Abigail Craven (The Addams Family)

Abigail Craven is the main antagonist of the 1991 movie The Addams Family.
She was played by the late Elizabeth Wilson.
== History ==
Although she is the main villain, her true colors are not revealed until near the climax. Abigail was a loan shark who has a son named Gordon who closely resembles Uncle Fester who supposedly disappeared after he had a fall out with his brother Gomez Addams. Tully Alford told Abigail that the Addams' has a special safe that kept all of the family jewels and treasures. Abigail had her son disguised as Uncle Fester so that he can try to steal the treasures while Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Pinder-Schloss who told the family that she found Fester lost in the Bermuda Triangle for 25 years.
Eventually, the Addams' start to suspect Fester as an imposter because he forgot the numbers to the secret room and that he cannot remember how to unlock the finger trap. Abigail starts to fear that the family is starting to figure out their con, and, under the disguise of Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss, she convinces Gomez that Fester was just going under a phase of displacement which causes Gomez to accept Fester again (much to Abigail's relief).
Later, Gordon starts to grow much close to the family and is starting to forget his purposes (much to Abigail's annoyance). For example during the night of Wednesday and Pugsley's play, Fester goes out to help them while ignoring Abigail when she comes around to get the family's valuables. This in turn allows Abigail to get seized and dragged away by the living vines in the green house. She is found completely bound and wrapped from head to toe by Lerch in the morning as she begs him to untie her. During Fester's going away party where the entire clan is invited, Wednesday found out that Abigail and Gordon was scheming and Wednesday ran away from them to hide in the family cemetery. Abigail found out from Tully that Fester is the eldest child and that he is inherited the family house. With the help of Judge George Womack (who is a neighbor of the Addams' who despises them), Abigail and Gordon win the estate, forcing the Addams family to move into a hotel. Meanwhile, Abigail, with Gordon and Tully, tried numerous of times to get to the vault by passing through the chained booby traps which blocks the access. Morticia decided to confront Fester but was captured by Abigail who tried to get Morticia to tell her the location of the vault by torturing Morticia with the rack and binding her to the wall and attempting to use red hot pokers on Morticia. None of this scares Morticia, who she points out to Abigail that they could have been such good friends.
Gomez arrived in time to save Morticia, but Abigail held Gomez at gunpoint while demanding he take Gordon to the vault and threatens to kill Morticia if he is not back in one hour. Gordon tried to reason with his mother, but Abigail calls Gordon a useless coward and a burden. Tired of his "mother" for putting him down, Gordon turned against her and helped Gomez and Morticia by releasing Hurricane Irene from the book which caused a powerful storm inside the house sending Abigail and Tully flying outside into open coffins set up by Wednesday and Pugsley.
At the end of the film, it was revealed that Gordon is, in fact, Fester who had been suffering from amnesia. He had been vacationing in the Bermuda Triangle and was washed up in Miami, Florida, where he was taken in by Abigail and brainwashed into thinking she was his mother.
== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* Abigail is similar to Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Mother Gothel from Tangled:
** All have locked innocent characters (Fester, Quasimodo and Rapunzel) away from the world and forbade them from leaving their homes and interacting with society, telling them what a terrible place the world was.
** All have tried to kill their relatives. 
** All have died by falling to their deaths.
Category:1990s
Category:Betrayed
Category:Callous
Category:Greedy
Category:Humiliated
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Master Manipulator
Category:Redhead
Category:Torturer
Category:Traitoress
Category:Demise: Buried Alive
Category:Fate: Deceased
Category:Pistol