THE FIRST GOTHIC PRINCESSES
WEDNESDAY ADDAMS
Gomez and Morticia's daughter is Wednesday Addams, who was originally played by Lisa Loring, who was born in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands in 1958.
She grew up in Hawaii, was a model at the tender age of three and in 1964 performed in her first television series. That same year she was hired to play the Addams family's under-six-year-old daughter.
Let's remember that the daughter, like all the other members of her family, didn't have names until Charles Addams gave them to her in 1964, when the characters were created in 1938!
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As the character's costume features the typical flared suit for kindergarten girls, although this is dark and the white collar of the shirt is English, but exaggerated in size, perhaps reminiscent of the way the first English settlers dressed, including those living in the town of Salem, from which the branch of his mother's family comes.
Long socks such as pantyhose and shoes are also dark colored. This whole ensemble was an influence on the later creation of the Gothic sub-culture.
As aspects of personality, we have a girl who, although tender in her behavior, sometimes comes out with macabre twists and turns, all according to the environment in which she lives and the family she has had. It's different from the version played in 1991 by Christina Ricci, because apart from being 12 years old, she has a darker, even sadistic personality.
Wednesday Addams (Merlina in South America, and Miércoles in Spain) has artistic skills, more specifically in painting. In addition, She has great skill in a Japanese martial art, we would say absurd in Judo, since She can defeat her father with a clean hand, which shows that she is very strong.
Wednesday has many pets like piranhas, and others, however, show a predilection for spiders (clear influence from Vampira). In addition, she almost always wears a little doll that dresses like her, but which has no head and is called Marie Antoinette, like the last queen of France and who died guillotined.
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Curiosities:
Her taste for judo was surely passed on to her by her mother Morticia, who practices ikebana and plays shamisen, both of which come from Japan.
Her strength is surely inherited from her aunt Ophelia, who could throw her brother-in-law Gomez from a great distance.
The Addams are wealthy and practice a Japanese martial art, and this fact was certainly an influence on the 2016 film: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Where they clearly state that "the rich practiced karate, and the wise kung fu"
The Addams' wealth would influence another family whose member is a Gothic girl: The Deetzes, whose daughter Lydia Deetz is the Gothic character in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice. In fact, the name Lydia comes to mean the ancient city of Lydia, which was the first place in the world where coins were minted, so its name would also mean wealth.
The Addams are so rich that in the cartoons they are the real owners of New York's central park, and in fact their home is in the middle of the park in the musical that premiered on Broadway.
Wednesday's mania for playing at beheading her doll, which by the way is called Marie Antoinette, surely comes from the stories that Grandmother Addams tells her, since although she and her son came from Spain, the great-great-grandmother of Gomez/Homero's mother, she lived during the French Revolution and survived the time of the Robespierre terror.
Wednesday's character seems to have inspired the creation of Anita (Donovan's companion in Dark Stalkers' videogames and anime), the girl who always wears a decapitated doll. It is of a sombre character and like Wednesday she wears a pair of braids as a hairstyle.
Chistina Ricci, who played her later, acted curiously with Winona Ryder in the film: Sirens with the singer Cher who played the bad mother. Curious because it would be Winona Ryder, who would later play Lydia Deetz, the Gothic girl from Tim Burton's movie Beetlejuice.
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