Name: Agatha Harkness

Age: Old ^_^

Appeared in: Hex Factor

Occupation: Witch

Agatha doesn't really play a big role in evolution, basically, she is Wanda's Mentor.  She helped her to learn how to harness her incredible powers, and also to use them in an effective manner.

Hooray!

Controlling Wanda

Pleased

Actress - filmography

"X-Men: Evolution" (2000) TV Series(voice) .... Agatha Harkness (2002-)

"Ultimate Book of Spells" (2001) TV Series(voice)

"Inuyasha" (2000) TV Series(English dub) .... Mistress Centipede

"Kong: The Animated Series" (2000) TV Series .... Harpy
Mummies Alive! The Legend Begins (1998) (V)(voice)

"Dragon Ball Z" (1996) TV Series(voice) .... Frieza (I) (1997-1998)

"Mummies Alive!" (1997) TV Series(voice) .... Heka

"Beast Wars: Transformers" (1996) TV Series(voice) .... Airazor (1996-1997)
"Littlest Pet Shop, The" (1995) TV Series(voice)

Ranma ½ (1993) (V) .... Sentaro's Grandmother

"Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The" (1993) TV Series(as Paula Newstone) (voice) .... Additional Voices

"G.I. Joe" (1990) TV Series .... Additional Voices

Comic Agatha

Real Name: Agatha Harkness

Class: magic user

Occupation: retired magic user, tutor

Affiliations: Fantastic Four ally , mentor for the Scarlet Witch , mother of Nicholas Scratch , grandmother of Salem's Seven

Scale of Operations: Upstate New York

Powers: Agatha Harkness has at her command a great variety of magical spells which gave her the ability to create or manipulate energies for a variety of effects and powers including: generating a force field, various forms of unique detection and communication powers, hypnotism, healing, changing the shape of others and other things, summoning objects, creatures, or demons, project her astral form, and many other magical spells.

Agatha Harkness' cat, Ebony, is in reality a powerful extradimensional creature. Harkness is in psychic rapport with the cat, and she occasionally sues it to run errands for her. At will, it can revert to a more intimidating form with monstrously powerful claws, and increased strength and speed. The creature regenerates damage at a fantastically accelerated rate and cannot be killed by means less extreme than dispersing its atoms throughout a considerable area.

History: Agatha Harkness, who was the most powerful sorceress in the New England village of New Salem, became its "grande dame" or leader. Very little is known about her before her association with the hero team Fantastic Four-- not even her age. The fact that New Salemites refer to outsiders as "mortals" may indicate that they have longer life spans than human beings.

The identity of her husband is unknown and it is not even known whether "Harkness" is her late husband's last name or her maiden name. Agatha and her husband had only one child together, the warlock known as Nicholas Scratch (which is perhaps his assumed name). Nicholas Scratch had a number of wives that had many children later to be known as Salem's Seven: Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Reptillia, Thomn, Vakume, and Vertigo.

Eventually Agatha Harkness left New Salem to associate with people in the outside world once more and moved to an old mansion on Whisper Hill in the Adirondack Mountains in upper New York State. There, she was contacted by Reed Richards, the leader of the Fantastic Four. Richards and his wife Susan had recently had a son, Franklin. Due to Reed and Susan Richards' dangerous lives as costumed adventurers, they asked Harkness to take care of Franklin during their absences and protect him from possible attacks by their enemies after learning of her supernatural powers.

Later, Harkness and Franklin Richards were abducted to New Salem, now led by her son Nicholas Scratch who hated her. The Fantastic Four came after Franklin and Harkness but were captured as well. Harkness was placed on trial for consorting with outsiders and for revealing the existence of the New Salemites to the outside world even though she had kept its existence a secret. The Fantastic Four escaped their cell, overcame Salem's Seven, and found Harkness just as she was about to receive the death sentence. Reed Richards pointed out that she had never told them about New Salem and that the Fantastic Four would never have found the town had Nicholas Scratch not abducted Franklin. The New Salemites realized that it was Scratch who had betrayed them and they banished him, sending him to another dimension. Harkness, Franklin, and the Fantastic Four then left New Salem.

Sometime later, Harkness, Franklin, and the Fantastic Four were visiting New Salem when Nicholas Scratch took control of the minds of virtually all the New Salemites from the dimension in which he was imprisoned. Salem's Seven defeated the Fantastic Four, but Franklin Richards, who possessed tremendous latent psionic powers, freed the New Salemites from the spell. Then Salem's Seven and the captive Fantastic Four were magically transported to New York City where Salem's Seven planned to bring Scratch to Earth. Scratch, from his dimension, took control of the minds of the Fantastic Four, but Franklin broke Scratch's hold over them. Harkness used her magical powers to strip Salem's Seven of their supernatural powers and to banish them back to New Salem. She also cast a spell further entrapping Scratch in his other dimension. Finally, though, Vertigo, the leader of Salem's Seven, turned the other 665 New Salemites against Harkness. Salem's Seven regained their supernatural powers and were able to capture Harkness, who they executed by burning her at the stake.

Harkness's spirit apparently influenced the Scarlet Witch, causing her to go to New Salem with her husband, the Vision. There, they were captured by six of the members of Salem's Seven and battled Seven member Vertigo, who wielded the combined magical forces of all 666 New Salemites. The Vision defeated her nonetheless and as a result Vertigo lost control of the community's magical forces. The Scarlet Witch attempted to channel the tremendous mystical forces into a mountain. Agatha Harkness' spirit appeared to her and told her to use the power as well as channeling it. The Scarlet Witch therefore did both and the power channeled into the mountain caused it to explode.

Months later, the Scarlet Witch, now living in the Avengers' West Coast compound, found difficulties with her children, Thomas and William. Agatha Harkness showed up, inexplicably alive and none the worse for wear, volunteering to attend the children as a governess. Harkness soon realized their true nature: as constructs of probability, the boys existed only as long as the Scarlet Witch was thinking of them. When Master Pandemonium kidnapped the children, finding them to be missing shards of the demonic being Mephisto. Harkness sent the Avengers after Pandemonium, accompanied by Ebony, her black cat familiar. Simultaneously, she sent the original Human Torch on a quest to recover the remaining pieces of Mephisto's soul. When all the soul shards were assembled, Mephisto appeared and threatened the Avengers. Harkness then closed that section of the Scarlet Witch's memory containing thoughts of her children, causing those shards to disappear and dealt a temporary defeat to Mephisto. Harkness remained at the Avengers' compound, assisting the Scarlet Witch's recovery from a number of traumas. She also aided the Avenger Tigra, who had been transformed into a more complete feline form from her association with the demonic Cat People.

Harkness returned to her Adirondrack home, and later tutored the Scarlet Witch again when the Avenger sought help to understand her powers and sorceress potential. Harkness revealed to Scarlet Witch the true nature of her powers, explaining that Wanda is a mutant with the ability to channel mystical energy, and that she instinctively used this ability to channel chthonic chaos magic which causes strange and unlikely things to occur. She further advised Scarlet Witch to fully restore the ghostly Wonder Man to life. Presumably, once Scarlet Witch became comfortable with the new aspects of her powers, she took her leave of Harkness once more

With Mystique

Beside Wanda

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