As a seasoned Marvel fan with decades of comic book history under my belt, I can confidently say that Mephisto is a character as enigmatic and intriguing as the mystical realms he hails from. His ties to some of our favorite heroes, like Wiccan, Speed, Ghost Rider, and even Spider-Man’s Green Goblin, make him a figure of both fascination and dread in the Marvel Universe.
Discussing Mephisto, the devilish character from Marvel comics, has been a hot topic among fans ever since the release of ‘WandaVision’. Known by various names such as Mephistopheles, Master of Malice, Legion, Lucifer, Lord of Darkness, and even Satan, Mephisto is a demon who feeds on souls and has connections to characters like Johnny Blaze’s Ghost Rider, the Young Avengers Wiccan and Speed, and the Green Goblin from Spider-Man. In the latest episode 3 of ‘Agatha All Along’, the witch Jennifer Kale (played by Sasheer Zamata) mentioned him.
Ever since I first encountered Mephisto in Silver Surfer #3, penned by Stan Lee and John Buscema back in 1968, this enigmatic figure has crossed swords with a host of Marvel heroes, from Norrin Radd to Ghost Rider, Thor, Doctor Strange, and Doctor Doom. Yet, it’s his entanglement with Agatha Harkness the witch and the Scarlet Witch that truly stands out. This intriguing tale played a pivotal role in the comic book sagas that led to ‘Avengers Disassembled’ and ‘House of M’. Notably, parts of this storyline were beautifully brought to life in the TV series ‘WandaVision’.
In issue 276 of Fantastic Four from 1984, Elspeth Cromwell, the exorcist, incorrectly identifies Sue and Reed Richards as a witch and warlock. In her effort to expel the “demons” she’s supposedly sensing, she inadvertently summons Mephisto, intending to torment them forever. However, when Sorcerer Supreme Stephen Strange liberates their son Franklin from his captivity, the child, who possesses destructive mutant abilities, annihilates Mephisto in issue 277 of Fantastic Four.
Centuries following her reign as a witch leader in New Salem, Colorado, the Richards family employed Agatha as a nanny for Franklin. At this juncture, her son Nicholas Scratch, a sorcerer, dispatched his offspring to pursue their grandmother: Vertigo, Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Reptilla, Thornn, and Vakume, collectively recognized as Salem’s Seven. The Fantastic Four successfully vanquished the Seven, but once Agatha deprived the coven of their powers, they resurfaced to torment her again in the comic book series The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, issue #3, culminating in her tragic demise by burning at the stake in 1985.
Later on, the character Agatha assists her apprentice – Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch – in overpowering Salem’s Seven. This happened after Wanda and her husband, the Vision, decided to leave the Avengers and settle down in the suburbs of New Jersey. Following the events depicted in “Vision Quest,” where the synthezoid character underwent a memory wipe, disassembly, and reassembly as the emotionless, all-white Vision, Agatha reappears (physically) in the 1989 issue #51 of Avengers West Coast. Dismissing her own death as an “annoyance,” Agatha expresses her worry towards Wanda about their twin sons, Tommy and Billy Maximoff, who were born in the 12th issue of The Vision and the Scarlet Witch from 1986.
Another shocking revelation: Agatha reveals to Wanda that her children disappear from existence whenever they’re not in her thoughts. The trio is attacked by the demon hordes of Master Pandemonium, a demon-limbed supervillain who believed he was collecting pieces of his splintered soul he traded to Mephisto as he lay dying in a car crash. In reality, the demon tricked Master Pandemonium into seeking parts of Mephisto‘s soul, which was fragmented by Franklin in Fantastic Four #277.
When Master Pandemonium abducts Wanda’s kids, Agatha reveals the actual facts regarding the twins: they are pieces of Mephisto.
Wanda yearned throughout her life for a normal life, something her mutant abilities had always prevented. Her deepest wish was to have a family, seeing them as the epitome of peace and happiness. Due to this intense longing, she experienced what in a human woman would be considered hysterical or imagined pregnancy. Typically, there’s no child born in such cases… but Wanda’s ability to manipulate probabilities gave birth to Thomas and William, twin boys who fulfilled her dream. Since her power cannot create true life, she unknowingly reached out to gather anything that could serve as souls for the newborns. What she acquired, still weak from their recent separation, were two fragments of Mephisto.
Mephisto collects his lost fragments back into him, thereby eliminating the twins from reality. Agatha taps into Wanda’s mind and emotions to vanquish Mephisto and release the Avengers from their Hellish prisons. Since the twins were still bound by the enchantment that Wanda cast to produce them, Agatha wipes the boys from Wanda’s memory, shielding her from the pain of losing her sons.
In the narrative of ‘Avengers West Coast’, particularly during the ‘Darker than Scarlet’ storyline, Wanda experiences a mental collapse that leads her to lash out at her fellow teammates. This escalates to such an extent that the Avengers disband in the ‘Avengers Disassembled’ phase when Wanda is suddenly reminded of her lost children. Later on, it’s disclosed that Wanda’s erased twins have been reborn as Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) and Tommy Shepherd (Speed), who are part of the Young Avengers team.
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2024-09-26 05:39