Extra+Ordinary

1. Four teenagers.

2. They are friends that deeply care for each other.

3. They solve mysteries.

Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.

Prevention, signs, and care of hypothermia and frostbite

Like, I’ve seen 60s show fans objecting to the 90s films because “it’s no fun if they KILL PEOPLE!” when there were plenty of references to the 60s Addamses being willing to kill people (Fester wants to shoot people in the back all the time, Gomez’s only objection is that it’s not honourable but he’s fine with killing people in a fair fight).

On the other hand we get nonsense criticisms of the Wednesday show like “Wednesday would have LIKED that Tyler turned out to be a murderous monster, she’d have been into it!” like…I do not think the 60s OR 90s Addamses (or any other version I can think of, since the musical versions are also explicitly anti-bigotry) would like a *bigot who committed what were essentially a fantasy version of hate crimes against a marginalised group*, Wednesday in particular has been very strongly established as against all forms of bigotry. (Also Tyler tried to kill Eugene, someone she’d already been established as caring about–and no, it’s not OOC for Wednesday to care about people, she’s always cared about her family and sometimes a few other people too–and who is only 13…even the 90s films decided to show Amanda alive at the end after people working on the films decided murdering a child was too far for the Addamses.)

And I just don’t see why people keep taking things to either extreme when I feel like it’s always been the case, for any version of the Addamses, that what they are OK with and what they’re not can be surprising/not easily predictable/seem skewed from a “normal” person’s perspective, but it’s never been either “they think every single bad thing is wonderful” or “they’re actually totally harmless”.

Though I do feel like some things are overall pretty consistent…

1)  Killing bigots is fine (whether that’s the racist adults at the summer camp, or Laurel Gates, or even the fact that Morticia and Gomez were members of the Nightshades back when it was–in Morticia’s words–a “deadly” solution to oppression–I was rather surprised by the number of people I’ve seen claiming that the Wednesday show versions of Morticia and Gomez would never be willing to kill anyone…they joined and were high-ranking members of an entire secret society that apparently considered it very much a valid option.) BEING a bigot is never acceptable (ignoring a few throwaway lines in older media where it was the writers fucking up and unintentionally making a character sound bigoted).

2) Setting piranhas on bullies is fine, even killing them would have been OK (yes, there’s concern for how it would look on Wednesday’s record–because Morticia wants Wednesday to get a good education and, if the “college first” line in the 90s films is anything to go by, go to university, which is hard if you keep getting expelled from schools and are potentially getting in trouble with the law–but no-one’s actually horrified by it or sees Wednesday as a bad person for it)–by extension, BEING a bully is not OK (Wednesday in particular has hated bullies in all versions, whether the 60s show, the 90s films, or the Wednesday show…there was even a deleted line in the script for the 90s films about her planning to kill and taxidermy a school bully).

3) Killing an unarmed person is dishonourable, and something Gomez in particular is personally very unwilling to do (even when the person was armed and trying to kill him moments before, shown on multiple occasions including the 60s show and the 90s live action reboot show–so Wednesday’s comment about how he wouldn’t have had it in him to simply stab an unarmed Garrett Gates as he was initially accused of is a pretty accurate assessment), but it’s not an unforgiveable crime (as shown by the fact Fester is at least willing to do so and to shoot people in the back and the other family members discourage him but don’t see him as some kind of monster–also, in general, they seem quite welcoming and forgiving towards non-bigoted murderers even if the murderer in question has done something that the Addamses might consider too far to do themselves.) And even Gomez will break that rule in certain circumstances (he was pretty clearly about to kill Tully–very much justified imo given that Tully nearly tore the family apart with his actions–and did also eventually kill Vlad–his reluctance to kill an unarmed man there pretty much evaporated as soon as Morticia made it clear that she wasn’t interested in Vlad and therefore that Vlad had just kissed her without consent.)

4) “Torturing” family members etc in a fun way is totally normal–Fester even cut open Gomez’s head and removed his brain when they were kids and they still clearly care about each other and saw this as just a bit of fun–but actual abuse is not (Gomez and Morticia are horrified by the suggestion of hitting or even otherwise harshly punishing their kids).

5) Death is not nearly as serious and horrible a thing as many ordinary people see it, partly because they know the afterlife is real and ghosts come back regularly to talk to them, so they don’t really fear death much and will do very dangerous things for fun, but they still don’t want their lives to be over all that soon (well, Gomez has attempted suicide more than once but it’s always been depicted as like…this is bad and the rest of the family are worried and don’t want him to do it) and will generally be concerned to some degree at the idea of one of the family dying (Morticia is worried about the idea of Gomez being killed in a duel in the 60s show and shows some concern for him when he comes to her rescue in the first film as well, and she’s clearly very worried and sad when he’s dying in the second film, Wednesday and Pugsley are worried about Debbie killing Fester, in the 90s live action reboot show Wednesday gets quite protective of Gomez and tries to stop his cousin Vlad from killing him).

6) In interactions with ordinary humans who haven’t done anything bad or made an enemy of them, they might do things that could get someone killed, but generally don’t seem to understand that it would–e.g. offering someone cyanide in their tea with apparently no understanding that that would harm them–though Wednesday’s spent more time around ordinary humans than her parents and sometimes seems to be a bit more knowledgeable about them e.g. in the musical. If someone DOES get killed, it can be seen as a bit unfortunate, but not a huge disaster (”that poor girl […] c’est la vie!”). (Note: in any version except possibly the original comics, they are not just going around randomly murdering people like your average cliche serial killers–they’re far more interesting than that. That being said, if they meet someone who really is that murderous, they’ll usually be welcoming to them and even fascinated by them–at least as long as that person isn’t a bigot or similar.)

7) Piracy, robbing the rich, “swindling the rich and notorious”, etc are very much encouraged. Being greedy in a way that hurts poorer people, less so–although Thing did steal a dress from a small shop and apparently has picked people’s pockets in some previous versions… but Thing aside (do hand-creatures have the same concepts of property as humans?), that one episode of the 60s show where Gomez is robbing the neighbours while sleepwalking treats it as something he wouldn’t normally do, in any version except the comics they consider it important to treat Lurch well and don’t take kindly to classism or their one relative who mistreats her “handmaiden”, Gomez is very generous with money and Wednesday in the 60s show convinces Pugsley that when they get given multiple of the same present at Christmas they should give the extra ones to charity.

8) They at least sometimes eat people, but it doesn’t seem to be that regular, and does seem to be people who were enemies/a threat to them in some way rather than just any random person (the motto is specifically “we gladly feast on those who would subdue us”, an ordinary visitor to their house never seems to be in any danger of being killed and eaten).

And I feel like the Wednesday show overall sticks with most of those fairly well?

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch: