10 Movie Characters They Wanted You To Forget

5. Little Tully - The Addams Family

The Departed Mark Wahlberg
Paramount

In the 1991 Addams Family film, the secondary villain is Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), Gomez's (Raul Julia) crooked lawyer who plots to rip the Addams clan off.

His blissfully ignorant wife is Margaret Alford (Dana Ivey), and together they have a son, referred to only as "Little Tully" (Whit Hertford). Little Tully appears in the film for just a single scene at a school play, after which he's oh-so-conveniently never heard from again.

Given that his father ends up dead and possibly buried alive, while his mother runs away and marries Cousin Itt (John Franklin), it's fair to say that Little Tully has quite the traumatic week.

Yet despite Margaret showing up again in Addams Family Values, and having given birth to a son with Cousin Itt no less, her firstborn isn't given even a fleeting mention.

Evidently given the utterly cruel hand Little Tully was dealt by the circumstances of the plot, the filmmakers basically just wanted you to forget he ever existed, rather than fixate on what horrors became of him after losing both of his parents.

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