Marvel Comics/Agatha Harkness

**Agatha Harkness** is an ancient sorceress. She supposedly was one of the original witches from the Salem Witch Trials.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Magic:** Harkness has the ability to tap this universe's infinite store of ambient magical energy and manipulate it to a variety of effects. She derives this skill from three major sources: personal powers of her mind/soul/body, powers gained by tapping the universe's ambient magical energy, and tapping extra-dimensional energy by invoking entities or objects of power existing in mystical dimensions tangential to her own.

* **Spell Casting:** Harkness has a vast knowledge of mystical spells and incantations that invoke names and aspects of various extra-dimensional objects and beings of power. Through these incantations, she is able to call upon these extra-dimensional power sources for very specific effects without taxing her personal abilities.
	+ **Immobilization:** Harkness is able to use her magic to bind her targets from moving, much like she did against Master Pandemonium.
	+ **Dimensional Manipulation:** She can shape and manipulate dimensions. She was able to shift the Town of New Salem into Earth's dimension.
	+ **Energy Blasts:** She is able to fire mystical blasts to attack her enemies.
	+ **Elemental Manipulation:** Harkness has been shown to be able to magically control and manipulate the elements.
		- **Air Manipulation:** She can manipulate the air.
		- **Electricity Manipulation:** She can manipulate electricity.
		- **Water Manipulation:** She can manipulate water.
		- **Fire Manipulation:** She can manipulate fire.
	+ **Memory Manipulation:** Harkness can manipulate the experience of herself and others. She has cast a spell that allowed Captain America to experience half a millennia of events from the past in an instant.
	+ **Flight:** As a witch, Harkness can engage in self-propelled flight.
	+ **Force Field Generation:** She is capable of creating force fields in particular areas. She has created barriers to contain a virus that was killing the Silver Surfer from spreading through the planet.
	+ **Gestalt Form:** Harkness can merge herself and others into one, though she needs to make a mystic circle and uses incantations.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation:** Harkness has the ability to cast illusions for many purposes. She has used an illusion to disguise herself as a young woman. Not only that, but she can use her illusions to attack her targets or to defend herself and others at the same time.
	+ **Enhanced Longevity:** Harkness has lived much longer than a normal human.
	+ **Magical Detection:** Harkness is able to sense magic and to be aware of anything that affect her and her surroundings. At one point, she even sensed Mister Fantastic's car alarm going off before it even happened.
	+ **Power Negation:** Harkness can negate magic and spells. She has depowered the Salem Seven and nullified all of the spells they casted in New York.
	+ **Magical Resistance:** Harkness has resistant to mystical attacks.
	+ **Purification:** Harkness is able to purify and cleanse objects or magic from evil and sins like she did after she channeled all of the magic from the Town of New Salem.
	+ **Clairvoyance:** By using her crystal ball, she can view and observe another's location. She has done this to observe Mister Fantastic's location.
	+ **Animation:** Harkness has demonstrated the power to animate inanimate objects.
	+ **Self-Resurrection:** She has resurrected herself from the dead.
	+ **Astral Projection:** She can project her astral form.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Harkness can use her magic to move, destroy, and manipulate objects. For example, she was able to break metal restraints with a gesture.
	+ **Telepathy:** Harkness has displayed the power to interact with the minds of others. She has shown to be capable of reading minds of groups of people at the same time while in her astral form.
		- **Mind Manipulation:** She can control the minds of others.
		- **Telepathic Communication:** She is able to mentally communicate with people over great distances.
		- **Paralysis Inducement:** She can mentally paralyze her targets completely.
		- **Sleep Inducement:** She can put others to sleep.
		- **Psychic Shield Generation:** She can protect her own mind and those of her allies from psychic attacks.
	+ **Teleportation:** Harkness has proven to be capable of transporting herself and others from one place to another.
		- **Portal Generation:** She was able to open a portal to transport herself from one dimension to another.
		- **Projective Teleportation:** She was able to teleport several people from another dimension at once to her current location and teleport away people or objects.
	+ **Matter Transmutation:** She can transmute and turn any type of matter into something else. She has transmuted Sandman into stone.
	+ **Voice Manipulation:** She has displayed the ability to manipulate voices. She has projected Mister Fantastic's voice across the entire planet in every language.

### Abilities

* **Occultism:** Harkness has a vast knowledge of magic, spells, and magical items. She has been practicing magic for thousands of years and has been stated to be the most powerful witch in all of New Salem. With centuries of experience, she was able to train Scarlet Witch in sorcery, helping her to master her powers and abilities. She is currently teaching at the Strange Academy where she teaches about Illusions of Ikonn.

### Weaknesses

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Agatha has no known fighting skills.
* **Old Age:** Her old age reduces her ability to perform strenuous tasks.

## Equipment

**Ebony:** Her familiar, a cat named Ebony, is a powerful extra-dimensional creature. Harkness possesses a psychic rapport with her cat, and she occasionally uses 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.

**Crystal Ball:** Through the use of a crystal ball, Harkness can communicate with others as well as view and observe others' locations.