Wednesday Addams
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| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Wednesday Addams |
| Occupation: | Student (Wednesday) |
| Relationships: | Morticia Addams (mother) Gomez Addams (father) Pugsley Addams (brother) Fester (uncle) |
| Fandom: | The Addams Family |
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Wednesday Addams is a prominent female character from The Addams Family. As the daughter of Gomez and Morticia, she is typically depicted as a morbid child with a keen interest in the eerie and grotesque. She is typically identified by her extremely pale skin and braided black pigtails.
A popular and iconic character, Wednesday plays a prominent role in many Addams Family continuities. In 2022, Netflix released a show titled Wednesday featuring Jenna Ortega as the title character. In the Wednesday continuity, Wednesday is a teenager attending Nevermore Academy.
Canon
Wednesday Addams is the daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams and sibling to Pugsley. She is a minor in all Addams Family continuities, but her age can vary from elementary school to her mid-teens, and she may be either older or younger than Pugsley. In some continuities she has other siblings, such as Pubert Addams (in Addams Family Values and the sequel Addams Family Reunion), or Pugsley Jr. Addams and Wednesday Jr. Addams (in Halloween with the New Addams Family).
Older Addams Family continuities, such as the New Yorker cartoons and 1960s TV series, usually portrayed Wednesday as a fairly young child, with Pugsley as her older brother. They also made her something of a foil to the rest of the family; despite a streak of fascination with the morbid and grotesque, Wednesday was overall cheerful and relatively normal compared to her parents and brother. Christina Ricci's portrayal of Wednesday in the 1990s Addams Family films made her much more deadpan and sardonic, and most later adaptations (as well as Wednesday's most common fanon characterization) have taken their cues from it. In these more recent adaptations, Wednesday is more likely to be in her early teens, and Pugsley is usually the younger sibling.
Fandom
Common Tropes and Themes
- Neurovariant - The most popular headcanon being that she is autistic.
- Aromantic and/or asexual
- Sapphic - Lesbian Wednesday Addams is the most popular sexuality tag for Wednesday on AO3, followed by Bisexual Wednesday Addams.
- Touch-starved
Pairings
- Wednesday Addams/Joel Glicker
- Wednesday Addams/Lydia Deetz
- Wednesday Addams/Enid Sinclair
- Wednesday Addams/Tyler Galpin
- Wednesday Addams/Xavier Thorpe
Fanworks
Fanfic
- Because We're Addamses by calliopes_pen (2008 Yuletide entry)
Fanart
- Wednesday Addams by danidraws (2009)
- Kiriban 40k watchers: Precious Wednesday by nanfe (2016)
- Inktober day 27: Wednesday by luciferys (2018)
- Wednesday by killjo-q (2022)
- wednesday series is very cool by sunnnliwx (2022)
Fanvids
- Wednesday Addams | Paint It Black by GossipVal1 (2022)
- Wednesday Addams | bury a friend by WickedDreams (2022)
Web series
- Adult Wednesday Addams - A web series written by and starring Melissa Hunter. It follows a twenty-something Wednesday Addams after she moves to Los Angeles. The series was removed from YouTube after receiving a cease-and-desist from the Charles Addams estate.
Meta
- The Appeal of Wednesday Addams by Beaucephalis (Jun 4, 2022)
- The Evolution of Wednesday Addams, From Cutesy Side Character to Goth Girl Icon by Elisa Guimarães (Nov 23, 2022)
- Why I Love Wednesday Addams 14 part meta by ysabetwordsmith (Mar 25, 2023)