As Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams has returned, thanks to Season 2 being part of the 2025 TV schedule, it’s worth talking about how and why the character has continued to be so beloved since The Addams Family got its start as a comic book strip in the ‘30s. Among the reasons fans love the character is for how she’s an outsider who embraces herself despite living in a world where her behavior is often not accepted. It’s no wonder she’s thought of as a queer icon.
And when Season 1 of Wednesday came out, LGBTQ+ fans started getting behind the idea of Wednesday Addams and her roommate Enid Sinclair (played by Emma Myers) perhaps starting a friendship that could blossom into romance. However, the ship known as “Wenclair” has just been shot down by its show creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. As Gough told Decider:
