The following contains major spoilers for Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #2, available now from Marvel.
Plenty of Marvel heroes over the years have been able to call themselves street wise, book smart, or abject geniuses, yet few if any can rightfully claim that they are in tune with the people around them. While the likes of Luke Cage have made their careers off of that kind of innate emotional intelligence to little or no surprise, it becomes genuinely shocking when a more lethal hero does the same. In the case of Moon Knight, the revelation that he understands others better than himself might not be shocking, but his grasp of even the most obvious nuance absolutely is.
"Blood Red Glider" (by Patch Zircher and VC's Cory Petit, from the pages of Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #2) finds Marc Spector drawn back to Africa after receiving an unexpected package containing a swarm of the story's eponymous butterflies. The ominous gift is both a warning and a beckoning on behalf of Saforah Bodi, the woman who survived a Moon Knight encounter with her partner years ago. Although she despises seeing him still, Saforah felt it only right to let Marc know that the Blood Red Glider, the man who had tormented them previously had returned. Not only does Marc get the message loud and clear, he continues to do so after the battle is over.
Moon Knight's confrontation with the Blood Red Glider, though gruesome, ultimately ends in the latter's demise. After seeing that the latest battle was just another chapter of the same war he had left behind years ago, Marc even offers to continue waging it on Saforah's behalf. Thankfully for both of them, he instead chooses to leave when she asks him to, seemingly with no intention of ever returning. On the surface, this is him respecting the wishes of his dead friend's widow, yet the truth of the matter runs much deeper than that.
It's hard to imagine that any other superpowered vigilante or Avenger would be willing to leave the Republic of Narobia in its war torn state without trying to make a difference. Of course, the conflicts there aren't so black and white that anyone would be able to easily pick a side. Even if they did, however, there would still be the matter of it not being their fight to take part in to begin with. If the country were in need of heroes to take action, someone would have already done so just as Saforah called on Marc. That was never what she was looking for, though. Instead, a part of her hoped that he would die alongside the villain, as it was his interference that got her loved one killed in the first place.
It isn't so surprising to see Marc take heed of Saforah's words. Considering he has made it his life's mission to make up for his brutal past as Moon Knight in whatever ways he can, it's only fitting that he would. It also speaks to how deeply he feels for the people whose lives he comes into contact with. Most of all the ones he makes worse along the way.
If nothing else, all of this reinforces how important the work of the Midnight Mission is. Not just as a way to protect the people under its watch, but to provide Marc with a tangible outlet for his grief. While he has made great strides on his own, it is only with the help of others that he can truly become a better version of himself. And, by doing so for himself, he might just be able to do the very same for others like him.