Why Is Agatha Harkness So Powerful?

Who's been messing up everything? It's been Agatha all along. Who's been pulling every evil string? It's been Agatha all along.

While Agatha Harkness' not-so-surprise reveal on WandaVision finally confirmed a long-standing theory about the true identity of Agnes the nosy neighbor, it also left a burning question. What are the origins and limits of Harkness' power?

Let's look at everything we know so far about Agatha Harkness, both in the show and her comic book appearances, to try and come up with an answer.

In Marvel comics proper, Agatha Harkness is an old woman. An old, old woman. She's got memories stretching back 500 years before Atlantis sank, which Marvel's in-universe historians place around 10,500 BC.

Basically, Harkness predates every known human civilization, and she's outlasted all of them. You know what they say: with age comes wisdom. And since wisdom is power for the magically inclined, essentially Harkness is powerful because of her age, but that's only part of the equation.

She draws from three sources of magical power: her own personal well of energy, ambient magic that pervades the Marvel universe, and extra-dimensional energy that exists in entities and objects housed in tangential dimensions. These three sources give Harkness a near limitless source of power — but we're still not done.

In the Marvel universe, witches and warlocks rely on the Goddess of Witchcraft — even the Sorcerer Supreme is powerless without her. At one point in Marvel canon, the goddess was, for lack of a better term, killed by another supreme deity, Chaos. When Wanda Maximoff and the ghosts of her mother and Harkness resurrected the Goddess of Witchcraft, that act also resurrected Harkness herself. This could imply some special link between her and the goddess that goes far beyond what normal spell-casters experience, which could explain her power.

But there's an important point to consider about the Marvel Comics version of Agatha Harkness.

In the source material, she's not inherently evil -- she's not even really a villain.

Keep watching to find out why Agatha Harkness is so powerful.

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