Breakout villain Agatha Harkness appears to be in a foul means, buddies.
No person right here is pleased about this. All of us love Marvel. A few of us grew up loving it a lot that we bought snug being the bizarre children who shouted “Bamf!” after we jumped off the monkey bars and semi-permanently destroyed our hairlines as six-year-olds after we tried to AquaNet our follicles into the identical form as Wolverine’s. There isn’t any pleasure in Marvel Studios’ latest dying spiral, save for the information that the corporate’s CGI artists may lastly be set free of their kennels and allowed to really feel grass underneath their toes once more.
All of that stated, boy, the MCU positive appears to be in a pickle recently, with the dumbness and the badness and the M.O.D.O.Okay. bottoms of all of it. There was a time when an illusory sense of a bigger plan stored audiences displaying up for questionably in style characters like Physician Unusual and Ant-Man getting solo pictures. Now, even the C-list has been milked with coarse, calloused fingers.
And Agatha Harkness—performed to campy, cackling, mustache-twirling perfection by Kathryn Hahn in 2021’s WandaVision—is on the receiving finish of the dangerous instances. The character’s solo collection was a part of Marvel’s mid-strike cull on September 1, becoming a member of a litany of different MCU choices being pushed again on the calendar. What made Agatha’s change of schedule stand out in a crowd that features Echo and What If…? was the surprising title change that got here with the rescheduling announcement. Initially introduced as Agatha: Home of Harkness earlier than altering to Agatha: Coven of Chaos, the Disney Plus collection is now being rebranded as Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. In the interim.
When the one sense of consistency by a two and a half yr manufacturing course of is the truth that the title is form of alliterative, individuals are going to speak, and the discuss isn’t going to be sort. Potential followers of the collection took to the app previously generally known as Twitter (which coincidentally can also’t appear to select a reputation and stick with it) to make their emotions identified.
Innocuous because it may appear, this third new title for the collection has some tough implications. It communicates to exhausted MCU followers that they have been proper to imagine that the studio is flying by the seat of their pants, making gut-based selections as a substitute of formulating a narrative forward of time. It doesn’t assist that the brand new title focuses on the Darkhold, a robust magical artifact that was destroyed throughout all universes on the finish of Multiverse of Insanity. This is able to recommend that both the Darkhold is again, marking one other in a protracted checklist of world-shaping modifications within the MCU that didn’t have any long-term penalties (which, boy, actually makes it laborious to maintain caring about maintaining with these motion pictures) or that Disney isn’t paying even a bit of little bit of consideration.
Some followers have additionally speculated as as to if the title modifications signifies that key characters may very well be written out of the present—probably the most catastrophic of which might be MCU fave Wanda. Whereas that appears extremely unlikely, these are strenuous instances for studios and actors, and something might occur.
No matter’s happening, Marvel’s Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is now scheduled to premiere late in 2024. Enjoyable reality: If the sample retains up, the present can have gone by one and a half new titles by then.