“'Agatha All Along': A Teen's True Identity, Explained”

Possible spoilers for Agatha all the time.

Fall is a contemplative season with slightly cooler temperatures, pumpkin spice, and a brand new witch show. Follows in the pop culture-influenced footsteps of its predecessor WandaVision, Agatha all the time serves up a mix of horror films and prestige television and invites theories galore. Most pressing: the identity of Joe Locke's “Teen,” an avid fanboy who has what it takes to snap Agatha out of her Westview stupor. Three episodes later, “Teen” is still “Teen,” with the big reveal so far being that he has a seal, a blackening spell that hides his identity from all wizards. (You know Kevin Feige wishes he could use one on Tom Holland during the MCU press conference.) But Agatha all the time has planted some seeds about “Teen’s” true identity, so we’re unpacking them and our theories below.

The most discussed theory is that “Teen” is Wanda Maximoff's son Billy, whom she gave birth to in 2010 as one half of a set of twins WandaVision. At the end of WandaVisionWanda frees Westview from her reality-warping abilities, which includes letting go of Vision, Billy and Tommy, as they can only be alive as long as Westview is under their spell. We last saw Billy (played by Julian Hilliard) in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesswhere Billy seems, at least in a multiverse, to be very real and not just a figment of Wanda's Westview imagination. Complicated, yes, but in the end Wanda decides not to pull him and Tommy out of this multiverse, meaning there's still neither Billy nor Tommy in the main MCU timeline.

Thanks to comic book history, there is a precedent for her return. In the Vision and the Scarlet Witch In the comics, Wanda and Vision's twins, Thomas and William, are revealed to have been fragments of Mephisto, Marvel's version of the devil, and Agatha erases Wanda's memory to prevent T-trauma from her children's disappearance. It's all weird gibberish weirdness with some misogyny thrown in, but the twins reappear in Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung Young Avengers Comics like Billy Kaplan (Wiccan) and Tommy Shepherd (Speed) that we know in the 2010s The Children's Crusade Are Wanda's children reincarnated?

And so we come to Locke’s “Teen.” What evidence supports Billy here? Apart from that Agatha all the time Although he feels the need to hide his identity, this child's magic is powerful enough to free Agatha from Wanda's spell. Then there's the existence of Teen's protective “Boyf” (his actual name hasn't been revealed yet); In Young AvengersBilly has a friend named Teddy (aka a Kree/Skrull hero named Hulkling), and since the MCU hasn't committed to many queer characters, that feels notable indeed. Finally, and most tellingly, Marvel's marketing includes two key elements: One is a poster showing Joe Locke wearing an outfit suspiciously similar to Billy's WandaVision (and reminiscent of Wicca); another is a 15-second teaser from Agatha shows Teen seemingly practicing blue magic, just like Billy. It makes a lot of sense Agatha to introduce Billy, as the MCU is trying to assemble its own young super team. If this theory is true, the most interesting part will be how Agatha reveals it.

Sure, Wanda looms over this show, but Agatha's name is in the title. Having “Teen” as her son Nicholas could be an intriguing wrinkle – or a red herring – for our evil witch. This is the first mention of Nicholas in the MCU, but you may remember Señor Scratchy, Agatha's rabbit WandaVisionwho was probably named after her son; He even cuddles with Agatha and Teen in the first two episodes Agatha. Episode three, however, is almost too heavy-handed with the scratch information, as Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata) tells “Teen” that Agatha traded her son for the Book of the Damned and “wouldn't recognize her own son if he saw it.” “. up on their doorstep.” (Come on.) Kale goes on to say, “Nobody knows what happened to him,” and theorizes that he could be dead, a demon, or, hey, an agent of Mephisto. In the comics, Scratch seeks revenge against his mother Agatha and even sends the “Salem Seven” after her – the same scary seven that haunt Agatha in the television series. Scratch ends up acting as an agent of Mephisto, so the pieces line up neatly. Actually a little too neat. Which reminds me…

Look, I'm not saying it will happen, but if Evan Peters (who played Quicksilver on the 20th Century Fox X Men films) appeared WandaVision as the in-show and in-universe recast of Aaron Taylor Johnson's Pietro, the MCU version of Quicksilver (yes, it's the same character), all sorts of theories about the possibility of X-Men as a post-Fox/The Disney -Fusion project exploded on the Internet. In the end, all of these theories were invalid, and Peters was just a guy named Ralph Bohner. I doubt the mystery of “Teen” will lead to another exposure of bullshit jokes, but I’ll cover my bases anyway.