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Ironheart: Will The Upcoming Marvel Show Introduce Mephisto To The MCU? Explored
Ironheart trailer at D23 suggests tech vs. supernatural showdown for Riri Williams in upcoming series. Rumors swirl about Mephisto's possible MCU debut, especially with Sacha Baron Cohen casting.
The trailer for Ironheart dropped at the D23 Expo, a series from Disney+ and Marvel Television, to mark a whole new trajectory for Riri Williams. She is one of the most powerful heroes around, whose help has already been extended to fight against Namor's forces. This seems like a face-off between advanced technology and the supernatural world, possibly introducing the devil himself, Mephisto. Williams, on her part, has grown to be quite an active hero within the MCU, extending her help to Shuri and the people of Wakanda.
One of the bigger villains in the Marvel Universe, long rumored for years, Mephisto first started with Wandavision and picked up again when Sacha Baron Cohen joined the upcoming Ironheart series. A leaked trailer from the D23 conference and the reveal of Parker Robbins, aka The Hood, brought technology versus supernatural showdowns, begging one more time the question: will the Ironheart series finally bring on Mephisto?.
Mephisto's introduction in the MCU
With Mephisto's wide range in the Marvel Universe, he may well make an appearance in the MCU. Another supernatural villain, The Hood, draws his power from the cloak and boots of a Nisanti demon. He has teamed up with Dormammu and Loki in an attempt to gain more power for himself. An interesting storyline would be his desire to be the new Kingpin of the Marvel villain underworld, and a deal with Mephisto for power could certainly be in the cards as a result.
Inclusion of the likes of Doom, Wanda's Darkhold, and addition in Ironheart means that Mephisto has to come into the MCU now. That is where Ironheart can be used, a technological hero pitted against Parker Robbins' supernatural weapons in order to show him the darker side of this world of the supernatural.
With Mephisto's involvement, Marvel's MCU is looking to make some big moves in including Ghost Rider, Midnight Sons, and other supernatural heroes. It would be nice if the character confronted her inner and literal demons like Mephisto while trying to find her place and bring her hero Ironheart to life as a nice counterpart to her evolution in the MCU. There has been no confirmation of such a move.
A brief about Mephisto
Mephisto is an extra-dimensional Demon who rules a fiery pocket dimension that he calls Hell or Hades although it is neither the Hell of the Christian religion nor the Hades ruled by Hades, the Olympian god of the dead. Mephisto calls his extra-dimensional realm hell in order to exploit Earth's human beings' belief in a single being of absolute evil, who is often referred to as Satan, who rules such a realm.
Mephisto resembles the traditional visual conception of the devil. He also allows himself to be called names that human beings give to their conceptions of devils, such as Mephisto, a shortened form of Mephistopheles, the name given to the devil in the Faust legends and of a possible fallen angel.
Mephisto is a Class Two Demon and possesses vast supernatural power, which is apparently inherent within him. He is energized by sources of evil in the human world. Mephisto stated that he and his realm are one, with his power being directly connected to his realm, and diminishes over time spent away from it. Therefore, he usually sends demonic agents to do his bidding. Mephisto's tremendous power has been compared to Odin's massive power.
Despite his immense power, Mephisto does have several significant limitations. He is unable to force the subjugation of any sentient beings will to his own without that being's deliberate submission. Likewise, he cannot make the same kind of deal with the same person he has done before. Moreover, Mephisto cannot directly affect beings from other realities, as he cannot harm Norman Osborn from Earth-44145 by claiming he was outside his jurisdiction.
He is also incapable of reading the thoughts of any sentient being. Mephisto's powers are linked with his extra-dimensional realm and his powers rapidly decrease the longer he is away from his realm. As a result, he typically uses or manipulates others into performing whatever plan he has in mind. Also, despite continuously trying to get any noble soul into his realm and possession, he must need to corrupt them first, or otherwise, he will be, ironically, injured in the process.
If Mephisto is usurped from his position, incapacitated, or even destroyed to the point of being unable to reestablish, all his mystical actions, including his deals with their victims, begin to crumble and fall apart. This also seems to apply to their victims, as their agreements will also lose effect and break if their deaths were not predetermined in terms of the pact they established with Mephisto.
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