Mephisto Predicted The X-Men’s Downfall on Krakoa Thirty Years Ago
The primordial being Mephisto is known as the manifestation of evil in Marvel Comics, and he accidentally predicted the potential fall of the X-Men's new nation of Krakoa decades ago. In Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr.'s Daredevil run, Mephisto remarks on how shortsighted humanity's vision of evil is, something that the mutants of Krakoa have fallen prey to in recent publications.
Mephisto is an immortal primordial demonic entity, first introduced in The Silver Surfer #3 by Stan Lee and John Buscema. He rules a fire-and-brimstone realm he calls Hell, although he has made it clear that he is not the «Devil,» he lets humans believe he is the Christian concept of Satan. Mephisto presides over Hell by collecting souls from humans, forcing them to make pacts with him, and then trapping their souls in the bodies of «demons» in his domain. While Mephisto has not interacted with the mutant nation of Krakoa, at least not that we know of yet, it would be fascinating to hear his opinion on their new found immortality, and what constitutes as a mutant soul when they can be resurrected.
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In Daredevil #278 — written by the legendary Ann Nocenti with gorgeous art by John Romita Jr. — Mephisto is overseeing his realm and waxing poetic on humanity's perception of Hell to his fabricated son Blackheart. He whines that the human's version of the Underworld "is a very boring place" and that humanity often only sees true evil as "one master, dominating a slave race." But in fact, real evil has a "startling range" and does not always appear as egregious acts of violence or terror. In the X-Men's current era they are fighting against enemies on multiple fronts, focusing on the big
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