Marvel Reveals Two Shocking DC Villains Are Mephisto in Disguise
Warning: Contains spoilers for Avengers#55
Marvel Comics' mischievous demon lord, Mephisto, has his dark tendrils stretching everywhere, even as far as the DC Universe. Mephisto has assembled an army of alternate versions of himself throughout the Multiverse, and two of these look exactly like a pair of famous DC Comics villains.
Mephisto is the most dangerous member of a race of extradimensional creatures known as «Demons,» whose origins are lost in time. Mephisto lords over a pocket dimension he calls Hell, where he traps the souls of mortals who submit their will to his by agreeing to pacts or deals. For this reason, over the course of the ages Mephisto has tempted mortals, appearing under many guises, mostly modeled to resemble human depictions of the Devil to reinforce their belief in one single being of absolute evil. As a creature of lies and deceit, Mephisto is constantly scheming to gain more power, which has led him to antagonize many heroes and villains including Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Doom (who has a personal, bitter feud with him), and most recently the Avengers.
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Mephisto has set his sight on conquering all Earths in the Multiverse. He realizes that to stop the heroes from constantly foiling his plans he has to cull the «Heroic Age» in its cradle by killing the first group of defenders of the planet, the Prehistoric Avengers, in every reality. To do that, he has enlisted the help of Doom Supreme and his Multiversal Masters of Evil, but Mephisto has plans of his own. He has been assembling his own group, the Council of Reds, a gathering of all the alternate versions of Mephisto from throughout the Multiverse. It is yet
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