RUMOR: The Leader Of The MCU's MIDNIGHT SONS Has Been Revealed (And It's Not Blade)

The prevailing theory is that Blade will lead the MCU's Midnight Sons when the team finally assembles, but a new rumour suggests that these supernatural superheroes will be led by another comic book icon.

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By JoshWilding - Jun 12, 2025 05:06 AM EST

Filed Under: Marvel Studios

Between Werewolf by Night and Agatha All Along, Marvel Studios is finally exploring the supernatural corner of the MCU. However, it's been slow going, and Blade's repeated delays have done little to help matters.

There's been chatter about a Midnight Sons movie being in the works for years now. At this rate, it would make more sense for Mahershala Ali's Daywalker to debut there before appearing in a potential solo outing, but it's important to remember the project has never been officially announced.

The prevailing theory among fans has been that Blade will lead this team of supernatural Avengers, but Daniel Richtman has heard otherwise. The insider claims that Ghost Rider will take charge of the Midnight Sons, suggesting Marvel Studios has big plans for the Spirit of Vengeance in the MCU.

A solo Ghost Rider movie is a risky proposition after those failed efforts starring Nicolas Cage. However, the combination of Avengers: Doomsday (more on that below) and Midnight Sons could help put Johnny Blaze back on the map.

"I thought there was an interesting opportunity with Midnight Sons," Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac has said of this supernatural team-up. "There’s such interesting characters in there, and now that we’ve set the groundwork with learning who Marc, Steven, Jake are, it could be an interesting opportunity to see him as part of a team and what that dynamic would be."

"So I think that would be exciting, I think for me, I definitely hope there’s some room to explore that possibility," he added.

We haven't seen Marc Spector, Steven Grant, and Jake Lockley since the Moon Knight finale aired in 2022. Isaac only signed up for the six-episode series, and while Marvel Studios does reportedly have plans for the character, those have yet to come to fruition.

Had Avengers: The Kang Dynasty become a reality, chances are Moony would have led the charge against Kang the Conqueror Variant, Rama-Tut. Instead, we're hearing that Avengers: Doomsday will introduce the MCU's Ghost Rider.

The Midnight Sons, or Midnight Suns as they're now sometimes known due to the inclusion of female characters, debuted in the early 1990s. Dealing with horror, occult, and supernatural elements, the title explored a darker corner of the Marvel Universe.

The team typically consists of characters who are involved in battling supernatural threats, including Ghost Rider, Blade, Morbius, Doctor Strange, Werewolf by Night, Hannibal King, and Jennifer Kale.

Who will assemble in the MCU remains to be seen, but Wong, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Blade, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, Black Knight, Scarlet Scarab, Elsa Bloodstone, Dr. Strange, and even Agatha Harkness have all been named as likely candidates.

Stay tuned for more on Midnight Sons as we have it.

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38 Comments

SteviesRightFoo - 6/12/2025, 5:29 AM

Don't need marvel ruining any more properties- no thanks

JustAWaffle - 6/12/2025, 5:35 AM

@SteviesRightFoo - I'm always open to them learning from their mistakes, but I get the pessimism. Hoping they put a good creative team around the idea.

ObserverIO - 6/12/2025, 5:46 AM

@JustAWaffle - Learning from theirs And primarily DC's mistakes would be not doing a Midnight Sons movie until they have successfully established the characters that make up the Midnight Sons.

Everyone knows Blade so he doesn't need a solo movie (ironicaly). Werewolf By Night and Man-Thing were part of a cool little special presentation that the hardcore fans enjoyed. The rest of their audience did not see this and if they did they wouldn't get it. That specila presentation did not count as an introduction of either of these characters at all. They need origin movies.

Success is built on the foundations of origin movies.

ObserverIO - 6/12/2025, 5:51 AM

Also putting together characters that were mostly established on TV in a big screen movie is folly. Marvel should know this by now.

SteviesRightFoo - 6/12/2025, 5:59 AM

@JustAWaffle - they are incapable or unwilling to learn. For example, we now know Sue storm is the leader of the fantastic four in the film and we've also got the inexplicable choice of a female silver surfer

JustAWaffle - 6/12/2025, 6:37 AM

@ObserverIO - "not doing a Midnight Sons movie until they have successfully established the characters that make up the Midnight Sons."

Totally agree. This is what made Marvel special from the get go in 2008.

JustAWaffle - 6/12/2025, 6:39 AM

@SteviesRightFoo - "They are incapable or unwilling to learn"

The money (or lack thereof) will eventually speak to them. I think they still CAN, it's just a matter of whether they will. This is why they need to eventually throw their hands up in the air and reboot. I'm hoping Secret War will do a hard or mid-reboot to the main timeline.

ObserverIO - 6/12/2025, 6:45 AM

@JustAWaffle - Softboots can be messy.

The harder the better.

(that's what she said)

Apophis71 - 6/12/2025, 9:03 AM

@SteviesRightFoo - Said by internet voices to be the lead character, NOT the Leader, difffering things with differing meanings even if similar sounding. In effect she will likely be the Tony Stark (not the leader but slightly more focus on him and screentime) to Reeds Captain America (recognised by almost all as the team leader but narratively oft secondary to Iron Man and the pair effectively being co-leads in Avengers films).

JustAWaffle - 6/13/2025, 4:51 AM

@ObserverIO -

AC1 - 6/12/2025, 5:41 AM

Hmm, seems like an odd choice for Ghost Rider to lead the team. If anything I think it'd make more sense if it was a character like Doctor Strange - someone already much more established in the MCU, who has experience working with a team (The Avengers) and having a leadership role (as second in command to the Sorcerer Supreme and head of the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York) and it seems more in character for Strange to seek out and recruit powerful supernatural characters to work with him.

I think a cool roster would be Dr Strange, Ghost Rider, Blade, Moon Knight, and maybe Clea, Werewolf By Night, and Agatha

Vigor - 6/12/2025, 6:52 AM

@AC1 - I'd like strange to have more of a role like bucky had in thunderbolts

Powerful enough to wrangle all of them but then due to his experience and knowledge, he teams with them and becomes an integral member of the team

I saw Elsa more like a lead, or the heart of the team. Like how black widow was in thunderbolts

TheVisionary25 - 6/12/2025, 8:34 AM

@AC1 - tbh if it’s like Dracula related , I could see Blade recruiting people too especially if he thinks he can’t take him on alone

AC1 - 6/12/2025, 9:00 AM

@Vigor - I like that idea a lot

AC1 - 6/12/2025, 9:00 AM

@TheVisionary25 - oh yeah if their origin is specifically vampire related I agree, could totally see Blade being the one to bring the team together and lead them

Apophis71 - 6/12/2025, 9:10 AM

@AC1 - Not realy, in the comics at varying points the leader has been Mordius (won't happen cos of Sony), Blade, Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch thus half of the leaders were a Ghost Rider and only source accurate alt to Blade.

Course it could all be BS but we have had Ghost Rider films, a Ghost Rider in Agents of Shield and said to be in the Avengers films so a fair guess as possibly under consideration.

Source members, current and previous are :

Member(s)
Blade
Kushala the Spirit Rider
Magik
Nico Minoru
Wolverine

Previous members:
Johnny Blaze
Elsa Bloodstone
Caretaker
Darkhold Redeemers
• Sam Buchanan
• Louise Hastings
• Jinx (William Hastings)
• Modred the Mystic
• Vicki Montesi
Doctor Strange
Doctor Voodoo
Frank Drake
Daimon Hellstrom
The Hood (briefly)
Iron Fist
Jennifer Kale
Danny Ketch
Hannibal King
Man-Thing
Moon Knight (as Mr. Knight)
Morbius
Scarlet Spider
Scarlet Witch (briefly)
Strange
Vengeance
Werewolf by Night
Wong

TheVisionary25 - 6/12/2025, 9:14 AM

@Apophis71 - to be fair , they could create their own lineup or a version of it using characters that have been in various runs like they did with Thunderbolts

TheVisionary25 - 6/12/2025, 9:15 AM

@AC1 - yeah

Just depends I guess on the threat

Apophis71 - 6/12/2025, 9:18 AM

@TheVisionary25 - For sure they could, but I'd say they would tend to have most members at least to be connected to the team in the comics like they did with Thunderbolts (where every single on of them plus some of the supporting characters had been members of at least one version of the team even if not all at the same time).

TheVisionary25 - 6/12/2025, 9:27 AM

@Apophis71 - agreed , that would be best imo.

McMurdo - 6/12/2025, 12:26 PM

@AC1 - not if Gosling has already agreed. For Feige, star power always trumps logic. It's why RDJ is Doom.

ObserverIO - 6/12/2025, 5:42 AM

Please Marvel, throw away the DC playbook. You're bleeding money.

Vigor - 6/12/2025, 6:50 AM

I definitely thought this would be Elsa Bloodstone leading the team. Considering how she tamed Man-Thing. I can see them expanding upon that with her taming the rest of the "monsters" on the team

But that would fall into "woke" category for some and maybe marvel wants to avoid that

Urubrodi - 6/12/2025, 6:59 AM

@Vigor - "But that would fall into woke category for some" well because it would be. Just because Man-Thing was friendly to her she should become the leader of the team? lol Man-Thing was not portrayed as some mindless monster, he was never tamed by her, he just realised she was trying to help him and Werewolf by Night. Black Widow actually did "tame" the Hulk in Age of Ultron that didn't mean she was the leader of the team. One of the main points of a monster movie is the fact that more often than not they are just misunderstood and suffer from prejudice from others, they are not creatures to be "tamed".

The leader should be one of the main supernatural characters from Marvel and not one that has just found some relevance in recent years like Elsa. Meaning either Blade or Ghost Rider.

Vigor - 6/12/2025, 7:25 AM

@Urubrodi - I disagree. Blade being the leader makes sense to me. Because despite his circumstances as a daywalker vampire, hes very down to earth. And theres an arc in there about learning to work with a team

Every other member of midnight sons either historically from the page or theorized or shown cinematically, wont make natural leaders. Even strange is a poor leader

I didn't know Elsa before werewolf by night. But she left an impression. She would be the most normal of the bunch, and we are seeing the horrors through her normie eyes (which was done so well in werewolf by night. The marketing capitalized on it). As the protagonist, she would be a great jumping off point for this supernatural team. Fine with her not being leader. But she can't just be someone in the background. She has no real powers. Black widow in thunderbolts had no powers too and she was positioned as the heart and lead of the team.

And you're only saying woke because she had tits. If they kept the same characteristics in a person and gender swapped her to be Edward bloodstone, you wouldn't call it woke 💁🏾‍♂️

Urubrodi - 6/12/2025, 7:50 AM

@Vigor - Didn't know you could read other people's minds. How can I learn this power? Oh wait you can't, as usual when someone disagrees with you you assume they have some problem. In this case apparently I have a problem with women. I said that I'd be happy with Blade as a leader, so since you couldn't call me racist I guess misogynist is the next best thing right? XD

Would have no problem with a female character leading a team if it made sense. In this case it doesn't. And I really liked her character in the special. But that wasn't the topic of conversation. And being a protagonist and being the leader of a team are different things. There was nothing in the special that suggested to me that she would make an ideal leader of the Midnight Sons. "Being the human of the team" does not mean she should lead them.

"If they kept the same characteristics in a person and gender swapped her to be Edward bloodstone, you wouldn't call it woke" I wouldn't call it woke, because it would make no sense to call it woke if you know what that means which I guess you don't. But I also wouldn't want him to be the leader either lol.

Vigor - 6/12/2025, 8:08 AM

@Urubrodi - I know all the definitions of woke. Including the latest and most ridiculous definition, which i am ridiculing. Just because someone is black or woman, its woke. Forget such a thing as merit right?

Also most of the time when a character is the protagonist, they're also the leader. I'm using thunderbolts here multiple times as an example
Its not all the time (wolverine is protagonist in the xmen movies comes to mind. Because cyclops was the de facto leader).
I'm fine with Elsa being either/or protagonist and leader. I just makes sense to me. And I'd love that. Its how I envision the team. I don't see ghost rider leading anyone. Hes way too unstable

But we can agree to disagree. Well except for the use of the word woke. That shit word is a clear marker someone lacks EQ

TheFinestSmack - 6/12/2025, 8:47 AM

@Urubrodi - You both make good points here, but with respect, I do need to point out @Vigor that you first used the word "woke" and then used again like 5 times. Urubrodi has only used it to quote you. I think it's a dumb word in general but lately the "anti-woke" people on this site use the phrase way more than the ones who cry about things being woke.

Vigor - 6/12/2025, 8:52 AM

@TheFinestSmack - fair!

TheVisionary25 - 6/12/2025, 8:27 AM

That would be an odd choice if true (even though both Blaze and Danny Ketch have been leaders of versions of the team in the comics)…

Depending on the lineup of the team , I always viewed Ghost Rider as the Hulk in it where perhaps whoever has the Spirit inside them at the time would be reluctant to bring him out but once he is could possibly shift the tide of the battle.

Anyway , I could see Blade being the leader and I hope he is tbh since Mahershala’s version seems like he might have been around for awhile already.

supermanrex - 6/12/2025, 9:32 AM

When Midnight Sons and Ghost Rider gets new publishing #1 starting new series then we know that movement is being made at marvel studios. marvel publishing always wants pre MCU debut synergy going. the comics tend to confirm rumors so i look there first for final confirmation. if you got rumors of characters , then all of sudden that character gets a major push out of the blue on the comics side then its a guarantee.

TheFinestSmack - 6/12/2025, 11:07 AM

@supermanrex - always a huge sign. That, and when they start using odd characters in video games, they usually are setting them up for the MCU.

McMurdo - 6/12/2025, 12:28 PM

@supermanrex - facts

Irregular - 6/12/2025, 10:32 AM

Lmao why do we still entertain this movie being made? It has never been announced! For FOUR YEARS this movie is JUST A RUMOR why is being treated like news?

Chris827 - 6/12/2025, 1:15 PM

@Irregular - thats the grift from these scoopers and sites. Wheres New, young and West coast avengers? Wheres Power Pack or the Damage control show and a million others.

Shit that gets talked about or kicked around behind the scenes at one point doesnt mean its actually happening but it gets reported as truth. Unless they have a writer, director, casting or Marvel announces take it as its not happening.

Cant get a Blade movie off the ground, dont even have a Ghost Rider but yeah Midnight sons is coming soon. And at this point where they are taking some chances on new properties like Thunderbolts and it loses money I'm sorry I dont see them taking risks with something like this anytime soon. Lets be real.

Irregular - 6/12/2025, 1:30 PM

@Chris827 - I agree! It's becoming so painfully obvious that they keep feeding said rumors that always end up as lies.

My favorite was how Scarlet Witch was going to be in D&W and was never even mentioned. Just four years of bringing up the same rumor and Marvel never mentions this "big movie team-up" yet totally oblivious to Marvel BTS.

KVON - 6/12/2025, 1:43 PM

Would be cool if they took into from the Deadpool and Wolverine team up and introduced them first in a Blade and Ghost Rider movie. Maybe they take on Dracula?

BlackStar25 - 6/12/2025, 3:39 PM

Leader should be Dr. Strange(Recognition and $$$). Then you can hand-off the Leader role to whomever.

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RUMOR: The Leader Of The MCU's MIDNIGHT SONS Has Been Revealed (And It's Not Blade)

The prevailing theory is that Blade will lead the MCU's Midnight Sons when the team finally assembles, but a new rumour suggests that these supernatural superheroes will be led by another comic book icon.

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