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Change is the only constant. But some things never change, like the laws of nature, the fact that the sun rises in the East, and that you cannot live forever. However, Netflix’s Wednesday takes one thing very seriously: life is finite. In fact, if you live in Jericho, you’re always a bad decision away from death.

The second didn’t just dial up the horror. It left a bloody trail with bodies falling left and right. Sure, a newcomer or two were excused. But their survival had no shortcomings for those who came with limited time on their hands.

With the number of villains doubling this season, Wednesday Addams had to neutralise quite a few evil forces. While that took time, too many characters, both minor and prominent, ended up collateral.

Some deaths were grotesque and graphic. The others? Honestly, passable. So, here lies a ranking of deaths that left us scrambling and screaming this Wednesday season.

Deaths in Wednesday season two: ranked

Dr Rachel Fairburn

Dr Rachel Fairburn was heavily misunderstood by Wednesday Addams, who mistook her for the avian that’s actually her seemingly harmless assistant, Judi Spannagel.

Although she suffered a horrific fate at the hands of Slurp, who regenerated into Isaac Night later in Wednesday’s second season, she was just one of the many who became his meal when the outcasts were freed from Willow Hill mid-season.

Ron Kruger

When Puglsey Addams sneaked Slurp inside Camp Jericho, a group of normies tried their best to ambush the outcasts at night following the Phoenix cadet’s defeat earlier in the day. But fate had other plans because Pugsley’s tent had another ambush waiting for his meal: Isaac. The death was rather quick and had little impact on the show.

Augustus Stonehearst

Augustus Stonehearst had a rather brief presence in Wednesday, although his story had an impact till the season finale. Like Dr Rachel Fairburn, he was gobbled up by Slurp when hell, or shall we say Wednesday Addams, broke loose in Willow Hill.

While he was just a normie Nevermore professor, Stonehearst was also the mysterious founder of the LOIS program, who turned Judi, his daughter, into an avian. But his death brought a chilling sequence where Isaac spoke for the very first time, grunting, “Hello, old friend,” a sign that his cerebral consciousness was slowly retreating with every brain ate.

Professor Orloff

Isaac, AKA Slurp, was really hungry this season, and Wednesday ensured he was well fed. Despite being the mastermind who built Professor Orloff’s life-support system years ago, he cut the source of power to reboot the Hyde machine, eating his brain in the process.

Donovan Galpin

Donovan Galpin may have survived the first season of Wednesday. But the second one had to make up for his extended stay. The former police chief of Jericho was already deep in his probe into LOIS with Carl Bradbury, until Judi got her hunch.

While his actions were out of concern for his son, Tyler, he couldn’t ultimately escape the bloody massacre of the crows, which gouged out his eyes and left him dead on a couch chair in his house.

Gideon Sterling

As the fallen leader of the Morning Song cult, Gideon Sterling is an omnipresent entity who’s talked about a lot but barely shown in the series. Although regarded as a danger to be reckoned with, it’s Dort who’s the actual kingpin, who incinerates Gideon, betraying him over greed.

Judi Spannagel

For such a formidable killer, you wouldn’t expect anything less than a compelling death that feels earned. Judi Spannagel did meet her fate while retrieving her father’s research papers on absorbing the outcasts’ abilities, especially as she tailed Francoise Galpin to remove her traces of crimes.

However, Isaac ended up getting the best of her. While her death was written, it somehow didn’t satisfy in ways you would expect.

Marilyn Thornhill

Wednesday believes in a full circle. And Marilyn Thornhill’s death is ironically a complete one. Having been the mastermind who controlled Tyler’s Hyde behaviour throughout the first season, the puppet master and his puppet were signed into the correctional facility of Willow Hill.

But when Wednesday and Uncle Fester unknowingly freed the outcasts from the Willow Hill shackles, Tyler and Marilyn were not far behind. While the latter was brought to Willow Hill to rehabilitate Tyler, the confrontation doesn’t go down as planned. Powered with hate, betrayal, and a drive for vengeance, he claws through Thornhill, knowing well that it would be a harbinger of his own doom.

Carl Bradbury

Wednesday hit a bullseye with the first death of the season. Or perhaps, Judi’s crows did. The Netflix series always liked to play with what you hear and what you see. So, starting the second season, Wednesday did what it does best, kicking things off with the most unsettling murder that sets the entire tone for the show.

It starts with Carl Bradbury sniffing proofs deep within the woods, where a couple get a bit too handsy. But the real show is actually far back in his minivan, where the crows await him to peck the life out of him. Call it creepy or horrifying, the second season had the most discomforting death to turn the page, even though Bradbury is a minor character.

Barry Dort

When the new Nevermore principal walked in, he did so as a happy-go-lucky chap. But it doesn’t take a lot to uncover that he’s far from the benevolent leader he claims to be. Harassed by constant manipulation, Bianca ultimately joins forces with her fellow students to get hold of Dort’s Corinthian coral locket that protects him from Siren powers.

In a moment of heat, Dort ends up taking Bianca hostage before firing up a chandelier. Bianca makes use of the chaos, breaking free while Ajax turns him into a stone just in time for the chandelier’s crash, crumbling him to pieces. This completely felt deserved.

Francoise Galpin

The Addams family drama has always been at the heart of Wednesday, as it should. But the Galpins are no less. When Francoise Galpin finally reunites with Tyler and Isaac, her motherly instincts kick in. The siblings begin to reboot the machine that can remove an outcast’s power, even as terribly terrific as Hyde’s. Initially, she frames the machine as her only way to live a normal life, only to tie Tyler instead, believing it’s the only way to save him, even if it means going against his wishes.

But in a move no one saw coming, Wednesday frees Tyler, probably to buy some time to save Puglsey or simply out of empathy, unleashing a war of Hydes, which ultimately ends in her death.

Isaac Night

While the Hyde showdown is difficult to top, Isaac Night’s death takes the cake. Because there’s nothing more inviting than an Addams family showdown. Wednesday’s ending brings a chilling revelation that Thing, the family’s loyal companion and Wednesday’s most trusted confidante, is actually a part of Isaac Night. During Isaac’s regeneration, he forcefully claims Thing, reattaching him to his body.

But when Isaac attacks Wednesday, Thing extracts his clockwork heart, making Isaac’s death the most memorable one.