Moon Knight's Dark Twin Is Secretly A Mortal Kombat Character

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Strange #4

Marvel has revealed a dark version of Moon Knight that's called the Shadow Knight, and as his origins are revealed, it turns out he's actually a reciprocal of the Mortal Kombat character Ermac.

In the Marvel Universe, Doctor Strange is currently dead. His role as Sorcerer Supreme was passed on to his widow Clea, who is also the Sorcerer Supreme of the Dark Dimension as well. But since she's on a quest to resurrect Stephen Strange she's drawn the attention of several different foes, including the gangster known as the Rose. She’s also facing the Blasphemy Cartel, which has been resurrecting dead heroes for some nefarious purpose.

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In Strange #4 by Jed MacKay and Marcelo Ferreira, Clea is meeting with her mother in the Sanctum Santorum when it is attacked by the Cartel. After blowing a hole in the building using a genie in a rocket-propelled grenade, the Blasphemy Cartel unleashed a creature they summoned against Clea called the Shadow Knight. This being looks like an undead and twisted version of Moon Knight and it storms the Sanctum and attacks Clea and her mother, surprising her mother that it is able to cut through her shields.

It's revealed during the battle that the Shadow Knight isn't really a person at all. He is actually a collection of a bunch of different souls squeezed into the form of a man. Clea mentions how he is much stronger than the previously resurrected hero she encountered because Shadow Knight has no singular identity or consciousness to speak of. Instead, Shadow Knight essentially operates like a hive mind of souls and there is great strength in bounding that many souls together. This is