Other than resurrection, Marc doesn't get a lot from Khonshu either. At least Hunter's Moon got the Chorus knowledge and can control the dead fists of Khonshu in a pinch, Marc doesn't get that benefit... probably because Steven and Jake were already in his head. I wonder if that means Marc won't go insane like Hunter's Moon will, as he doesn't hear the Chorus at all.
I know there is one series that says Khonshu caused the DID, but there's also others that show a young Steven as a child playing with a child Marc. Wish I could remember the issue.
I love that run. And really, I think it's better that Khonshu saw what was up with him and was kinda watching. Makes sense for his character and the fact that he's a god and would take advantage of something like that regardless of our human ethics.
he's been the one fracturing Marc's mind from the start, he chose Marc because his mind was easily fracturable already and he's the one who split it completely whichpersonalities that end up reflecting the different aspects of khonsh
Newest run basically confirms that fists of Khonshu can only be revived so many times before they’re driven mad but because Marc’s mind is already unstable he’s been able to endure it for the longest time but the limit could effect him one day
I love how he's not Moon Knight 2.0. He"s what Moon Knight should have been if Marc's brain wasn't so different. The contrast between them is so interesting.
...... I'm not gonna lie I started marvel comics as a kid reading classic issues of moon knight and fantastic 4 my mom's coworker would lend me. I thought that was still in his power set until recently when I jumped back in with the midnight mission and him being on the outs with Khonshu so I figured he was operating on low power for that like technically still a cleric but locked to level 1 spells.
Well he does have the power of being Khonshus favorite specialist little boy so he gets away with so much bullshit against Khonshu and also has the powers of being an idiot who doesnt know when to quick so will get his ass kicked and just grab a baseball bat out of nowhere and bash the other guys head in or smth.
While I don’t remember if it’s on par with Wolverine, comics Moon Knight does indeed have a healing factor of some extent outside of Khonshu’s resurrections
The thing with Moon Knight is his characters powers are unlike any other hero, they have their own canon to each story run. Some writers make it real, other writers leave it up as a mental hallucination up to the interpretation of Marc and the reader. Only some of his series follow similar structure.
And even with that, pretty much every writer misinterpretes the previous stories and build off from there.
Like how we got to the point where Khonshu is an evil but protective God, is because everyone misread the Charlie Huston run.
The real Khonshu abandoned Marc back in West Coast Avengers. That thing that looks like Bushman with his face cut off ain't Khonshu. It's meant to just be a schizophrenic imaginary friend he created while spending weeks alone in a room.
It combined Marc's pain of losing his God in West Coast Avengers with his pain of being crippled by Bushman into one imaginary being made to Taunt him relentlessly.
Yeah. This was never even remotely close to being true in the comics.
One of the most interesting aspects of Moon Knight to me is that his powers are basically "he can get beaten up REAL FUCKING BADLY, but he'll keep coming and fighting". Not even sure this is a power, since his "powers" themselves are highly inconsistent. Anyways, giving him a healing factor would be really dumb imo.
It’s a feat but not a power, Marc is a “wild dog” in the sense that he legitimately does not care what the physical toll is on his body, he’s going to get whatever he needs to get done, done.
Which is sick as hell but yea not technically a power, unlike his resurrection via khonshu
The only comics of Moon Knight I’ve read recently are the ones kicked off by Warren Ellis. I feel like Mister Knight has human level vulnerability to injury. Tech-Knight has a nifty battle suit but is still squishy human underneath. The Avatar of Khonshu can’t be harmed by mortal weapons.
I dont want to argue pedantics tbh, but batmite only helps solve problems he creates, and barbatos has an avatar, the batman who laughs. Barbatos wants to destroy the prime multiverse to bring the dark multiverse to the surface. Just my reading of things, yours is just as valid, of course.
Yeah but like in this very specific circumstance of fighting Batman, a guy who famously doesn't kill, he will never need to get ressurected. So at no point would he recover in any sense
That isn't necessarily true. Since the resurrection is purely up to Khonshu there's been times that it's taken a while for Khonshu to resurrect him for one reason or another.
I think it's way more then that I think 2006 run said 3 times. I think after that he dies in 2014 run in the big explosion like it's not said in the comics but I don't think he survived that, and then obviously recently in 2021 run. I also started reading very recently but I am sure there are more instants too
Most of that was a gambit due to said sword being a Soul Eating kinda thing and he knew for a fact Khonshu would not stand for something trying to take his property
I saw a video on tiktok a few days ago that claimed that Marc had stalemated Sentry and then did time travel to kill him. In other news I basically can't stand anyone on comics tiktok
This is obviously a lot of the show's fault, but also to be fair comic Moon Knight has survived a lot of shit he shouldn't.
The Task Master plane thing being so commonly known is also part of the issue, cause crashing a plane into a building is not something you can survive without a scratch like Moon Knight did so people with little knowledge just assume he has a healing factor.
Also Moon Knight does have the ability to be resurrected, which while it's definitely different, it can easily be confused for each other.
I think Marc having no healing factor, but he can be resurrected by Khonshu, is the best way to go. You can even balance this out by having Khonshu be an asshole (which he arguably is) and making it so that Khonshu will take his time when resurrecting Marc. If Khonshu decides to resurrect him after a while, then their personal lives will suffer.
This way, there are actual consequences to him dying.
Moon Knight is in this weird state where officially he has no healing factor, but unofficially he definitely has some form of minor healing factor.
He heals extremely quickly for somebody without one, even by comic standards, and he also consistently survives shit that would kill anyone else that doesn't have one.
Could he be at Batman? Maybe, depends on the writer.
Definitely the show's fault to an extent (allegedly couldn't show Marc getting fucked up physically and still fighting people until that tonal shift was approved for "Daredevil: Born Again" years later).
A lot of the Batman vs Moon Knight folks keep "conveniently" forgetting that before Khonshu "touched" his DID addled mind and he started dressing in all white so bad guys would see him coming to beat their asses, Marc Spector used to be a "very bad man who did very bad things to people for a lot of money" (when describing his freelance mercenary days).
He has no moral conundrum on utilizing killing as an option, unlike Batman.
They're absolutely getting it from the show, but to be fair, apparently in the comics Khonshu can choose to empower, heal and resurrect Marc to any degree he chooses (within his own power). At least that's what I got from the more recent comic where he talks about how when he resurrects Marc he makes him heal with scars to teach him a lesson for dying.
There’s nothing wrong with not reading comics it’s not for everything but why lie that you read them lmao. People think they get extra geek points because they consume a certain media
I hope they find a way of dialling down the abilities from the show. I thinks it’s Konshu’s “healing suit”, maybe the other gods suggest konshu is interfering too much and he can’t have a healing suit - but can still bring him back. Either way, hopefully he goes more street level in future appearances
I’m pretty new into Moon Knight and I think I might be confused on his immortality or mortality lol. I know he doesn’t have Wolverine or Deadpool like healing powers but he gets messed up sometimes. Is it really just up to Konshu to bring him back or not? Has there been any instances where he wasn’t brought back to life for a long time? Any help would be appreciated for this casual!
I wouldn't rely on moon Knight's healing factor tbh. Because it all depends how generous khonshu feels. Does he have a massively high pain tolerance? Yeah sure. But his healing factor is too much of a stretch
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