MacPhisto was imagined by Bono to be a corrupted future version of the Fly character who had become an amalgam of The Devil (heavily drawing from the Pegleg character in Tom Waits’ “The Black Rider”) and Las Vegas-era Elvis Presley-style crooner. (This character would subsequently figure prominently in the 1995 music video for “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” lifted from the soundtrack of the movie Batman Forever. The video featured an animated version of Bono as a rock star battling between two personas: the Fly and MacPhisto, which was intended to parallel the conflict between Bruce Wayne’s ordinary playboy persona and his crime-fighting Batman persona.)