With “Agatha All Along” having wrapped, the fate of Wanda Maximoff/Scarlett Witch after her apparent death in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has been revealed...
sort of. SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “AGATHA ALL ALONG” The spin-off series established that Wanda Maximoff is “gone” but, refused to say if she was dead or alive. Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha herself says she saw a body but wasn’t sure if anyone else did and isn’t sure if she’s alive – saying “Yes.
No. Maybe.” As Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal is Death, she would know if the character is definitively dead or alive – and yet only said she’s “gone”.
Turns out that wording was mandated from up high at Marvel Studios, showrunner Jac Schaeffer tells : “It’s my opinion – and these stories will move ahead, and who knows what it will be – it’s my opinion that Agatha does not know. And yeah, it’s my opinion that Rio does. I think the word ‘gone’ is important.
I was instructed to use the word ‘gone.'” The character seemingly died in the collapse of Mount Wundagore in the ‘Multiverse’ finale. She spent most of the film trying to get her ‘boys’ back – and by the end the series establishes that both are alive in our world with Billy (Joe Locke) and a ghostly Agatha now in search of the physically incarnated Tommy.
Schaeffer says Agatha becoming Billy’s spirit guide was always the end game when planning the series” “In the comics, she spends a lot of her time as.
