Moon Knight's Cut Ending Cameo Saved The Show From An MCU Disaster
Warning: Contains spoilers for Moon Knight and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Moon Knight cut a potential MCU cameo from its ending, and that decision ultimately helped to save the show. While Disney+'s Moon Knight is considered part of the MCU, it’s largely removed from the franchise with little to connect it to the wider MCU at the moment. While this has left the Marvel property with a distinct lack of expected crossovers or sequel hooks to date, the lack of these MCU ties ultimately worked in the show’s favor.
Following the conclusion of Moon Knight, both director Mohamed Diab and head writer Jeremy Slater reveal that there were potential cameos of other MCU characters in the works that got scrapped. Diab never specified who was supposed to cameo, only that there would have been one cameo in the first episode and another in the finale (via Variety), but Slater also revealed that there were plans for a crossover with Chloe Zhao's Eternals characters, such as Kingo and three other unnamed Eternals fighting alongside an avatar of Khonshu in a flashback (via The Direct). In the end, these potential cameos never made it to screen, and Moon Knight ended up being largely disconnected from the rest of the MCU outside of a few small references.
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Any potential cameos in the Moon Knight season finale were ultimately cut from the show, but that also ended up working in its favor. Rather than seeing its narrative bogged down by forcing in an unneeded cameo by, for example, Blade or the Werewolf by Midnight, the Moon Knight finale instead devoted itself to closing out the main plot of the show and building up to the reveal of Jake
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