Jenna Ortega's Wednesday Costume Has A Connection To Wicked's Glinda

Jenna Ortega's Wednesday Addams, as seen in Netflix's Wednesday, is hardly the character fans would expect to bear any similarities to Ariana Grande's Glinda from Wicked. The Addams Family's daughter is infamously macabre and isolated, enjoying all things horrible and spooky and delivering wonderful deadpan quips. "Galinda," the future Glinda the Good, is bright, bubbly, and sociable, finding herself in a story that also explores an iconic character's school years. Wednesday and Wicked also demonstrate a similar plot point with polar opposite roommates slowly becoming friends, as this is what happens when Wednesday rooms with Enid (Emma Myers).

Wednesday season 1's ending exemplifies this arc between Wednesday and Enid, although as far as this parallel is concerned, Wednesday would be the counterpart of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the future Wicked Witch of the West. Even with the biggest changes Netflix's Wednesday makes to Ortega's character, she still might like it if people called her by the title of "wicked" (a term they probably have used to refer to her at some point). However, Wednesday shares a strange connection with Glinda when they uniquely change things and people around them and are usually able to get their way, despite any school rules.

Wednesday Addams & Glinda The Good Both Inexplicably Get To Wear School Uniforms In Their Signature Colors

Wednesday Wears Black & Glinda Wears Pink, While Both Nevermore & Shiz's Uniforms Are Blue

Wednesday and Glinda both, for reasons that are glossed over, get to wear customized versions of their respective schools' uniforms. Wednesday's excuse is that she is "allergic to color," which apparently earned her a specially-ordered uniform. The rest of the student body wears striped blazers that appear to be blue or purple in different scenes (probably affected by lighting), while Wednesday dons a black-and-gray version. Wednesday is, of course, famous for her entirely monochrome wardrobe to match her spooky personality.

Meanwhile, Glinda and Elphaba are in their 20s in Wicked, attending a university. The Shiz University uniforms also sometimes incorporate blue stripes, although what the students each wear suggests that the rules are more flexible. Elphaba, in both the stage and screen versions, wears something that still stands out from the ensemble but is believably some variation on what Shiz dictates its students wear. On the other hand, Glinda shows up to class wearing a pink iteration (cream-colored on stage) that is definitely not meeting the dress code. Glinda just gets to break the rules, like Wednesday.

Wednesday & Glinda Rule Their Worlds With Their Different Brands Of Charisma

What Wednesday and Glinda certainly have in common that ties into their school wardrobes being permitted is that they are both very charismatic, in completely different ways. The worlds they live in move around them; Wednesday because everyone is terrified of her and Glinda because everyone loves her. The Nevermore faculty might question Wednesday's "allergy," but no one is going to pick a fight with her if they don't need to. Glinda charms most supervisors and teachers just as well as she does her peers to get what she wants.

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Additionally, the settings of Wednesday and Wicked tell serious stories, but they are still not as grounded as some epic fantasy properties. They are whimsical in bizarre ways, and it comes across that these leading characters affect their surroundings in a more metatextual sense. Strict logic might demand to know what Glinda said to get to wear her customized uniform, but the tone of the story doesn't make this something that really feels off. Likewise, Wednesday Addams is a personality too big for the Wednesday setting and can do what she wants.

Netflix’s Addams Family series takes place at Nevermore Academy, a school that nurtures outcasts, freaks, and monsters. The Tim Burton-directed series follows Wednesday Addams as she tries to master her emerging psychic powers and solve the supernatural mystery surrounding her family history. Jenna Ortega stars in the popular series, which originally aired on Netflix on November 23, 2022.

Release Date November 16, 2022

Seasons 1

Franchise(s) The Addams Family

Directors Tim Burton , James Marshall , Gandja Monteiro

Showrunner Miles Millar , Alfred Gough