Warning: spoilers for Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #1 are ahead.
In Marvel Comics, Moon Knight may be the Fist of Khonshu, but that doesn’t make him above repaying favors to fellow heroes like Spider-Man. In fact, Moon Knight owes something of a debt to Spider-Man, considering he spent the better part of a year impersonating the wall-crawler.
Marc Spector has always utilized multiple personas in his time as Moon Knight. Early on in the character’s history, these alternate identities were little more than disguises Spector would use to move in different circles. Creators would later expand on this idea as comics became more interested in superhero psychology, explaining that Moon Knight’s various identities were a result of the character having dissociative identity disorder. This change has largely stayed in canon while various creators have come in and revamped the character every few years. Traditionally, Moon Knight has had three identities: mercenary Marc Spector, wealthy playboy Steven Grant and cab driver Jake Lockley, but more recent runs have introduced other personas like the popular Mr. Knight, recently adapted into the Moon Knight TV series.
A story in the recent Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #1 hints that the Fist of Khonshu might be something of a hypocrite, especially given that he's impersonated members of the Avengers. Written by Murewe Ayodele and with art by Dotun Akande, “So White. Yet, So Dark.” is a team-up between Moon Knight and Spider-Man, in which the wall-crawler offers to help MK take down a group of thieves trying to summon the Egyptian god, Anubis. All that Spider-Man wants in return is to borrow Moon Knight’s fancy white suit from his Mr. Knight persona for an evening. Moon Knight reluctantly agrees once the two halt the villain’s schemes, but not without giving Spider-Man a hard time about it first. Yet considering he wore his wore his costume and pretended to be Spider-Man years before, the least Spector could do is loan him the suit for free. Spider-Man doesn’t even want to borrow any of Moon Knight’s high tech crime-fighting equipment; he just wants to borrow a nice-looking suit jacket for a night.
This is a callback to the Moon Knight series by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, which took this basic concept of Moon Knight’s various identities and added a new wrinkle to the mix. Instead of any of Spector’s established identities, this time Moon Knight took on the personas of three different Marvel heroes: Captain America, Wolverine and Spider-Man. Moon Knight even goes so far as to wear each hero’s respective costume to fully embody them as they take on the Los Angeles underworld. Moon Knight’s fellow Avengers eventually catch on that their team-mate has been impersonating them, leaving Peter Parker to ask Spector rather hilariously at one point, “I gotta ask — did you — did you dress up as me and beat up a strip club?” Moon Knight eventually did away with his “Avengers” personas.
Apparently amongst the many gifts Khonshu blesses his Earthly avatar with, a long memory doesn’t seem to be one of them. One thing’s for sure: even if you’re Spider-Man, don’t go looking to Moon Knight to repay any favors.
Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #1 is available now from Marvel Comics.
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