Three years after certainly one of Marvel’s most acclaimed TV collection WandaVision debuted, Agatha Harkness is again in her personal spin-off collection, Agatha All Alongside.
The nine-part restricted collection sees Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) got down to recruit a brand new coven so she will be able to stroll the Witches’ Highway and restore her wickedly, devastating powers again to their former purple glory.
With a teen boy (Joe Locke), a risky nemesis Rio (Aubrey Plaza), and three down-and-out witches performed by Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata and Ali Ahn, this ensemble solid serves up a bunch of nostalgic nods to witches passed by and the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Woven inside this story of deceptions are Easter eggs for Marvel followers to devour, in addition to ones for horror followers and witch aficionados to relish. Listed below are a few of the finest Easter eggs from the primary two episodes…
The tune Agatha hums
As episode one begins, Agatha, who’s at the moment deep inside Wanda’s phantasm considering she’s a embellished detective known as Agnes, is buzzing the tune that she’s going to later use to conjure the door to the Witches’ Highway. It’s a small signal that Agatha continues to be inside this true-crime actuality and a tease of the long run but to cross.
The Jane Doe
Agatha heads to the crime scene of a lady who has been “crushed” elsewhere and moved to Westview – plus, she has blackened fingertips. Although Herb (David A Payton) says, “Oh she’s most sincerely useless,” Agatha replies: “Oh, you by no means know.”
All of those clues, together with that the physique was present in Jap Europe and gave the impression to be “moved by magic”, trace that that is the corpse of Wanda Maximoff, earlier than Agatha lastly solves the case and remembers the lady with “scarlet” hair.
Nonetheless, Agatha’s preliminary remark about Wanda’s loss of life teases that the Scarlet Witch may nonetheless be alive. In spite of everything, this physique was solely a figment of Agatha’s creativeness. The actual one has by no means been discovered…
Agatha’s blue test shirt
Disney+ / WandaVision
Disney+ / WandaVision
Disney+ / WandaVision
Whereas Agatha is within the depths of her fictional true crime existence, she wears a blue test shirt and has her hair scraped again right into a low ponytail that resembles the dressing robe Wanda wore in WandaVision.
Within the Trendy Household-inspired episode, Wanda battles together with her melancholy and struggles to get a grip on actuality. Equally, Agatha wears related apparel whereas residing a bleak existence earlier than breaking by means of the ultimate barrier to return again to actuality. It’s additionally a refined nod to viewers that Agatha continues to be in a fictionalised present and never actuality, but.
The library card
The library card seen connected to Wanda Maximoff’s corpse is definitely a report of each time the Darkhold has been used or stolen. When Agatha realises her true identification, ‘A. Harkness’ seems above Wanda’s title with the date Jan 21, which is when WandaVision was launched and Agatha had the e-book in her possession.
Evidently the cardboard is a listing of each time the Darkhold has modified fingers and as there are a number of entries, the possibilities are another person on this collection has had it of their place at one time or one other too.
Rio’s relationship with Agatha
The primary two episodes tease a historic intimacy between Rio and Agatha. Not solely a feud, however a romantic relationship too. When the duo struggle, Agatha says: “You possibly can’t kill me, it’s not allowed.” Earlier than Rio tells her to take her energy, Agatha replies: “You realize that might kill me.”
All this mixed with Rio’s confession that her coronary heart is “black and it beats for [Agatha]” means that the duo might need had greater than a relationship, however crafted a blood pact, the place neither of them can kill the opposite with out killing themselves too, so that they’re tied collectively in life and loss of life.
Salem Seven
Rio teases that the ‘Salem Seven’ need to kill Agatha, inflicting Agatha’s facade to fall as she briefly reveals her worry. In Marvel Comics, these seven supervillains have been initially the enemies of the Scarlet Witch and the Unbelievable 4 and will shapeshift into creatures.
Later, Agatha sees a crow and a rat seem, each of which appear to be dangerous omens. She additionally calls her teen confederate her “pet” or “acquainted”, which may imply that these creatures have been forbidding the arrival of the witches who can grow to be animals.
The teenager’s black fingertips
Disney+ / WandaVision
Disney+ / WandaVision
Disney+ / WandaVision
Agatha notices that her teen suspect has black fingertips when she questions him in custody, which he says is from the “ink” after the police took his fingerprints. But, this police drama has been nothing greater than a figment of Agatha’s creativeness, so the place did the black marks on his fingers come from?
Black fingertips are an indication of when somebody has been studying the Darkhold – AKA, The Ebook of the Damned or All Issues Evil. However, Rio later says that the e-book was destroyed when Wanda died. How does this teen have one other copy of the Darkhold? And extra importantly, who gave it to him? Regardless, it’s a foul signal.
The Salem Seven motion
As Agatha’s new coven rushes down the steps they’ve simply conjured, one of many Salem Seven witches crawls down, cracking her bones unnaturally, as she hisses Agatha’s title.
Horror followers would possibly recognise this terrifying sequence because it replicates Kayako’s distinctive motion when she crawls down the steps in Takashi Shimizu’s 2004 supernatural horror movie, The Grudge. Secure to say, the glimpses of the horror sequences on this present aren’t for the faint-hearted.
The primary two episodes of Agatha All Alongside can be found to stream on Disney+ now