History Characters / MarvelComicsMoonKnight

* EgyptianMythology: Khonshu was worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians as the GodOfTheMoon.

* ShownTheirWork: Khonshu being the protector of nighttime travelers is probably a reference to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Khonsu's]] name widely believed to be meaning "traveler". Khonsu is also sometimes depicted with the head of a bird, a falcon to be exact, though not as a skull and MU Khonshu's beak is much longer than a falcon's.

* CrimefightingWithCash: Marc built up quite a large savings account from his PMC work, and as Steven, he’s invested it well enough to have a sizeable piggybank to buy the resources needed for a superhero operation.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Much like Jake, Steven’s personality is one that tends to depend on the writer. Sometimes he’s a sociable, highly charismatic ladies man type who lives up to the millionaire playboy cliché, but is vapid and uninvolved in the vigilantism. Other times, he’s actively using his wealth to build connections with richer, wealthier criminals in order to get into their business and take them down, and is a smart, calculating and reasonable persona.

* OutOfFocus: Marc's increasing status as a loner eventually did away with any need for Steven, who mostly existed as a justification for Moon Knight's wealth. He's around along with Jake, but otherwise the two have generally been reduced to {{Continuity Nod}}s more than actual characters. The [=MacKay=] run, alongside having Marc start to open up to others again, makes an effort to pull Steven back into focus, tweaking his role so he's the personality with connections among the rich and powerful
* TheSpock: The logical and reasonable third of Spector's alternate personalities.

* TheAtoner: During ''Vengeance of the Moon Knight'', Jake took over as the primary alter and began actively pushing for Moon Knight to be a more heroic figure. His refusal to take lives annoys the hell out of Khonshu.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Like Steven, Jake’s personality has varied over the years. Typically he was gruff but reasonable, and had the most developed social life of the personalities (who mostly seemed to limit their circle to Steven’s staff, Marlene, and Frenchie). During the 2000s, he even replaced Marc as the primary, and showed he was a capable ActionHero who was comfortable with engaging in violence when needed but didn’t go overboard like Marc was known for, and actively resisted Khonshu’s influence. For the Bemis run, though, Lockley was recharacterised as the most violent of the personas, one who had a scary enough appetite for violence that it concerned even Khonshu, and who had basically bullied Marlene into a loveless, purely physical relationship. Ironically, during the time he was primary, he had rekindled things with Marlene and it was explicitly shown that he was a loving boyfriend, and she appreciated explicitly he wasn’t as hot-and-cold with her as Marc was. The [=MacKay=] run pushed him back to his earlier portrayal.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: It's revealed that he had an affair with Marlene and fathered a daughter with her.
* TheMcCoy: The most brutal and emotional of the three identities, possibly right behind Khonshu in terms of ruthlessness.
* OutOfFocus: Along with Steven, Jake got shuffled out of the limelight due to Marc becoming more and more of a loner. Marc had lost the need for a persona who was close to word on the streets and Jake had joined Steven in mostly just hanging out in Marc's subconscious. The [=MacKay=] run makes an effort to address this by having Marc discover that he ''does'' need someone with an ear to the street, bringing Jake back into action.
* NiceGuy: Jake is typically TheHeart of Marc's alternate personalities, aside from the Bemis run, which had him as the [=McCoy=]. His tenure as the primary alter even paved a path for Moon Knight to become TheAtoner for a bit.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The biggest source of this debate about Moon Knight's character. He's constantly flip-flopping between an alternate personality of Marc's or RealAfterAll, oftentimes with contradictions within the same series. Post-2010 stories show Khonshu is a very real Elder God and has been influencing various people to become his Moon Knight for millennia. However, Moon Knight has increasingly became a character confined to his own series with little to no crossover with others, leading to the possibility that entire adventures may in fact be entirely in Marc’s head. The Lemire run (which briefly tried to explain that Khonshu was an alien) was from the first-to-last issue an extensive BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind with every character being just Marc’s subconscious memory of them rather than actually being those characters, with Khonshu shown to be lying to Marc about the nature of the adventure in order to hijack his body, leading to questioning on what he is. Meanwhile the Bemis run that followed saw Marc interact with Sun King, who claimed to be an avatar of Ra in the same way Marc is of Khonshu, however this was due to Sun King being a superhuman with severe mental problems who was basically gaslighted by his therapist into believing he was Ra, explicitly inspired by Marc’s delusions of Khonshu, creating the possibility that the Ra-Khonshu rivalry was just a shared delusion the two developed. Then Jason Aaron's "Age of Khonshu" came down firmly on the side of Khonshu existing independently of Marc.