I've only known of Moon Knight for a few months, and already he's shot to #1 on my favourites list. Having recently finished reading the amazing Moon Knight (2006), I found myself wondering how this instantaneous fandom came to be. The more I thought about it, the more I came to realise that it wasn't so much Moon Knight himself that I find enticing, it's his whole "world"--his alter-egos, friends, and enemies. So as a kind of appreciation blog, I thought I'd do a quick run-though of them. Who knows, it might even serve as a kind of quick-start guide to anyone who is new to this guy we know as...
 

Moon Knight 

Friends and Allies 

Marlene Alraune 

Jean-Paul "Frenchie" Duchamp 

Gena, Ray, and Ricky Landers

Rogues Gallery 

Werewolf by Night 

Midnight Man 

Midnight 

Morpheus 

Randall Spector 

Black Spectre

The Profile 

Taskmaster 

Stained Glass Scarlet 

Conclusion

What about Jean-Paul's partner? 

I think you forgot stained glass scarlet, my personal moon knight villian

" I think you forgot stained glass scarlet, my personal moon knight villian "

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK? "

" @Bearded Justice said:

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK? "

I'm pretty sure my first encounter with Moon Knight was in Jeff Loeb's Hulk series. For some reason he appears in Vegas to fight Hulk when there's a Wendigo outbreak:

As you mentioned, I just thought he looked so cool that I had to find out who he was and what he was about. So then I started reading the 2006 run on Marvel Digital Comics and the obsession went from there :) "

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK?  Cause I'd attribute MK to me getting into comics in the first place.  When I bought Marvel Ultimate Alliance (and this would be for the 360, cause apparently hes not in the ps3 version?)  I was making my starting team, and I see this guy on the way end called Moon Knight.  So im like, alright this guy looks cool and I like the name, so I'll give him a try.  Turns out, he's one of the best characters in the game.  I don't know what the first comic i bought was, but I think Moon Knight was one of them, and I really dont even know why I bought it.  This was around his 06 series.  I must've read them, and loved them, because I know I started buying all the issues in that series.  I think I jumped on around 11 or 12.  He very quickly made it to my favorite comics character.  And that of course broke the wall and all the other comics I buy came flooding in.  "

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice said:

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK? "

I'm pretty sure my first encounter with Moon Knight was in Jeff Loeb's Hulk series. For some reason he appears in Vegas to fight Hulk when there's a Wendigo outbreak:

As you mentioned, I just thought he looked so cool that I had to find out who he was and what he was about. So then I started reading the 2006 run on Marvel Digital Comics and the obsession went from there :) "

  I remember that comic. Was it during the Red Hulk story? I can't remember if it is, but I definitely remember seeing Moon Knight there. "

" @ReverseNegative said:

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice said:

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK? "

I'm pretty sure my first encounter with Moon Knight was in Jeff Loeb's Hulk series. For some reason he appears in Vegas to fight Hulk when there's a Wendigo outbreak:

As you mentioned, I just thought he looked so cool that I had to find out who he was and what he was about. So then I started reading the 2006 run on Marvel Digital Comics and the obsession went from there :) "

  I remember that comic. Was it during the Red Hulk story? I can't remember if it is, but I definitely remember seeing Moon Knight there. "

Yeah, it was. It was one of those split issues with regular Hulk in the first half and Red Hulk in the second bit... "

" @Danial79: how were you first introduced to MK?  Cause I'd attribute MK to me getting into comics in the first place.  When I bought Marvel Ultimate Alliance (and this would be for the 360, cause apparently hes not in the ps3 version?)  I was making my starting team, and I see this guy on the way end called Moon Knight.  So im like, alright this guy looks cool and I like the name, so I'll give him a try.  Turns out, he's one of the best characters in the game.  I don't know what the first comic i bought was, but I think Moon Knight was one of them, and I really dont even know why I bought it.  This was around his 06 series.  I must've read them, and loved them, because I know I started buying all the issues in that series.  I think I jumped on around 11 or 12.  He very quickly made it to my favorite comics character.  And that of course broke the wall and all the other comics I buy came flooding in.  "

" @Bearded Justice:  @ReverseNegative:  @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

" @Bearded Justice: @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice: @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

Yeah I was pretty pissed about that, and no Ghost Rider either. "

" @G Bird said:

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice: @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

Yeah I was pretty pissed about that, and no Ghost Rider either. "

It's cause neither of them were directly involved in the Civil War. From the looks of things, MUA3 will probably be Secret Invasion, meaning no Moon Knight or Punisher again. "

" @ReverseNegative said:

" @G Bird said:

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice: @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

Yeah I was pretty pissed about that, and no Ghost Rider either. "

It's cause neither of them were directly involved in the Civil War. From the looks of things, MUA3 will probably be Secret Invasion, meaning no Moon Knight or Punisher again. "

I hope you're wrong, Moon Knight is so frickin awesome he deserves to be in the MUA games! I'm not a big fan of Secret Invasion, hopefully that's not what MUA3 will be based on. "

" @G Bird said:

" @ReverseNegative said:

" @G Bird said:

" @Danial79 said:

" @Bearded Justice: @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: It's a shame he wasn't in MUA2... "

Yeah I was pretty pissed about that, and no Ghost Rider either. "

It's cause neither of them were directly involved in the Civil War. From the looks of things, MUA3 will probably be Secret Invasion, meaning no Moon Knight or Punisher again. "

I hope you're wrong, Moon Knight is so frickin awesome he deserves to be in the MUA games! I'm not a big fan of Secret Invasion, hopefully that's not what MUA3 will be based on. "

I hope so, too. Moon Knight is alot more well known than Penance and Songbird, and they got thrown in MUA2 for some reason. "

" @ReverseNegative: @G Bird: I don't think there is going to be a MUA3... There's no news of anything at the moment anyway...   Besides, Secret Invasion is already 2 years old, so they'd be a bit stupid to use that as the basis for a future game :) "

" @G Bird: Isn't Shadowland just the street-level heroes? I agree that it'd make for a great game-base, but I think the MUA games need as many involved as possible. I think they should just do an original story instead. Was MUA1 based on a comic event? (I've only played #2) "

" @Danial79 said:

" @G Bird: Isn't Shadowland just the street-level heroes? I agree that it'd make for a great game-base, but I think the MUA games need as many involved as possible. I think they should just do an original story instead. Was MUA1 based on a comic event? (I've only played #2) "

I'm not sure if MUA1 was based on an actual event or not, I wasn't into comic books back when I bought it. Yeah Shadowland is basically street levelers but there are a lot of characters in the arc so it could definitely fill out a character list. I agree though, an original story for MUA3 would be nice. "

" @G Bird said:

" @Danial79 said:

" @G Bird: Isn't Shadowland just the street-level heroes? I agree that it'd make for a great game-base, but I think the MUA games need as many involved as possible. I think they should just do an original story instead. Was MUA1 based on a comic event? (I've only played #2) "

I'm not sure if MUA1 was based on an actual event or not, I wasn't into comic books back when I bought it. Yeah Shadowland is basically street levelers but there are a lot of characters in the arc so it could definitely fill out a character list. I agree though, an original story for MUA3 would be nice. "

I think Shadowland would make for a cool third-person game, like Batman: Arkham Asylum. Though it looks like the Captain America game will be doing that... and sucking at it "

"Same thing happened to me!  I've always have been interested in the characters and stories of comics but never got into getting comic books.  Then I started using MK on MUA (and yes he is on the PS3 version) and that got me interested in his character.  And along with help from a couple friends now I'm really into comics.  I've also recently started to actually enjoy reading, lol. "

" @McJawsh said:

"Same thing happened to me!  I've always have been interested in the characters and stories of comics but never got into getting comic books.  Then I started using MK on MUA (and yes he is on the PS3 version) and that got me interested in his character.  And along with help from a couple friends now I'm really into comics.  I've also recently started to actually enjoy reading, lol. "

wow i love how we basically all discovered him from playing MUA!! oh cool i didnt know he was in the ps3 one "

I'm surprised so many of you guys only recently became fans of MK and through a video game.
 
I first found out about him in 1990 when Marvel came out with their first series of trading cards.

The power of video games... I hope Marvel are listening :)

" What about Jean-Paul's boyfriend?  "

I got into Moon Knight becuase a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about how awesome he was, lol.

" I got into Moon Knight becuase a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about how awesome he was, lol. "

"

I'm surprised so many of you guys only recently became fans of MK and through a video game.
 
I first found out about him in 1990 when Marvel came out with their first series of trading cards.

"

" I got into Moon Knight becuase a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about how awesome he was, lol. "

Here are some other characters.

Friends and Allies:Samuels and Detective Flint

Enemies:Arsenal, Lupinar, and The Committee