Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along episode 6, “Familiar By Thy Side.”

One of Loki’s best moments was copied by Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness years before Agatha All Along. WandaVision episode 8 revealed that Agatha Harkness was a young MCU witch during the time of the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600s, meaning she has been alive for over three hundred years. This long life means she’s been around the block, and this was proven in Agatha All Along episode 6, “Familiar By Thy Side,” which saw Billy Maximoff – in his new body – research the powerful witch before joining her coven.

Billy Maximoff’s research in Agatha All Along episode 6 revealed that Agatha Harkness had been involved in some major disasters throughout the 20th Century, including the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. Since acquiring the ability to absorb the power and life force of other witches back in Salem, Agatha Harkness had become infamous in the witch community as a killer of her own kind. However, she also became notorious to the general population, too, thanks to one iconic Dolly Parton song.

Agatha Harkness Was The Real “Jolene”

Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Was Released In 1973

Hilariously, Agatha All Along episode 6 also seemed to imply that Agatha Harkness was the woman who inspired the legendary Dolly Parton hit, 1973’s “Jolene.” Apparently appearing in surveillance photos from 1972, which depict Agatha Harkness being slapped by a young Dolly Parton, the original Salem witch seems have been using her sexuality, sensuality and confidence to get what she wants for centuries. While Agatha Harkness as the real Jolene hasn’t actually been confirmed, this would repeat one brilliant trick pulled off by Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in Phase 4.

Dolly Parton confirmed “Jolene” depicts a true story on stage in 1988. The song tells the story of the narrator urging the stunningly beautiful Jolene to not steal her husband
“just because [she] can.”

Agatha All Along Repeats A Brilliant Loki Trick

Loki Masqueraded As A Real-World Figure In Loki Season 1

Back in Loki season 1’s premiere, “Glorious Purpose,” the Asgardian God of Mischief was revealed to have masqueraded as D. B. Cooper after having lost a bet to Thor. D. B. Cooper is an epithet given to an unidentified man who hijacked a plane and demanded $200,000 in ransom in 1971 – this is equivalent to roughly $1.5 million in 2024. The fact that D. B. Cooper has gone unidentified means Loki fits into the mystery perfectly, just as Agatha Harkness did for Jolene in the 1970s, and this isn’t the only time the Loki series pulled off this trick.

Loki season 2 saw Eugene Cordero’s TVA worker Casey be revealed to have originally been a variant of Frank Morris, a real-world prisoner who attempted an escape from Alcatraz in 1962. Morris escaped with two other men by placing papier-mâché heads in their beds and escaping with an improvised raft. The men were never found, and were assumed to have drowned during their escape attempt, but Loki suggests they survived. Agatha All Along repeating this trick for Agatha Harkness is another example of the MCU answering a real-world mystery, which never gets old.

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