Superhero Tuesday:Like the Batman but with real problems

In the days when comic companies knocked off each other's characters and passed them off as their own, none were as inspired as the Moon Knight.

Moon Knight is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character exists in the Marvel Universe and was created by Doug Moench andDon Perlin. He first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32 (August 1975).

Moon Knight was not supposed to catch on.  He was supposed to have his appearance in
Werewolf By Night and the disappear into the limbo that holds the one shot heroes of the 1970's, But Moony was more that a rip off of Batman. He was destined to survive and evolve into a scathing exploration of the sanity of anyone who, without powers, puts on a costume and fights the gun toting elements of the world.

Over the course of his life as a boxer, U.S. Marine, mercenary, and costumed superhero, Marc Spector has become an expert at hand-to-hand combat techniques and various martial arts. He is an Olympic-level athlete and a skilled acrobat and gymnast, and excels as a combat strategist. He employs a variety of weapons over the course of his career, including throwing darts, nunchaku, and a truncheon. He is skilled with most weapons, and an expert with throwing weapons. Spector is a superb driver and can pilot a helicopter.

I guess it all depends on how crazy you like your costumed adventurers.  Sure Marc Spector was a Mercenary, but the other identity, Steven Grant, is the millionaire who spends Spector's mercenary money, and finally, the third identity Jake Lockley, a cab driver who digs up information on the street.  These are not disguises they are separate personalities and each have their own lives.

Marc Spector is a big bag of psychological disorders the largest of which is Dissociative Personality Disorder.

On top of that, Spector believes he is the tool of vengeance for an ancient Egyptian god.  Marc believes that as The Fist of Knonshu, he is granted super powers that wax and wane with the phases of the moon.  
Spector gained his superhuman powers as a result of a visitation by the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Moon Knight's strength, endurance, and reflexes are enhanced depending upon the phases of the moon. The fuller the moon, the more strength Moon Knight derives from it, though even during a new moon, he can lift several hundred pounds. He has some degree of superhuman strength during the peak of a lunar cycle, but he only gets superhuman strength from the lunar cycle. It's not known how much of this strength is mystical and how much is simply the result of self-hypnosis due to his psychological instability. Due to his multiple personalities, he is also resistant to some psychic attacks and sometimes receives prophetic visions.

Charlie Huston, writer of the 2006 re-launch of Moon Knight, attempted to answer the criticism that Moon Knight is an ersatz Batman in an interview with Comixfan. The interviewer noted that the comparison is not baseless, as both Moon Knight and the Dark Knight are wealthy, "normal" humans that use gadgetry to fight crime.

Huston accepted that the two characters had their similarities, but went on to contrast the two by noting in particular differences in origin, motives, and personality. "Bruce Wayne", he said, "fights crime to avenge the murders of his parents", whereas Moon Knight "beats up whoever has it coming because he believes he is the avatar of the Egyptian god of vengeance and it helps him to feel better about all the people he killed when he was a mercenary." Thus, while Batman is motivated by vengeance for wrong done to his parents, Marc Spector is motivated by vengeance as a concept. Huston further notes that Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego, takes on other personalities merely to aid in his fight. However, Moon Knight has three alter egos which aid him as much in dealing with personal demons as fighting law-breakers, and which have taken a further psychological toll of causing dissociative identity disorder.