Thor: Love and Thunder has released its first trailer after much anticipation. It was viewed a whopping 209 million times in 24 hours, proving that desire for MCU movies has not dwindled despite the seemingly endless plethora of Marvel-related content.
While the trailer did give us a first look at Mighty Thor in her full glory, King Valkyrie, and, of course, the titular hero, there were some things left out. Firstly was the fact that there was a very obviously edited-out character, and secondly, there was the obvious omission of the much-anticipated villain of the film: Gorr the God Butcher.
Despite his obvious importance to the film, he was not featured in the trailer. At all. Which seems odd, until you think about the show currently on Disney+: Moon Knight.
The Marvel show has, besides its very-well-hidden Easter eggs, no connection to the broader MCU. We know that Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac was adamant about not being locked in to further Marvel projects (what he dubbed ‘golden handcuffs’) and as such many have viewed Moon Knight as a one-off — indeed Marvel marketed the show as a six-episode ‘event’, not even a miniseries.
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Yet this doesn’t mean that there won’t be any tie-in to the future of the MCU: Moon Knight would be the perfect spot to tease Thor: Love and Thunder‘s big bad.
There are the obvious thematic similarities between the two. Moon Knight deals heavily with Egyptian deities and Gorr is literally a villain who kills gods. An easy way to tease his powers would be to have him show up at the end of Moon Knight and, well, kill a god.
No one’s taking bets on whether or not this could happen, but while it’s a piece of wild speculation it actually reads as plausible. It wouldn’t be the first time the end of one Marvel project teased another (duh), and with Moon Knight set to be a stand-alone story, having Gorr kill Konshu would be a satisfying (and sad?) way to definitively end Steven Grant/Marc Spector’s tale.
This would both allow Isaac the ability to sail off into the sunset to his post-Marvel work (the actor is notoriously busy, with a Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation on the horizon) and tie Moon Knight into the broader tapestry of MCU lore without being too much of a stretch narratively, nor cause problems with continuity for future MCU outings.
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It would be a refreshing break from the constant leaning on the multiverse as the answer to all of the MCU’s questions.
Separately from the thematic mesh, there is timing to consider.
Thor: Love and Thunder is out July 8, and Moon Knight’s final episode debuts on May 4. This would give enough time from the trailer debut to tease another morsel without making us feel overwhelmed, and would leave enough time before Thor: Love and Thunder‘s release for fans to get excited and, of course, have more teasers.
As mentioned, this is entirely guesswork on our part. Gorr could be a tease in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Or Marvel could buck its own trend and truly allow Moon Knight to be the standalone story we’ve all been told it is.
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