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The scariest part about him? He’s just your average barista at the local Weathervane.
The Addams Family being creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky has always been a given… but this show is an entirely different type of ooky altogether.
- Wednesday’s big Establishing Character Moment in the pilot? Getting back at the water polo team for bullying her brother... by dumping live piranha in the pool mid-practice. It’s Played for Laughs, but also very disturbing, as one member of the team doesn’t make it out of the pool in time. We get a lovely shot of him screaming as the water turns bloody beneath him, and it is later confirmed he lost a testicle. Wednesday may have been a Creepy Child in every retelling of The Addams Family, but this incarnation of Wednesday proves within the first 3 minutes of the show to be the most sociopathic and cold-blooded of all.
- The Hyde. A large humanoid brute with giant, bulging eyes, brutally killing innocents to steal their body parts. And what's worse, anyone could be a Hyde, easily awakened through trauma or hypnosis, and then made a loyal slave to whomever awakens them.
- The mere fact that Nevermore banned Hydes years ago speaks volumes about how unstable and dangerous this type of outcast is.
- In addition, even Uncle Fester, an Addams, states anyone wanting to use them would have to be a psychopath of the highest order.
- The reveal that human love interest Tyler, previously a sweet, caring young man who had almost won Wednesday’s affections, is the Hyde. The scene of him confirming this and taunting Wednesday in the police station is chilling as he confirms he had come to be aware of his actions while transformed... and reveled in them.
- Upon rewatch, Tyler's mannerisms can come off as quite unnerving. There are a few scenes that make his interactions feel forced, like he's faking his kindness.
- Joseph Crackstone. The man was a hugely puritanical bigot against outcasts, and even went so far as to chain a huge crowd of them up in a building and set them on fire. He's scary enough to horrify Wednesday. It says something that in a show with a hulking Serial Killer monster on the loose, arguably the scariest scene involves fanatical (but otherwise ordinary) bigots ruthlessly lynching innocent people, under the pretense that the latter have been judged and declared guilty by God.
- The Gates family as a whole also deserve a mention. Ansel was an outcast-hating bigot who ordered his son, Garrett, to poison the Rave'N with nightshade. However, Garrett, blinded by his hatred of Gomez and obsession with Morticia, immediately set to kill him once he saw the two together. As a result, he breaks the vial and accidentally poisons himself before he's sent falling to the ground by Morticia stabbing him.
- Morticia and Gomez were rightfully frightened by his demeanor during the scuffle. He was foaming at the mouth and everything.
- Laurel Gates is just as horrifying as her family. She poses as Ms. Thornhill to sneak her way into Nevermore and earn the trusts of students and faculty just long enough to resurrect Joseph to destroy the outcasts once and for all, and this isn't without murdering Principal Weems, abusing Tyler's family history and mental issues with Hydes, and stealing Wednesday's blood and mortally wounding her before abandoning her in the crypt.
- Xavier's artwork can be quite unsettling, particularly his drawings of the Hyde.
- The faceless teenagers. Just who are they? What powers do they have, if any? WHY DON'T THEY HAVE FACES?????
- It’s probably their type of outcast.
- The near death of Thing. When he's discovered, he is pinned to a wall with a knife. Wednesday rushes him to Uncle Fester, who gives him shocks, and it looking like the show may have killed off Thing for good. After a few more shocks, and a threat by Wednesday to kill him if he dies, he pops back to life.
- The final moments of Principal Weems, after being poisoned by Laurel. She's choking and coughing and gasping for breath, and it's utterly terrifying.
- Wednesday nearly dying after being stabbed by Joseph Crackstone and Left for Dead by him and Laurel in the crypt. She would have been a goner had Goody not appeared to save her.
