Loki Teased Where Blade’s Vampires Come From In The MCU

Loki opened the MCU multiverse properly, changing the future, but one very brief tease may have shown where vampires come from in Marvel’s past.

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One blink-and-you’d-miss-it moment in Loki may confirm where vampires come in the MCU’s timeline, setting up Mahershala Ali’s Blade movie. As well as teasing the fact that Marvel’s infamous daywalker might be as powerful as Thanos, Loki featured a very brief look at an artifact in the TVA’s lost and found that could actually be a pretty significant clue. And if true, it would suggest vampires have been around for a long time in the MCU.

While Phase 4’s introduction of the MCU Multiverse means that all bets are off on what the future could hold, the obvious benefit of the relaxation of the rules also offers Marvel an opportunity to bring in some new interesting worlds and characters. It’s already known that the Fantastic Four, mutants, and vampires are all coming, the question now is how their arrival is handled. Previous theories had suggested Thanos’ use of the Infinity Stones would open the door, or that the Quantum Realm could be the bridge to other alternate dimensions, but now it feels more likely that the Multiverse holds the key.

Loki outright spelling out that the TVA had encountered vampires is a significant step to confirming their existence, especially after Korg hinted at vampires being an MCU race in Thor: Ragnarok too. And when Casey’s draw reveals that there’s a crucifix among the items he’s seemingly claimed as trophies and trinkets could be the biggest hint yet of how long they’ve been around. The cross shown is a Byzantine cross, dating it to around 800 AD and suggesting that vampires could have been around for hundreds of years in the MCU.

The key point is that Casey’s drawer is almost a collection of confiscated weapons and important items. While he flippantly devalues the Infinity Stones as mere paperweights, other things in the drawer are clearly valuable: the Honus Wagner baseball card is another of Loki’s clever answers to real-life mysteries (he stopped allowing his card to be produced, but in the MCU it’s as if it was taken out of the timeline), and there are various weapons in there. The ornate cross, by design, is not something someone would merely carry around without there being serious symbolism behind it too. It could be that it’s there as a weapon against Blade’s kind, in fact, but the fact that it’s a Byzantine cross can’t have been accidental.

The idea that vampires have been around for a long time fits with the established lore of Blade’s previous movies, which showed the creatures were governed by an almost mafia-like secret cabal. That could be used as a means to explain why they’ve never appeared before. Alternatively, of course, there’s also the theory that vampires left Earth at some point after their Byzantine Empire era heyday and headed to space, bringing them into contact with Korg’s people, the Kronans. However they’re introduced, it will be interesting to see if Loki’s briefest of hints to their MCU longevity will be called back to.

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