Moon Knight
Warning ! Spoilers for Avengers # 33 below
Marvel’sMoon Knighthas a scheme construction up to creation seduction that seems random at first , but the rogue hero ’s battles with theAvengershave something in rough-cut that calls back to prehistory . In the raw issueAvengers # 33 , Moon Knight battles a host of Avengers one by one , pick out without any clearly - stated logical thinking , and overcome nearly all of them , stealing their superpowers in the process . But Moon Knight is n’t out to take down the current Avengers squad . He has his sights set on another chemical group that struggle evil over a million years ago .
Avengers#33 , by Jason Aaron , Javier Garron , and Jason Keith , chronicle Moon Knight ’s battles with a card of Avengers , overcome each and steal their powers in routine : Iron Fist , Doctor Strange , Ghost Rider , and Thor . He tries to fight Black Panther but walks aside stillborn because theWakandan sub ’s superpower ca n’t be steal . This batting order has no obvious theme ; Moon Knight avoids heroes who could offer interchangeable power boosts like Iron Man and the Hulk , and nearly half the members are n’t even current Avengers .
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The answer lies in one of the other Revelation of Saint John the Divine in the currentAvengersseries : at the sunup of mankind , early humans and ancient divinity formed a team known asthe Avengers of 1,000,000 BC . Odin and Agamotto ( a godlike being that produce Doctor Strange ’s namesake Eye ) join up with the first human incarnations of Iron Fist , Black Panther , Ghost Rider , the Phoenix , and Starbrand . They saved Earth from the Celestials and encountereda time - travel Iron Man , along with other untold adventure . When Moon Knight hasadded Mjolnir to his arsenal , his godly supporter Khonshu come along to take stock . The shuttle god is n’t certain if the magnate Moon Knight has are " enough " for the next stage of their plot , but the crimefighter insist he ca n’t take more : Black Panther ’s major power are unconditioned , the Phoenix has no host , and the Starbrand is " hide out " .
This spell it out : Khonshu has taskedMoon Knightwith amassing the powers of the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC , a task he has partly succeeded at , for a quest that MK key out as " Earth ’s last Bob Hope against the hellion " . The " devil " here is Mephisto , an foeman that stands behind all of the Avengers ' biggest scourge in the serial publication so far , having work his way intoTony Stark ’s familyandthe governance ’s most trusted agent . Moon Knight believes he ’s saving the globe , and the key fruit is the combined big businessman of the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC .
This raises a lot of question , with two major mysteries left unresolved . The first : what ’s the connection ? The prehistoric Avengers have had dealings with Mephisto already ; the first Ghost Rider and Iron Fist were both approach with pass by the tempter . They watched a clock time - displaced Tony Stark deal with Mephisto and understood what he was going through , likely out of personal experience . It could be that Mephisto was the prehistoric Avengers ' ultimate enemy , and Moon Knight believes their combined mogul can ruin him .
The 2d is : how will the Avengers stop him from taking over the world to save it ? The next step of his plan is Khonshu change the world in his paradigm , leave the Avengers on the ravel . Their hope potential quietus in the stay mogul he ask : the lacking Phoenix , Black Panther ’s might , and most significantly , the new Starbrand , a cosmic energy that tookhost in a new-sprung child . Ifthe Avengerswant to defeat Mephisto and Khonshu both , all desire lies in the universe ’s most powerful baby .
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