Who Is Wednesday Season 2's New Villain? What Those Dolls & Mysterious Masked Character Mean -

The countdown to Wednesday season 2 officially began in April 2025, with promises of a new villain and Jenna Ortega’s Machiavellian iteration of Wednesday Addams up to her old tricks. Wednesday season 1’s ending sees all students departing Nevermore at the end of the semester, in the wake of the previous villain’s attempted takeover and Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan), sometimes a monster known as a Hyde, being imprisoned. Wednesday then finds out that someone is watching her, something that will still likely be on her mind when she returns to school.

Wednesday season 2 premieres in August 2025, with new cast members including Steven Buscemi, Thandiwe Newton, Christopher Lloyd, and Lady Gaga joining Wednesday and her returning classmates. As Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) points out, Wednesday “willingly” going back to a previous school is a first. But Wednesday isn’t just reuniting with friends like Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) and Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday) and continuing her studies, but will certainly engage in a battle of wits with a new villain, who is teased to have some classic horror inspiration.

Wednesday Season 2 Teases A Masked Villain Associated With Creepy Dolls

Wednesday Is Forced To Sit With A Table Of Horror Movie-Style Dolls

In Wednesday season 2’s trailer, Wednesday, at one point, is seen bound and gagged and sitting at a table with a lineup of dolls in all the other seats, in a decrepit room. One of the dolls, with blank eyes, turns its head to look at her. Wednesday is then shown standing up and wielding a knife, and says: “Let’s play dolls.” She later presents a doll to Enid and says that it has real human hair. This actually appears to be the same doll that was on her right side at the table setting.

Wednesday season 2 is supposed to be leaning into horror, as has been discussed by Jenna Ortega.

The trailer also briefly shows a masked assailant seemingly teleporting towards whoever is standing in from the perspective of the camera (presumably Wednesday). Connecting the only new humanoid threat seen of the masked villain and Wednesday temporarily being captured with all the dolls surrounding her, the dolls are likely a part of this season’s villainous plot. Wednesday escapes capture and potentially cuts up a few of the dolls, but takes one back to Enid — who acts like it’s supposed to be a gift, but maybe Wednesday is just showing her the evidence of the new villain’s power.

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Wanting To Kill All The Outcasts Has Already Been Done, & Dolls Mean Something Else

Wednesday season 2 is supposed to be leaning into horror, as has been discussed by Jenna Ortega. Killer dolls are a well-trodden area of the genre, but the sophomore outing of Netflix’s hit series also establishes a new human villain. When there are so many A-list stars confirmed to be a part of the cast in unknown roles, it seems most likely that someone is acting as a puppeteer for the violent toys this season. Therefore, the new season could have motifs of twisted child’s play and control, which would subvert what the villain was up to last time.

Wednesday looking serious in Wednesday season 1 episode 8

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Marilyn Thornhill/Laurel Gates’ (Christina Ricci) plan was pretty straightforward: resurrect her ancestor Joseph Crackstone (William Houston) and continue his mission of killing all the outcasts. So, introducing a new villain who also wants to achieve the basic goal of eliminating outcasts because they hate all supernatural beings would be redundant. What could be more interesting and very horror-movie-inspired is a villain who seeks a way to control the student body at Nevermore (like dolls) and have their own army, to ends that remain to be seen.

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Wednesday Season 2 Has A Greater Evil & Potentially A Parallel Storyline About Control

What’s also a classic is a fresh villain emerging that is so powerful that the main characters turn to a former, neutralized threat for additional help fighting the new one. Which is where Tyler is likely to come in this season, as the trailer shows his Hyde monster form charging towards Wednesday and stopping just before her, while she stands unflinching. A powerful and tough-to-beat monster like the Hyde could come in handy fighting a recently-formed threat with different supernatural abilities, as much as Wednesday would probably like to do it all herself.

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However, a storyline of parallels could also arise as it’s not entirely clear how much of Tyler’s actions last season were of his own free will, if the villain this season wants to take control of the minds of everyone at Nevermore, forcing Wednesday and others to reevaluate Tyler. It will also provide some interesting dynamics, as everyone will be taken aback when Tyler returns (probably because Wednesday broke him out of prison). At least, with dolls, screams, and Wednesday’s bleeding eyes which don’t seem to bother her, Wednesday is living up to its promised horror imagery — now it just needs to do the story.