History Characters / MCUMoonKnight

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Jake is generally portrayed by most comic writers as the most approachable and down-to-earth of the alters, and the one who inspired Marc to become TheAtoner, although Max Bemis's run portrayed him as a ruthless JerkAss. Lockley incorporates a mix of those traits, being polite but without a doubt the most ruthless and bloodthirsty of the alters, and fully devoted to Khonshu.

** While Steven's enthusiasm for certain topics and tendency to cry easily can occasionally come off as childlike, he is anything but childish'', being a lot more emotionally mature and strong-willed than Marc. [[spoiler:When Steven learns about Randall's existence through Marc's memories, he attempts to rescue his younger self and his little brother from the flooding cave where Randall drowned. Later on, when Marc has an emotional breakdown over his mother's death and regresses to a childlike mentality, Steven calmly extends a firm hand and comforts him through his trauma the way an older brother or parent would.]]

* CompositeCharacter:
** Steven Grant's job as a poor museum employee has much more in common with Jake Lockley from the comics. There, Lockley was a cab driver who would interact with people on the street with connections to the criminal underworld that neither Spector nor Grant could talk to without raising suspicion. Meanwhile, Marc gets Jake's tendency to keep secrets and live an entire other life that the other identities (or Steven in this case) don't know about.
** The series also ties each alter to a suit, Marc to Moon Knight and Steven to Mr. Knight.

* DecompositeCharacter: Played with regarding Moon Knight and Mr. Knight. In the comics, Mr. Knight is one of the personas Marc takes while acting as a police informant. In this series, it's the form ''Steven'' takes while trying to summon the Moon Knight suit, much to Marc's dismay.

* FreudianTrio: The three alters. Steven is the restrained superego, the mysterious third is the unrestrained and violent id, and Marc is the ego reconciling the two.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the comics, Marc Spector was never truly aware of what was happening whenever any of his other alters assumed control over the body. Here, he actively converses with Steven Grant and is implied to know quite a bit about what had previously happened to them before the start of the show.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While he's more willing to use violence than Steven, even Marc is shocked at the level of brutality [[spoiler:the mysterious third alter]] is capable of.

* AmbiguousDisorder: While it's never stated or otherwise indicated onscreen, Steven shows signs of being on the autism spectrum with his honesty, occasional moments of social awkwardness, and his passion for Egyptian history.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the comics, Jake was the ''nicest'' of the alters and the one who inspired Marc to become TheAtoner. Here, Lockley is without a doubt the most ruthless and bloodthirsty of the alters, and fully devoted to Khonshu.

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' U.S. Military (formerly), National Art Gallery (formerly), Khonshu

->''"I [Marc] serve Khonshu. I'm his Avatar. Which means you [Steven] are, too. Sort of. We protect the vulnerable and deliver Khonshu's justice to those who hurt them."''

* InformedJudaism: Marc is Jewish, and you can see a Star of David around his neck in the reflections when he's speaking to Steven. He also uses the common Yiddish colloquialism "Oy". The doorway of his apartment has a mezuzah, and in an interview, Oscar Isaac talks about how Steven's accent is modeled after the accents heard in the northeastern part of London which is home to a thriving Jewish community. His actual practice of the faith, however, is mostly kept in the background, except in a pair of crucial moments; in episode 5, Marc's family is shown sitting shiva (a seven-day mourning and acceptance period in Judaism) [[spoiler:first for his brother and, later in the episode, for his mother]], and Marc is shown wearing a kippah.

* JewishAndNerdy: He appears to be a practicing Jew, going by the mezuzah on the front door of his apartment, and often geeks out over Egyptian mythology to anyone who will listen.

** Dialed UpToEleven when he has to remove [[spoiler:Ammit's]] ushabti from the body of [[spoiler:her last avatar, Alexander the Great]], by pushing his hand and whole arm down its throat. Steven can't help but stammer apologies to [[spoiler:"Mr. Great."]]

** The finale takes this UpToEleven: Jake seemingly ends up ''murdering every single Disciple of Ammit in one go.''

->''"I serve Khonshu. I'm his Avatar. Which means you are, too. Sort of. We protect the vulnerable and deliver Khonshu's justice to those who hurt them."''

* AdaptationalWealth: With DecompositeCharacter at play, Jake is doing a lot better here than he was in the comics. He's seen driving a rather luxurious limo and wearing some dapper clothes with a NiceHat, ironically making him resemble the Steven Grant from the comics more than Steven does.

* NiceHat: It wouldn't be Jake if he didn't have his trademark flat cap. At least at the end, anyway.

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' US Marine Corps (formerly), National Art Gallery (formerly), Khonshu

* MilitarySuperhero: Marc was in the Marines until his DID cost him his job, causing him to turn to mercenary work before he became Moon Knight. It's part of why he's such a good fighter and marksman even without his suit.

* StrongAndSkilled: Marc clearly has more combat experience than Steven thanks to actually being a former member of the US Marine Corps, and when he becomes Moon Knight, he possesses superhuman strength that allows him to swiftly overpower the jackal monsters that are summoned by Arthur Harrow.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: In the comics, Mr. Knight was the persona Moon Knight used to track down criminals while acting as an informant for the police and was generally just as serious and intelligent as Moon Knight. In the ''Moon Knight'' series, Mr. Knight is the result of Steven Grant trying to "summon the suit" rather than Marc Spector, and as such he acts much more like an ineffectual FightingClown [[spoiler:until the series finale, where he's capable of kicking juts as much ass as Marc once he realizes that, since they share the same body, then he also is capable of fighting]].

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!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' U.S. Military (formerly), National Art Gallery (formerly), Khonshu

* MilitarySuperhero: Marc was in the military until his DID cost him his job, causing him to turn to mercenary work before he became Moon Knight. It's part of why he's such a good fighter and marksman even without his suit.

* StrongAndSkilled: Marc clearly has more combat experience than Steven thanks to actually being a former member of the military, and when he becomes Moon Knight, he possesses superhuman strength that allows him to swiftly overpower the jackal monsters that are summoned by Arthur Harrow.

* AdaptationalNationality: The Jake Lockley of the comics is a traditional New York cab driver, complete with BrooklynRage. Meanwhile, his MCU counterpart has him speaking with Creator/OscarIsaac's native Spanish as well as a New York accent in English but still working in London like Steven Grant.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Both [[spoiler:(all three)]] of the alters display traits of this for one another:

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Unlike the other two, Jake seems to play this trope straight. Whenever he emerges, several people end up dead and/or maimed. That said, TheStinger implies that while Jake is definitely the most violent and murderous of the three alters, he's at least stable enough to buy and purchase an expensive limo to drive around in.

!!''[[ComicBook/MoonKnight Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Third Alter / Moon Knight / Mr. Knight]]''

* BigBrotherInstinct:

** [[spoiler:Jake is also this since he has rescued both Marc and Steven from perilous situations.]]

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Steven slowly transforms into a statue of sand when he falls into the Duat.]]

** It's worth noting that while Marc is brave in a more traditional way, Steven is more ''morally'' brave, willing to die at the hands of Harrow and his cult because what they're planning to do is wrong and to protect the woman he loves, and he's able to share important information with Layla that Marc is too afraid of rejection to be honest about, even when it would seemingly put him in a weaker position compared to his love rival, something which Marc acknowledges and which serves to help them mend fences a bit.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Khonshu recruited Marc when he was on the edge of death, and there is a suggestion Marc was involved with the deaths of a group of archeologists in Egypt, [[spoiler:though it's later revealed that he tried to prevent his partner from committing the massacre, only to be gunned down himself]]. Moreover, he has Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is revealed in episode 5 to be the result of [[spoiler:childhood trauma and abuse. Marc Spector (who is indeed the original alter/host of the system) was a young boy from a good Jewish family, but one stormy evening, he and his little brother Randall got trapped in a cave they were exploring during a rainstorm and a flood caused Randall's death. In her grief, his mother Wendy [[TheAlcoholic turned to drink]], blamed Marc for Randall's death, and [[AbsuiveParents physically abused him for years,]] causing him to create Steven as a means of escaping the trauma. He eventually left home and joined the army, but an incident linked to his DID caused him to be discharged, which led to him being on the dig where he met Layla's father before it all went to hell. Then, of course, Khonshu showed up...]]

* LegacyCharacter: "Summon the Suit" reveals that they are the latest of Khonshu's avatars, [[spoiler:with Arthur Harrow being their predecessor.]]