How does Agatha Harkness absorb power?

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 magic?

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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How does Agatha have powers in WandaVision?

Agatha Harkness' Magical Powers In WandaVision Explained

Apparently, she also tapped into an unknown source of dark magic that allowed her to deflect the simultaneous attacks of various witches and drain their life force, which also seems to have given her an extended lifespan and a greater amount of power.
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What type of powers does Agatha Harkness have?

Elemental Control: Agatha Harkness has shown to be able to magically control and manipulate the elements. Aerokinesis: Her magic allows her to manipulate the air. Electrokinesis: Her magic allows her to manipulate electricity. Hydrokinesis: Her magic allows her to manipulate water.
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Why did Wanda absorb Agatha's powers?

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 Harkness stronger than Wanda?

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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How did Agatha Harkness get her powers?

Harkness derives her powers from manipulation of the forces of magic.
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Why is Agatha Harkness so strong?

Basically, Harkness predates every known human civilization, and she's outlasted all of them. You know what they say: with age comes wisdom. And since wisdom is power for the magically inclined, essentially Harkness is powerful because of her age, but that's only part of the equation.
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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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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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What is Agatha Harkness motive?

We spent much time theorizing about who or what Agatha was working for. As far as we know, Agatha was working alone, and for one reason. She wanted to control Wanda's power for herself. This is an interesting twist given what we know from the comics.
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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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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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Is Agnes Under Wanda's control?

As we learn in Agatha's Episode 7 reveal... she did this. She killed Sparky the dog. Monster! While the episode seemed to want us to believe that Agnes is just another of the Westview residents being manipulated by Wanda's powers, it was, indeed, an instance of MCU misdirection.
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Why are Agatha's hands black?

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 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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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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How was Wanda born with powers?

After believing this story for years, it is then revealed that Wanda and Pietro actually aren't mutants at all: They were kidnapped as babies and genetically engineered to have powers by a being known as the High Evolutionary (basically a superhuman mad scientist).
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Why is wandas magic red?

The orange magic in Doctor Strange was a result of borrowing energy from other, non-dark dimensions. And Wanda's magic is red because, well, she's the Scarlet Witch!
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Can Scarlet Witch beat Agatha Harkness?

WandaVision's finale finds Wanda embracing her Scarlet Witch persona, which allows her to beat Agatha at her own game.
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Is Agatha evil WandaVision?

In WandaVision, we learn that Agatha was the villain behind the town's kidnapping, manipulating everyone along the way, and Wanda (aka Scarlet Witch) was just as much a pawn as anyone.
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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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Where does Agatha get her power from?

One really good thing to point out is that Agatha's powers seem to be mostly parasitic in nature. She gets her powers by stealing them from others. Interestingly enough, this is also something we saw in Doctor Strange.
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Do Wanda and Agatha have the same powers?

Being a witch herself, Agatha recognizes Wanda's powers as a series of spells or magic rather than telekinesis and telepathy gifted to her by an Infinity Stone (as was first mentioned in the post-credits scene of Captain America: Winter Soldier; her powers were then referenced again in Avengers: Age of Ultron).
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How did Agatha Harkness live so long?

It's unclear exactly how old Agatha is in this scene, but the implication is that she is a "regular" witch at this point, and so would perhaps be aging somewhat more normally, since her mother is visibly older and it's seemingly taking the power from the other witches that grants Agatha her long lifespan.
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