I wonder what truly ghastly thing Agatha did that caused them, including her own mother, to attempt to destroy her, but it's clear that Agatha was much more powerful than all of them. Or maybe they accidentally caused her to become more powerful when she absorbed their energies and life forces?
Well given the time and place, I'm assuming she was the cause of the actual Salem Witch trials. Using dark magic to make the local religious nuts extra paranoid and accusatory, getting a bunch of innocent and decidedly not witchy women murdered to death and/or possibly exposing the coven to the normies.
When Wanda touched the head of Vision she said she couldn't feel him. I think that was a fake Vision body while they were working on the other one. I mean, they probably had that body for 5 years. Why only dismantle it now?
I think it's just a call back to the bit in Infinity War when they're talking about the stone, and she does the same thing with his head and says she only senses him, not the stone. This just means he's actually dead; his soul has departed his body.
But again, she was dead for those five years and she went to SWORD pretty quickly after she was brought back. Not much time for Hayward to plan ahead in those circumstances.
Keep in mind that he only came out with that footage over a week after Darcy showed up, and 9 days after the incident itself. So he had plenty of time to cook up his very thin cover story.
Even that I would consider part of my multiverse theory. My original point was that in this current timeline, the Mind Stone no longer exists. Therefore something extraordinary has to happen in order for it to be used in such a manner to "activate" mutants, assuming that's the direction the MCU is heading in.
Like say it being reconstituted along with The Vision by some crazy powerful reality warping chaos magic?
In any case, if the MCU is going to use infinity stone power as the explanation for mutants, then the exposure has probably already happened. Thanos exposed just about everyone in existence to Infinity stone radiation when he made half of all life disappear. Snap - a whole bunch of mutants spring into existence with five post-snap years to figure out what they are and how their powers work. Then the Avengers did the same thing again. Snap - a whole bunch more mutants spring into existence looking to the first group for guidance and now it's becoming increasingly harder to hide this whole thing from the world at large.
I rather suspect Monica's way of getting powers could be the model for how the appearance of mutants is going to work; that is multiple exposures to ridiculous amounts of cosmic energy. In 'Endgame' Rocket said the snap made Earth ground zero for a burst of cosmic energy the likes of which nobody has ever seen. The 5 years later, it was ground zero yet again for the blip. That's two exposures from anyone not snapped away, which could translate to 50% of the world's population being that much closer to spontaneous mutations. All it would need to make those with already some kind of potential (latent Inhuman decedents and/or whatever the celestials might have done to early humans) to mutate.
I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I have a pet theory that because of some celestial monkeying around with early humans, the human genome is rather prone to developing superpowers and that's the root cause of ALL enhanced abilities.
I'm still not convinced Agatha is the bad guy.
She...she killed Sparky!!!
Seriously though; it's pretty clear that she's not the mastermind here, just an opportunistic trickster. A fly in the ointment. The Hex was already up when she arrived; indeed the reason she showed up at all. She just wants to know how Wanda pulled it off, presumably so she could attain the power for herself.
Was that even in question? I just assumed that was the case a first glance given the very recognisable silhouette of the classic Scarlet Witch costume (that's already appeared once on this show.)
Buuuut, where is the image coming from? It's not Wanda, she never wore that costume. It's not Scarlet Witch from Earth-616* (*assuming that's the reality MCU is in), since Agatha just told her about it just now. So...?
I'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening, but her powers did give Tony a vison of the future...albeit filtered or indeed fabricated wholesale though his own anxieties. So it's certainly *possible* that this is an accurate prophetic vision, but it could just as easily be part of Wanda's clearly fractured mind manifesting and taking on that image.
