Moon Knight: What Condition Marc Spector Has
With the upcoming Disney+ show Moon Knight, Marvel introduces Marc Spector, a superhero who has a mental disorder. Through its trailer, Moon Knight gives audiences a first glimpse at its titular character. Per the series’ official synopsis, Oscar Isaac plays Steven Grant, “a mild-mannered gift-shop employee,” whose seemingly regular life is disturbed by blackouts and memory gaps. Steven then realizes that because of his condition, he has different identities, including that of mercenary Marc Spector.
The son of a rabbi, Marc Spector later on joins the U.S. Marine Corps and becomes a mercenary. As a child, he has caught the interest of the Egyptian god Khonshu, who, through a psychic connection, chooses him to be his avatar someday. However, not long after that, Marc discovers that Yitz Perlman, a close friend of his family, is actually a Nazi who has disguised himself as a rabbi in order to carry out a series of antisemitic murders without rasing suspicion. This pushes Marc to fight Perlman, but the latter escapes without a trace. Following this encounter, Marc begins to manifest symptoms of a mental condition, making Moon Knight different from other MCU shows.
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Marc Spector’s traumatic childhood experience, along with his mind getting fractured from Khonshu connecting with him, caused him to develop Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Previously referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), DID is a mental disorder characterized by having at least two distinct identities. Aside from a “core” identity, people with DID also have “alters,” or alternate personalities. These identities tend to be different from each other, in terms of
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