More than just an old lady but not quite a witch, Grandmama takes a delight in doing a lot of the family's cooking and gladly acts as a secondary parental figure to the children. In the movies and Wednesday, she's more of an Emotionless Girl and The Snark Knight. In the original series, she's a Cheerful Child who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll Marie Antoinette.
A young Mad Scientist in the making who once demonstrated a home-made disintegration rifle to a visiting Soviet diplomat. Popular opinion is that she is a vampire - she rarely smiles with her teeth. Tall, elegant, ivory-skinned and black-tressed, and always clad in a tight, slinky black dress, Morticia is calm reason to Gomez's maniacal exuberance. Ostensibly a lawyer, although the family's vast independent wealth eliminates any need for him to actually work when he does, though, he takes great pride in the cases he's lost. If anything, they are arguably better-adjusted than most families, real or fictional! The end result is thus more delightfully eccentric and endearing than it is disturbing.
On the contrary, they're compassionate and loving, friendly to all whom they meet, eager to help strangers in times of need, and tolerant to a fault.
They also invert various horror-movie tropes about evil families: in spite of their outré tastes and the apparent trappings of pain and horror amidst which they live, the Addamses are clearly (well, mostly in the movies) NOT evil. Although visibly different from virtually everyone they encounter, they still perceive themselves as a "perfectly normal family" in fact, they seem somewhat incapable of even noticing that their lifestyle varies widely from that of their neighbors. In the 1960s these were adapted into a popular TV sitcom which gave the characters names and codified their relationships with one another, providing a model for all subsequent versions.Ī deliberate inversion of the ideal American Nuclear Family, the Addamses are an obscenely wealthy clan of borderline supernatural beings with a taste for the grotesque and macabre, holding opinions and preferences that are mirror images or inversions of more conventional attitudes. It originated in a recurring series of comically grotesque single-panel cartoons by Charles Addams, which appeared in The New Yorker magazine beginning in the late 1930s. The Addams Family is a franchise spanning multiple media.
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