Agatha All Alongside’s Creator Is Enjoying Coy About That Large Title Drop

This week’s episode of Agatha All Along gave Marvel theoryheads their greatest gasp but with a really pointed reference to a personality folks have been waiting to hit the MCU for a very long time at this level.

We’re, in fact, referring to the quiet dialog Teen (Joe Locke) and Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata) have in the course of the early levels of the primary trial on the Witches’ Highway. Needling Teen over if he actually is aware of who he’s coping with relating to Agatha Harkness, Kale makes a pointed reference to the younger little one Agatha as soon as gave up for entry to the Darkhold… a toddler she believes now could possibly be an agent of Mephisto himself. Following the shout out, Entertainment Weekly requested showrunner Jac Schaeffer about everybody’s favourite marriage-ruining demon.

In response as to whether we are able to anticipate to see the Devil of the MCU, Schaeffer answered “With these exhibits, so usually there’s something that’s directly a joke and a wink and a nod, and truly has one thing official beneath it. As everyone knows, Mephisto is a personality who’s very wrapped into Agatha’s storyline. I imply, folks have to look at, however we’re at all times taking part in with the viewers in that method.”

As you might recall, the character was extremely imagined to have been the mastermind behind Wanda’s imprisonment in Agatha‘s prequel sequence, WandaVision—to no avail. Throughout the MCU’s post-Thanos/Kang the Conqueror kerfuffle, followers urged if Kevin Feige and firm are trying to find a brand new final evil, then they may do so much worse than Devil, himself. To lastly obtain a namedrop—and due to this fact, an official MCU Wiki web page—should really feel tremendously validating to the diehards who poured over each minutia of WandaVision.

If this isn’t a pink herring, there are actually a couple of candidates who could also be taking part in the character within the sequence’ already—or at least have ties. Aubrey Plaza’s character, Rio Vidal, has been said to have a “black coronary heart,” a fairly definitive reference to Blackheart, a demon within the MCU created by Mephisto. Personally, I consider Paul Adelstein’s mysterious character, who could or might not be Teen’s father, actually got here throughout as suspicious when he was leering at Agatha, boasting in regards to the hearth that ran via the social sciences part of the library in her Mare of Easttown-inspired fantasy.

By the identical token, a rumor has been circulating Sacha Baron Cohen has been forged because the character, and is ready to make his debut on Ironheart, the upcoming Disney+ sequence specializing in Riri Williams. Whereas that sequence doesn’t really feel like essentially the most intuitive place to introduce evil incarnate, it could actually be surprising—and showing the place you’d least anticipate him is type of the character’s factor.

Come what could, io9 reached out to Marvel for clarification about Mephisto and Sasha Baron Cohen’s position in Ironheart, however the firm supplied no remark. However you understand what they are saying: converse of the satan, and he arrives…

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