Moon Knight's Madripoor Tease Continues Phase 4's Best MCU X-Men Setup
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Moon Knight episode 3.
Moon Knight episode 3's reference to Madripoor continues Marvel Studios' best Phase 4 setup for the X-Men. MCU's latest Disney+ series centers on Oscar Isaac's titular character with dissociative identity disorder (DID) with two alters (thus far), Steven Grant and Marc Spector. Both are significant in stopping Arthur Harrow's (Ethan Hawke) attempt to resurrect Ammit. May Calamawy's Layla has been instrumental in the hunt for Ammit's tomb, but her appearance in Moon Knight episode 3 also connects the show to a key MCU location: Madripoor.
A fairly new setting in the MCU, Madripoor made its debut in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In the comics, it's a small Southeast Asian island located south of Singapore, functioning as a haven for criminals and outlaws. Considering its live-action appearance, it functions similarly in the MCU, as it's where Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and Zemo (Daniel Brühl) tracked down the Power Broker, who ended up to be Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp).
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Madripoor also has strong ties to the X-Men in the comics. It was Wolverine's sanctuary for a while after the X-Men were believed to be dead in the Marvel universe. The adamantium-clawed mutant changed his persona and became Patch, whose objective was to clean up the streets of Lowtown. Recently, Madripoor has become the location of Magneto's version of X-Mansion. While there hasn't been any explicit indication that either of these scenarios is happening in MCU's version of Madripoor, Moon Knight's reference to it firmly establishes the island as a key location in the universe. In the episode
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