Spoilers below.
If Marvel is good at anything, it’s scattering Easter eggs around the television shows and films in its ever-growing franchise. Disney+’s Agatha All Along is no exception.
Like its predecessor WandaVision, Agatha All Along’s premiere episodes contain many callbacks to pop culture, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Marvel Comics. From referencing Wanda’s demolished home to paying homage to other television shows, the episodes contained obvious and not-so-obvious Easter eggs alike. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer, who calls herself a “cultural-omnivore,” wanted to include several pop culture references throughout the series, including The Wizard of Oz, The Goonies, Labyrinth, The Craft, The Exorcist, and many more. She tells Flickering Myth, “Who doesn’t love pop culture?”
Check out all the Easter eggs we found in the premiere episodes below:
The Agnes of Westview True Crime Television Series
In the opening scene of Agatha All Along, Agatha is Agnes O’Connor, a no-nonsense, sarcastic detective tasked with solving the case of a murdered Jane Doe. Just like in WandaVision, which paid homage to classic television shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched, the entire storyline is revealed to be a crime procedural television series inspired by Mare of Easttown. Even Agness’ outfit looks similar to the one worn by Kate Winslet’s detective character.
The series even calls back to WandaVision in the fake opening credits: “Based on the Danish series WanvaVisdysen.” It’s as if being under a magical curse is like being trapped in a TV show.
Fun fact: Kathryn Hahn has experience on crime shows. She previously starred as a grief counselor in the NBC crime procedural series Crossing Jordan.
Dead Witches in the Agnes of Westview Opening Credits
If you freeze certain moments within the opening credits of Agatha’s “television series,” you will find three stills of dead Salem-era witches whose powers have been absorbed. They’re not particular characters, but their faces looked drained like the witches whose powers were absorbed by Agatha in WandaVision.
The Residents of Westview
Several familiar faces pop up in Westview’s small town. In WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch, uses a hex to control the city, forcing its residents to play along with her imaginary sitcom life. Once freed, several residents remained in the town, including John Collins (“Herb”), Harold and Sarah Proctor (“Phil and Dottie Jones”), Abilash Tandon (“Norm”), Sharon Davis (“Mrs. Hart”), and Dennis.
While it seems the town was forced to participate in Agatha’s curse, it turns out they were just going along with it because they had a good relationship with the bewitched “Agnes.”
Agatha’s Pendant
“Agnes” finds a pendant in the water that belonged to her as Agatha. She takes it to “Norm,” the pawn shop guy, who assesses that it’s from late 17th-century New England. The three figures on the necklace are the Triple Goddesses of spiritual evolution: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. The necklace was originally her mother Evanora’s. Evanora was killed by Agatha, who drained her mother’s powers for her own. Agatha wears this pendant throughout WandaVision.
Dialogue And Rhetoric: Known History Of Learning & Debate by Andrew Ugo
The “stolen” and “destroyed” copies of the Dialogue And Rhetoric: Known History Of Learning & Debate represented the Book of the Damned, The Darkhold. As the library card reveals, the book was previously owned by Agatha but stolen by Wanda at the end of her series three years ago.
In Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, Wanda becomes consumed by its dark magic and travels to find her sons throughout the multiverse. Once she realizes the error of her ways, she sacrifices herself to destroy all versions of the Darkhold in the multiverse – hence why all the copies of this book were destroyed in the library.
Fun fact: Andrew Ugo is an anagram of Wundagore, the mountain where the Darkhold was created and the location where Wanda died.
The Westview Library Card Dates
Although the bottom two dates refer to when Agatha (“Jan 21”) and Wanda (“Oct 13”) had the Darkhold, the other dates have other significant meetings. They include “Feb 16” (Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen’s birthday), “Aug 28” (comic book artist Jack Kirby’s birthday), “Jun 02” (Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige’s birthday), and “Dec 28” (comic book writer Stan Lee’s birthday). In WandaVision, Agatha also reveals that her anniversary is June 2, which, in history, marked the first conviction of the Salem Witch Trials.
Jane Doe
The dead body represents Wanda, whom Agatha describes as “late 20s, green eyes, 5’7”, and hair: the color of scarlet.” The hands are also blackened like Wanda’s were when she used dark magic. “Herb” mentions that she seemed to have been crushed to death, and the “Chief” finds Eastern European soil in her fingernails and toenails, which is where Mount Wundagore is located.
Nicholas Scratch, a.k.a. Nicky
Like most procedural cop shows, the detective has a deeper, personal backstory that explains why they do what they do. For “Agnes,” something tragic had happened to her son, Nicholas Scratch, prompting her to be a workaholic. In the comics, Agatha does have a son named Nicholas Scratch, whom she abandoned in New Salem. Nicholas would become a powerful sorcerer and supervillain, eventually turning on his mother.
Fun fact: Nicholas Scratch’s name originated during the 1700s as a pseudonym for the Devil. Based on the Devil’s nicknames “Old Nick” and “Old Scratch,” Marvel combined the names to create Nicholas Scratch in 1977.
All of Agatha’s WandaVision Costumes
As the real Agatha claws her way out of Wanda’s hex, she starts removing layers of her clothing as she begins to remember her former self. As she peels off more items, she reveals several of her former outfits from WandaVision, including the ‘80s workout outfit, plaid look, and her classic black and white 1960s ensemble. It’s great to see her in these costumes again.
She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named
When Agatha finally wakes up from her spell, she confronts her neighbor, John, who tells her she’s been here for three years and she’s been a pretty good neighbor. Agatha mentions Wanda’s name, which prompts John to tell her, “We try not to say her name.” I don’t blame them. She did torture the residents of Westview – unintentionally – for several months. Even Wanda’s demolished home, which she once shared with Vision and her children, Billy and Tommy, has been left untouched.
Señor Scratchy Returns
When Agatha’s real identity returns, her pet rabbit/familiar, Señor Scratchy, reappears. In the comics, her pet was a magical cat-like entity named Ebony, but this was changed for the series. WandaVision’s director Matt Shakman did reveal in a cut scene that Señor Scratchy was initially supposed to turn into a demon, but scrapped it because it would take away from the story. Thus, Señor Scratchy remained just a bunny – and it seems like he’s just a cute pet for Agatha in this series.
The Salem Seven
After their brutal fight, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) gleefully tells Agatha that the Seven Salem are coming for her. The news stresses Agatha, and she plans to flee Westview and go into hiding until Teen (Joe Locke) convinces her to gather a coven to go down the Witches’ Road to regain her powers. Throughout the two episodes, Agatha pauses to look at several animals, including a crow, rat, and wolf.
The Salem Seven are witches from New Salem—all offspring of Nicholas Scratch—and have magical abilities, including transforming into particular animals. The supervillains originally served their father but later switched allegiances.
The Witches’ Road
In the MCU, the Witches’ Road is a magical dimension parallel to Earth that can only be accessed by a coven of witches and sorcerers. It is also a test for those who walk along it, and they must pass the trials to obtain their deepest desires. As Teen tells Agatha, “The Witches’ Road will give you the thing you want most if you make it to the end.”
To regain her powers, Agatha must recruit four other witches to join her on this road, including Lilia Calderu, Jennifer Kale, Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Rio Vidal. Not wanting to work with Rio, Agatha invites her powerless human neighbor, Sharon (“Mrs. Hart”), to their coven.
The Witches’ Road is mentioned multiple times in the comics in Scarlet Witch’s stories. In the Scarlet Witch Collection story arc, Wanda and Agatha, in spirit form, travel down the Witches’ Road to encounter the Emerald Warlock (which the Green Witch, aka Rio Vidal, seems to be based on), who they battle and defeat and are granted their wishes in the end. Agatha is resurrected from the dead, and Wanda is given a fresh start.
Laura Sirikul is a freelance entertainment journalist and copy editor based in Los Angeles. Throughout her career, she has written for Entertainment Weekly, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, and many more outlets. She has appeared as a TV and film expert on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and BBC World News. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and Critics Choice Association.