Since it was a Disney tv series, I grabbed a lot of Moon Knight comics and read them. Okay, skimmed them, but I was wanting to know something specifically, to whit: where did his Dissociative Identity Disorder come from? Ie, when was it made "canon"?
When Moon Knight starts in the 70s, Marc Spector is a mercenary, dies, and is brought back by Khonsu to be the Moon Knight. He takes on the guises of Stephen Grant to control the money and Jake Lockley as a cab driver to get the low down dirt, but they are just other guises. Like how Batman has Bruce Wayne and Matches Malone. Marlene refers to him as "schizophrenic", but mainly because he gets into each part rather than they really are other personalities.
This goes on over a few different volumes. Depending on the writer, he could just be Marc Spector, or sometimes the other guises come up, especially as one "dies". Any hints of DID is peripheral at best, but again as if he is getting really into those parts rather than they are other identities in his head.
And then we get to Bendis in the 2010s and suddenly, yep, he has full on DID with other personalities being Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America (don't ask, Bendis gonna Bendis). But from that point on, he is just assumed to have always had DID, with later series getting even more into that space.
So no real moment, just a slow canonisation of that aspect of the character.
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