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Outpost 3
The Cooperative
In General
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Outpost 3 was the site of Hawthorne School for Exceptional Young Men prior to the apocalypse.
- The Illuminati: The Cooperative is a rebranded Illuminati.
- Purple Is Powerful: The elite inhabitants of the bunkers have to wear purple clothes at all times.
- Social Darwinist: A central part of their agenda and the reason Timothy and Emily got selected to live inside the bunker.
Ms. Wilhemina Venable
Wilhemina Venable
Played By: Sarah Paulson
"It's our world now, to remold as we see fit."
The person in charge of the Cooperative. She runs the shelter with an iron fist and doesn't hesitate to hand out cruel punishments to rule-breakers.
- Bad Boss: Very cruel to a PA who brings her a package and tells her that she can't report her because, in Venable's words, "I am HR, bitch."
- The Baroness: She's the dominant, sadistic, and sharp-dressed mistress of Outpost 3.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Before the bombs fell, she used to work as a secretary under two robotics scientists with the personalities of chaotic frat boys and she makes it clear that she deserves better than having to clean up after them.
- Big Bad Wannabe: The first few episodes made it seem that she would be a crucial character involved in the world of the apocalypse. She's unfortunately killed off by Miriam after trying to overthrow Langdon. Once she's gone, Cordelia and her entourage appear, thus setting the Supreme as the new main protagonist to face off against Langdon.
- Boomerang Bigot: It has been made clear that The Cooperative does not consider her a part of the elite Purple class, but that doesn't stop her from speaking disdainfully about non-Purples. While she officially stands beyond the Purple-Grey-dichotomy, she still gets visibly upset when others point this out to her and secretly dons purple garments in her private quarters.
- Character Death: Shot in the chest by the Ms. Mead robot. Undone by Mallory.
- Classy Cane: Is always shown with a fancy-looking cane in her hand.
- Does Not Like Men: She outright states that men are responsible for the apocalypse and has disdain for them. She is also shown to be visibly uncomfortable when Michael begins to undress her.
- Devilish Hair Horns: Her hair is kept in an eccentric French twist that is teased on both sides of the middle part, giving it a demonic look.
- Evil Counterpart: Thanks to being played by the same actress, she is clearly one for Cordelia Goode. While both have the task of preserving and keeping alive what is left of their species after the nuclear disaster, Wilhemina is a sadistic individual who thinks only of satisfying her perversion and brutal desires, inventing rigid rules from nothing in order to make the lives of survivors more and more miserable, or killing the inhabitants of the bunker just for the sake of it and potentially serving the remains of their corpse as edible food as a form of psychological torture to the remaining survivors.
- Evil Cripple: A low-key example. She has a slight walking impairment and scoliosis which she is very self-conscious about.
- Evil Redhead: She has auburn hair and is easily the least moral of all of Paulson's characters on the show.
- Freudian Excuse: It's implied that her sadistic reign of the outpost was due to her frustration and powerlessness as a secretary to Jeff and Mutt. This leads her to lash out and humiliate anyone under her power.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Coco becomes upset with how things are run in the outpost, Venable slaps her across the face without breaking a sweat and tells her and the survivors to control themselves.
- Karma Houdini: Her death is undone at the end of the season. Although, it’s assumed that she’s still working for Jeff and Mutt, which is arguably a punishment in and of itself.
- Kick the Dog: Enjoys tormenting the inhabitants of Outpost 3, possibly to the point of a sexual thrill.
- Rank Up: Her superiors Jeff and Mutt are the ones who promoted her to administrator of Outpost 3.
- The Starscream: She places her own sadistic tendencies above her loyalty to The Cooperative.
- The Stoic: Is always in a serious mood and rarely shows emotions.
Ms. Miriam Mead
Miriam Mead
"Hail Satan!"
Played By: Kathy Bates
Wilhemina Venable's second in command at The Cooperative, and the one she most confides in.
She is actually an android created to serve Michael. She was created in the design of a Satanist old woman who cared for Michael during some of his early years.
- Arm Cannon: She comes equipped with a machine gun in her right hand and uses it to slaughter the witches.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: She has no issue with shooting two horses on an implied order by Michael and she hacks a snake's head with glee. The real Mead also used dead animals for Satanic rituals.
- Black Widow: The woman she was based on admitted to having poisoned her husbands.
- Burn the Witch!: While not explicitly a witch, she was an evil Satanist, whom Cordelia sentenced to death for killing John Henry, prior to becoming an android..
- Character Death: She was burned to death by the witches. The robot based on her was blown up by Cordelia using a spell. Unfortunately, this is undone by Mallory.
- The Dragon: To Wilhemina. However, her final allegiances lie with Michael.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the finale, Cordelia casts a spell that causes the robotic Mead to explode before she can even attack.
- Dying Smirk: The human version of Mead sports a huge Slasher Smile as she's being burned alive.
- Fake Memories: Mead was never in the Mossad. It was programmed into her.
- Hollywood Satanism: Before the apocalypse, Miriam's human precursor was a staunch Satanist.
- Karma Houdini: As the timeline is reset at the end of the season, her death is undone and she is once again looking for the next Antichrist.
- Military Brat: She mentions that her father used to serve in the Vietnam War, which is how she developed her loyalty to order. Eventually subverted since it turns out that all her childhood and youth memories were fabricated.
- Replacement Goldfish: Michael had her looks and personality modeled on a Satan worshipper who took him in as a teenager.
- Robotic Reveal: The end of Episode Two reveals that Miriam is an android.
- Sadist: She really enjoys her job of terrorizing the survivors into obedience.
- When she and Michael infiltrate Robichaux, it's very clear to the viewer that she takes a lot of pleasure in murdering the defenseless witches.
- Undying Loyalty: To Michael, as she was programmed to be.
Michael Langdon
Michael Langdon
Played By: Asher Gian Starita (Murder House, toddler), Ocean Maturo (Murder House, baby) Cody Fern (Apocalypse)
Appearances: Murder House | Apocalypse
One of Vivien's newborns, fathered by Tate, as a result of his rape of Vivien. Survived the birth, unlike his mother and twin.
- Abusive Parents: Perhaps not quite abusive, given that it doesn't repeat itself, but his father insists that Michael isn't his son and insults him, and his mother tries to kill him.
- Ambiguous Situation: Michael’s entire character is built on this. Was he born evil or simply had a predilection to it? Was this because of being the son of Satan, inheriting the Langdon insanity or being born in the Murder House? Was it being raised by Constance whose track record as a mother is less than stellar? Was it living in the Murder House after her death and being steadily rejected by everyone in it? Was it the influence of the Satanists? Did he ever even have free will or was he fated to this path?
- The Antichrist: He is this, and by Apocalypse, Michael is fully embracing his heritage.
- Animal Motifs: Crows, from the red markings giving him a birdlike appearance, the Cooperatives suits being very plague doctorish and crowlike, to the Massive murder of crows above the murder house who according to Mead, "worship" him.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Before the nanny incident shown in the Murder House finale he had gradually worked his way up from insects to small mammals.
- Big Bad: Of Apocalypse, as The Antichrist behind the end of the world.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in Apocalypse, a full seven seasons after his debut in Murder House.
- Character Death: He is shot by Madison with Mead robot's arm gun, but he is resurrected by Satan. The second, permanent time, he is run over by Mallory three times.
- Child by Rape: The offspring of Tate, in reality acting as the house's conduit for his real father after he raped Vivien under the guise of the rubber man suit.
- Creepy Child: If grinning and giggling over the body of your babysitter (whom you murdered) doesn't make you this, nothing will.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Whenever he actually fights someone.He ends up killing Bubbles, Madison, Marie Laveau, and Coco very easily.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Michael is so deprived of real love he practically throws himself at anyone who will show vague interest in him personally.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Even when he accepts his identity as the Antichrist he seems still to be searching for real meaning in this role.
- The Devil Is a Loser: The Antichrist, for all his dark power and veneer of classiness, ends up being an immature wreck of a human being who gets upset that his random acts of violence turn people who would love him away. The only people who genuinely care for him in spite of his violent outbursts only do so because of his role as the harbinger of the end times, and even then, we find out late into Apocalypse that the actual plan to end the world wasn't even his own idea.
- The Dreaded: Even Papa Legba is hesitant to cross him.
- Dying Alone: As he lays on the street, broken and bloodied, he pleads to Constance–whom he’d choked and threatened mere minutes earlier–to take him to the house so that he can become a ghost. She appears to consider it briefly, before telling him to “go to hell” and leaving him alone to die of his injuries.
- Enfant Terrible: He murdered his babysitter at three years old.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Even as a full-grown Antichrist he still holds a strong affection towards his Satan-worshipping foster mother, which is why he had her immortalized in the android Miriam Mead.
- Evil Is Petty: His heart really isn't in the Apocalypse, but he's only convinced to go through with it for one reason: knowing that it will kill the witch coven.
- Eviler than Thou: He outsmarts Venable over the course of the second and third episode, ultimately orchestrating her death and the deaths of everyone in Outpost 3.
- Facial Markings: An odd pair of red markings extending from the bridge to under brow, only seen in the "present" scenes, giving him a bird-like look.
- Hero Killer: Bubbles, Queenie, Zoe, Madison, Marie Laveau, and Coco are all killed because of his actions.
- Horrifying the Horror: Prolific serial killer James March is unnerved in his presence.
- How Do I Shot Web?: A major part of his storyline in Apocalypse is him coming to terms with his Antichrist nature, as nobody gave him an "instruction manual" on how to be the Antichrist properly.
- I Have No Son!: Tate’s vicious rejection of him starts Michael on a downward emotional spiral, that comes to a crash when Ben Harmon also rejects him after he burns away the souls of a couple who he killed in the house.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: The root of all Michael's evil seems to stem from his desire to find someone who truly loves him, which eerily mirrors Tate's own motives for many of his evil deeds.
- Jumped at the Call: Michael is thrilled to take on the mantle of the Antichrist——though initially, it seems to be more out of desperation to be loved and valued than caring about Satanism or the End Times.
- Like Father, Like Son: Shares his father's psychopathy and also his grandmother's sass.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: By Apocalypse, his hair reaches his shoulders and he's quite attractive.
- Love Hungry: Michael is so hungry for any semblance of love, he accepts his calling as the Antichrist simply because the Satanists give a show of valuing him as a person.
- Meaningful Name: Ironically, Michael was the name of the archangel who defeated Lucifer and cast him down into Hell during the Fall. Also, the meaning of the name Michael is "Who is like God?" Although the question is intended as a rebuke against any who profess to be like God, as the name of the Antichrist, it comes across as more of a challenge: "Who is like God? Langdon."
- Mr. Fanservice: In short time, Cody Fern has rallied the thirsty AHS fanbase like no other cast rookie before him.
- Physical God: At his peak, he is very much unstoppable as the son of Satan, and by the time Cordelia detects his rise in power, it is already too late to beat him, which prompts the overall plot of Apocalypse. At his peak, he manages to kill Coco, Marie, and Madison with minimal effort, would have killed Cordelia if she hadn't first done a suicidal Heroic Sacrifice to awaken Mallory's powers in full, and even Myrtle is afraid of him. He's enough of a threat at his prime that the witches rally Papa Legba and the power of voodoo to help them and also place a risky gambit on Mallory surviving the apocalypse and awakening to her power so she can time-travel and kill his mortal self before he reaches godly abilities.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Michael sexually assaults Mrs. Venable by forcing her to take off her dress and groping her. This scene is meant to highlight how evil he is.
- Smug Smiler: His default facial expression as an adult.
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: The first time we see him is in Murder House in a scene set three years after the other events in the season, and he's a toddler there. He's a full-blown adult in Apocalypse, which is between six or seven years later. In-universe, it's explained that he spontaneously grew ten years of age in a single night to prepare for his role as the Antichrist.
- Strong Family Resemblance: A flashback that was set 3 years before the apocalypse featuring a younger (but still adult-looking) Michael who had an almost disturbing resemblance to his father Tate in his youth, with the same haircut and innocent features and all.
- An even more disturbing revelation, but in the present with his long hair and prominent blue eyes, he also ends up bearing a bit of resemblance to his mother Vivien.
- Superpower Lottery: Being the Antichrist grants him the ability to use at their highest levels ALL the individual powers of witches and warlocks and is the reason why he is mistakenly seen by the latter as the Alpha.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: After being rejected by all his parental figures due to his violent episodes, he consciously accepts his role as Antichrist — helped along by Mead being the supportive mother he always wanted.
- Time-Shifted Actor: Played by an adult actor in Apocalypse, because he'd aged ten years in one night.
- Tragic Villain: While it is never strictly stated, the flashbacks especially seem to stress and highlight Michael’s humanity, especially his emotional vulnerability and how manipulated he is by outside forces, people and perhaps fate included. This plus his brutal death at a period in his life where his mental and emotional capacity seem to be that of a child add to this.
- Undignified Death: Gets run over repeatedly, and spends his last moments broken, bloody, and whimpering. He tries to get Constance to take him to the house so he can continue living as a ghost, but she refuses and he’s left to die alone.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Despite appearances, he's still essentially a boy in his early teens. He is reeling from destructive powers and instincts he doesn't entirely like and has been rejected by no fewer than four parental figures (one of whom committed suicide just to avoid him). All around, people try to work him to their own ends, without caring about him.
- Younger Than They Look: He's under a decade old, yet he appears as an adult in Apocalypse.
The Fist
The Fist
Played By: Erika Ervin
One of the guards at Outpost 3.- The Brute: Has no issue using brute force against the other survivors.
- Character Death: Brock stabs her in the back.
- Flat Character: She doesn't have a definitive personality compared to her colleagues.
- Hidden Depths: Before the bombs fell, she used to run a food blog.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's the tallest staff member in the outpost.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed from behind by Brock and is left for dead outside the Outpost.
Inhabitants
Timothy Campbell
Timothy Campbell
Played By: Kyle Allen
A young man who is taken from his family and forced to live at Outpost 3.- Character Death: He is poisoned by the Ms. Mead and Ms. Venable.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He, Emily, and the others are killed off fairly early in the show, with the both of them poised to be someone special. When they are killed off, they are left largely forgotten... until the season finale. When the timeline is reset, they have a seemingly innocent Meet Cute and have a son together ... only for their son to turn out to be the next Antichrist.
- Decoy Protagonist: The season is set up so that it looks like Timothy, Emily, and Mallory are meant to be the protagonists of the season. After the first two are killed off, they fade from relevance until The Stinger at the end of the season, where they've gotten married and inadvertently spawned the next son of Satan. Oops.
- Expy: He's the Adam of the show's Adam and Eve Plot.
- Teen Genius: Or young adult genius. His first scene involved him being accepted into an accredited university.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He and Emily end up becoming the parents of the next Antichrist at the end of the season in the Distant Finale.
Emily
Emily Campbell
Played By: Ash Santos
A lady who lives at Outpost 3.- Character Death: Poisoned by Ms. Mead and Ms. Venable.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She, Timothy and the others are killed off fairly early in the show, with both of them poised to be someone special. When they are killed off, they are left largely forgotten... until the season finale. When the timeline is reset, they have another Meet Cute and have a son together ... only for their son to turn out to be the next Antichrist.
- Expy: She's the Eve to Timothy's Adam. To drive the point home, they look for secret knowledge on Michael Langdon's Apple Mac.
- Rebellious Spirit: She was introduced as an activist in her first scene and openly questions/calls out Venable on how she runs the Outpost. This is how she meets Timothy the second time, when she accidentally spills coffee on his shirt while protesting against a local food chain.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She and Timothy end up becoming the parents of the next Antichrist in the new timeline’s Distant Finale.
Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Played By: Leslie Grossman
A Rich Bitch who abuses Mallory as her assistant and lives at Outpost 3.- Back from the Dead: After being killed by Brock, she is found by Cordelia, Madison, and Myrtle who bring her back to life through Vitalum Vitalis.
- Character Death: Choked on a muffin and was resurrected by Mallory. Stabbed in the forehead by Brock, resurrected by Cordelia. Neck snapped by Michael, death undone by Mallory.
- Decoy Protagonist:
- A lot of the opening minutes of the first episode make it apparently clear that she will be the main character of the season. However, after she and her group get to Outpost 3, the focus shifts from her to everyone else.
- This is played with during the season finale. Cordelia's Batman Gambit involves having Coco use her wealth and influence to gain a spot in the Outpost along with Mallory, who is the designated savior of the world.
- Expy: She's set up to be a ditzier version of Madison from Coven. It's later revealed that her mind-wiped personality is heavily based on Madison's bitchiness as a way of keeping Mallory's powers suppressed until the opportune moment.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Mallory. It's one of the reasons why she didn't want to have an Alpha Bitch identity at all, seeing as it would entail Coco being mean to her and not remember all the times Mallory mentored her or boosted her self-esteem regarding her powers.
- It's All About Me: She doesn't care for anything if it doesn't relate to her and will go to great strides to show why she's more important compared to everyone else.
- Jumped at the Call: Despite having little understanding over the situation and being considered the 'weakest' witch, Coco instantly decides to help Cordelia and her entourage fight the Antichrist.
- Neck Snap: In the finale, she gets this courtesy of Langdon after trying to stab him in the back.
- Nice Girl: Her actual personality. When not under the influence of an identity spell, she's still a bit valley, but very nice to the rest of the coven, especially her best friend Mallory, and she cares deeply about her family.
- Preppy Name: Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt. Each part of her name would easily qualify for this trope by itself. The full name even more so.
- Rich Bitch: For the first few episodes, we are led to believe that this is who she is. As it turns out, this part of her personality was simply the result of an extremely effective identity/memory spell.
- Royal Inbreeding: A snide comment from Venable to Michael makes it apparent that Coco's family had been inbreeding in past generations, and that it wouldn't be fair for Coco to be part of the Outpost or the new world that Michael is collecting people for.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She openly expresses her disdain for living in the harsh conditions of the outpost and would rather take her chances outside. Venable has none of that.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: The Coco we meet in flashbacks prior to having a memory and identity spell placed on her by the Coven is significantly kinder and less full of herself, if still a bit vapid. This is because her persona under the spell was modeled on Madison.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After successfully pleading with Mallory to stay and take care of her (instead of meeting up with or saying goodbye to her family), Coco immediately continues treating Mallory like garbage, even snidely dismissing her as a candidate to leave with Michael to the safer outpost behind her back. However, she only acts this way because of the identity/memory spell placed on her.
- Valley Girl: She's clueless, superficial, born into a lavishly wealthy family, and an aspiring social media influencer. The fact that she's roughly twice as old as the average Instagram celebrity makes this behavior seem rather outlandish.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Played with. Her innate power is the ability to detect gluten, which Coco doesn't believe qualifies her to be a witch, but Cordelia stresses that she has the ability to detect danger, which can be developed, and her ability can be interpreted as Divination, which is one of the Seven Wonders. Eventually, she expands it to giving exact calorie counts, and later she is able to track down Ms. Mead, a source of threat to the Coven.
Mr. Gallant
Mr. Gallant
Played By: Evan Peters
Coco's hairdresser and Evie's grandson.- Camp Gay: He openly states that he's gay and he worked as a hairdresser.
- Character Death: Poisoned by Miss Mead and Ms. Venable.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Pre-war, he was part of the leather subculture. Partially because it is his actual personal kink, partially to provoke his grandmother.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Michael outright states that Gallant has a hole in his heart that yearns to be filled with love.
- Last-Name Basis: His first name has yet to be revealed.
- The Resenter: Towards his grandmother, because she had never accepted him for who he is.
- Too Kinky to Torture: He rather enjoys his whipping at the hands of Venable and Mead.
Evie Gallant
Evie Gallant
"Let's have some burnt champagne!"
Played By: Joan Collins
Mr. Gallant's grandmother who lives at Outpost 3.- Blatant Lies: She wants her fellow Purples to believe she's 52, despite the fact that she has a thirty-year-old grandson. Her actress is a youthful 85, but not that youthful.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: She doesn't seem bothered by the fact that she ate one of her fellow survivors in a stew and praises the food for how good it tasted.
- Character Death: Stabbed to death in the chest by Mr. Gallant, who thought she was Michael. Undone by Mallory.
- Fag Hag: Zig-zagged. She has accepted her grandson into her home when his parents kicked him out and regularly hosted soirees to set him up with potential husbands. However, she only did so to try and press him into a mold of a very clichéd suburban non-threatening brand of homosexuality which she deemed acceptable. Naturally, this caused a rift between them.
- It's All About Me: Is perfectly willing to try and sell out her own grandson for a chance at going with Langdon to the Sanctuary.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Averted. Even though she only survives for two episodes, she has already delivered a dozen of meme-worthy one-liners.
Dinah Stevens
Dinah Stevens
Played By: Adina Porter
A talk show host who lives at Outpost 3. Andre's mother.- Back from the Dead: She is revived by Cordelia together with Mallory and Coco.
- Broken Pedestal: In the finale, she calls Marie a fool for her willingness to work with the Coven.
- Character Death: Poisoned by Miss Mead and Venable, resurrected by Cordelia. Stabbed in the neck with a machete by Marie, death undone by Mallory.
- Deal with the Devil: In Episode 9, Dinah helped Langdon take revenge against the Coven by removing their shield spell in exchange for getting a talk show.
- Everyone Has Standards: Dinah refuses Papa Legba's deal for immortality as it is more costly on account of the innocent babies she'd have to bring him to sustain the deal.
- Foil: She's one to Marie Laveau, her predecessor. While Marie was the Voodoo Queen for more than a hundred years with a decent group of followers, Dinah has only been queen for a few years and works alone (only because she has no people to lead). While Marie had a great disdain for white people and refuses to offer her services to them unless necessary, Dinah's disdain is manageable and she is willing to help any white person who can afford her expensive prices. While Marie willingly gave her soul to Papa Legba and brings him innocent babies yearly to secure her immortality, Dinah consistently refuses his deal, saying that sacrificing babies is going too far. And in the finale, Marie is shown to have more morality compared to Dinah, who is considered to have the darkest and most corrupted soul between the two Voodoo queens.
- Grande Dame: She carries herself with lots of grace and sangfroid, through red alerts and intimidating interrogations alike.
- It's All About Me: According to her son Andre, he even states "it's all about HER, nothing in this world even exists unless it relates to her."
- Karma Houdini: Possibly. While she gets killed by Marie Laveau in the original timeline, it can be assumed that she’s still around in the alternate timeline created at the end.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her role as a cultured black woman with a positive attitude and successful TV show makes her similar to Oprah Winfrey, whom she's established to have been competing with in daytime television.
- Only in It for the Money: She lends her voodoo services to anyone who is willing to pay top dollar.
- Proverbial Wisdom: Often speaks in this style to motivate herself and her fellow survivors to endure their situation.
- Refusal of the Call: In Episode 4, Dinah refuses to help Cordelia and the other witches defeat Michael, saying she'd survived so far by not taking sides.
- The Resenter: She blames the Coven for killing Marie Laveau, whom she had a deep respect for, while also unintentionally leaving her without "a court to rule over" as the preceding Voodoo Queen.
- Unexpected Successor: Before she became a celebrity, she was the new Voodoo Queen after Marie Laveau's death.
- What's In It For Me?: Based on her line when she was a Voodoo witch, she doesn't do favors for free.
Mallory
Mallory
Sometimes, I feel like there’s someone buried inside me. Someone trying to claw their way out.
Played By: Billie Lourd
Coco's assistant.- The Ace: In the flashbacks of her previous life as a student at Robichaux, she is seen by both Zoe and Myrtle as an extremely gifted witch and demonstrates magical abilities superior to those of the other witches.
- Arch-Enemy: After her witch identity begins to reveal itself from episode 3, the series explicitly suggests to us several times that she could be this for Michael.
- Back from the Dead: Cordelia brings her back to life with Vitalum Vitalis after she was poisoned by Mead and Venable and again, after Brock stabs her. However, the wound proves to be fatal, leaving Cordelia with no other choice than to sacrifice her own life in order for her to live, as Mallory was fated to be the next Supreme.
- Beleaguered Assistant: She was Coco's personal assistant before the bombs fell and now lives as a servant while still being forced to perform demeaning tasks for Coco.
- At one point, Coco makes Mallory wipe her ass after she takes a dump, mostly because she's just done her nails and doesn't want them ruined.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mallory is friendly and kind to all living beings, going out of her way to save their lives many times. After Michael slaughters her entire Coven and starts the Apocalypse, however, Mallory has no qualms about traveling back in time and driving over Michael thrice, who at that point essentially had the mind of a child, to murder him and does so with absolutely no regrets or hesitation.
- Big Good: The Supreme meant to succeed Cordelia, and the one who kills Michael.
- Character Death: Poisoned by Ms. Mead and Ms. Venable, and is resurrected by Cordelia.
- Creating Life: One of the reasons why she is considered a particularly special witch, to the point of astounding even The Supreme Cordelia is because, during a magic lesson where the witch students were to make roses change color in their hands, not only did she just change a rose from white to blue, but also made the petals fall and transform into beautiful butterflies.
- Expy: Her identity as a witch who was able to heal and bring creatures back to life, along with having a "flower girl" fashion style, makes her akin to Misty Day but significantly stronger.
- Flat Character: We know nothing of her before she joins the Coven, other than faint references to having a family. We have no special insight into her motives, other than she seems genuinely nice.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Since her mission to kill Langdon by travelling back in time was a success, the events of the season are completely erased, leaving Mallory as the only one who remembers what happened in the original timeline.
- I Am Who?: When cornered by Langdon, she suddenly displays a powerful and violent burst of magical powers that terrifies both of them. Eventually, she finds out that she used to be a talented student at Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies who got her memories erased for her own protection.
- Made a Slave: She goes from personal assistant to personal slave, thanks to the Fantastic Caste System of the Outpost. Obviously, she isn't a big fan of the idea of being a personal slave.
- Nerd Glasses: They're not exactly the hot type. Plus she's quite smart and is pushed around like a nerd.
- Nice Girl: She's extremely polite and supportive towards her fellow witches, especially Coco; is always respectful to Cordelia; and very helpful as she was more than willing to save Coco from choking and bringing John Henry back to life.
- Replacement Goldfish: Much of the subtext in her relationship with Cordelia suggests that Cordelia sees her as a replacement for Misty Day.
- Superpower Lottery: As the Supreme meant to follow Cordelia, Mallory can perform the Seven Wonders in addition to her Time Master powers.
- Time Master: What makes her stand out among the other witches is her unique and astoundingly rare possession of the power tempus infinitum, a power which allows the user to manipulate the flow of time and, in more experienced instances, traverse through time.
Andre Stevens
Andre Stevens
Played By: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Dinah's son and Stu's boyfriend.- Character Death: Poisoned by Ms. Mead and Ms. Venable. Undone by Mallory.
- Gayngst: Most of his screentime is spent angsting over his boyfriend, Stu, who was killed and fed to the other survivors.
- Satellite Character: He is Dinah Stevens's son and Stu's boyfriend. He doesn't have much more character than that. In-fact, he is so non-existent he is Out of Focus in the flashbacks with his mom.
Stu
Stu
Played By: Chad James Buchanan
Andre's boyfriend.- Character Death: Shot in the head by Ms. Mead. Undone by Mallory.
- Satellite Character: He doesn't get much characterization besides "Andre's boyfriend."
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears in one episode before being shot in the head and fed to the other survivors.
Hawthorne School for Exceptional Young Men
In General
- Killed Offscreen: In Episode 9, the main heads along with all of their students are massacred by Langdon and Mead. Subverted in the finale as Mallory's assassination of Langdon via time travel was a success, thus erasing the off-screen massacre.
- Spear Counterpart: To Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies.
Behold Chablis
Behold Chablis
Played By: Billy Porter
A warlock.- The Atoner: Behold officially confirms that he now sides with the Coven after learning that he helped Langdon secure a position of power among the warlocks and witches.
- Character Death: Had his throat slit by Langdon and Miss Mead.
- Enemy Mine: Behold isn't exactly on friendly terms with the witches' coven, but he ends up wanting to team up with them and go with Madison in order to see if his own doubts about Michael are true.
- Jive Turkey: He has a sharp tongue with a lot of sass.
- Making a Splash: Can control water.
- Mind over Matter: Displays telekinesis on multiple occasions.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He regrets helping the warlocks vouch for Langdon as Supreme when he learns that he was The Antichrist all along.
- Sixth Ranger: Is now working with Cordelia and the Witches to uncover information about Michael, replacing John Henry Moore as the Only Sane Man of his Coven.
Ariel Augustus
Ariel Augustus
Played By: Jon Jon Briones
The Grand Chancellor of the warlock school.- Alliterative Name: Ariel Augustus.
- Bad Boss: Is in charge of Hawthorne, and assists in getting his colleague John Henry killed when he tries to interfere with Michael taking the test to become Supreme.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Ariel almost has a decent plan going, but he's pretty easily dealt with once his treachery is exposed.
- Burn the Witch!: Sentenced to death by Cordelia for having John Henry killed, and conspiring to murder the entire coven. To rub it in even further, the associate he'd tried to kill is the one who lights his pyre.
- Character Death: Burned at the stake by the witches. Undone by Mallory.
- Karma Houdini: With the timeline getting reset at the end of the season, it can be inferred that Ariel and Baldwin are still alive.
- Mind over Matter: Telekinetic.
- Playing with Fire: Can manipulate fire.
- Straw Misogynist: His fervent desire to have a man become the Supreme appears to be rooted at least partially in misogyny. Later taken to its logical extreme when he conspires to have the entire coven killed.
- Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Literally, when Cordelia magically removes his and Baldwin's mouths before they're burnt at the stake.
Baldwin Pennypacker
Baldwin Pennypacker
Played By: B.D. Wong
A warlock.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Appears as the quietest, most reserved warlock of Hawthorne's, but Bubbles' mind-reading powers reveal that he holds a lot of contempt for the witches that he hides behind a polite smile.
- Burn the Witch!: Sentenced to death by Cordelia for conspiring to murder the Coven. John Henry lights the fire.
- Character Death: Burned at the stake by the witches. Undone by Mallory.
- Karma Houdini: With the timeline getting reset, it can be assumed that he and Ariel are still alive.
- Master Poisoner: Knows how to create powerful toxins.
- Mind over Matter: Telekinetic.
- Pet the Dog: When Misty is brought back by Michael and Stevie Nicks comes for a visit, he aids her by playing her song "Gypsy" on the piano as a song tribute for Misty and her return to life.
- Straw Misogynist: Not apparent at first, but he's later shown conspiring with Augustus to have the entire coven killed, and with an airborne toxin that only kills women, no less.
- Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: When Cordelia magically removes his and Augustus's mouths before they're burnt at the stake.
John Henry Moore
John Henry Moore
Played By: Cheyenne Jackson
A warlock.- Aerith and Bob: Notably has the most "normal"-sounding name of any of the main warlocks.
- Back from the Dead: Resurrected by Mallory in "Traitor".
- Blue-Collar Warlock: His style and attitude is more akin to one of these than a gentleman wizard.
- Character Death: Throat slit and set on fire by Ms. Mead, resurrected by Mallory. Has his throat slit again by Robot Mead and Michael in the Hawthorne school massacre, but undone by Mallory.
- Dead Star Walking: Zig-zagged. Jackson is listed as a season regular, but John appears in two episodes before getting killed off ... until he's resurrected by Mallory a few episodes later.
- Gut Feeling: He has one about Michael's true nature, and it turns out to be right.
- Guyliner: Noticeably wears it.
- Kill It with Fire: Burned alive by Miriam after she slashes his throat. Later gets to return the favor.
- Mind over Matter: He's shown to have telekinesis.
- Only Sane Man: He is initially the only member of his school's administration who maintains the appropriate wariness of Michael Langdon and his powers.
- Playing with Fire: Can perform pyrokinesis. Uses it to light the fire that burns Augustus, Baldwin, and Mead to death.
- Properly Paranoid: His above-mentioned apprehension of Michael is entirely warranted, being that Michael is the Antichrist.
- Slashed Throat: Courtesy of Miriam.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Though Jackson is listed in the opening credits as a series regular, he didn't actually appear until the fourth episode of the season, and no info about the character was released prior to his debut.
- Sixth Ranger: Following his revival, he joins Cordelia's Coven.
William Banks
William Banks
Played by: Kai Caster
A warlock.- Character Death: Presumably dismembered by Michael and Robot Ms. Mead, but maybe not. If he was, it was undone by Mallory.
Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies
Bubbles McGee
Bubbles McGee
Played By: Joan Collins
- Character Death: Her face is impaled by nails during Michael's attack on the academy.
- Defiant to the End: She barely flinches when Michael steps through the supposedly safe doors of Robichaux, opting instead to give him a mocking toast.
- Michael: Oh, come on, you can't be that surprised to see me.Bubbles: [without missing a beat] Fuck no! You were prophesized, darling. [raising her glass at him] Up. Yours.
- Identical Stranger: To Joan Collins's other Apocalypse character, Evie Gallant.
- Remember the New Guy?: Introduced as a contemporary of Myrtle Snow's in Apocalypse — one whom Madison also seems familiar with — but she's never seen or heard of during Coven.
- Telepathy: Not exactly — Myrtle defines her ability as reading souls — but she may as well be telepathic.
- White-Dwarf Starlet: One who seems to be staging a career comeback.
Cordelia Goode
Cordelia Goode
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Madison Montgomery
Madison Montgomery
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Myrtle Snow
Myrtle Snow
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Zoe Benson
Zoe Benson
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Queenie
Queenie
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Misty Day
Misty Day
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Murder House
Grace
Grace
Honey, I don't feel right.
Played By: Stacy Highsmith
A woman who moves into the Murder House.- Character Death: Stabbed by Michael. Her soul was also destroyed. All of this is undone by Mallory.
- Deader than Dead: After she was killed, her soul was incinerated by hellfire, making her impossible to resurrect.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies after 50 seconds of screentime in a flashback.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Played By: Jennifer Jalene
A woman who moves into the Murder House.- Character Death: She is stabbed by Michael and her soul is destroyed by him. All of this is undone by Mallory.
- Deader than Dead: After she was killed, her soul was incinerated by hellfire.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies after 50 seconds of screentime in a flashback.
Ben Harmon
Ben Harmon
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Tate Langdon
Tate Langdon
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Violet Harmon
Violet Harmon
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Constance Langdon
Constance Langdon
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Billie Dean Howard
Billie Dean Howard
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Moira O'Hara
Moira O'Hara
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Vivien Harmon
Vivien Harmon
- see the American Horror Story: Murder House page
Rose Langdon
Rose Langdon
Played by: Raina Matheson
Constance's fourth child, a little girl's ghost in the Murder House with no eyes.- Character Death: We don't know how she died, but she died in the Murder House.
Others
Brock
Brock
"Do NOT leave me in fucking Santa Monica!"
Played By: Billy Eichner
Coco's boyfriend.- Butt-Monkey: In the first episode, he gets dumped by Coco and left to die in Santa Monica.
- Character Death: Is set on fire by Myrtle.
- Extreme Mêlée Revenge: He stabs Coco in the forehead for abandoning him when the bombs fell. It doesn't last, though.
- The Grotesque: He is left horribly disfigured by the radioactive fallout.
- Revenge: He is out to kill Coco and anyone else that comes across him.
- Spanner in the Works: By stabbing Mallory out of nowhere, he very nearly dooms the Coven's plan to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
Jeff and Mutt
Jeff Pfister and Mutt Nutter
"The world is a raging clusterfuck. And we need to burn this motherfucker to the ground! Wipe the slate clean and start over. This time do it right."
Played By: Evan Peters (Jeff) | Billy Eichner (Mutt)
Two cocaine addicts with bowl cuts who are part of the Cooperative.- '20s Bob Haircut: They sport a gloriously bad version.
- Beware the Silly Ones: These two nimrods? They're actually the ones who come up with the plan to end the world.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: When they're giving Michael advice through Ms. Mead, they refer to themselves as "sexy and handsome"
- Character Death: The outpost they are at is overrun.
- The Dividual: Are never seen apart, both have the exact same personality and even the same awful haircut.
- Faux Affably Evil: They're jovial and goofy, but make no mistake, they're probably some of the most vile creatures in the season.
- Frat Bro: Probably the most extreme example in the show.
- Functional Addict: They manage to do cutting-edge robotics research while snorting ungodly amounts of cocaine.
- Gadgeteer Genius: They manage to build an exact replica of Mrs. Mead just from a photo and what Michael tells them.
- Greater-Scope Villain: They're the ones that kick off the Apocalypse - and use an unwitting Michael to do it.
- Identical Stranger: Both of them happen to look like doppelgängers of other characters.
- Karma Houdini: Like the other villains sans Michael, they escape punishment in the new timeline.
- Killed Offscreen: They perish when their outpost is overrun after the apocalypse, but it's never shown.
- Large Ham: Of the comedic variety.
- Meaningful Name: "Pfister" (pronounced "fister") and "Nutter" should give you some idea of what level of maturity these guys are operating on.
- Psychopathic Manchild: They act like a couple of naughty kids, but their antics result in death and suffering.
- Tech Bro: Mutt Nutter and Jeff Pfister are a pair of cocaine-addicted manchildren who just happen to be brilliant programmers. The fact that they also sold their souls to Satan for wealth and power also helps.
- Those Two Guys: Always onscreen together, at least in their introduction episode.
James Patrick March
James Patrick March
- see the American Horror Story: Hotel page
Papa Legba
Papa Legba
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Nan
Nan
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Delphine LaLaurie
Delphine LaLaurie
- see the American Horror Story: Coven page
Walter
Walter
Played by: Jason Michael Snow
Evie's potential suitor for Mr. Gallant. Morris
Morris
Played by: Navaris Darson
Evie's potential suitor for Mr. Gallant. Mario Vestri
Mario Vestri
Played by: Chris Ferro
Evie's potential suitor for Mr. Gallant. Madelyn
Madelyn
Played by: Harriet Sansom Harris
A Satanist.- Affably Evil: She really wants the Antichrist to end the world, but otherwise she's a very nice lady who makes nice salads.
Hannah
Hannah
Played by: Sandra Bernhard
A Satanist. Phil
Phil
Played by: Dominic Burgess
A Satanist. Devan
Mr St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Played by: John Getz
Coco's father.- Character Death: Blown up by a bomb. Undone by Mallory.
Anastasia Romanov
Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov
Played by: Emilia Ares
Nikolai's daughter.- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Is revealed to have been a witch in episode 9. She tries to save her family by using her powers, but as we all know by now, she fails.
- Character Death: Shot in the chest in the current timeline and was impaled in the original erased timeline.
Nikolai Romanov
Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov
Played by: Mark Ivanir
Anastasia's father.- Character Death: Shot in the chest.
Samantha Crowe
Anton LaVey
Anton La Vey
Played by: Carlo Rota
The black pope of the Church of Satan.- Historical Villain Upgrade: The real LaVey rejected theistic Satanism (the belief in the existence and worship of Satan) and was more of a philosopher and provocateur (though he was a member of the neonazi National Renaissance Party). In the show he does worship Satan and carries out human sacrifices in his honor.
- Death Faked for You: His Real Life death in 1997 was faked for him to prepare for the coming of the Antichrist.
