Does Wednesday REALLY count as a Big Sister Bully? The Addamses ENJOY being tortured when it's not taken too far and Pugsley explicitly says he misses being waterboarded, the closest she comes to anything actually HURTFUL to him is telling him he's weak and she clearly sees that as tough love more than anything though it's still rather harsh. In most previous versions it's been very much established that Pugsley is having fun when Wednesday does these things—in the films he begs Morticia to let Wednesday electrocute him and in the musical he has a whole song about how he doesn't want Wednesday to get married and leave home because torturing himself won't be as fun as when she was around to torture him. (Also if previous versions are anything to go by he does play his share of similar "pranks" on her, tying her to a chair, poisoning her, even bricking her up in a wall...). I feel like bullying doesn't include things that the person on the receiving end not only enjoys, but actively asks for—it seems to just be seen as an enjoyable game by both of them.
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She clearly knows it's wrong, since she punishes those jerks for being mean to him.
Those jerks treated him in a way he *didn't enjoy* and was clearly unhappy about—THAT was bullying. Whereas Pugsley says he misses being waterboarded and has frequently been shown begging to be electrocuted and stretched on a rack, being disappointed when he doesn't get to play these "games", etc. I just don't think it can be bullying to do something that the other person *asked* you to do and *enjoys*. The school bullies did do something wrong and made him unhappy, but Pugsley has pretty much never been shown to be unhappy about how Wednesday treats him. Context matters. If I punch my friend during karate practice, we're both doing something we enjoy together, I'm not bullying or harming them. If someone walks up to them in the street and punches them, that person has committed assault. The kids at the school were bullying Pugsley, but Wednesday was not.
We need to organize the cast into a folder, especially with the new cast announcement video for season 2. It could get all messy and disorganized.
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.