Aside from the occasional Doctor Strange film or a one-off Disney+ outing like Werewolf by Night or Agatha All Along, the MCU hasn't fully engaged with the supernatural side of the Marvel Universe. The franchise can’t seem to get Blade off the ground, the Thor movies strongly imply that the Asgardians are a technologically advanced alien race, and although Mephisto (the closest thing Marvel has to a literal Satan archetype) was introduced in Ironheart, he has yet to become a villain of note. Even though the Marvel Universe on the page is filled with demons and vampires and werewolves and supernatural creatures of all sorts, thus far the movies have been particularly interested in the cosmic side of things with little focus on much else.
However, that wasn’t the case for one underrated Marvel property: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the ABC series that debuted in 2013. Across its seven-season run, the show ventured into various different corners of the MCU, including the supernatural, introducing the Darkhold (the ancient mystical tome that corrupts the Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) in season 4. But that same season introduced an even bigger supernatural presence to the MCU: Gabriel Luna as Robbie Reyes, the fifth Ghost Rider in the comics and the first canon appearance of the character in the cinematic universe…although the recent announcement of a new Ghost Rider movie just might call that status into question.
