Who Is Blackheart? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Blackheart is a Marvel comic book character, with over 172 comic issue appearances. Blackheart is the son of Mephisto, and being so, planned to seize his father's power and succeeded.

Who is Blackheart?

If Mephisto is obviously the devil, then Blackheart is the quintessential son of Satan. Blackheart is Mephisto 's son, an evil mystical creature that plots to take his father's throne and rule all of Mephisto's Realm! Origin A certain area, Christ's Crown, was filled with evil over the years. There were many murders, rapes, muggings-for some reason, it was filled with it. This drew the attention of Mephisto. The Hell-Lord had been looking for a partner anyway, so he had an idea-he used the combined evil in the area to create a divinely empowered son- Blackheart. Blackheart wasn't as powerful as his father, but was amazingly strong and had the same penchant for gathering souls of the innocent. Mephisto taught him in his brand of evil, teaching what evil was and how to do it right. For example, killing innocents is easy, getting an innocent to kill is truly evil.

Key facts

Blackheart is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "Blackheart!". The character is published by Marvel. With 172 recorded issue appearances, Blackheart ranks among the most featured characters in comics.