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8 Characters That Matt Smith Could Play In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Matt Smith recently made headlines when he stated his interest in having a role in a Marvel movie. Of course, this sent shockwaves across the Internet, resulting in everyone and their mother putting in their own two cents about whom the former 11th Doctor should play. It was only a matter of time, too. Playing the Doctor gets you a large amount of nerd cred and Marvel hasn’t been shy about courting former Doctors for their projects. The 9th Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, played the villain in Thor: The Dark World (who was unfortunately so unmemorable that it’s not worth mentioning his name), and the 10th Doctor, David Tennant, played Kilgrave in the first season of Jessica Jones and cemented himself into one of the club of the MCU's best baddies.

Mephisto

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Would you believe Matt Smith as the Devil? That’s basically Mephisto in a nutshell.

He’s an extremely powerful demonic entity who likes to go around causing trouble for everyone in the Marvel universe and also has a wide range of powers – he’s immortal and he likes to acquire souls to fuel his magic by making pacts. As mentioned before, The Avengers are going to need a strong villain to fight in the future after Thanos, and Mephisto is the type of world-ending threat that could unite Earth’s Mightiest Heroes once again.

Everyone knows that playing the Devil always requires two different approaches. He should be charming and suave when he needs to be, making his demonic offers and bargains appear enticing to the weak-willed, but he also needs to be terror-incarnate when he’s angry. Anyone familiar with Smith’s work knows the actor is more than capable of handling such a role.

The best part about this character is that he fits with just about every Marvel hero and he could feasibly be inserted into just about every movie. If Matt Smith really wanted to play a villain, there should be no higher goal than Mephisto.