Moon Knight, in his other identity, Mr. Knight
Marc Spector, better known as the vigilante Moon Knight, was once a mercenary left for dead in the desert, where he was revived by the Moon god Khonshu. Appointed as Khonshu's fist and high priest, Moon Knight enacts justice to protect those who travel at night. Marc also has dissociative identity disorder, some of his alters being millionaire Steven Grant and cab driver Jake Lockley.
In the beginning of his career, Marc fought crime on the streets with the help of a network of informants, including his best friend "Frenchie" Duchamp, the homeless Bertrand Crawley, and diner owner Gena Landers. Since the early days, Marc has mostly worked alone, but he's also been a member of a few superhero teams, including the West Coast Avengers, the Secret Avengers, and the Heroes for Hire.
Recently, Marc discovered he had a daughter named Diatrice with his long-time lover Marlene Alraune, but when Khonshu sensed Mephisto's plans for world domination, Marc left her to fight by his god's side and prevent that from coming true. When Khonshu succumbed to madness, however, Marc had to turn against him and help the Avengers defeat him. Following Khonshu's imprisonment, Spector established the Midnight Mission to offer his help to any night dweller who might need his assistance.
Marc Spector was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a rabbi who as a child had managed to escape Nazi prosecution after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. Marc grew up on the poor side of the city, where his father Elias was the target of discrimination; Marc couldn't understand why his father would never fight back against persecution. He grew up with his younger brother Randall. His father would walk his kids to school everyday, but him being a Rabbi caused Randall to be bullied, but Marc was there to defend him. His father was disappointed with his boys violent nature and their obsession with war, he believed that should concentrate on their education but his wife dismissed this as boy being boys.
During the last years of his childhood, Marc discovered by chance that a close friend of his family, Rabbi Yitz Perlman, was in reality a Nazi deserter and secretly a serial killer of Jews named Ernst. Marc's fighting instinct kicked off for the first time when he fended off against Perlman to escape his grasp. Perlman later disappeared without a trace. This traumatic event also caused Marc to develop a Dissociative identity disorder. The first alters developed by Marc were Steven Grant and Jake Lockley. Shortly before Elias decided to intern Marc at the Putnam Psychiatric Hospital, Marc was approached for the first time by the Egyptian deity Khonshu, claiming to be Marc's true progenitor. After his father's death, Marc was allowed to leave the hospital temporarily to attend the funeral and a late luncheon, but, after hearing Khonshu's voice, he ran way. After his death Marc resented his father, believing that Elias was embarrassed by him.
Marc enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served for three years. On his second tour in Iraq, his superiors caught notice of Marc's bizarre behavior. After his past was dug up, Marc was dishonorably discharged. He later joined the CIA, and worked with several people who would later interact with Moon Knight, including William Cross, Amos Lardner, and his own brother, Randall Spector. Randall killed Spector's girlfriend Lisa with a hatchet to keep her from exposing a gun-running scheme; Spector retaliated with a grenade and assumed Randall was dead.
Once he left the CIA, Spector enrolled in illegal fights, where he befriended "Frenchie" Duchamp and both became soldiers-for-hire. They took on several assignments, mainly in Africa and South America. Spector later went to trial for assassinating the president of Bosqueverde, a South American country.
During this time, Spector and Frenchie sometimes did missions as part of the Karnak Cowboys, and Spector eventually became romantically involved with their colleague Layla El-Faouly. After an escape gone wrong, however, Layla apparently lost her life, a loss that eventually led Spector to meet Raul Bushman, in Egypt. Together, they travelled to North Sudan, near the Egyptian border, for a raid on an archaeological site. When Bushman killed the lead archaeologist, Peter Alraune, to find an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, Spector punched Bushman to protect Alraune's daughter, Marlene. Furious, Bushman mortally wounded him in the desert, killing everyone in the place except for Marlene, Frenchie and a villager willing to tell him the secrets of the tomb. Spector managed to reach the tomb before he collapsed, and Marlene and the crew laid him beneath an idol of Khonshu. His spirit had an encounter with Khonshu, who promised to save his life in exchange for his service. Spector agreed, although he later considered this encounter a hallucination. Restored to life, he punished Bushman's men, while Bushman himself escaped.
Having finally found a purpose in life, Spector applied himself fully. He moved to New York with Frenchie and Marlene (now his lover), and developed the costume, equipment, and persona of Moon Knight. With a fortune made from gambling, in addition to support his new career of fighting crime, he began using his Steven Grant persona as a financier and Jake Lockley as a cab driver whose purpose was to gather information at street level. His original persona, with its multiple facets, faded into the background. Still, leading four separate lives put great mental stress on Spector. Lockley developed a network of informants, including the homeless Bertrand Crawley, diner owner Gena Landers, and her two sons, Ricky and Ray.
Spector's first major job as Moon Knight came when the Committee hired him to capture a werewolf named Jack Russell. He succeeded, in large part thanks to the silver cesti he was equipped with. However, he learned that the Committee planned to turn Russell's sister into another werewolf and use them both as weapons. He did the honorable thing and switched sides; Spector and Russell shut down the Committee.
Spector faced Conquer-Lord on his own before briefly joining the Defenders to battle a Life-Model Decoy version of the Zodiac. The first skeleton from Spector's closet to bedevil Moon Knight was William Cross (now the villain Crossfire), from whom Spector rescued the Thing. He met Spider-Man for the first time when they teamed up against the Masked Marauder, who at the time called himself "Big M" and employed the original Cyclone.
Moon Knight had reached the big time and encountered super-villains with more frequency. Very early on, he had to face a serial killer dubbed the Hatchet-Man, who claimed to be his brother Randall. Later on, Spector investigated the death of Amos Lardner when his body arrived in a crate on Spector's doorstep. He learned that Amos' brother James had become a test subject in a CIA experiment (one that Spector himself had participated in), and when Amos investigated, he was forced to undergo the same treatment and committed suicide as a result.
Spector faced other menaces: some super-powered, some insane, some simply ambitious, but all dangerous. He confronted the Slasher, a man slaying homeless people in a effort to find his father. He tracked down Bushman and sent him to jail, but Bushman struck back by having Midnight Man (a more recent foe) destroy Spector's idol of Khonshu. By this time Spector was convinced that Khonshu had given him his powers, as well as a focus in life. His precarious self-control broke down until Marlene produced another idol, which she claimed was the original.
Moon Knight's next major foe, Morpheus, turned out to be a patient of Doctor Peter Alraune, Marlene's brother. The idol of Khonshu sustained Spector again when he first encountered the Black Spectre, who tried to terrorize people into supporting his bid for mayor. Nobody, including Dr. Alraune, believed Spector when he claimed that Knowles was the Black Spectre, but Khonshu gave him the strength to prevail.
A battle with the Fly left Spector unable to walk, but he quickly recovered. To stop an ancient Egyptian curse, Spector briefly hosted the spirit of a priest of Khonshu, which helped to integrate his personalities, but later Spector suffered another serious mental breakdown and decided to abandon all of his alternate identities to settle down with Marlene; by reconciling with his father's legacy, though, he found a measure of peace and decided to retire from crime-fighting.
As part of his new life, Spector gave up his Grant identity and sold the idol at a gallery in Paris. He had a vision, however, telling him that "the image is delivered up to evil." Called back to action as Moon Knight, he learned that Marlene could no longer tolerate his schizophrenic behavior, and she left him. In the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, Spector met three ancients priests of Khonshu, who told him that Khonshu had chosen him as an earthly champion and gave him new weapons. Only later did Spector realize that Khonshu himself was influencing him subconsciously.
Spector joined the West Coast Avengers for a time after rescuing some of their members who had been time-shifted to Pharaonic Egypt. Hawkeye got help from Khonshu, in exchange for designing Moon Knight's new weaponry. Khonshu alerted Spector in the present day, who helped the Avengers return home safely.
While an Avenger, Spector became romantically involved with Tigra, who he'd met some time before on a visit to the Avengers Mansion. After a while, there was a controversy amongst the team upon the discovery that Hawkeye's wife Mockingbird had allowed the Phantom Rider (who had sexually assaulted her) to die while cast away in time. Spector, Tigra, and Mockingbird left the team as a splinter group. Together with Bill Foster they daunted the High Evolutionary, and they also fought the Night Shift. When they consulted with Hellstorm about Phantom Rider's ghost haunting Mockingbird, Spector learned of Khonshu's presence in his own psyche, and Hellstorm convinced the moon god to depart.
Back in New York, Spector reunited with Marlene and went back to less-cosmic crime-fighting.He soon learned that Jeff Wilde, the son of his old foe Midnight Man, had tried to take his place during his time on the West Coast and now wanted to become an ally as Midnight. The new Midnight fought crime for some time together with Spector, until Midnight was seemingly disintegrated during battle with the Secret Empire. Wilde had survived, however, and was turned into a cyborg soldier by the Secret Empire, told that Moon Knight had been responsible for his father's death. These difficulties with the Empire drew Spector (as well as Darkhawk, New Warriors Night Thrasher and Nova, the Punisher, and Spider-Man) into a near war. At the end of the climactic battle, Wilde again seemingly perished, this time crushed by debris when the Empire's headquarters collapsed around him.
Spector underwent another near-death experience. He then found that his brother, Randall had survived, and in addition had been trying to take his place as Khonshu's champion. Randall (as Shadowknight) succeeded in usurping Spector's powers temporarily. With the Punisher's help, Spector defeated Shadowknight. The power levels of his foes kept increasing, so Spector continually upgraded his own equipment. He retooled his Kevlar armor and steel crescent darts with Adamantium, and his public persona with a firm named Spectorcorp.
During the Infinity War, Spector had to contend with Moon Shade, an evil twin of himself created by the Magus (himself an evil twin of Adam Warlock). Luckily, Moon Shade suffered from the same blunted focus caused by Spector's multiple personalities, while Moon Shade's threat had the effect of sharpening Spector's own focus. Moon Shade also had an Achilles' heel: the adamantium in Spector's new weapons. During another cosmic event, the Infinity Crusade, the Goddess (another aspect of Warlock) selected Spector as one of the most spiritual beings on Earth, thanks to his near-death experiences and his devotion to Khonshu.
Seth Phalkon attacked SpectorCorp with a computer virus. Rather than let it destroy the entire conglomerate and his employees, Spector quarantined it in his own building, Shadowkeep, along with himself. He died in the ensuing meltdown.
Khonshu resurrected Spector again to counter another plot by Seth, who had recruited Spector's old foes Bushman, the Black Spectre, and Morpheus. Using an idol of Seth, they tried to break up a peace conference at the U.N. Spector foiled the plot by destroying the idol.
The CIA tried to assassinate Spector because he knew too much about their mind-control programs. With an old flame from the agency, Candace Calder, he exposed the latest refinements in their sinister schemes.
Spector journeyed back to the spirit realm to help the Black Panther reconnect with Bast, his own patron deity. Although Nightmare impersonated Khonshu and tried to divert them from their purpose, the real Khonshu helped them finish the quest.
Despite his mistrust of teams, Spector joined a group that tried to bring in the Punisher for his excessive vigilantism, and he put up the funds for a headquarters. Zaran wounded Spector severely, and the team's building exploded in the same attack. Drained of money, health, and enthusiasm, Spector retired again.
Spector finally exorcised one of his demons after a brutal rooftop battle, when he killed Bushman and used the sharp end of his crescent dart to carve off Bushman's face, unaware that the battle had been set up by a new generation of the Committee. Moon Knight survived, albeit with damaged knees. Crippled and despondent, he turned to pills and alcohol for a time after pushing away his loved ones and keeping himself isolated. After Frenchie was severely beaten right after meeting with Marc and coming out of the closet to him, Marc tracked down his assailant and then returned to his role as Moon Knight. These events forced Spector to shake off his lethargy, at the price of some of his psychological stability.
Mark still believed that he was Khonshu's champion, but in his mind Khonshu wore the mutilated face of Bushman as well as appearing as others from Spector's past. The Committee sent Taskmaster to kill Spector but was shot out of a window instead with help from Marlene and Samuels. After returning home Spector had his wounds bandaged and, despite his injuries, dressed in his costume and flew one of his Moon-copters into their Manhattan office building and resumed his fight with Taskmaster. After defeating a terrified Taskmaster he left the destroyed office with the Committee's file on him and cleaned up his life including going to physical therapy. Despite this he didn't feel ready to fully act as Moon Knight again and in an argument with the Bushman hallucination, Khonsu revealed that he had planted the seeds of vengeance in the minds of the New Committee and subtly manipulated them so Marc would pray to him, believe in him more and become more vengeful.
The Civil War mostly passed him by, although Captain America told him to stay on the sidelines because he thought Spector belonged in a straitjacket, and Tony Stark approached him shortly before the final battle in the Superhuman Registration Act conflict, knowing that Captain America had contacted him and requested that he tell him if he heard from him again.
Around this time he also went up against the new Midnight who was obsessed with him and wanted to be his arch enemy, killing people to get his attention until Moon Knight ultimately killed him after being freed by Lynn Church who believed Midnight was going too far after he began trying to remove Moon Knights vertebra from his back with a pair of pliers instead of allowing him to kill them as they actually wanted.
Soon after, with the Civil War now over, Marc made the decision to register with the government to ensure that no one would be trying to arrest him while he was 'working'. He used information gathered by Profile on the Doctor who was going to perform his interview to frighten, intimidate and essentially blackmail him into passing his application, as he knew the authorities would initially try to arrest and or commit him otherwise. Spector was registered as an independent with little oversight as he had aimed for.
Moon Knight had to fake his own death when Osborn sent his Thunderbolts to kill him. After that, he fled to Mexico using the name Jake Lockley for a while. He eventually met up with the Punisher and the Zapata Brothers to help save Carmen Alcantara from her father's drug cartel.
Sometime after, Moon Knight returned to New York with the intention of being a hero, but still struggled against his violent nature and was hounded by a small imaginary Khonshu. While trying to walk the path of good, he made a bold return by stopping a bank robbery without killing any of the robbers. Much to Norman Osborn's disdain, Moon Knight was now a hero and not a murderous vigilante, so he summoned the Hood and Profile to take care of him. The Hood supernaturally revived Bushman and recruited him as part of his force to combat Moon Knight.When investigating a warehouse at the docks, Moon Knight was ambushed and shot by Bushman. The two engaged in a violent fight and Bushman ended up impaled by a machine gun. As Moon Knight was about to carve off Bushman's face once more, a vision of Khonshu appeared, yelling at Moon Knight to obey him. Bushman then pleaded for Moon Knight not to take his face off and Moon Knight reluctantly did not.
After stopping a gang of bank robbers together with Jean-Paul, Spector returns to his newly-bought mansion and dives into its pool, scaring Marlene. He comes into the mansion and goes to bed with her, later coming downstairs to his own room. In the room, he is haunted by visions of Khonshu, as well as his different identities. While he's in his bed, Khonshu shows him his past, telling him that the only place where he ever felt at home was inside Moon Knight's costume, spilling the blood of Khonshu's enemies. Marc wanders into his armory, still haunted by Khonshu, and breaks down, while Marlene asks him, who is he today.
Later, Marc arrives home and is told by Marlene to follow the trail of rose petals, left by her for him to follow. He chases her to the roof of the mansion, where she pretends to fall, only for it to be revealed as a setup by her and Jean-Paul, sitting atop the Angel Wing behind a small table with dinner on it. While the three of them fly over New York, Marlene reveals to Marc that she is pregnant.
Later, Marc reads in a newspaper about a mysterious killer who calls himself Shadowknight and goes out as Jake Lockley to find information on him. Outside Gena's he gets another vision of Khonshu, who says to him that he is being upstaged, as he always feared. Inside Gena's, Marc gets information on Shadowknight's probable position from Crawley and leaves for work as a taxi driver. While working, Jake picks up Steve Rogers, who asks him for help at Hell's Kitchen. Later, Lockley vandalizes his own cab to get spotted by the Hand ninjas and taken into the castle's dungeon, where he throws up a set of lockpicks he swallowed earlier and breaks himself out, only for his plan to be interrupted by Ghost Rider. After that, he fought together with other heroes at Hell's Kitchen, and was stopped by Daredevil, possessed by The Beast. Daredevil tried to take over his mind, but was stopped by Khonshu and forced to leave. After telling the other heroes about Daredevil's possession, he talks to Khonshu, who tells Spector about the Sapphire Crescent.
Later, Marc returns home, only to find his house vandalised and Marlene on the verge of consciousness, telling him that she was attacked by Shadowknight. Marc calls for an ambulance and finds out that Randall's attack caused a miscarriage, causing him to break down. Marc comes to the statue of Khonshu and tells him that he will do what he has to, before leaving on the Angel Wing to battle Shadowknight, who was just spotted by satellite imagery. He crashes the wing into Shadowknight, damaging both Randall and himself, prompting the former to question his sanity. Marc chases Randall into a church, breaking through its stained glass window, and prompting Randall to reveal his identity. Randall then uses his powers to defeat Marc and then leave.
Later, Marc arrives at a Day of the Dead celebration, where he finds the Sapphire Crescent in one the fortune tellers's posession. After he buys it and relays that he did to Captain America, he finds the Crescent stolen by a masked man. He chases the man, who reveals himself to be Randall, and fights him for it. He changes into Moon Knight and follows Randall to stop him from killing more innocent people. Randall distracts him by throwing a crescent dart at Marlene, and is then backed into a pier. Standing at its edge, Randall reveals that he strapped a bomb to himself, and that Marc is out of crescent darts. In desperation, Marc throws the Sapphire Crescent at Randall's neck, killing him and causing him to fall off the pier, losing the Crescent forever.
Later, back at the mansion, Khonshu rejoices in his victory, while Marc comes back into the fight with ninjas of the Hand. Later, at one of the nights, he comes out of bed and, staring into the night, answers Marlene that Jake Lockley is dead and he is Marc Spector.
After Norman Osborn's defeat in the Siege of Asgard, Steve Rogers was appointed as his replacement. He reorganized the Avengers, recruiting Moon Knight to be on his team of Secret Avengers. Their first mission sent the team to Mars. Later on Moon Knight was part of a team that infiltrated a Secret Empire undercity beneath Cincinnati. Some of his teammates, such as Beast, did not trust Spector due to his mental illness.
Spector moved to Los Angeles to work as a television producer. Marc Spector was at a party celebrating the success of his new show, "the Legend of Khonshu", which he based on his own past. His celebration was interrupted by a call, and he went outside to meet Wolverine, Spider-Man and Captain America. Cap informed Spector that criminals had been migrating to Los Angeles, and as he now operates there he wanted Spector to figure out why. He reminded Marc that as an Avenger he never has to work alone.
At the docks, Moon Knight spied two armed henchmen, making a pickup for a mysterious employer. They approached Mr. Hyde, who demanded payment. When it is not given, Zabo killed the two men. Moon Knight attacked Zabo. The fight moved onto Hyde's boat, and Moon Knight discovered that Hyde was selling a Ultron's head. He made off with the Ultron's head, diving into the water.
The henchman's employer appeared above the boat as Moon Knight dove deeper. He refused to pay Hyde. In revenge for killing the henchmen, he attacked with a massive burst of energy and absconded with the rest of the Ultron body. Moon Knight took the Ultron head back to Captain America, Wolverine, and Spider-Man to discuss the situation. However, he was in fact completely alone, and the three Avengers were mere hallucinations.
Dressed as Spider-Man, and thinking that he was in fact Spider-Man, Marc confronted the criminal Snapdragon at a strip club she operated. Partway through the fight, his Wolverine personality took over. He was defeated, but saved by Echo, who was undercover there. She explained that she had briefly been an Avenger and they had mutual friends. He later asked her out on a date at Pink's Hotdogs to make up for blowing her cover.
Spector had hired Buck Lime, an ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, to assist him, having tested him by pretending to be Bullseye. Buck confirmed the authenticity of the Ultron's head and encouraged him to give it to the Avengers; at the same time, the new kingpin of L.A. ordered Snapdragon to kill Moon Knight. For that, Snapdragon hired the team Night Shift.
Meanwhile, the assassin known as Daken moved to L.A. He had wanted to become lord of the city's crime scene, but found a new kingpin already in place. A string of murders committed by a 'Claws Killer' were falsely attributed to Daken. Moon Knight was also hunting the Claws Killer, who ended up being Marcus Roston.
Night Shift attacked Moon Knight and Echo on their date. The police tried to arrest them, and at the suggestion of his Cap persona he initially surrendered. When a handful of officers tried to unmask him he fought back and escaped. Echo also escaped, stealing a cop car. He later tried to kiss Echo, angering her. Later, Echo showed up at his house and apologized. The real Avengers arrived, having been contacted by Buck and informed of the Ultron's head. Rogers told Marc he trusted him and his plan for catching the mysterious kingpin, but emphasized the riskiness of the plan.
Buck went to Snapdragon's club to offer the kingpin the head. Although he knew this was a trap, the kingpin revealed himself: Count Nefaria. The Ultron head was a fake, filled with a drug that weakened Nefaria. They battled, but Nefaria fled. However, Echo had recorded everything; they now had hard evidence of the kingpin's identity and his intentions. She also witnessed Moon Knight talking to his other personalities. Moon Knight took Snapdragon to the police. Although the evidence was solid, the captain didn't want to anger Nefaria and thus did nothing.
Whilst out defeating criminals, Moon Knight and Echo were ambushed by Nefaria. They tried to flee with little success. Standing their ground, they knew it was an impossible fight. Nefaria slew Echo with his optic beams, enraging Moon Knight as he had developed an infatuation with her. His Wolverine personality slew the other two Avenger persona's and took control. He savagely attacked Nefaria, wounding him. Nefaria's blast backfired, seriously harming both himself and Moon Knight. The police found Spector and took him to a hospital. He woke up to discover himself handcuffed to a bed. Buck Lime gassed the hospital and rescued him.
Nefaria asked his daughter, Madame Masque, for assistance. She traced the Vibranium in Echo's staff and found Buck and Moon Knight's hideout. She retrieved the Ultron head. Together, Buck and Moon Knight defeated Masque and reclaimed the head. During the fight, Moon Knight manifested another personality, this one based on Echo. When L.A.P.D. showed up to arrest Count Nefaria, he attacked their station. Moon Knight followed him but was defeated. This lead Nefaria into a trap, as Spector had called the Avengers. Thor knocked out Nefaria and he was taken into custody. The Ultron head was given to Tony Stark, who made quite an impression on Marc. Moon Knight manifested a new Iron Man personality before he returned to New York. Three months later, "Legend of Khonshu" was cancelled.
Moon Knight took the side of his fellow Avengers against the X-Men. He was sent to keep an eye on the Jean Grey School together with Falcon and She-Hulk. He took an aggressive attitude to his job, and after exchanging barbs with Frenzy, he attacked her, leading to a fight. After She-Hulk injured some kids in the belief that they were a greater threat, a full scale conflict erupted with the rest of the school's faculty joining in the battle.
After leaving the West Coast, Marc Spector returned to New York with a stack of laundered cash, plus new technology and weapons. Rededicated to being the protector of night travelers, he adopted an enhanced costume and high-tech equipment. But the troubled hero's persona remained fractured and, when a homicidal slasher began terrorizing the city, he investigated the case as the mysterious Mister Knight. With help from Detective Flint of the NYPD's Freak Beat task force, Knight uncovered the killer's identity as a psychotic former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who had been injured in a bomb blast and was using body parts from his victims to improve himself. Knight injured the murderer before killing him in self-defense as he was fired upon, reflecting afterward in his rundown mansion on recent developments in his life. In the past, he'd felt that his multiple personalities stemmed from Dissociative Identity Disorder. However, he'd recently learned that this was untrue. In fact, on first becoming Moon Knight his brain had been colonised by Khonshu - Egyptian God of Vengeance. Despite this, his psychologist had concluded that Spector was actually suffering from brain damage, and his ongoing multiple personality issues were diagnosed as an aftereffect of encountering Khonshu.
Spector tackled his next case as Moon Knight, confronting a sniper killing Wall Street financiers who were former special operations agents. The sniper, resenting his former comrades for leaving him for dead during a mission and feeling betrayed that they had gone on to become wealthy in the financial sector, was ultimately defeated by Moon Knight but then killed by a former teammate. Spector next attempted to tackle the ghosts of a street gang, donning mystical armor granted by Khonshu to overcome them. Following that, Mister Knight was called in by Doctor Skelton, a sleep scientist whose patients were all experiencing the same dream, uncovering a corpse hidden under the floorboards that had been producing spores. After saving a little girl from kidnappers, Spector faced a more traditional adversary, Officer Ryan Trent, a deranged cop turned Black Spectre, whose plan was to defeat Moon Knight and then reveal his true identity in the hope of recognition. As Moon Knight confronted him, Trent was blown up by one of his own devices. The vigilante explained to the badly wounded Trent that his mistake was in wanting people to love him - whereas Moon Knight always triumphed because he had no such need.
After thwarting the assassination attempt of a mercenary hired by Spector's psychologist Elisa Warsame to murder General Aliman Lor, Marc was intervened by Elisa, who used hypnosis to claim Khonshu from him in order to have her revenge. Marc lost all of his multiple personalities, and was captured and kept in an undisclosed prison, from where he managed to escape, after another act of saving Aliman Lor's life caused him to be blamed for the attack.Once Khonshu gave up on Warsame, he returned to Marc, and helped him finally stop her from killing Lor.
When Marc Spector woke to find himself in a sanatorium he had no recollection of how he had got there. All of it had seemingly been Khonshu's doing to inhabit Spector's body, so he could be born into his new world as its ruler.But in actuality, everything that had happened took place in Marc's head or as an abstraction.In it, Marc confronted his alternate personas and realized that if he was ever going to be whole again, they had to go. Reconciling his illness left Marc able to reappropriate Khonsu. He then confronted Khonshu to regain his sanity.
Marc reappropriated Khonshu and resumed his normal life as well as his Moon Knight persona, but, unbeknownst to him, Sun King (the avatar of Amon Ra) and Bushman had joined efforts and were planning to kill him. To accomplish this, they went to Marlene's house to use her as leverage, but ended up discovering she and Marc had a daughter together named Diatrice. They forced Marlene to get Marc to her house, where they revealed Diatrice's existence. After a fight, the villains escaped with Marlene. After taking Diatrice to safety, Marc was contacted by the villains and forced to follow them to their base of operations, Isla Ra.
Once welcomed to Isla Ra, Marc engaged Sun King in a spiritual battle during which Sun King successfully made Marc doubt everything he knew, and consider that Khonshu was wrong.However, during ritual combat against Sun King, Marc caught a second wind by believing in Diatrice. Marc's strength manifested in a berserker rage he used to defeat Sun King and break his spirit. Following Sun King's admission of defeat, Moon Knight took his followers for himself.
Shortly afterwards, Moon Knight infiltrated a gathering of the cultist Societe des Sadiques after learning that their leader was Ernst. When Marc confronted him, Ernst revealed he had pulled the strings behind their reunion, and intended Marc to join him. After overcoming the Société's physical trials, Marc's beliefs were attacked in a personal confrontation with Ernst. Spector managed to reject Ernst and killed him.Afterwards, Moon Knight joined forces with Sun King to take down the remaining acolytes of the Société before they could kill Diatrice in revenge.
When a mysterious disease from K'un-Lun began infecting Manhattan, Moon Knight was the last to arrive on the scene where some heroes had killed the carrier. Jessica Jones told Moon Knight that the threat was neutralized, but Marc told them that another carrier was wreaking havoc at the hospital. He, alongside the other heroes, tried to fight it, but it managed to spread to a number of them forcing the rest to retreat. After six days of containment thanks to the League of International Magic Practitioners who used their power to contain the infection, the heroes didn't know what to do to cure the infected, since if more time passed it would eat away their bodies. After Senor Magico told the heroes that the infecteds' minds had gone somewhere within the Urchin, Moon Knight had the idea to let himself get infected due to his broken mind which could allow him to free the others' minds. Jessica protested the idea, but when the magic containment was broken, the infected individuals attacked the remaining heroes. Moon Knight went with his plan and allowed the virus to infect him, sending his mind within the Urchin. While there he witnessed all the other infected individuals trapped in Urchin. After fellow hero Pei was infected, he freed her mind from the Urchin which allowed her to fight back from within. Then Moon Knight tried to free the mind of the girl who had become the second carrier, but was knocked out during the struggle. Thankfully, Pei was able to free all of the infecteds' minds allowing to get rid of the infection and finally contain what was left of the Urchin.
After Marc suffered a prophetic dream, Khonshu also felt it, and ordered Marc to investigate the place he saw in the dream. Upon entering the abandoned house, he saw the cult of Set digging up the grave of James Allison. He attacked them, but during the battle the cult disappeared, and Moon Knight was transported to England in 1584, where he met Solomon Kane. Then that era's corpse of James convinced them to join forces and fight the threat of Set. After going through Northumberland, they awaited for the Shandy boat to take them to their destination, but the crew had already been possessed by Set. After killing the crew, they used another ship to Rotterdam and made their way to Italy.
Upon finding the lair of the cult, they ambushed them and were able to get the bracelet that needed to be destroyed. However, when Khonshu was able to reach Moon Knight again, the god told him that he needed to wear the bracelet instead. After doing so, Moon Knight's soul was transported to Eternal Egypt where Set awaited. After Khonshu defeated Set, Moon Knight returned back to his body, and alongside Solomon he went to Hyboria where they met Conan and Dark Agnes. After finding out that they all had been manipulated by the Wyrm, they prepared to fight the being. During the battle, Khonshu gave Moon Knight enough power to defeat Wyrm, and returned him to his time, but with a sliver of Khonshu's power still within him.
When Khonshu became plagued by visions of the end of the world at the hands of an army of the demon Mephisto and his pandimensional alternate selves, Marc was affected by these horrific premonitions. Confronting Khonshu, Moon Knight discovered his master was as much of a victim as himself. With assistance from the Cult of Khonshu, Moon Knight reluctantly embarked on a quest to absorb the powers of the modern-age counterparts of a group of Avengers of the Stone Age into mystical ankhs in order to prepare to defend the Earth. His victims were Iron Fist, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, and Thor.
After Moon Knight killed Mephisto and handed over his new powers to Khonshu, the Moon God took over Manhattan, rechristening it New Thebes City and using it as the starting point of a global conquest, with the Avengers becoming fugitives due to harboring one of Khonshu's targets, the infant Starbrand. As Khonshu began to succumb to madness and paranoia, Moon Knight was encouraged by the Unseen during a visit on the Moon to seek out a different power. In a battle against the Black Panther, Spector used the physical beating as a token of devotion while praying to the Phoenix Force. Becoming the Phoenix's host, Moon Knight used its power to attack Khonshu, leaving him to be defeated and have the stolen powers stripped off him by the Avengers. After the Phoenix Force tried to persuade Marc into razing the Earth, Marc began to reject the cosmic force, and allowed Thor to knock him out, becoming free of the Phoenix.As Manhattan recovered from Khonshu's short-lived rule, the Avengers decided to leave Moon Knight unincarcerated, with Black Panther even offering him a place in the team to help avoid the prophesied future. Marc refused since the Avengers had interfered in his own attempt to stop Mephisto.
Following his rejection of Khonshu as an object of worship, Spector appropriated his former master's mission, that of protecting night travelers. Remaining in Manhattan, he claimed a portion of the city as his territory and brutally protected anybody within it. He also established a congregation named the Midnight Mission whose doors were open to anybody who needed his help.
In this neighborhood, young Reese and other locals were forcedly turned into vampires by the Structure, a vampiric pyramid scheme cult. Moon Knight killed their "recruiters", but spared Reese and the others when she explained they had been turned against their will. Reese then became his first recruit, beginning to work at the Midnight Mission as a receptionist.
This attracted the attention of Badr, a fellow Fist of Khonshu who called himself Hunter's Moon. Before long, he confronted Moon Knight, chastising him for taking in enemies of Khonshu, and being determined to "correct" him. Badr beat Moon Knight and invaded the Midnight Mission to kill Reese and other vampires, but Spector recovered and knocked him unconscious after attacking him from behind. Dragging Badr outside his building, Moon Knight warned him about crossing him again.
When Zodiac moved against Moon Knight,Reese reached Hunter's Moon and begged him to help Spector. Impressed by her bravery in approaching him, Badr realized Spector couldn't be such a bad person if he could inspire such loyalty and decided to help him.
Then, Tigra, who had visited Marc occasionally to keep an eye on him on behalf of the Black Panther, found herself growing increasingly closer to him over time, finally deciding to flip on the Avengers for him. Eventually, the two started dating.
Going after the new Black Spectre, Moon Knight and Hunter's Moon learned from Vibro's mind that Spectre was working with Sarnak to transform Manhattan's underground into a gigantic resonator, which they sought to use in maddening all of the citizens. Having uncovered Black Spectre's plan, Moon Knight and the Midnight Mission broke inside his base, fighting through Black Spectre's forces, only for Moon Knight to be left alone wounded.
As the Midnight Mission fought the villain's forces, Moon Knight confronted the one he thought to be the Black Spectre. After defeating Ryan Trent, Moon Knight was met with the actual Black Spectre, his former ally Robert Plesko who fatally shot him and left him to die. Despite nearing his death, Moon Knight gathered up all of his remaining strength to make his way towards the "killsound" broadcaster, intending to blow it up. Before setting it to explode, Moon Knight recited the Shema. He then sacrificed himself and destroyed the resonator, thwarting Plesko's evil plan and saving Manhattan.
Weeks passed until Hunter's Moon and Tigra got to put their plan in motion to resurrect Spector. During Varnae's vampiric takeover of the Earth, they got Clea to send them to Asgard, where Khonshu was imprisoned, to get his help in the fight. With the aid of the Wrecker, they freed Khonshu from his prison and, with the god free, Tigra patiently waiting for Spector's resurrection, dreading the possibility he would return a zombie. But Khonshu reassured her he would not fail his son, and soon Spector and Tigra were reunited, sharing a loving kiss. Then, each of them led a cadre of warriors to battle the vampiric army.
With the war over, Khonshu forced Marc into paying off a debt - having saved Reese earlier, Khonshu wanted Marc to kill the Shroud, who had taken up the guise of Moon Knight in Marc's absence and went on a rampage. Marc confronted the Shroud and forced him to a fight to the death, which Marc won, temporarily stopping his heart before getting him revived, settling the debt through a loophole. To fully mark his return, he approached the Bar with No Name and hung up Shroud's Moon Knight costume as a warning that he's back and all previous agreements were active again.
In the Legacy of Chris Thorndyke,
And he is reprised by Diedrich Bader in the English dub and his Japanese voice is unknown.