Moon Knight Episode 4 Easter Eggs
The following contains spoilers for Moon Knight Episode 4, “The Tomb.”With Moon Knight’s fourth episode, the audience is taken on a wild ride. It’s earned comparisons to franchises like Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones thanks to the search for a hidden tomb. As Steven and Layla race to get to it before Harrow’s people do, they find themselves encountering a few dangerous obstacles.
This particular episode actually goes a lot heavier on Easter eggs than episodes past. There are plenty of comic book references — and potential hints about what’s to come in the series. The latter half of the episode, however, is largely self-referential, providing the audience with a ton of callbacks to the first three episodes for fans who pay close attention.
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The episode opens with a reminder of just where the audience left off at the end of Episode 3. After manipulating the night sky again, Khonshu has been imprisoned in a statue. He’s not alone, however, as the audience sees his statue placed in a wall with several others. While not all of the statues can be easily identified, it does appear that Egyptian gods Anubis and Bes might also be in statues. Both are characters in Marvel comics that were missing from the previous meeting of the Ennead.
When Steven and Layla approach the entrance to the tomb they’re searching for, the camera cuts to reveal a goat watching them from a cliff. While that might seem inconsequential to some members of the audience, other audience members might remember that Steven ran into a goat when he first found himself in the town where Arthur Harrow and his followers live in Episode 2. It seems like an odd coincidence for a goat to watch him now.
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