Everything to Remember Before Agatha All Along

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This week Agatha Harkness brings spooky play to the MCU a small aboriginal with the accomplishment of Agatha All Along, the follow-up to WandaVision that fills america successful connected conscionable what Agatha is up to these days portion Wanda Maximoff is engaged being some spirit of dormant and buried after Multiverse of Madness. It’s been a while since WandaVision though, truthful understandably, if you’re a small hazy connected everything starring into the caller show, we’re present to help.

What Was Agatha’s Whole Deal successful the First Place?

WandaVision flashed america backmost to Agatha’s days arsenic a witch successful the precocious 17th century, erstwhile she was captured by her ain parent and the remainder of her coven and tried for practicing forbidden acheronian magics. Agatha utilized her enhanced powers to crook the effects of her coven’s attacks backmost connected themselves, sidesplitting them all—her parent included—before fleeing to proceed her probe into much almighty and unsafe magic. At immoderate point, she, conscionable arsenic Wanda would, came crossed the mythical Darkhold, and pored implicit its concealed cognition to grow her magical abilities adjacent further.

Agatha had thing to bash with the instauration of Westview, but was capable to consciousness its beingness arsenic a nexus of large magical powerfulness erstwhile she came crossed it. Using her ain abilities to gaffe successful and disguise herself arsenic 1 of the different brain-washed denizens of the town, arsenic “Agnes,” Wanda and Vision’s nosy next-door neighbor, Agatha tried to analyse conscionable however Wanda had warped reality, utilizing magic much almighty than thing she’d seen successful her agelong life.

What Happened to Agatha astatine the End of WandaVision?

While Wanda broke escaped of the world she made for herself successful her grief implicit Vision’s decease by the extremity of WandaVision, aft Agatha attempted to drain her of her magical powers during her ascension arsenic the Scarlet Witch, Wanda turned the tables. In the climax of their battle, with Westview’s existent residents acceptable free, Wanda enthralled a now-powerless Agatha into surviving her beingness backmost retired arsenic “Agnes,” incapable to retrieve her existent self. It’s astatine slightest successful this mode that we conscionable her successful Agatha All Along‘s opening episodes judging by the trailers, but Agnes has upgraded from surviving done kitschy rom-coms and into a beingness of constabulary procedurals.

What Is She Doing Now in Agatha All Along?

At slightest initially, similar we said, Agatha begins Agatha All Along arsenic Agnes, present surviving arsenic the prima of her ain detective show—until another witch, Aubrey Plaza’s mysterious Rio Vidal (more connected her later)—manages to bash overmuch arsenic Agatha did for Wanda and interruption her escaped of the realization that she’s surviving successful a warped reality. Now backmost arsenic herself, Agatha is looking to signifier a new coven of misfit witches to assistance her traverse the Witches’ Road, an alternate level of beingness lone accessible by practitioners of magic.

The roadworthy was archetypal introduced successful the comics backmost successful 2016 during the Scarlet Witch solo series, a dimensional realm utilized by magic users to question large distances. In Agatha All Along, the Witches’ Road is the magnitude Agatha uses successful an effort to get her magical powers back, forming a coven of witches to implicit a bid of trials that volition assistance their wishes if they marque it done alive.

Who Are the New Witches successful Agatha All Along?

Agatha’s caller unorthodox coven successful the amusement is made up of a fewer insignificant characters from Marvel Comics history, with a fewer intriguing mysteries connected top. The main members too Agatha are Sasheer Zamata arsenic Jennifer Kale, Ali Ahn arsenic Alice Wu-Gulliver, and the legendary Patti LuPone arsenic Lilia Calderu.

All 3 person roots successful the comics: Jennifer is Johnny Blaze’s cousin, and a regular state of Man-Thing, aft helium erstwhile saved her beingness erstwhile she accidentally summoned a unsafe demon arsenic a teen. Alice, meanwhile, is simply a detective from Hong Kong and the girl of a almighty sorceress known arsenic the August Wu of the Coral Shore; she inherited her mother’s powers and infrequently teams up with Wanda. Lastly, Lilia has a agelong past with the Mordo family, descending from the archetypal baron, Nikolai, and yet becoming romantically entangled with Karl Mordo—only for him to betray her, utilizing her affections to bargain the Book of Cagliostro, a almighty postulation of mystic cognition helium hoped to usage to decision the Ancient One.

There are 2 much members of Agatha’s coven, but they’re a small much complicated. Firstly, there’s the aforementioned Rio Vidal, played by Aubrey Plaza. Little is known astir her because, dissimilar the different witches truthful far, she was created whole-cloth for the MCU. In trailers she’s been referred to arsenic the “Green Witch,” successful opposition to Wanda’s Scarlet Witch rubric and Agatha and her mother’s coven arsenic being Blue Witches. The 2nd enigma is the quality known lone arsenic “Teen”, played by Heartstopper‘s Joe Locke. Speaking of which…

Who’s Joe Locke Meant to Be Playing in Agatha All Along?

There’s already been a batch of speculation arsenic to conscionable who “Teen” truly is. What small we’ve seen of Agatha All Along indicates that he’s a chap witch and avid instrumentality of Agatha, but is physically incapable of speaking his ain sanction erstwhile asked: magically cursed truthful his rima is sealed up if helium tries. Locke himself has repeatedly danced around the astir regular speculation of who he’s truly playing, arsenic galore judge him to beryllium the teenaged re-incarnation of 1 of Wanda’s twins, William “Billy” Kaplan.

In the comics, Thomas and William were a merchandise of Wanda’s reality-warping chaos powers, and aft they vanished, their souls yet re-incarnated into 2 abstracted young boys who grew up successful antithetic families: Thomas was reborn arsenic Tommy Shepherd, portion William was reborn arsenic Billy Kaplan. Billy, a young queer boy, went connected to manifest electrokinetic powers, but it was yet revealed aft helium discovered his transportation to Wanda that helium has a immense array of almighty magical and reality-altering abilities. He goes connected to go a subordinate of the Young Avengers, alongside Tommy—who manifested superhuman agility powers and became Speed—as good arsenic his archetypal fellow and eventual husband, Teddy “Hulkling” Altman.

It’s not confirmed yet, but fixed the bequest of WandaVision that brought america to Agatha All Along successful the archetypal place, arsenic good arsenic Marvel’s long-simmering plans to bring the Young Avengers squad into the MCU, it wouldn’t beryllium excessively surprising. We’ve had aggregate members look already, including Hailee Steinfeld arsenic Kate Bishop and Xochitl Gomez arsenic America Chavez, and 1 of the Marvels post-credit scenes saw Kamala Khan trying to enlistee for the team, starting with Kate, truthful what’s 1 much successful the mix?

Is Mephisto successful Agatha All Along?

God, I anticipation not. But if “Teen” truly is Billy, past there’d be some crushed to astatine slightest marque notation of the infamous demon who everyone perpetually speculated arsenic being portion of WandaVision erstwhile it was running. In the comics, Wanda inadvertently created her imagination twins retired of souls pulled from the possession of Mephisto, aft all. Maybe we’ll brushwood him, possibly we won’t, but it volition not halt radical from moving the gag into the crushed either way.

Agatha All Along begins with a two-episode premiere this Wednesday, September 18, connected Disney+.

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