Moon Knight (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Moon Knight is a fictional Character, a superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character exists in the Marvel Universe and was created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin. He first appeared in Werewolf by Night (August 1975) - More about Moon Knight (Marvel Comics) Character Review...keep reading !!
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Fictional Character Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Marc Spector is an American rabbi's wayward son. As an adult, Spector spends time training to be a heavyweight boxer, a U.S. Marine, and a mercenary. He becomes a skilled combatant and befriends the French pilot Jean-Paul DuChamp, whom he calls "Frenchie." While the pair work for the African mercenary Raoul Bushman in Egypt, the group stumbles upon an archaeological
dig whose crew includes Dr. Peter Alraune and his daughter Marlene. The
dig had uncovered an ancient temple where artifacts included a statue
of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.
Intent on looting the dig, Bushman kills Dr. Alraune. In response to
Alraune's murder, Spector challenges Bushman to personal combat but is
beaten nearly to death and left to die in the sub-zero temperatures of
the desert night.
Roaming Egyptians who worship the ancient Egyptian gods find Spector
and carry him to their temple. Helpless before the statue of Khonshu,
Spector's heart stops. Khonshu appears to him in a vision,
offering Spector a second chance at life if he becomes the god's avatar
on Earth. Spector awakens, wraps himself with the silver shroud that
covers Khonshu's statue, and again confronts Bushman. He defeats Bushman
and returns to America with Marlene Alraune,
Frenchie, and the statue of Khonshu. Deciding to become a crimefighter,
Spector creates a silver cloaked costume, based on the silver shroud,
and becomes the Moon Knight.
After his return to the United States, Spector invests the money that
he had accumulated as a mercenary and develops a small fortune. To
distance himself from his mercenary past he creates the identity of
millionaire entrepreneur Steven Grant, using this identity to
purchase a spacious estate. To remain in contact with the street and
criminal element he also creates the identity of taxicab driver Jake Lockley. As Lockley, he has acquired civilian allies such as Bertrand Crawley and Gena Landers and her sons.
In the character's first appearance, the criminal organization the Committee supplies Marc Spector with the name Moon Knight, his costume and weapons (using silver) to hunt down Jack Russell.
In Los Angeles, Moon Knight captures the Werewolf for the Committee,
but then frees him and halts the Committee's plans, fighting Russell
again. He battles Conquer Lord, teams up with Spider-Man to fight Cyclone, and fights Lupinas and Randall, the Hatchet-Man.
His origin of being "created by The Committee" is explained as a ruse set up by Frenchie so Marc can shut the Committee down. He then encounters the Midnight Man and returns to Chicago to prevent the poisoning of its water supply by a group called the Werewolves, encounters Morpheus and teams with Daredevil to fight the Jester. He then first encountered Stained Glass Scarlet. Later, he battled the Werewolf once again, battled Bora, and met the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. He then encountered Doctor Strange.
Vengeance of the Moon Knight
Moon Knight returns to New York after faking his death with Jake
Lockley as his dominant personality, but still struggles against his
violent nature and is hounded by Khonshu in the form of a small
imaginary tormentor resembling a man in the Moon Knight costume with a
bird skull who goads him to kill.
While trying to walk the path of a hero he makes a bold return taking
on many criminals but killing none of them; now the people of New York
begin to see him as a hero and not a murderous vigilante much to Norman
Osborn's disdain. Jake's personality has been one of struggle against
the inner demon trying to get him to kill while juggling sobriety. Soon
he is met by the Sentry, who asks him "Who do you think you are, a hero?".
Later, the Sentry takes Moon Knight across the city while he saves
people and stops crimes telling Lockley that eventually he will be
tested and that he will fail, to which Moon Knight replies "So will
you". They stare each other down for a moment before Moon Knight
eventually leaves.
Norman Osborn summons The Hood and The Profile to take down Moon Knight, so The Profile shows The Hood where the body of Bushman lies.
The Hood uses his power of resurrection to bring Bushman back to life.
Bushman resumes to gather an army by enlisting Scarecrow to break into
Ravencroft Asylum, where they lobotomize the prisoners to make them more
compliant.
Meanwhile, Jake Lockley tries to make amends to Marlene and Frenchie
for his previous behavior and mental breakdown. Under the Jake Lockley
persona, he is regarded as more sane; Marlene mentions that his "eyes
are clear". Bushman's army soon attacks New York by blowing up a
gasoline line. Moon Knight comes to subdue the asylum inmates until
Scarecrow's crows descend upon the battlefield.
Bushman himself manages to escape, only to later be confronted by
Moon Knight near some docks. A growing Khonshu screams for vengeance,
yet Moon Knight manages to defy him and spare Bushman's life.
At the conclusion, Bushman winds up in jail, Jake Lockley begins to
start a new life with Marlene, and The Profile visits the statue of
Khonshu in Egypt with a startling revelation.
Powers and Abilities (Moon Knight)
Over the course of his life as a boxer, U.S. Marine, C.I.A. operative, mercenary,
and costumed superhero, Marc Spector has become an expert at
hand-to-hand combat techniques and various martial arts. He is an
Olympic-level athlete and a skilled acrobat and gymnast, and excels as a
combat strategist. He employs a variety of weapons over the course of
his career, including throwing darts, nunchaku, and a truncheon. He is skilled with most weapons, and an expert with throwing weapons. He is a superb driver and can pilot a helicopter.
Taskmaster, who has the ability to copy and replicate anyone's
fighting style, has stated that he prefers not to copy Moon Knight's
style, as Moon Knight would rather take a punch than block it.
Spector gained his superhuman powers as a result of a visitation by
the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Moon Knight's strength, endurance, and
reflexes are enhanced depending upon the phases of the moon. The fuller the moon, the more strength Moon Knight derives from it,
though even during a new moon, he can lift several hundred pounds. He
has some degree of superhuman strength during the peak of a lunar cycle.
It's not known how much of this strength is mystical and how much is
simply the result of self-hypnosis due to his psychological instability.
Due to his multiple personalities, he is also resistant to some psychic
attacks and sometimes receives prophetic visions. During the 2008 run
of the Moon Knight series, Spector states that he no longer has any
superpowers.
At one point, Moon Knight is given special weapons by the cult of Khonshu, including bolas, golden throwing crescent-darts shaped like scarabs, an ivory boomerang, throwing irons, and a golden stick in the shape of an ankh
that glowed in the presence of danger that can be used as a throwing
weapon or bludgeon.
These items are replaced with duplicate weapons
crafted by Hawkeye.
He later retires these items to his personal museum after abandoning
the "Egyptian" motif in favor of updated versions of his original
styled-gear, including a truncheon/staff/nunchucks combo, and a compound
bow. He has also used an axe-shaped lasso-grapple.
During the third series, Moon Knight's silver-white costume includes adamantium,
and he acquires an array of high-tech weaponry including an adamantium
staff, a truncheon capable of firing a cable line, and gauntlets that
fire crescent darts. He has also been depicted using spiked knuckles,
worn on the left hand.
Later on, Moon Knight's costume uses carbonadium as armor, and has joint-locking functions, allowing him to support weights far greater than what he can normally lift. Moon Knight makes use of this at one point to leave his costume
supporting a building while defending himself in his underwear.
Additionally, Moon Knight can 'suit up' by use of a remote control
device which assembles the individual pieces of his armor onto his body,
similar in fashion to Iron Man.
For transportation, Moon Knight employs a variety of sophisticated aircraft. These include the Mooncopter and Angelwing, featuring VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), a rope ladder, and 20 mm cannons.
In Other Media (Television)
- While a Moon Knight TV series was announced, very little to nothing has been mentioned since late 2006. Writer Jon Cooksey (Rugrats, The Collector, ReBoot) confirmed that he was currently in development of the Moon Knight television series. He later confirmed that the six scripts written were not picked up and the rights returned to Marvel.
- Marc Spector's name is mentioned in passing in the pilot episode of Blade: The Series. Spector is described as an expert in werewolves. Marc is also said to be a colleague of vampire specalist Professor Melvin Caylo. The character of Spector did not appear in the series before it was cancelled.
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