Marc Spector may be Khonshu’s favorite and most skilledMoon Knight, but he certainly is not Khonshu’s first. Readers have gotten brief glimpses of Marc’s predecessor before, but in the Fist of Vengeance’s newest series, multiple never-before-seen Moon Knights have been revealed. Every Moon Knight has their own distinct flair, something seen in Marc and his alters’ own designs, but these newly revealed Moon Knights are something else entirely.
Marvel’s new Moon Knight series,Phases of the Moon Knight, is an anthology miniseries featuring creative talents such as Benjamin Percy, Erica Schultz, and Jed MacKay as they explore a new world of stories about Marc Spector and a number of Khonshu’s various Moon Knights - includingtwo new redesigns, as spotlighted on variant covers by Rod Reis, Andrei Bressan, Declan Shalvey, Woo-Chul Lee, and a main cover by Mateus Manhanini.
Issue #1 introducesa powerfully large devotee to the God of Vengeance, a holy crusader forged in the heat of the Old Crusades. The series' second issue, meanwhile, introduces readers to a new Moon Knight that may be a more familiar figure than most would expect.
The Moon Knights Have Served Khonshu for Over a Billion Years
Phases of the Moon Knight#1 Main Cover by Mateus Manhanini
For over one billion years,Khonshu’s Fists of Vengeancehave patrolled the Earth, protecting the night’s travelers and enforcing Khonshu’s will. Originally created out of jealousy from having been excluded by the Ancient Avengers, Khonshu’s Moon Knights are often malleable outcasts themselves thatthe God of the Mooncan more easily manipulate. During the era of the Christian crusades throughout Egypt and North Africa, Cassian, one of the newly revealed Moon Knights, waged war in indentured service to the English army. Nearly left dead in the heat of the desert,Khonshu offered his next champion a second life.
A Moon Knight’s costume is reflective of their key character traits.
Like Khonshu’s other avatars, Cassian’s deal for his life came at the cost of eternal servitude to Khonshu, and soon the once-crusader had become a powerful warrior designed to drive out the influence of other gods, evenApocalypse. Moving forward nearly 1000 years into the future,the series has introduced a new Fist of Vengeance from a grittier and more violent future.
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Unlike their representation in the MCU,Marc’s alters don’t necessarily have different suits;Mr. Knight, specifically,is just a persona Moon Knight uses during formal investigations. However, that’s not to say that Moon Knight’s suits don’t change to fit the wielder; as seen with Cassian, a Moon Knight’s costume is reflective of their key character traits.When Lockley is present, he is usually seen wearing a leather coat and his iconic newsboy cap, qualities that look familiar in the new Moon Knight’s costume.
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Jake Lockley, Marc’s gruff counterpart with deep connections in the criminal underworld, would likely feel at home in the crime-infested future of the series' second issue. Whilethis version of Khonshu’s avatarmay simply be a new variant, it wouldn’t be the first time the God of Vengeance has secretly preyed on Marc’s alters. As the series carries on, hopefully readers will continue to be introduced to moreMoon Knightsand reveal new chapters in Khonshu’s billion-year relationship with his Fists of Vengeance.
Moon Knight
Cast
Moon Knight stars Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant, a gift-shop employee in London who discovers he has dissociative identity disorder. He shares a body with Marc Spector and together, they travel to Egypt to uncover a deadly mystery surrounding the gods.Moon Knightconsisted of six episodes and was the fifth live-action TV show in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4. Also starring in the series is Ethan Hawke as the villainous Arthur Harrow and May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly.
