The Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline has been stretched out over the years and after Phase 3 ended, the shows and movies that come out following it, the question lies on whether it is set before or after Endgame, is it before everyone got snapped, during the blip, or after it. For Moon Knight, a detail in Episode 2 confirms when exactly the series happens.
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Moon Knight Episode 2 Detail Confirms Series is Set After Endgame
In Moon Knight Episode 2, Summon the Suit, while everyone is shocked as to why a man in a dapper white suit looks like a fancy drunkard in the middle of the road and a bus was forced to go on a full stop as Steven fights a jackal, an invisible force for others. In the same scene, a clue confirms that Moon Knight’s events are set after Endgame, possibly the same time as that of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
On the bus is an advertisement of GRC, the Global Repatriation Council, which says “reuniting you with your better half.” As cheesy as that may sound, if there is something people learned on The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the GRC are displacing people from one place to another and given that it has been five years that everyone left during the blip tried to find places where they belong, not everyone is ready to come back to their old lives before the snap.
It is the very same GRC that the Flag Smashers are fighting against. Sam, the new Captain America, stood up with the Flag Smashers with their cause of stopping the council to forcefully move internationally displaced people when they finally found a new home to settle into. In The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, GRC stopped doing this proving that the Flag Smashers’ cause lived on.
For Moon Knight, with GRC’s advertisements still up, the events of the series could be anytime before Sam stood up or freshly after that, at a time when the GRC is just starting to retract their actions on moving internationally displaced people.
This also answers the questions of everyone on where on Earth is Moon Knight during the iconic battle of the Avengers and Thanos. He might already be Moon Knight then but he is subsided within Steven Grant who lives his life at a gift shop as an employee. There might be no need for him to be the hero at that time.
He may not have been blipped at all considering that with Khonshu attached to him, he, as if, sold his soul to a devil, or this case, a pact with the Egyptian god of the moon. The soul stone is important to the blip because it picks out which souls would vanish and with Marc’s attached to a deity, it is unlikely that he was snapped by Thanos.
Moon Knight Episode 2 is now streaming on Disney Plus.
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