Werewolf by Night is Marvel’s fast-approaching horror film coming this October. The trailer dropped at D23, and since then, fans have been dissecting it frame by frame to see if they can get a glimpse of what future Werewolf by Night might have in the MCU. Fans of the comics know just how well-connected the hero is to more obscure parts of the Marvel Universe, but they also know that those parts aren’t so obscure that they wouldn’t be brought into the MCU. The Werewolf by Night trailer clued us into some spicy secrets that Marvel is including in this upcoming Halloween special.
Werewolf by Night has already revealed some juicy cameos, but there are more exciting things to come. There are a lot of conclusions to draw just from this quick minute and a half of footage. Fans have picked it apart and discovered quick shots of Man-Thing. Some say that Elsa Bloodstone’s appearance is the key to Marvel making a Midnight Sons movie. And a few fans are even arguing that a mysterious group of soldiers in the trailer is really the TVA coming to fix an incursion. There are plenty of questions that have risen from just a couple of frames. We’re going to look at these fan theories and see how they all managed to find their way out of this Werewolf’s cage.
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Werewolf by Night Sets Up Midnight Sons
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Oddly enough, the Midnight Sons haven’t gained much traction in the MCU until now. The slightly darker group of heroes comes from a line of Marvel storytelling that pits the group up against demons and other hellish villains that we haven’t seen yet in the MCU. However, certain events in Multiverse of Madness and She-Hulk lead fans to believe there might be some scarier bad guys on the way. And the Midnight Sons are slowly becoming more of a possibility in the MCU as more of the group’s members are brought into the universe. Werewolf by Night will add three more.
The Midnight Sons were founded by Doctor Strange, who has been in the MCU for a while. But Phase 4 has created many more possibilities for members of the group. Morbius, yes, that Morbius, was a founding member. And there are many more movies and rumors on the way. Blade was a member of the Midnight Sons for a time, and so were some of the minor heroes who popped in and out of his world. Ghost Rider was a member as well, and the “Donny Blaze” from She-Hulk has started rumors that he might be added to the MCU soon. Werewolf by Night will bring in Elsa Bloodstone, Man-Thing, and Jack Russell, all of whom were members of the Midnight Sons in one iteration or another.
Man-Thing and the TVA
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Man-Thing appears in the Werewolf by Night trailer for a few frames in a battle with someone. That is easy enough to confirm. But some say his appearance supports the hypothesis that those soldiers with shock sticks are actually TVA agents. It’s easy enough to say, but the argument to support this theory gets complicated. Those soldiers with their armor and weapons certainly look a lot like the TVA, and the Time Variants Authority may very well be invading certain timelines now that Kang is on the loose. But how might these soldiers from the Loki series show up in Werewolf by Night?
It starts with the idea that Werewolf by Night actually takes place in a pocket dimension, similar to where Thor had his fight with Gorr the God Butcher in Love and Thunder. When the trailer shows us a wide shot of the “city” where it takes place, there is no horizon, like the town is surrounded by a wall or just doesn’t exist beyond a certain point. Some think that the fact the movie is shot in black and white might contribute to this idea as well since the dimension we saw in Love and Thunder was similarly devoid of color.
If Werewolf by Night is, in fact, inside a pocket dimension, that could mean some extradimensional hijinks are going on with this monster hunt, and TVA has shown up to stop them. Part of Man-Thing’s origin story in the comics had him thrown through a portal, so this might be where he ended up.
Fans also point to the fact that Mobius mentioned, in the first season of Loki, that the TVA had a nightmare department, and they had previously dealt with monsters, specifically vampires. So, Werewolf by Night could be taking place in some kind of nightmare dimension. If it is, it could explain why the TVA’s weapons aren’t working the same way we saw them “prune” people in Loki. The nature of this dimension could be one that resists such energy or is just too disconnected from the Void for the TVA to send them there. Why they’ve decided to show up to deal with Jack Russell in Werewolf by Night, no one knows. Perhaps he is a variant that shouldn’t exist. Or maybe the TVA’s nightmare department controls this pocket dimension in their own particular way. We’ll have to wait for the movie to find out.
