Every Death In Agatha All Along, Ranked

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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along season 1.

Agatha All Along has finally reached a brilliant conclusion, though getting there was a long journey fraught with death for many of the characters involved, not all of which are equally significant. Being a spooky series centered around witches and magic, it's not surprising that Agatha All Along has been steeped in death. With the Agatha All Along finale now released, the final kill count of the series has left some chilling memories, though not all of them are crafted with the same level of finesse.

Across its 9 episodes, Agatha All Along has featured a handful of notable death scenes. Some of them manage to be tear-jerking moments in which the members of Agatha All Along's cast that audiences slowly grew to love were cruelly taken away in heart-breaking sequences. Others are more bombastic, being fun to watch because of the sheer spectacle of the show's magical affinity. When stacked up against one another, some of these deaths are better-realized than others, with a clear discrepancy in how certain character's demises are treated.

8 William Kaplan Dies In A Car Crash

Episode 6 - Familiar By Thy Side

William Kaplan dead in a car accident in Agatha All Along episode 6

The identity of Joe Locke's character, simply referred to as "Teen", was one of the driving mysteries early on in Agatha All Along. Thanks to a magical spell placed over Agatha's perceptions, Agatha (and by extension, the audience) is unable to hear Teen speak or visually see any clues that pertain to his name and history, with multiple conflicting clues suggesting different possibilities for his true place in Agatha's coven. When his identity is finally revealed, it's heralded by death, though far from the most emotionally impactful or resonant in the series.

It turns out that Teen is Wiccan, the reincarnated spirit of Billy Maximoff who managed to worm his way in to an unoccupied vessel, the body of the recently deceased William Kaplan. Kaplan dies in a random accident, a car crash caused by rubbernecking in the wake of Wanda releasing her control on Westview. William Kaplan only has a limited amount of time on screen as himself before dying, making the loss of his character hardly felt. It doesn't help that his rather pedestrian cause of death is far from exciting.

7 Sharon Davis Falls To Poison

Episode 3 - Through Many Miles / Of Tricks and Trials

Sharon Davis drinking the rest of the wine in Agatha All Along episode 3

If there's one casualty among the cast of Agatha All Along that stands out for its tragedy, it's Sharon Davis' death by poison. A returning Westview resident from the cast of WandaVision, Sharon Davis was an unknowing substitute participant in Agatha's latest coven, despite not actually having any real magical affinity herself. Though she had a green thumb, Sharon definitely didn't have the makings of a proper Green Witch of the Earth, dying early on in the journey through the Witches' Road in the first trial, only to be replaced by Rio Vidal in the coven.

In the Potion Witch Trial, Sharon's hair was sadly left out of the antidote for the poisoned wine concocted by Jennifer Hale, causing her to tragically perish just before a revised antidote could pass through her lips. In truth, Sharon's death was a tad anticlimactic for a returning WandaVision character, and was moved past quite quickly by Agatha and the others. Lacking in spectacle or meaning, Sharon shouldn't have even been on the Witches' Road in the first place, making her demise feel all the more pointless. Her death really only existed to prove the dangers of the Witches' Road.

6 Agatha Kills Countless Covens Over The Years

Episode 9 - Maiden Mother Crone

Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) annoyed with her coven in Agatha All Along Season 1 Episode 9

While Agatha All Along certainly made its titular witch more sympathetic, the series has had no reservations about showing just how cruel and callous Agatha can be. In WandaVision, a glimpse of Agatha in the Salem Witch trials was shown, absorbing the magical energy of her entire coven, including her own mother. In Agatha All Along, some chilling flashbacks to Agatha's history in the 1750s show her taking the lives of multiple innocent witches, cinematically draining their life force as they fall one by one.

In the season one finale of Agatha All Along, another chilling glimpse of Agatha's past misdeeds is shown as her modern coven joins hands and sings the Ballad of the Witches' Road a final time. As the camera spins, cuts of Agatha wearing various period clothing alongside different covens of witches pepper the swirling ritual, with each of the past versions of it ending in misery for Agatha's victims. Even if the show doesn't have the time to explore the backstories of all these past witches, the brilliant framing of the scene makes their deaths quite a chilling sight.

5 Alice Is Drained Of Life-Force By Agatha

Episode 5 - Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power

Agatha Harkness taking Alice's power in Agatha All Along episode 5

Agatha's history of killing her old covens runs so deep in her blood, that doing so has become almost muscle memory, sometimes killing those she doesn't actually intend to hurt. The tragic culmination of Alice's storyline explores this idea, as she and the rest of Agatha's coven engage in the Spirit Witch Trial. Here, the coven finds a ouija board that eventually summons the malicious spirit of Agatha's mother, Evanora Harkness, another witch who insists that her daughter is born evil and should've been killed upon being born.

As if to prove her point, Agatha begins to instinctively absorb Alice's magical energy when she fires upon her with an eldritch blast, hoping to free Agatha from the influence of her mother's possession. Sadly, this attempt to save Agatha results in Alice's death, as the dark witch's penchant for sucking the life force of her fellow witches proves to be too ingrained into her nature. This death is quite hearbreaking in its irony, but leaves something to be desired in the visuals department, with Alice's drained husk falling to the ground in a cheesy manner.

4 The Wu Family Curse Bursts Into Flames

Episode 4 - If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You

The Wu Family Curse demon bursting into flames in Agatha All Along

Not every amazing death in Agatha All Along was necessarily once a human life. Even if Alice's own death wasn't as dramatic as it could've been, the demonic curse plaguing the Wu family that manifests in the second trial of the Witches' Road meets quite the fantastic end at Alice's hands. As the ancient curse begins to manifest as a living demon over the course of the Protection Witch Trial at the Witches' Road Recording Studio, it's up to Alice to finally find a solution to her family's ancient problem.

With the power of music, Alice is able to play a song that sets the demon aflame, burning it to cinders just in time. The steel in Alice's eyes as she stares down the demon, playing all the while, makes this death quite spectacular. If only the demon or the Wu Family Curse had more screen presence, the eventual triumph over it could've felt all the sweeter. Still, it's hard to beat this death for sheer entertainment value alone.

3 Death Claims Nicholas Scratch

Episode 9 - Maiden Mother Crone

Unlike her own mother, Agatha Harkness had quite a powerful love for her own child, despite what was commonly believed of her in magical circles. It turns out that Nicholas Scratch, Agatha's son, was her primary impetus for absorbing the life force of other witches, making a shaky bargain with death to prevent his natural passing from disease for years at a time. Eventually, Death came to collect Nicholas' soul, coming in the night and allowing Nicholas to bid his mother a tearful goodbye.

Kissing his mother one last time, Nicholas allows himself to succumb to Death's embrace, dying in his sleep. This poignant flashback is one of the most emotionally devastating deaths in the entire show, even if it's far from flashy. The image of Death gently walking away with her former lover's son is one of the most powerful of the series, though more time spent with Nicholas would've made his loss seem just as hurtful as it was for his mother.

2 Lilia Kills The Salem Seven

Episode 7 - Death's Hand In Mine

Lilia falling to her death in Agatha All Along (2024)

For the most part, deaths in Agatha All Along seem to have either emotional significance or fantastic spectacle, rarely being able to balance both. A rare exception is made for Lilia, who manages to kill the entirety of the Salem Seven in quite a phenomenal way in the seventh episode. The Divination Witch Trial put Lilia Calderu in the spotlight, being the group's resident tarot expert. When the mysterious coven, the Salem Seven, finally catch up to Agatha's motley band of modern witches, Lili manages to take them all on in a stunning display of divination's power.

Flipping over "The Tower", the major arcana tarot card which represents drastic change, calamity, and disaster, Lilia flips the gravity of the room they're in, causing both her and the Salem Seven to fall into the various swords sticking out of the ceiling, impaling themselves. After the reveal of how Lilia experiences time, this moment is made all the more bittersweet with the witch's knowledge that her demise was imminent. Taking out the series' most persistent antagonist at the cost of her own life, Lilia's sacrifice is at once dramatic, saddening, and exciting.

1 Agatha Sacrifices Herself For Billy

Episode 8 - Follow Me My Friend/To Glory at the End

Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) dies in Agatha All Along Season 1 Episode 8

It's fitting that Agatha's own death is by far the most shocking and provocative of the entire series. Despite initially planning on allowing Billy to sacrifice himself to Death in lieu of herself, Agatha changes her mind and decides to do for Billy what she was never able to do for Nicholas - Save him by offering up her own life. In the MCU's first same-sex kiss scene, Agatha dramatically allows Death to give her a literal kiss of death, delicately taking her long-overdue life.

It's quite a dramatic moment as Agatha's corpse slowly fades into a blanket of mushrooms on the ground, making for an emotionally rich and visually stunning end. All the better that the death allows Agatha to transform into a ghost, better resembling her original comics incarnation and advancing her story further in the MCU even after her life ends by helping Billy search for his brother from beyond the grave. It's quite fitting that the best death in Agatha All Along is that of the title character.