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|first_seen_in= [[COMIC]]: ''[[Real Estate-Related Pun (comic story)|Real Estate-Related Pun]]''<br><small>(unnamed, unlicensed cameo)</small>
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}}In some realities, '''Thing''' was an associate of the highly spooky [[Addams Family]]. 

== Description ==
=== Physical appearance ===
Thing was a disembodied hand. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Real Estate-Related Pun (comic story)|Real Estate-Related Pun]]'')

== Biography ==
=== In Junter and Ibdis's universe ===
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A version of the [[Addams Family]] existed in [[Universe (Necroomies)|the home universe]] of the [[Lich Emperor]] [[Junter]] and his [[Vampire]] assistant [[Ibdis]]. When the hapless pair found themselves in need of a new apartment, Ibdis visited the [[Addams Mansion]] and were greeted by [[Morticia Addams|Morticia]], [[Cousin It]] and Thing. Thing jumped at Ibdis and startled him, and they were ultimately unable to come to an arrangement. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Real Estate-Related Pun (comic story)|Real Estate-Related Pun]]'')

=== In the Nevermore universe ===
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In [[Universe (Strange Encounters)|a universe]] where [[Wednesday Addams (Wednesday and the Weeping Angel)|Wednesday Addams]] attended [[Nevermore Academy]], [[Thing (Wednesday and the Doctor)|Thing]] was one of the members of the Addams who came to Wednesday's mind when she considered the people she couldn't abandon by running off with [[the Doctor (Wednesday and the Doctor)|the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wednesday and the Doctor (short story)|Wednesday and the Doctor]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
Thing is a major (copyrighted) character in ''[[The Addams Family (series)|The Addams Family]]'', a series which has gone through many official adaptions and continuities. In the original newspaper cartoons and 1960s TV series, Thing was a mysterious, extradimensional entity whose hand could poke out of any box or container in the [[Addams Mansion]], the rest of whose body was purportedly too horrible to be witnessed. In the 1990s {{w|Barry Sonnenfeld|Barry Sonnenfeld}} movies, the concept was simplified to Thing being an animate disembodied hand, as seen in ''[[Real Estate-Related Pun (comic story)|Real Estate-Related Pun]]''; furthermore, [[Morticia Addams]] is drawn to resemble actress {{w|Anjelica Huston|Anjelica Huston}}'s portrayal in those movies. Thus, it seems the Thing who appears in ''Real Estate-Related Pun'' is intended to be a version of {{w|Christopher Hart (actor)|Christopher Hart}}'s version of Thing in the 1990s movies.

== External links ==
* '''[https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Thing ''Thing'' on the ''Addams Family Wiki'']'''
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