AGATHA ALL ALONG Showrunner Addresses All The Mephisto Fan Speculation
Thanks to the WandaVision spinoff series Agatha All Along, the Mephisto fan speculation is back! I’m sure you all remember how a ton of fans thought that Mephisto was going to be the big behind-the-scenes villain in WandaVision, and then nothing ever came of that.
Now fans have been once again spotting clues that Mephisto will be introduced in Agatha All Along. Series showrunner Jac Schaeffer recently did an interview with Entertainment Weekly to address this speculation and how she knew she was dropping a bit of massive bait in there encouraging the fans to keep watching.
Schaeffer said: "With these shows, so often there is something that is at once a joke and a wink and a nod, and actually has something legitimate underneath it.
“As we all know, Mephisto is a character who's very wrapped into Agatha's storyline. I mean, people have to watch, but we're always playing with the audience in that way.”
Now, just because they are playing with the audience in that way doesn’t mean Mephisto is going to show up because they did the same damn thing with WandaVision.
There are a few things that fans have been wondering about the show that they will eventually get answers to. Is Scarlet Witch going to eventually show up? Is "Teen" really Billy Kaplan, aka Wiccan? Who is Aubrey Plaza's Rio Vidal? Why does Agatha Harkness want the prize at the end of The Witches' Road? And, of course, is Mephisto finally going to make his debut in the MCU?
Schaeffer also addressed Elizabeth Olsen's possible return, but says that the focus is on Agatha Harkness for the moment.
She said: "There was a lot of consideration. That's a great way of articulating it: her shadow. Agatha is not a character who's going to stand in anyone's shadow. So this is emphatically Agatha Harkness' show.
“However, we are in the WandaVision corner of the universe, so Wanda's legacy has threads in this narrative. But, yeah, it is about Agatha. It's about her journey, it's about the truth of her, and that is very much our focus with the show."
What are your thoughts on the fan speculation? Do you think Mephisto is actually going to show up this time?