Goth Family

The Goth Family is quite possibly the most famous and reputable family found in any of The Sims series. There are few installments that the Goths have not been part of, and any gamer will recognize the name with ease. As well as appearing in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, they appeared in The Sims 2 GBA, and Bella Goth also appeared in SimCity 4 and, The Sims 2 PSP.

First appearing in The Sims, Mortimer (an enthusiastic businessman/scientist) and his wife Bella entered town with their young daughter Cassandra. 25 years later, in The Sims 2, they are found in Pleasantview, with Bella missing, Mortimer as an elder, Cassandra as an adult, and Alexander as Mortimer and Bella's son. In The Sims 3 Mortimer and Bella are children.

The Goths' appearance indicates a long line of wealthy businessmen, politicians and scientists. All male Goths are seen in suits and business clothes, while the women usually prefer long and elegant dresses.

In The Sims, the Goths (Mortimer, Bella and Cassandra) live in a small house at 5 Sim Lane and have §2,542 in funds.

In The Sims 2, the Goth family is the richest family in Pleasantview. The family is worth around §640,000, and unlike most pre-made families, the bulk of it is in cash. The house and furnishings at 165 Sim Lane are worth around §124,000 and the family has §511,000 in funds. Normally, it wouldn't be possible to to reach this amount without cheats, but Gunther started out rich and got richer, and Mortimer is his only child, so it's likely that much of it was inherited. It's also possible that some of the cash came from selling the house at 77 Maple Street, or at least, from selling the furnishings and fixtures.

In The Sims 3, which is set about 50 years before The Sims 2, the family consists of Gunther, Cornelia, and young Mortimer, in Sunset Valley. They are "old money", which means that they have inherited their wealth from earlier generations. They have §50,000 in funds and live in a large Victorian manor by the cemetery; it is the first house built in Sunset Valley and was built so that it presides over the town.

In the description of Sunset Valley, we learn that the town was "founded by the Goths and built up by the Landgraabs." The "uptown ideals" of the new Alto family clashed with the more traditional views of the Goths, forcing the townspeople to choose sides. However, this is contradicted by the fact that the Goths start out as friends with Vita Alto.

In The Sims 3, the Goth family seems more literally gothic- which their name refers to- than they seem in previous The Sims games. The Goths seem more gloomy in many ways. For example, their appearance in The Sims 3 is of more of a gothic nature, as Cornelia, Gunther Goth, and Agnes Crumplebottom all wear a lot of dark purple and black (for Agnes, this also may be related to mourning the death of her husband). Mortimer and his father also prefer the color black, while Cornelia prefers purple- both of which are typically gothic colors.

The strongest evidence, however, is the prevalence of the Grumpy trait in this family. There are only 6 sims in Sunset Valley that are Grumpy, and 4 of them are related to the Goth family. It appears that the Grumpy trait is a Goth family trait, at least among its living members. However, the pattern doesn't seem to apply to the deceased relatives, like Gretle Goth and Victor Goth.

The names of the family suggest a slight German and English ancestry while Bella's family is Greek and/or Italian.

Notably, all of the men's names end in 'vowel r' and all the women (with one exception) end in 'a'.