History YMMV / MoonKnight

-->''Let me tell you a thing about me. People who love me suffer and die. I never want to be loved.''

* BrokenBase: The MaybeMagicMaybeMundane aspect of Moon Knight's characterization. For some fans, he's more interesting if you think he's just a normal man who's got serious Schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, and Khonshu is just a hallucination. Others however prefer the idea that he's really possessed by Khonshu and is acting as his avatar. Some writers play up the ambiguous nature while other (such as Warren Ellis and the writers following) instead go with things being explicitly the latter. For some, the former idea makes him a somewhat-positive example of mental illness in comics since while he struggles with it and i quite violent he's still a heroic figure, while others find the 'he's crazy' explanation to be somewhat overplayed by certain writers and see it as essentially Deadpool without the fun.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Has had this from time to time with different factions of his fandom having less then favorable reactions to certain revamps in his personality and character direction.

** Marlene and Frenchie. They stuck with Moon Knight for years despite his fluctuating mental state and suffered through terrifying ordeals before cutting off ties with him. Even worse for Frenchie, as he was actually in love with Marc, but Moon Knight's single-minded dedication to his work and instability meant he was unable to ever reciprocate.

* TheWoobie: Being a superhero with multiple secret identities has driven the poor guy into borderline insanity and he's constantly having to resist Khonshu's attempts to twist him into a KnightTemplar BloodKnight. He's considered CListFodder by most of the other superheroes and supervillains and is extremely lonely, to the point of ''begging'' to be part of the Avengers once. And then [[spoiler: Echo got killed which almost sent him hurtling over the DespairEventHorizon]]. In short: it sucks to be Moon Knight.

* MyRealDaddy: Depends on who you ask. The most commonly cited are Brian Michael Bendis, Warren Ellis and Charlie Huston.

** In the Warren Ellis series, his craziness has looped itself so that he's now one man (Marc Spector) and ''four'' incarnations of Khonshu, including "Mr. Knight" (a dapper white suit), a traditional crime-fighting outfit, and an anti-magic suit with--in Ellis' own words--a Giant Fucking Bird Skull for a helmet. ("Giant Fucking Bird Skull" has since become [[MemeticMutation a bit of a Moon Knight fan meme.]])

* TheWoobie: Being a superhero with multiple secret identities has driven the poor guy into borderline insanity and he's constantly having to resist Khonshu's attempts to twist him into a KnightTemplar BloodKnight. He's considered CListFodder by most of the other superheroes and supervillains and is extremely lonely, to the point of ''begging'' to be part of the Avengers once. And then [[spoiler: Echo got killed which almost sent him hurtling over the DespairEventHorizon]]. In short: it sucks to be Moon Knight.

* MyRealDaddy: Depends on who you ask. The most commonly cited are Brian Michael Bendis and Warren Ellis.

* JerkassWoobie: The second Black Spectre, who's so desperate to be unique and special like Moon Knight he becomes a supervillain.

** In the Warren Ellis series, his craziness has looped itself so that he's now one man (Marc Spector) and ''four'' incarnations of Khonshu, including "Mr. Knight" (a dapper white suit), a traditional crime-fighting outfit, and an anti-magic suit with--in Ellis' own words--a Giant Fucking Bird Skull for a helmet.

* TheWoobie: Being a superhero with multiple secret identities has driven the poor guy into borderline insanity and he's constantly having to resist Khonshu's attempts to twist him into a KnightTemplar BloodKnight. He's considered CListFodder by most of the other superheroes and supervillains and is extremely lonely, to the point of ''begging'' to be part of the Avengers once. And than [[spoiler: Echo got killed which almost sent him hurtling over the DespairEventHorizon]]. In short: it sucks to be Moon Knight.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Him taking on Count Nefaria (a villain who's on the same power-level as freaking ''Thor'') in a one-on-one fight and actually holding his own for a bit.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Has had this from time to time with different factions of his fandom having less then favorable reactions to certain revamps in his personality and character direction.

* CrazyAwesome: In ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}, MoonKnight vandalizes his own taxi to get beat up and thrown in the dungeon, just to see where it is and how many people are down there.
** In the Brian Bendis series, he takes on Count Nefaria (a Thor-level supervillain) several times and eventually succeeds in removing him as the kingpin of Los Angeles. He does this largely by enacting schemes that would be insane to try and by listening to the voices in his head (granted, those voices are Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and [[spoiler: Echo]]). [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the real Echo was killed in the attempt.]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Has had this from time to time with certain recent revamps in his personality.

** He also allows Count Nefaria to beat the crap out of him in a police station [[spoiler: to give the Avengers time to arrive.]]

** In the Brian Bendis series, he takes on Count Nefaria (a Thor-level supervillain) several times and eventually succeeds in removing him as the kingpin of Los Angeles. He does this largely by enacting schemes that would be insane to try and by listening to the voices in his head (granted, those voices are Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and [[spoiler: Echo]]). [[spoiler: Too bad the real Echo was killed in the attempt.]]
** He also allows Count Nefaria to beat the crap out of him an a police station [[spoiler: to give the Avengers time to arrive.]]

** In the Brian Bendis series, he takes on Count Nefaria (a Thor-level supervillain) several times and eventually succeeds in removing him as the kingpin of Los Angeles. He does this largely by enacting schemes that would be insane to try and by listening to the voices in his head (granted, those voices are Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and [[spoiler: Echo]]). [[spoiler: Too bad the real Echo was killed in the attempt.]]

** In the Brian Bendis series, he takes on Count Nefaria (a Thor-level supervillain) several times and eventually succeeds in removing him as the kingpin of Los Angeles. He does this largely by enacting schemes that would be insane to try and by listening to the voices in his head (granted, those voices are Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and [[spoiler: Echo]]). [[spoiler: Too bad Echo was killed in the attempt.]]

* CrazyAwesome: In ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}, MoonKnight vandalizes his own taxi to get beat up and thrown in the dungeon, just to see where it is and how many people are down there.

!!YMMV tropes in this work include:

* CharacterAlignment : ChaoticNeutral (in 2006 series) to ChaoticGood (in "The Vengeance of the Moon Knight"). At least he tries ...