This calendar week Agatha Harkness brings spooky time of year to the MCU a little early with the arrival ofAgatha All Along , the follow - up toWandaVisionthat fills us in on just what Agatha is up to these day while Wanda Maximoff is meddlesome beingsome flavor of dead and buriedafterMultiverse of Madness . It ’s beenawhilesinceWandaVisionthough , so understandably , if you ’re a lilliputian hazy on everything leading into the new show , we ’re here to help .
What Was Agatha’s Whole Deal in the First Place?
WandaVisionflashed us back to Agatha ’s day as a Wiccan in the late seventeenth C , when she was enamor by her own female parent and the rest of her coven and try for practicing taboo dark magic . Agatha used her heighten powers to turn the result of her coven ’s attacks back on themselves , kill them all — her female parent included — before fleeing to bear on her research into more powerful and dangerous deception . At some peak , she , just as Wanda would , came across the mythical Darkhold , and pore over its secret cognition to expand her witching abilities even further .
Agatha had nothing to do with the creation of Westview , but was capable to smell its existence as a nexus of great witching power when she come across it . Using her own abilities to slip in and disguise herself as one of the other brain - wash denizens of the townspeople , as “ Agnes , ” Wanda and Vision ’s nosy next - door neighbour , Agatha tried to investigate just how Wanda had warped world , using magic more herculean than anything she ’d seen in her prospicient life .
What Happened to Agatha at the End ofWandaVision?
While Wanda broke free of the realness she made for herself in her heartache over Vision ’s death by the oddment ofWandaVision , after Agatha set about to run out her of her magical powers during her ascending as the Scarlet Witch , Wanda turned the mesa . In the coming of their battle , with Westview ’s material residents typeset free , Wanda enthralled a now - powerless Agatha into live her lifetime back out as “ Agnes , ” ineffectual to remember her reliable self . It ’s at least in this way that we adjoin her inAgatha All Along‘s opening episode try by the trailers , except Agnes has upgraded from living through kitschy rom - coms and into a life of police procedurals .
What Is She Doing Now inAgatha All Along?
At least initially , like we say , Agatha beginsAgatha All Alongas Agnes , now living as the genius of her own investigator show — untilanotherwitch , Aubrey Plaza ’s occult Rio Vidal ( more on her later)—manages to do much as Agatha did for Wanda and pause her free of the realization that she ’s hold up in a warped world . Now back as herself , Agatha is looking to form anew coven of misfit witchesto facilitate her traverse the Witches ’ Road , an substitute carpenter’s plane of existence only accessible by practician of illusion .
The road was first introduce in the comics back in 2016 during theScarlet Witchsolo serial , a dimensional realm used by magical users to journey swell distance . InAgatha All Along , the Witches ’ Road is the dimension Agatha uses in an endeavour to get her charming power back , form a coven of witches to discharge a series of trials that will give their wish if they make it through alive .
Who Are the New Witches inAgatha All Along?
Agatha ’s new unorthodox coven in the show is made up of a few small-scale characters from Marvel Comics history , with a few challenging mysteries on top . The master members besides Agatha are Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale , Ali Ahn as Alice Wu - Gulliver , and the legendary Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu .
All three have roots in the comics : Jennifer is Johnny Blaze ’s cousin , and a veritable friend of Man - Thing , after he once saved her life when she accidentally summon a grave daimon as a teen . Alice , meanwhile , is a detective from Hong Kong and the daughter of a potent sorceress know as the August Wu of the Coral Shore ; she inherited her female parent ’s powers and infrequently teams up with Wanda . finally , Lilia has a long history with the Mordo kinfolk , descending from the first baron , Nikolai , and eventually becoming romantically entangled with Karl Mordo — only for him to betray her , using her affection to slip the Book of Cagliostro , a herculean collection of mystic noesis he hoped to habituate to defeat the Ancient One .
There are two more member of Agatha ’s coven , but they ’re a little more complicated . first off , there ’s the aforementioned Rio Vidal , work by Aubrey Plaza . minuscule is known about her because , unlike the other witch so far , she was created whole - material for the MCU . In trailer she ’s been referred to as the “ Green Witch , ” in direct contrast to Wanda ’s Scarlet Witch championship and Agatha and her female parent ’s coven as being Blue Witches . The second mystery story is the characterknown only as “ Teen ” , played byHeartstopper‘s Joe Locke . Speaking of which …
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Who’s Joe Locke Meant to Be Playing inAgatha All Along?
There ’s already been a passel of speculation as to just who “ Teen ” really is . What little we ’ve seen ofAgatha All Alongindicates that he ’s a fellow beldame and avid fan of Agatha , but is physically unequal to of speaking his own name when ask : magically excommunicate so his back talk is sealed up if he try . Locke himselfhas repeatedly dance aroundthe most regular surmise of who he ’s really play , as many think him to be the teenaged re - incarnation of one of Wanda ’s twins , William “ Billy ” Kaplan .
In the comics , Thomas and William were a intersection of Wanda ’s reality - falsify chaos powers , and after they vanished , their souls eventually re - incarnated into two separate young male child who grew up in dissimilar families : Thomas was reborn as Tommy Shepherd , while William was born-again as Billy Kaplan . Billy , a young queer boy , went on to manifest electrokinetic force , but it was finally reveal after he discovered his connection to Wanda that he has a immense raiment of powerful magical and reality - altering abilities . He goes on to become a member of the Young Avengers , alongside Tommy — who manifested superhuman agility powers and became Speed — as well as his first boyfriend and eventual husband , Teddy “ Hulkling ” Altman .
It ’s not support yet , but giventhe legacy ofWandaVisionthat brought us toAgatha All Alongin the first berth , as well as Marvel ’s long - simmering plans to bring the Young Avengers squad into the MCU , it would n’t be too surprising . We ’ve had multiple member appear already , including Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop and Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez , and one of theMarvelspost - credit scenessaw Kamala Khan attempt to recruit for the squad , starting with Kate , so what ’s one more in the admixture ?
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Is Mephisto inAgatha All Along?
God , I hope not . But if “ Teen ” really is Billy , then there ’d besomereason to at least make mention of the infamous demon who everyone constantly speculated as being part ofWandaVisionwhen it was run . In the comics , Wanda unknowingly createdher dream twins out of soulfulness pulled from the will power of Mephisto , after all . Maybe we ’ll happen him , maybe we wo n’t , but it willnotstop people from turn tail the muzzle into the ground either way .
Agatha All Alongbegins with a two - episode premiere this Wednesday , September 18 , on Disney+ .
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Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata), Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone), Ali Ahn (Alice Wu-Gulliver), Teen (Joe Locke), and Mrs. Hart/Sharon Davis (Debra Jo Rupp) inAgatha All Along. Photo: Marvel Studios
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