Wednesday and the other unforgettable goth girls from movies, series and comics | Wired Italy

Wednesday succeeded where many years ago also Big Bang Theory had triumphed: to popularize a minority bullied and mocked to the bitter end in reality. Like Sheldon & co. paradoxically made nerds cool, the Wednesday of the Netflix series has triggered the goth craze. Social media is haunted of tutorials to do hair and make-up and dress like the anti-heroine with a two-tone look, while more and more boiled stars try their hand at the ballet created by Jenna Ortega inspired by the Wednesday of the 60s and at Lisa Marie in Mars Attacks! The mainstream populace of the net has abruptly diverted the adoration for the Kardashian-esque plastic-coated and “sunny” stars towards the lunar figure of the brusque teenager with pigtailswhich is, in all respects, a specimen of goth girl. There are actually very few variations of the genre – from the Allison Reynolds-style outcast goth and outsider of Breakfast Club (and similarly Lydia Deetz of Beetlejuice) to vampire goth à la Richmond’s The It Crowd, from the liminal declinations between punk and goth like Nana Osaki by Dwarf to the extremes of a sexy bomb like Elvira passing through the version villains such as the witch Kriemhilde of Snow White up to the superb progenitor of the genre: the very sensual and perversein Theda Bara. We therefore take the opportunity to list some fictitious declinations of goth girls in popular culture.