Genius Captain America Theory Says Civil War Set Up Marvel's FIRST Vampire
A throwaway line of dialogue in Captain America: Civil War could have actually set up the MCU's first vampire. It's only a matter of time before Blade the Vampire Hunter makes his on-screen debut in the MCU. In 2019, Marvel Studios announced Mahershala Ali had been cast for the role; he subsequently made a voice-only appearance in Eternals' post-credits scene, and a Blade movie is expected to start production in July 2022. That naturally means vampires, too, are about to become a major part of the MCU.
The timing is hardly a coincidence. Speaking to Rotten Tomatoes in an interview back in 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige pointed to the (then recently-announced) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as a key moment in the MCU, one that opened up the potential for vampires on a thematic level. "We have, for years, wanted to find a new way into Blade," he explained. "We love that character. We love that world. Now, with Doctor Strange and the supernatural elements coming into the MCU, it felt like we could definitely start exploring that..." His reference to unidentified "supernatural elements" clearly fits with Moon Knight, which has unleashed an ancient Egyptian pantheon.
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But it's possible there is actually a direct connection between Moon Knight's Egyptian pantheon and Blade. Although at first glance Moon Knight appears unusually isolated from Marvel's wider shared universe, in reality the introduction of these gods dramatically reshapes the MCU's shared universe. It even has a surprising retrospective impact on Captain America: Civil War, meaning a single line of dialogue in that film could be retconned as setup for the MCU's first god.
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