Ironheart Trailer Reveals Magic-Infused Iron Man Suit, Sparking Fresh Speculation Marvel Will Finally Introduce Mephisto

Marvel has dropped a caller trailer for upcoming Disney+ amusement Ironheart that reveals a magic-powered Iron Man-style suit for heroine Riri Williams.

The teaser besides showcases a mates of allies for Williams (Dominique Thorne), including Riri's precocious person Natalie (This Is Us' Lyric Ross) who the inventor brings backmost arsenic an AI hologram, and a quality played by Solo: A Star Wars Story's Alden Ehrenreich.

But the trailer's biggest uncover is Williams crafting a caller Iron Man suit that fuses her ain technological genius with the benignant of magic we've antecedently lone seen wielded by witches and wizards similar Wanda Maximoff and Doctor Strange. And it's this uncover that has present reignited long-standing rumors of Ironheart yet being the spot we archetypal spot the MCU's mentation of Mephisto.

If it feels similar Ironheart has been a portion coming, well, that's due to the fact that it has. First announced by Marvel successful 2020 arsenic a spin-off from the then-upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the bid was changeable successful 2022 and has been sat waiting for merchandise ever since.

While not portion of Ironheart's officially-announced cast, aggregate reports from Deadline successful precocious 2022 claimed that Borat prima Sacha Baron Cohen had filmed for the bid successful a concealed role, believed to beryllium that of fan-favourite comic publication villain Mephisto.

So far, however, Mephisto has been kept nether wraps — but the show's blending of exertion and magic has agelong hinted astatine thing much fantastical bubbling nether its MIT-set surface. Indeed, earlier looks astatine Ironheart person focused connected Williams' narration with Parker "The Hood" Robbins (Hamilton's Anthony Ramos), different acquainted quality from Marvel comics who looks acceptable to enactment arsenic her gateway to magic use.

Comic publication fans volition cognize The Hood arsenic a villainous criminal, with superpowers gained from wearing a magical, well, hood. Fans fishy Robbins' narration with Williams to deteriorate passim the series, turning him from state to adversary, possibly done continued temptation by a greater magical power.

Who could this be? Well, each fingers constituent to Mephisto, a quality who has agelong been expected to crook up successful the MCU, arsenic acold backmost arsenic celebrated Disney+ bid Wandavision. In the comics, The Hood gets akin powers from Dormammu, the demonic entity already seen wrong the MCU during the archetypal Doctor Strange movie. But the consciousness present is that Marvel has not formed Baron Cohen to instrumentality connected the mantle of that quality — and instead, Dormammu's relation volition beryllium taken by different devilish foe.

Also, Mephisto likes hanging astir successful his underpants, which would acceptable with the Borat star.

Ironheart debuts with its archetypal 3 episodes disposable via Disney+ successful conscionable a mates of weeks, connected June 24, 2025.

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