WandaVision came and went, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop talking about it. And it definitely doesn’t mean that we have to stop talking about the real star of the show, Kathryn Hahnde Agnes, also known as Agatha Harkness. Agatha started the series as a friend of Wanda’s, but when the show ended, she turned out to be an enemy – but things almost worked out differently. According WandaVision creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer, the first ideas for the series had Agatha acting as Wanda’s mentor.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer revealed that was not originally it would be Agatha all the time. According to Schaeffer, several different characters were discussed in relation to WandaVision (although she does not specify who these characters are) and eventually everyone agreed with Agatha Harkness. The character came straight out of the Marvel comics, but the comic version of Agatha is very different from the version played in a memorable way by Kathryn Hahn. And according to Schaeffer, in the early planning stages, Agatha was more of a Wanda mentor than an opponent.
“In the early stages, she functioned more like a mentor, and then, when we entered the room and started to legitimately break the episodes, it became clear that having a suitable antagonist would serve the structure very well, so she increasingly moved in that direction, ”said Schaeffer. “But we have not lost sight of her potential to be a mentor, teacher, partner and confidant. All of this still infused all of his scenes together. And we like to say that there is a version of the story in which Wanda and Agatha walk together at sunset, you know? You could kind of see it, and I think it led to better writing for both of them, those shades of gray over there. “
I don’t know about you, but I really wish they had gone with the ending “Wanda and Agatha walk together for the sunset”. This is the show I want to see. Schaeffer recognizes that other people probably also wanted to see this. “Well, and they are good and bad”, the WandaVision creator says. “They are light and dark. It’s all a spectrum. I do not know. I feel that it all comes down to the intention. All the things that Agatha says, she is speaking the truth. She is telling Wanda what she needs to hear, but Agatha’s schedule is very selfish. “
The idea of “Agatha as a mentor” is actually part of the comic book character’s story, as the Marvel Wiki usefully explains: “[Agatha] he went on to help other mystics in a series of crisis situations and further trained Wanda in the use of his powers, claiming that his mutant ability was actually to use ‘chaos magic’ and helped to fully revive the Avenger Wonder Man. “
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