There’s no phrase on a possible second season of Ironheart, and with it billed as a restricted sequence alongside the likes of Agatha All Alongside and Secret Invasion, its cliffhanger ending will probably need to be picked up elsewhere. What penalties Riri will face stay unclear, and though she’s acquired her BFF again, we don’t think about Aubrey Plaza’s Demise might be too pleased that Lyric Ross’ Natalie is again within the land of the residing.
Talking of Demise, she was notably launched in Agatha All Alongside, which is when Mephisto final acquired a wink within the MCU. This got here after followers relentlessly theorized the demon’s arrival in WandaVision. In actuality, Mephisto was first canonized within the MCU manner again in 2012’s The Avengers. Though not a direct point out, that film referenced how Mephisto had been aiding S.H.I.E.L.D. while dabbling with the Tesseract. After Mephisto was thought of as a possible Deadpool & Wolverine villain earlier than Hugh Jackman instructed Cassandra Nova, the bargaining Beelzebub has been a very long time coming.
Introduced in 1968’s Silver Surfer #3, Mephisto has had run-ins with everybody from Spider-Man to Physician Unusual. He was notably answerable for turning Harry and Norman Osborn, Otto Octavius, and even Phil Coulson into villains, additionally being concerned in Wanda Maximoff’s descent into insanity when he absorbed the souls of her kids earlier than “Home of M.” This meant many anticipated him to pop up in each WandaVision and Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity. Elsewhere within the comics, unique Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze acquired his powers by hanging a take care of the horned menace, which is why he appeared in each the Nicolas Cage-led Ghost Rider films – performed by Peter Fonda within the first film and Ciarán Hinds in 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Lastly, his love of bargaining noticed him strike a take care of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man to save lots of Aunt Might at the price of his marriage to Mary Jane Watson within the controversial “One Extra Day” arc.
It appears as if MCU is giving us its personal tackle Mephisto this with the Ironheart finale, though a extra conventional model of the character’s origin may nonetheless play out within the upcoming Spider-Man: Model New Day. Early experiences instructed Tom Holland’s fourth Spidey outing can be a street-level affair with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk/Kingpin as its massive unhealthy, till wild rumors claimed it could be a extra magical outing with Mephisto and Ghost Rider.
An already stacked solid for Avengers: Doomsday suggests there won’t be room for somebody like Mephisto because the Multiverse offers with the specter of Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom, however assuming the MCU isn’t reset, Mephisto might be a strong antagonist for one thing just like the long-rumored Midnight Sons mission or trigger Riri extra complications in a Younger Avengers outing. It simply so occurs there’s a Champions arc the place he strikes a take care of numerous younger heroes, whereas his son, Blackheart, possesses Riri.
Though some are anxious we gained’t see Mephisto once more for some time, his potential to be a Thanos-level massive unhealthy means he’s greater than definitely worth the wait.