History Franchise / TheAddamsFamily

* ''Grandmama''. More than just an old lady, but not ''quite'' a witch, Grandmama takes delight in doing a lot of the family's cooking and gladly acts as a secondary parental figure to the children. Gomez's mother in the original live-action TV series, then switched over to being Morticia's mother, starting with the first animated series and stayed put until ''The New Addams Family'', where she became Gomez's mother again; This was Main/{{Lampshade}}d in the musical: she became the subject of a "My mother? I thought she was ''your'' mother!" joke.

** A 1992 [[Pinball/TheAddamsFamily pinball game]] released by [[{{Creator/MidwayGames}} Bally]]. Based on the 1991 movie, it is the best-selling pinball game of all time, and was given a re-release as a special "gold" collector's edition in 1994.
** Several [[VideoGame/TheAddamsFamily licenced games for various consoles]]. The 1991 film spawned a number of {{platform game}}s on various consoles, most of them starring a SuperDeformed Gomez as he tries to save his relatives. (The UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 version is unique in that you play as Tully, one of [[VillainProtagonist the film's antagonists]].) Another top-down game (again starring Fester) was released in the wake of ''Addams Family Values'' for the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} under the same name, though it hardly follows the movie at all.

** ''The New Addams Family Series'', a video game based on the revival, released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor in 2000.[[index]]

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', the distinctly LighterAndSofter TV sitcom on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1964 to 1966, starring Creator/JohnAstin and Creator/CarolynJones as Gomez and Morticia.

** A [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992 1992-1993 animated series]] on Creator/{{ABC}} spawned by the success of the 1991 movie. Notable for John Astin reprising Gomez. Also spawned a video game, ''Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt''.

*** ''The Addams Family'', a comic book published by Creator/GoldKeyComics from 1974 to 1975.

** ''The Addams Family: The Bodies Issue'', a comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing.

** ''The Addams Family: Charlatan's Web'', a comic book series published by Creator/IDWPublishing.
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'', a 2022 live-action Creator/{{Netflix}} series created by Creator/AlfredGough and Creator/MilesMillar (''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'') and directed by the master of quirky macabre himself, Creator/TimBurton. It stars Creator/JennaOrtega as Wednesday, Creator/CatherineZetaJones as Morticia, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley, and Creator/LuisGuzman as Gomez.

-->-- '''Addams family motto'''

** An [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/wednesday-spinoff-development-netflix-1235764544/ in-development spin-off series]] of ''Wednesday'' centering around Uncle Fester (Creator/FredArmisan).

("We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.")''
-->-- '''Addams family motto'''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Not just pretty words.]]

''The Addams Family'' is a franchise spanning multiple media.

A deliberate inversion of the ideal American NuclearFamily, 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. 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.

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) [[DarkIsNotEvil NOT evil]]. 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. 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.

* ''Morticia Addams'', his wife. [[FemmeFatale Tall]], [[TheVamp elegant]], [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette ivory-skinned and black-tressed]], and always clad in a [[ParentService tight, slinky]] [[LittleBlackDress black dress]], Morticia is calm reason to Gomez's maniacal exuberance. Popular opinion is that she is a vampire -- she rarely smiles with her teeth. Even to this day, we're still not sure...
* ''Pugsley Addams'', their son. A young MadScientist in the making who once demonstrated a home-made disintegration rifle to a visiting Soviet diplomat. Has a penchant for torture...on the receiving end.
* ''Wednesday Friday Addams'', their daughter. In relation to Pugsley, she has been younger, his twin, and older in different adaptations. In the original series, she's a CheerfulChild who loves her family, her spider, and her headless doll UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. In the movies and ''Wednesday'', she's more of an EmotionlessGirl and TheSnarkKnight.
* ''Grandmama''. 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. Gomez's mother in the live-action TV series, then switched over to Morticia's starting with the first animated series and stayed put until ''The New Addams Family'', where she became Gomez's mother again; subject of a "My mother? I thought she was ''your'' mother!" joke in the musical.
* ''Uncle Fester''. Blend a MadScientist and his [[TheIgor Igor]] together, and filter them through Curly Howard of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', and you get Uncle Fester. Morticia's uncle in the TV series, he is rewritten as Gomez's older brother in the 1973–75 animated series (despite not sharing his Spanish mannerisms), made Morticia's uncle again in the 1977 ReunionShow, and back again to Gomez's brother for the movies. Some works imply that he is a zombie.

* ''Thing'' is exactly what the name implies. A thing, namely a disembodied hand. Fetches mail, plays charades, performs mime. Clearly both sentient and sapient, and like Lurch treated as a family member rather than a servant or pet. Usually seen protruding from a box in the '60s series, Thing became fully ambulatory in later adaptations, walking on its fingers.