[Ed. note: This post discusses spoilers for Agatha All Along episode 6, “Familiar by Thy Side.” Proceed down the road only if you want some witches’ spoilers.]
The present known as Agatha All Alongside, however Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) actually isn’t the one Marvel star exhibiting up. As of episode 6, “Acquainted by Thy Aspect,” we now formally have Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan (or, proper now within the MCU, Wiccan-to-be) on board. Which pushes Agatha All Alongside towards Wanda Maximoff and WandaVision callbacks. So it is smart that Agatha would convey again lots of people’s (least) favourite a part of WandaVision: Ralph Bohner.
Nonetheless, the reveal feels a bit of foolish after followers have been speculating from the present’s trailer that the mysterious parking-garage stranger was going to be Mephisto, Marvel Comics’ model of Devil. After “Acquainted by Thy Aspect,” is Ralph Bohner who he says he’s?
…Most likely, yeah! Let’s take a look at the proof.
Ralph Bohner has an MCU historical past already
Evan Peters first confirmed up in WandaVision as Pietro, Wanda’s long-dead brother. For followers, Peters’ look was a enjoyable little bit of stunt-casting: Pietro, aka Quicksilver, was performed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson within the MCU, in Avengers: Age of Ultron. However Peters performed Quicksilver in Fox’s X-Males universe, notably in an X-Males: Apocalypse scene the place he cheekily saves all his fellow heroes. (It’s about the one factor price remembering about that film.) So when Peters appeared as Pietro within the MCU’s WandaVision proper in regards to the time the X-Males have been getting cleared to hitch the MCU, it appeared like his model of Quicksilver may need a means into this franchise in any case.
However then actual life took over. Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) found “Pietro” was really simply one other Westview citizen beneath Wanda’s spell (and extra importantly, beneath Agatha’s secret management). His identify was really Ralph Bohner, and he was the precise occupant of the home Agnes (aka Agatha) was residing in, and the mysterious husband Agnes stored making sitcom jokes about. Fan goals for a legitimized Fox-mutants-in-the-MCU state of affairs sank.
Agatha All Alongside brings Ralph again in a means that feels constant along with his character up to now. When he seems in episode 6, he’s a form of crazy MCU model of Deep Throat, a Westview resident nonetheless deeply haunted by his time beneath Wanda and Agatha’s management. Sadly, the one one that appears to imagine the account of “Bohnerrific69” is Billy Maximoff. We even see that Agatha is carrying a “Bohner Household Reunion” shirt when she first meets Billy.
Ralph places Billy on the path of Agatha (an “historical freakin’ witch who will eff your shit up”) and notes that she hijacked his life, stole his home (and “utterly ruined the market worth”), and made him do horrible issues. It’s no shock that Ralph is on the run.
OK, however… might Ralph really be Mephisto?
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There was some fan chatter after Agatha’s midseason trailer that possibly we have been getting a glimpse of Mephisto, after we noticed the again of a head carrying a bucket hat. However now we all know that’s simply Ralph rocking his incognito look.
To date, Agatha All Alongside hasn’t actually introduced any proof that he might be Mephisto in disguise. It might be a pleasant narrative callback to WandaVision’s late reveal of Agatha because the “precise” villain, certain. However given the one scene we’ve gotten of him, he simply appears to be a man who misplaced it a bit after present process heavy thoughts management. What few particulars we get in his costuming seem to simply be safety spells (a cross on his bucket hat, an evil-eye necklace, and apparently just a few objects sewn into the within of his jacket). And though there have been references to the de facto satan of the Marvel Universe — earlier on, one of many witches talks about Agatha’s son as a rumored “agent of Mephisto” — Agatha creator Jac Schaeffer has been coy about whether or not that’s a nod or a tease for a future pop-up.
“With these reveals, so usually there’s something that’s without delay a joke and a wink and a nod, and truly has one thing official beneath it,” Schaeffer informed Leisure Weekly. “As everyone knows, Mephisto is a personality who’s very wrapped into Agatha’s storyline. I imply, folks have to look at, however we’re all the time taking part in with the viewers in that means.”
So did Billy simply have a brush with the satan? May very well be! It appears unlikely, however because the saying goes, the best factor Mephisto ever did was persuade the world he didn’t exist. We’ll see what future episodes convey.