50 Fun Facts About Wynonna Earp

The real Doc Holliday, an immortal gunslinger in TV's Wynonna Earp, trained in which profession before gambling?

Dentist was Holliday's trade: he earned his dental degree in Philadelphia at 20, five months too young to practise, so the school held it back until his birthday.

Which real-life surprise for Wynonna Earp's lead actress did the writers build into the heroine's second-season story?

Her pregnancy was written in rather than hidden, and the network added two episodes to make room for it. She gave birth to a son just after the season wrapped.

What is the fitting name of Wynonna Earp's cursed hometown, set near the Canadian Rockies?

Purgatory was played on screen by the small prairie town of Didsbury. Wynonna comes home to it after years away and finds almost nobody pleased to see her.

What name is given to Wyatt's magic gun, which Wynonna Earp uses to send demons back to Hell?

Peacemaker comes with a power Wynonna inherits on her 27th birthday. The real Colt Single Action Army revolver of the Old West went by the same nickname.

Wynonna Earp episode titles such as I Walk the Line are borrowed from songs in which musical genre?

Country music gives the episodes their titles, and the theme tune, Tell That Devil, comes from Nashville singer-songwriter Jill Andrews.

In the first-season finale of Wynonna Earp, what allows deputy Nicole Haught to survive being shot?

A bulletproof vest kept her alive because the showrunner had promised that the queer characters would survive, at a time when TV dramas kept killing theirs off.

Wyatt Earp, the ancestor behind TV's Wynonna Earp, fought the O.K. Corral gunfight in which Arizona town?

Tombstone saw the 1881 shootout, which lasted about thirty seconds and did not happen at the corral at all but in a narrow lot beside a photography studio.

What nickname do devoted Wynonna Earp fans use for themselves, credited by the showrunner with winning renewals?

Earpers got loud when money troubles stalled the fourth season, and the showrunner called its eventual return a testament to them.

In Wynonna Earp, what are the resurrected outlaws once killed by Wyatt called when they return as demons?

Revenants are trapped inside the cursed land around Wynonna's hometown and start to decay painfully if they are dragged across its boundary.

Which Schitt's Creek actor, who played Mutt, stars as the ageless Doc Holliday in Wynonna Earp?

Tim Rozon won a Canadian Screen Award for the part and co-wrote two issues of a Wynonna Earp comic about his character.

Which American cable channel premiered Wynonna Earp and later announced that season four would be the last?

Syfy ordered thirteen episodes in 2015 and called time in February 2021, a month before the last six went out.

Which Ottawa-born actress plays the title role in Wynonna Earp and directed one of its fourth-season episodes?

Melanie Scrofano beat a future castmate to the part, since the actor who plays her sister Waverly first auditioned for the lead.

In Wynonna Earp, a witch's cure for which disease left Doc Holliday cursed with eternal life?

Tuberculosis is what killed the real Holliday, in a Colorado hotel bed at 36. The show's cure hands its Doc the long life the real man never had.

Which older Earp sister, kidnapped as a girl and presumed dead, resurfaces late in Wynonna Earp's first season?

Willa had been living in a forest cult under the name Eve, and the proof of who she was came when Wyatt's gun fired for her.

Which special agent recruits Wynonna Earp into a secret demon-hunting agency at the start of the series?

Xavier Dolls secretly depends on doses of a serum, and in season three he gives his life to kill a demon.

Which fur-coated villain, once a friend of Wyatt, leads the demon outlaws in Wynonna Earp's first season?

Bobo Del Rey was born Robert Svane, an innocent man who was standing in the way when Wyatt shot a demon sheriff straight through him.

What is the name of the secret demon-hunting agency that enlists Wynonna Earp in the first episode?

Black Badge Division later turns out never to have been a government agency at all, and in season two every trace of it vanishes overnight.

Which Canadian city, home to Heritage Park, served as the main filming base for Wynonna Earp?

Calgary is also where the show's creator grew up, and a provincial shutdown order halted the shoot in March 2020 with half of season four still to film.

In the Wynonna Earp series finale, which haunted item of Waverly's can Wynonna not take off?

A wedding dress bought from a boutique turns out to be haunted, and once it finally comes off, Waverly marries Nicole at the family homestead.

Where did Wynonna Earp fans buy electronic billboards during their campaign to rescue the delayed fourth season?

Times Square carried the fans' message, and the show's star then paid for a billboard of her own to thank them.

Which Canadian showrunner created the Wynonna Earp television series after running the fantasy drama Lost Girl?

Emily Andras has fans of her own, nicknamed Fandras, and in 2019 the Writers Guild of Canada gave her its Showrunner Award.

Which West Virginia comic book writer created Wynonna Earp in the 1990s, long before the television series?

Beau Smith pitted his original heroine against a mummy hitman, hillbilly gremlins and zombie mailmen, and later co-wrote spin-off comics with two of the TV cast.

At which fan-voted ceremony did Wynonna Earp win best sci-fi/fantasy show in 2018 as a write-in candidate?

People's Choice Awards ballots did not even list the show, so its fans wrote the name in, then won it the same prize again in 2020.

Which Anne of Green Gables star plays Michelle, the Earp sisters' estranged mother, in Wynonna Earp's third season?

Megan Follows won the part of Anne over 3,000 other girls in 1985; here her character starts the season in prison and breaks out.

In Wynonna Earp season 3, Waverly learns that her real father, Julian, is what kind of being?

An angel fathered Waverly, which explains why a DNA report had already shown that she was not an Earp by blood.

Which biblical place is the season 3 villain of Wynonna Earp trying to enter, using Wynonna's blood?

The Garden of Eden is reached by a staircase in the woods, and the season ends with Waverly pulled inside it by root-like tentacles.

Which family, real-life enemies of Wyatt at the O.K. Corral, feud with the Earps in Wynonna Earp's final season?

The Clantons of the show appoint themselves sheriff and magistrate while Wynonna is away. In 1881 the real Billy Clanton died in the gunfight.

What is the cursed territory around Wynonna Earp's hometown called, which its demon outlaws cannot leave?

The Ghost River Triangle works both ways: if the Earp heir willingly walks out of it beside one of the demons, everyone in town dies.

Where had a witch trapped the ageless Doc Holliday before Wynonna Earp unknowingly sets him free?

A well held Doc until the first episode, and in season two a wish granted by a demon in a trophy sends him straight back into it.

Which orphaned teenager does Nicole Haught look after in the fourth season of Wynonna Earp?

Rachel Valdez turns up in a zombie-filled facility where Wynonna and Nicole had gone looking for her mother instead.

Which veteran lawman, a father figure to Nicole Haught, retires in Wynonna Earp season 3 and hands her his job?

Randy Nedley hints as early as season one that he knows about the supernatural, and he keeps a secret locker of evidence from cases he never wrote up.

Which scientist and tech expert, played by Varun Saranga, joins Wynonna Earp's team in season 2?

Jeremy Chetri saves the day in season four by winning a trivia night that a spell would not let anyone leave until somebody won.

Which wealthy high-school best friend of Wynonna Earp has her face stolen by a demon in season 2?

Mercedes Gardner survives the theft, and by the final season she is performing in a demon bar while pretending to be a demon herself.

Which face-stealing demon sisters spend Wynonna Earp's second season trying to resurrect the sheriff who cursed Wyatt?

The Widows had both been married to him, and they need three seals broken before he can rise again.

In Wynonna Earp, the last of the seven demons who attacked Wynonna's family hints that he is which notorious murderer?

Jack the Ripper is the hint dropped by a demon known as the Jack of Knives, who kidnaps Wynonna and has a human helper pose as a morgue attendant.

In the season 3 finale of Wynonna Earp, Wyatt's famous revolver is reshaped into which flaming weapon?

A sword was the gun's first form: a vision of 1887 shows it as a blade, and Wynonna uses it to kill the season's villain.

Which free streaming service commissioned the 2024 reunion special Wynonna Earp: Vengeance?

Tubi brought back seven of the cast three years after the finale, to face a demon from Wynonna's childhood bent on revenge.

Before playing Waverly in Wynonna Earp, Dominique Provost-Chalkley appeared as Zrinka in which Marvel film?

Avengers: Age of Ultron came a year before the series began; their earlier stage work included Viva Forever!, the West End musical built on Spice Girls songs.

Which Toronto-born actress plays Nicole Haught in Wynonna Earp and later joined Good Witch as Joy Harper?

Katherine Barrell was a recurring guest for two seasons before joining the main cast, and viewers voted her a Canadian Screen audience award in 2020.

Which Wynonna Earp cast member, older brother of actor Stephan James, later appeared in John Wick: Chapter 4?

Shamier Anderson studied criminology and trained with weapons before he took up acting, a handy background for the federal agent he plays.

The lead actress of Wynonna Earp also plays Mrs. McMurray in which Canadian comedy series?

Letterkenny is one of several sidelines: she also turns up in the horror comedy Ready or Not and as a Starfleet captain in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

In Wynonna Earp's final season, a stripper named Demetri who spreads a love spell turns out to be what?

A cupid draws Waverly into a bet about love while she is celebrating her engagement, and soon everyone close to her is infected with it.

Which publisher launched the Wynonna Earp miniseries in 1996, years before the title moved to IDW?

Image Comics put out the original five issues; IDW later sold a tie-in series timed to the launch of the TV show.

In the original Wynonna Earp comics, the heroine is the top agent of a monster squad within which US agency?

The US Marshals Service survives in the TV version too, where the agent who recruits Wynonna is officially one of its deputies.

In Wynonna Earp's first season, Wynonna and Doc bury the witch who cursed him up to her neck in what?

Salt holds her there alive, which ensures that Doc, whose endless life she granted, goes on living forever.

In Wynonna Earp's fourth season, what contest must a jailed Wynonna win to earn her freedom?

A chili cook-off wins her release, though she is promptly offered up as food for a monster. The episode was directed by the show's own star.

Which dim but handsome boyfriend does Waverly break up with in Wynonna Earp's first season, before WayHaught begins?

Champ Hardy is dumped in episode six, and three episodes later Waverly admits her feelings for Nicole and kisses her.

Whose funeral brings Wynonna Earp back to her hometown in the very first episode of the series?

Her uncle's death draws her home against her aunt's warning, and looking into it reunites her with Waverly.

In Wynonna Earp season 3, the demon villain kidnaps a child during the holidays while dressed as which figure?

Santa Claus is the costume, and his prisoners are descendants of the town's oldest families, whose ancestors betrayed him to Wyatt.

Which honours for LGBTQ representation nominated Wynonna Earp for Outstanding Drama Series in three separate years?

The GLAAD Media Awards shortlisted it in 2017, 2019 and 2021, though the show never took the prize home.