History Characters / TheAddamsFamily

* MotiveDecay: She's introduced as a BlackWidow SerialKiller who marries rich men, kills them on their honeymoon, spends their fortune and strikes again. She starts off marrying and trying to bump off Uncle Fester in this way for this purpose. Then she gives a slide show explaining how she killed her parents and previous husbands for not giving her things she wanted (a Ballerina Barbie, a new Mercedes, etc) and/or for putting the needs of the community over her needs, proving that for her one no is enough proof of a lack of love, and even gives a MotiveRant about how she "just want[s] love... and jewelry," ''both of which Uncle Fester could and did give her in abundance''. Yet she still wants to kill him because... she is an EntitledBastard who decided that whatever she desires must be hers and after a while she just started to kill the ones she didn't care about to get their fortunes.

* CatchPhrase: "Tish! That's French!"

* CatchPhrase: She has a {{Mad Libs|Catchphrase}} version that comes into play when Gomez gets distracted by her French while she's in the middle of something she considers more vital: "[important thing] now, [romantic word] later."

* CatchPhrase: In the 60s series, his was a guttural "You rang?" whenever called. This was actually a ThrowItIn by the actor which the producers loved. And when bringing a guest into the house, he often says "Follow me" when leading a guest to see one of the Addams, particularly Gomez.

->'''Played by''': Elizabeth Wilson

* PettheDog: Surprisingly defends Wednesday's family after Amanda complains about Uncle Fester marrying "the help," by saying she's sure the kids' nanny is "a very nice lady." Subverted almost immediately afterward not only by her and Gary sending Wednesday and Puglsey to the Harmony Hut for responding to Amanda's taunts, but also because she's very obviously dead wrong about Debbie being anything close to "a very nice lady" (and most likely wouldn't sense anything wrong even if the two actually met).

** She despises the Addamses, especially Fester, and considers them a clan of absolute freaks... even though she's a serial-killing black widow with a childish fixation on luxury, who murdered her parents for giving her the wrong Barbie; if she had the capacity to care about other people, or at least hadn't isolated Fester from his loved ones, she and the family would've gotten along like a house on fire. Even if she'd told them the truth about her past, they would've loved her even ''more'' and welcomed her as a true Addams, [[WrongGenreSavvy but she's too far gone to see herself as anything but a normal woman who deserves the finer things in life, and them as a bunch of weirdos]].

** She despises the Addamses, especially Fester, and considers them a clan of absolute freaks and weirdos... even though she's a serial-killing black widow with a childish fixation on luxury, who murdered her parents for giving her the wrong Barbie. If she had the capacity to care about other people, or at least hadn't isolated Fester from his loved ones, she and the family would've gotten along like a house on fire; even if she'd told them the truth about her past, they might have loved her even ''more'', and welcomed her as a true Addams.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Debbie whines about wanting to be loved, but to her love is a thing that means everyone stops what they're doing to shower her with attention and gifts. What makes her so hypocritical is how easily she proves incapable of loving someone back in any way, shape, or form.

* SmallNameBigEgo: He's offended Wednesday, Pugsley and Joel want nothing to do with his horrid Thanksgiving play even as Wednesday spells it out his work lacks structure and meaning of any kind.

* CigarChomper: As shown in the above image, Gomez spends a lot of scenes smoking cigars, even when he's on his head practicing his Zen Yogi poses. While the expensiveness of the habit does reflect the Addams' absurdly large amount of money, the aggressiveness usually implied by the trope usually doesn't come into play, as [[PerkyGoth Gomez]] is one of the more genial and less intimidating members of the family.

* OlderThanTheyLook: In ''The Addams Family (1991)'', Morticia mentions that Wednesday's great-aunt Calpurnia was "burned at the stake in 1706"; for Calpurnia to be Wednesday's great-aunt, she has to be an aunt of Morticia/Gomez ''implying one, or possibly both of them, are over two hundred years old''. And, of course, both Pugsley and Wednesday know of Fester, who's been ''missing for twenty five years'', implying they are old enough to remember him, putting ''their'' ages in the thirties.

* ExtraDigits: In the original comic strip she each had an extra toe on her right foot, but this trait didn't carry over to later incarnations of the character.

* ExtraDigits: In the original comic strip she each had an extra toe on her right foor, but this trait didn't carry over to later incarnations of the character.

* ExtraDigits: In the original comic strip Fester and Wednesday each had an extra toe, but this trait didn't carry over to later incarnations.

* ExtraDigits: In the original Charles Addams comic strip she had an extra toe on her right foot, but many of her later incarnations lack this trait.

* ExtraDigits: In the original Charles Addams comic strip she had an extra toe on one of her feet, but many of her later incarnations lack this trait.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In the first movie, he [[spoiler: follows Morticia without anyone's knowledge back to the house as she attempts to confront Fester and Abigail, and runs off to warn the others when he notices that she's in trouble.]]

* BarehandedBladeBlock: When Wednesday and Pugsley are about to guillotine him, he blocks the blade with his tiny hand.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his incarnation in the '90s films]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/go3.jpg [softreturn] "Dirty poor, old man. I like it!"[[/labelnote]]]]