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Why did Agatha Harkness suffer such a shocking fate in the MCU?

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Why did Agatha Harkness suffer such a shocking fate in the MCU?

Agatha All Together showrunner Jac Schaeffer has finally revealed why the series had to end in such a shocking and unexpected way for the main character.

Agatha Harkness was featured in WandaVision How MCU a villain and, of course, committed villainous acts towards herself superhero shownine episodes.

But no one saw what would happen at the end of the series, where throughout two-part finalewe learned about her tragic past, which grew into Agatha’s equally tragic present.

To talk about the character’s fate and the reasons for it, we will have to go into detail now, so beware SPOILERS AHEAD…

As the climax approaches, Agatha finally did the right thing by sacrificing herself so that Billy Maiksimov could survive. As a result, during the climax, her character appeared to Billy as a ghost.

Head writer and showrunner Jac Schaeffer has now opened up about how Agatha’s story ended up in The Hollywood Reporter and that ghost was always part of the plan.

“We knew she was going to die because we knew we wanted her to be a ghost.” explains Schaeffer. “Point A was getting Agatha out of Wanda’s spell, and point B of the show was turning her into Billy’s ghost/spirit guide. These were the poles of the show that we were all committed to, and so there was no resistance to the kiss of Death.

“It’s the death blow to Marvel’s big battle, but it’s also the culmination of our romantic relationship. Those two things came together in a way that felt right to all the creative people involved in the show, and there wasn’t much resistance.”

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Indeed, both death as a concept and Death The character, played by Aubrey Plaza, cast a significant shadow over the proceedings, with Scheffer adding: “I really wanted to explore, on the scale of things, this little idea of ​​Agatha having a son who died, something so simple and so human. And if we were going to do that, we couldn’t move quickly and freely with all the other deaths.

“Because we then introduced Death as a character, it felt like our job was to more honestly explore death and how people achieve their goals and the permanence of that. So it wasn’t me who reacted to the landscape, but I saw it as an opportunity to do something unexpected.

“People are conditioned to expect a real happy ending, and we wrote that, but it felt disingenuous. So we went for real.”

All nine episodes of Always Agatha are now streaming on Disney+. More information about the show can be found in our guides on the website Darkhold and Nicholas Scratch, Agatha Harkness and Rio’s relationshipwhich was The best scene in the finale of the film “Agatha Always”And Why Agatha All Together Didn’t Need a Post-Credits Scene.