| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/addams_record_changer_trimmed.jpg]] |
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| 3 | For many, ''many'' years, Creator/CharlesAddams drew single-panel cartoons for ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''. While these were stand-alone – and, typically, rather macabre – gag-a-week jokes, there were a few recurring characters: namely, a creepy family of loners who were dark opposites of the idealized American family. |
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| 5 | The first members of the family depicted were the mother, the butler, and the "Thing", making their debut in [[http://comicsalliance.com/files/2016/01/addams-02.jpg this 1938 cartoon]]. They were joined in subsequent cartoons by a father, a son, a daughter, a [[TheGhost hinted-at-but-never-shown]] baby, a grandmother, and a recurring bald man whose relationship with the family was ambiguous, but became known as an uncle. These characters proved to be so popular that a 1960s [[Series/TheAddamsFamily TV sitcom]] was based off of them, and their popularity only grew from there. |
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| 7 | If this family seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to Creator/RayBradbury's eldritch Elliotts, that's not an accident. Eight years after Addams introduced his chararacters, the Elliotts debuted in a short story called "Homecoming", first published in ''Mademoiselle'' with an illustration by Addams. The two men even talked about getting together for a full-length collaboration, but it sadly never came about. (You can read about the Elliotts, and see Addams' original illustration, in Bradbury's 2001 anthology ''From the Dust Returned''.) |
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| 9 | Note: this page is for the ''New Yorker'' cartoons with the recurring family characters, ''not'' the TV show, the movies, or any of the other adaptations and their tropes. In these cartoons, the characters didn't even have names; they were just called "the Addams family" because Charles Addams had created them. For a general overview of all other works based off the cartoons, see [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily here]]. |
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| 11 | [[folder:Other Recurring Characters in the ''New Yorker'' Cartoons]] |
| 12 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/addams_family_characters.png]] |
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| 14 | * [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/f7/4d/3df74d1787499a0e2dfbf230dcff5f02--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg A blonde girl with flowers in her hair]] appeared in a few cartoons and artwork, probably inspiring the character of Ophelia in the TV series. |
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| 16 | * [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/56/38/69/56386976a70b9a7d52e38efa804d218f--addams-family-cartoon-the-addams-family.jpg "It", a short, hairy creature]]. Based on Cousin Itt from the TV show (see CanonImmigrant below), he only appeared in the one cartoon, but was subsequently depicted with the family in much of Addams's cover art. |
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| 18 | * The "Wall-Eyed Couple": [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ed/15/c7/ed15c75d6c3ed180b84dc6c7202cb2e2--charles-addams-cartoons-adams-family.jpg A bald man with bulging eyes and a blank smile and a short woman with scraggly hair and a nervous smile.]] In the cartoon shown, they even have a baby, who looks exactly like both of them -- in that it has two heads, which are exact copies of the parents'. They are shown visiting the family a lot. |
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| 20 | * A weird, cocoon-like... thing that has formed in a tree. It first appeared in [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1HxLB6ctIdo/VDSv-zK4ANI/AAAAAAAAk-8/BMfGAI90-SM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-07%2Bat%2B11.20.39%2BPM.png this]] cartoon, unrelated to the family. But then, it started to appear in the background of many of the family's scenes, such as [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CRjiU3czL._SX398_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg this one]]. |
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| 22 | * Disembodied hands reaching out from strange places had appeared in Addams's art before, but they were connected with the family when one cartoon showed two arms reaching out of a phonograph to change the records (see the page image). These were [[CompositeCharacter given the Thing's name and role]] in the TV show. |
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| 24 | * The Baby. In a couple of cartoons, the mother is said to be pregnant. According to the KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement, it will have four legs, and if it's a boy it will be given "a Biblical name, like Cain or Ananias." It was never referenced again, which is understandable as the cartoons' continuity was loose, but it did inspire Pubert in ''Addams Family Values''. |
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| 26 | [[/folder]] |
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| 28 | ---- |
| 29 | !!Tropes found in the cartoons: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * AffablyEvil: Most of the family. They clearly care for each other and are sometimes shown politely hosting guests... when they're not ambushing the mailman or boiling Christmas carolers. The son is an exception, as he always seems cruelly sadistic. |
| 32 | * AlienGeometries: [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/42/79/4f/42794fa0763d5478f23fcd63bbd1b423.jpg Only one of the daughter's paper chain girls has three legs.]] Try figuring ''that'' one out... |
| 33 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: The mother. |
| 34 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: The father and the grandmother. You can't always tell, but it's especially noticeable in [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5c/5f/f9/5c5ff9f99700cbc5f974d6d3d94ed33a--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg this Christmas cartoon]] and [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CRjiU3czL._SX398_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg this book cover]]. |
| 35 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: How much of what the family does is intentionally malicious, and how much is just their backwards nature? |
| 36 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: The whole family, considering how much inedible materials they're shown to enjoy eating, but especially the Thing, who is a crouching figure that peers out at the family from different hiding places in the house. Also, they will sometimes appear alongside big groups of other people, presumably extended family, whose anatomy is often inhumanly bizarre. |
| 37 | * AndIMustScream: It's implied that there's a person inside the Cocoon. |
| 38 | ** [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/2f/ba/b52fba93137debda2142232dbe57e00d--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg The son once walled his sister up alive.]] |
| 39 | * AuthorAppeal: Charles Addams describes the mother as "my idea of a pretty woman." Also, the house's design was possibly based off of an old house in Charles's childhood neighborhood. |
| 40 | * BadassAdorable: The daughter can withstand poisons and poison her brother right back, and also apparently get out of being ''walled up alive'' unscathed. |
| 41 | * BadassFamily: With parents who siege against Christmas carolers, kids who lay booby traps, and an uncle who regularly uses poison on himself? ''You'd better believe it.'' |
| 42 | * BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: |
| 43 | ** [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ISf9UtYcMg/TwhNs07drHI/AAAAAAAACEI/VOzBjAJbyK4/s1600/Addams+sad+movie.jpg This cartoon]] shows the uncle enjoying a film that is moving the rest of the audience to tears. |
| 44 | ** [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/fb/ed/b5fbedcdeca512d6daa63aaadf05dbd8.jpg The parents are proud of their son's bad school report.]] |
| 45 | ** [[https://doyle.com/sites/default/files/images/lots/2015-11-23/1080223.jpg It's outrageous to NOT cheat at cards.]] |
| 46 | ** [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3e/35/fe/3e35fe8fc0cd6a29114fac0721942c2d.jpg Feeling merry is very troubling behavior.]] |
| 47 | ** [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5f/59/a1/5f59a1e4a9020cb4e13935077acd9955.jpg Making the world worse is a source of pride.]] |
| 48 | * BadlyBatteredBabysitter: It's implied that the babysitter in [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b0/27/98/b027986a01be2a9ae7b64e29bbd08684--addams-family-morticia-charles-addams.jpg this]] cartoon is in for it... at least. |
| 49 | * BaldOfEvil: The uncle. |
| 50 | * BanisterSlide: Done by the daughter in [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ysf_i6peWB0/UX4OBRMGoiI/AAAAAAAAtUc/AWzu_ib1mMs/s640/charles+addams.jpg this cartoon]]. |
| 51 | * BigFancyHouse: They live in one that has fallen into decay (though given their outlook on life, it may not be "fallen into" so much as "actively encouraged"). |
| 52 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: Played with. On the one hand, they're often shown having fun together and being content... on the other hand, they do have friction at times, it's not uncommon for the kids to make attempts on each other's life, and their encounters with the outside world often seem to end with unpleasant fates for the outsiders... |
| 53 | * BlackComedy: Almost every single cartoon. |
| 54 | * BloodlessCarnage: The family's acts against outsiders are either implied or only shown ''about'' to happen. The children's sibling rivalry also seems to leave them unscathed, despite their unusually deadly methods. |
| 55 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: They care deeply for each other and are often shown happily spending time and having fun together... and they also praise violence, destruction, and darkness. |
| 56 | * BookcasePassage: In the house. |
| 57 | * BoundAndGagged: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/90/37/93/903793707a944fe8a7fa3ede1fbf457e--charles-addams-the-addams-family.jpg They have to do this to the boy in order to get him on the school bus.]] |
| 58 | * ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Downplayed. The boy and girl are frequently seen, but the baby is only hinted at on occasion. |
| 59 | * BreakoutCharacter: They were all this, which led to all the adaptations. |
| 60 | * ButtMonkey: The daughter. She often looks unhappy, her brother tries to kill her, Charles Addams himself described her as "underprivileged" and "pretty lost", and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/fe/63/84/fe6384fe0b05c9f5c75385fcaf7652ef.jpg she was put on the honor roll at school.]] (Not a happy occasion in this family.) |
| 61 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Used to spooky effect [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/7f/90/d17f908e5692cb896941c657f0934c4c--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg in the cellar]] and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b1/28/0e/b1280e92d38364550a2363e22fe4b55a.jpg a crypt.]] |
| 62 | * CanonImmigrant: Cousin Itt was a character created for the [[Series/TheAddamsFamily TV show.]] Anticipating the series' debut, Charles Addams drew [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/56/38/69/56386976a70b9a7d52e38efa804d218f--addams-family-cartoon-the-addams-family.jpg this cartoon]] with a hairy creature that heavily resembled Cousin Itt answering the phone and saying "This is It speaking." "It" only appeared in one cartoon proper, but went on to appear alongside the family in cover art. |
| 63 | * CanonWelding: The uncle and the boy both made separate lone appearances before being shown as part of the family. |
| 64 | * CardCarryingVillain: The whole family. They [[https://doyle.com/sites/default/files/images/lots/2015-11-23/1080223.jpg think games are made to be cheated at]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5f/59/a1/5f59a1e4a9020cb4e13935077acd9955.jpg treasure making the world a worse place]] and [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/fb/ed/b5fbedcdeca512d6daa63aaadf05dbd8.jpg encourage classroom misbehavior]]. |
| 65 | * ChristmasCarolers: A [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/53/a3/0c53a3c9f87bd0182e99e8f7c1251853.jpg classic cartoon]] (replicated at the start of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' movie) has the Family preparing to drop boiling oil onto a group of carolers gathered at the front door of their house. |
| 66 | * ChristmasEpisode: Several cartoons had jokes with Christmas, such as the one with the Christmas Carolers above. |
| 67 | * CobwebOfDisuse: All over the mansion. |
| 68 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Implied when the father and children bond by [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/cd/88/42cd88548b97fd161549e96186c7335a--addams-family-values-the-addams-family.jpg building a Medieval torture rack.]] |
| 69 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: The son [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/40/1f/4f/401f4ff485cd612b5f5f958808c6d2f9--cartoon-shows-wednesday-addams.jpg collects danger signs]], the father [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/cd/88/42cd88548b97fd161549e96186c7335a--addams-family-values-the-addams-family.jpg assembles torture racks with the kids]], the mother [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0f/12/d5/0f12d5ebe36c1734fdce85199594af58--addams-family--addams-family-cartoon.jpg asks the neighbors for cyanide]], and they have [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0c/b3/b7/0cb3b73c984efd6f5b805551f8110366--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg bats]] and [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ysf_i6peWB0/UX4OBRMGoiI/AAAAAAAAtUc/AWzu_ib1mMs/s640/charles+addams.jpg lizards]] for pets. The uncle has a collection of [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/66/c8/0c/66c80cf7d2a2cd76eeb3e742455e0827.jpg stuffed animal heads and poisons.]] [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a0/60/5e/a0605e7a2f6fe81be00b86aef12b5e83--charles-addams-humor-negro.jpg This]] cartoon of them at a thrift shop, checking out the various weird items, showcases it perfectly. |
| 70 | * ComedicSociopathy: YES. |
| 71 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: One cartoon has the father reading ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' to the children, and describing "good old Scrooge, bless his heart" threatening to fire Bob Cratchit. |
| 72 | * ConjoinedTwins: These are often seen in scenes with the extended family. |
| 73 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f1/78/4c/f1784c4eed439e8feb0ce40ffc083557.jpg The kids are sent home from camp in PET CARRIERS.]] Granted, with these children, it was probably the only way to get them under control. |
| 74 | * CoolOldLady: The grandmother [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/de/26/65/de266521f58a71c2b0e460c31651c6c3.jpg bakes the kids creepy cookies]] and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4a/fe/d5/4afed5b7b0919f78b58eacb1eb4f81fa--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg tells them stories]]. |
| 75 | * CoolUncle: The uncle has fun with the kids by [[http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4002/4654750589_a0c014ee2a_z.jpg taking them fishing with dynamite.]] |
| 76 | * CreepyCemetery: They live next to one. Not that they don't love it, of course. |
| 77 | * CreepyFamily: Probably the TropeCodifier. |
| 78 | * CreepyGood: The family. |
| 79 | * CrustyCaretaker: The butler. |
| 80 | * DaddysGirl: The daughter. The father [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c6/8a/53/c68a53771446ff4bc8c0b8240c3b50f0--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg pushes her on a broomstick swing]] and often [[http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53f91163e4b0a085e8d24e89/544d83eae4b0529748d60eb4/544d83ebe4b06d805024db4a/1414366187595/events1.jpg plays with her]] [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/93/6b/47/936b47ece2e947b28e370d583758fc1b--addams-family-cartoon-the-addams-family.jpg at bedtime.]] |
| 81 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The whole point of the family is that they are this to the traditional nuclear family. |
| 82 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The cartoons are in black-and-white and take place in dark settings. |
| 83 | * DIYDentistry: Parodied in a cartoon which has the daughter sitting in a chair with a string running from her mouth to a creepy-looking trapdoor in the floor. |
| 84 | * DropInCharacter: The Thing. |
| 85 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first family cartoon, the butler has a beard, the mother's outfit is somewhat different and her physique less exaggeratedly skinny, and we see more of the Thing's body than usual. |
| 86 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The mother and daughter. |
| 87 | * EldritchLocation: The family's property seems to be one. It has a [[HauntedHouse haunted]] OldDarkHouse full of [[SpookyPainting spooky paintings]] and [[HouseOfBrokenMirrors broken mirrors]], small AlienGeometries, a CreepyCemetery, a GardenOfEvil, and the whole thing is somewhat both a {{Mordor}} and a HalloweenTown. See the entries on those tropes for more details. |
| 88 | * EnfantTerrible: The children, especially the son. |
| 89 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They're very tight-knit, despite their encounters with outsiders. |
| 90 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Whether the family is arguably "evil" or not, they are still shown to have standards in [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4b/e0/e4/4be0e45ed3a6611eda6dacd92508df02--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg this]] unpublished cartoon.[[note]]A parody of ''Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane''[[/note]] |
| 91 | * EvilWearsBlack: Most of the family wears black whenever they're seen. |
| 92 | * ExtraDigits: At bedtime, [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/93/6b/47/936b47ece2e947b28e370d583758fc1b--addams-family-cartoon-the-addams-family.jpg it takes more little piggies than usual.]] |
| 93 | ** In [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2d/ad/c2/2dadc21595da8e8b9ed52b842d654ae8.jpg this scene]], the uncle has a few more fingers than he should. |
| 94 | * ExtremelyDustyHome: A given, seeing as how old and decrepit the house is. |
| 95 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: A very happy family who enjoy inflicting harm. They [[http://forbiddenplanet.blog/wp2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/tumblr_mfcv3y64pL1qf83cro2_1280.jpg pour boiling oil on carolers]], [[http://theaddamsfamilymusical.com/img/cartoon_3.jpg set traps for the postman]], [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/fb/ed/b5fbedcdeca512d6daa63aaadf05dbd8.jpg encourage bad behavior at school]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/33/80/39/33803985d7787791385916f7e2a74dc5--charles-addams-humor-negro.jpg usher a car into a collision with a truck]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/41/31/4b41317561a762131b5be560590ce6fe.jpg set traps for Santa Claus]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/cd/88/42cd88548b97fd161549e96186c7335a--addams-family-values-the-addams-family.jpg build torture racks for fun]], and just generally value [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5f/59/a1/5f59a1e4a9020cb4e13935077acd9955.jpg making the world a worse place]]. |
| 96 | * FamilyValuesVillain: The parents are caring toward their family, whatever else they are. |
| 97 | * FashionDissonance: The [[http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/addamsfamily/images/0/08/Af_my_crowd.png/revision/latest?cb=20160929005324 cover illustration]] for Addams's 1970 book ''My Crowd'' depicts the family in hip, colorful "mod" attire of the era. |
| 98 | * FatBastard: The uncle, the father, and the son. |
| 99 | * FrankensteinsMonster: The butler highly resembles it. |
| 100 | * GardenOfEvil: They have one. [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/28/05/4f/28054f176e945b67466dfcb27a243800--addams-family-values-the-addams-family.jpg The mother is very proud of it.]] See also the Man-Eating Plant entry below. |
| 101 | * TheGhost: The baby. |
| 102 | * {{Gonk}}: The father, the grandmother, and the uncle. |
| 103 | * {{Goth}}: The whole family are proto-goths. |
| 104 | ** PerkyGoth: The uncle and father. |
| 105 | * GothicHorror: Plays the trappings of this genre for laughs. |
| 106 | * HalloweenEpisode: [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f8/7b/44/f87b4498406c2603722f84f72241012f--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg This]] detailed drawing. Understandably, given the nature of this family. |
| 107 | * HalloweenTown: The family's mansion, graveyard, and surrounding land all have this feel. |
| 108 | * HappilyMarried: In their own particular way. |
| 109 | -->"Are you unhappy, darling?"\ |
| 110 | "Oh, yes. ''Yes!'' Completely." |
| 111 | * HappyRain: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/03/38/d6/0338d67eeb9d5a82c5a1c95ff89e04fb--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg They love bad weather.]] |
| 112 | * HauntedHouse: The family seems to live in one: There's [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/7f/90/d17f908e5692cb896941c657f0934c4c--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg something]] in the cellar and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b1/28/0e/b1280e92d38364550a2363e22fe4b55a.jpg restless crypt residents]], and we can't forget the Thing... |
| 113 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: The whole family, usually towards outsiders. |
| 114 | * HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/48/e5/34/48e534b053792dcba55f3d1c45eaf236.jpg The mother has "so much to do" on Friday the 13th.]] |
| 115 | * HouseFey: The Thing appears to be this sort of creature. |
| 116 | * HouseOfBrokenMirrors: They live in one. |
| 117 | * IceQueen: The mother. She almost never smiles and often seems stern and aloof. |
| 118 | ** SugarAndIcePersonality: She sometimes seems to take on a gentler side for her husband and children. |
| 119 | * ImAHumanitarian: [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/c6/55/0e/c6550eef017d813c591ecff378921251.jpg This cartoon]] shows the uncle contemplating dishes on offer at an automat, which include a dessert, a salad, a pie -- and a human head. |
| 120 | * JekyllAndHyde: The son once drinks a formula, mixed by himself, that makes him bigger and uglier. |
| 121 | * KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: In [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OpqNE546Hfs/UX4OJMZ96II/AAAAAAAAtUs/BWpEStw9-nk/s640/cartoon_5.jpg this]] cartoon, the mother knits a jumper with multiple legs, which was copied in [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the first movie]]. |
| 122 | * LooksLikeOrlok: The uncle looks like ''fat'' Orlok. |
| 123 | * MadwomanInTheAttic: Once cartoon shows how the family had part of one floor finished off as a barred cell to hold an Uncle Eimar. Of course, it being ''this'' family, the mother happily tells guests about it. |
| 124 | * MadScientist: The boy often plays with poisons and chemicals, and see the entry for Jekyll & Hyde above. |
| 125 | * ManEatingPlant: Implied in a cartoon where the uncle is shown pumping human blood into his garden plants. |
| 126 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: See the entry for Ambiguously Human above. |
| 127 | * {{Mordor}}: The land surrounding the mansion appears to be this. Only dead trees, brown weeds, always dark and cloudy... |
| 128 | * NoNameGiven: None of the family members have names; they were only given names for the TV series, though the names came from Charles Addams himself when the show's producers asked what they were (except for Pugsley, for whom Addams tried to suggest "Pubert" but the producers found this too vulgar for television). Interestingly, extended relatives of the family avert this and are referenced by name, such as Uncle Eimar and Uncle Cosimo. |
| 129 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: They [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/40/c7/4c/40c74c85ccc995991ce944e316bdd5a0--addams-family-morticia-the-addams-family.jpg consider]] naming the baby "Cain" or "Ananias". |
| 130 | * NightmareFetishist: The whole family. |
| 131 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: All of them. |
| 132 | * NoodlePeople: The mother. |
| 133 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Possibly the uncle. Compare him and the son: While the son always has a cruel sneer on his face when wreaking havoc, the uncle always looks genuinely happy and excited. It's possible he has no idea that others don't enjoy what he does to them. This is supported by him enjoying a movie scene that everyone else finds heartbreaking. |
| 134 | * OldDarkHouse: Home sweet home. |
| 135 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3e/35/fe/3e35fe8fc0cd6a29114fac0721942c2d.jpg Everyone is concerned when Christmas gives the father a dreadful urge to be merry.]] |
| 136 | ** He in turn is concerned when the mother [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/40/e3/eb/40e3eb6b9587a8fd61ef88d87fa11db9.jpg starts decorating with flowers]]. |
| 137 | * OrigamiGag: In one strip, the daughter cuts out a string of paper dolls, one of which inexplicably has a third leg. |
| 138 | * PerkyGoth: Both the father and uncle act gleeful and upbeat, despite their dark and creepy attire. |
| 139 | * PigMan: The father's appearance is often somewhat porcine. |
| 140 | * PutOnABus: Then-''New Yorker'' editor William Shawn wanted nothing to do with characters that had appeared on so vulgar a medium as television, so for a while Addams's cartoons in the magazine were Family-free. |
| 141 | ** TheBusCameBack, however, when the next editor was happy to have them make a return. |
| 142 | * RedOniBlueOni: The husband is enthusiastic and emotional, the wife is cool and distant. |
| 143 | * SceneryGorn: The house is old and big, with its decayed state lovingly detailed. |
| 144 | * SerialKiller: A family of them. For more details, see the entries for The Family that Slays Together and Siblings in Crime. |
| 145 | * SharkFinOfDoom: Invoked in one cartoon, as the children plan to scare some kids at a river with one of these. |
| 146 | * SiblingRivalry: Carried to an extreme by the little dark-haired girl and her bulbous brother. Attempted assassination was the theme of several of their cartoons, such as [[http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6096220924_1b6aa1ac1d.jpg attempting to poison each other]] and [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/2f/ba/b52fba93137debda2142232dbe57e00d--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg walling up alive]]. |
| 147 | * SiblingsInCrime: The children (when they're not after each other) team up against [[https://theinvisibleagent.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/4129778273_d6115cedbf_b.jpg the babysitter]], [[http://forbiddenplanet.blog/wp2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/tumblr_mfcv3y64pL1qf83cro7_1280-628x826.jpg Santa Claus]], and [[http://theaddamsfamilymusical.com/img/cartoon_3.jpg the postman]]. |
| 148 | * SilentSnarker: The butler is not unknown to sport a raised eyebrow or skeptical expression. |
| 149 | * SlasherSmile: The boy is often shown sporting one. Occasionally the uncle as well. |
| 150 | * SlaveGalley: The uncle is shown to have a slave galley in his motorboat. |
| 151 | * SpookyPainting: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/97/1c/64/971c64905b0e991bab8c4b8552b92909.jpg A whole room of them]]... except for Uncle Zander's. He was the BlackSheep of the family, y'see. |
| 152 | * StuffBlowingUp: The uncle believes that using dynamite is [[http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4002/4654750589_a0c014ee2a_z.jpg the way to fish.]] |
| 153 | * TooKinkyToTorture: They view poisoning someone as [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0f/1e/4a/0f1e4aae6aca7bb07bab614d7bd8ef58--addams-family-wednesday-the-addams-family.jpg a childish squabble]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bb/77/87/bb77872e59a80da1483905bc972ce1b7--addams-family-characters-addams-family-values.jpg use various deadly substances for personal grooming]], [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gPY4oANt_CA/Tv82LNnEBkI/AAAAAAAAI1s/IvZKKMyizyI/s640/Sunday+Morning+Macabre+16.jpg like their shower water to be scalding]], and [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c7/24/f4/c724f45bfdfb4f60cd5633432ffa6644--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg kick each other as a sign of affection.]] |
| 154 | * TheToothHurts: In [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ea/de/8a/eade8a20c29050f1b58a5fe96d66cbc3--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg this]] cartoon, the daughter tries to get her loose tooth out by tying it to a string and tying the string to a trap door. |
| 155 | * {{Troll}}: The son is almost always this, and sometimes the uncle is too. |
| 156 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: See Siblings in Crime above. |
| 157 | * UglyGuyHotWife: The father and mother. |
| 158 | * UnholyMatrimony: The parents are a sort of borderline example; they are very creepy and eccentric, but calling them overtly "evil" might not be entirely fair. |
| 159 | ** They also may not even be married. |
| 160 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The uncle [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f7/8b/68/f78b68270f177f4df3e3f56885c28345.jpg describes a movie about a giant killer moth as "true to life".]] |
| 161 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Bats, lizards, and... ''[[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/7f/90/d17f908e5692cb896941c657f0934c4c--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg something]]'' lurking in the basement. The uncle is also shown to keep vultures. |
| 162 | * VillainProtagonist: Most of the family, as shown by many of their unpleasant encounters with the outside world (unpleasant on the outside world's side). |
| 163 | * TheVoiceless: Everyone except the mother, the father, and the grandmother. |
| 164 | * WalkingTheEarth: While the main family is usually shown in their mansion, the uncle is always shown in a different place and situation. He does seem to have his own house once or twice, though, such as [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/36/2b/b4/362bb49ad13c19b3ad4b51b8cf604e75.jpg here]]. |
| 165 | * [[BuriedAlive Walled Up Alive]]: The son [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/2f/ba/b52fba93137debda2142232dbe57e00d--adams-family-the-addams-family.jpg once did this to his sister.]] She seems to have gotten out just fine, though, not surprisingly considering that she's a member of ''this'' family. |
| 166 | * WidowWitch: The grandmother's husband is never seen or mentioned. |
| 167 | * WitchClassic: The grandmother makes potions in cauldrons and has flying brooms. |
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