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Things take a turn for the weird after Taylor panickedly pepper-sprays Uncle Fester (and yes, he is her uncle- Annette is [[CanonWelding Gomez and Fester's]] [[RelatedInTheAdaptation little sister]]), and he ''likes it''.

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Things take a turn for the weird after Taylor panickedly pepper-sprays Uncle Fester (and yes, he is her uncle- uncle -- Annette is [[CanonWelding [[CrossoverRelatives Gomez and Fester's]] [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Fester's little sister]]), and he ''likes it''.
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** Annette is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Gomez and Fester's little sister]] and was involved in the events of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.

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** Annette is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation [[CrossoverRelatives Gomez and Fester's little sister]] and was involved in the events of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.



* CrossoverRelatives: Annette is an Addams by birth.



* IAteWhat: Taylor has this reaction to Addams family food.

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* IAteWhat: IAteWhat:
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Annette is an Addams by birth.
** Winslow's art teacher is Cousin Itt's ex.

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** When she walks in on Taylor about to cut Emma open, Annette tells her she can't do that... as she's using the wrong type of scapal for a first incision.

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** When she walks in on Taylor about to cut Emma open, Annette tells her she can't do that... as she's using the wrong type of scapal scalpel for a first incision.



* HarmlessElectrocution: One of Wednesday's favorite games is "Is there a god?", in which a victim is strapped into an electric chair to receive this.

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* HarmlessElectrocution: One of Wednesday's favorite favourite games is "Is there a god?", in which a victim is strapped into an electric chair to receive this.



** Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor. Emma is unwilling to tell Sophia about the various "games" Taylor is played with, and is planning to play with, her, out of fear that Sophia will want to join in.
* InTheBlood: Roguish behavior, a taste for the macabre, and a low to mid-level Brute rating are all apparent Addams family traits.

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** Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, demeanour, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor. Emma is unwilling to tell Sophia about the various "games" Taylor is played with, and is planning to play with, her, out of fear that Sophia will want to join in.
* InTheBlood: Roguish behavior, behaviour, a taste for the macabre, and a low to mid-level Brute rating are all apparent Addams family traits.



* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Taylor does this to Emma three times, since she knows her best friend is still in there and she wants to find ''where'' exactly she is. According to Emma, this was a fairly common occurance back when they were friends, with Taylor also regularly cutting parts off of Emma and sewing them back on perfectly.

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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Taylor does this to Emma three times, since she knows her best friend is still in there and she wants to find ''where'' exactly she is. According to Emma, this was a fairly common occurance occurrence back when they were friends, with Taylor also regularly cutting parts off of Emma and sewing them back on perfectly.


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* UnreliableNarrator: WordOfGod states that Emma is this during the chapter told from her perspective, but it is downplayed as a lot of what Taylor did (and does) to her during that chapter really did happen, [[SanitySlippage and they are why she is an unreliable narrator]].
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* SanitySlippage: Emma suffers one after Wednesday Addams single-handedly overturns her worldview. It gets worse as Taylor decides she wants her sister-in-all-but-blood back, since Taylor is convinced that her friend is still in there somewhere, [[LiteralMetaphor she just needs to figure out]] what [[StrappedToTheOperatingTable procedure is necessary to get her out]].

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* SanitySlippage: Emma suffers one after Wednesday Addams single-handedly overturns her worldview. It gets worse as Taylor decides she wants her sister-in-all-but-blood back, since Taylor is convinced that her friend is still in there somewhere, [[LiteralMetaphor she just needs to figure out]] what [[StrappedToTheOperatingTable [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable procedure is necessary to get her out]].



* StrappedToTheOperatingTable: Taylor does this to Emma three times, since she knows her best friend is still in there and she wants to find ''where'' exactly she is. According to Emma, this was a fairly common occurance back when they were friends, with Taylor also regularly cutting parts off of Emma and sewing them back on perfectly.

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* StrappedToTheOperatingTable: StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Taylor does this to Emma three times, since she knows her best friend is still in there and she wants to find ''where'' exactly she is. According to Emma, this was a fairly common occurance back when they were friends, with Taylor also regularly cutting parts off of Emma and sewing them back on perfectly.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Annette's return and the Addamses moving to Brockton Bay results in Taylor's Addams tendencies, which had initially been surpressed by the shock of her mother's apparent death, then by Emma's bullying campaign, to resurface, resulting in Emma slowly going crazy before giving up and becoming Taylor's best friend[=/=]favourite toy once again.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Annette's return and the Addamses moving to Brockton Bay results in Taylor's Addams tendencies, which had initially been surpressed suppressed by the shock of her mother's apparent death, then by Emma's bullying campaign, to resurface, resulting in Emma slowly going crazy before giving up and becoming Taylor's best friend[=/=]favourite toy once again.

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* BerserkButton: Do NOT call Taylor, or anyone in the Addams Family, a "freak".

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Do NOT call Taylor, or anyone in the Addams Family, a "freak"."freak".
** The Addams family ''really'' can't stand treason: Taylor's cousins were about to ''go to town'' on Emma had she not held them back.
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** The Addams Family [[Series/TheTwilightZone has a copy of]] "ToServeMan".

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** The Addams Family [[Series/TheTwilightZone [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 has a copy of]] "ToServeMan".

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* DoWrongRight:
** When she walks in on Taylor about to cut Emma open, Annette tells her she can't do that... as she's using the wrong type of scapal for a first incision.
** By the time of her third visit to Taylor's operating table, Emma is more annoyed by how ugly the ceiling is than Taylor cutting her open without anesthetic, and is incredibly angry when she finally realises Taylor hasn't been wearing a surgical mask for any of the operations.



** Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor.

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** Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor. Emma is unwilling to tell Sophia about the various "games" Taylor is played with, and is planning to play with, her, out of fear that Sophia will want to join in.


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* ThatCameOutWrong: Emma notes to herself that the "game" she and Taylor, "The Way to a Girl's Heart", sounds pretty perverted when she describes it as her being strapped to the dining room table, naked and gagged. The reality is apparently ''far'' more horrifying, with the implication that it involved Taylor cutting her open to find [[NotHyperbole the way to a girl's heart]].


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Annette's return and the Addamses moving to Brockton Bay results in Taylor's Addams tendencies, which had initially been surpressed by the shock of her mother's apparent death, then by Emma's bullying campaign, to resurface, resulting in Emma slowly going crazy before giving up and becoming Taylor's best friend[=/=]favourite toy once again.

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* QuirkyFamily: The Addams are quite off to others, but Daniel and Taylor are happy to be apart of their family.

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* QuirkyFamily: QuirkyHousehold: The Addams are quite off to others, but Daniel and Taylor are happy to be apart of their family.



* SanitySlippage: Emma suffers one after Wednesday Addams single-handedly overturns her worldview.

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* SanitySlippage: Emma suffers one after Wednesday Addams single-handedly overturns her worldview. It gets worse as Taylor decides she wants her sister-in-all-but-blood back, since Taylor is convinced that her friend is still in there somewhere, [[LiteralMetaphor she just needs to figure out]] what [[StrappedToTheOperatingTable procedure is necessary to get her out]].


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* StrappedToTheOperatingTable: Taylor does this to Emma three times, since she knows her best friend is still in there and she wants to find ''where'' exactly she is. According to Emma, this was a fairly common occurance back when they were friends, with Taylor also regularly cutting parts off of Emma and sewing them back on perfectly.


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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Before her mother's apparent death, Taylor was apparently very much an Addams' child, with one of her favourite games being surgically removing and reattaching parts of Emma's body, and she has fond memories of the time she buried Emma alive.
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* BuriedAlive: When they were younger, Taylor played this with Emma. It's part of why Emma is terrified of her, to the point that the bullying campaign is entirely to keep Taylor from returning to her old self.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: The Addams take this kind of view: what matters to them isn't good or bad, but ambition and drive. If a supervillain manages to build a criminal empire, then good for them: they showed hard work and tenacity.


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* QuirkyFamily: The Addams are quite off to others, but Daniel and Taylor are happy to be apart of their family.

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* HighVoltageDeath: Subverted, much to Taylor's surprise, when the electric chair doesn't kill her.

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* HarmlessElectrocution: One of Wednesday's favorite games is "Is there a god?", in which a victim is strapped into an electric chair to receive this.
* HighVoltageDeath: Subverted, much What Taylor assumes is about to Taylor's surprise, happen when the strapped into an electric chair doesn't kill her.for "Is there a god?", so she sics her bugs on Wednesday in retaliation.


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* TakingYouWithMe: The reason Taylor sics her bugs on Wednesday during a round of [[HarmlessElectrocution "Is there a god?"]]. Since the electric chair isn't lethal, the bug swarm she summons [[EpicFail isn't lethal either]].
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: Seeing her parents serenading one another is one horror Taylor would not like to endure.
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** Annette thinks Emma believes she [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy spent a couple years dead for tax reasons]].
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* AxesInSchool: Pugsley apparently gets into a swordfight in Winslow, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight with Gladly as the referee and nobody objecting to it]].

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* AxesInSchool: AxesAtSchool: Pugsley apparently gets into a swordfight in Winslow, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight with Gladly as the referee and nobody objecting to it]].



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Swordfights, even [[AxesInSchool in Winslow]].

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Swordfights, even [[AxesInSchool [[AxesAtSchool in Winslow]].

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* AxesInSchool: Pugsley apparently gets into a swordfight in Winslow, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight with Gladly as the referee and nobody objecting to it]].



* TheGadfly: Wednesday accuses Gladly of being one.



** Gomez expresses a platonic variant regarding Lung, thinking him a suitable boyfriend for Wednesday.

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** Gomez expresses a platonic variant regarding Lung, thinking him thinks Lung would be a suitable boyfriend for Wednesday.


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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Swordfights, even [[AxesInSchool in Winslow]].

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* Flynning: Gomez and Danny start fencing each other at regular intervals.

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* Flynning: {{Flynning}}: Gomez and Danny start fencing each other at regular intervals.intervals.
--> Danny: For Annette! ''En Garde''!



* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor.

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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor.InLoveWithYourCarnage:


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** Morticia is impressed by Skidmark running a drug business. Averted for the inverse, as Skidmark is clearly creeped out.
** Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor.


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** Kurt when Gomez's rhetoric regarding Lung unsettles him.
** Skidmark when Morticia unsettles him.
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* Flynning: Gomez and Danny start fencing each other at regular intervals.


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** Gomez expresses a platonic variant regarding Lung, thinking him a suitable boyfriend for Wednesday.


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* PetTheDog: Gomez bankrolls the reopening of the ferry.

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** Annette is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Gomez and Fester's little sister]].

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** Annette is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Gomez and Fester's little sister]].sister]] and was involved in the events of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.



* MadeOfIron: An Addams Family trait. Uncle Fester can EatTheBomb with no ill effect, and Annette can survive one going off in her face.



* NoodleIncident: According to Wednesday, the Addams Family is responsible for at least one Trigger Event.

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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
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According to Wednesday, the Addams Family is responsible for at least one Trigger Event.



** Danny learning how to swordfight in college.



* NotInFrontOfTheKids: Morticia chides Skidmark for swearing in front of Wednesday and Pugsley.

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* NotInFrontOfTheKids: NotInFrontOfTheKid: Morticia chides Skidmark for swearing in front of Wednesday and Pugsley.Pugsley.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Lurch. Lampshaded by Taylor when she wonders if it's a Mover rating.
* OffWithHisHead: Wednesday's standard treatment of dolls.


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** Taylor after being told she enjoyed [[IAteWhat cyanide and arsenic syrup]].


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* ShoutOut:
** The Addams Family [[Series/TheTwilightZone has a copy of]] "ToServeMan".

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* TheBermudaTriangle: Annette and Fester flew a plane through it. The ensuing crash resulted in Annette losing contact with the Addamses and becoming a Hebert.



* EatTheBomb: Uncle Fester, as "Dean of Demolitions", knowingly swallows a ''[[TheDreaded Bakuda bomb]]'' [[NoSell with no ill effect]].



* FeedItABomb: Uncle Fester knowingly swallows a ''[[TheDreaded Bakuda bomb]]'' [[NoSell with no ill effect]].



* NoodleIncident: The Addams Family is responsible for at least one Trigger Event.

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* NoodleIncident: The According to Wednesday, the Addams Family is responsible for at least one Trigger Event.



* TheUnsmile: Taylor describes Lurch's smile as "the kind of smile that only a mother could love. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} On a corpse. Six feet under. Where she couldn’t see it]]."



* Xenofiction: One of the chapters is written from the POV of an apple.

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* Xenofiction: {{Xenofiction}}: One of the chapters is written from the POV of an apple.
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* BitterAlmonds: Taylor's only warning that the syrup contains cyanide is that she notices this taste in it.


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* CanonWelding:
** Annette is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Gomez and Fester's little sister]].
** The Addams family moving to Brockton.
** The events of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' receiving a CallBack or two.
** Winslow's art teacher is Cousin Itt's wife Margaret.


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** The Undersiders and the ABB are mentioned but, since the events of Arc 2 were averted and the Bank Robbery and Bakuda's rampage haven't happened yet, have not made their appearance so far.


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* InTheBlood: Roguish behavior, a taste for the macabre, and a low to mid-level Brute rating are all apparent Addams family traits.
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/hebert-family-values-addams-family-crossover.593221/page-18#post-42156880 HebertFamilyValues]]'' is a crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' by Ellf.

After facing down Lung and meeting the Undersiders, Taylor comes home to find her supposedly dead mother not only had an UnexplainedRecovery, but brought some... eccentric relatives: the Addams family.

Things take a turn for the weird after Taylor panickedly pepper-sprays Uncle Fester (and yes, he is her uncle- Annette is [[CanonWelding Gomez and Fester's]] [[RelatedInTheAdaptation little sister]]), and he ''likes it''.

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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:

* BerserkButton: Do NOT call Taylor, or anyone in the Addams Family, a "freak".
* BirdsOfAFeather: Wednesday Addams and ''Sophia Hess'' of all people.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Addams Family has this in comparison to Brockton.
* BullyingADragon: Sophia stops attempting to bully Taylor after realizing she has to go through Wednesday.
* CallBack: The events of ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' are mentioned as having happened some time ago.
* CrazyPrepared: Taylor wears her costume under civilian clothes when visiting the Addamses.
* DealWithTheDevil: Discussed when Wednesday asks about Taylor's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.
--> Wednesday: Dear cousin, how, precisely, did you obtain the power of controlling insects? Deals with dark gods? Slaughtering some helpless creature and feed it to something powerful to gain strength?
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Morticia on the way to Winslow. Even Skidmark is left wondering why she's driving so crazy.
* EpicFail: Taylor's attempt to send a bug swarm on Wendesday and Pugsley is less "Biblical Swarm" and more "bug effigy getting into a swordfight with Pugsley".
* FeedItABomb: Uncle Fester knowingly swallows a ''[[TheDreaded Bakuda bomb]]'' [[NoSell with no ill effect]].
* FoodFight: Sophia accidentally starts one while attempting to bully Wednesday.
* TheGhost: Cousin Itt is mentioned but hasn't appeared on-screen (yet).
* GodzillaThreshold: Taylor chooses to out herself in a last-ditch retaliation on Wednesday when she is certain she'll be electrocuted.
* HighVoltageDeath: Subverted, much to Taylor's surprise, when the electric chair doesn't kill her.
* IAteWhat: Taylor has this reaction to Addams family food.
** Julia has this reaction after finding out the ingredients of Taylor's cookies.
* IncrediblyLamePun: When an apple is sent flying, it is compared to an Alexandria Package, "an Apple-xandria package, if you will."
** That same apple becomes applesauce on the wall after a baseball pitcher throws it at Sophia.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Sophia is deeply impressed by Wednesday's 'predatory' demeanor, and thinks she's a good influence on Taylor.
* MythologyGag:
** Model trains crashing is mentioned.
** Taylor sees a vision of the Simurgh sitting on the shoulder of [[Literature/{{Ward}} a Titan]] in her artwork.
* NoodleIncident: The Addams Family is responsible for at least one Trigger Event.
** Annette and Fester had a plane crash in the Bermuda Triangle.
* NoSell:
** Uncle Fester No-Sells Taylor's pepper spray.
** Uncle Fester No-Sells a Bakuda Bomb he swallowed.
** Wednesday No-Sells the trio's attempt to bully her.
* NotInFrontOfTheKids: Morticia chides Skidmark for swearing in front of Wednesday and Pugsley.
* OhCrap:
** Taylor when she notices unfamiliar relatives at her home.
** Taylor again when she notices the large mansion that wasn't there before.
** Taylor when Wednesday straps her into an electric chair and then turns it on.
** Taylor when the Trio attempt to [[BullyingADragon pick on Wednesday]].
** Taylor when Sophia's ink-spill accidentally completes the artwork rather than ruining it.
** Emma when Wednesday and Taylor turn the tables on her.
** Julia after eating some of Taylor's [[IAteWhat cricket and arsenic cookies]].
** Armsmaster in an Omake when learning the Addams family are in town.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Annette is an Addams by birth.
** Winslow's art teacher is Cousin Itt's ex.
* SanitySlippage: Emma suffers one after Wednesday Addams single-handedly overturns her worldview.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Discussed. Wednesday is familiar with the concept.
--> Wednesday: Ah, one of those superpowers. You’re a parahuman in addition to being an Addams.
--> Taylor: Hebert. Mom took Dad’s name.
--> Wednesday: [[InTheBlood You have Addams blood in you]]. Unless you drain it out, it will never leave.
--> Taylor: Let’s avoid that scenario for now. We can come back to it if absolutely necessary.
--> Wednesday: So, how did you obtain this power, exactly? I have never heard of an Addams having a Trigger Event, [[NoodleIncident causing them, maybe]], but never having one.
--> Taylor: It probably was a combination of things, but ultimately it stemmed from betrayal.
* UnfortunateName/ WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Taylor wonders what parent would give their child names like "Fester" or "Dementia".
* WhamLine:
** "Couldn't we just wake her anyway, Danny?" -Annette's first line after being thought dead for years.
** "[[IAteWhat Cyanide and arsenic]] give it the bite that offsets the sweetness quite well." -Wednesday.
* Xenofiction: One of the chapters is written from the POV of an apple.
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