There were several brilliant and emotional moments in WandaVision, perhaps the most complex being when Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) says goodbye to her children, Tommy and Billy. And, in the end, the one who had been controlling the entire environment since the beginning was Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), the friendly neighbor. Not so cool, after all.

Giving the supporting antagonist a six-episode series was questioned by Marvel fans. However, alongside Loki and WandaVision, it turned out to be one of the best pieces of content in the franchise and certainly in 2024. In the final two episodes, we have (?) the surrender of Agatha, a vampire who has been sucking the energy of other witches for centuries, and we discover not only her past but also the origin of the Ballad of Witch Road. Yes, we got emotional about everything.

Agatha Harkness is a character from Marvel comics, a powerful witch and mentor, linked to several characters in the Marvel universe, especially Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff). Her past as part of the witchcraft and sorcery stories in Marvel is essential to understanding her motivations and abilities.

Over the years, Harkness has been portrayed in various ways, from an ally and mentor to an antagonist. In the series WandaVision, she is presented as an enigmatic figure, disguised as an ordinary neighbor, later revealing her true power and intentions. This duality contributes to the complexity of the character. So much so that when trying to steal Wanda’s powers, Agatha ends up trapped by her in that false reality of Westville, an even greater torture for her, since she is a powerful witch with significant magical abilities, including telepathy, transmutation, and manipulation of magical energy.

The representation of Agatha Harkness in WandaVision brought a new dimension to her story, exploring themes of trauma, power, and the impact of emotional pain. The positive reception of the series helped solidify her popularity among fans, presenting her not only as a villain but as a figure with emotional depth. Something that the conclusion of the series brilliantly reinforced.

After the emotional and fatal trial of Lilia (Patti Lupone) on the Witch Road, we literally reach the end of the journey. No one is happy. Rio (Audrey Plaza), as Death, realizes that all the drama is part of Agatha’s plan to spare Billy’s life. He may not be Nick, the witch’s dead son, but he awakens her maternal instincts.

Rio can’t let Billy find Tommy, but she can’t collect his body either because he “stole” him and gained a second life, cheating Death. So she negotiates with her ex-lover: if Agatha can get Billy to voluntarily give himself up to die, the witch will live for a longer period. If not, Agatha will die.

Back on the road, Jennifer Kale and Billy still mourn Lilia’s sacrifice and meet Agatha again before stopping at the final trial at the morgue. When she is ready to put herself forward to save Billy, Jennifer realizes that it was Agatha, and not some Boston doctor, who bound her magic in the 1920s. Outraged, she performs a quick unbinding ritual and regains her power. With that, she ends her adventure and disappears.

Alone with Billy, Agatha tries to keep her word with Rio, manipulating the young man into confirming what he wants most and offering to help him. She encourages him to try to find a vessel for Tommy, and Billy envisions a boy on the verge of death and Billy immediately disappears. Alone, Agatha mourns her son, Nicky, and manages to figure out how to pass her own trial. Or so she thought.

Rio is once again irritated with Agatha protecting Billy and the two begin to fight. Billy reappears as Wicca (fans went wild) and saves the witch, at least for a while. Agatha warns Billy that not even together they are strong enough to fight Death, and the young man volunteers to end the confrontation by surrendering himself to Death. But when he discovers that Agatha had promised to deceive him, even though he is disappointed, he resorts to the most effective card: telepathically asking if that was Nick’s destiny. In a sudden outburst, Agatha changes everything and surrenders herself to Death, confirming what we always suspected, the fact that she would sacrifice herself for Billy.

Exhausted and confused, Billy returns to Eastville and when he returns to his room he realizes that the entire universe of the road came from elements from there. In other words, the road was the construction of his mind. He hears Agatha’s laughter and – in the final episode – tries to understand everything that led Agatha to the 21st century.

And we finally find out. Still in 1750, the young Agatha was pregnant and alone in a forest, with Rio surrounding the two. Agatha begs for the child to live, but Rio says he can only “offer time”. One day, she returns.

The birth, the negotiation, and Agatha’s life with her son for six years are sad and exciting precisely because we know the end is tragic later on.

The duo makes their way through the forest, with Agatha attacking other witches, always with the help of her son. And yes, that’s where the Ballad of the Witches‘ Road comes from, created by Nicky with the help of his mother. The two live off scams and the success of the song, but in the middle of the night Death calls him and Agatha is devastated.

Always cunning and cunning, even in mourning Agatha finds an alternative to drain the energy of the other witches: promising to help them cross the Witches’ Road, which is obviously her invention. Several centuries pass, without her changing her plan. We see that Agatha’s original plan was to kill Alice, Jennifer, Lilia, and Sharon as soon as they finished singing, but since Billy conjured a real Witches’ Road, she followed him without knowing what was coming.

With everything in context, Agatha, now a ghost, continues to help Billy. He is moved by the story of his past, about the witch who finally admits that she sees her son Nicky in Billy. “We’ll find Tommy,” she offers in the final scene.

In a fast-paced season, with impeccable performances and music, Agatha Ever After signals that Marvel still has momentum. It’s all about magic.