Moon Knight. Moon Knight prominently featured Egyptian deities like Khonshu, Ammit, and Taweret throughout its run. Not including these Egyptian gods, even in cameo form in Thor: Love and Thunder, feels like a waste to tie the universe together, especially since there was a cameo by the Wakandan panther goddess Bast.
Some Marvel Disney+ projects, mainly Moon Knight and the Marvel special Ms. Marvel constantly reference past MCU events and characters, or set up the character’s future with an Avenger in the post-credit scene. Having Marvel not acknowledge Moon Knight gods like Khonshu, or the lovable hippo Taweret in a perfect blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo seems like a wasted opportunity.
Love and Thunder Should Have Included Khonshu
Audiences got a glance at the human form of the Wakandan goddess Bast in Thor: Love and Thunder and while it was a welcomed cameo, it was fair to wonder where Khonshu was. Having the digital effects team add in Khonshu’s skeletal bird form would have been great. Putting Khonshu in a room of other Marvel gods, even if it was in the background of the Omnipotence City scene, would have been easy to pull off. While Khonshu certainly seems like a busy god who wouldn’t have been too happy with Zeus’ theatrics, he could have been there recruiting more earthbound gods to his cause.
Moon Knight Needs To Be Brought Into The Rest Of The MCU
Moon Knight was one of Marvel’s most inventive shows and gave audiences an engaging representation of dissociative identity disorder through Steven Grant and Marc Spector. While there are no confirmed plans to bring Moon Knight, or Layla’s Egyptian superhero Scarlet Scarab into a different MCU title, it would be interesting to see them work with other heroes who have strong ties to religion and mythology like Black Panther or Ms. Marvel, even the newly returned Daredevil. Connecting different characters and titles to Moon Knight will make the character’s transition into the larger MCU smoother and feel more natural. Incorporating Khonshu or one of the other Egyptian gods featured in Moon Knight into Thor: Love and Thunder would have been a great way to do that.
While it’s a missed opportunity to see any of the gods from Moon Knight in a cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder, there will be other opportunities to work Moon Knight characters into the larger MCU. There is always the possibility that Marvel has not integrated the show into the larger MCU because it takes place on a different earth. With the next couple of phases of the MCU focusing on the multiverse, it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that Moon Knight took place in a completely different timeline. Only time will tell, but for now, audiences just have to keep their fingers crossed for new appearances from Moon Knight characters.
