Moon Knight, Marvel's missed opportunity

MOON KNIGHT

This is a missed opportunity by Marvel Comics and a potential smash hit for Marvel Studios in the MCU.

I'll be one of the first to admit that Moon Knight is a ripoff of, The Batman.  Millionaire playboy by day and vigilante at night, there I've said it, but he's still around after all these years, time to use the character right ....

With the craze over supernatural films about vampires, werewolves and other such things that go bump in the night, have Moon Knight be strictly a hunter of those things that, go bump in the night. Stop mixing him up with drug lords, cartels and terrorists, and go another route but use the classic look.

The character is due for a more specific reboot!  The "mental illness" bit just does not seem right, at all, but having one voice in his head he can't shake, one that takes him years to figure out, and turns out to be the voice of Khonshu trying to guide him.

One franchise from outside the Marvel Universe they should pick up, Carl Kolchak : The Night Stalker, it would be a great tie-in with this hero’s adventures and any of them who had run ins with monsters.

Marc Spectre is one of Carl’s two nephews, the other is Dr Cyle Kolchak a mutant with a computer like memory, the ability to “read between the lines” of historical texts to see what really happened in that era and has a sensory perception to historical artifacts.  

Cyle’s partner in adventures is the incredible, Gorilla Man, both are part of the, Agents of Atlas, a group of world adventurers whose organization was founded by Allen Quartermane himself.

Cyle is also been used as a consultant by Dr Strange, Professor Xavier, Tony Stark and many others on historical matters and aid in identifying historical artifacts and their meaning.

They need to stick with him as, The Fist Of Khonshu but tweak it so that he hunts down the creatures of the night.  His powers rise and fall with the lunar calendar, like most of what he hunts, his powers would be at their peak when the moon is fullest.  He's got some good allies and I like the idea of the aliases, perhaps a history with some secret spy agency could be developed, to explain all of his back alley connections around the world.  Unlike Bruce Wayne, who mostly trained himself, Marc Specter could have had formal training, but only hint to it, leave the overall a mystery.

A team up with Dr Strange is a given, but also team up with Spider Man, believing that The Man Wolf was one of his prey only to find that it's something else, this also allows The Man Wolf to be introduced to the MCU for later use, he's another missed opportunity character.  A team of Moon Knight, Man Wolf & Blade could make for an awesome film, he's really got a ton of potential and possibilities.

This also opens the potential for, The Midnight Sons, led by Dr. Strange and teams him up with, Ghost Rider, Blade, Manwolf, Whistlers Daughter (3rd Blade movie, one of the very few good things about it), among other darker heroes of the MCU.