Marvel's Big TV Teases: Will Mephisto Go the Way of the Power Broker, Hulk's Son, Super Skrull G'iah…?
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.
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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 and stepsister, 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 '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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