You couldn’t escape talking about WandaVision in 2021 without hearing the word “Mephisto” at some point. To not be entirely unfair to comic book fans, for as much as the series went on to try and skewer the Easter-egg-analytical side of its fandom as it unpacked Wanda Maximoff’s trauma, it was still inherently, albeit loosely, adapting storylines from the comics that certainly invited that kind of speculation. But now that its spiritual successor Agatha All Along is here and even more explicitly playing into the demonical and mystical side of Marvel, well, it’s only going to invite connecting those disparate dots even further.
Agatha All Along ‘s two-episode premiere this week quickly whisks us from prestige-crime-drama homage to the titular witch preparing to form a team of lone-wolf witches to help her get her powers back. But along the way there’s three intriguing characters we meet that all could potentially connect to everyone’s least-favorite marriage killer in comics. They all have roots in Marvel’s source material, they all have those ties, but is Agatha really doing anything with them or just messing with us? Let’s break it down bit by bit.
Nicholas Scratch Agatha All Along ‘s cop show riff Agnes of Westview climaxes in its tropey homages with “Agnes” returning to her home after a long day working on her new murder case to wrestle with a few of her own demons, by walking through her house to reveal an empty, but well-maintained child’s roo.