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The Addams Family
The Addams Family is Charles Addams' macabre fictional family, first drawn nameless for The New Yorker in 1938, named for the 1964 ABC sitcom, and since expanded through 1990s films, animation, a musical, and Netflix's Wednesday.
Thought Police
Thought Police: the secret police of Oceania in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Newspeak thinkpol, which punishes thoughtcrime via telescreens and informers; also a figurative English term for any group controlling what others think.
Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a fictional character in The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams and named in the 1964 TV series, where Jackie Coogan played him.
Warriors Three
Warriors Three: Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg, a trio of Asgardian allies of Thor created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey into Mystery #119 (1965); original Marvel inventions with no Norse myth basis, killed by Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.
Yoyodyne
Yoyodyne is a fictional aerospace and defense corporation created by Thomas Pynchon, introduced in V. and featured in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), where its Galactronics Division plant in San Narciso, California serves as a parody of the Cold War military-industrial complex.