The Teens in 'Wednesday' Have Some Wild Superpowers

Wednesday, Netflix's new take on The Addams Family—with one particular member at the center— puts the family's supernatural ties at the forefront. Not only is the family strange and Gothic, but they're connected to Nevermore Academy, a boarding school which houses "outcasts" (read: any person with supernatural powers). The title character, Wednesday Addams (played with a wonderful deadpan by Jenna Ortega), discovers that she occasionally gets visions from touching objects, and can even talk to a past ancestor to further improve her powers and learn about her family's past. And while her journey and the school's surrounding mystery are what drive the show's main story, Wednesday's friends, acquaintances, and enemies are also fascinating parts of the story. As each episode unfolds we learn more about characters and their powers, sometimes even getting intriguing side plots that may could become more important in Season 2.

One of the drawbacks of having a sizable cast like on Wednesday, however, is it can quickly become difficult to remember who has which powers and abilities. Most of the time, the teens are simply walking around school in their uniforms, so it's easy to forget that at any moment, one of them can, say, turn into a werewolf or take off their hat and turn people to stone.

It's probably because at the end of the day, they're still teens dealing with very teen things, grappling to understand their powers while handling romance, death threats, and a creepy monster with cartoonishly large eyes lurking in the woods. Without giving any major spoilers away, here are the characters of Wednesday and the powers all of them possess in one handy guide.