[SPOILER] Plan Theory: What The Real Villain Wants With Scarlet Witch

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for WandaVision episode 7.

WandaVision episode 7 revealed that Wanda and Vision’s neighbour Agnes — real name, Agatha Harkness — has been manipulating the Scarlet Witch with her own magic. In a surprising twist, Wanda explores Agnes’ house for the first time and is surprised to discover that the building’s basement is reminiscent of a dungeon with arcane paraphernalia. Confronted by Agnes, Wanda discovers that a number of the strange incidents that have never been explained about Wanda and Vision’s time in Westview stemmed directly from Agnes’ intervention — because Agnes is in truth Agatha Harkness, a sorceress in her own right.

Familiar to Marvel comic readers, Agatha Harkness is a powerful and ancient magic user responsible for uncovering the truth about the origin of the Scarlet Witch’s children. While not a uniformly good individual, Agatha is often cast in helpful roles — but would be undaunted by items like the magical book Wanda found in Agatha’s basement. In WandaVision, Agatha’s interference has been apparently more villainous, causing strife between Wanda and Vision, and manipulating Wanda in ways that haven’t fully been explained. For some reason, it has benefited Agatha to force Wanda to use more and more of her magic, and so she has put obstacles in Wanda’s way to bring about that end.

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Given an emphasis on Wanda’s power that has been pervasive through the series, and the fact that her ability to control her magical abilities has been slipping throughout, it seems increasingly likely that Agatha has designs on using or taking the power of Westview — Wanda’s included. By provoking situations where Wanda is called upon to draw on her magic, Agatha frees more of it to be taken. While this further differs Wandavision Agatha from her comics counterpart, it would be a swift path to power, giving Agatha increased means to accomplish ends as yet unknown. More sinister yet, Agatha has apparently absconded with Tommy and Billy, Wanda’s superpowered twin children.

The Strange Purple Glowing Vines Coming From Agatha’s Basement

In the first-ever mid-credits sequence in a WandaVision episode, Monica Rambeau begins to investigate Agatha’s house, opening the basement door to see vines, pulsating with a purple light, that dig into the ground from Agatha’s cellar. In this scene, Monica’s eyes have taken on a milky blue sheen, similar to when she was able to see the flow of power through tension wires when she first returned to Westview, indicating that while it may not be generally visible, this purple pulsating is a form of energy. Monica’s energy-based superpowers are still nascent, but as she has been watching the broadcast along with the other S.W.O.R.D. agents and researchers outside of the hex, she is aware that this is not a known property of Westview, and she reacts with surprise and alarm.

The purple color of the energy in the vines is the same shade of purple used by Agatha when she provokes a vision in Wanda. Since Wanda has a red hue to the energy that she calls upon, and other spell casters are seen to use orange energy in Doctor Strange, this color appears to be a signature of Agatha’s magic use. Having a network of vines carrying this energy either means that magic is flowing out into Westview, or being drawn in from Westview, and as Agatha does not seem to be constantly feeding magic out through the vine network at all times, it is more likely that this power is flowing in.

The Yo Magic Commercial

In WandaVision episode 6, a commercial for “Yo-Magic” has dark implications for exactly what Agatha may be trying to accomplish. Each of the commercials in the MCU show have been relevant to Wanda’s life and history, with the earlier commercials relating to her history leading up to her time in Westview, and the ad breaks in episodes 6 and 7 seeming to relate to things happening within the course of the series. “Yo-Magic” is an on-the-go yogurt snack advertised by a claymation shark that explains that he “used to be like that (hungry) all the time” until he “snacked on Yo-Magic!” If that isn’t ominous enough, the tagline for the product is “the snack for survivors!” accompanying the claymation kid in the commercial starving to death, unable to open the lid on the yogurt.

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Agatha, if she is anything like her comics counterpart, is unquestionably a survivor, and there have been hints along the way that Agatha was a villain, ranging from subtle references to full disquieting something-is-wrong moments. While there aren’t a lot of clues in the commercial that tie her directly to the animated shark character, the yogurt pack in the commercial is strawberry and pale red in color, which could indicate the pale red hue of Wanda’s magic. Since Agatha is often physically nearby when Wanda uses her own magic — and seems blissfully unconcerned when she does so, even before she was revealed to be a sorceress herself — it seems likely that Agatha was deliberately trying to draw forth magic to “snack” on.

What About The Twins

WandaVision episode 7 begins with Wanda taking a “self-imposed quarantine” and Agatha offering to watch her kids. When Wanda later goes to visit Agatha, she’s distressed to see the twins nowhere in sight. If Agatha is looking to consume magic, Billy, who grows to be more powerful than the Scarlet Witch in his comics identity as Wiccan, would also be a tempting target. The last audiences see of Billy and Tommy is Billy indicating that he can hear thoughts and that Agatha is “quiet on the inside.” Each time the twins age rapidly Agatha is nearby, and her actions of provoking dramatic situations that could require a magical solution might not just be targeted at Wanda.

Having the twins alone now that they have manifested their superpowers could provide Agatha an opportunity to consume yet more magic, related to but distinct from Wanda’s. The twins’ absence is conspicuous, and visibly worries Wanda, who immediately goes to seek them out. When Agatha suggests that the kids could be in the basement, this leads directly to Agatha confronting Wanda in the basement, and revealing her nefarious workings. Although the Scarlet Witch is currently the MCU’s most powerful character, the revelation of Agatha’s machinations shows that she can still be manipulated — and it’s possible that even the raising of the potentially powerful twins was an end-game goal of Agatha’s in the Westview mystery.

WandaVision has had enough twists at this point that it is difficult to declare that anything is definitely the case — there have been enough red herrings to throw the most dedicated theorists off. At present however, every sign indicates that Agatha has been trying to cause Wanda to use more and more magic, and put her in emotionally vulnerable positions to reduce her control, with the apparent aim of stealing her magic. With two episodes remaining, WandaVision promises yet more surprises, and may yet explain the motivation behind this scheme.

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