WEREWOLF BY NIGHT takes the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the depths of horror--as an homage to the black and white heyday of the monster movie genre in the 40s and 50s. Marvel's "Special Presentation" includes a TON of MCU Easter Eggs, including connection to Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, Loki, and of course...Kang the Conqueror and BLADE.

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Jack Russel’s Werewolf first appeared in Marvel Spotlight #2 in 1972. Jack Russell inherited a curse from his father. A curse that began on his 18th birthday, making it to where on every full moon Jack transforms into a Werewolf. In the comics he’s had interaction with chara cters such as Morbious, Spider-Woman, and Iron Man. And has served as a member of Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

Midnight Suns is a team of primarily supernatural Marvel heroes who go up against supernatural threats. A direction the MCU seems to be going in with characters like Werewolf, Moonknight, and Blade. In fact we made a video breaking down how Pmarvel is obviously building up to a Midnight Suns movie, with Blade, Werewolf by night, Moon Knight, Agatha Harkness, and–we guessed it–Elsa Bloodstone. [spaceballs when you’re right clip, I’ll find]

Now if Werewolf by Night sounds familiar, you’ve likely heard that his solo comic featured the first appearance of Moon knight. [clip, something funny with Stephen maybe]. There were lots of QR codes in the series that took you to his first appearance, 1975’s Werewolf by night number 32. People really bought 34 issues of comic about a werewolf. .

Doug: It was a different time.

Hopefully we’ll see Jack Russell’s Werewolf and Moonknight go toe to toe in a future MCU project, and then eventually work together in something like Midnight Suns. [clip]
Werewolf by Night is labeled as a “Marvel Studios Special Presentation” It is done in the vein of a classic 1930’s horror film. [clip]

But it takes place in the present day MCU. And according to Kevin Feige, we are being introduced to a new world that will play an important role in the future of the MCU. [clip]

The film opens with the Marvel Studios intro in black and white being interrupted by scratch marks and roars. Perhaps indicating that the Werewolf is clawing his way into the MCU.

We then see a drawing of the original six Avengers. Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Thor. I think it’s interesting that even though three of these characters have died, the MCU still showcases these six Avengers as the team.

We’ve also seen the original six featured recently in some knock off merch in She-Hulk. [clip]

This to me plays into the fact that we don’t really have a team of Avengers at the moment. [clip, Talos “where are the Avengers” Far From Home.]

Next we can see a drawing of a monster. This text near it translates to “a winged monster of virtue…effectively and completely corrupts.”

We can also see a drawing labeled faces of the moon. Of course in reference to a full moon triggering the transformation of Werewolves. The faces of the moon could also be a nod to Moon Knight. IN the comics, at one point–his powers were tied directly to the phases of the moon. But in later years the phases became more of a metaphor for his dissociative Identity disorder [clip],

More monsters arefeatured as the narrator talks about the monster hunters. Specifically the Bloodstones [who control the quote “powerful, supernatural, relic” the Bloodstone. ]

Now in the comics we have several red stones and gems that have come into play. Such as the Reality Stone and the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak. Then there are the Blood Stones, a group of five stones that the sorcerer, Belasco of the Corrupted, used to open portals between Earth and Limbo. Limbo being a dimension of demons we may have gotten a glimpse of in She-Hulk. [clip]

But we think the bloodstone is almost certainly based on the bloodgem. A gem that survived the collapse of one universe and traveled through time and space, eventually landing amidst the big bang of the 616 Marvel comics universe. [clip, Wong Big Bang Infinity Stones.]

The bloodgem eventually winds up on earth in 8250 B.C.

In fact if this bloodstone has a similar origi than it can tie directly into WandaVision, chaos magic, and the scarlet with.