The first image from Marvel's WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along is here, giving us a look at Agatha Harkness and her covenless crew.
The image conjured up by Empire sees Kathryn Hahn's titular witch join forces with, as creator Jac Schaeffer puts it, "a disparate, mixed bag of witches," including Patti LuPone's Lilia, Sasheer Zamata's Jennifer, Debra Jo Rupp's Sharon, and Ali Ahn's Alice. It's not entirely clear what they're up to, though, as the group stares down into a glowing blue abyss.
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"What they have in common is that they're covenless witches," Schaeffer told the outlet about the pictured quintet. "Witches are defined by deception, treachery, villainy and selfishness. What do you do when you have a group of witches who [demonstrate] those notions, and you need them to work together?"
Rupp previously portrayed Westview citizen Sharon Davis (aka Mrs Hart) in WandaVision, but now she appears to have ditched the dishes and enlisted with the witches. The specifics of her role in Agatha's solo MCU outing are unknown, but Schaeffer suggests the characters will not strictly conform to witchy archetypes.
"[Where] WandaVision played with the form of classic TV sitcoms, [here] we do a lot of playing with what the assumptions about witches are," Schaeffer explained. "Like, what are the shorthand visuals for witches? We certainly didn't want a one-dimensional nasty witch. We will have moments where we see Agatha's true heart."
Hahn, of course, debuted as Agatha in WandaVision, where she quickly became a fan-favorite — thanks in no small part to her Emmy-winning earworm Agatha All Along, written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who have returned to write more musical numbers for her in the upcoming series.
Agatha All Along will premiere on Disney+ on September 18 as the next release on the MCU's slate after the highly anticipated Deadpool & Wolverine.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on X/Twitter here.
