I love that Gomez and Morticia in The Addams Family (1964) are often depicted supporting and engaging in each other's hobbies.
Gomez spends a lot of time just holding stuff for Morticia. He holds her yarn while she's knitting, he holds her plants while she's gardening. Like he doesn't have to be here but he likes to be helpful to Morticia and he likes to spend time with her and support her so he's just hanging out. Holding stuff.
And this goes the other way as well! Morticia holds guns for him while he's shooting, she sword fights with him, she watches his train crashes. That's her goofy husband and she loves him and it makes him happy when she's there with him!
It's just really nice to see a depiction of a married couple where they actually like each other.
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Gomez being a clingy parent towards his children is one of my favorite characteristics that we don’t see anymore. We hardly see him interact with his kids in newer adaptations they mostly just focus on him and Morticia.
Gomez was so attached to his children that he didn’t even want to send them to school, he wanted them to stay at the house with him because he said he’d be lost without them and that there was no point in having children just to send them away. Gomez was really having a mental breakdown at the thought of sending his children to school even for a few hours. And then when his baby girl came home crying because of that story of a night killing a dragon he was ready to tear that school a new one and he didn’t let Wednesday go for a second. He paced the house the entire time they were gone and when they finally came home opened his arms for an immediate hug because he missed them so much and was ready to take them out immediately.
When they met at the school to enroll them and he kept Wednesday on his lap and held onto her, objecting to the entire thing because he wanted his children to stay home with him.
It’s why I kinda don’t like Addams Family Values as much as I used to because he wouldn’t send his children away to summer camp without a fight and would be complaining the entire time and would actually sit down and try to convince his children not leave him
Everyone focuses on how much he loves his wife but they always forget that he absolutely adores his children. He’s not just a husband he’s a father and damn good one.
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about Morticia Addams
she is the perfect Addams
dark, gloomy, in love with all of the darker things in life.
she raises man eating plants and cuts the heads off of her dolls.
but she married into the family, she was originally a Frump.
she didn’t change who she was to become an Addams, she didn’t leave her family behind because they didn’t understand her or her love.
she wasn’t the black sheep of the family, no, the Frumps are strange and unusual too.
the Frumps are witches, the Frumps are dark and kooky.
the Frumps adore the Addamses and the Addamses adore the Frumps. Gomez and Morticia fit together like they were always meant to be. like the two families were always meant to be one.
this is though is the exact opposite for Enid and Wednesday.
Enid is a Sinclair.
the Sinclairs do not fit in with the Addamses or Frumps. they are hateful, they are cruel, they are biased, they are stuck in their ways.
Esther is bossy and mean, Murray is quiet and submissive.
these things do not fit in the Addams family. (not for the lack of trying, because the Addams truly tried to make peace for Enid’s sake. they eventually realized that the girl was much happier far away from the family that she was born into. they made sure to shower her with love. they made sure to show Enid that she would always have a supporting family in them)
Enid isn’t the black sheep of the sinclair family but instead the pink one.
Enid’s family never appreciated her because of her incapability to turn into a monster. Enid paints her claws vibrant colors, she straightens and dyes her hair, she adores k-pop.
she dances like nobody is watching, she sings her heart out, she cries over silly youtube videos and the one commercial about the deaf boy feeling the vibration of a waterfall.
Enid Sinclair is full of personality, full of feeling and love, she was never understood by her family. always seen as too loud, too sensitive, not a good enough werewolf.
Enid’s family threatened to send her to a conversion camp because she is so different from them.
she’s different from the Addamses too. she doesn’t find enjoyment in all of the things the Addamses do, she doesn’t wear black or want to dye her hair.
they don’t understand her emotions, they don’t understand her love for color.
but, god, do they absolutely love her.
she is the pink sheep of the Addams family too. they adore her, exactly the way that she is.
she is weird to them. she is strange and kooky.
they cannot get enough.
weird, strange, kooky, it is everything that makes an Addams.
they see her for her pastel clothing, her bright eyes, her loud dancing and strange idioms, they are changed by her for the better.
they take her light and let it bathe them, like dragons to the sun.
Enid is a breath of fresh air in their dusty home, there was nothing wrong with the dust but the fresh air is so nice to have.
they are all just as strange as Enid herself is, it is in different ways but they all love and respect that.
Enid is not a Frump, and she isn’t yet an official Addams, but she fits perfectly.
she has a family in them. she always will.
and one day, when she officially takes the name, it feels like she was never anything else.
Wednesday kisses her wrist and and calls her “miss Addams”, Enid swoons. Enid will never get tired of hearing that, especially from the lips of the woman she loves and the family that took her in so easily.
she’s where she was always meant to be.
the Addamses have a pastel werewolf, a piece of the puzzle that they didn’t know was missing, the piece that brings the whole masterpiece together.
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