Wednesday’s Tyler Is A Monster Even Without The Hyde Transformation – Looper

Before the shapeshifting Hyde, aka Tyler Galpin, makes his evil intentions known to Wednesday Addams, he is already a monster hiding in plain sight. The old Jekyll-Hyde defense can be immediately thrown out in this case because Dr. Jekyll was not deliberately a villain in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

By comparison, Tyler is a foul, duplicitous antagonist, and one of the most abhorrent characteristics belying Tyler’s cleverly nice-guy persona is his art of deception. He clearly deceives not only Wednesday in order to weasel his way into her life, but he fools the entire city of Jericho. Tyler’s deception is premeditated and painstakingly planned out by both the Hyde and his master, Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci). And the showrunners, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, clearly concocted a character who fans would at first side with, or at least have conflicted suspicions about before they too learned the truth about him and Wednesday’s almost-romance with the Hyde.

In real life, Doohan and Ortega get along famously. “Off camera, it’s super easy because Jenna is so lovely,” Doohan revealed in an interview with Hollywire. Doohan then elaborated on his character’s motivations inciting the love connection between himself and Wednesday, so audiences would feel betrayed when the Hyde’s identity was revealed. “Obviously, from Tyler’s point of view, he’s just trying to sell the lie,” Doohan said in the same interview.