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Morticia Addams

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Morticia Addams' backstory is rooted in her creator Charles Addams' comics, where she was a tall, raven-haired, pale figure with a gothic sensibility. Later adaptations, such as the 1964 TV series, fleshed out her character with a maiden name (Frump), a family (including her sister Ophelia and mother Hester), and established her marriage to Gomez Addams. Her backstory is also explored in the 2022 *Wednesday* series, which depicts her younger self at Nevermore Academy, where she met Gomez. Morticia Frump, daughter of Hester Frump, has an older sister, Ophelia. In the 1964 TV series, her mother is Hester Frump, but in the 1990s films, her mother is Grandmama Addams. Morticia is musically inclined, often playing the shamisen. She is also associated with the show *Wednesday*, where her psychic abilities are highlighted. She embraces all things macabre and ghoulish, including playing with butcher knives and keeping a carnivorous plant named Cleopatra. Morticia and Gomez met at Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts, where they fell in love. They eventually married and settled down to raise their family. Their relationship is passionate and enduring. As the matriarch of the family, Morticia guides her family in their unique passions. She is a loving and devoted mother who encourages her children's morbid hobbies and wants to raise them into the best psychopaths they can be. She can be seen playing the shamisen and has a penchant for speaking French and other foreign languages to her husband. She finds beauty in the grotesque and ghoulish and delights in all things dark and violent. Morticia is known for her long, flowing black hair, pale skin, and signature black dresses. The name "Morticia" comes from the Latin word for death, "mors," and the English word "mortician."

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Lurch's backstory varies across different adaptations. Some versions portray him as a Frankenstein-like creation or an escaped asylum patient, while others suggest he is part of a lineage of butler-like beings. In the original 1960s TV series, his origins are left ambiguous, but elements like "Mother Lurch" and mentions of a father who "put me together" hint at a creation-like backstory, possibly with Frankensteinian roots. The 2019 animated film presents him as an escaped patient from an abandoned asylum where the Addams family had their mansion. The series leaves Lurch's backstory largely a mystery. However, the character "Mother Lurch" appears, who calls him "Sonny," suggesting a parental connection. Lurch mentions a father who "put me together" in reference to his appearance, and in a later cartoon, his father is shown as a hulking, blue-skinned doctor who built him from spare parts. The series *Addams Family Reunion* suggests that Lurch is partly an Addams, with his heart being one of the few definite body parts from the family. Lurch is an escaped patient from the State Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a former haunted house where the Addams family had recently moved. Gomez and Morticia hire him as their loyal butler after he is hit by their car. In *The Addams Family* musical, Lurch surprises the family by singing and revealing his hidden talent. In the Netflix series *Wednesday*, Lurch is portrayed as a loyal butler to the Addams family. In one episode of this reboot, Mother Lurch appears and tries to protect her "Sonny boy" from the Addamses.

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Wednesday Addams

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Wednesday Addams is the daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams, known for her pale skin, dark braided pigtails, and a morbid, deadpan personality. The character originated in Charles Addams's single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker in 1938, where the family members were initially unnamed. In 1964, for The Addams Family television series, cartoonist Charles Addams named the character Wednesday after the line from the well-known English nursery rhyme: "Wednesday's child is full of woe". In the original cartoons and the 1960s TV show, Wednesday was a quiet, sometimes sweet-natured little girl with a fondness for spiders and a headless doll named Marie Antoinette, which her brother Pugsley would happily "guillotine" at her request. The character evolved in later adaptations, particularly the 1990s films starring Christina Ricci, into a more severe, stoic, and darkly witty preteen with openly evil tendencies, a version that became iconic and highly influential. Wednesday is the eldest child of Gomez and Morticia Addams, and the older sister of Pugsley. She was born on Friday the 13th and had a typical Addams upbringing, which included learning fencing from her father and developing a love for all things macabre. A formative event in her childhood was when bullies ended her pet scorpion, Nero, which led her to swear never to cry again and to seek revenge on those who harm her family. The series begins with Wednesday being expelled from a "normie" high school for attempting to end Pugsley's bullies by releasing piranhas into the school pool. Her parents then send her to their alma mater, Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for "outcasts" (those with supernatural abilities). At Nevermore, Wednesday discovers she has inherited psychic abilities from her mother's side of the family, specifically her distant ancestor Goody Addams, a powerful witch from the 17th century.

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