Spoilers Agatha All Along discussion

[Henadic Theologian]

Sure, who doesn’t need more occasional tables?

Maybe they will slip to the 1890s? The 1990s was a rather dull decade.

They could do the Spice Girls I suppose!

Or lean heavy into Grunge.

 

[The Soloist]

The 1990s was a rather dull decade.

Tell that to people who lived in the Soviet Union and Apartheid! The Berlin Wall fell and Mandela became president of South Africa.

• Seinfeld, Friends, Fraisier, ST DS9, Babylon 5, Buffy.
• The fantastic rebirth of Apple with the iMac, Windows 95 and 98, the Internet, and the WWW.
• Trainspotting. Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Toy Story, Ghost in the Shell, Terminator 2, The Matrix.

The list goes on. It was a great decade.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Ok, haven’t looked into the Funko Pop spoiler, so I can’t confirm. But is the Teen supposed to be Wiccan? The timing seems weird except for the fact that Wanda’s kids were defying normal aging times already.
Gay, check.
May have a hex-like power, check.
Agatha knows his mom, check.

Yes it's Wiccan, has all the symbolism to him I hear.

I hope they do a better job making sense of his Religion then they do in the Comics, what a confusing mess, is he Reform Judism, is he Wicca, a synthesis of both, something else? To further confuse things he used to call himself Asgardian as a superhero name.

Here is how I personally would deal with it, the part of the him that is still Billy Maximoff is Wiccan and the part of him that is Billy Kaplan is Jewish, so there is some internal conflict within him, and which symbols he uses in his magic depends on circumstances and which part of him is dominate that day.

Eventually I'd split them in 2 via magic, Billy Maximoff aka Wiccan and Billy Kaplan aka Solomon (a much more fitting name for Jewish spellcaster).

 

[Umbran]

The timing seems weird ...

With magic, the comics do not care about the passage of time.
Plus, the timing is perfect... for Young Avengers to be a thing.

 

[Thomas Shey]

With magic, the comics do not care about the passage of time.
Plus, the timing is perfect... for Young Avengers to be a thing.

Though given some of the other potentials there, they need to kind of get on with it if they want to do that.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yes it's Wiccan, has all the symbolism to him I hear.

I hope they do a better job making sense of his Religion then they do in the Comics, what a confusing mess, is he Reform Judism, is he Wicca, a synthesis of both, something else? To further confuse things he used to call himself Asgardian as a superhero name.

Here is how I personally would deal with it, the part of the him that is still Billy Maximoff is Wiccan and the part of him that is Billy Kaplan is Jewish, so there is some internal conflict within him, and which symbols he uses in his magic depends on circumstances and which part of him is dominate that day.

Eventually I'd split them in 2 via magic, Billy Maximoff aka Wiccan and Billy Kaplan aka Solomon (a much more fitting name for Jewish spellcaster).

Personally, I would leave the three main real-world religions completely out of it. Way too much baggage with what goes on in real life for that to drag down the MCU.

 

[Marc Radle]

The MCU has pretty much avoided going too deep into religion in general - I would be pretty shocked if it played much of a part in his story

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The list goes on. It was a great decade.

The world was a better place. But that's not what "interesting" means.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I hope they do a better job making sense of his Religion then they do in the Comics, what a confusing mess,

In my experience "a confusing mess" is what most real people believe. Switching between one belief system and another is not binary, and believing several mutually contradictory things at the same time is very human.

 

[The Soloist]

The world was a better place. But that's not what "interesting" means.

Incorrect, it was an interesting time for the people in those countries. Emancipation is a great state of being that opens the door to many interesting experiences. [/end derailing]