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Wednesday Netflix characters named after classic authors:

Isaac Night - Isaac Asimov (author of 'I, Robot' - this fits Isaac's character very well) [Made a reference to Asimov in my latest fic update, which is what prompted making this list. Mainly to organize my own thoughts]

Nathaniel Faulkner - Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) and William Faulkner ("...human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.")

Carl Bradbury (Donovan's friend, murdered by crows) and Bradbury tower (a rare case of repeating an author name - could be relevant?) - Ray Bradbury ('Fahrenheit 451', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes')

Enid - Enid Blyton? (Could be a coincidence but Blyton's works are aimed at children and generally very wholesome, matching Enid)

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Other character names which I guess could be related to media and literature, but could easily be a coincidence:

Tyler - Tyler Durden from the Fight Club?

Coach Vlad - Fencing master - after Vlad the Impaler who inspired Dracula. (Also fun to think that they chose the most obviously Romanian name for the character - the first series was shot in Romania)

Rachel Fairburn - I recall seeing in a comic or the Addams Family movie where there was a book written by a Dr. Fairburn. And I think Rachel is an indirect reference to Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, especially since Wednesday's Novel in S2 is titled 'Cuckoo's Nest'

Tudor-Pole - unseen math teacher in S2 (mentioned by Pugsley and Eugene who were selling solutions to his quiz) - Could be a reference to Edward Tudor-Pole? It's such a unique surname, and he's the first search results and while I'm not familiar with his work, the writers of Wednesday might be.

Agnes - Her surname is french, and she takes a lot of photos so maybe Agnes Varda? But I've seen a comic by Charles Addams where Agnes is the name of an unseen character on the other end of the phone, so that's probably the real reason she's named Agnes.

Eugene - This is almost certainly a coincidence, but there's a track called Eugene's Trick Bag in the movie Crossroads, and it's composed by Steve Vai whose interests include beekeeping.

What if Wednesday left her snood at the Weathervane hoping that Tyler would bring it back? I mean, she could have "lost" it anywhere, but she chose to leave it there, after Tyler had seen her with it.

Maybe he ruined his chances for a quick reconciliation by returning it via Bianca instead.

#weyler

Tyler: Why do you consider me your enemy? Isaac: Because your girlfriend stabbed me. Tyler: She's my wife now.

#weyler #original quote: moonrise kingdom (2012)

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Jim Benton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nevermind

Seasons 1 and 2 of Wednesday both had at least one cast member from older Addams Family iterations: Christina Ricci in S1 and Christopher Lloyd in S2.

My guess is the question mark on the bottle next to Balthazar represents a character played by an ex Addams Family cast member.

If that's the case, I hope it's either John Astin (Gomez from 1964 TV series) or Angelica Huston (Morticia from the Sonnenfeld movies).

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Princess and the Frog: Girl kisses creature, creature reveals himself to be a prince.

Wednesday S1: Girl kisses boy, boy reveals himself to be a monster (who is her type).

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Sleeping Beauty: Past/Future lover kisses awake the sleeping princess

Wednesday S2 Part 1: Past lover puts the girl in a coma (which happens to be her favorite vacation)

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Rapunzel: Guy finds girl in a tower and frees her from her mother figure who held her captive.

Wednesday S2 Part 2: Girl finds boy in a tower and frees him from his mother who kept him chained.

#weyler

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"We're two black-hearted souls ready to pillage the world together."

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Love this edit!

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My headcanon for Wednesday S1E6 first-aid scene:

From the moment Tyler's t-shirt was cut open, Wednesday avoided eye contact with him, ostensibly focusing on the applying of stitches, but very determinedly not looking at his face because she was too flustered to do so while touching his chest. And when Tyler said, "Thanks, doc," it was to make her look him in the eye.

#weyler

What if I'm wrong? What if I've lied? What if I've dragged you here to my own dark night?

When watching S1 the first time, I didn't realize how Weyler-coded this song was (If I Be Wrong by Wolf Larsen). It plays during the funeral scene at the beginning of S1E7. In that scene, it's Wednesday experiencing self-doubt, so initially I thought it was about Wednesday. On rewatch, you can read the whole lyrics from Tyler's PoV. Also, in the episode before, he actually asks Wednesday, "Am I wrong?"

Full lyrics:

What if I'm wrong? What if I've lied? What if I've dragged you here to my own dark night?

And what if I know? What if I see There is a crack run right down the front of me?

What if they're right? What if we're wrong? What if I lured you here with a siren song?

But if I be wrong, if I be right Let me be here, with you tonight

#weyler

When Wednesday visits Tyler in Willow Hill in S2E2, he walks up to her from the wall he was chained to, until he is as close as he can be with her. His entire body is in a straight line, facing her.

By contrast in S2E4 when Laurel visits Tyler, he doesn't do this. He stops walking before the point he reached with Wednesday, and extends his arm to Laurel until she feels secure enough to reach him through the bars.

I think Tyler was faking the effort it took him to reach the bars to bait her, so that he can grab her neck and kill her. If he had walked up as much as he really could, Laurel could maybe step back at the first sign of danger and get out of his reach. Instead he left some room for himself to move forward, and brought his prey to within his free arm's distance. He wasn't lying when he said he'd been dreaming of this moment for so long - what he was doing needed some forethought.

And Dr.Fairburn's warning to the guard about electric shock was important - it meant Tyler was using what he learned over his time in Willow Hill to his advantage - either Laurel will choke to death in his Hyde's hand, or she would be shocked to death because Willow Hill's only way of restraining him wouldn't protect someone he was holding by the neck because electrical conductivity.

Then he drops her because she promised to get him out of there - I think because freedom, and not pain like Wednesday says, is what the Hyde understands. Remember, Francoise's Hyde was unlocked on a 4th of July. Independence Day.

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Tyler: "Did you ever even love her?"

Donovan: "More than you could ever know."

Recently came up with a different interpretation of this scene than what I initially had:

At this point in the story, Tyler knows that his mother was a Hyde, and he guesses that Donovan must have learnt of her Hyde identity after they got married - Tyler has no reason to believe that his outcast-hating father would marry a woman whom he knew to be a Hyde, and Donovan calls Fran a liar in one of the deleted scenes from the script. For all Tyler knows, Donovan hated Francoise after finding out she was a Hyde, and it made her condition worse and possibly led to her death, and that was why his dad wouldn’t speak of her.

Now, compare this against the situation Tyler fancies himself to be in - he’s just set up a date with Wednesday, the spooky outcast girl who is obsessed with the monster in the woods. A part of him knows, or at least hopes, that she wouldn’t react to his true identity the way his father did with his mother’s. So when he’s getting angry at Donovan, he’s also defending Wednesday - how dare he accuse Tyler’s girl of potentially hurting him, when Donovan was the one who stopped loving the Hyde he was married to?

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