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Agatha Harkness

Agatha Harkness

Agatha Harkness is an ancient witch known for being nanny to Franklin Richards and mentor to the Scarlet Witch. Dating back over five hundred years to the Salem witch trials, she led a coven to form the hidden town of New Salem. She later left isolation to live among mortals, became Franklin’s nanny to monitor his powers, trained Wanda in sorcery, and allied with the Avengers. She has died and returned multiple times, earning respect in Marvel’s mystic community.

Spells and Magic

  • Stated to be the most powerful witch in New Salem, a coven of ancient witches numbering over six hundred. (source) (null)
  • Trained Scarlet Witch in sorcery, helping her master her abilities. (source) (null)

Magic Skill/Power: Dispelling

  • Deflects Necrodamus’ spell back at himself. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Undoes Wanda’s spell that animated a chair. (source) (AV1 133)
  • Unseals and enters a room magically sealed by Master Pandemonium. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Effortlessly walks through a magic barrier that even all of New York’s heroes and the military couldn’t penetrate. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • With a thought, dispels Nicholas Scratch’s curses summoning hail, fire, and lightning on herself and Franklin Richards, while Scratch was amped by over six hundred witches. (source) (FFAV1 14; Note: https://i.imgur.com/uggXMrV.png VSV1 3)

Magic Skill/Power: Depowerment

  • Strips her son Nicholas Scratch of all his magic. (source) (FFV1 223)
  • Depowers the Salem Seven and undoes all the magic they cast in New York. (source) (FFAV1 14)

Illusions

  • Terrifies Trapster with an illusion of Thing as a monster until he passes out. (source) (FFV1 94)
  • Uses an actively maintained illusion to disguise her home’s appearance, undone when she leaves. (source) (FFV1 185)
  • Surrounds Susan Storm with illusions from Susan’s mind. (source) (FFV1 376)
  • Uses an illusion to disguise herself as a young beautiful woman. (source) (DH 6)

Transmutation

  • Transmutes Sandman into stone. (source) (FFV1 94)
  • While miles away, changes a stone statue into her likeness. (source) (SSV3 135)

Telekinesis

  • Takes control of Susan Storm’s car while driving and has it drive to her location. (source) (FFV1 140)
  • Breaks metal restraints with a gesture. (source) (SWV1 3)

Elemental

  • Dissipates a raging storm that even Thor had no power over. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Sends flame from her candle at some people. (source) (FFV1 182)
  • With a thought, summons a massive wall of flame miles away to prevent the Fantastic Four from leaving the city. (source) (FFV1 185)
  • Summons water from a cavern wall to short circuit Living Laser. (source) (SWV1 3)

Teleportation

  • Teleports herself, Susan, and Franklin Richards miles away with a gesture. (source) (FFV1 140)
  • Teleports the Fantastic Four and herself from the Negative Zone back to Earth while weakened. (source) (FFV1 141)
  • Teleports Franklin Richards and herself from the Baxter Building to her home before Susan could stop her. (source) (FFV1 181)
  • Teleports someone and the Silver Surfer miles away to her location. (source) (SSV3 135)
  • Teleports to a location miles away as a streak of flame. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Teleports before being hit by a possessed and bloodlusted Spider-Woman and US Agent charging her. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Teleports the West Coast Avengers from another dimension to her location with a thought. (source) (WAV2 52)

Rituals

  • Performs a ritual with New Salem witches transferring their magic to her to cleanse it. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • Performs a ritual on a person that forces them to tell the truth. (source) (WAV2 62)
  • Performs a ritual summoning millions of illusions of Reed Richards that fools Annihilus. (source) (FFV1 110)
  • Performs a ritual merging Human Torch and Thing into herself to gain power to contact the Watcher. (source) (FFV1 114)

Scrying

  • Uses crystal ball to observe Reed Richards’ location. (source) (FFV1 112)
  • Uses crystal ball to observe Crystal’s location in another dimension, though strain was too great to maintain. (source) (FFV1 112)

Banishment

  • Banishes the Salem Seven back to New Salem and magically prevents them from leaving for years. (source) (VSWV2 3)
  • Banishes a force inhabiting and killing the Silver Surfer. (source) (SSV3 135)
  • Banishes a psychic construct. (source) (FFV1 416)

Magic Resistance

  • Takes a point-blank blast of hellfire from Master Pandemonium but is completely fine afterward. (source) (WAV2 5)
  • Tanks a point-blank blast from Necrodamus, faking death as part of a test. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Completely unaffected by a whirlpool of magic souls absorbing Necrodamus and Scarlet Witch. (source) (AV1 128)

TP/Mental Magic

  • Puts Sandman in a trance off-panel. (source) (FFV1 94)
  • Mind wipes the entire planet of recent events. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • Prevents Dormammu from taking over Scarlet Witch’s mind long enough for Wanda to cast a spell. (source) (GSAV1 4)
  • Battles wills with manifesting-powered Franklin Richards and puts him to sleep. (source) (FFV1 374)
  • Telepathically communicates with Firestar miles away. (source) (NV2 6)
  • Resists a psychic force killing Silver Surfer from infecting her mind. (source) (SSV3 135)
  • Senses Nathaniel Richards withholding information and reads his mind to discover the secret. (source) (FFV1 376)
  • Looks into Avengers’ minds to see images thrust into their heads. (source) (WAV2 62)

Mystic Senses

  • Senses Reed Richards’ car alarm going off before it happens. (source) (FFV1 127)
  • Detects invisible people by sensing their hatred. (source) (FFV1 182)
  • Senses the Richards family needs an exorcism in advance and prepares the ritual. (source) (FFV1 222)
  • Senses someone approaching a house despite Avengers’ security systems failing. (source) (AV1 313)
  • Senses a distant disturbance is not a threat. (source) (FFV1 368)
  • Senses Nathaniel Richards withholding information and reads his mind. (source) (FFV1 376)
  • Senses the source of psychic constructs created to be Franklin Richards. (source) (FFV1 416)
  • Senses someone and Silver Surfer need assistance and teleports them to her. (source) (SSV3 135)

Other/Misc

  • Projects Reed Richards’ voice across the entire planet in every language. (source) (FFV1 123)
  • Summons a magical force that disperses Susan Storm’s forcefield and stuns her. (source) (FFV1 181)
  • Shifts New Salem from a parallel plane into Earth’s dimension, doing so again with a thought. (source) (FFV1 223)
  • Conjures a tea set for herself on a plane. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • Causes the Salem Seven pain despite them being miles away on a skyscraper. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • Magically seals a room in Avengers Mansion, preventing Scarlet Witch and Avengers from leaving or entering. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Conjures a mystic tornado to destroy a massive army of magic locusts. (source) (FFAV1 14)
  • Animates War Machine’s helmet to get information from it. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Takes out a possessed War Machine by magnetizing a wall. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Helps Wanda bind Master Pandemonium to a wall. (source) (SWV1 3)
  • Conjures a magic shield to block Firestar’s attack. (source) (NV2 6)
  • Is burned at the stake and killed, returns as a spirit, then resurrects herself. (source) (VSWV1 3 / VSWV1 4 / WAV2 51)
  • Creates a barrier containing a virus killing Silver Surfer from spreading and slows its progress in his system. (source) (SSV3 135)
  • Casts a spell allowing Steve Rogers to experience half a millennium of past events in an instant. (source) (CAV9 9)

Ebony: Physicals (Monster Form)

  • No-sells gunfire from a pistol and does so again later. (source) (DH 6)
  • Briefly matches Necrodamus’ strength before being overcome, but was unharmed and pretending as part of a test. (source) (AV1 128; Note: https://i.imgur.com/kVdp5Nn.png AV1 128)
  • Battles Mephisto, holding him off long enough for escape; claws shred his avatar while surviving being turned inside out, then fully healed afterward. (source) (WAV2 52)

Ebony: Senses

  • Senses Susan Storm approaching Agatha’s home. (source) (FFV1 94)
  • Senses Necrodamus teleporting to ambush Agatha and Wanda before he does. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Alongside Agatha, senses someone approaching despite Avengers’ security systems failing. (source) (AV1 313)

Ebony: Other/Misc

  • Magically awakens Scarlet Witch from unconsciousness. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Completely unaffected by a whirlpool of magic souls absorbing Necrodamus and Scarlet Witch. (source) (AV1 128)
  • Her connection to Agatha creates a portal to her location in another dimension, where she hides from Mephisto by disguising as one of his demons. (source) (WAV2 52)
  • Used as a mystic anchor for Agatha to travel to a dimension she normally couldn’t. (source) (WAV2 62)
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