| "Gorgons are taught not to engage. I don't want to accidentally stone someone." -Ajax Petropolus[src] |
Ajax Petropolus is a gorgon student at Nevermore Academy and is a member of the Nightshade Society.
He is portrayed by Georgie Farmer and appears in seasons one and two of the 2022 Netflix TV series Wednesday.
Biography[]
Season One[]
Ajax comes up to Enid as she is showing Wednesday around, telling her that he has dirt on her new roommate. After Enid stepped to the side to reveal Wednesday, the snake that slithered out of his beanie hid. Ajax commented on Wednesday's appearance, saying she was "black and white". Like a living Instagram filter." Enid lightly pushes him away, telling Wednesday to ignore him as "Gorgons spend way too much time getting stoned."
During fencing class, after the first two points in Wednesday and Bianca's match, he is seen standing in the near background behind Rowan. When he hears Wednesday's military challenge, he looks between the two with a worried expression. As a member of the Nightshade Society, he is there when they kidnap and tie up Wednesday Addams after they find her sneaking around their lair.
He is tasked with doing volunteer work in Uriah's Heap with Enid, completely oblivious to Enid's flirting. After missing Enid's hints for a day, she tells him directly that she's been flirting and invites him to hang out with her behind the greenhouse. He accepts, and they continue working. Later that evening, after he showers, Ajax accidentally stones himself in a mirror and stands Enid up.
After going to the Rave'N with another girl, he finds Enid outside being bullied and scares the normies off. He then confesses that he was too embarrassed to tell her why he didn't make it to their date, and the two kiss.
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He helps chain up Tyler Galpin when Wednesday exposes him as a hyde. Before Wednesday begins torturing Tyler, Ajax leaves with the rest of the Nightshades and goes to inform Larissa Weems of what is happening. Later on, Bianca apologizes to Wednesday on behalf of Ajax and the others for getting her expelled, saying that it wasn't her intention to do so.[1] Near the end of the episode, Ajax is the first to comfort Enid Sinclair after she 'wolfs out' for the first time and stumbles out of the woods. He then helps her walk back to the other students.
Season Two[]
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Ajax watches perplexed as Wednesday dances through the courtyard wearing Enid's clothes. He observes the roommates throughout the day, and is largely confused alongside Bianca.
As the gala quickly approaches, news of Gideon Sterling being sighted near Jericho spreads online. Ajax goes to check on Bianca and Gabrielle, only to find that Gabrielle has apparently skipped town on her daughter again. Bianca warns him to let it go, but instead, he enlists Enid and Wednesday's help. During the gala, Agnes and Wednesday steal Dort's Corinthian coral amulet while Ajax frees Gabrielle from Dort's apartment. During the ceremony, Bianca sirens Dort into telling everyone the truth. He takes her hostage using his powers, so Ajax stones him to save her life. A chandelier falls on Dort and crushes him.
After a conversation with Bianca, Ajax realizes his breakup with Enid isn't a reflection of him. He apologizes to Enid for her messy breakup with Bruno, who leaves Nevermore with his secret girlfriend, Sofia. Ajax and Enid agree to be friends again and shake hands, though they share a lingering look.
Description[]
Ajax wears the standard Nevermore uniform, with a hoodie of the same color layered underneath his blazer. His shirt is untucked, his blazer is unbuttoned, and his beanie matches the colors of his uniform.
Outside of school, he wears a variety of colored beanies. He layers a jacket over t-shirts and wears long pants. Alternatively, Ajax can be seen wearing a jacket layered over a hoodie.
At the Rave'N, Ajax wears an outfit appropriate to the dance's theme. Ajax wears a light blue shirt layered under a white hoodie. He wears a cream blazer, and his hood sits over the blazer. The drawstrings, zips, and buttons are all accented with black. He wears a white beanie and cream-colored pants.
Personality[]
Ajax is introverted and shy. As gorgons are taught not to engage with others, he avoids them when he can. Despite this, he is close with Enid Sinclair and Xavier Thorpe and seems to be more comfortable around them.
After stoning himself in a mirror, he is too embarrassed to tell Enid why he stood her up afterwards, further displaying his lack of people skills. However, he seems to have come to terms with the risks of his power since Enid herself told him she wasn't afraid of being stoned by him. When he saw Lucas Walker as Enid's date in an attempt to make him jealous, it caused him a slight sense of desperation, which he was unaware of until later, after the normie sabotaged the dance with his friends and they started taunting Enid at the Rave'N. He shouted at them to get away from her, expressing his compassion for her. Later on, he even shows support by helping his friends during crisis situations. This is shown when Wednesday needed the Nightshades to help capture and interrogate Tyler, and when Enid went with Thing to save her, he stayed behind to get all the students out of the academy before Crackstone was resurrected. When the battle was over, he and others stood by the woods to spot Enid, injured after defeating Tyler in her first "wolfing out." They embraced, and he held her close as he comforted her through the crowd, with no hesitation in keeping his head up towards their looks, expressing newfound chivalry and protection over his girlfriend despite being taught otherwise.
When Ajax returns to Nevermore, he has become more responsible. As an RA, he takes care of both Eugene and Pugsley in their dorm, even sharing a scary story with them. Ajax tries to connect with Enid, who hasn't reached out to him all summer because she is with a new boyfriend named Bruno and is part of a pack. He feels heartbroken seeing them together. On prank day, Eugene tries to lift Ajax's spirits by playing a trick on Bruno using bugs from afar, which makes Ajax laugh. However, unlike in Season 1 when he was taught not to engage, he now confidently stands up for himself and ends up temporarily stoning both Eugene and Pugsley.
During the camp games, Ajax shows that he can be a caring leader for his team. But when Enid and Bruno join in, he makes sarcastic comments but still lets them participate. Later, at the bonfire, we see him looking at the werewolves with desperation. That night, he goes into the woods to talk to Enid about how long she's been dating Bruno without telling him. Ajax discovers that his ex-girlfriend has changed her feelings since “wolfing out.” He wishes they could have talked before she moved on without him. This realization deeply saddens him as it reminds him of when they volunteered at Uriah's Heap together, where squirrels and rats represented their relationship. Feeling like that connection is no longer true, he walks away from her to start his own journey of self-discovery without any more interactions.
Petropolus is more confident in using his powers, as shown when Bianca's mother needed help; he cleverly ambushed Professor Orloff to look into his eyes. This gave the two Nightshade members time to reach Gabrielle. As he looks deeper into the family's situation, he becomes really worried. He keeps Gabrielle's location a secret and stays protective of it. Ajax takes Enid's presence seriously since she reaches out to the Nightshade society for help against Tyler. He bravely faces the danger while keeping an eye on his friends.
When Ajax realizes that Bianca is being blackmailed, he decides to team up with Enid and Wednesday to confront Barry Dort at the Gala. He manages to rescue Gabrielle just in time to save Bianca by turning Barry into stone, showing great courage. During this journey of personal growth, Petropolus also changes his mind and accepts Enid as a friend with sympathetic attitude after hearing the news that her former boyfriend already had another girlfriend and had driven back home with her; the two make amends as he walks with gratefulness.
Powers / Abilities / Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Gorgon Physiology: As a gorgon, Ajax has snakes for hair and hides them under a beanie for safety, so he does not use his power accidentally.
- Petrification ("stoning"): Ajax can temporarily turn people to stone by having his snakes look at them. In season 2, he was seen to purposely turn both Pugsley and Eugene into stone statues on prank day and mistakenly used it on Kent during the camp war games. In support of Bianca, he removed his hat to stone Professor Orloff so that he can help her with her mother. In "Chapter VII: Woe Me The Money", he even snuck behind Barry Dort to turn him into stone, and a chandelier landed on top of him, smashing him into pieces.
- Superhuman Durability: Ajax's body also has some protection from physical harm. In "Chapter V: Hyde And Woe Seek", he was attacked by Tyler in his hyde form but recovered quickly without any noticeable injuries.
Abilities[]
- Fencing: During fencing class in "Chapter I: Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe" little was shown, but in the back row, Ajax was good at wielding a fencing sword.
- Boating: In "Chapter II: Woe Is the Loneliest Number," Petropolus has great skill in paddling the boat at Poe Cup as the front man.
- Tactician: Petropolus is known for his terrifying gaze, which he uses skillfully to ambush others. His calm demeanor allows him to distract his targets, catching them off guard and turning them to stone. While trying to rescue Gabrielle, Ajax searches the principal's office for a key that will let them both into the room so they can reach the gala on time. Meanwhile, the gorgon sneaks up behind Dort, who is holding Bianca. Ajax turns Dort to stone, and when the chandelier falls above the statue, it shatters him.
- Stealth: Ajax also moves around without being noticed. In "Chapter IV: If These Woes Could Talk", he shows this skill when he, Bianca, and Gabrielle sneak through a secret entrance in the principal’s office behind the fireplace of Medusa. When Ajax's phone rings, it alerts Barry Dort, who opens the entrance only to find it empty because the trio has quietly made their way to safety. A notable example of this stealth was when Dort had Barclay captured; Petropolus cleverly sneaked up behind him, causing Dort to turn into stone and be defeated.
Weaknesses[]
- Reflections/Mirrors: Ajax is unable to control who he stones, and he ends up stoning himself by looking at his own reflection in a mirror, being showcased in "Chapter III: Friend or Woe".
Relationships[]
Enid Sinclair[]
| "You think squirrels and rats could ever work out? I mean, they're two totally different species. Oh yeah, I mean totally. Why not? They both have more in common than you think. Most people are scared of them, so it would just be us… them… against the world. Wow. That was… deep." -Ajax and Enid[[Chapter IV: Woe What a Night|[src]]] |
Ajax and Enid kissing.
Ajax starts off as a friend of Enid and ends up romantically involved with her. Their first interaction in the series is during Wednesday's tour of Nevermore, where he tells Enid the rumors surrounding her new roommate. At the start of the Poe Cup, Enid smiles and glances her eyes to stare at Ajax before he turns to see her across their boats, which made him smile and chuckle in blush for her after she waves at him. On Outreach Day, she swaps assignments with Wednesday so that she can work at Uriah's Heap with Ajax. She spends the day flirting with him and trying to get close to him. When she realizes that it isn't working, she confronts him and tells him directly that she's been trying to flirt all day. Ajax picks up on the hints then, and when Enid asks him to hang out with her behind the greenhouse later that night, Ajax unfortunately stones himself in the mirror after showering and stands Enid up. At the Rave'N, Enid attends with Lucas Walker in an attempt to make Ajax jealous. When the two see each other and speak, Enid is nervous and jumpy, whereas after seeing her, Ajax is visibly disheartened. Ajax is with another girl but is still friendly toward Enid and dances nearby. When Enid is outside confronting Lucas and getting picked on by his friends, Ajax is the one to come out and defend her. Just after this, they share their first kiss.
At the funeral of Mayor Walker, Ajax holds Enid, despairing over the event, and they walk off with each other under the rain with an umbrella.
They are seen together throughout the rest of the series. In the finale, Eugene Ottinger calls Enid because he is worried about Wednesday Addams and interrupts a moment between her and Ajax. Later that night, Thing informs them that Wednesday was kidnapped by Thornhill and Tyler and tells them to gather the nightshades. Enid did not know about him being part of the nightshade, as it was one of the rules of keeping it a secret. Ajax is the first to comfort her as she walks out of the woods. They both briefly lost their tempers at one another before Ajax comes close, for she was still stiff from the fight against Tyler and is no longer upset about earlier as he helps walk her back towards the larger group before she pushes him away to go hug Wednesday. Then, when the students leave school for the semester, she meets up with Ajax, who had his arm hanging over her shoulder as she approached, and at one point off-screen, they move outside of the school to share a kiss under the columns before saying goodbye to each other.
Three months after summer, he and Enid haven't made contact since, and on the first day of school he goes to her dorm to bring her a gift, but she continuously avoids confronting him. Later that night he comes face-to-face with Enid, whom he tries to ask why she has been ghosting him, only to be interrupted by Bruno, and she pulls away from him.
On Prank Day, Ajax is seen watching her and her new boyfriend talking, and on the camping trip, he walks up to her, complimenting her luggage, which he offers to help her with, but Bruno gets it, and she walks away from him again. During the games, Ajax sees that she wants to join his team alongside Bruno, and he sarcastically comments that his team was filled with members of the Nightshade but lets them in anyway. And on the night of the bonfire, he watches her with Bruno playing a guitar and looks with a sign of despair before later walking in the woods to finally realize she had broken up with him, which he didn't want to believe until confronting them both. As Bruno gives them privacy, Enid tells Ajax that it wasn't anything he did, only that her feelings had changed and she was no longer the insecure girl that Ajax says he liked; she didn't expect her relationship with her current boyfriend to heat up so fast. Ajax then told her that she never gave him any awareness and wished they could have talked about it before she moved on without him, which she apologized for, but ultimately he reminded her of the day when they volunteered at Uriah's Heap that squirrels and rats could work out that he now claims was false before he walks away from her as she humbling gaze at him to then follow and catch up with Bruno, officially breaking up and putting him on a path of self-discovery without interfering with her.
After realizing that Tyler was targeting her and Wednesday, she writes letters to the Nightshade members, including Ajax. He takes a serious approach and stands up against the Hyde, while they all watch out for each other. Later, when Ajax visits her cage, he tells Enid and Wednesday about Barry Dort's plan. They decide to expose him during the Gala, and Ajax ends up turning him into a statue, and a chandelier falls on him, killing the latter. Meanwhile, Enid sees her ex-boyfriend packing to go back home with his old girlfriend, Sofia. Ajax comes over to her side and asks if they can be friends again, choosing to forgive her, as he realizes that it wasn't his fault that her feelings changed, which she agrees to, and they share a laugh together before shaking hands and smiling at each other. The gorgon walks gratefully with Sinclair, watching him before exhaling in gratitude.
Xavier Thorpe[]
Ajax alongside Xavier.
Ajax and Xavier Thorpe have a close relationship and are friendly towards each other. They are both Nightshades and are seen in many scenes together. Xavier is one of the characters with whom Ajax interacts the most, and he has a remarkable bond with his friend, possibly in a brotherly way.
On Outreach Day, Ajax affectionately refers to Xavier as "my boy" when talking about him to Enid Sinclair, while at the same time commenting that Xavier has a hidden side that few realize and that he has a complicated relationship with his father, something that Xavier has not even revealed to Wednesday Addams.[2]
During the Parent's Weekend, Xavier's father doesn't show up, so at first he is seen alone. Later in the episode, he can be seen smiling at a table with Ajax and his mothers. This implies that he is close to Ajax's family or that Ajax is fond enough of Xavier to introduce him to his family.[3]
Bianca Barclay[]
They are both members of the Nightshades, but they don't interact with each other often. They both stand by one another to duck and cover from the resurrected Crackstone's fire attack. In season two, when Bianca's mother needed assistance, he cleverly got Professor Orloff to look into his eyes, which temporarily stunned him. This delay allowed the two Nightshade members to get to Gabrielle. As he delves deeper into the family's troubles, he grows increasingly anxious. He keeps Gabrielle's whereabouts a secret and remains protective of her. Later, when Enid contacts the Nightshade society for help against Tyler, he and Bianca face danger while keeping an eye on their friends. When Ajax discovers that Bianca is being blackmailed, he decides to team up with Enid and Wednesday to confront Barry Dort at the Gala. Just in time, he manages to rescue Gabrielle and save Bianca by turning Barry into stone, demonstrating great bravery. The siren expresses her gratitude to her gorgon friend for saving her life and gives him wise advice about mending things with Enid—he can either hold onto anger about their relationship or let it go, which ultimately works out for him.
Yoko Tanaka[]
Ajax walks with Enid and Yoko.
They are both members of the Nightshades Society, and he comments that she makes a killer version of the cocktail beverage known as a mojito.
Divina[]
They are both members of the Nightshades, but they don't interact with each other often.
Kent[]
Ajax dances alongside Kent.
They are both members of the Nightshades Society and are seen dancing next to each other at the Rave'N. In season two, the both of them are reunited as the Nightshades Society and team up to compete in the camp games, in which they get ambushed as the others shoot Ajax's hat off, exposing his snakes, and turn Kent into stone temporarily. Then, after Enid wrote letters for members of the society to meet up, Kent volunteered to participate in helping the group to confront Tyler.
Victims[]
The following people were stoned by Ajax:
- Himself
- Kent
- Pugsley Addams
- Eugene Ottinger
- Professor Orloff
- Barry Dort (stoned and then crushed by a chandelier)
Quotes[]
| "Yo, Enid! You're not gonna believe the dirt I heard about your new roommate. She eats human flesh, totally chowed down on that kid she murdered. You better watch your back." -Ajax to Enid Sinclair[src] |
| "I didn't even want to go with him. I wanted to go with you. So then why didn't you asked me? 'Cause you blew me off the other night and you never told me why. I was too embarrassed to tell you, but I… accidentally looked in the mirror and kind of stoned myself with my snakes." -Ajax and Enid[src] |
| "How long have we been broken up? I know that Gorgons can be slow but I guess I just didn't want to believe it. You're right Ajax. I should've told you when school started that my feelings had changed. Was it something that I did? No, just over the summer I realized I wasn't that insecure girl who thought she would never fit in. But I liked that girl. I know. But she wolfed out and found herself. You never gave me a heads up. I wish we could've just talked about it before you…you moved on without me. I'm really sorry. I just didn't expect things with Bruno to heat up so fast. You remember that day in Uriah's Heap? I guess squirrels and rats can't work out after all." -Ajax and Enid[[Call of the Woe|[src]]] |
| "My fangs aren't the sharpest in the pit but I can definitely tell something is not fine." -Ajax to Bianca[[If these Woes Could Talk|[src]]] |
| "Dort!" -Ajax shouts at Barry Dort as he stones him[[Woe Me the Money|[src]]] |
| "I'm sorry. You deserve better than that. I didn't realize we were back on speaking terms. It took me a minute. But I'm ready to be friends. If that's cool with you. I'd like that very much. Why the change of heart? I realized that our breakup wasn't about me. You know, it's nobody's fault that your feelings changed. So I can either be angry about it, or I can just accept it and move on. Actually, Bianca told me that. She can be very persuasive." -Ajax and Enid making amends[[This Means Woe|[src]]] |
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Etymology[]
- Ajax - Means eagle.
- Petropolus - Means city of Peter, or city of stone, as "petro-" derives from the Greek word "πέτρα" which means stone.
Trivia[]
- In the original script, Ajax is 16 years old. [4]
External Links[]
Ajax Petropolus on the Tim Burton Wiki
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