Moon Knight is the newest superhero Marvel is bringing from the comics to the television screen. Starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, the show hopes to move to “a different narrative rhythm than other MCU properties,” as an AV Club review says. Both actors were surprising additions to the Marvel world, and Hawke told Entertainment Weekly he was “apprehensive” of the role until Isaac joined. But after the first episode, we’re happy they made the decision to board the show—it’s a thrilling and unique take to the story, and one that doesn’t necessarily scream Marvel like maybe Loki or The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
But no matter how it looks and feels, Moon Knight is still a Marvel show. And that means there’s a brand new caped crusader entering the massive, ever-expanding cinematic universe. Moon Knight has never been adapted before, and certainly isn’t as well-known as say, Captain America. For a quick run-down: Moon Knight is actually a former mercenary named Marc Spector. One day, when he’s left for dead in the desert, the ancient Egyptian moon god Khonsu revives him. Along with a new lease on life, Khonsu gifts Marc with god-like powers to fight evil. Marc, however, faces a constant internal obstacle: he has multiple personalities (described in recent years of Marvel Comics, specifically, as Dissociative Identity Disorder). And sometimes they communicate, which can make moving around in public a little awkward.
Naturally, you probably want to know who this new guy in the MCU is, and what he’s even capable of. That’s where we come in. Here’s everything we know about Moon Knight’s powers.
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What are Moon Knight’s Powers?
According to Marvel, Moon Knight possesses expert fighting abilities, weapons expertise, and impressive athletics due to Marc Spector’s background as a CIA operative, Marine, and eventually mercenary. He can also speak several languages. Plus, due to Khonsu’s power, Moon Knight has supernatural skills like enhanced strength determined by the moon’s waxing and waning, and the power to drain someone’s life force through physical contact. Yeah, that’s not a guy you want to mess with.
In the comics, he often uses his multiple personalities as believable covers—those personalities include not only Steven Grant (who, in the show, is a museum gift shop employee, but in the comics is a wealthy movie producer) and Marc Spector (the mercenary we’ve already discussed), but also Jake Lockley, a hot-headed cab driver who may or may not be a part of the MCU depiction. Sometimes, he also hallucinates people or voices in his head; in a comic run written by Brian Michael Bendis (the creator of beloved modern Marvel characters Miles Morales and Jessica Jones, among others), Moon Knight imagined superhero colleagues Wolverine and Captain America in his head. When he has a firm grip on reality, these manifestations can actually encourage him when he’s trying to decide his next move.
Moon Knight is also technically immortal, since Khonsu has brought him back to life in the comics not once, but three times.
As the television show continues, we’ll see how much of Moon Knight’s comic book powers transition over to the MCU depiction, and what his addition means for the next phase of Marvel’s television and movie adaptations. We know the show is set in London—could Moon Knight link up with our other new London-set pals Black Knight and Blade? We’ll just have to wait and see (but it sounds good to us).
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