A Tron highlights just how seriously he takes his dark boast that he wants his enemies to see him coming. The costume appears on a variant cover for Secret Avengers #7 in 2010 and was illustrated by Mark Brooks.
The variant covers were part of a series promoting the film Tron: Legacy. There were ten in all featuring Spider-Man, Captain America, Ghost Rider, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, Quicksilver, Iron Man, Thor, and Wolverine. Half of them were done by Mark Brooks while the other half were illustrated by Brandon Peterson. Although extremely cool, the “Tron-ified” costumes don’t appear in the actual stories. The closest actual costume that a hero wears that might appear in a Tron film is Spider-Man’s “Big Time” costume.
It’s hard not to think of Moon Knight’s Tron costume as awesome. It roughly has the same look as his standard costume, just with a lot more neon baked into it. Moon Knight is featured in an action pose, tossing out the trademark Tron Identity Disks (also know as a Light Disks). While many refer to Moon Knight as Marvel’s Batman clone, there are many differences between them, one being their obvious difference in color scheme. Batman uses darkness as a tool, so he focuses on dark colors, mainly black. Moon Knight, however, is most often seen in white. This could be because he wants to resemble the moon, but there’s another reason. Moon Knight says he dresses in white so that his enemies can see him coming and be terrified when he arrives. This Tron costume, which is coated in LED lights, takes that awesome boast to a dark extreme. It screams, “Look at me!” and can probably be seen from a mile away.
Another ironic fact is that Moon Knight’s neon costume appears on the cover of Secret Avengers. The Ed Brubaker and Mike Deodato Jr. series focuses on an off-the-grid Avengers team that works in secret. So having Moon Knight, one of its most brutal , in a brightly lit costume that draws attention probably isn’t the best move. But again, the costumes are limited to the covers and do not appear in any stories.
Another cool little fact about the covers is that they appear in the short film Tron: The Next Day. This film was featured on the Blu-Ray release of Tron: Legacy and fills the gap in time between the first film and its sequel. Roy Kleinberg, a character from the Tron series, is featured in the film, and four of the covers can be seen hanging on the wall. This confirms that the cover featuring Moon Knight in a bright neon costume exists as canon within the Tron universe.
