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So long as I can appeal to man's basest instincts—to his greed, his envy, his hatreds and aggression, his fear and distrust of his fellow man. So long as man takes the law into his own hands, both in the streets and on the field of battle. And, so long as crime covers the planet like a deadly, creeping fungus. Then, only Mephisto shall reap the final, eternal reward! Thus, when I encounter a force for good, resolute and powerful...I have but one single goal: it must be destroyed!
~ Mephisto to the Silver Surfer.

Mephisto, sometimes using the name Mephistopheles or even Satan (among many others), is one of the main antagonists in the Marvel Comics universe.

He is a powerful demonic shape-shifting being and one of several such demons that feed off humanity's belief in The Devil so as to masquerade as Satan himself. In reality, however, Mephisto's origin seems to lie with the primordial Elder-Gods that ruled earth before being banished by Atum the God-Eater. The exact nature of this origin varies from story to story but tends to vary between the old gods becoming corrupt and the demons being formed by the already plentiful corruption found in the Elder-Gods. He is an enemy to countless heroes across the Marvel Universe, but most notably, the arch enemy to Ghost Rider and Silver Surfer.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • He hands out deals to corrupt people into giving him their souls so they'll suffer a torturous afterlife in his realm forever, using loopholes by playing off their exact words without really playing fair at all. Examples are:
    • Curing Crash Simpson's cancer in exchange for Johnny Blaze selling his soul, only to have the former crash and die in a dangerous motorcycle stunt anyway.
    • Offering to tip a bartender by making him "immortal," but only figuratively by draining all his blood and using it as ink since words do technically last forever.
    • Taking Marlo Chandler's soul in her dreams with no possibly conceivable way of her knowing that it was real, and then nearly abducting her at her own wedding.
    • Threatening to kill Ulik's brother Horth if he doesn't fight Thor to the death, only to cast said brother into the pits of death just to hurt Thor's spirit before the fight even starts. Worse still, some Asgardian villagers are revealed to have died from falling debris as a direct result of the fight.
    • In Born, he offered a deal to Frank Castle to give him an everlasting war after seeing Frank's bloodlust and brutality as a person. However, it comes with a price ; the death of his loved ones. Although not directly involved in this, he's responsible for corrupting Frank's mind and turn him into a violence monster that he is.
    • Kidnapping and offering to free Silver Surfer's girlfriend Shalla-Bal if he destroys the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, while also teleporting her there in an attempt to make him kill her too. Thankfully, the Surfer sees through the act just in the nick of time, and Shalla-Bal lives.
    • Quite infamously, in One More Day, he manipulated Spider-Man to give up his marriage with Mary Jane in order to save Aunt May, which stopped the existence of their daughter.
  • He's a hideously abusive parent to his "son," Blackheart, who was created from centuries' worth of sin in the Christ's Crown for the sole purpose of being an evil monster like his father. To be specific, Blackheart's first story ends with his father crushing him (literally and repeatedly) before depowering him, and he even outright wishes death upon himself at one point in order to escape this torment. His next two stories end with said father actually eating him, regarding it as tough love.
  • He actively encourages Thanos to wipe out half the universe by snapping his fingers with the Infinity Gauntlet in order to win Mistress Death’s heart, only to later betray him by trying to take the Gauntlet for himself, pulling off his eviler than thou on Mephisto.
  • After Scarlet Witch creates two sons with a fragment of his soul, Mephisto eventually absorbs them back into himself and effectively kills them in front of her. Before being temporary, destroy them and set their souls free.
    • Avengers and Agatha decide to erase her memories of her kids because it's too painful. However, when she got her memory back, she went into deep depression, which led to Avengers Disassemble and House of M. Make him indirectly responsible for mutant genocide.
  • Tricked Miles Morales into making a deal with him that allowed him to reverse time to save Vin and Kamala from death. While Miles successfully rescued both of them, he failed to save the life of a civilian that he was able to save in original timeline instead.
  • He made a deal with Otto Octopus to resurrect him with the cause of forgetting Peter Parker memory and his own heroic deeds, and he will be in his original body instead of Peter's cloned body. Basically reverse him to his villainy.
  • He personally targets all Spider-People because he hates the goodness in their hearts.
  • Despite being a demon, nothing indicates he's Made of Evil since he makes up multiple stories about how he was born. Furthermore, Volume 3 of New Mutants shows him going on normal romantic dates with Magma, and he even enjoys himself during their relationship until she breaks up with him for not helping her during a crisis, at which point Mephisto became controlling and possessive and attempted to force Magma to get back together with him before being scared off by the Dísir.
  • Overall, Mephisto is easily one of the most heinous villains in all of Marvel, if not number one. His long list of atrocities has had a huge, devastating impact on other universes even outside of Earth-616, and he's been committing them since literally the dawn of time. And, so long as there's evil in the world, he'll always come back from his "destruction" at the hands of other heroes.

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Comics (Earth-616)
Annihilus | Arnim Zola | Baron Wolfgang von Strucker | Bullseye | Carnage | Dormammu | Heinrich Himmler | Herr Kleiser | Klaw | Knull | Magus | Mephisto | Mister Sinister | Nitro | Norman Osborn | Purple Man | Red Skull | Shuma-Gorath | Ultron | Zyklon

Other Earths
Bruce Banner (Earth-807128 | Earth-9200) | Hank Pym (Earth-2149) | Norman Osborn (Earth-10021 | Earth-14154) | Reed Richards (Earth-1610) | Ultron (Earth-14622)

Movies
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow: Ultron
Avengers: Infinity War: Red Skull
Avengers: Endgame: Red Skull

Television
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Loki | Baron Zemo | Red Skull | Supreme Intelligence | Surtur
Avengers Assemble: Abomination | Hyperion | Nighthawk | Red Skull | Thanos | Ultron
What If?: Infinity Ultron | Ego

Video Games
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite: Ultron Sigma

Fanon
Marvel's Injustice Series: Green Goblin

See Also
Disney Pure Evils | Marvel Cinematic Universe Pure Evils | Spider-Man Pure Evils | The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Pure Evils | Venom Pure Evils

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Comics
Earth-616
Annihilus | Arnim Zola | Bullseye | Carnage | Green Goblin | Inspector Krahn | Klaw | Knull | Mephisto | Mister Brownstone | Nitro | Red Skull | The Thousand
Other Earths
Bruce Banner (Earth-807128 | Earth-9200) | Carnage (Earth-7642) | Henry Pym (Earth-2149) | Joker (Earth-7642) | Lex Luthor (Earth-3862) | Norman Osborn (Earth-10021 & Earth-14154) | Otto Octavius (Earth-90214) | Venom (Earth-70237) | Wadey Wilson (Earth-1610)

Movies
Spider-Man 3: Venom
Venom: Carlton Drake/Riot
Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio
Venom: Let There Be Carnage: Carnage
Venom: The Last Dance: Knull

Television
Spider-Man (1981): Red Skull
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends: Red Skull
Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Green Goblin (Earth-98311) | Herbert Landon | Baron Mordo | Dormammu | Carnage | Hobgoblin
The Spectacular Spider-Man: Green Goblin | Venom
Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Goblin | Abomination | Ultron

Novelizations
Spider-Man: Green Goblin

Video Games
Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin: Kingpin
Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage: Carnage
Spider-Man 3: Mad Bomber | Dr. Stillwell
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: Mysterio
Marvel's Spider-Man: Hammerhead | Screwball
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales: Simon Krieger
Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Flame

Scripts
Amazing Spider-Man: Otto Octavius

Fanon
Marvel's Injustice Series: Green Goblin

See Also
Avengers Pure Evils | Disney Pure Evils | Marvel Cinematic Universe Pure Evils | Sony Pictures Pure Evils | Venom Pure Evils

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Comics
Carnage | Jorge Valdez | Klaw | Knull | Marquis Radu | Mephisto | Norman Osborn

Movies
Spider-Man 3: Venom
Venom: Carlton Drake/Riot
Venom: Let There Be Carnage: Carnage
Venom: The Last Dance: Knull

See Also
Avengers Pure Evils | Sony Pictures Pure Evils | Spider-Man Pure Evils

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Comics
Abraxas | Annihilus | Klaw | Knull | Mephisto | Red Skull | Ultron

Other Earths
Bruce Banner (Earth-807128 | Earth-9200) | Reed Richards (Earth-1610)

Films
Fantastic Four (1994): Victor von Doom
Fantastic Four (2005): Victor von Doom
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: Victor von Doom
Fantastic Four (2015): Victor von Doom

TV Series
Fantastic Four (1994): Terrax

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Comics
Annihilus | Carnage | Dormammu | Knull | Magus | Mephisto | Red Skull | Ultron

Movies
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Ego
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: High Evolutionary

TV Series
Guardians of the Galaxy (TV Series): Thanos
What If...?: Infinity Ultron | Nova Prime | Yon Rogg | Ego

Video Games
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Magus | Thanos

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Comics
Annihilus | Arnim Zola | Bullyseye | Carnage | Dormammu | Knull | Maestro | Malekith the Accursed | Mephisto | Ultron

Movies
Thor: The Dark World: Malekith the Accursed

TV Series
What If: Infinity Ultron

Video Games
Thor: The Dark World: Malekith the Accursed

See Also
Avengers Pure Evils | Hulk Pure Evils

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Comics
Bullseye | Dormammu | Jigsaw | Mephisto | Nitro | Norman Osborn | Omega Red | Purple Man | Ultron

Movie
Kingpin | Bullseye

Fanon
Green Goblin

           Iron Man Vol 5 logo Pure Evils

Comics
Earth-616
Red Skull | Ultron | Dormammu | Omega Red | Mephisto | Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
Other Earths
Henry Pym (Earth-2149) | Norman Osborn | Reed Richards (Earth-1610)

Movies
Iron Man 3: Aldrich Killian

TV Series
What If: Infinity Ultron

Novelizations
Iron Man: Iron Monger

See Also
Disney Pure Evils | Marvel Cinematic Universe Pure Evils | Spider-Man Pure Evils | Guardians of the Galaxy Pure Evils | Hulk Pure Evils | Thor Pure Evils

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