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Fester Addams is the brother of Gomez Addams and the brother-in-law of Morticia Addams. He is the uncle of Wednesday and Pugsley Addams.
He is portrayed by Christopher Lloyd in the 1991 and 1993 films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values. Michael Hittesdorf portrays him as a teen, and Ryan Anderson portrays him as a pre-teen.
Biography[]
Background[]
A sibling argument caused Fester to leave his family and set sail, never imagining he would be shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle.
He was found in a fishing net with amnesia and taken in by a con artist named Abigail Craven, who "adopted" him and made him her accomplice in her schemes.
The Addams Family[]
Fester was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle for twenty-five years. A grifter named Abigail Craven conspires to steal the Addams fortune using her son, Gordon, who displays an eerie resemblance to the missing Uncle Fester. On the night that the Addamses hold a seance to contact Uncle Fester's spirit, Gordon shows up at their door, posing as Uncle Fester. Although he is baffled and horrified by the Addamses at first, Gordon begins to take a liking to the family and their eccentric ways. In the end, he disobeys his mother and helps Gomez and his family get their house back. It is later discovered that Gordon Craven is actually Uncle Fester, and that Abigail found him after his accident in the Bermuda Triangle, suffering from amnesia.
In Gomez's home movies from their childhood, Uncle Fester is hairless as a child (although, as Gordon Craven, he is seen shaving his head). At the end of the movie, it is revealed that Uncle Fester acquired his ability to conduct electricity after being electrocuted by lightning.
Addams Family Values[]
Uncle Fester marries Debbie, the recently hired nanny who wishes to murder Uncle Fester and inherit his share of the Addams fortune.
Description[]
He is a bald, hunched, and barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and often a deranged smile. He always wears a heavy, full-length fur coat.
Personality[]
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Powers / Abilities / Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Electrokinesis: Uncle Fester can generate static electricity. His ability depends on conductivity and contact with bare skin.
- Superhuman Strength: He possesses such strength that he took on Tully Alford with minimal difficulty.
- Superhuman Toughness: He has been resilient in all of Debbie's assassination attempts.
- Adaptive: He instinctively performed the Mamushka successfully.
Abilities[]
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Weaknesses[]
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Relationships[]
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Quotes[]
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Appearances[]
Appears In[]
- The Addams Family (1991)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
Etymology[]
- Fester - (of a wound or sore) become septic; suppurate.
- Addams - Means son of Adam or man of the red earth.
Trivia[]
- In a 2012 interview, Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the Addams Family movie, stated that he originally intended that it be unclear whether Fester really was an impostor or not, but all the other actors rebelled and chose ten-year-old Christina Ricci to speak on their behalf, who "gave this really impassioned plea that Fester shouldn't be an impostor... so we ended up totally changing that plot point to make the actors happy." And they were right; it was the better way to go."
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