Agatha All Along continued the MCU’s focus on inclusion, especially with queer representation, by featuring Joe Locke’s Wiccan, one of the most popular gay superheroes in the comics. The show handled these themes well and stayed true to the comics, where Wiccan’s relationship with Hulkling is a key part of his character.

In the show, Billy Maximoff has a boyfriend named Eddie. Although Eddie wasn’t revealed to be Hulkling in the MCU, fans still came up with many theories about the two.

ComicBookMovie recently spoke with Miles Gutierrez-Riley, who played Eddie. Riley expressed thanks for the positive response to Eddie and Billy, saying he was really touched by the support.

He also mentioned that everyone behind Agatha All Along worked hard to make sure the relationship was authentically represented, staying true to the source material and reflecting Billy’s character.

Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that. I was really touched to see the positive response to Eddie and Billy, everyone behind the scenes at Agatha really cared about authentic representation and capturing this relationship in a way that honoured the source material and really got to the heart of Billy’s soul.

It’s really nice to be a part of the MCU and I’ve stressed it so much in interviews but working with Joe was my honor, it was really cool. He’s so smart and carried that show in such a beautiful way.

The star of Smile 2 also shared that he was glad to see the positive reaction to Eddie and Billy’s relationship and hinted that there are plans to explore Billy’s background and journey further.

On the speculation, all I can say is I was touched with how people responded to Eddie and Billy and I know that there are a lot of plans for how we’re going to continue exploring Billy’s background and life and journey and we’ll have to see.

Jac Schaeffer explained that there were initial plans to introduce Teddy Altman, also known as Hulkling, as Billy’s boyfriend in the show. Eddie was even going to be named Teddy, in reference to the comics. However, Marvel chose not to include Hulkling’s Kree/Skrull hybrid identity in this series.

Instead, they named the character Eddie as a tribute to someone important to the writers’ room. Schaeffer clarified that this change wasn’t meant to tease fans, but was a way to honor someone meaningful to the team.

“There were early conversations [about Hulkling].[Eddie] was originally called Teddy because we were looking at the artwork and thinking about that. That was a Marvel decision to not have him be Hulkling for the purposes of our show.”

“Within our show, he is not Hulkling but we pivoted to Eddie because he is named after a person that is important to the writers’ room. It wasn’t sort of teasing the fans, it was one of those lovely tributes to somebody who matters to us.”

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