Wednesday Season 2: The real identity of Thing, explained

Wednesday Season 2 concluded its eight-episode run this week, as the last four episodes of the ongoing season were released on Wednesday, September 3, 2025. One of the standout characters introduced in the first season was the hand, simply referred to as "Thing." Now, the second season delivered a jaw-dropping twist revolving around the hand.

The twist is delivered in the first act of the Wednesday Season 2 finale. In the eighth episode of the second season, This Means Woe, we learn that Thing is the central antagonist Slurp/Isaac Night's right hand. We also learn that Thing gained sentience the same day that Isaac died.

Wednesday Season 2's Thing's origin explained:

Wednesday season 2, Part 2 answers the main mystery that was set up in the first part, which streamed on Netflix on August 6, 2025. The second half of this season reveals that the zombie Pugsley resurrected was a student named Isaac Night. We further learn that Isaac is Tyler's maternal uncle. Isaac is revealed to be Morticia and Gomez's batchmate.

The final four episodes also show that Isaac was Gomez's best friend and roommate at Nevermore thirty years ago. Isaac had created a machine that had the capacity to remove his sister Francoise's (Tyler's mother) Hyde powers. There was a catch to the machine; it needed Gomez's electricity powers. While Gomez happily agreed to help Isaac, the latter willingly hid that the machine would drain Gomez of his life.

To save Gomez from this brutal fate, Morticia sabotaged the machine. As Wednesday hunts Isaac, she encounters him in a graveyard. This is where we learn Thing's origin story. As the now human-looking Zombie reveals that this entire encounter was an elaborate trap for the hand.

We also learn Thing's entire origin in this encounter. Morticia was the one who cut off Isaac's hand while saving Gomez. The Wednesday season 2 finale sees Isaac at his most powerful in form as he regains his severed right hand. After reattaching Thing to his body, Isaac buries Wednesday. While the twist feels surprising, the makers included an obvious hint; Isaac's second name, "Night," is an anagram of Thing.

As for why Thing remains loyal to the Addams family, the answer is simple. The night Morticia sabotaged the machine 30 years ago, electricity surged into Isaac's cut-off hand, breathing life into it, giving birth to Thing as we know the hand. It seems that Thing is unaware of its connection to Isaac, explaining its loyalty to the Addams family.

Thing's loyalty is why it ripped out Isaac's clockwork heart and freed itself from his body to join the Addams family. This shocking origin tale is something that the showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar addressed in a Deadline interview published on September 4, 2025.

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on Thing's backstory in Wednesday Season 2:

People were shocked to learn that Thing on Netflix's Wednesday is a physical actor on the set. Actor Victor Dorobantu wears a blue suit with a prosthetic hand that looks like Thing seen on the screen. The actor even provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what goes on behind the performance.

Now, it seems that the Wednesday Season 2 showrunners have come up with a rich backstory to reward the people involved in bringing the character to life behind the scenes. Addressing that Thing never had an origin story before the second season, Gough was the first to talk:

“There wasn’t a Thing origin story. What’s great for us with the Addams family is that there really isn’t any mythology or lore to them, other than the TV show, which is where they first got their names. And, of course, there’s the Charles Addams panels, but they didn’t have names in those. It was just called the Addams Family. For us, it’s a great blank canvas to really delve into these characters and figure things out. People always ask us, ‘Where’s Thing from?’ and ‘Are you ever going to tell Thing’s origin story?'”

Then Millar added to his fellow co-showrunner's comments:

“It felt like a natural idea and MacGuffin for a season. It was interesting following some of the comments. We thought it was pretty obvious from the very first moment that [Isaac/Slurp] appears, you see the hand come out of the dirt. You think that would be the big clue that gives it away. But I think many people hopefully didn’t see it and were surprised by that ending, and then exclaimed, ‘Oh my God! It was right in front of our faces the whole time.’”

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Netflix has already renewed the popular series for a third season, and as we wait for it, the first season and Wednesday Season 2 are available on the OTT platform for streaming.

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