🚨 Wednesday just looked into the mirror… and the reflection blinked first. 🖤👁️
Season 3’s brand-new trailer is here, and Jenna Ortega’s powers aren’t evolving, they’re breaking. Visions now bleed into reality: black veins crawl up her arms, objects explode when she screams, and for one split second she stops a raven mid-flight… with her mind.
But the final shot? Wednesday’s own eyes turn pitch black, and a second voice (hers, but wrong) whispers from her throat: “Stop fighting me, Wednesday. We’re only getting started.”
Eight episodes. One girl becoming the monster she was born to be. Summer 2027.
Watch the trailer before her powers watch you back.
Nevermore Academy is officially out of containment spells. Netflix dropped the most disturbing Wednesday trailer yet this afternoon, titled simply “Her Powers Are Changing,” and it’s a full-on descent into body-horror gothic terror centered on Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams losing control of the very abilities that once defined her.
Gone are the neat, black-and-white psychic snaps from Seasons 1 and 2. In their place: uncontrollable, physically destructive outbursts that leave Wednesday herself terrified for the first time in her life.
The two-minute trailer opens innocently enough, Wednesday practicing cello in the empty Jericho concert hall, until the strings snap one by one without being touched. Blood drips from her fingertips onto the keys. She looks up, startled, as every lightbulb in the hall explodes in perfect synchronization with her heartbeat.
Cut to montage:
Black veins spiderwebbing up her neck during a vision.
A bully levitating and slamming into a locker when Wednesday simply glares.
An entire greenhouse shattering outward when she screams in frustration.
Thing frantically signing “STOP” as books fly off shelves around her like a poltergeist storm.
Most chilling of all: a slow-motion shot of Wednesday freezing a raven mid-flight with raw telekinesis, something she has never done before, then crushing it unconsciously when Enid touches her shoulder. Feathers drift down like black snow as Wednesday whispers, “I didn’t mean to…”
Voiceover from Aunt Ophelia (Eva Green), dripping honeyed venom: “Your mother suppressed it. I tried to unleash it. But you, darling… you’re rewriting the rules.”
The money shot comes at the 1:48 mark: Wednesday staring into a cracked mirror. Her reflection smiles a fraction too late. Then its eyes flood solid black, and a second, distorted version of Wednesday’s own voice leaks from her mouth: “Stop fighting me, Wednesday. We’re only getting started.”
Smash to the Addams family crest cracking down the middle. Title card. Silence.
The internet detonated in real time. Within an hour, “#EvilWednesday” and “#BlackEyedWednesday” were trending worldwide. One viral slow-mo clip of the eyes turning black has already hit 2.1 million loops on TikTok with captions ranging from “she’s the final boss now” to “someone get Morticia on the phone.”
Showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar confirmed at Tudum that Season 3 is built around this mutation. “Wednesday’s powers were always psychic,” Gough said. “This year they become physical, invasive, and borderline demonic. She’s not just seeing death anymore; she’s starting to cause it accidentally.”
Jenna Ortega, who now has full creative input as producer, told the Tudum crowd: “We shot the mirror scene 47 times because I wanted the moment where Wednesday realizes she’s scared of herself to feel real. The black eyes are practical contacts plus VFX, but the shaking? That was all me. This is the first time Wednesday Addams is not in control, and it’s horrifying for her.”
Practical effects wizard Shane Mahan returns with a new “vein rig” — thin silicone tubes under Jenna’s real skin that pump black dye in real time. Combined with LED contacts and subtle wire work, the result is a transformation that feels painfully organic instead of CGI.
The trailer also teases the cost:
Enid backing away in fear after Wednesday accidentally throws her across the dorm with a glance.
Principal Grimshaw threatening expulsion “for the safety of the student body.”
Morticia and Gomez arriving at Nevermore for the first time since Season 1, Morticia’s face actually pale when she sees the black veins.
And one haunting final image: Wednesday alone on the roof under a blood-red moon, arms outstretched, every gargoyle on the castle cracking and bleeding as her shadow grows massive wings.
Tim Burton, directing the pivotal “mirror episode,” called it “the closest I’ve ever come to filming possession without actually casting a demon.”
Eight episodes, no split, straight drop summer 2027. But after today, one thing is crystal clear: the deadpan girl who once jerkily danced at a school formal is gone. In her place stands something Nevermore has never taught a class on, something the Addams family crest itself is afraid of.
Lock your doors. Hide the mirrors. Wednesday Addams isn’t predicting the apocalypse anymore. She’s becoming it.
