Wednesday Addams's IQ — what the methodology actually says.

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is deadpan teenage outcast at Nevermore Academy whose detective-protagonist cognition powers the Tim Burton series' central mystery — Charles Addams's original character transposed into YA-prestige-drama register. The character's intellectual signature in the show is deadpan-deductive intelligence rendered through affect-flatness rather than externalized performance, intelligence-as-social-refusal, the rare YA-protagonist whose cognition is presented as enviable rather than as compensation for social difficulty.

This is the part of the question "what is Wednesday Addams's IQ" that the search engine flattens. The real question — the one viewers are circling — is whether the show treats his mind seriously. That's the question TVI can actually answer.

Wednesday scores 125/200 (Competent tier — top end) and Wednesday Addams is the consistent through-line. Ortega's performance commits to the deadpan register without modulating for relatability — that decision is the show's distinctive achievement. The rubric reads what audiences responded to: a YA protagonist whose intelligence is presented as desirable rather than as problem-to-be-managed, a registers Stranger Things and the Addams franchise had not previously combined.

For the full score breakdown — Cognitive Stimulation, Educational Value, Craft & Quality, and the rationale — see Wednesday on TV Intelligentsia. Or read what an IQ Score is and how it's calculated.