Spideymoon

Spideymoon is the slash ship between Peter Parker and Marc Spector from the Marvel fandom.

Canon
Moon Knight and Spider-Man first meet after a slight misunderstanding in 1978's "Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 1 #22." Moon Knight is trying to bring a criminal to justice, and in the process gets involved with the Maggia. That night, Jake Lockley gets into a fight with some Maggia henchmen in an alley as Spider-Man swings by. He mistakes Jake/Moon Knight for one of the Maggia villains, and the two fight before they end up having to work together to defeat Cyclone, briefly putting aside their differences.

From there, the two work together on occasion, gradually growing more amicable towards each other. The two mostly work together merely through coincidence, when they happen to be in the same area at the same time. It is only in 2011 where the two share a closer bond in Brian Michael Bendis' "Moon Knight Vol. 6 #1-9." Due to immense stressors in Moon Knight's life, his Dissociative Identity Disorder creates alters/hallucinations of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America when they are around him while he is in LA. Marc Spector then imagines that he has matching tools imitating those of the superhero hallucinations. It is also in this series where Echo asks a room of the New Avengers, including Spider-Man, if any of them have previously dated Moon Knight. Everyone answers in the negative, while Spider-Man says "little bit" without expansion on his statement.

The two become closer than ever in their 2018 comics "Infinity Wars: Arachknight" limited series. Guardians of the Galaxy's Gamora is able to collect all Infinity Stones and uses the power to fuse half of the world's population to the other half. This action creates "Arachknight," the morph of Moon Knight and Spider-Man. This version of them shows Peter Parker as the avatar for "Spider-Totem," also sporting DID with four alters, like Marc prior to the morph. One of Peter's alters, the second-most active one, is called "the Knight," and is based directly off of Marc Spector as Moon Knight. Prior to this event, however, another memorable interaction involves Spider-Man catching Marc up on the status of Gamora's takeover when Marc dissociates briefly.

Quotes
"Once I stopped trying to silence the voices in my head, they told me what they actually needed... This is The Knight. Our clenched fist. He's a little intense, but real good at finishing fights."

- Infinity Wars: Arachknight, #1

Fanon
Despite the amount of fan content for the pairing, the ship is smaller than many other Marvel ships. This is due mostly to the fact that the two have not appeared in many comics together. The two first appeared in comics together from 1978 in "Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 1" through to 2018 with their joint "Infinity Wars: Arachknight" mini-series, but only totaling 16 comics. Because of both of their two-part names, there are a few different alternate ship names, such as MoonSpider and SpideyKnight. Also, because of Moon Knight's Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), fans have shipped Peter with Marc's other alters Jake and Steven separately, as well as together or in some other unique combination.

The dynamic between the two has changed over time mostly with the evolution of Moon Knight's character. Although it has previously been retconned that Moon Knight has always had Dissociative Identity Disorder, this plotline was first stated explicitly in Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's 2014 issues, and hinted as early as Brian Michael Bendis' 2011 series. Starting in 2011, the plotlines involving Spider-Man connected directly to Moon Knight's DID, where Marc would start developing Spider-Man alters during times of stress. This offers an interesting dynamic that is absent for most other Marvel heroes and characters that Moon Knight interacts with, where the two can be seen as fused, as Marc gains certain personality traits of Peter as well as imitations of his powers. They were then literally fused together in their latest comic appearance in their 2018-2019 Arachknight fusion comics, where the roles are reversed and Peter has DID, with Moon Knight as one of his four alters.

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