Kevin Feige Says Mephisto Was By no means the Plan...

By the point Mephisto, performed by Sacha Baron Cohen, appeared on the finish of Ironheart to strike a sinister deal with Riri Williams, it felt nearly anticlimactic for Marvel followers. That’s as a result of it was lengthy anticipated that the character would seem on WandaVision, or maybe, when that didn’t occur, its witchy spin-off Agatha All Alongside. There have been certainly teases about it, nevertheless it wasn’t meant to be till Marvel’s most up-to-date collection—and that’s in response to Kevin Feige himself.

As reported by CBR, the Marvel boss got here clear about Mephisto in a latest roundtable interview.

“He was by no means a part of WandaVision … However the enthusiasm with which he was theorized on that actually was cool, and was enjoyable to observe, and he’s one other character that, pre-MCU, it might have been, ‘How do you (do Mephisto)? He’s the satan? How do you try this character?’ However he’s a formative character! He was an enormous a part of Thanos’s storyline within the comics. So once more, now that he’s right here, the potential is—the plan is obvious, theoretically, to make use of extra of him.”

“Theoretically,” Feige mentioned, however now that Mephisto is out of the bag, the subsequent place your thoughts goes is Spider-Man: Model New Day, given the character’s significance within the comedian ebook arc of the identical title. Although the story received’t be the identical (for one factor, there’s not a big-screen Peter and Mary Jane marriage to mess with but), actually some inspiration may be taken.

What do you suppose? Have been you anticipating to see Mephisto a lot earlier within the MCU?

Spider-Man: Model New Day hits theaters July 31, 2026.

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