Fist and Shang-Chi, he was impaled by Elektra, but not before impaling a moon blade in her head when she was about to kill Black Cat. Once he had awaken from the coma, courtesy of Elektra, he fought Spider-Man, the Punisher and Daredevil.
He was later invited into Daredevil's group (the Ultimate Knights) whose goal was to bring down the Kingpin of crime. He created a new personality, Ronin in order to get closer to the Kingpin. Moon Knight offered to be the one to (among the Ultimate Knights) become the Kingpin's bodyguard/assassin.
The Kingpin instructs Ronin to bring him Spider-Man as a test. He finds out that most believe that Spider-Man goes to Midtown High School, so he drives a bus through the wall in order to lure him out. Kitty Pryde arrives before Spider-Man, and ends up being knocked-out by Ronin's vicious attack with a fire extinguisher. Spider-Man arrives just in time to see it happen, then jumps into the fight himself. He ends up being shot with a tranquilizer dart in the neck, and then Ronin uses his web shooters to swing away from the school, bringing him to the Kingpin. When he arrives, he only says, "What's next?”
While Spider-Man was being tortured by Kingpin, Ronin stood in the back; however, it turns out Fisk knew he was Moon Knight all along. He attacked him and had his men take him to the river and executed in costume to send a message to the other "costumes". In Moon Knight's mind we see Moon Knight drowning and the other three personalities standing around him. Suddenly, Ronin comes in and pulls him out of the water. From there he went to the police and told them who he was and that Wilson Fisk sent him to be executed being the first hero ever to publicly unmask himself to enforce justice. Wilson Fisk was arrested and prosecuted thanks to Moon Knight, at the cost of his secret identity being revealed.
It is stated that he suffers from an incredibly complex case of dissociative identity disorder (commonly known as multiple personality disorder). It is so complex that the identities: Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Moon Knight, and a little red-haired girl actually speak to each other on what appears to be a playground. He is also currently living with his girlfriend, Marlene, who complains a lot about Moon Knight's disorder.
House of M (Earth-58163)
In the House of M reality, he was a CIA operative before Magneto's reign of mutant supremacy. He became a wanted human on the run for "war crimes" against mutants and later a vigilante in New York. Marc Spector is a member of Luke Cage's Avengers along with Iron Fist when Luke and Hawkeye were recruiting to join the fight against the House of M. He first appeared without his costume when he was with the Human Resistance Movement, but wears his classic costume when he joined the Avengers.
Marvel Zombiverse (Earth-2149)
Moon Knight was one of the few superheroes that remained uninfected by the zombie plague. He was still in living form in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days and was part of Nick Fury's resistance against the zombie superheroes, but was apparently killed and turned into a zombie when he seen as one of the superhero zombies that was attacking Dr. Doom's castle. He was killed by Silver Surfer in self defense, when Moon Knight and the other zombie superheroes tried to devour the Silver Surfer.
Earth X (Earth-9997)
On Earth X, Moon Knight is fighting a never ending battle against the Sons of Seth, for the statue of Khonshu. When Captain Marvel claimed the Re-Animator stone, it caused Moon Knight to die. He later help Mar-Vell in the realm of the dead.
Amalgam Universe (Earth-9602)
In this reality Marc Spector is only a split personality of Dick Grayson (Nightwing). He became the hero named "Moonwing".
What If?
In this reality where the Punisher is in possession of the Venom Symbiote, Moon Knight is one of the heroes that tried to stop his brutal way of serving of justice along with Spider-Man and Daredevil.
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