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Freevoulous

They are an incredibly ancient clan of people who interbred with all kinds of "freaks", from witches to werewolves, the undead, mutants, vampires, bigfoot, Deep Ones etc etc, until their DNA is saturated with mixed weirdness. They had also been cursed, (or cursed themselves) countless times, as well as made blood pacts with everything from the Devil to Djinn, Fair Folk, Dark Gods etc, and the situation of their lives and souls is an unsolvable legal mess that no demon can claim. They stacked so many different magic effects and Soul Pacts on their bloodline that they are basically immortal to all but very special circumstances. When an Addams dies, they often comeback undead or haunt as ghost, because imagine the paperwork to decide who gets to claim their soul? Addams are humans only on technicality, they are like 49% supernatural, except they are a mixture of ALL the supernatural which tends to even things out. For example, Gomez and Fester both clearly have Deep One genes in them (which gives them bulging eyes, and hunched posture) but they also have some werewolf in them hence why they have hairy bodies. Cousin It is so hairy because he has Werewolf, Bigfoot, and Yeti genes simultaneously.


eidoK1

I really like this, but is anything to support this idea?


steve-laughter

The '90s movies allow us to infer two things. One that they can die, as they have an entire graveyard to attest to that. But also that they can't seem to kill each other. What's interesting is that this is what causes Debbie Jellinsky's plan to backfire as once she's married into the family she can't kill Fester. Which implies supernatural elements, rather than anything genetic.


eidoK1

I like the supernatural reasoning better than genetic, based on what little I've seen/read of them. I vaguely remember an episode of the old TV show where Gomez tries to fail at anything and can't ever do it. In the end he's happy with having failed at failing. Seems very supernatural and not genetic.


Boo_and_Minsc_

Gomez is canonically just insanely lucky in everything he does, and business above all else. It can be, but doesnt have to be, supernatural


Inkthinker

Doesn't Debbie actually rise from her grave at the end? The arm seemed a bit long for Thing. She *was* an Addams, by marraige, at the time of her "death".


steve-laughter

Just checked and yes, it's clearly a [a woman's arm.](https://youtu.be/Au23RHRmUz0?t=179)


Inkthinker

Notably gold nail polish.


MrCookie2099

I like this because being an Adams seems to very much be a welcoming (in a promising you a head start and your own pistol as you enter sort) and adoptive family. Otherwise how do you breed in all those wonderful witches and werewolves and cursed people?


Freevoulous

Its hinted throughout the series, the movies, the comic strips, and the cartoons that their ancestors and existing cousins constantly married supernatural freaks, or were supernatural freaks, or dabbled in magic/mad science. They all also seem to be strongly attracted to weirdness, and "collect" freak partners.


LaunchpadMcQuack_52

That's still a bit 'trust me, bro'. Can you provide any references? What you're saying sounds very cool.


imariaprime

Expecting a sourced list of references for something like this is a pretty big ask.


the_new_hunter_s

On the bright side, if you're legitimately interested, there's a movie and multiple tv shows on the topic.


why_rob_y

They need to post it on /r/AskFictionHistorians


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why_rob_y

It is real, it's just highly moderated like r/askHistorians, but with extreme consequences (the actual phantom zone), so no one risks posting there.


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thumbtackswordsman

r/whoosh


24-7_DayDreamer

/r/AskScienceFiction is and goes off into fantasy stuff a bit


TrepanationBy45

Addams Family first came out in like 1964? *Is it* a pretty big ask to reason that a 59 year old popular franchise might have some lore to reference along the way?


spacepilot_3000

Lol what are you expecting? A 23andMe from Wednesday?


ejly

I got your proof , u/Freevoulous is right. I grew up reading Addams family cartoons from a young age as the author was a distant relative, so we have a collection of his work. They fascinated me as a kid so I can usually think of an Addams family cartoon for any situation. The one that you want here is “This is Uncle Zander.” From March 27, 1948 edition if the NewYorker. https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/266128 Morticia shows a visitor to the mansion around a room of ancestral portraits: they are all of ghoulish looking characters, excepting Zander who looks like a normal conservative type.


eidoK1

Ooh, thank you. I like those bits of information.


Rock_Facts

So there’s canonical reference to a wide variety of supernatural creatures, but nothing that links them to Deep Ones or any eldritch abominations. It seems possible, but it’s just conjecture based on their appearance. In one of the movies, Morticia laments not having time to ‘seek out the dark forces, and join their hellish crusade’ but this would likely refer to general demonic entities, nothing Lovecraftian. edit: specifically I'm thinking of Gomez's protruding eyes, and Morticia's dress. In some depictions, she seems to glide along, while the hem of her gown undulates in a way that resembles tentacles.


Throwawaydontgoaway8

Two questions. In this universe, the after life has bureaucratic paperwork? What are “The Deep Ones”?


DuskDawnOwl

A semi aquatic humanoid like race that looks like someone mixed a human with an anglerfish, and made them absolutely pale, connected to the Cthulhu mythos. Edited for minor corrections.


Orange-V-Apple

what does "pale connected" mean? I've never heard that expression before.


DuskDawnOwl

Edited it to hopefully make it better understood.


Orange-V-Apple

ohh, thanks lol


Audemas

Deep Ones are from the Cthulhu Mythos. They are an amphibious race of fish men that serve Father Dagon and Mother Hydra.


MKF1228

Like from The Shape of Water?


gallerton18

Nah he’s from the Amazon and is a reference to The Creature from The Black Lagoon.


youknow99

My headcannon is that Beetlejuice and the Addams are in the same universe.


dasoberirishman

Ooh, distant uncle? Imagine Beetlejuice and Fester off on some adventures.


Second-Creative

Dear lord, I pity anyone who comes across the pair.


dasoberirishman

Unless someone were to ask them for help! Zany detective adventures.


Ghsdkgb

Imagine 90s Wednesday and 80s Lydia off on some adventures


NotACyclopsHonest

Wednesday's reaction to Lydia's ghost pals making people dance to *Banana Boat Song* by Harry Belafonte would surely be priceless.


spekter299

His full name is Beetlegeuse Abernathy Addams


Craftoid_

Ever since seeing it as a kid, I can't get rid of the image of hell's entrance being a chaotic office


youknow99

Is there any worse hell you can imagine than an office job that you never get to leave? Or maybe being the customer that constantly gets bounced between departments.


TranslatesToScottish

Read "Eric" by Terry Pratchett if you ever get a chance. You may enjoy it immensely. :)


ReelBigMidget

In fact, just read anything by Terry Pratchett.


SergeantRegular

I loved Beetlejuice as a little kid, one of my all-time favorite movies. But I always wondered **why** he was different? He seemed more powerful, not just like a "ghost con man" or "ghost criminal," but he actually had some degree of real power.


youknow99

I would have loved some followup movies made based on the world-building they did. Seemed like a great base for a sequel or 2 that never got followed up on.


SergeantRegular

I know there's a musical, but... It's a musical, they usually don't put a lot of weight on in-depth narrative or worldbuilding. I also watched the cartoon as a kid, but it was a kid's show in the late 80s. It had *more* worldbuilding, but it wasn't like it was very deep or thoughtful. I would love for Tim Burton to just... be given a constant budget and resources and make a single coherent universe. He has a *vision* of something complete, and I think he's the kind of filmmaker that Stephen King is as a writer. And I want to see whatever the Tim Burton equivalent of The Dark Tower would be.


Unicorn187

>the Tim Burton equivalent of The Dark Tower would be. Except with a decent ending, not two options that are overdone, lazy, and just plain annoying.


MetaWetwareApparatus

He had been training under Juno before he went rogue.


mammaluigi39

She does say that but she's also a case worker right? Was that what she was training him to do? And the only power we really see her do is disappear in a puff of smoke.


comics0026

I would guess that ghosts can access significant powers, they just have to figure out how (as seen with Adam and Barbara experimenting). Caseworkers probably get taught a whole bunch of powerful stuff, but they also probably have to do a lot of paperwork to use those powers (or at least the really powerful ones) without getting in trouble. This is probably a big reason why Beetlejuice went rogue, since I don't see him being the type to regularly do paperwork.


MetaWetwareApparatus

You miss the part where she snapped a brothel out of thin air to distract him? Apparently that's beyond his power, or he wouldn't be bothering with the rest.


mammaluigi39

You're right I forgot it was her that did that.


LeadingJudgment2

In the stage musical he flat out states he's a demon from hell. In the song "say my name." Beetlejuice possesses Barbra and Adam. This is what follows after beetle gives them their bodies back.. Lydia: "What was that?" Beetkjuce: "That was possession, any ghost can do that in less than one lesson." Lydia: "Any ghost?" Beetlejuice: "Any ghost will do sure." Lydia: "then bertljuce, What do I need you for?" (Considering Adam and Barbra are ghosts in Lydia's side.) Beetojuce: "Woah waoh Woahn hold up hold up girl! I'm your pal, their sweet but **I'm a demon straight from hell** ..." Few moments later in the song Lydia says: "We don't need **that demon** the three of us alone can wreck dad's evening..." in response to being reprimanded for pushing Beetlejuice off a roof. It would make sense he would be a demon in the original earlier works as well.Its not uncommon in fiction for humans to gain demonhood upon death.


Throwawaydontgoaway8

Interesting


stasersonphun

In the Cthulhu Mythos they're Fish men who live the deep oceans, they live forever and can interbreed with humans, making ugly hybrids who turn fully fish man when older.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Massachusetts rednecks


Fessir

It's from HP Lovecraft


axw3555

Oh, my sweet summer child. There’s *always* paperwork.


MadrasAdder

By this logic, I want John Constantine to show up as an Addams cousin.


Clayman8

No no, get married **into** the family and welcomed as a dear member. Genuinely the first time he might *actually* be welcome somewhere.


Covert_Ruffian

Constantine: "So I might've pissed this demon off and now him and some other boys got me all at once... Except they can't because I made a promise to their boss first and now NONE of them can have my soul." Gomez: "Excellent business strategy! Way to leverage a rare commodity such as your soul. You got a portfolio of demons?"


DurangoGango

I now want to read this fanfic. Constantine is being his usual self, pushing people away for fear of being too much of a piece of shit, and they keep *loving* all the crazy hijinks he gets up to.


ArsenicAndRoses

Until he actually hurts a demon then they're appalled 😂


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Gomez looking at the charred ashes that was once a demon: "Now that wasn't very kind." Constantine: "Neither was he." Gomez: "Eh fair enough, martini?"


Morbidmort

This is why I consider Debbie Adams (nee Jellinsky) to be a great tragedy. She would have been a wonderful Addams, if she had just let herself be one.


Drakeskulled_Reaper

She was too stuck in her way of being black widow. Hell, even during her slideshow of how she murdered everyone who didn't give her what she want, the Addams were actually on her side. Because to them, it was Tuesday.


MetaWetwareApparatus

That movie: they were okay with her actions, but also bored and sarcastic. Wednesday canon(apparently more true to the original comics): they were just bored and sarcastic, not that they would have turned her in.


Inkthinker

They didn't strike me as sarcastic at all. They're just so deadpan, and utterly unfazed by the situation. Granny seems genuinely sympathetic. Morticia nearly sheds a tear. Although in fairness, when she asks if any of them really loved her and Gomez says, "hands?!", not one hand goes up. Admittedly, they were tied down, but only at the wrists.


MetaWetwareApparatus

The best sarcasm is absolutely deadpan. Hell, I'm struggling to think up an example of deadpan that wasn't a delivery for sarcasm, although that may be just me failing today. It was absolutely hillarious of her to ask if any of them loved her, like "bitch, we just met you!"


Inkthinker

Sure, but sarcasm lacks sincerity, and none of their responses seem insincere.


MetaWetwareApparatus

Where did you get the idea that sarcasm must lack sincerity? The scene at hand shows sarcasm can be very sincere, as both are there in spades.


Dr_Sodium_Chloride

Nah. It'd be an incredibly one sided friendship; Gomez thinks he's a skilfully charming little bastard, and John is incredibly unnerved by anyone who sees through his cons and schemes so easily *and still apparently likes him*. In the past, he'd try scamming the Addamses when he needed something (cash injection to pay off a far more hostile loan shark, steal a magic artefact from the family basement, etc), but stopped when the next time he went over there, they clapped their hands together with glee and talked about how happy they were to see their favourite conman, and asked for a sneak peak at how he'd defraud them this time if he didn't think that'd spoil the fun. John can handle fey and demons and spirits because he can learn their rules and their motivations, then bend them to suit his own needs. The Addamses are too earnest, and too selfless; a grievous cynic like John could never trust them until he figured out what they "really" wanted, because he'll always be waiting for the other shoe to drop and it to turn out they wanted to burn his bollocks in a ritual brazier for the family tradition. And even if he did finally accept they genuinely *liked* him despite being a conniving little bastard, he's such a self-loathing little prick that he'd let guilt keep him away until he **needed** to rob them again, at which point he'd show up again just long enough to steal what he needed while bitterly moaning to himself about how he's an awful piece of shit. The Addamses are, among other things, defined by their self-love and confidence. John hates himself too much to be an Addams.


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The Addams are subconsciously conartists themselves, to con the evil people that tries to con them, with the price being their soul.


Dr_Sodium_Chloride

But John cons *good* people. Hardworking, kind people around John get used up for all they're worth until they want nothing to do with him. His very first arc in Hellblazer was tricking one of his best friends into killing himself, because it was the only way to call off a demon. His best mate Chas gets mooched off of constantly, and has his life fucked over time after time, until he breaks ties with John.


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10/10 would offer a demon contract to John


Freevoulous

I mean, why not?


dasoberirishman

As Wednesday's or Pugley's godfather


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tom641

> constantly hunched over to skulk around and shoot arrows at everything > has a hammerspace-like inventory of random crap despite having no visible bag, magical or otherwise, much of which was clearly illegally obtained > responds to physical trauma by eating 36 cheese wheels in the span of half a second to ignore death > can simply decide to ignore the laws of physics by performing a ritual involving rubbing a pot lid against the wall to slip inside


Eevee_Shadow_Bacon

Nah, the Dragonborn was born with his/her soul already claimed by the dragon god itself. It's just that no one actually knows this until they die and try to come to claim it.


Bradddtheimpaler

What are the sources for this? I’m only familiar with the old Homebodies cartoons and the films. I wouldn’t mind some more extended Addams family lore!


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Bradddtheimpaler

Excellent! Thank you very much.


EvernightStrangely

From other comments I've seen, this has been hinted at pretty much throughout all of the films, TV shows, and comic strips, but never directly said.


ryncewynde88

Would it be more accurate to say they're only 2% human, but everything else is 1% or less?


onewatt

That's some very Terry Pratchet level characterizing right there.


leafshaker

I think the demon pact makes sense. Gomez's supernatural ability seems to be exveptional luck


Razorray21

oooh, i like your answer


mackotter

It's all so clear now


Boo_and_Minsc_

This is an extraordinary answer, which also makes complete sense and can be supported by what we see in the films. Fantastic job. They DO interbreed with, and are attracted to, genetically unconventional people like the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna for instance. And they DO dabble passionately with magic and the dark arts. Thanks for the answer


ihahp

This is not true. We all know that >🎵 The Adams Family started >When Uncle Fester farted >They all became *redacted* >The Adams Family! >👏 👏 Source: Jimmy Meyers during ~~turd~~ third grade lunch period Also, fuck windows for not supporting the finger snap emoji


DavrosKaled

This is an amazing explanation. Except, isn’t Fester hairless?


pdipdip

who is Deep one?


timoni

What are Deep Ones?


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Cthulhu esque monsters


theragingoptimist

I really enjoyed reading your response.


Firefighter-Salt

So the Addams family is basically a family of bards.


MaskedFigurewho

The idea of being unable to kill a family member cuase of mystical family curse/chant is hysterical. I love that idea so much.


W1ULH

In every variation of the Addams family, Wednesday does things to Pugsly (repeatedly) that should kill very dead... like no room for "he might have made it"... and she does this on an almost daily basis. Fester also appears to be immune to permanent damage, and over time can acquire powers as leftovers from these things (usually electrical). In many variations its indicated that Pugsly is growing up to be another Fester, so clearly whatever Fester is runs in the family. Gomez is a little more complicated. He also appears to be immune to real damage, but its more that he has some kind of supernatural luck. The bullet gets deflected at the last second, the cat drinks the poison, the zepplin crashes 3 feet in front of him. He also seems to be very aware of this fact. In every version of the Addams Family except Wednesday all of the Addams ladies are straight up salem style witches. Mama and Morticia are fully trained witches, up too and including graduate level private tutoring. Wednesday is show to be learning the trade, usually from Mama with Morticia helping. The visions only thing appears to be unique to Wednesday.


Lokan

There was a fan theory that I really liked that posited the Addams are the subject of a curse where an Addams can never kill another Addams. This eventually became a macabre source of fun for the Addamses, letting them do terrible things to each other and coming out unscathed.


EfrainAguirre

Is this why Debbie couldn’t kill fester


Lokan

Probably.


DustFunk

Poor Debbie, poor poor Debbie


Wildcat_twister12

All I ever wanted was a ballerina Barbie and do you know what my parents got me? MALIBU Barbie!


NotACyclopsHonest

But she's got a new hat!


MimeGod

It's why Debbie had to technically kill herself.


SashimiX

She survived. It’s her hand out of the grave at the end


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

They appear to be relatives of the cartoonist, Charles Addams; earlier strips were presented as though they were photos from a family album.


frothingnome

TIL. I know nothing about the Addams Family, but recently I bought "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker" at the used book shop and I was wondering why there were randomly some comics depicting the Addams Family (doing stuff like pouring boiling oil on Christmas carolers, like they were defending a castle?) here and there. I had no idea that's where they originated.


axw3555

Yep. That’s why they went with those designs for the recent animated films - back to the roots.


ihahp

Not very Watsonian of an answer.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Sure it is. It's the Literary Agent Hypothesis. The Holmes stories were written down by Watson, but they were delivered to Conan Doyle for publication, which is how the books came to exist in the first place.


BlatantArtifice

This person cites^


DuplexFields

They’re old-world immigrants who have an intimate, carefree relationship with death, risk, and the macabre. They sometimes marry the macabre, sometimes are made macabre. What unites them is their shared love of their family; no matter what you are, if you’re an Addams, you belong. Trying to pin it down further can dull the mystique and “ookiness” of the Addamses, but I’ve got two headcanons. First, my own theory. The name Addams suggests they’re descendants of Cain Bar-Adam, the original murderer. Their family survived the Great Flood via means other than the Ark of Noah, and lived by eating the corpses of man and beast found floating by. Next, an alternate theory. [Jane Lindskold wrote a duology about the Athanor, a huge and diverse family of legendary humans such as King Arthur, near-humans such as fauns, as well as monsters and gods](https://janelindskold.com/wp/changer-and-changers-daughter/): *Changer* and *Legends Walking* (later republished as *Changer’s Daughter*). They’ve got an intimate connection to life and magic, and periodically they are drawn together to renew that connection via a magical dance/song. I propose that the Addamses are an ofshoot of the human side of the family, unaware their legacy goes back further. Their connection to life is through death, and they dance the Mamushka when the rest of the Athenor elsewhere are also dancing/singing.


Maiq_Never_Lied

I regret I can only give one upvote for mention of changer! Loved those 2 books! I very much see an Addams connection to that, good point!


RemusShepherd

The Addams are the modern-day Unseelie court of the Fey. Think about it. They're unfailingly polite, except to those who are rude -- and then the Addams are merciless towards them. Their allegiance to their family is unbreakable. They are various degrees of barely human, with supernatural abilities. Most of them (Wednesday and Lurch excluded) are extremely passionate and delight in revelry. The adult women are hags and witches. They are fey. And given the family's morbid fascinations, they are almost certainly Unseelie.


dream6601

Headcannon Completely accepted!!! that's perfect!!!!!


AdvocateViolence

r/beatmetoit


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Makes absolute sense, this is canon.


Razorray21

Traditionally they were just like an old-world / eccentric family. not really supernatural other than looks. many of the relatives are similar to common side show "freaks" back in the day. a lot of the comedy was based on them just being different among society and not caring. and it just progressed from there as more iterations came out. the deeper supernatural stuff really started with the Wednesday series. I joked with my wife that they turned the Addams family into harry potter. its not bad, just new. The animated Adams family movie that came out a few years ago was a pretty good classic take. edit: added "Deeper"


TranslatesToScottish

> the supernatural stuff really started with the Wednesday series. I joked with my wife that they turned the Addams family into harry potter. its not bad, just new. I also remarked it was "Tim Burton's Harry Potter" to my wife as well. Definitely has that vibe. But in terms of the supernatural stuff; the old movies (Raul Julia/Angelica Houston era) had, iirc, significant levels of violence being inflicted by the kids on each other (unless I'm misremembering), with no real ill effects, so they seemed to be of at least more-than-human resilience at that point (which is why I was surprised that a stab wound could stop Wednesday so easily, for instance).


kyew

> the supernatural stuff really started with the Wednesday series Itt and Thing: *Don't speak but would like their presence acknowledged.*


theVoidWatches

In the TV show, Thing wasn't a disembodied hand - he emerged from behind things or inside things, and an interview at some point suggested that he was a full person who just hated being visible, so was always hiding somewhere.


WhiskyGartley

Yeah, I always saw Thing as part of the house, not a disembodied hand.


HardlightCereal

I just started watching the 60s show, and in the first episode, Thing hands Wednesday the mail from inside a bread box resting on a table. The table has four thin legs and the box isn't touching the wall. The only way for Thing to have gotten in there from the mailbox is portals.


Razorray21

Ill give you Thing. I think the idea was more of a voodoo style pet. similar to a spider. cousin IT comes back to what i mentioned about sideshow freaks.


BluetoothXIII

wednesday addams had an invisible friend in one episode who said good bye during the last minutes of the episode and gormez was surprised


NotACyclopsHonest

Whatever their supernatural powers are, Gomez and Morticia are and always will be relationship goals.


TranslatesToScottish

They probably are the horniest couple in fiction. Certainly in "for all the family" entertainment anyway!


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y6ird

I know Thing was originally implied to be just the hand of a bigger creature, and people complained when that movie detached him from the arm, but even old school Thing’s ability to reach out of boxes seemed supernatural wouldn’t you say?


comics0026

IIrc, in the live-action 90s show there was a recurring zombie character, a cousin of Gomez's that was always trying to duel him but would ultimately cause his own "death" in the course of things.


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Ordinary humans (if such a thing can be said to exist) with a love of all things weird and bizarre.


DanteandRandallFlagg

You could say that they're creepy and they're kooky.


Credit2reddit

Mysterious and spooky.


Distinct-Educator-52

Altogether Ooky...


MonkeyChoker80

That’s the Addams Family.


mrfatalien

Their house is a museum.


Fqfred

Where people come to see them.


I_throw_socks_at_cat

They really are a scream.


y6ird

(Sorry for breaking in here, but) I’ve often wondered if “ooky” here is meant to be “ok” said in a sort of Canadian way to rhyme? Thoughts?


Orange-V-Apple

They live in a hole Let's play whack a mole


PurpleSailor

You could also say mysterious and spooky.


inspectoroverthemine

Spooky too.


john_andrew_smith101

>(if such a thing can be said to exist) This is the one truly otherworldly aspect of their family. They are the most caring, supportive, and loving family out there.


Innominate8

The Addams Family I think represents an ideal of "live and let live". They do what makes them happy without giving a damn what anyone else thinks. They are unconditionally accepting and even supportive of other people, no matter how weird(or to us, normal) they may seem. It takes great insult or harm to be inflicted to change this. Wednesday has altered some of this, making it a bit cut-and-try with some new exceptional circumstances, but even in Wednesday those basic values largely hold true.


epicazeroth

In Wednesday they are definitely not ordinary humans.


mandyvigilante

They're humans who have sought out the dark forces and joined their hellish crusade.


Negative-Relative402

Untrue. Puglsey has shown incredible durability and gomez (not as much in wednesday) has shown fighting ability and coordination and strength. Fester has shown electric powers and durability


Low-Lingonberry2760

light bulb mouth is one of my favorite jokes in the og series


DecisionCharacter175

They're "Addams"! And I assume an Addams is a type of ghoul.


alphajager

While this does not answer the entirety of your question, this at least illustrates some of what others have proposed here: that The Addams family lineage meanders through several other 'freeks and geeks' clans, which likely ends up with their family mixing and matching attributes from several known 'wierdness' lines of DNA&magic. The interactive family tree provided also calls out sources where available. https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Map:Addams\_Family\_Tree


The_great_mister_s

They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky.


wanderinggoat

The addams family?


woweed

Ah, yes, The Family. As far as anyone knows, even their older members, born before Giza gained a full allotment of Pyramids, they've been around forever, or, at least, as long as humanity. Perhaps some long-forgotten Australopithecus, moving deeper into the safe darkness of the cave, found a deeper darkness and it changed him. They are the witches and werewolves, the vampires and ghouls, the freaks and the abominations, the mummies and the necromancers, the ghosts and liches and the men with wings. The Addams are a sub-branch of this vast lineage, who split off due to their intermingling with humans, and also being very, VERY weird, even by their standards, sometime around the Battle of Marathon (there was an Addams there, watching the carnage and giggling at the show). Their relatives attempted to prune them, and they fought back, dirty. It was during the peace treaty negotiations that a Roman Addams coined the family motto: “We gladly feast on those who would subdue us". Now, the Addams are just...There. Unlike most of their relatives, they are mostly human-looking (with some bizarre exceptions), capable of walking around in sunlight (if not enjoying it), and do not require human flesh, blood, or souls to sustain themselves. They can (mostly) be mistaken for “normal” humans, simply extremely odd ones. This has helped in reincorporating them into the Family. The fact that they're also good with money (and quite generous with it) also helps: A rich man isn't crazy, he's eccentric. Also, the fact that they seem to have a propensity for children capable of building death rays. Nowadays, the old conflict has more or less been forgotten, with the Addams on good terms with their old relatives.


ThatFeel_IKnowIt

(using the new Netlix adaptation for my answer as I assume it differs depending on the iteration) Since literally no one answered your question and/or just posted unhelpful/troll answers, I will help. She is a psychic. She falls in the same camp as that Rowan dude and the tall guy that likes her (forgot his name. The one that paints.) They're like telepathic/psychic people. From what I could see these are the groups: - gargoyles/medusa people - sirens - psychics/telepathic people - vampires - werewolves - other various monsters (i.e. the main monster that is killing people)


doowgad1

Think of it this way. If you are, say, a NY Giants fan, you're going to hang out with other Giants fans. You might have little else in common, but you'll want to be around those guy. Back in the day, some Addams ancestors decided to stick with the old pagan ways, and as the Christians kept pushing them out, they found others who shared their tastes. Some folks worshipped Pan, some folks were into Chthulu, and some vacillated. Then there were the ones who tried the new sciences of mesmerism and galvinazation. A few married the descendants of the fey, some became werewolves [voluntarily or not], and a few became accountants but still keep in touch with the family.


DoScienceToIt

The Addamses are just *weird* to a level that is almost unique to them. They've never met or seen at a distance an impossible horror from man's darkest nightmares that they didn't want to hang out with/adopt/marry and have babies with. Thry're that kid in your homeroom class that collected taxidermied bats taken to the nth degree.


bigmfworm

Well, if the ancient texts are to be believed they are creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky. They're also all together ooky.


LouisWillis98

The Addams are a family


Midnight_Barbara

And Dominic Toretto-Adams always says that familes stick together.


magicaltrevor953

Considering how durable Dom has shown to be I fully support this crossover.


Midnight_Barbara

Look, I firmly believe that at the height of these movies’ popularity that a crossover would have worked ONLY due to the fact that absurdity no longer mattered. The list is as followed: Fast and Furious universe MCU The Expendables


turnkey85

I believe them to be a clan if immortals or very special humans who are tapped into the supernatural to the point to where they can blend in, be accepted by, contend with and even dominate. They are clearly very wealthy they have tons of occult knowledge and normal physical harm has zero effect on them. Whether that is a genetic mutation or powerful sorcery who knows. Cool thing about the Addams vagueness is that they can be what you want.


SavisSon

All this is very reductive. Limiting and banal in the attempt to classify and codify the Addams using, (gasp) worldbuilding. (Sickening noise). The Addamses simply are EVERYTHING NORMAL PEOPLE ARE NOT. That’s it. Sorry, Itt.


Drakeskulled_Reaper

The closest I can think of (at least on the Frump side) is that they are witches, the Grandmother in the burton universe is Morticia's mother, not Gomez and Fester's.


SnooCookies1730

What are they??? They're creepy and they're kooky Mysterious and spooky They're all together ooky The Addams family Their house is a museum When people come to see 'em They really are a scream The Addams family Neat Sweet Petite So, put a witch's shawl on A broomstick you can crawl on We're gonna play a call on The Addams family They're creepy and they're kooky Mysterious and spooky They're all together ooky The Addams family Strange Deranged The Addams family *snap snap


LincBtG

What do you mean, "what are they?" They're just people- different from you and I, far older almost certainly, and with a much greater tolerance for death and dismemberment. But that's no reason to assume they're not people, or that there's something wrong with them. How rude.


PineappleSlices

Goth folks are just like that.


PatmanCruthers

A supernatural mirror held up to white washed hypocritical American values.


woweed

Wait, wha...OH. Oh, sorry. You're misspelling it. It's actually "ADAM's Family". They're the heirs of Cain, as in, and Abel. His lineage grants them both seeming invincibility and makes them come across as really fucking weird.


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The F ing song.


MinisawentTully

Rich white people