"Agatha All Along" Introduced New Characters To The MCU, And Here They Are

The series picks up three years after the events of WandaVision, with Agatha still under Wanda's spell. As "Agnes," she's the star of her own TV series, Agnes of Westview, a crime drama that finds her investigating the mysterious death of a woman found in the woods. When a contentious figure from her past joins her investigation and a goth teen breaks into her house, Agatha is led down a path that eventually breaks her out of Wanda's spell.

As the possessive plural name suggests, The Witches' Road requires a coven to access. So much like a heist, Agatha needs a team of experts in their respective crafts. Witchcraft that is.

As we learned in WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there are different types of magic. Agatha wields Dark Magic, Wanda tapped into Chaos Magic as the Scarlet Witch, and Doctor Strange harnesses Eldritch Magic.

For The Witches Road, Agatha, needs a Divination Witch, a Potions Witch, a Protection Witch, and a Green Witch.

So here's a breakdown of all the magical, new faces (played by an incredible cast) and possible threats to Agatha and the MCU.

Posing as a roadside psychic, Lilia Calderau (Patti Lupone) is a 450-year-old Sicilian witch who was chased out of every town she lived in for accurately predicting tragedies and disasters. As a result, she's resentful of the bad reputations that witches like Agatha give their kind. However, a vision prompts Lilia to write down a list of other witches for Agatha's coven, including herself. 

In Billy's flashback, she is shown placing the sigil on William Kaplan at his birthday party, predicting his transformational future and protecting that information until the right moment.

In the comics, Lilia Caldaru is a Witch-Queen of the Roma people and protector of the Book of Caligostro, a supposedly powerful ancestor. At some point, Lilia also holds the Serpent Crown and mentors Wanda. She also had a relationship with Baron Mordo and has faced off against Doctor Strange.

Sasheer Zamata plays Jennifer Kale, a health and wellness business owner, influencer, potions witch, 11th-generation root worker, and midwife whose magic has been bound for about a century. She reveals that a non-witch doctor set a trap for her and bound her without magic and she has tried everything to free herself.

In the comics, Jennifer Kale is the descendant of Atlantean cultists devoted to a sorceress named Zhered-Na, who predicted the sinking of Atlantis. 

A child of The Road, Alice (Ali Ahn) is the daughter of legendary witch rockstar Lorna Wu (Elizabeth Anweis). A former police officer whose life has been full of struggles and bad luck, she dismissed the existence of The Road after her mother died in a hotel fire.

Like her mother before her, Alice practices protection magic, using practical human knowledge, and spells to protect the rest of this coven.

In the comics, Alice is the daughter of a powerful witch and a police officer. After her mother's death, she inherited her powers and her mother's pink hair. Her father is also killed, and Alice becomes a police officer to hunt down his killers.

Played by the electric Aubrey Plaza, Rio Vidal is a green witch (sorry, *THE* Green Witch). She fills in for Mrs. Hart- er, Sharon Davis (Debra Jo Rupp), on The Road after she succumbs to the first trial. A Green Witch taps into Earth Magic and manipulates nature for their power. She can raise winds, bring forth new life, and heal wounds.

While Rio has no direct comic book counterpart, many fans speculate online on who she may be. We'll have to see if all these teases mean anything, or if it's another Mephisto fakeout.

Finally, while he isn't technically a new character, Joe Locke plays the sassy and resourceful teen familiar who helps Agatha break free from Wanda's spell and in return asks to take him to The Witches Road. Protected by a sigil concealing his true identity, he is referred to as "Teen" until revealed at the end of one of the trials.

Revealed to be Billy Maximoff with a cheeky Billie Eilish needle drop at the end of episode five, the MCU pulled off the confusing task of bringing Wanda's conjured children (at least one of the two) to the real world.

The same day that Wanda brought down the Hex in Westview, William Kaplan and his parents were involved in a car crash in Eastview. William was killed in the crash at almost the same moment that Billy Maximoff's body was disappearing, providing a vessel for Billy's soul.

In the comics, Billy becomes Wiccan and joins the Young Avengers, eventually reuniting with Tommy and Wanda.

The Salem Seven was Agatha Harkness' previous coven from Salem, Massachusetts, which she drained of their power and then killed. Agatha spared their children, but now those children are back to hunt and kill her.

In the comics, the group known as Salem's Seven are the children of Nicholas Scratch.

In the comics, Nicholas Scratch is Agatha Harkness' son and also the father of Salem's Seven, which makes for a pretty tangled web for the MCU, since y'know, the Seven are trying to kill Agatha.

In the series, Nicholas is implied dead or only missing, which is a source of Agatha's pain. He hasn't been physically introduced yet, but with various references to him by Jen and Rio, could his return be what Agatha gets at the end of The Road?

William Kaplan's parents are Rebecca (Maria Dizzia) and Jeff Kaplan (Paul Adelstein). The Kaplans are Reform Jews and live in Eastview, New Jersey. On the day of William's Bar Mitzvah, Wanda brought down the Hex, causing alarm and evacuations from the party. As the Kaplans were driving home, the commotion of the Hex caused a car crash that injured Rebecca and Jeff, but fatally wounded William.

Not knowing how, but aware that something has changed with William after he was reincarnated as Billy Maximoff, Rebecca and Jeff Kaplan were worried their relationship with their son would never be the same.

In the comics, Rebecca is a psychologist, and Jeff is a cardiologist.

Eddie (Miles Gutierrez-Riley) is William Kaplan's loving and supportive boyfriend. Eddie supports William's investigation of what happened the day Wanda brought down the Hex and the Kaplans got into their car crash. He accompanies William to the very sketchy meeting with Westview citizen Ralph Bohner (Evans Peters).

While Eddie has no comic book counterpart, Billy eventually enters into a relationship with his Young Avenger teammate Teddy Altman, a.k.a. Hulkling.