Appearance Spotlight: Valkyrie

In April (2018), Marvel will be releasing a new volume of Exiles, a series about a group of people from various alternate realities teaming up to save the multiverse. When they first announced the new series last week, their image showed Iron Lad, Khan, Blink, and Wolvie, but it had a mystery character blacked out. On Monday, they revealed who the mystery character was: Valkyrie!

But a very different Valkyrie than readers are used to. See, normally Valkyrie is white girl with two long, blonde braids and armor that is similar to Thor's.

The Exiles Valkyrie isn't based on that version, though. Instead, she's based on the version seen in Thor: Ragnarok (2017). She has the same skin color, armor design, and eye markings. Also, it's hard to tell in this picture, but she has a blue cape that matches the Exiles character as well.

As far as I can tell from interviews, this Valkyrie is meant to be the MCU Valkyrie, or at least as close to it as possible. It's common for Marvel alternate universes to have several other universes that are practically indistinguishable from them, for the purposes of having drastic things happen to familiar universes while keeping the "main" one the same. This - as far as I know, at least - is the first time the MCU has received one of those adjacent universes.