Moon Knight has an obscure Kang the Conqueror Easter egg. Is he MCU’s new big villain after Thanos?

One of those are being discussed on social media sites. It involves the back of the jacket of one of the two goons that our hero fights in the third episode of the show called The Friendly Type. The print on the jacket is hard to spot as the fighting scene is too quick but it is an outline of a pharaoh figure with dabs of teal and purple paint — two of the three colours of Kang the Conqueror.

Kang once travelled back in time to ancient Egypt and ruled it as Pharaoh Rama-Tut. YouTuber Eric Voss of New Rockstars confirmed with crew members of the show that the design choice was not accidental, and the image is there as a reference to Kang’s Egyptian days.

We do not know if Kang will show up in Moon Knight’s future episodes, but it looks like he is being set up as the next big MCU villain from the look of things. We saw a gentle variant of Kang, a far cry from the character we know from comics, played by Jonatha Majors (who will reprise the role in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania).

Kang was originally Nathaniel Richards, a 31st-century scholar who becomes a powerful entity that likes playing with time. While usually conquerors like to take over worlds, Kang prefers temporal dominions and casually enters different time periods to meddle, subjugate or do anything that suits his fancy. He even rewrites his own history so his backstory is perpetually changing. He has been in conflict with the Avengers in comics and has even defeated them pretty easily, so he may indeed turn out to be the next big villain to replace Thanos.

Moon Knight streams on Disney+ Hotstar.