What about Steven and Marc’s dissociative identity disorder? Like many comic book superheroes, Moon Knight’s origin story has evolved as it’s been retold over the years, but Bushman’s role as a ruthless mercenary turned Marc’s nemesis has remained. Marc succumbs to his wounds (and the harsh desert conditions) but is revived by Khonshu to become “the moon’s knight of vengeance.” Marc, working as his second-in-command, tries to stand up to him to save innocent civilians after Bushman targets an archeologist to steal treasure. In this original incarnation, Bushman is the merciless leader of a group of mercenaries taking out rebel camps in Sudan. As he lay dying under Khonshu’s statue, the moon god offered to save Marc’s life if he agreed to serve as his warrior of vengeance.īushman plays a similar role in Moon Knight’s comic book origin story, first told in 1980’s “Moon Knight” No. Marc unsuccessfully tried to save the people at the dig site and was left for dead as punishment. But in addition to seeing how Marc came to be the moon god Khonshu’s fist of vengeance, Steven discovers that he’s an alter that developed during Marc’s abusive childhood.ĭuring their trip down memory lane, Marc tells Steven that after being discharged from the military, he “went work-for-hire for old CO, Bushman.” During a job raiding an Egyptian tomb, Bushman decided all witnesses - including Layla’s father, archeologist Abdallah El-Faouly - needed to be killed. Over the course of the episode, Steven learns the truth about Marc’s painful past.

CSI by Steven Grant