Editing Gomez Addams (section)

==Personality==
Like the other members of the family, Gomez's personality became largely codified by the television series.<ref name=Ocker/> He is depicted as being of [[Castile (historical region)|Castilian]] extraction and Spanish ancestry, which was first brought up in "Art and the Addams Family" on December 18, 1964; in the episode, Gomez says his "ancestral land" is Spain and Morticia refers to him as a "mad Castilian."<ref name="dm">{{cite web |title=The Addams Family S01E14 Art and the Addams Family (5:05 and 23:56) |url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5v4mig |website=DailyMotion|date=28 July 2017 }}</ref>

John Astin had long sessions with Addams and series producer David Levy, who gave him free rein in developing the character. Enlarging on Addams's description of Gomez as a [[Latin lover (stereotype)|Latin lover]] type, Astin suggested the eye-rolling, pencil moustache, and ardent devotion to Morticia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1mtPAAAAIBAJ&pg=4777,3599937&dq=gomez+addams&hl=en|title=Ocala Star-Banner - Google News Archive Search |website=news.google.com}}</ref>

In the Addams cartoons and the television shows, Gomez wore a [[necktie]] to his chalk-stripe suit, though in the films, Gomez wears a [[bow tie]] and a wide variety of extravagant clothing. He spends $1000 per month on cigars,<ref name=Forbes/> and he is an accomplished juggler and [[Knife throwing|knife thrower]]. He loves crashing [[toy train]]s and diving for crabs on Halloween. When he wishes to know the time, he will pull a pocket watch from the breast pocket of his jacket (the chain is attached to the lapel) while simultaneously checking a wristwatch.

Gomez is an [[Athlete|athletic]], [[acrobatic]], and eccentric [[Billionaire|multibillionaire]].<ref name=Forbes>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/12/11/gomez-addams-money-oped-books-cx_de_fict1507_1211addams.html |title=#12 Addams, Gomez |work=Forbes.com |date=2015-05-26 |access-date=2015-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417115554/http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/11/gomez-addams-money-oped-books-cx_de_fict1507_1211addams.html |archive-date=2015-04-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Though an extremely successful businessman, having acquired much of his wealth through inheritance and investments, he has little regard for money and will casually spend thousands of dollars on any whimsical endeavor. Gomez's investments are guided more by whimsy than strategy, yet rarely fail him. Gomez owns businesses around the world, including a swamp, bought for "scenic value", a [[crocodile]] farm, a buzzard farm, a salt mine, a tombstone factory, a uranium mine, and many others. In Forbes 2007 "Fictional 15" list of the richest fictional characters, he was ranked number 12 with a net worth of $2.5 billion.<ref name=Forbes/>

As a young man, Gomez was, per flashback in "Morticia's Romance", a perennially sickly youth, gaining perfect health only after meeting Morticia. He nevertheless studied law (voted "Most Likely Never to Pass the Bar") and is quite proud his law class voted him "Least Likely to Succeed"; and although he rarely practices, he takes an absurd delight in losing cases, boasting of having put many criminals behind bars while acting as their [[defense attorney]], claiming that he "never sent an innocent man to jail"; this is somewhat contradicted in the episode "The Addams Family Goes to Court," which noted that while Gomez has never won a case, he has never lost one either. This backstory, while not mentioned directly, is recalled in ''[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]'' (1991), when Gomez announces he will [[Pro se legal representation in the United States|serve as his own attorney]], only to lose the case. In ''The New Addams Family'', Gomez had also studied medicine.

Gomez has offered contradictory views on work; in one episode, he claims that although his family was wealthy even in his childhood, he nonetheless performed odd jobs and "scrimped and saved [his] kopeks," which he considered character building. When his son Pugsley decided to find a job, however, Gomez was horrified, claiming, "No Addams has worked in 300 years!" In the 1991 animated series, Gomez deliberately tried to fail at something, anything, only to realize in the end of the episode that he is only a failure in failure. This is additionally contradicted in "New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family" (season one, episode 9, 1964). He specifically states that Thing always beats him at bridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-613401.html |title=Addams Family (TV Show): What Was Gomez' Profession? [Archive&#93; - Straight Dope Message Board |publisher=Boards.straightdope.com |date=2011-06-21 |access-date=2015-05-30 |archive-date=2015-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530205450/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-613401.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2018}}