Moon Knight Episode 6 Sets Up Another New MCU Avengers Team
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Moon Knight.
Moon Knight episode 6 provides a new way for Marvel Studios to introduce a new Avengers-like superhero team to the MCU. While the Avengers are still around in the current MCU timeline, it is clear Marvel is gearing up to introduce multiple new teams to the MCU. Through Moon Knight, and the show being steeped in Egyptian mythology, a new team altogether could be formed.
Phase 4 of the MCU thus far has been introducing many new characters. From movie characters such as Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to Sersi, Phastos, and Kingo (to name a few) of Eternals, Marvel is once again expanding their roster of superpowered beings after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Marvel has also laid the groundwork for several Young Avengers members in the MCU's Phase 4, such as Kate Bishop, Wiccan and Speed, and Patriot.
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Now, with Moon Knight allowing Marvel to explore a new facet of the MCU altogether with the world of the Egyptian gods, a new team's foundations have been set. Moon Knight tells the story of Marc Spector, a mercenary with Dissociative Identity Disorder who is the avatar of the Egyptian god of the moon: Khonshu. Throughout Moon Knight, audiences were introduced to the other avatars operating with the will of their respective Egyptian deities. It is through these avatars that the new team could be forged.
Moon Knight episode 6 saw Ethan Hawke's villain, Arthur Harrow, looking to unleash Ammit, the Egyptian deity he and his cult worship. To do this, Harrow had to take her ushabti — the stone statue in which Ammit was trapped — to the Chamber of the Gods to release her. Upon entering the
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