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Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07). His first major film role was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He gained wider attention for supporting roles in the final two films of the original The Hunger Games film series and in House of Cards, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). He is the first Black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category and the second Black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020). In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective, and in 2020, he starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the first season of the Netflix series Luke Cage (2016) and voiced Aaron Davis in the animated films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The movie opens with Matt Murdock and Peter Parker getting ready to face Mephisto alongside all of their friends. We see heroes like Luke Cage, Mr. Fantastic, Ironman, and Namor all getting ready to fight for their plane of existence. Once all the heroes get to the Underworld, they go war with the demons while Matt, Luke, and Peter go to face Mephisto. Mephisto tells them they shouldn't have come back and are going to die for their ignorance. As the war rages on Matt and Peter have trouble fighting Mephisto while Luke Cage has already been taken down. Just then Danny shows up and attacks Mephisto but is thrown backwards into Luke. We see in the war the X-Men, the Avengers, the Inhumans, the Defenders, the X-Force, and the Fantastic Four have come to help. Just as the war seems lost Matt gets up and walks over to Mephisto. Peter tries to stop Matt but it's no use, Matt asks Mephisto why all of this had to happen and Mephisto tells him that people have died and come back to life through the ages because it was supposed to happen with the timeline, but Matt wasn't supposed to come back and so now, he must torture Matt forever. Matt offers to be killed as long as in return he stays away from the surface world. Mephisto agrees and Matt is killed causing all the heroes to go home and Matt to be erased from existence as if he were never even there.
