Moon Knight's Afterlife Has Huge Implications For Thor: Love & Thunder
This article contains spoilers for Moon Knight episode 5.
Moon Knight's afterlife has enormous implications for Thor: Love & Thunder. At first glance, the Moon Knight Disney+ TV series appears unusually disconnected from the rest of the MCU. For all that's the case, though, it nonetheless has significant implications for the rest of the shared universe, simply because of its treatment of the Egyptian gods pantheon and even the afterlife. Moon Knight treats the gods as real, and even confirms there are multiple afterlifes based on different belief systems, with Taweret explicitly referencing the Ancestral Plane from Black Panther.
Moon Knight shows just how far the MCU has evolved. When Marvel introduced the Norse gods back in 2011, the studio was unsure whether viewers would be willing to accept magic and the supernatural as part of what was considered a science-based superhero universe; that's why Thor featured a throwaway line of dialogue in which he claimed to come from a place where science and magic were one and the same thing. Over a decade later, there's no such reluctance to introduce new pantheons. Thor: Love & Thunder will take this concept even further, introducing Gorr the God-Butcher as its villain, a character who travels the cosmos slaying gods.
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Moon Knight's treatment of the afterlife is more important than many viewers realize, however. Taweret implies all the various afterlifes really exist for those who believe in them, which means the Norse afterlife of Valhalla exists as well. This has major implications for Tessa Thompson's Asgardian character, the current ruler of the Asgardians, for she is a Valkyrie. In Norse
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