Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of ‘Ironheart’Season 1 of Disney+’s Ironheart just aired its back half and closed out Riri Williams’s (Dominique Thorne) solo story on a note that has major implications for the entirety of the MCU. Mephisto (Sacha Baron Cohen) finally revealed himself in a last-minute stunner, marking the culmination of the young Black genius’s journey from working with technology in Chicago to clashing with magical forces that test the limits of machinery. He had a proposal to make to Riri, too. Despite knowing from The Hood (Anthony Ramos) what a deal with the devil can do to a person, she decides to take on whatever sinister consequences there are to bring back her dear friend Natalie. The actual Natalie, not the AI companion she accidentally created. With her character’s return to life and the implications of Mephisto’s presence, Lyric Ross has some thoughts on what comes next for Natalie and Riri, whether it be Season 2 or something else in the MCU.
