Every Moon Knight Identity, Ranked by Power

Moon Knight has changed a lot since his introduction in Werewolf by Night #32 in 1975. When Moon Knight made his first appearance in Marvel Comics, he was a mercenary who used different identities to pull off his missions. At that time, he used Steven Grant as a millionaire identity who financed all his operations and paid for all his gizmos. He used the identity of Jake Lockley to work the streets as a cab driver, so he could get information without anyone knowing his secrets. In reality, he was Marc Spector, a mercenary trained by the CIA. Finally, he was Moon Knight. However, Marvel changed things up years later when they made these identities all alters as Marc had dissociative identity disorder.

Now, all the identities of Moon Knight are different alters, and all have different skill sets, some more dangerous than others.

5) Jake Lockley

In the start, Jake Lockley was an identity that Moon Knight used to work the streets. He worked as a cab driver and kept his ears close to the ground so he could get information that there was no way that someone like Marc Spector or Steven Grant could. He was also a little rough around the edges, and he had no problem getting into some scraps when the need arose.

Jake Lockley is a good fighter, and that is a nice quality. However, as someone who primarily works the streets, he is also willing to get as dirty as needed when in battle. The most important thing about Jake Lockley is that he is an expert detective, and it is this street-level persona that comes in the most handy when he is investigating and exploring the underworld because this is the alter who has the most experience there.

4) Steven Grant

When it comes to fighting, Steven Grant is the least powerful of all the Moon Knight personas. However, he has something that none of the other alters have, and that is a lot of money. When Moon Knight first started fighting crime, it was Steven Grant who financed the entire operation. All of Moon Knight’s vehicles, all his weapons and gadgets, and all the travel expenses he needed to go around the world came from Grant’s wealth.

While having money isn’t what makes Moon Knight great, it is one thing that allows him to do everything he can to save the world, and as Batman and Iron Man have proven, having a lot of money is a good way to always stay on top of the mountain when it comes to ensuring a hero has what he needs to survive.

3) Marc Spector

Marc Spector is easily the most powerful of all of Moon Knight’s regular citizen alters. This is because he was Marc before he was ever Moon Knight, and all of his fighting skills come from Spector’s training. Before ever becoming a superhero, Marc Spector was a boxer, a U.S. Marine, and a mercenary.

Marc has trained in hand-to-hand combat and is an expert at martial arts. He is also an Olympic-level athlete and a skilled acrobat and gymnast. On top of that, the CIA trained him to be an expert marksman and a weapons master and taught him how to kill when on an assignment. If any of Moon Knight’s secret identities could win a fight with just about any villain, it is Marc Spector.

2) Mr. Knight

Mr. Knight is the most recent alter for Moon Knight, and he is almost more of a different personality to Moon Knight than an actual alter. What makes him and Moon Knight different is that Mr. Knight works as a private detective in Manhattan, with the sole goal of protecting the city from danger, which includes a large vampire population trying to take over.

Mr. Knight is so different, as he wears a pure white suit with his mask, and he rides in a modified limousine rather than his helicopter. Mr. Knight rejected Khonshu and started the Midnight Mission, where anyone who needed help could come to him, and he would be there for them. Without Khonshu, he lacks some of Moon Knight’s powers, but he is still a master detective, and he still maintains his fighting skills.

1) Moon Knight

Of course, the most powerful version of Moon Knight is that of Moon Knight himself. Unlike Mr. Knight, who rejected Khonshu and is more of a detective, Moon Knight is a brutal fighter who is willing to do anything to stop a bad guy. Unlike most superheroes, he will brutalize a villain if needed, and even maim or kill them when needed, which pits him against other heroeson occasion.

Moon Knight also accepts the powers of Khonshu, which allows him to become more powerful the fuller the moon is, thanks to his god’s moon-based powers. Thanks to Khonshu, Moon Knight also has an enhanced brain function, which makes him his god’s weapon. Since Khonshu resurrected him, Moon Knight is also mostly immortal, which explains why he is willing to take a severe beating if it means getting in the last punch. His suit is also made of Kevlar armor, and he has plenty of weapons, making Moon Knight the deadliest version of the antihero in any fight.

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