Moon Knight

> *"I don't wear the white to hide myself. I wear it so they'll see me coming. So they'll know who it is. 'Cause when they see the white, it doesn't matter how good a target I am. Their hands shake so bad, they couldn't hit the moon."*
>
> —Moon Knight

**Marc Spector**, also known as the **Moon Knight**, is a professional adventurer, mercenary, millionaire, and cab driver.

A mercenary left for dead in the Egyptian desert, Marc Spector was found by followers of the Egyptian god Khonshu, who saved his life and gave him superhuman powers. Returning to the US with a statue of Khonshu, Marc became a crimefighter, calling himself the Moon Knight and assuming two more alter egos: millionaire Steven Grant and taxi driver Jake Lockley. Aided by his pilot friend, Frenchie, and his lover, Marlene Alraune, Marc fought crime for many years, battling against Werewolf, Midnight Man and Black Spectre, and alongside Spider-Man and the Punisher. Eventually, exhaustion set in, and Marc retired his alter egos and sold the Khonshu statue. Before long, Marc felt compelled to return to Egypt. There, members of the cult of Khonshu explained to him that being the Moon Knight was his destiny, one he could not shirk. Reinvigorated, and equipped by Khonshu with a new costume and a selection of special weapons, Marc became the Moon Knight once more. When Green Goblin took over the Avengers, Marc faked his death and later joined Steve Rogers' secret Avengers. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he clashed with Count Nefaria.

## Biography

### Origin

Marc Spector was a mercenary soldier of international reputation, an ex-prize fighter, former Marine commando, former CIA liaison, and veteran of three African wars and five South American revolutions. At the peak of his career as a soldier of fortune, Spector worked as second-in-command to Raul Bushman, a terrorist for hire who had his face tattooed as a death mask. While fighting rebel forces in the Sudan south of the Egyptian border, Spector's trusted aide Frenchie discovered Bushman's plans to raid a nearby archaeological dig for gold treasures. Already believing he had been working for the wrong side, Spector decided to leave Bushman's employ that night. Traveling to the dig, Spector witnessed an attempt on Bushman's life by Doctor Peter Alraune, an angry American archaeologist trying to preserve the treasures of Pharaoh Seti II. Instinctively, Spector thwarted the attempt, and saw Bushman savagely murder the attacker. Sickened, Spector told the archaeologist's daughter Marlene to get to safety, and then confronted Bushman. Bushman bested Spector and left him out in the desert to die. Staggering determinedly through the desert toward civilization, Spector collapsed a short distance from the dig he tried to save. Workers discovered him and brought him to shelter. Spector was suffering from such great heat exhaustion that his heart stopped beating for almost a minute. While Marlene Alraune watched over him, blaming him for his father's death and yet sad that he had died, Spector revived. Touched by his brush with death, he attributed his "rebirth" to the presence of the statue of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon. Spector draped himself in the cloak that the statue had been preserved in and declared himself the moon's knight of vengeance. Spector destroyed Bushman's forces in that part of the world, and then took Marlene and Frenchie back to America.

Months later, Spector employed Frenchie to infiltrate a Los Angeles-based organization called the Committee, for the purpose of investigating its underworld financial dealings. When the committee became interested in capturing the werewolf Jack Russell, Frenchie, posing as a Committee member, recommended mercenary Marc Spector to do the job. Frenchie presented the committee with a silver battle suit in the image of the statue of Khonshu for Spector to wear, pretending to create the Moon Knight identity for the occasion. Spector, as Moon Knight, found Russell and brought him to the Committee. Learning the true reason why they wanted him, Spector freed the werewolf and battled the Committee, bringing a temporary halt to their operations. He then adopted the alias of millionaire Steven Grant and parlayed Spector's mercenary monies into a fortune on Wall Street. Spector, Frenchie, and Marlene then bought a mansion on Long Island and established it as a base of operations for Moon Knight's crimefighting career.

### Meeting Vanessa

While on patrol, Moon Knight witnessed a robbery and pursued the thief on foot. After dispatching the criminal, he realized he was being followed by a woman. The two made introductions and discovered they had much in common.

## Personality

Returned to life by the god Khonshu, Moon Knight battles criminals and his own shattered psyche. He struggles with multiple personalities and amoral inclinations. As the moon's lunar avatar of the night, it is his solemn duty to defend the city and subdue villains. He has learned to never question the moon’s judgment, however inexplicable it might seem. In his mind, he is only doing the moon's will.

Moon Knight has a sense of justice. He kidnapped Werewolf by Night for the Committee, but ultimately betrayed them when he learned of their malevolence. He also once sacrificed himself while preventing a computer virus from killing thousands, and was resurrected by Khonshu a second time.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Lunar Empowerment:** After being resurrected by the Egyptian god Khonshu, Moon Knight became the avatar of the moon. The lunar satellite shares its secrets with him and he does its bidding in confidence. The moon leads him to heinous villains so he could stop them, he can hear the moon's commands, and it warns him and shows him prophetic visions.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** The moon's light is a source of more than human strength. His strength waxes and wanes with the moon (intensifies and diminishes); the fuller the moon, the more strength he derives from it. During a full moon, he can lift two tons (more than eight times his peak human limits and more than 17 times his bodyweight). Moon Knight can bend steel in his bare hands.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Moon Knight gains enhanced endurance at night.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Moon Knight also gains enhanced reflexes at night. He can dodge bullets, even from sharpshooters, and he has even once cut a bullet in half with one of his crescent darts.
	+ **Lunar Manipulation:** Moon Knight can control moon rock. This includes Uru, which is as old as the universe itself; it is rubble from the days of creation, a vestige before the great splintering, it is all that is left of of the very first orb of the night.
* **Divided Mind:** Moon Knight has multiple personality disorder. It is so advanced that, when faced with a situation, his brain will choose which personality is best for the problem and switch. He has created personas based on Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America to help guide him when fighting crime. His multiple personalities also give him protection against certain psychic powers, such as possession.

### Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Moon Knight is an Olympic-level athlete with extraordinary strength, endurance, and agility. His physical attributes are augmented by moonlight.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** Moon Knight can press 450 pounds, twice his bodyweight. He can easily lift and throw fully grown men and kick doors off their hinges.
	+ **High Pain Tolerance:** Moon Knight would rather take the hit than waste time blocking it.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Moon Knight is versatile in all martial arts, including Boxing, Savate, Hapkido, and Judo. He is also an ex-prizefighter, and years of mercenary and Marine commando experience have given him a broad range of hand-to-hand combat techniques; he has extraordinary fighting skills. He is extensively trained and a weapons master, being capable of wielding his truncheon, nunchaku, crescent-shaped darts, throwing irons, and bolas. Taskmaster does not like to copy Moon Knight's fighting style because he would rather take hits instead of blocking or dodging them if it means he can get a counterattack on his opponent.
* **Expert Marksman:** Moon Knight's throwing skill enables him to throw a single crescent with 95% accuracy up to 150 feet. His accuracy at throwing the truncheon is also unusually high. Moon Knight is also a skilled archer and he can wield various firearms and explosives.
* **Expert Acrobat:** Moon Knight is a skilled acrobat and gymnast.
* **Intimidation:** Moon Knight is a figure of terror. He is like a grim white angel of death.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Moon Knight is highly intelligent.
	+ **Expert Investigator:** Moon Knight is a good detective with broad skills, knowledge and understanding of the criminal underworld.
	+ **Expert Interrogator:** Moon Knight is an expert in interrogating suspects.
	+ **Expert Pilot:** Moon Knight is a skilled pilot.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Moon Knight speaks English as well as the Egyptian and Sudanese dialects of Arabic.

### Weaknesses

* **Mental Illness:** Moon Knight created several identities for himself in his quest against crime, but he began suffering from dissociative identity disorder. As Marc Spector, he is a grim veteran of wars fought for money. As Steven Grant, he is a refined millionaire financier. As Jake Lockley, he is an easygoing, streetwise cabbie. As Moon Knight, he has seen what the streets offer to their gods of darkness and dirt, and his mood is hard, but melancholy.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **Silver Crescent Darts:** Moon Knight employs high-carbon steel alloy, silver-plated, crescent-shaped, throwing air-foil/darts, five inches long from tip to tip, and weighing ten ounces. The convex cutting edge is sharp enough to cut quarter-inch aircraft control cable at 30 feet. The weight of each dart is eccentric so that the center of gravity is within the dart's cutting edge, ensuring level, blade-forward flight. This design enables him to throw a single crescent with 95% accuracy up to 150 feet. Moon Knight stores these darts on his belt in safety-clip pouches.
* **Truncheon:** Moon Knight's stainless-steel alloy truncheon is a multi-purpose weapon, measuring 12 inches and weighing 12 pounds, which he keeps in a spring-loaded, quick-release holster mounted on his left boot. The truncheon converts into a nunchaku, and has a retracted grappling hook on one end which can be connected to a length of cable for rappelling down the sides of buildings. Moon Knight can also use the truncheon as a throwing club or a bludgeon.
* **Ankh:** The golden ankh's glow warns of mortal danger.

Moon Knight sometimes uses his cape as a makeshift parachute to glide from his copter to the street.

## Quotes

* *"And now, foul demon, face the vengeance of the Moon Knight."*
* *"I, the Moon’s Knight of Vengeance, must carry out your luminous will."*
* *"I am moonlight reflecting off a pool of water."*
* *"Yes, run, foul night-spawn. All bend to the might of the moon, who powers the very tides of the sea."*
* *"The moon will have its vengeance."*