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Welcome to the Midnight Mission. My name is Mr. Knight. How can I help?
Mr. Knight

Moon Knight is a 2021 Marvel comic book written by Jed MacKay, initially with art by Alessandro Cappuccio and color art by Rachelle Rosenberg.

Set in the shared Marvel Universe, it follows a storyline in Avengers where Moon Knight's god, Khonshu, tried to take over the world. note 

Marc Spector, Jake Lockley, Steven Grant, Mr. Knight. All different personalities, but all with the same mission: to protect those who travel by night. So now, in the wake of Khonshu's defeat and imprisonment in Asgard, Mr. Knight has opened his Midnight Mission. He is the Fist of Khonshu, an apostate priest of an unworthy god, but one who is willing to continue the mission for which Khonshu brought him back from the dead.

There are, however, complications: after defeating a vampire pyramid scheme, Mr. Knight finds some newly reborn vampires who aren't killers and just want to go about their lives as normal as possible. So he lets them. And there are other dangers in his territory, like the rat-like villain Vermin who has found a way to duplicate himself.

And then there's the new doctor at the local clinic, Dr. Badr. Another follower of the Cult of Khonshu, but this one with a secret all their own — for if the right hand of Khonshu won't follow his god, the left hand will.

The series ended with issue #30, relaunching with a new #1 as Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2024), but keeping the same creative team.


Moon Knight (2021) provides examples of:

  • Actually Pretty Funny: When Reese reveals that Soldier only became a vampire because the bullet that passed through her transferred some of her blood and tissue into him, Lady Yulan responds with, "That's hilarious."
  • Almighty Janitor: The villain of Issue #2 is a janitor who can control people who've come into contact with his sweat.
  • And I Must Scream: Moon Knight seals Waxman in a steel sphere, which he then buries in wet cement. Since Waxman is a Perpetual-Motion Monster and implicitly immortal, he would have remained trapped for a very, very long time if Black Spectre hadn't freed him.
  • And the Adventure Continues: Moon Knight is seemingly dead by the end of Issue #30, but Reese, Soldier, Dr. Badr, Tigra, and 8-Ball are determined to keep the Midnight Mission going after his death, even if Badr is the only active Fist.
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: Nemean, a Greek mercenary who has Super-Toughness similar to his namesake, the Nemean lion. He is outright depicted as a lion on the cover of Issue #17.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: Discussed with Dr. Sterman. As Dr. Sterman goes over Marc Spector's file and talks about Khonshu bringing him back from the dead, she comments, "Now, this is normally where a mental health professional might be skeptical. But I agreed to be your therapist at the request of the Avengers, so I understand your situation is unique."
  • Armor-Piercing Question: During a conference with his alternate personalities, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley, Marc gets asked a rather devastating one by Steven.
    Steven: The state of your life, the problems you have, all the things you've done... has any of that ever stemmed from our condition?
  • Ascended Meme: Lady Yulan explains that Tutor's plan is to expand his pyramid scheme worldwide, extending his Structure to other vampire factions until they bend to his will. He'll work his way up the ladder until he accumulates enough power to challenge the leader of the vampire nation of Chernobyl, supposedly the first internationally recognized sovereign vampire nation in history. The leader in question? Dracula himself. That's right, Jed MacKay has made the big fucking nerd that owes Moon Knight his goddamn money the Greater-Scope Villain of the Structure arc.
  • Back for the Dead:
    • Sheriff, Mercy, Fingers and Junior Birdman, members of Moon Knight's shadow cabinet in Marc Spector: Moon Knight, all return for their deaths in #20. Their colleague Plesko, who returned in #18, also seems to be killed in the same issue.
    • Morpheus returns in Issue #24, fatally shot by Black Spectre.
  • Back from the Dead:
    • 8-Ball is revealed in the Devil's Reign tie-in to be the original, brought back to life by the Hood after the Wrecker killed him in Daughters of the Dragon #2.
    • In Issue #13, the Daily Bugle reports the return of the Midnight Man, who'd died off-screen in the 2006 run. It turns out it was actually Marc pretending to be the Midnight Man.
  • Badass Boast: Thanks to "Age of Khonshu", Moon Knight is able to boast to the Bar With No Name that he's beaten the Avengers.
  • Broad Strokes: In regards to the Bemis run. The events of the run did happen, including the introduction of Marc and Marlene's daughter Diatrice, but the OOC behavior of Marc and his alters is quietly ignored.
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • Issue #4 sees the return of Greer Grant/Tigra, who hadn't been seen since a brief appearance in West Coast Avengers in 2018.
    • Issue #8 sees an appearance from Detective Flint, one of Marc's old supporting cast, who's now a former detective, and features the return of Scarlet Fasinera/Stained Glass Scarlet, who hadn't been seen since 1998.
    • Issue #9 sees the return of the House of Shadows, a Sapient House enemy of Doctor Strange whose last appearance was in 1992.
    • Issue #12 ends with the return of Steven Grant, his first appearance in this run.
    • Issue #13 ends with Jake Lockley's reappearance as Mr. Knight calls a mental conference.
    • Annual #1 sees the brief return of Marlene and Diatrice.
    • The coda to Issue #18 sees the return of Robert Plesko from the Kavanaugh run on Marc Spector: Moon Knight. Although it seems to become Back for the Dead when he's then killed in a bombing in #20.
    • Issue #19 sees an appearance from Commodore Donald Planet (no connection to Captain Planet, having been created first), a really minor Moon Knight villain who hadn't been seen in forty years, having only two previous appearances in August 1982, both by Denny O'Neil: a Moon Knight B-story and Power Man and Iron Fist.
    • Issue #20's relentless killers are revealed to be the Harlequin Hit Men, Speedball villains making their first appearance in decades.
    • Issue #21 sees the return of Sidney Sarnak, a minor Werewolf by Night villain who hadn't appeared since his introductory two-parter in 1973.
    • Issue #24 has not only Morpheus returning, but his murderer is revealed to be the new Black Spectre.
    • Issue #25 brings back Waxman, who'd been sealed in concrete and buried alive by Moon Knight back in issue #10.
    • The second Black Spectre, Ryan Trent, returns in issue #25, incarcerated in Myrmidon. The Spectre identity is now being used by someone else, but Trent seems to be in touch with them.
  • Butt-Monkey: 8-Ball first appears being beaten up by Dr. Badr. Moon Knight later terrorizes him into giving him information on Zodiac, and then he and Marc end up being cellmates in the Myrmidon, where 8-Ball gets treated like crap by all of the other inmates, even the thematically similar Death-Throws. In the Strange crossover, he is shown living in a squalid apartment, which Marc occasionally drops by just to scare 8-Ball (who looks like he has put on a fair amount of weight). A bit afterwards, Moon Knight calls him to get some ID on his latest perps; unfortunately for 8-Ball, he's in the bath at the time (with the 8-Ball helmet still on) and accidentally drops the phone in terror when he realizes who's calling.
  • Call-Back:
    • Issue #12 draws on Moon Knight being a Legacy Character, first introduced in the Bemis run, with Marc finding himself being chased by the deceased Fists of Khonshu, who aren't happy about their rest being disturbed.
    • Why were Steven and Jake Put on a Bus? Because after the Age of Khonshu, Marc wanted to present himself as reliable and in control, and thought suppressing his D.I.D. was the best way to do it.
    • Jack Russell's experience with Tier is a major influence on his decisions in Annual #1.
    • Issue #26 sees Hunter's Moon learning that whoever was behind Commodore Poole's work in Subterranea in Issue #19 is trying to continue the job.
  • Came Back Wrong: Every time Khonshu resurrects one of his Fists, their bodies return unharmed, healed of the damage inflicted on them, but they lose a little more of what makes them themselves, until eventually they become nothing more than feral violence and raw instinct. Hunter's Moon's resurrection, being the last Khonshu was able to manage, resulted in the boundaries between his mind and that of the previous Fists of Khonshu breaking down, leaving him sometimes unable to tell where he ends and they begin.
  • Canon Immigrant: Layla El-Faouly, the Scarlet Scarab in Moon Knight (2022), makes the jump to the comics in Issue #25 in setup for the City of the Dead miniseries, establishing that she and Marc were colleagues and lovers in Marc's old mercenary team the Karnak Cowboys.
  • Chainsaw Good: One panel in the first issue shows Moon Knight chainsawing monsters.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • Mr. Knight brings up the fact that his last psychiatrist tried to kill him (from Brian Wood's run). His current one, Dr. Sterman, knows this and wonders if this is going to be an issue, but Mr. Knight shrugs it off and says he has carefully cultivated his paranoia, but he can't worry about everything.
    • 8-Ball is worried that Moon Knight is going to carve off his face, which is what he did to Bushman during the 2006 run. In Issue 5, he threatens to cut off the face of Soldier's kidnapper.
    • Dr. Sterman mentions that she's called in to treat "superhuman menticide" like Jack Monroe and Rutherford Winner. Monroe was the former Bucky and Nomad who had a mental breakdown and was then killed by the original Bucky Barnes. Winner appeared in Jed MacKay's previous series, Daughters of the Dragon.
    • When Tigra first shows up, she mentions she and Marc were in the West Coast Avengers together, and that he was executive producer on a Moon Knight TV show, "Legend of Khonshu" (from the Bendis run).
    • During a talk with Tigra Marc mentions Marlene and their daughter, who was introduced in Max Bemis's run which preceded MacKay's. The Age of Khonshu was apparently the last straw and Marlene had since fled with said daughter.
    • Among Marc's many regrets are helping Khonshu take over the world in The Age of Khonshu and killing his brother Randall, a.k.a. Shadow Knight, in Shadowland: Moon Knight.
    • Visiting the Sanctum Sanctorum, Marc thinks Wong owes him for helping out in the Las Vegas debacle during Doctor Strange: Damnation. Wong meanwhile is still bitter about The Age of Khonshu and what Marc did to Dr. Strange during that. Marc concedes and says he'll owe Wong for this.
    • Tigra asks Marc in Issue #11 if he still has any of his vehicles or gadgets from previous runs - his Mooncopter, his drone, his Angel Wing. He says no.
    • A big reason Taskmaster fears Moon Knight and refuses to go after him is that time Moon Knight crashed a helicopter into a building to get at him.
    • Issue #14 sees references to a lot of things from the post-2000 Moon Knight runs as Marc, Steven and Jake have it out over how Marc's been acting. Aside from events previously mentioned (the events of The Age of Khonshu, Marlene leaving, and Marc carving off Bushman's face), Steven summarizes the events of the Lemire and Bemis runs, when the alters were more-or-less working together; Marc is disturbed the Punisher calls him crazy; Marc responds "I never want to be loved. That's why I always win." when confronted about driving their friends away; and Steven and Jake quote "I will never be cured. This is always going to be who I am.", "We are going to be okay. We are going to live with who we are." and "I take my scars and I make of them my weapons." back to Marc when he says he doesn't need them.
    • Lady Yulan names her creator and old boss as the immortal Yi Yang - who's also the Arch-Nemesis of Marvel UK's antihero Night Raven.
    • Clint mentions he'd been wearing the Ronin suit again (in Hawkeye: Freefall), and asks Tigra if she wants to be a Thunderbolt, referencing the 2022 miniseries. She turns him down, saying she'd just been a Defender (in Defenders: Beyond) and that was enough team action for her.
    • Hank Pym being replaced by a Skrull in the events leading up to Secret Invasion (2008) is touched upon; Tigra had to find out that the Hank Pym that fathered her child was actually a Skrull in disguise. And with the real Hank Pym dead at the time of Issue #22, she's constantly having to lie to her son about his father.
  • Convulsive Seizures: True to her name, Grand Mal possesses the ability to cause people who she makes physical contact with to suffer from convulsive fits, like a more extreme version of The Paralyzer.
  • Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Tigra covers William's ears when Mr. Knight casually mentions he saw both the Midnight Men die, and was responsible for killing one of them.
  • Covers Always Lie: To a point. The cover to Issue #1 shows Moon Knight in his original classic all-white costume, when in the comic proper, he's wearing a modified version of Declan Shalvey's redesign.
  • Cumbersome Claws: This is part of the reason why Tigra still prefers VHS tapes to DVDs and Blu-rays. She also mentions that there is no way that she is getting her damage deposit back on her apartment due to what her and William's feet have done to the floors.
  • A Darker Me: Being in the Myrmidion causes Marc to start forgetting who he is and needs to be, and start slipping back into his "wild dog days", when he was drunk on blood, hungry for murder and atrocity. He's okay with this, because he can take it, and he accomplished his goal in the Myrmidion anyway.
  • A Day in the Limelight:
    • With Moon Knight in prison due to Devil's Reign (covered in the Devil's Reign: Moon Knight one-shot), Hunter's Moon takes the spotlight in Issue #8, which also introduces his counterpart to Mr. Knight, Dr. Moon.
    • He gets another in Issue #26, as he has a meeting with Dr. Sterman to discuss how he Came Back Wrong from his latest resurrection.
    • Issue #22 focuses on Tigra, her raising her son William, and her conflicting feelings for Marc.
  • Debt Detester: In the backup story to issue #20, Blade chooses to repay his debt to a former Fist of Khonshu by doing Moon Knight a favor he wouldn't normally do.
  • Deity of Human Origin: Stained Glass Scarlet got killed off-panel. However, people prayed to her to ask for revenge and that let her be reborn as a goddess.
  • Did Not See That Coming: Zodiac, already annoyed and exasperated with how his feud with Moon Knight has been going, blows a gasket when he and his Zodiac Cartel unexpectedly find themselves being savaged by the Fists of Khonshu in Issue #12.
    Zodiac: How. How the Hell was I supposed to plan for this?! DAMNED ZOMBIE MOON KNIGHTS!!!
  • Drink-Based Characterization: Issue #15 establishes that Marc prefers vodka, Jake rum, and Steven scotch.
  • Emergency Transformation: When Zodiac shot Reese, the bullet that went through her and into Soldier carried enough of Reese's innards to turn Soldier into a vampire.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Played with. Zodiac is contemptuous of Soldier, repeatedly and disparagingly calling him things like "ex-Hydra piece of trash." That said, Soldier is actually reformed and greatly regrets his association with Hydra even if Zodiac thinks he's not worthy of redemption or forgiveness because of it.
  • Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: Among Khonshu's various roles is that of the Pathfinder, and he can open an otherworldly path for Marc... at a price.
  • Faking the Dead: It's revealed that Plesko faked his own death, and has been the new Black Spectre all along.
  • First-Name Basis: Dr. Sterman and Dr. Badr reveal their first names to each other at the end of Issue #26, as part of the vulnerability therapy requires.
  • Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: The vampires that the pyramid scheme vampires created hadn't killed anyone yet and just wanted to go back to their lives. One of them, Reese, ends up becoming Mr. Knight's secretary, since as a vampire, she keeps the same schedule as him now.
  • Ghost Memory:
    • The Fists of Khonshu normally receive the memories of their predecessors upon "ordination", but for whatever reason, Marc didn't. He snarks it was probably already too crowded in there.
    • Also deconstructed; Moon Knight comments in his first fight with Hunter's Moon there's a difference between fighting with the borrowed memories of dead men, and fighting with hard-won, painful, bloody experience.
  • Gollum Made Me Do It: Defied. Steven and Jake aren't having Marc blame them for his reputation as being crazy and unreliable, with Steven pointing out the two of them have never been the source of Marc's problems - he's the one who keeps burning down his life, not them.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Particularly in Issue #10. Upon finding out that Zodiac kidnapped Dr. Sterman and had Waxman impersonate her, Marc is not happy, to put it lightly. He seals Waxman in an airtight steel ball with the intention of burying him in concrete in retaliation. Even after Waxman caves and admits that Sterman is alive and being held hostage, Moon Knight buries him anyway, despite promising to spare him.
    Moon Knight: Hurts being lied to, doesn't it? See you in Hell, Waxman.
  • Heel–Face Turn:
    • Hunter's Moon glided into Marc's life harshly criticizing his lack of faith in Khonshu and sought to beat his inferiority into him and his new allies, seemingly making him this run's Evil Counterpart to Moon Knight. However, this soon evolves to be more of a Shadow Archetype. While he doesn't necessarily like Marc, their mutual origins tie them as spiritual brothers and Reese's willingness to seek him for help despite his animosity towards vampires made him reconsider Marc's methods. From then on, he becomes something of an Aloof Ally to Moon Knight and the Midnight Mission, even taking over for a bit when Marc is dealing with the events of Devil's Reign.
    • In issue #25, after having acted as a patsy to get Marc to the Black Spectre's hideout so he can be killed, 8-Ball comes back to save Marc telling him that he no longer wants to be the guy everyone thinks he is.
  • The Hero Dies: At the very end of the comic, Marc gives his life to stop Plesko's Hate Plague by blowing it up along with himself as a final act of defiance while bleeding out.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: An ongoing theme through the run is Marc reflecting on how ashamed of himself he is after everything he's done, regardless of the good he's done or the people he's helped. He remarks to Tigra in Issue #4 that the reason he wears a mask as both Moon Knight and Mr. Knight is because he can't stomach the face he sees in the mirror.
  • Holy Burns Evil:
    • While hunting down vampires prowling around New York, Moon Knight appears to be cornered by a room full of vampires and with only one way out. As said vampires taunt him, he informs them that he considers himself a priest rather than a superhero. He then has Soldier turn on the sprinklers before consecrating the water in the name of Khonshu. The vampires have a second to go Oh, Crap! before they start burning in a shower of holy water.
    • Zodiac adopts a gold chain with his own name on it in the last few issues of the run; it's revealed that because Zodiac is a narcissist and worships himself, this charm works exactly like a crucifix, repelling Reese during their fight in the Midnight Mission.
  • Human Pincushion:
    • After Nemean, Grand Mal, and the Tutor's vampires are done with him, Hunter's Moon is left with hammers, crowbars, screwdrivers, knives, etc. sticking out of him.
    • This ends up happening to Werewolf by Night's two werewolf lackeys after Moon Knight and Hunter's Moon attack them with a bomb covered in silver cutlery.
  • I Hate Past Me: Marc confesses to Tigra that he hates Marc Spector, the Blood Knight mercenary that he feels never tried anything to make the world a better place and looked down on all his loved ones enough to drive them away. It's partly why he's seldom seen without his mask, he can't bear to look at his real face and see all the bruises and scars he's permanently stuck with.
  • If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Subverted. When Marc tells Reese not to kill Zodiac, she expects he's going to say this; instead, he tells her that if she kills Zodiac, she'll be just as bad as Marc himself is.
  • Immortality:
    • After Mr. Knight tells Dr. Sterman about coming back from the dead three times, she asks him if he can actually die. He doesn't know.
    • He also has no idea whether he'll share the final rest of the previous Fists of Khonshu, lampshading that no-one told him about any of this.
  • Internal Homage: There are a few splash pages that harken back to the opening of Issue #1, where Moon Knight sits in a chair, introduces himself, and asks how he can help. #8 has Hunter's Moon filling in for him, #25 has the Black Spectre running his own villainous help organization, and in #30 it's Reese, having succeeded Marc as the leader of the Midnight Mission.
  • Internal Reveal: Tigra admits to spying on Marc for the Avengers in Issue #11. Marc admits he already knew based on the timing of her arrival but tolerated it because he needed a friend.
  • Killed Offscreen: Sheriff, Fingers and Mercy, all members of Moon Knight's old shadow cabinet, all die during (or just before) issue #20, but their deaths are't shown.
  • Legacy Character: Issue #25 starts an arc focused on a new Black Spectre. He's apparently not Ryan Trent or Carson Knowles, the two men who previously used that identity.
  • Lesbian Vampire: Lady Yulan's vampire coven appears to be made up entirely of women, and she calls the vampire whose blood the Tutor stole "one of my brides."
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: Reese uses one of her vampire powers, specifically Super-Speed, for the first time in Issue #12. This leads to a bit of a Forgot Flanders Could Do That moment for Zodiac.
    Zodiac: Damn! That was something! Sometimes I forget that you're a vampire, you know. I know, I know, you've got the eyes, the teeth, but the speed—
  • Let's You and Him Fight: Rutherford Winner barges into the Midnight Mission and immediately attacks Moon Knight, convinced that he had something to do with the disappearance of Doctor Sterman. Moon Knight fights back, thinking that Winner is just deranged and violently jealous of Sterman having another "star patient."
  • Lighter and Softer: While the series is still very much drenched in the darkness that has long defined Marc's superhero career, it also centers around Marc actually dealing with his personal darkness and getting his shit together. As such, while he's still definitely not Spider-Man or a paragon by any means, Marc's relationships are in a stable place, he's made peace with Jake and Steven, and he's even entered a relationship with Tigra.
  • Mind Rape: Mr. Knight defeats Hawley in Issue #2 by allowing him into his mind... then completely destroying him mentally by showing what communion with Khonshu has done to it.
    Soldier: How—? What did you do?
    Mr. Knight: Nothing that he'll recover from.
    Hawley: moon moon moon
  • Narcissist: Zodiac is capable of warding off the vampire Reese using a necklace of his own name as a faith object.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: For kidnapping Dr. Sterman, Marc gives a huge beating to Jigsaw, and it would have been worse had Sterman not stopped him.
  • Noodle Incident: One panel in the first issue shows Moon Knight arm wrestling a Frankenstein Monster while other Frankenstein Monsters cheer. This is never explained.
  • Old Friend: Tigra's role, as someone who knew Marc before the darker turn his life took.
  • Only I Can Kill Him: In the epilogue of Issue #30, Zodiac is pissed that Plesko/Black Spectre seemingly killed Moon Knight, and is implied to kill Plesko because of it.
  • Our Phlebotinum Child: Diatrice's existence should be impossible - the Fists of Khonshu are incapable of biological children, whether as father or mother. Marc thinks it's because Khonshu rebuilt him wrong, made him different from other Fists. It's prophesised in the Darkhold that, under the right circumstances, the child of a Fist could become a weapon to kill Khonshu, and as far as Khonshu's concerned, Diatrice has the potential to be his doom.
  • Our Vampires Are Different:
    • Lady Yulan's vampirism is derived from alchemy, arguably making her closer to someone like Morbius than more "traditional" vampires like Baron Blood, Deacon Frost, Dracula, etc.
    • During his vampire summit, the Tutor notes the presence of delegates from various sub-types like the Sasabonsam, the Jiangshi, the Vetala, and the Cihuateteo.
    • The final issue of the run shows that Reese is capable of turning into mist, an uncommon power for vampires in the Marvel universe.
  • Out of Continues: In Issue #19, Hunter's Moon reveals that being locked away by the Avengers has caused Khonshu's power to wane to the point that he can no longer resurrect him or Moon Knight.
  • Pariah Prisoner: All of the supervillain prisoners in the Myrmidon think that 8-Ball is a loser, so he has to eat lunch with Moon Knight, who is similarly disliked by the hero inmates like Sue and Reed Richards.
  • Patriotic Fervor: Grand Mal's response to Moon Knight bringing up Carnelia in Issue #17.
    Moon Knight: You're a long way from Carnelia, Grand Mal.
    Grand Mal: What do you know about Carnelia?
    Moon Knight: I know it's a place with a difficult history. A history of war and violence.
    Grand Mal: Pfft. You know nothing. Carnelia is crucible. A place that burns away weakness. That cuts it away. It's a land that makes warriors. It is a Hell on Earth that we have made our own. An American could never understand a place like that.
  • Pet the Dog: Moon Knight's "handler" guard in the Myrmidon tries to dissuade Marc from fighting Man Mountain Marko, convinced that Marc does not stand a chance and will probably be killed by Marko.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: Moon Knight and Tigra. The two go way back as West Coast Avengers and Marc even refers to her as his best friend in Issue #11. But by Issue #22, it's revealed to be Unresolved Sexual Tension, as Tigra still held romantic feelings for Marc and the two act on their mutual attraction by the end of the issue.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: Issue #14 reveals that Marc never told Reese about his D.I.D. While initially claiming that he did so due to fears about the stigma surrounding the illness, Steven and Jake manage to prod him enough to admit that it's primarily because his alters are better people than he is and he doesn't want Reese to prefer them over him.
  • Practically Joker: Zodiac is depicted in a very Joker-ish manner, with his obsession with Moon Knight, his use of elaborate plans and his desire to see Marc as the Moon Knight he thinks is the best one.
  • Put on a Bus:
    • Steven Grant and Jake Lockley are mentioned but don't appear for the first year of the run. Marc explains that his dissociative episodes have actually decreased to the point of Steven and Jake only emerging minutes at a time off-panel. However, Steven reveals later on that Marc wanted to stay in front while the others stepped back, and they reluctantly agreed.
    • Issue #4 confirms that after the events of "Age of Khonshu", Marlene left Marc and took their daughter with her.
    • Tigra's son, William, is away with the Cat People of the Land Within when she first turns up, but he's come back by Issue #22.
  • Ragtag Band of Misfits: Previously, Moon Knight either had a supporting cast who weren't particularly out of the ordinary for his various personae, as a contrast to his mental instability, or operated largely alone. For this run, his supporting cast includes a superhero therapist, a Vegetarian Vampire Sassy Secretary, a reformed ex-Hydra member who ends up getting turned into a Vegetarian Vampire himself, an ex-Avenger Cat Girl, a doctor who serves as the loyal Fist of Khonshu, and a Sapient House Eldritch Abomination.
  • Redemption Earns Life: Soldier, an ex-HYDRA agent, is saved from Zodiac by Moon Knight in part because Soldier is making serious efforts to atone. Later on, Soldier is shot and seemingly killed, but because the bullet passed through Reese first, he becomes a vampire instead.
  • Remember the New Guy?:
    • Captain Confusion debuted in the Devil's Reign: Moon Knight one-shot, but is said to have had previous run-ins with Moon Knight.
    • Issue #15 introduced a few of Jake and Steven's hitherto unseen friends, like Steven's hairstylist, Michael, and business associate, Kurt, and Jake's bartender informant, Naomi.
  • Resurrective Immortality: Comes with being a Fist of Khonshu, though for whatever reason they can still die a final death... and even then they'll rise as The Undead if their rest is disturbed.
  • Retcon: The friendlier Khonshu of the Bemis run is explained as him having been temporarily put in his place after the Lemire run.
  • Retroactive Legacy: The Issue #20 backup story introduces the Fist of Khonshu active in 1977 New York (courtesy of the sliding timeline), Denise, a.k.a. Niecy, a black woman who accepted Khonshu's offer after she was killed trying to stop a robbery.
  • The Reveal: Issue #7 reveals Tigra's keeping an eye on Moon Knight on behalf of Black Panther.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Most of the villains that have so far been featured in the series have little to no prior history with Moon Knight, with the exceptions so far being Stained Glass Scarlet and Commodore Planet. Taskmaster makes an appearance, but specifically avoids getting into a fight with Moon Knight again.
  • Sapient House: Investigating disappearances at an apartment building, Moon Knight realizes that the building itself is the abductor. More specifically, one of the floors is the House of Shadows, a mostly obscure Doctor Strange villain. At the end of the encounter, Moon Knight forms a contract with the House so it forms the new Midnight Mission since Zodiac blew the previous one up.
  • Sassy Secretary: Reese. Whenever Mr. Knight asks for coffee, she tells him to get it himself. The one time she does bring him coffee, it's because she got it for herself before remembering she can't drink it anymore.
  • Shadow Archetype: Dr. Badr to Mr. Knight. Dr. Badr is a faithful priest to Khonshu himself, while Moon Knight is faithful to the mission, but not to the god. While Moon Knight is the right hand of Khonshu, Dr. Badr is the left hand, the Hunter's Moon. While Moon Knight wears white, the Hunter's Moon wears black; while Moon Knight uses a crescent, Hunter's Moon uses a full moon.
  • Shout-Out: When interviewed in prison, Zodiac mentions the idea that Jazz and Comic Books are the only original American art forms, then comments that Japan does both of them better, citing Ryo Fukui and Suehiro Maruo as examples.
  • Sigil Spam: Moon Knight spray paints his tag (a crescent moon) around his territory in order to tell people that it's safe to live there and as a warning to any bad guys.
  • Smarter Than You Look: Lady Yulan calls Soldier this when he correctly deduces that she is not afraid of the Tutor, but rather the Tutor ratting her out to her old boss, Yi Yang.
  • Smug Snake: Zodiac is a master planner and manipulator who proves exceptionally dangerous to Moon Knight despite having no supernatural powers. However, this same genius also makes Zodiac insufferably arrogant. Zodiac believes in himself so fervently that a gold necklace with his name on it functions as a holy symbol akin to a cross capable of warding off vampires. But Zodiac's ego also proves to be his undoing, as his plan to turn Marc into a supervillain goes awry when he learns that Marc is Out of Continues, leaving him furious and willing to cut a deal with the Midnight Mission to avenge Marc's death at the hands of Plesko.
  • Soft Reboot: The first issue is basically this, as it recaps Moon Knight's origin, shows his new status quo, and introduces some new villains. It's similar to the 2014 Warren Ellis run in that regard.
  • Spinoff: As detailed in the introduction, the then-latest spinoff book from Jason Aaron's Avengers run (specifically The Age of Khonshu story arc).
  • Start to Corpse: Issue #20 begins with the murder of Moon Knight's old associate Junior Birdman on the first page. It's then revealed that he wasn't the first victim and Moon Knight is already chasing the killers.
  • Taking the Bullet: Reese tries doing this for Soldier, but since the gun was a .357 Magnum, the bullet just goes through her and mortally wounds Soldier anyway.
  • There Are No Therapists: Defied. A major character in the series is Dr. Andrea Sterman, who is assigned by the Avengers to treat Marc and his mental illness after the Age of Khonshu. Roughly half of the series is comprised of their sessions.
  • Tom the Dark Lord: Lady Yulan reveals the Tutor's real name is Kenneth.
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The House of Shadows tries wearing Moon Knight down in order to assimilate his mind, but when it finally makes mental contact with him it screams and vomits him out, probably thanks to the effects of his communion with Khonshu.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Stained Glass Scarlet returns, but now is in the form of a newborn multi-armed goddess due to her story spreading like wildfire and into modern legend.
  • Tournament Arc: The Devil's Reign tie-in has Moon Knight participate in the Myrmidon's illegal cage fights in order to get close to Man Mountain Marko.
  • Two Aliases, One Character: In issue #22, Tigra goes looking for the new Midnight Man, who's been stealing from the very rich. Moon Knight claims he's not interested, as whoever it is, it's not one of his old villains - the previous Midnight Man is dead. As it turns out, he's not hunting him because Moon Knight is the new Midnight Man - Marc's secretly stealing from the rich and crooked to fund his war on crime.
  • Undying Loyalty: In response to Moon Knight saving his life twice, and saving his mom, Soldier pledged himself to Mr. Knight for life - whatever he needed, whenever, no questions asked - and he's lived up to that pledge. Reese observes he's being blindly loyal to Moon Knight. Soldier explains later on that it's his need to belong to something, part of what Hydra and the Structure love about folks like him, but if it's Moon Knight he dies for, at least he'll be on the right side.
  • Warrior Monk: Moon Knight's new status quo plays into this heavily, with Marc specifically referring to himself as a priest throughout the run.
  • We Help the Helpless: The Midnight Mission is a place for people to find Moon Knight when something weird's going on and they need help. The choice of name indicates how Moon Knight sees its purpose - it's a religious duty, rather than a job.
  • Wham Line:
    • At the end of the first issue, as Dr. Badr stands in front of another statue of Khonshu and puts on a black mask with a moon on it:
      Your fist has erred. He has strayed from your purpose. Moon Knight requires correction. But I keep the faith. I will enact your will. I will carry out your duty. Your right hand has failed you. But your left has not. Your other fist remains faithful. Your Hunter's Moon.
    • Issue #24, Moon Knight discovers that Morpheus had been fatally shot, and offers to avenge him by finding his murderer. Morpheus tells him:
      Morpheus: It's a good one. Black Spectre. Heh.
  • What a Drag: Moon Knight does this to Nemean at the beginning of Issue #17.
  • What Have I Become?: Partial example. While Reese acknowledges there are some cool parts to being a vampire, she mostly thinks it sucks. (Diatrice appreciates the pun.)
  • What the Hell, Hero?:
    • Marc lays into Badr with a baseball bat when he goes after Reese and her friend Ted, telling him that people like Reese are innocent victims that don't want to be monsters, and declaring them under his protection. Later, during the Structure arc, Hunter's Moon returns the favor by punching Moon Knight for suggesting working with a true monster of a vampire - the Fists of Khonshu kill monsters, not treat with them.
    • Marc gets a heavier one from Tigra over the fact that after all the faith she's given him, all the things she's done to support him, he still doesn't trust her enough to confess he's the Midnight Man or go maskless around her son. Marc concedes he hurt her deeply with his actions and shows up the next day to her apartment without his mask.
  • You Are in Command Now: Near the end of the comic, Marc tells Reese that the Midnight Mission is hers if anything happens to him. After Marc gives his life to stop Plesko's Hate Plague, Reese can be seen dressing in the same white suit as Mr. Knight and answering pleas for help in Marc's place. Badr, Greer, Soldier, and 8-Ball are next to her and she organizes Marc's remaining affairs at his funeral.
  • You Are Not Alone:
    • Issue #14 has Marc come to the conclusion that he can't fight his fight alone after having tried his best to push Steven and Jake out of the limelight, meaning he has to finally accept the help of the likes of his alters, Tigra, and Hunter's Moon.
    • Issue #24 has Morpheus try to give Marc everything he and his alters want via their dreams. But Marc is able to push it all away by reminding himself that not only does he have True Companions, but he already achieved happiness that feels earned.

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