Morticia Addams

## Personality

Morticia demonstrates great love for her family and its traditions. She has shared a powerful and passionate love for her husband, Gomez, since they met at Nevermore Academy. At school, she seemed to have a competitive spirit, having been captain of the fencing team, president of the séance society, queen of the dark prom, and captain of Ophelia Hall's team during the Poe Cup. She succeeded everywhere, making her school roommate Larissa Weems jealous of her instead of thinking that they could be friends. However, Morticia seems to admire Larissa anyway, complimenting her performance as Judy Garland to their duo at the Solstice Talent show.

That feeling is later felt by her daughter Wednesday while she's transferred to Nevermore Academy. Morticia thinks that her daughter will love the school and make friends. After they proved together Gomez's innocence for Garrett Gates‘ murder, she apologized to Wednesday that she didn't feel that she could talk to her mom on her psychic visions, and their relationship seemed to grow then.

## Appearances

### Season 1

#### *Chapter I: Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe*

Morticia is sitting next to Gomez in the Addams family vehicle while singing with him. They slowly stop singing and move to kiss each other. When they notice Wednesday glaring at them, they stop. Morticia asks her how long she'll be giving them the cold shoulder, to which Wednesday tells Lurch to tell her parents that she is not speaking to them. Wednesday reveals that Morticia was the captain of the fencing team, queen of the dark prom, and president of the seance society while she attended Nevermore Academy. Gomez then reveals that Nevermore Academy is where he and Morticia met. Morticia reveals that Wednesday has been expelled from Nancy Reagan High School and that Dalton's family was going to file attempted murder charges.

At Nevermore Academy, Morticia informs Larissa that Wednesday's name is from her favorite poem, "Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe." Larissa tells Wednesday that she and Morticia were roommates when they attended the school. Morticia brings up Wednesday's therapy session, to which she will go to the local therapist in Jericho. Larissa tells Wednesday that she will be staying in the same hall that Morticia was in, Ophelia Hall.

When Wednesday meets her roommate, Morticia is taken aback by the colorfulness of the room.

While Enid is showing Wednesday around the school, Wednesday spots a photo of her mother when she was a student at Nevermore. In the picture, she is wearing fencing gear.

After Wednesday changes into her uniform, she goes to meet her parents out front. After Wednesday's brother and father say goodbye, Morticia tells her to stop any plan she has of running away. She gives her a necklace that has both her and Wednesday's initials. Wednesday ignores it and asks which one of Morticia's spirits suggested this "toe-curling tchotchke", hurting her mother, who says that she heard that girls of her daughter's age always say hurtful things and that she shouldn't take it to heart. Wednesday replies with, "Fortunately, you don’t have one," making Morticia smile. She then gives Wednesday a crystal ball that she will use to communicate with her. After saying her goodbye, she returns to the car, and Lurch closes the door before starting the engine. As Morticia is starting to cry, Gomez gives her a tissue and reassures his wife that their "little scorpion" won't be alone. He pushes a button, dropping off Thing who gets into Nevermore.

Wednesday briefly mentions her parents when accusing Thing of being sent by her parents to spy on her.

She's not seen again until the end of the episode, while Wednesday is at her desk in her room. Gomez and her ask how this first week was. Wednesday thinks before answering: she narrowly avoided death twice by the hand of Rowan Laslow, discovered that her father may be a murderer, learned that she could potentially destroy Nevermore, and was mysteriously saved by a homicidal monster.

#### *Chapter II: Woe Is the Loneliest Number*

Morticia is mentioned to Wednesday by Larissa as the principal interrogates her student about last night's events. She knows that Wednesday had a psychic vision, as she realized that she might be having them when they passed by the accident that killed that grumpy farmer while returning to Nevermore after Wednesday's therapy session with Dr. Valerie. Morticia started to have visions around Wednesday's age, but they were notoriously unreliable and dangerous, and at first, she thought that she had lost her mind. She then asks Wednesday if she spoke with her mother about visions.

Later that day, she's again mentioned by Wednesday to Marilyn Thornhill, as the teacher was very impressed by her students' answers in class today. Wednesday says that her mother is a carnivorous plant aficionado and that she probably learned these things from her. To Thornhill's question about whether Wednesday and her mother are close, she answers that they're like two inmates sentenced to life on the same cell block.

After Wednesday and Ophelia Hall's team won the Poe Cup, Larissa goes to see Wednesday and says that it's good to see her fitting in, just like Morticia at her time. Wednesday remarks that her mother and she are two different people/species/everything. Larissa answers that the last time Ophelia Hall won the Poe Cup, Morticia captained the team, and she was her co-pilot, so maybe they're more alike than Wednesday thinks.

#### *Chapter III: Friend or Woe*

While Wednesday is narrating about the mysteries, Larissa is in her office, drinking a glass of wine and holding her old yearbook, open at Morticia's photo and bio. With a resentful expression, she tears the page, crumples it, and then throws it in the fireplace in the flames.

#### *Chapter IV: Woe What a Night*

Morticia is mentioned by Larissa to Marilyn, as she invited Gomez to the Rave'N in 1990 but he rejected her because he was with Morticia.

#### *Chapter VIII: A Murder of Woes*

Larissa has no choice but to expel Wednesday from Nevermore after she tortured Tyler Galpin to prove that he is the monster behind the murders. She's disappointed in doing that and adds that Morticia will also be.