A Quick Refresher
Season 1 of Wednesday ended with Jenna Ortega’s sharp-tongued heroine defeating Joseph Crackstone, rescuing Nevermore Academy’s outcasts, and leaving for summer break.
As Season 2 begins, Wednesday returns to campus ready for a new mystery, but she isn’t the only one changing the game. Several new characters make their debut, and they’re set to alter the balance at Nevermore.
In Season 2, Part 1 (four episodes), Nevermore reopens under new leadership, a stalker targets Wednesday, and a one-eyed raven orchestrates brutal murders. Below is your clean guide to the Wednesday Season 2 new characters, their powers, how they connect to Tyler and Enid’s grave vision, and what their presence sets up for Part 2.
Agnes DeMille — Invisible “fan,” dangerous ally
Why she stands out: Agnes is a 13-year-old outcast with invisibility. She’s the season’s early “stalker,” dressing in black like Wednesday and breaking into spaces to get her attention.
What she does: Agnes sets an elaborate “prank” that nearly kills Enid (Episode 2), then insists she wanted to impress Wednesday. After she’s unmasked, Wednesday keeps her close as an information gatherer. Agnes even helps access Donovan Galpin’s phone. It’s a risky choice: trusting the person who engineered the trap that triggered Wednesday’s panic about Enid’s grave vision.
Why it matters for Part 2: Agnes’ intel is useful, but her lack of boundaries can escalate danger. Expect her invisibility to remain a plot tool, and a moral test for Wednesday.
Principal Barry Dort — smile, speech… and a plan
Role: New principal of Nevermore, revives the Founders’ ritual, and quickly tries to put Wednesday front and center as an “honor student.”
The red flags: Barry Dort is not a comic relief headmaster. He pressures Bianca to use her siren voice to help secure a major donation tied to the Addams family (via Hester Frump), then drops the ominous line that “everything is going according to plan.” The preservation fund he’s building becomes a question mark.
Why it matters for Part 2: The principal’s agenda intersects with money, influence, and student talent, never a harmless combo at Nevermore. If he’s playing a long game, the Wednesday Season 2 new characters lineup might be his chessboard.
Isidora Capri — pianist with quiet power
Role: New music teacher and accomplished pianist who scores scenes with live performance (you’ll notice her in Episode 4 when an alarm cuts through her class recital).
What we know: Isidora’s power remains unrevealed in Part 1. Her demeanor is controlled and observant, never wasted on screen, and she’s positioned close to Wednesday’s investigations by proximity, timing, and the show’s musical cues.
Why it matters for Part 2: Music keeps threading through the Hyde storyline and the asylum arc. Given the series’ pattern, Isidora’s discipline could interact with Tyler’s volatility, or with a returning figure connected to music.
Grandmama Hester Frump — family magic, family mess
Role: Morticia’s mother and a seasoned witch. Grandmama ties the Addams’ lineage to Nevermore’s present, and she’s hands-on: she helps Wednesday retrieve Patricia Redcar’s ashes, and what they find inside raises questions about fake cremations and swapped remains.
Why it matters: Grandmama’s presence exposes how family duty collides with Wednesday’s independence. She also brings Morticia’s past choices into focus, especially concerning Ophelia, Morticia’s missing sister. With Wednesday Season 2 new characters rearranging allegiances, Grandmama is a bridge between what the Addamses know and what they’ve avoided.
Judy (Stonehurst) — the “aven” behind the crows
Role: The administrator at Willow Hill, and the secret mastermind continuing Project LOIS. She’s Augustus Stonehurst’s daughter, born normie but turned into an “aven,” able to control birds.
What she did: Judy is responsible for the one-eyed raven killings of Carl Bradberry and Donovan Galpin, and for faking outcast deaths to siphon abilities in LOIS’ basement lab. When Wednesday and Uncle Fester break in, Judy corners them at gunpoint, until Fester’s surge cuts the power, frees the captives, and lets Judy escape into the night.
Why it matters for Part 2: Judy is at large and has motive: revenge on Wednesday and Fester, plus unfinished experiments. She’s the most dangerous of the Wednesday Season 2 new characters because she blends institutional access with a weaponized power.
How the newcomers connect to Tyler, Enid’s vision, and Ophelia
Tyler Galpin — the Hyde is loose again
During the blackout, Tyler is freed from Willow Hill, then turns on his former handler, Marilyn Thornhill, and throws Wednesday out a window. With his father dead and Judy’s network exposed, Tyler is an untethered threat who has already vowed to kill Enid. The new principal’s politics, Judy’s escape, and Agnes’ risky “help” all fuel the chaos swirling around him.
Enid’s grave vision — self-fulfilling danger
Wednesday’s psychic vision of Enid’s tombstone drives her choices, and isolates her from Enid at the worst possible time. Every move to “protect” Enid (relying on Agnes, chasing LOIS leads) tightens the noose around that prophecy. The Wednesday Season 2 new characters amplify the pressure rather than relieve it.
Ophelia— the missing Frump sister
Ophelia has been gone for decades. Part 1 strongly hints a woman in Willow Hill’s hidden basement may be her, unlike the disfigured patients, she looks intact, which fits with psychic powers that can’t be harvested with machinery. If it’s Ophelia, she bridges Morticia’s warnings about black tears and psychic burnout with Wednesday’s current power loss. Ophelia’s return would reshape every Addams conversation going into Part 2.
The bottom line
The Wednesday Season 2 new characters aren’t window dressing; they’re the levers moving every crisis. Agnes’s invisibility, Barry Dort’s agenda, Isidora’s poised presence, Grandmama’s witchcraft, and Judy’s aven control all collide with Tyler’s freedom, Enid’s grave vision, and a possible Ophelia reunion. Part 2 is set up to answer who Wednesday can trust, and what that trust will cost.
