'That ending broke my heart': Marvel fans are crushed over Agatha All Along episode 7's big death and stunned by Rio Vidal's true identity reveal

Full spoilers ahead!

News By Tom Power published 24 October 2024

Full spoilers immediately follow for Agatha All Along episode 7.

Agatha All Along episode 7 has emotionally rocked fans after two gut-punching moments brought the Disney Plus show's latest chapter to a close.

The Marvel series' seventh entry, titled 'Death's Hand In Mine', primarily focuses on Patti Lupone's character Lilia Caldera, the Sicilian witch whose divination ability allows her to view time in a non-linear fashion. Or, to put it in layman's terms, see into the future while also being able to live in the past and present.

Until episode 7, Lilia hasn't had a huge role to play in Agatha All Along; the centuries-old magic wielder comparatively existing in the show margins when sharing the screens with her cohorts. In 'Death's Hand In Mine', however, Lilia takes center stage and ends up sacrificing herself to allow Agatha, Jennifer, and Teen – or Billy Maximoff as we now know him to be – to escape the Salem Seven's clutches after completing the Witches Road's latest trial.

Agatha All Along is the first time that non-comic book readers have been introduced to Lilia. Nonetheless, given Lupone's *ahem* towering (if you know, you know) and heart-rending performance in episode 7, fans haven't been shy in revealing how devastated they are over the death of a character they only met six weeks ago (at the time of writing, anyway) on September 18.

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On Reddit, user caitling98 wrote "that episode made me so emotional it was so wonderful and sad, I need to sit with that for a while wow", while rjmrh95 chimed in to say: "When she was falling, it made me teary eyed. When the song kicked in, it made me bawl". Elsewhere, cxtx3 simply opined "our Queen of Cups" – a reference to Lilia's persona as defined by the Queen of Cups Tarot card she pulls as part of episode 7's trial – before MBordy said, "Lilia's death is hitting me the hardest" out of the characters who have perished so far in the series.

Similar sentiments have been expressed on ResetEra and other social media platforms, including X/Twitter. ResetEra user Bushy-Doe Blade said "that ending broke my heart", while Surakian wrote "I'm not okay... this was such a great episode" and JTSilver called episode 7 "the best episode of Marvel Television ever".

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