Ironheart's First 3 Episodes Drop a Huge Hint Towards the Magical Character Everyone's Waiting to See in the MCU

With the archetypal 3 episodes of Ironheart present available, fans are much definite than ever that Marvel volition yet present a long-awaited quality earlier the bid is done.

After instrumentality speculation that classical Marvel villain Mephisto mightiness look successful erstwhile magical MCU projects specified arsenic Wandavision and Agatha: All Along, his accomplishment successful Ironheart present seems each but assured.

Ironheart's street-level villain The Hood, played by Hamilton's Anthony Ramos, is presently shown to beryllium gathering supernatural powers from an chartless source, astatine the outgo of his assemblage dilatory decaying. "It's the terms I've got to wage for what helium did to me," The Hood says astatine 1 constituent — which fans are taking arsenic a wide motion to immoderate benignant of woody with the devil.

Making devilish deals is benignant of Mephisto's thing, and if the amusement needed to spell it retired adjacent clearer, look nary further than the country towards the extremity of the show's 2nd episode, wherever heroine Riri Williams stands successful beforehand of a partition covered successful posters for Faust.

Faust, oregon Doctor Faustus, is simply a legendary German communicative of a antheral who makes a woody with the devil, exchanging his psyche for impermanent pleasures, astatine the outgo of yet becoming enslaved. The antheral interacts with the Devil via a quality named Mephistopheles, oregon successful immoderate aboriginal adaptations, simply Mephisto.

As hints go, it's astir arsenic blatant arsenic it gets — and it has not gone implicit the heads of MCU fans.

MEPHISTO is DEFINITELY being officially introduced to the MCU…. “Faust” is simply a German poem astir a Doctor who makes a pact with the Devil 😈 #Ironheart #MCU #MarvelStudios pic.twitter.com/TvNTj1Bt5Z

Mephisto Confirmed successful “Ironheart” 👀 That poster successful the BTS shot? Way excessively revealing.
For those who don’t know:
In the communicative of Faust, the quality makes a woody with Mephistopheles, a demon, to merchantability his psyche successful speech for cognition and power.#Faust #Mephisto #Ironheart pic.twitter.com/zKLaYTfkYs

There person agelong been reports that Ironheart secretly stars Mephisto, with Deadline antecedently pegging Borat histrion Sacha Baron Cohen arsenic playing the character's MCU version, via a premix of live-action show and CGI.

While not portion of Ironheart's officially-announced cast, Deadline reported successful precocious 2022 that Baron Cohen had filmed scenes for Ironheart successful a concealed role, believed to beryllium that of Mephisto. To date, Disney has kept quiescent astir the actor's engagement — though precocious near a cheeky hint wrong the series' occurrence usher that pointed to erstwhile fans should expect his arrival.

Earlier this week, Black Panther manager Ryan Coogler linked Ironheart's communicative with that of Marvel's adjacent mega blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday, adjacent though the bid was filmed earlier Robert Downey Jr.'s incarnation of Doctor Doom was publically confirmed.

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