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Published on: 3/3/2007
Last Visited: 3/3/2007
Moon Knight
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Moon Knight
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Moon Knight
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Moon Knight is a skilled boxer, commando, martial artist, acrobat, gymnast and pilot.His multiple identities grant him resistance to some psychic assaults.
Weapons
Moon Knight usually carries a truncheon which can be modified into nunchuks, and silver darts shaped like crescent moons.While serving the Committee, Moon Knight wore a silver cestus on each arm, studded with spikes.While he served the Priests of Khonshu, Moon Knight wielded an ankh which he used as a club, an ax, a boomerang, throwing irons, and bolas.Most of these Egyptian weapons had actually been designed and built for the priests by the time-displaced Hawkeye.Later, Moon Knight wore protective Adamantium armor and wielded an Adamantium staff, a truncheon which could fire a cable line, and gauntlets which could fire his crescent darts.
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For transportation, Moon Knight has employed a variety of sophisticated aircraft.
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While Moon Knight was still establishing his reputation, Frenchie infiltrated the criminal financiers known as the Committee and learned of their plans to capture the Werewolf Jack Russell.Frenchie offered Moon Knight's services to the Committee, claiming that Moon Knight was his employee.The Committee approved, and Moon Knight fought the Werewolf, defeating him when the sun rose and he became Jack Russell again.Moon Knight brought Russell, his lover Topaz, and his sister Lissa to the Committee, who revealed that they intended to use the Werewolf to kill their enemies, and hoped that Lissa would become a werewolf as well.
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Moon Knight moved on to other cases, thwarting the political manipulator Conquer-Lord, who used elaborate death traps in a plot to assassinate the mayor of New York City for the criminal Corporation; aiding the Defenders against the android Zodiac; battling the Masked Marauder's Maggia alongside Spider-Man; defeating the hirsute terrorist Lupinar; and aiding the Thing against Crossfire.
Moon Knight faced his brother again when Randall went on a killing spree in New York, slaughtering nurses with a hatchet.
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Moon Knight stalked Randall, who was seemingly impaled upon a broken tree, but Randall had actually left an imposter to take his place.
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While investigating, Spector was attacked by Amos's brother James, whom the project had brainwashed into becoming 'Cobra.' Moon Knight was able to short-circuit the technology controlling Lardner, who then turned on his controllers, killing them along with himself.
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Moon Knight faced other menaces such as the Slasher, a man slaying homeless people in an effort to find his father (who turned out to be Crawley); the Midnight Man, an art thief; Morpheus, a man able to control people through their dreams; Stained Glass Scarlet, a nun who became a vigilante after being forced to kill her criminal son; Daredevil's enemy the Jester; Arsenal (Nimrod Strange) and his Third World Slayers; and the satanic cult the Left Hand Path and its leader, Morning Star, whose goals led to another encounter with the Werewolf.
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Knowles had been inspired by Moon Knight to don his costume, noting how Moon Knight was feared by others because of his mask.
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In his first encounter with the Black Spectre, Moon Knight unmasked him, but was subsequently unable to prove that Knowles was the Black Spectre.
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The priests guided Moon Knight into new adventures, his strength becoming superhuman during the full moon.Marlene, no longer willing to accept Marc as Moon Knight, left him.
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When members of the West Coast Avengers were stranded in ancient Egypt via time-travel, their leader Hawkeye formed an alliance with Khonshu, who contacted Moon Knight in the present to assist them.Moon Knight teamed with Henry Pym and Espirita to rescue the Avengers, and the assembled heroes defeated the alien entity Dominus, who had stranded the Avengers in the first place.
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Moon Knight stayed with the Avengers for awhile, and was gradually accepted into their ranks; but Khonshu was responsible for influencing Spector to join the team, as Spector had no interest in being an Avenger.
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Khonshu left the earthly plane to battle rival god Seth thereafter, leaving Moon Knight without a reason to return to the Avengers.
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Returning to New York, Spector reconciled with Marlene and embarked on new adventures, encountering the thief Midnight, son of the Midnight Man. Midnight tried to become Moon Knight's partner, but Moon Knight never took him seriously.
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Moon Knight succeeded in bringing Raposa to justice, finally exorcising a demon from his past.
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Moon Knight joined Spider-Man, the Punisher, Darkhawk, Nova, and Night Thrasher in opposing the Secret Empire, and Midnight apparently died when the Empire's base was destroyed.
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Moon Knight became involved in the doppelgangers used by the power-mad Magus during the Infinity War.Moon Knight's double, Moonshade, allied himself with the doppelganger of the powerful young Franklin Richards, unleashing a host of dimensional counterparts against Moon Knight in a failed effort to usurp his identity.
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Unwilling to take the time to sit through these proceedings, Moon Knight destroyed his membership card and cut his Avengers ties.Moon Knight later became involved in a struggle against the Hellbent, a sub-species of humanity interbred with demons.
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Black Spectre and the others tried to destroy the United Nations, but Khonshu guided Moon Knight against them, thwarting Seth's plan.Subsequently, Moon Knight learned Daredevil was assembling a team of heroes to capture the Punisher.Eager to help, he offered to finance a headquarters for the unnamed team ('Marvel Knights').He joined the group against Cloak (controlled by Nightmare) and a teaming of Bengal, Tombstone, Big Ben and Bullet.Finally, the team's base was invaded by Shang-Chi's enemy Zaran, who struck down Moon Knight with several of his miniature sais.
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However, Moon Knight has since recovered from his wounds and resumed his activities.He was among many former Avengers who briefly rejoined the team to fight the effects of the Scarlet Witch's out-of-control hex power.
Moon Knight recently battled his long time rival Bushman in a brutal encounter, carving his arch enemy's face from his body.Broken knees however have kept the moon's Knight of Vengeance confined to a wheelchair.Recovering from the war with Bushman, Moon Knight is now stalked by Taskmaster, who has been hired by the Committee to take him out.