10 Ridiculous Extra Superpowers That Were Phased Out Of The Comics

Moon Knight occupies a similar space to Daredevil in the Marvel universe, possessing no powers but using his peak physique and training to fight street crime, with the help of his alter egos, spurred on by his duty to the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.

A through-line in the Moon Knight comics is the ambiguity as to whether Khonshu is real, or a figment of Marc/Steven/Jake’s mind. One series that depicted Khonshu as an existing entity with real-world implications was 1985’s Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu.

The first four issues, written by Alan Zelenetz, saw Marc gifted a set of ancient Egyptian weapons by the Priests of Khonshu. As well as aiding him in battle, they gave him the power of superhuman strength under the moon’s light.

While moon-based superpowers seem thematically appropriate for the character, it’s perhaps a little too heightened for one of Marvel’s street-level characters, so this powerset was quietly dropped before the next series.

The fact that Moon Knight once had superpowers but since lost them made him a unique case for the Superhuman Registration act during the Civil War event, which writer Charlie Huston depicted in his 2006 run, a rare example of one of these abandoned powers being addressed in-canon.