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| “ | Goody Addams! You have been judged before God and found guilty. You are a witch, a sorceress, Lucifer's mistress herself. For your sins, you will burn this night, and suffer the flames of eternal hellfire. | „ |
| ~ Joseph Crackstone to Goody Addams, in Wednesdays vision. |
| “ | Silence, woman! Be gone, OR I WILL CUT THY TONGUE FROM THY WRETCHED MOUTH!!! | „ |
| ~ Joseph Crackstone ordering Laurel Gates to be quiet. |
| “ | I will expunge you abominations from this Earth! | „ |
| ~ Crackstone before setting Nevermore's quad on fire. |
Joseph Crackstone is the overarching antagonist in Season 1 of the 2022 Netflix TV show Wednesday. He is the ancestor of the Gates family and a puritan who despises outcasts and wants to wipe them all out from Jericho. He accused Wednesday Addams's ancestor Goody of witchcraft and was killed by Goody by being locked in a coffin as revenge for burning her mother alive.
He was portrayed by William Houston, who also portrayed King Aldrich and the Core in Amphibia, Vendrick in Dark Souls II, and Oceiros in Dark Souls III.
Biography[]
Crackstone was one of the original Puritans to colonize Jericho and settled where Nevermore Academy would be built on. As a puritan, he despises outcasts and would lead his fellow Puritans into murdering as many of them as possible, often locking them in a crypt and burning it to the ground with them inside. He was possibly a religious fanatic as well and often told them they were going to hell before he burned them.
Eventually, one of the outcasts he attempted to kill was Goody Addams, a young girl whose family recently immigrated there from Mexico. Goody managed to escape the crypt he locked her in, but her mother was lost in the fire. Goody killed Crackstone by locking him in a coffin where he would have died from Carbon monoxide poisoning, also cursing his soul so his spirit could not cross over and sealing him there, with the only person being able to open the seal would be one of Goody’s direct descendants, and he could only be revived on a blood moon. Despite this his family lineage would continue, creating generations that would despise outcasts and want to destroy them all.
He is later revived by his living descendant Laurel Gates, who sacrificed the blood of Goody’s descendant Wednesday Addams to bring him back. He mistakes Wednesday for Goody due to their similarities, and he paralyzes Wednesday with his telekinesis, which he most likely gained after death as there was no record of him having powers while alive. He then stabs Wednesday and taunts her by saying that she will burn in hell. He and Laurel leave Wednesday to die and they begin and threatening and murdering students of Nevermore.
Goody uses an Addams family talisman to partially possess Wednesday, healing her wounds from the inside and giving her strength, while also telling her the only way to destroy Crackstone again is through directly piercing his heart. A being saved by her friend Enid Sinclair from the Hyde, she runs to confront Crackstone with a sword. Her sword is destroyed in their battle, but before he can kill her Wednesday’s friend Bianca Barlay stabs Crackstone near his heart, wounding him, and he gets distracted and punches her away, leaving Wednesday to stab him in the heart with a shard of her sword and kill him once and for all.
Personality[]
| “ | Wednesday: What does this town even have an Outreach Day? Don't you know its real history with outcasts? The actual story of Joseph Crackstone? Larissa Weems: I do. To an extent. |
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While alive, Crackstone was shown to be an intelligent and manipulative man who had convinced his fellow Puritans against Outcasts easily, uniting them against the outcasts and acting as a leader of sorts to them. He was likely a religious fanatic, citing believing that the Outcasts were “witches” who were affiliated with Satan as reason to kill them, and is slightly sadistic when it comes to them, allowing a proud smile as he watches the crypt they are in burn in one of Wednesday’s visions. It is unknown how he treated his family, but since they all respect him and later spread lies about him being a person who wanted to unite outcasts and normies, it can be concluded that he was probably respectful to them, at least when they agreed with his ideals.
However, when brought back from the dead, he is a different story: a hedonistic, vile psychopath who enjoys taunting and murdering outcasts, smiling and laughing in an almost demonic way as he does so. He seems to see others as pawns as he dismisses and even threatens his own family, only allowing Laurel to kiss his ring because she was the one who revived him, and otherwise wanting her to not be near him. His treatment of outcasts is more outright aggressive and he seems to not have any religious motivation to kill them anymore, as he simply calls them “abominations” and is not referring to them as having anything to do with Satan, and only speaks of Hell when threatening Goody. And, rather than seeing her as another outcast as he did when he was alive, he has intense hatred towards her and hates her the most out of any other outcast, as when he sees Wednesday he abandons threatening two outcasts to fight her instead.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
Basically, Joseph Crackstone is just a standard with no supernatural power.
- Nigh-immorality: At his resurrection, Crackstone became almost immortal thanks to the resurrection ritual pronounced by Laurel Gates, his only weak point being his black heart.
- Wizarding: Crackstone receives a magic stick at his resurrection a magical staff with very great destructive powers.
Trivia[]
- Despite Laurel using Tyler Galpin to help her revive Crackstone, he and Tyler never met.
- It is unknown where his powers came from, as he is only seen using them after he acquires a scepter after being revived.
- His voice becomes more guttural and demonic after he is revived.
- The inspiration for Crackstone seemingly appears to be the combination of the lives of real life Colonist Roger Conant (who founded Salem, similarly to Crackstone with Jericho) and Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins.
External links[]
- Joseph Crackstone on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Joseph Crackstone on the Addams Family Wiki
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