'Agatha All Along': How the Salem Seven different from comics
What's the story
Marvel Studios's Agatha All Along has introduced a new team of supervillains known as the Salem Seven.
The Disney+ show, which is part of Phase 5, revisits WandaVision's main villain, Agatha Harkness (played by Kathryn Hahn), as she breaks free from Wanda Maximoff's spell.
The series presents an original storyline featuring a coven of witches and an adventure starring Agatha and Joe Locke's unnamed teen character.
Comic history
The Salem Seven in Marvel Comics
In the Marvel Comics, the Salem Seven are the seven magical children of Nicholas Scratch, who can transform into powerful creatures with special abilities. They are Thornn, Gazelle, Vakume, Vertigo, Brutacus, Hydron, and Reptilla.
They inherit their power from Scratch, who owes his magical power to his mother, Agatha Harkness.
When Agatha begins to take care of Reed Richards and Sue Storm's son Franklin, Scratch orders the Salem Seven to take Agatha back to New Salem for a trial.
Comic powers
The Salem Seven's powers in the comics
The Salem's Seven have varied powers.
Thornn can transform into a yellow demon-like creature covered with detachable red horns.
Gazelle transforms into a deer-like humanoid with super speed, strength, and agility.
Vakume can fly, absorb energy, and manipulate the wind.
Vertigo can induce nausea in her enemies.
Brutacus can transform into a super-strong red demon.
Hydron can transform into a water-shooting merman.
Reptilla can transform into a snake with smaller snakes for hands.
Series plot
The Salem Seven's role in 'Agatha All Along'
In Agatha All Along, Rio Vidal (played by Aubrey Plaza) reunites with Agatha in Westview as Scarlet Witch's distorted spell ends.
She reveals her own desire to kill her, suggesting unfinished business.
Unable to kill a fellow witch thanks to a witches code that seems to be new to the MCU, Vidal tells Agatha that the Salem Seven are coming, and that Agatha's time is running out.
Series powers
The Salem Seven's powers in 'Agatha All Along'
The Salem Seven in Agatha All Along are quite different from the comics.
Instead of colorful, musclebound villains who transform into demonic creatures, MCU's Salem Seven team is a group of hooded sorceresses who can transform into actual animals.
Okwui Okpokwasili's character can transform into a cicada, Marina Mazepa's into a snake, Bethany Curry's into a crow, Athena Perample's into a fox, Britta Grant's into a rat, Alicia Vela-Bailey's into an owl, and Chau Naumova's into a coyote.