I have zero familiarity with the character in the comics; I'm probably due to re-up to Marvel Unlimited sometime soon and I'll probably run through them then. Was the Red Dagger a "thing", there, though?
If it is, kudos for fitting them in even if it took a bit (might have wanted to have a side-story for about 5 minutes an episode, or after-credits, just to introduce them and their operations in Pakistan before this episode, but that's a really minor pacing concern).
If not, they're SUPER shoehorned in, especially when the older master dies nearly immediately. There's the pacing concern. That's not about what's here, it's just about shifting some things around so it's not just all INFODUMP OH GOD FIGHT ARGH BLARGH I'M DEAD.
There's no Norman Osborn, Tech Mogul in the MCU proper.Yeah but it doesn't mean the same people are in ever universe?
America is, so far, the only person with no other counterparts but there's perfectly possible other universes were there isn't a tony stark or something.
Pretty sure green goblin states there's no Osborn in the MCU proper
There might be a Norman Osborn: Hot Dog Vendor in the MCU, making a decent wage with his cart in Times Square or something. Could be hilarious to have the MCU Peter grab a chili dog on the swing one day and go "uhhh, what?" I'd get Defoe to come in to be on-screen for three seconds and not give Peter time to go back and check.
We can also presume there's universes where Person A doesn't exist because they got hit by a car in a tragic accident when they were 4 years old or whatever, too. The universes twist and weave and where they diverge, they tend to find a way to echo each other, even without the TVA.
That's not explicitly stated, but it seems pretty obvious to me, at least. That's how variants come to be.