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* [[Animated Armor]]: Their suit of armor is not only sentient, as befitting of a haunted house, it's also a boxer. In "Wednesday Leaves Home", Officer Fife accidentally picks a fight with the armor, only to get several [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs|left hooks]] and one [[Good Old Fisticuffs|right cross]] into his face. Gomez warns Fife, not to continue. The reason? The armor is a Golden Glove. [[Know When to Fold'Em|Fife, wisely backs away.]]
* [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]]: As per the norm of the series.
* [[Big Sister Instinct]]: While Wednesday enjoys torturing Pugsley, woe be to anyone that tries to take him away from the family. In "Morticia and the Psychiatrist", the Psychiatrist tries to call Child Welfare thinking Pugsley is in a bad environment. Wednesday appears in the dumbwaiter armed with a brand and bearing an expression more angry than her usual stoic creepiness, which the psychiatrist wisely takes as a sign to run away before.
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** Gomez and Morticia often share a few between each other. The most common ones are "Cara Mia" and "Mon Cher." Which often triggers Gomez' classic line "Tish, that's French."
** Lurch has both "You rang?" and "Follow me."
** Wednesday has multiple variations of explaining certain tortures. Often formulated as "When X (The name of said torture.) you must Y (Instructions on how to do the torture properly.)" For example in "Wednesday Leaves Home." she explains to the Chief of Police how to use her Head Cracker.▼
{{Quote|'''Wednesday:''' When crushing someone's skull, you should always put newspapers down first.}}▼
* [[Creepy Child]]: Played straight as always with Wednesday, but played for laughs with Pugsley. In "Morticia and the Psychiatrist" the Addams are mortified that Pugsley is a Junior Trooper, treating it like he's joined a cult.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Addams may have a love for all things evil, but they are in their own way a loving family.
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Lurch as always, but it's expanded upon here. While anyone outside the Addams Family would find him scary due to his size and deep voice, he's actually socially awkward. In "Wednesday Leaves Home", Wednesday catches him rehearsing pick-up lines; in "Lurch Learns to Dance", everyone tries to help teach Lurch how to dance so he can get a date.
* [[He's Back]]: In "Lurch's Little Helper", Lurch was just about to move out, because he felt the family preferred Simon over him. {{Spoiler|However, Simon respectfully resigns due to finding a better job. Once Simon leaves, Lurch donning sunglasses while wearing the same heavy cumbersome equipment that caused him to keel over in the first place; gets back to work. Doing chores at lightning fast speed.}}
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▲{{Quote|'''Wednesday:''' When crushing someone's skull, you should always put newspapers down first.}}
* [[Made Of Iron]]: The Addams are no slouch in this regard. However, it also seems to apply to anyone that's within close proximity of them. In "Wednesday Leaves Home", Officer Fife has a running gag of getting injured by accident while helping the family search for Wednesday; despite getting his leg broken, his hand caught in a mouse trap, beat up by a suit of armor, his head injured from falling into an open coffin, swarmed by bats, and electrocuted, he seems to keep going, hoping to get home and continue normal police work. It's not until he survives an explosion from a grenade Fester set off that [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|he quits]] [[Turn in Your Badge|the force.]]
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: A frequent gag on all the shows is that some "[[Muggles|normals]]" seem to underestimate the Addams and see them as easy prey compared to people they handled, only for them to fall victim to their usual antics. The best example is in "Wednesday Leaves Home": When Wednesday gets arrested and put into juvenile holding, one of the older teen prisoners think she's an easy bullying target. When Gomez and Morticia come to the station to pick her up, the guard alerts the head officer of what's going on, and they find
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Much like the previous works of the franchise, there are three kinds of people that fall into this trope.
** Most normal people view the [[Jerkass Has a Point|Addams' antics as crimes and evil acts]], [[Moral Event Horizon|yet go overboard in trying to stop them.]]
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** [[Muggle Best Friend|The odd normal person that genuinely gets along with the family]], seeing past their horrors and seeing the nice, loving people they truly are underneath.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Much like the old TV series, this series seems to run on that trope the most. In "Wednesday Leaves Home", Officer Fife seems to get injured more as the family searches for Wednesday. Each scene post-injury has him use bandages and walking aids as the episode rolls along. No one knows where he got them or if the Addams has a stockpile of them for previous guests, however it doesn't make it less funny.
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