“ | Who's been messing up everything? It's been Agatha all along! Who's been pulling every evil string? It's been Agatha all along! She's insidious (Ha-ha!), so perfidious. That you haven't even noticed, and the pity is, (the pity is, pity, pity, pity, pity) It's too late to fix anything, Now that everything has gone wrong! Thanks to Agatha (Ha!), naughty Agatha. It's been Agatha all along! And I killed Sparky too. |
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~ Agatha reveals how she manipulated everything behind the scenes to Wanda in her own theme song as well as revealing that she killed Billy and Tommy's dog, Sparky, followed with an evil laughter. |
“ | Oh this is going to be a gas! | „ |
~ Agnes. |
“ | I take power from the undeserving. It's kinda my thing. You're clearly in over your little red head. So, why don't you surrender your magic to someone who knows what to do with it? And I'll let you keep this pathetic little corner of the world all to yourself. | „ |
~ Agatha Harkness giving Wanda Maximoff an ultimatum. |
“ | Wanda, Wanda, Wanda. You didn't think you were the only magical girl in town, did you? The name's Agatha Harkness. Lovely to finally meet you, dear! | „ |
~ Agatha revealing her true nature to Wanda Maximoff. |
Agatha Harkness is the main antagonist of the 2021 Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries WandaVision and will return as the titular main protagonist of its upcoming spin-off show Agatha: Darkhold Diaries.
She went under the alias "Agnes", and acted as Scarlet Witch's neighbor. She was always in the background of the series popping up and checking in on Wanda. When Wanda makes her way to Agatha's basement, she discovers a lair filled with artifacts, books and glowing vines. Agatha comes out of the shadow and reveals herself as a fellow witch to Wanda. She is Scarlet Witch's arch-nemesis.
She is portrayed by Kathryn Hahn, who also voiced Ericka Van Helsing in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation and Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Jennifer Barkley in Parks and Recreation.
Appearance[]
Agatha has the general appearance of a roughly forty-year old woman with brown hair. Her outfit would constantly change as Wanda kept moving Westview up a decade to fit her reality and her perfect life, but she always wears a brooch on the collars of her shirt. When she reveals herself, her hair is messy and down and wears a purple top.
Personality[]
When she first arrives, she acts as a friendly neighbor to Wanda, welcoming her to the neighborhood, bringing a plant as a housewarming gift. She helps Wanda with her anniversary night with Vision, giving constant suggestions on what she should do. She appears as a nosy neighbor in most of her episodes, more likely as a showoff. Agnes is able to get close enough to Wanda for her to start trusting her, enough to where she can use her magic in front of Agnes. Once Wanda discovers Agatha's lair, she appears more deranged and proudly so, with her own theme song calling her "evil", indicating Agatha's true nature and revealing that she had been manipulating Wanda and the fake Westview reality all along.
Relationships[]
Ally/Minion[]
Ralph Bohner[]
Ralph Bohner is a resident of Westview that is being mind-controlled by Agatha and she always mentions that he is her husband. She characterizes him as dull and uninteresting. In the end, the fake Pietro that was pretending to be Wanda's brother is revealed to be Ralph and he is the real owner of the house that Agatha lives at Westview.
Enemies[]
Wanda Maximoff[]
Agnes warms up to Wanda, and the two start to appear to be best friends in the neighbor, walking around town, gossiping, and having a sense of trust between them. Pretending to be among the many residents of Westview that were abducted by Wanda, she pretended to have been under Wanda's control, using a TV alias, obeying Wanda's commands, asking for permission to do certain things, and appears to be in pain when she talks to Vision. Despite this, she later reveals to Wanda that she had been manipulating her and the whole false reality all along. Her motivations is to learn how Wanda created the fantasy reality and then steal her powers for herself.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Telekinesis: As a witch, Agnes could do various acts of magic within Westview: open and close doors, change clothes, and mess with Wanda and Vision's magic show.
- Mind Manipulation: Like Wanda, she is also able to manipulate people's minds, project images inside their heads, controlling the neighbors' actions and ideas within Westview.
- Magical Chain: Agatha can create a magical chain when she did to Wanda.
- Magic Absorption: Due to being a powerful witch, Harkness can absorb another witch's magic. In addition to this, she can also absorb a witch's life force, as she did during her execution at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. She absorbed Wanda's chaos magic in Episode 9; however, she was not able to sustain Wanda's magic.
- Runes: in her powerful magic spells this runes magic she holds can erase any powers like hex from Wanda, when Wanda tried to hit Agatha a bolts Agatha created a rune to erase Wanda's hex bolts,
- Dark Magic: Agatha was practically long ago dark magic she holds against Wanda.
- Spell Casting: Agatha can cast any spells, especially since she experienced the dark hold Spell she also tricked and control Wanda's mind with her spells.
- Reality Warping: Still not officially known if she has this power, but Agatha can affect the Westview village. When Vision came around, Agatha froze everyone from Westview in order to confuse Visionl.
- Teleportation: Agatha can send herself from other places to get away from Wanda's planned attacks.
Abilities[]
- Expert Tactician: She could outsmart and play along with her ploy and act as one of the hostages that were stuck in Westview and under Wanda's control. She played her part and stayed in line as per Wanda's wishes and acted like a normal citizen of Westview.
- Longevity: As revealed in Episode 8, she is revealed to be over 300 years old.
Victims[]
- Evanora Harkness (mother; drained her life force)
- Salem Coven (drained their life force)
- Sparky (Maximoffs' dog; likely poisoned)
Trivia[]
- In the comics, Agatha Harkness is a witch who survived the Salem witch trials and watched the fall of Atlantis. She was a foe and mentor to Scarlet Witch.
- Agatha mentions that her supposed marriage anniversary to Ralph is on June 2nd, the first day that the Salem witch trials started in 1692.
- In the comics, Agatha Harkness wasn't always a villain as she mostly plays the role of Wanda Maximoff's mentor and an anti-hero throughout her multiple issues. According to Jac Schaeffer, it was originally planned for Agatha to serve more like a mentor towards Wanda in the show, but the crew realized that making her a proper antagonist would serve the show's structure as they were breaking the episodes.
- There was an extremely popular theory that Agatha's frequently mentioned husband, Ralph, was actually the iconic Marvel villain Mephisto, which was further hinted by the birth of Wanda's children, who are both fragments of Mephisto who dissapear when he did. When asked, Paul Bettany said that answering whether Mephisto would be in the series could get him fired. Despite this, in the end, Ralph is revealed to be none other than Ralph Bohner, the fake Pietro Maximoff.
- Another theory surrounding Agatha is her pet rabbit, Señor Scratchy, who could possibly be Nicholas Scratch — Agatha's son in the comics. Additionally, her rabbit's name means Mr. Scratch, a common old English nickname for the Devil. "Nick Scratch" and "Jack Scratch" were both pseudonyms of Mephisto.
- Agatha Harkness is Kathryn Hahn's first live-action role in a Marvel production, and the second Marvel role she played. Her first role was as Olivia Octavius/Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- Agatha Harkness is the first main antagonist in the Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, the first Phase Four main antagonist was going to be General Dreykov from Black Widow, the first Phase Four film, which was originally slated to be released prior to WandaVision until the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its release.
- It's possible that the spell that brainwashed Agatha to assume her Agnes persona is no longer in effect due to the Darkhold's destruction in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. If that's the case, then it's likely that Agatha will return possibly soon as Kevin Feige promised.
External Links[]
- Agatha Harkness on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
- Agatha Harkness on the Marvel Wiki
- Agatha Harkness on the Marvel Movies Wiki
- Agatha Harkness on the Disney Wiki
- Agatha Harkness on the VS Battles Wiki
- Agatha Harkness on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki.