Marvel Just Made Infinity War's Snap Even More Horrifying
WARNING: Spoilers for Moon Knight episode 5.
By delving deep into its Egyptian mythology, Moon Knight episode 5 offered a whole new perspective on Avengers: Infinity War's Snap. Despite being a story that eschews any major connections to the MCU, a significant change when compared to other Disney +'s Marvel TV shows, Moon Knight is shedding a different light on various moments in the franchise. While those are not direct references to the broader universe, Moon Knight's new lore additions and use of mythology change a lot for the MCU – both for the future and retroactively.
After episode 4 challenged everything audiences thought they knew about the show, Moon Knight episode 5 revealed – or at least suggested – what was really going on with Marc and Steven. It turns out that everything that had happened so far in the series did happen, and the mental facility headed by Arthur Harrow is actually part of Marc and Steven's afterlife transition – a self-evaluation of their own actions and experiences. Guided by Taweret, Marc and Steven presented viewers with their origin stories, and now the tragic births of both Steven and Moon Knight as a hero are clear.
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During Marc Spector and Steven's journey to the Field of Reeds, the judgment by the balance of the scale and the terrors of falling into the Duat were both introduced. The episode even took a moment to show what happens to Harrow's victims: they go straight to the Duat as they were already judged as imbalanced. All of this helps put into perspective the horror that the billions of people snapped by Thanos in Infinity War must have gone through. It is worth noting that Taweret made sure to point
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