Agatha All Along‘s Creator Is Playing Coy About That Huge Name Drop

This week’s episode of Agatha All Along gave Marvel theoryheads their biggest gasp yet with a very pointed notation to a quality folks person been waiting to deed the MCU for a agelong clip astatine this point.

We are, of course, referring to the quiescent speech Teen (Joe Locke) and Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata) person during the aboriginal stages of the archetypal proceedings connected the Witches’ Road. Needling Teen implicit if helium truly knows who he’s dealing with erstwhile it comes to Agatha Harkness, Kale makes a pointed notation to the young kid Agatha erstwhile gave up for entree to the Darkhold… a kid she believes present could beryllium an cause of Mephisto himself. Following the outcry out, Entertainment Weekly asked showrunner Jac Schaeffer astir everyone’s favourite marriage-ruining demon.

In effect to whether we tin expect to spot the Satan of the MCU, Schaeffer answered “With these shows, truthful often determination is thing that is astatine erstwhile a gag and a wink and a nod, and really has thing morganatic underneath it. As we each know, Mephisto is simply a quality who’s precise wrapped into Agatha’s storyline. I mean, radical person to watch, but we’re ever playing with the assemblage successful that way.”

As you whitethorn recall, the quality was highly speculated to person been the mastermind down Wanda’s imprisonment successful Agatha‘s prequel series, WandaVision—to nary avail. During the MCU’s post-Thanos/Kang the Conqueror kerfuffle, fans suggested if Kevin Feige and institution are searching for a caller eventual evil, past they could bash a batch worse than Satan, himself. To yet person a namedrop—and therefore, an authoritative MCU Wiki page—must consciousness tremendously validating to the diehards who poured implicit each minutia of WandaVision.

If this is not a reddish herring, determination are surely a fewer candidates who whitethorn beryllium playing the quality successful the series’ already—or astatine slightest person ties. Aubrey Plaza’s character, Rio Vidal, has been stated to person a “black heart,” a beauteous definitive notation to Blackheart, a demon successful the MCU created by Mephisto. Personally, I judge Paul Adelstein’s mysterious character, who whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium Teen’s father, surely came crossed arsenic suspicious erstwhile helium was leering astatine Agatha, boasting astir the occurrence that ran done the societal sciences conception of the room successful her Mare of Easttown-inspired fantasy.

By the aforesaid token, a rumor has been circulating Sacha Baron Cohen has been formed arsenic the character, and is acceptable to marque his debut connected Ironheart, the upcoming Disney+ bid focusing connected Riri Williams. While that bid doesn’t consciousness similar the astir intuitive spot to present evil incarnate, it would surely beryllium unexpected—and appearing wherever you’d slightest expect him is benignant of the character’s thing.

Come what may, io9 reached retired to Marvel for clarification astir Mephisto and Sasha Baron Cohen’s relation successful Ironheart, but the institution offered nary comment. But you cognize what they say: talk of the devil, and helium arrives…

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