{"id":178397,"date":"2025-07-02T22:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/ironheart-introduces-long-awaited-marvel-villain\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:59:01","slug":"ironheart-introduces-long-awaited-marvel-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/ironheart-introduces-long-awaited-marvel-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironheart introduces long-awaited Marvel villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ironheart creator Chinaka Hodge has said that the Disney+ show&#8217;s introduction of a long-awaited and much-teased Marvel villain &#8220;was not my decision alone.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7iY8mFlMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/V7iY8mFlMM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qFOEgP8QFN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qFOEgP8QFN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IGN (@IGN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IGN\/status\/1940406645483323861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The final episode of Ironheart introduced a long-awaited villain to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p><b>Spoilers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/>It\u2019s Mephisto played by Sacha Baron Cohen. In the comics he\u2019s the Marvel equivalent to the Devil  (or a close approximation of) and he\u2019s the guy who Spider-Man sold his marriage to.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mephisto has finally revealed himself in the MCU <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ironheart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Ironheart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIadNJ9drR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jIadNJ9drR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Culture Base (@Culture3ase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Culture3ase\/status\/1940260360189354411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Creator Chinaka Hodge said on introducing Mephisto, \u201cIt was not my decision alone. I was empowered by Marvel to make that decision&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what will happen next with the character or with Sasha in the MCU. But as a fan, I&#8217;m really hoping to see him make lots of appearances.&#8221;<a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IGN\/status\/1940406645483323861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Culture3ase\/status\/1940260360189354411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/130821979.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironheart creator Chinaka Hodge has said that the Disney+ show&#8217;s introduction of a long-awaited and much-teased Marvel villain &#8220;was not my decision alone.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/V7iY8mFlMM pic.twitter.com\/qFOEgP8QFN \u2014 IGN (@IGN) July 2, 2025 The final episode of Ironheart introduced a long-awaited villain to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spoilers It\u2019s Mephisto played by Sacha Baron Cohen. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}