Moon Knight Proves Not Every Hero Needs To Be An Avenger

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The following article contains spoilers for Moon Knight.

The Avengers may have been conceived as a group of remarkable individuals but even after a 15-year trajectory, Moon Knight might just be one of the MCU’s most outstanding characters in large part because of how hard it would be to make him fit in with everyone else. Marc Spector is an outcast, and such status does come with some perks the rest of Marvel is sorely lacking.

In that sense, Moon Knight occupies a different place as he alongside Bucky Barnes come to represent the darker side of superheroes, the ones whose genesis story is not one of destiny, honor or responsibility but that of tortured individuals just trying their best to atone for their past sins. However, unlike the Winter Soldier, Moon Knight is not an Avenger, and at least for now his journey to becoming one looks far from over.

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Despite being a highly debated concept in modern days, the so-called “Hero’s Journey” offers a ready-made template for what a typical superhero story can look like, in fact, it’s remarkably similar to the beginnings of almost every original Avenger and many that came after, with Tony Stark being the prime example of it. Sometimes this involves heroes literally being thrown into an abyss, as in Doctor Strange and Black Panther’s case, in others the path is a little less straightforward with Iron Man going through a first journey in his debut film, as well as the larger overarching evolution that takes place during the entire Infinity Saga.

It’s arguable to what extent each Marvel story adheres to this old monomyth, yet one thing is for sure, Moon Knight’s life story doesn’t fit this mold. There’s no call to adventure in Marc’s life, he merely