Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along Episode 6, “Familiar by Your Side.”
One of Loki’s best moments was copied by Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness years earlier Agatha all along. WandaVision Episode 8 reveals that Agatha Harkness was a young MCU witch at the time of the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600s, meaning she’s been alive for over three hundred years. That longevity means she’s been around the block, and it’s proven in Agatha all along Episode 6, “Familiar by Your Side,” saw Billy Maximoff—in his new body—research the powerful witch before joining her coven.
Billy Maximoff’s research in Agatha all along Episode 6 revealed that Agatha Harkness was involved in several major disasters throughout the 20th century, including the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. Since gaining the ability to absorb the power and life force of other witches back in Salem, Agatha Harkness has become infamous in the witch community as a killer of her own kind. However, she also became notorious to the general population, too, thanks to one iconic Dolly Parton song.
Agatha Harkness was the real “Jolene”
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” was released in 1973
anger, Agatha all along Episode 6 also seemed to imply that Agatha Harkness was the woman who inspired the legendary Dolly Parton hit, 1973’s “Jolene.” Apparently appearing in surveillance photos from 1972, which depict Agatha Harkness being slapped by a young Dolly Parton, the original Salem witch seems to have used her sexuality, sensuality and confidence to get what she wants for centuries. Although Agatha Harkness as the real Jolene is not actually confirmed, it would repeat one brilliant trick of Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in Phase 4.
Agatha all along repeats a brilliant Loki trick
Loki was a real-world figure in Loki season 1
Back in Loki In the season 1 premiere, “Glorious Purpose,” the Asgardian god of mischief is revealed to be masquerading as DB Cooper after losing a bet to Thor. DB Cooper is an epithet given to an unidentified man who hijacked a plane and demanded $200,000 in ransom in 1971 – that’s equivalent to roughly $1.5 million in 2024. The fact that DB Cooper is unidentified means that Loki fits perfectly into the mystery, just as Agatha Harkness did for Jolene. In the 1970s, and this is not the only time Loki Series pulled off the trick.
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Loki In season 2, Eugene Cordero’s TVA worker Casey was revealed to have originally been a variant of Frank Morris, a real-world prisoner who attempted an escape from Alcatraz in 1962. Morris escaped with two other men by placing papier-mâché heads in their Beds and escape with an improvised raft. The men were never found, and it was assumed that they had drowned during their escape attemptHowever Loki suggests they survived. Agatha all along Repeating the trick for Agatha Harkness is another example of the MCU answering a real-world mystery, which never gets old.
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