Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha throughout
We are already halfway there Agatha all alongSeason 9 episodes are rolling, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to ignore how well it’s setting up the MCU return of Scarlet Witch. And it can’t come soon enough. Elizabeth Olsen’s MCU Avenger has now been dead for two years after Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness’ end, but there was always a route back to life (especially since we never actually saw what happened to her body).
Agatha all along Obviously opened with her corpse being part of Agatha More from Easttown Opening episode, but it was a projection of Agatha’s warped mind. And the longer the show goes on – especially after Tin is revealed to be Wiccan in Agatha all along The end of episode 5 – the more it feels like the fantasy was set up a grand finale where Wanda is resurrected. Even more importantly, however, the show is already subtly working on restoring Scarlet Witch’s reputation, with a major point in episode 5 addressing her inherent goodness.
Scarlet Witch’s name has been dragged through the mud in the MCU
Wanda was more sinned against than sinning
Since the introduction of Scarlet Witch to the MCU for real in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Her arc positioned her as a morally complex character. Her origin story was one of dramatic trauma – thanks to a Stark tech weapon killing her parents – and exploitation – when she became a Hydra test subject. The version we first met, filled with rage and a burning urge for revenge, made sense, and yet, despite her ill-treatment throughout the MCU, we were all told to believe Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ Conviction that she was a villain.
Even still Age of Ultronwho also saw her brother killed, Wanda is repeatedly traumatized. She was jailed for accidentally killing civilians in Captain America: Civil Wars opening, ostracized for her potential threat, and then robbed of her happy ending when Vision is killed twice in Avengers: Infinity War. From there, you broke in WandaVision Added depth, however Multiverse of Madness painted her as a hapless and selfish murderer without exploring her trauma in a satisfactory way.
Agatha all along confirms that Wanda is not inherently evil
There was always goodness behind Wanda’s trauma
It took a long time, however Agatha all along Subtly restores some of Scarlet Witch’s inherent goodness. When Tin is revealed to be a Wiccan, Agatha scolds him, saying “You are just like your mother“Like an attempted insult. This comes as Tin balks at the idea of ​​killing people for power, which Agatha and her surviving coven members seem to suggest is just a fact of being a witch. That apparently proves to be Tin’s inspiration to reveal his power, despite his own expressed desire to complete the Witches Road for power.
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In saying that Tin is just like his mother because of his reluctance to accept the nefarious truth of witchcraft, Agatha indirectly identifies the inherent goodness of the Scarlet Witch. Tin clearly says “That’s what it means to be a witch? Killing people to serve your own agenda? no, not for me“And while that’s exactly what Wanda did when she succumbed to the Darkhold’s influence, Agatha is underlining the fundamental truth that Wanda is nothing like her, or even the other members of the coven.
“You’re just like your mother” can have two meanings
Is Agatha going to reveal another big teen twist all along?
It’s actually more to Agatha’s barbed insult that Tin is just like his mother, if you choose to believe the theory that he’s been manipulating things all along. It feels like no coincidence that Tin has been instrumental in uncovering key clues during all three of the trials so far: he just seems to have happened to be in the right place at just the right time. What if he knows exactly where to look because he’s the one pulling the strings, Flip WandaVisions history on its head?
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From Tin’s point of view, his reluctance to accept evil as necessary would make him like Wanda, who eventually fought back against the Darkhold and allowed her essential good to triumph as she sacrificed herself to destroy it. But from Agatha’s point of view, if Tin is behind the trials and brings her to the Witches Road because he knows what it takes to get to the end, He would not be better than the witch who imprisoned her for three years. Agatha now believes that Tin is evil, and the question we need answered is how aware he was that the path was going to claim the lives of some of the trialists.
In this respect, if Tin unknowingly condemns Sharon and Alice to their deaths in Agatha all alongHe is like his mother, and it is how he reacts that will define whether he is truly Scarlet Witch’s heir. Hopefully, an attack of conscience would not stop him from finding a way to revive his mother, because The MCU needs the return of Scarlet Witch.