While the MCU has flirted with its more spooky side with Disney Plus projects like Ironheart and Werewolf by Night, Blade getting stuck in development hell means the MCU won’t go there again until Ghost Rider comes out in 2028. Still, I think that an MCU take on Ghost Rider and the long-rumored Midnight Sons project can work because I’ve already seen the concept successfully pulled off in video game form: Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

Developed by longtime XCOM stewards at Firaxis Games, Marvel’s Midnight Suns (which changed the Midnight Sons name to be more gender-neutral) was a 2022 strategy game that defined genre boundaries. Though initially expected to be XCOM with a Marvel skin, it turned out to be a shockingly deep RPG with Fire Emblem levels of camaraderie and team-building between rich tactical missions. Midnight Suns didn’t exactly shatter sales records, but it was a critical hit, and proved that the supernatural side of Marvel could work in a mainstream release.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns not only offered amazing interpretations of some of Marvel’s more paranormal characters like Ghost Rider, Blade, Magik, and Nico Minoru, but also showed they could mesh well in a blockbuster adventure with........

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