Marvel's Big TV Teases: Will Mephisto Go The Way Of The Power Broker, Hulk's Son, Super Skrull G'iah...?
The following contains spoilers from... well, every MCU television series that has streamed on Disney+ thus far.
The season finale of Marvel Television's Ironheart introduced — at long last, after four-and-a-half years of teases — the devilish baddie that is Mephisto, as played by Sacha Baron Cohen.
But given the track record of big Marvel TV show teases failing to have "legs" in the ongoing MCU, we must wonder: Will Mephisto ever be seen again?
That Ironheart finale not only put a face (...or two) to Mephisto, it left us with the upsetting realization that hero Riri Williams (played by Dominique Thorne) had made a literal deal with said devil, to get back her dearly departed best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross).
Ironheart, though, has yet to be renewed, and the way that the series — which wrapped filming back in late 2022 — was slow-walked onto our screens has many leery of Marvel's future plans for Riri & Co. (Looking at TVLine's own backstage data, reader engagement with Ironheart was on par with Daredevil: Born Again, which famously never cracked Nielsen's Top 10 streaming chart, and it put up barely one-third of Agatha All Along's numbers.)
How worried should fans be that Ironheart's loose threads will never be tied up? Let's revisit many other MCU TV shows' big teases, and how/if they ever got resolved....
| SHOW | FINALE DATE | THE BIG TEASE(S) | FOLLOW-UP? |
| WandaVision | 3/5/2021 | Wanda went a bit crazy after "losing" her sons; White Vision is out roaming the world | 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness turned Wanda into full-on villain; upcoming Disney+ series will continue Vision's quest |
| The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | 4/23/2021 | Sam Wilson is now the true Captain America; Sharon Carter is the villainous 'Power Broker'! | 2025's Captain America: Brave New World continued Sam's story; Sharon has not been mentioned/heard from since |
| Loki (Season 1) | 7/14/2021 | There's an alternate timeline ruled by Kang the Conqueror! | 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania further teased Kang threat (before the MCU got de-Kang'd by Jonathan Majors' legal issues) |
| Hawkeye | 12/22/2021 | Wilson Fisk is still crime-ing, maybe minus an eye | Fisk resurfaced, with a scar, in Disney+'s Echo |
| Moon Knight | 5/4/2022 | Marc Spector has a second alter, cab driver Jake! | [Crickets] |
| Ms. Marvel | 7/13/2022 | Carol Danvers abruptly trades places with teenage (mutant?) Kamala Khan | 2023's The Marvels explained the Carol/Kamala/Monica Rambeau switcheroos |
| She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | 8/13/2022 | Matt Murdock is still Daredeviling; Emil Blonsky aka Abomination was freed from prison by Wong and brought to Kamar-Taj; Hulk has a son, Skaar, from his time on Sakaar | Matt/Daredevil resurfaced in Disney+'s Echo; Blonsky/Abomination and Skaar have not been mentioned since |
| Secret Invasion | 7/26/2023 | Dead Talos' daughter G'iah has the powers of Drax, Hulk, Thor and many others — even the mighty Captain Marvel; Rhodey had been a Skrull "for a while" | G'iah hasn't been mentioned since — even in The Marvels, which ignored the entirety of Secret Invasion; the long-delayed Armor Wars TV series-turned-movie by some accounts will address Rhodey's "lost" time |
| Loki (Season 2) | 11/9/2023 | Loki as God of Stories now holds together the Time Loom's dying branches | Loki hasn't been mentioned since, not even in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine, which had a TVA/branched timelines element — but Tom Hiddleston is in the Avengers: Doomsday cast |
| Echo | 1/9/2024 | Wilson Fisk has eyes on the NYC mayoralty | Daredevil: Born Again followed Fisk's election/first acts as NYC mayor |
| Agatha All Along | 10/30/2024 | Agatha and Billy Maximoff unite to find Billy's twin | By some accounts, Tommy may figure into the upcoming Vision series; there are no plans for Agatha Season 2 per se |
| Daredevil: Born Again | 4/15/2025 | Matt is forming an "army" to fight fascist Mayor Fisk | Jessica Jones may be a part of said army, given that Marvel vet Krysten Ritter appears in Born Again Season 2 |
| Ironheart | 7/1/2025 | Riri made a deal with the devil aka Mephisto | TBD! |
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