Moon Knight Can Horrifically Set Up Thor 4's Villain
The Moon Knight MCU TV series will introduce a new hero and Marc Spector’s origin story with Khonshu can help to set up the introduction Thor: Love and Thunder’s villain, Gorr the God Butcher. While Gorr the God Butcher has been confirmed for Thor: Love and Thunder and Christian Bale will be playing the antagonist, he has not been teased in the MCU so far. Gorr the God Butcher has the potential to be a major villain, but his story might need to be hinted at before he first appears on screen in Thor: Love and Thunder.
Moon Knight will adapt the story of Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac). In the comics, Spector is a man living with dissociative identity disorder who was serving as a mercenary until he was betrayed and left for dead. However, in his weakened state, the Egyptian god of the moon, Khonshu, made Spector his avatar on Earth, saving his life and giving him superpowers.
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Moon Knight’s narrative makes it the perfect place to introduce the idea of Gorr the God Butcher ahead of Thor: Love and Thunder. Gorr the God Butcher came from a planet that was always on the brink of starvation and whose population prayed every day to gods to help them. Gorr’s entire family slowly died in tragedies and from starvation and Gorr came to the conclusion that the gods must not exist. However, after this Gorr came across two gods fighting and realized that not only did gods exist, but they had ignored his people’s cries for help. With Moon Knight being saved by Khonshu, his story flies in the face of Gorr the God Butcher’s narrative and if he learns of Marc Spector’s story he would doubtless question why Moon Knight was saved while Gorr’s family perished. It is unlikely
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