The Addams Familydid not originally have names when created by cartoonist Charles Addams.
So join us as we follow the journey of Wednesdays child.
The pair were soon seen placing the girls dolls into a tiny guillotineall the better for beheading.
She was often drawn smiling, albeit at things conventional tastes would find disturbing.
All other Addams family members had white eyes with black pupils.
This added to her comparatively morose nature.
Pretty much any collection of Charles Addams cartoons you might find.
Perfect dark funny, and the drawings are wonderful.
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Still, the devilish streak was there in Charles early cartoons.
Get the children to bed around eight, and keep your back to the wall at all times.
Its a seed of what became the enduring image of Wednesday on the screen… eventually.
Secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and prone to occasional tantrums.
Has six toes on one foot.
The six toes detail never made it to ABC, and frankly little else did of Charles characterization.
Cue a sequence of adorable kids doing the darndest things by dancing like the beatniks.
The animator also later said they were now only half as evil as in his cartoons.
Luckily, he already understood style and aesthetic tone perfectly well.
Her immediate response: Its called Is There a God?
Picking up a shovel, Wednesday indifferently turns her head to respond, Does it matter?
And that, as they say, is the end of that!
In the process, they created an alt-girl icon for little Goth millennials everywhere to admire and emulate.
Wednesdays plot line involves her and Puglsey being sent (condemned, really) to summer camp.
In the climax, Wednesday has her mean girl rival tied to a stake and doused in gasoline.
Until the very end, its left up to the viewer to imagine what happens next.
The Addams Familymusical was a disappointment for producers when it opened on Broadway in 2010.
The show went on to run for only 722 performances (a little under two years).
While not a disaster, it was not the decade-spanning run producers look for when adapting popular intellectual property.
They were also introduced to a different kind of Wednesday.
And that is basically Wednesdays function in the musical.
She sings to birds and dreams about settling down.
Yet however its framed, the writing of Wednesday borders on character assassination.
Riccis interpretation slow-roasted camp counselors over an open fire after they forced her to watch Disney movies.
Imagine what shed do to writers who suggested she would turn out to be a Disney Adult?!
Rather this animated Wednesday is more monotone and wistful, favoring a general ennui over sadism.
Now she hopes shes the daughter of some Elon Musk-like tech billionaire.
But deep down…I actually enjoy it.
Hit Young Adult shows have started from less.
However, Ortega and the show also makeThe Addams Familytheir own.
Its the only time she smiles in that episode.
However, the character is simultaneously less over-the-top than Riccis version.
It feels like a fitting culmination for the character.
