Moon Knight Creates A Big Challenge For Thor: Love & Thunder’s Villain
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Moon Knight episode 1.
While Marvel's Moon Knight is opening the door for a brand new pantheon of gods in the MCU, it does present an interesting challenge for Thor: Love and Thunder and its upcoming villain. At the moment, the term «god» in the MCU stands to become pretty confusing, especially in relation to how Asgardians have been defined in relation to any other groups of gods who might exist. While it hasn't been an issue prior to Moon Knight, the upcoming explorations into Egyptian mythology may need to offer some explanations for the origins of this new pantheon, especially with an upcoming villain whose sole mission and vendetta is to kill gods.
In Moon Knightepisode 1, museum gift shop employee Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) discovers that he leads an entirely different life when he's asleep. In truth, Grant is an alter of Marc Spector, who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Marc also holds the power of Moon Knight, the chosen avatar of the Egyptian god Khonshu. As readers of the comics know, Spector was chosen by the moon god Khonsu to become his fist and deliver justice. While Steven was unaware of Marc before this first episode, his job in a museum of Egyptian artifacts and interest in mythology implies a subconscious connection to Marc's seemingly divine calling.
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Considering Ethan Hawke's Arthur Harrow, who serves the goddess Ammit, it seems as though more Egyptian gods do indeed exist in the MCU beyond Khonshu. As such, some interesting challenges and questions have been created, including what, exactly, the term «god» means in the MCU. Asgardians were once perceived as gods with their power and technology being
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