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| Image = Ronin-(Earth-1610).png
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| Image = Marc Spector (Earth-1610) from Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108 0001.png
 
| ImageSize = 300
 
| ImageSize = 300
 
| RealName = Marc Spector
 
| RealName = Marc Spector
| CurrentAlias = Ronin
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| CurrentAlias = [[Ronin]]
| Aliases = [[Moon Knight]]; Steven Grant; [[Paladin]]
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| Aliases = [[Moon Knight]],{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 79}} Moonbeam,{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 80}} Moonman{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 80}} [[Steven Grant]]{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 82}}, [[Paladin]],{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108}} Moon Tard{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 109}}
 
| Identity = Public
 
| Identity = Public
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| Alignment = Good
 
| Affiliation = {{M|Knights (Earth-1610)|Knights}}, formerly {{M|United States Navy (Earth-1610)|U.S. Navy (SEAL)}}
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| Affiliation = Formerly {{M|Knights (Earth-1610)|Knights}}, {{M|United States Navy (Earth-1610)|U.S. Navy (SEAL)}} (allegedly)
 
| Relatives =
 
| Relatives =
 
| Universe = Earth-1610
 
| Universe = Earth-1610
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| Eyes = Blue
 
| Eyes = Blue
 
| Hair = Brown
 
| Hair = Brown
| UnusualFeatures = Has four different personalities who have conversations inside his head
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| UnusualFeatures =
   
| Citizenship = American
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| Citizenship = [[United States of America|American]]
 
| MaritalStatus = Single
 
| MaritalStatus = Single
| Occupation = Entrepreneur, taxi driver, vigilante; former US Navy Seal, mercenary (both allegedly)
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| Occupation = Entrepreneur, taxi cab driver, vigilante; former US Navy Seal, mercenary (both allegedly)
| Education = Military special forces training
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| Education = Unrevealed, allegedly military special forces training
   
| Origin =
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| Origin = [[Homo sapiens|Human]]
 
| PlaceOfBirth =
 
| PlaceOfBirth =
 
| Creators = Brian Michael Bendis; Mark Bagley
 
| Creators = Brian Michael Bendis; Mark Bagley
 
| First = Ultimate Spider-Man #79
 
| First = Ultimate Spider-Man #79
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| First2 = (as Moon Knight){{cid|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108}}(as Ronin)
   
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| Quotation = Oh, and there's Moon Knight, who I'm pretty sure is genuinely crazy. And I'm not just making that presumption based on the costume.
| HistoryText = Moon Knight was an ex-Navy Seal who was in a Gulf War Super Soldier experiment that went wrong. He later worked for Roxxon under the name of [[Paladin]] until Roxxon fell apart.
 
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| Speaker = [[Peter Parker (Earth-1610)|Spider-Man]]
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| QuoteSource = Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 107
   
 
| HistoryText = Moon Knight was an ex-Marine who was in a Gulf War Super Soldier experiment that went wrong. He later worked for Roxxon under the name of [[Paladin]] until Roxxon fell apart.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108}}
He seemed to have fragmented psychosis and had developed four personalities including Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Moon Knight, and a red-haired little girl. He lived with a lady named Marlene who was his girlfriend at the time. She often complained about his different personalities.
 
   
 
He seemed to have a fragmented psyche or dissociative identity disorder and had developed at least four distinct personalities; Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Moon Knight and Inner Child a young, but precocious, red-haired little girl, all of whom he would have conversations with inside his mind.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 83}} He lived with a woman named [[Marlene Alraune (Earth-1610)|Marlene]] who was his girlfriend at the time. She often complained about his different personalities and how she was never sure which one she was dealing with.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 82}}
[[File:Marc Spector (Earth-1610).jpg|thumb|left|As Moon Knight]]
 
   
 
[[File:Marc_Spector_(Earth-1610)_from_Ultimate_Spider-Man_Vol_1_79_0001.jpg|thumb|As Moon Knight]]
Moon Knight attacked [[Peter Parker (Earth-1610)|Spider-Man]] when he mistakenly believed he had blown up a near by building.<ref>[[Comics:Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 79|''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #79]]</ref>. This battle with Spider-Man put him at grudging odds with the younger hero in future encounters. Later, after videotaping Captain De Wolfe in China Town as Steven Grant, he went out as Moon Knight only to engage in the gang war waged by the [[Wilson Fisk (Earth-1610)|Kingpin]] and the newcomer [[Hammerhead (Earth-1610)|Hammerhead]]. During his battle with Spider-Man, [[Daniel Rand (Earth-1610)|Iron Fist]], and [[Shang-Chi (Earth-1610)|Shang Chi]] he was impaled with a sai to the chest by the assassin [[Elektra Natchios (Earth-1610)|Elektra]].<ref>[[Comics:Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 84|''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #84]]</ref> Right before falling out into a coma, he impaled Elektra with a moon-blade into the back of her head before she could kill the [[Felicia Hardy (Earth-1610)|Black Cat]].<ref>[[Comics:Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 85|''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #85]]</ref> Once he woke up, Moon Knight escaped from custody and engaged in another fight with the [[Frank Castle (Earth-1610)|Punisher]], Spider-Man, and [[Matthew Murdock (Earth-1610)|Daredevil]].
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Moon Knight attacked [[Peter Parker (Earth-1610)|Spider-Man]] when he mistakenly believed he had blown up a nearby building.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 79}} This battle with Spider-Man put him at grudging odds with the younger hero in future encounters. Later, after videotaping Captain De Wolfe in Chinatown as Steven Grant, he went out as Moon Knight only to engage in the gang war waged by the [[Wilson Fisk (Earth-1610)|Kingpin]] and the newcomer [[Hammerhead (Earth-1610)|Hammerhead]]. During his battle with Spider-Man, [[Daniel Rand (Earth-1610)|Iron Fist]], and [[Shang-Chi (Earth-1610)|Shang Chi]] he was impaled with a sai to the chest by the assassin [[Elektra Natchios (Earth-1610)|Elektra]].{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 84}} Right before falling out into a coma, he impaled Elektra with a moon-blade into the back of her head before she could kill the [[Felicia Hardy (Earth-1610)|Black Cat]].{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 85}} Once he woke up, Moon Knight escaped from custody and engaged in another fight with the [[Frank Castle (Earth-1610)|Punisher]], Spider-Man, and [[Matthew Murdock (Earth-1610)|Daredevil]].{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 2}}
   
After the battle, Daredevil invited Moon Knight to join an organization of super-heroes with the goal of bringing down the Kingpin. As part of Daredevil's team, Spector adopted the identity of Ronin to infiltrate the Kingpin while acting as a double agent.
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After the battle, Daredevil invited Moon Knight to join an organization of super-heroes with the goal of bringing down the Kingpin. As part of Daredevil's team, Spector adopted the identity of Ronin to infiltrate the Kingpin while acting as a double agent.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 107|108}}
   
The Kingpin told Ronin to prove himself by retrieving Spider-Man. Ronin drove a school bus into Midtown High School and started firing a gun to get Spider-Man to fight. [[Katherine Pryde (Earth-1610)|Kitty Pryde]], who had recently enrolled there as a student, confronted him, but was knocked unconscious shortly before Spider-Man arrived. The two engaged in a brutal battle that was mirrored in a fight between Moon Knight and Ronin in his mind (since they were two different personalities within the same person); Ronin knocked Spider-Man unconscious in the end. The Moon Knight personality was apparently killed. Ronin used Spider-Man's own web-shooters to leave the high school, and took him to the Kingpin, who interrogated the hero at his hideout.
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The Kingpin told Ronin to prove himself by retrieving Spider-Man. Ronin drove a school bus into Midtown High School and started firing a gun to get Spider-Man to fight. [[Katherine Pryde (Earth-1610)|Kitty Pryde]], who had recently enrolled there as a student, confronted him, but was knocked unconscious shortly before Spider-Man arrived. The two engaged in a brutal battle that was mirrored in a fight between Moon Knight and Ronin in his mind. Ronin knocked Spider-Man unconscious in the end and The Moon Knight personality was seemingly killed. Ronin used Spider-Man's own web-shooters to leave the high school, and took him to the Kingpin, who threatened and gloated about his plans for the hero while he held him in a secret basement level of his building.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108|109}}
   
After Iron Fist betrayed the team only to save his daughter, the Kingpin discovered that Ronin was working for Daredevil and kept that knowledge until after Ronin captured Spider-Man. Ronin was then present in the Kingpin's interrogation with a unmasked Peter Parker, and was then revealed of his identity when the Kingpin brutally beaten Ronin along with Peter. The Kingpin then ordered Ronin's execution. Kingpin's men took Ronin by a river and shot him in the head. However, he regained consciousness, and survived along with his Moon Knight personality. He went to the police claiming that the Kingpin attempted to murder him. This provided a charge for the police to arrest the Kingpin, but he had to reveal his secret identity for a charge to be placed. The public called him a hero for his efforts.
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Iron Fist was revealed to have betrayed the team, though only to save his daughter. The Kingpin had learned through him that Ronin was working for Daredevil and kept that knowledge to himself until after Ronin captured Spider-Man.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 107|109}} Ronin was then present in the Kingpin's interrogation with an unmasked Spider-Man, and was then brutally beaten by Kingpin alongside Spider-Man. The Kingpin then ordered Ronin's execution. Kingpin's men took Ronin by a river and shot him in the head. However, he regained consciousness thanks to his multiple personalities, and survived along with his Moon Knight personality. He went to the police and told them that the Kingpin attempted to murder him. This provided a big enough charge for the police to arrest the Kingpin as he attempted to flee the country, but Spector had to reveal his secret identity for a charge to be placed. The public hailed him a hero for his efforts.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 109|110}}
   
 
| Powers = He is faster than Spider-Man, may have possessed some level of enhanced strength, even before Doctor Strange's mystical enhancements (such as when he broke a brick wall by kicking it in {{c|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 80}}, and accelerated healing, possibly based around his DID (such as when he woke himself from a coma in {{c|Ultimate Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 2}} and when he survived a gunshot wound to the head at point blank range in {{c|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 110}}, both due to his various personalities telling him to "wake up")
 
| Abilities =
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* Moon Knight is an exceptional athlete, acrobat, and combatant, skilled in various weapons and martial arts, capable of shattering brickwork with a blow. He also had his fingerprints burned off to make it more difficult to identify him.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 85}}
   
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* Unlike most DID sufferers, Spector's personae are aware of each other and their actions and are able to facture Spector's mind further to create new personae when necessary and even kill one another to retain control.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108}} They usually cooperate to achieve shared goals despite differing viewpoints although they can overpower one another.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 83}}{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 108}} when Moon Knight has twice been rendered deeply unconscious or comatose by severe injuries, the others remained active in his mindscape and proved capable or reviving him.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 2}}{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 110}}
| Powers =
 
 
| Strength = Peak human; later mystically enhanced by [[Stephen Strange, Jr. (Earth-1610)|Doctor Strange]] (potentially temporarily){{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 107|108}}
 
{{New Power Grid
 
| Reference =
 
| Intelligence = 4
 
| Strength = 4
 
| Speed = 3
 
| Durability = 4
 
| Energy Projection = 1
 
| Fighting Skills = 6
 
| Explanation =
 
}}
 
 
None known, though he was a Super Soldier, and was faster than Spider-Man, may have possessed some level of enhanced strength, even before Doctor Strange's mystical enhancements (such as when he broke a brick wall by kicking it in <i>Ultimate Spider-Man</i> #80), and may have possessed some enhanced healing, possibly based around his MPD (such as when he healed from a coma in <i>Ultimate Spider-Man Annual</i> #2 and when he healed from a headshot in <i>Ultimate Spider-Man</i> #110, both due to his various personalities telling him to "wake up")
 
| Abilities = Moon Knight is an exceptional athlete, acrobat, and combatant, skilled in various weapons and martial arts, capable of shattering brickwork with a blow. Unlike most MPD sufferers, Grant's personae are aware of each other and their actions, and they usually cooperate to achieve shared goals; inexplicably when Moon Knight has twice been rendered unconscious by severe injuries, the others remained active in his mindscape and proved capable or reviving him. He also has no finger prints capable of identifying him.
 
 
| Strength = Peak human; mystically enhanced by Doctor Strange
 
   
 
| Equipment = As Moon Knight he uses high carbon steel alloy crescent-shaped throwing darts and a battle staff;
 
| Equipment = As Moon Knight he uses high carbon steel alloy crescent-shaped throwing darts and a battle staff;
 
| Transportation = None Known
 
| Transportation = None Known
| Weapons = A cabinet in Steven Grant's office contains a white baton, a short spear, a sword, an axe and five moon-blades.
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| Weapons = A cabinet in Steven Grant's office contained a white baton, a short spear, a sword, an axe and at least five moon-blades.{{r|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 84}}
   
 
| Notes =
 
| Notes =
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* It is unknown if he survived [[Ultimatum]].
| Trivia = * He sometimes uses the hood in his cape in the same way his [[Marc Spector (Earth-616)|his Earth-616 counterpart does]].
 
 
| Trivia =
 
* He sometimes used the hood in his cape in the same way [[Marc Spector (Earth-616)|his Earth-616 counterpart does]].
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* In {{c|Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 110}} Spector is referred to as 'Steven Grant AKA Mark Spector' making it possible that his legally recognised original identity is Steven Grant and not Mark Spector.
 
| Links =
 
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==References==
 
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{{Reflist}}
{{Ultimate Spiderman Characters}}
 
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[[ru:Марк Спектор (1610)]]
{{Ultimate Characters}}
 
[[Category:Dissociative identity disorder]]
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[[Category:Dissociative Identity Disorder]]
 
[[Category:Spector Family]]
 
[[Category:Spector Family]]
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[[Category:Acrobats]]

Revision as of 02:00, 26 August 2019

Quote1 Oh, and there's Moon Knight, who I'm pretty sure is genuinely crazy. And I'm not just making that presumption based on the costume. Quote2
Spider-Man[src]

History

Moon Knight was an ex-Marine who was in a Gulf War Super Soldier experiment that went wrong. He later worked for Roxxon under the name of Paladin until Roxxon fell apart.[4]

He seemed to have a fragmented psyche or dissociative identity disorder and had developed at least four distinct personalities; Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Moon Knight and Inner Child a young, but precocious, red-haired little girl, all of whom he would have conversations with inside his mind.[6] He lived with a woman named Marlene who was his girlfriend at the time. She often complained about his different personalities and how she was never sure which one she was dealing with.[3]

File:Marc Spector (Earth-1610) from Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 79 0001.jpg

As Moon Knight

Moon Knight attacked Spider-Man when he mistakenly believed he had blown up a nearby building.[1] This battle with Spider-Man put him at grudging odds with the younger hero in future encounters. Later, after videotaping Captain De Wolfe in Chinatown as Steven Grant, he went out as Moon Knight only to engage in the gang war waged by the Kingpin and the newcomer Hammerhead. During his battle with Spider-Man, Iron Fist, and Shang Chi he was impaled with a sai to the chest by the assassin Elektra.[7] Right before falling out into a coma, he impaled Elektra with a moon-blade into the back of her head before she could kill the Black Cat.[8] Once he woke up, Moon Knight escaped from custody and engaged in another fight with the Punisher, Spider-Man, and Daredevil.[9]

After the battle, Daredevil invited Moon Knight to join an organization of super-heroes with the goal of bringing down the Kingpin. As part of Daredevil's team, Spector adopted the identity of Ronin to infiltrate the Kingpin while acting as a double agent.[10]

The Kingpin told Ronin to prove himself by retrieving Spider-Man. Ronin drove a school bus into Midtown High School and started firing a gun to get Spider-Man to fight. Kitty Pryde, who had recently enrolled there as a student, confronted him, but was knocked unconscious shortly before Spider-Man arrived. The two engaged in a brutal battle that was mirrored in a fight between Moon Knight and Ronin in his mind. Ronin knocked Spider-Man unconscious in the end and The Moon Knight personality was seemingly killed. Ronin used Spider-Man's own web-shooters to leave the high school, and took him to the Kingpin, who threatened and gloated about his plans for the hero while he held him in a secret basement level of his building.[11]

Iron Fist was revealed to have betrayed the team, though only to save his daughter. The Kingpin had learned through him that Ronin was working for Daredevil and kept that knowledge to himself until after Ronin captured Spider-Man.[12] Ronin was then present in the Kingpin's interrogation with an unmasked Spider-Man, and was then brutally beaten by Kingpin alongside Spider-Man. The Kingpin then ordered Ronin's execution. Kingpin's men took Ronin by a river and shot him in the head. However, he regained consciousness thanks to his multiple personalities, and survived along with his Moon Knight personality. He went to the police and told them that the Kingpin attempted to murder him. This provided a big enough charge for the police to arrest the Kingpin as he attempted to flee the country, but Spector had to reveal his secret identity for a charge to be placed. The public hailed him a hero for his efforts.[13]

Attributes

Power Grid[15]
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Powers

He is faster than Spider-Man, may have possessed some level of enhanced strength, even before Doctor Strange's mystical enhancements (such as when he broke a brick wall by kicking it in Ultimate Spider-Man #80, and accelerated healing, possibly based around his DID (such as when he woke himself from a coma in Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2 and when he survived a gunshot wound to the head at point blank range in Ultimate Spider-Man #110, both due to his various personalities telling him to "wake up")

Abilities

  • Moon Knight is an exceptional athlete, acrobat, and combatant, skilled in various weapons and martial arts, capable of shattering brickwork with a blow. He also had his fingerprints burned off to make it more difficult to identify him.[8]
  • Unlike most DID sufferers, Spector's personae are aware of each other and their actions and are able to facture Spector's mind further to create new personae when necessary and even kill one another to retain control.[4] They usually cooperate to achieve shared goals despite differing viewpoints although they can overpower one another.[6][4] when Moon Knight has twice been rendered deeply unconscious or comatose by severe injuries, the others remained active in his mindscape and proved capable or reviving him.[9][14]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

As Moon Knight he uses high carbon steel alloy crescent-shaped throwing darts and a battle staff;

Weapons

A cabinet in Steven Grant's office contained a white baton, a short spear, a sword, an axe and at least five moon-blades.[7]

Transportation

None Known

Notes

Trivia

  • He sometimes used the hood in his cape in the same way his Earth-616 counterpart does.
  • In Ultimate Spider-Man #110 Spector is referred to as 'Steven Grant AKA Mark Spector' making it possible that his legally recognised original identity is Steven Grant and not Mark Spector.

See Also

Links and References

References

References