How does Agatha absorb powers?

In the comics, Agatha draws her power from multiple sources. As Looper writes, those sources are her own internal source of energy, magic that exists within the Marvel universe, and extra-dimensional energy that exists within various entities and objects in tangential dimensions.
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Can Agatha Harkness absorb powers?

Power Stealing: Harkness was able to absorb the power of several magical members of her coven, including her own mother. Harkness was able to absorb the Chaos Magic from Wanda while she was attacking her.
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How does Agatha Harkness have powers?

Harkness derives her powers from manipulation of the forces of magic.
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How did Agatha Harkness get her powers in WandaVision?

She gets her powers by stealing them from others. Interestingly enough, this is also something we saw in Doctor Strange.
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Did Wanda absorb Agathas power?

In an instant, Wanda manages to overpower Agatha with her magic, allowing Billy and Tommy to speed away to safety—but it plays out as Agatha intended. The purple-clad witch tells Wanda that she “takes power from the undeserving,” and just as she did to her coven back in Salem, Agatha absorbs Wanda's magic for herself.
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WandaVision: Agatha Harkness's Powers Explained



Is Agatha a siphon?

Harkness absorbing magic When Harkness was on trial she demonstrated that she was capable of corrupting the magic from the witches of her own coven, effectively siphoning their energies and killing them.
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Can Agatha beat Wanda?

Agatha also seems to know how to fly without being impulsed by her hands and can nullify Wanda's powers with runes. In short, Agatha could defeat the multiverse's most powerful witch with enough knowledge and discipline.
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Why was Agatha so powerful?

Through the years, Agatha Harkness had proven to be a powerful ally when the Fantastic Four, and later the Avengers, needed her help. While she cannot fight, her powers as a witch have been invaluable, with her spell casting, telepathy, astral projection, and energy bolts that cause great damage.
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How did Agatha get in the hex?

Wanda is so overcome with grief that magic just bursts right out of her and creates the Hex. She literally tries to escape into the American dream. Agatha says that she senses powerful magic coming from Wanda, and that's why she enters the Hex.
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Is Agatha Harkness stronger than Scarlet Witch?

However, after the WandaVision finale, it's clear the show's real villain, Agatha Harkness, is way more powerful than the Mad Titan as she often surpasses Wanda, despite the outcome of their fight.
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What is Agatha Harkness weakness?

Her best trick however is teleportation. While many characters can teleport in the comics, few are as talented at it as Agatha. She has no fatal flaw in terms of weaknesses, but is often depicted as very frail and elderly, something which is not true of the version of her in WandaVision.
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Does Agatha Harkness have Chaos Magic?

The comic book origins solidify that aside from Wanda, Chthon has established himself with the ability to use Chaos Magic. Agatha Harkness, who has the power of absorbing energy, can use Chaos Magic.
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Does Agatha Harkness use dark magic?

WandaVision's Agatha Harkness was revealed to have significant control over dark magic, and an origin linking her to the Salem witch trials - but what could this mean for the MCU?
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Why are Agatha fingers black WandaVision?

When she began to absorb Wanda's chaos magic, the Scarlet Witch's hands became blackened as the energy was siphoned from her body.
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How strong is Agatha Harkness?

Magical Prowess

Agatha is one of Earth's dozen or so most powerful witches. Her most potent spells seem to be precognitive, communicative, analytical, or manipulative of living beings' minds, though she has cast powerful transportation spells and lent tremendous power to others.
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How did Monica Rambeau get her powers?

Monica was introduced as the second Captain Marvel, and she gained super powers after being bombarded by extradimensional energy produced by an energy disruptor weapon. The character joined and eventually became leader of the Avengers for a time.
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How is Agatha Harkness immortal?

She's also significantly more sinister and manipulative in her pursuit of possessing Wanda Maximoff's intrinsic magical potential, gaining her immortality by magically absorbing the life force of her coven all the way back in the era of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Is Agatha immortal?

4 The Immortal Agatha Harkness

In fact, she may actually be immortal. However, what the show doesn't explain is how this is possible. She certainly has powerful magical abilities, including being able to absorb magic from other people, but viewers are still left in the dark about how Agatha came to be immortal.
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Why does Agatha want Wanda's powers?

Earlier in the episode, Agatha mockingly asks Wanda, "How do you not know the fundamentals?" and accuses her of using her powers to run from her truth. It is clear that Agatha thinks that such potent magic is being wasted on Wanda and Vision's peaceful domesticity in Westview.
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Who is the strongest sorcerer in Marvel?

#ComicBytes: 5 most powerful sorcerers in the Marvel Universe
  • #1. Doctor Strange.
  • #2. Scarlet Witch.
  • #3. Dormammu.
  • #4. Doctor Doom.
  • #5. Loki.
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What magic does Agatha use?

She also has resurrected herself from the dead and is capable to project her astral form. Telekinesis: Agatha can use her magic to move, destroy, and manipulate objects.
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Who is the villain in WandaVision?

Kathryn Hahn's Agnes in WandaVision Was Marvel Villain Agatha Harkness All Along. And the clues were there from the start.
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Why is Scarlet Witch so powerful?

It seems like it was just yesterday when she accidentally threw a man taped to a bomb inside a 20-story building. While many would agree that her powers surfaced with the help of the mind stone, it is later revealed that she was actually born with chaos magic. This power granted her the famous name: Scarlet Witch.
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Why did Wanda turn evil?

Doctor Strange 2's main villain turned out to be Wanda Maximoff, who went full evil in her quest to reunite with her children after losing them in WandaVision. She has been tapping into chaos magic using the Darkhold.
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What was Agatha doing in WandaVision?

All Marvel had to do was turn Agatha's lies into the truth. When we flash back to Agatha's past in WandaVision's penultimate episode, we learn that she was accused of practicing dark magic and attacked by her own coven during the Salem witch trials.
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