History Characters / AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse

!!Troy & Bryan Rutger
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rutger_twins_4102.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"We got bats"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Kai and Bodhi Schulz

A chaotic pair of young boys who were killed inside the house when Addie was a little girl.

* AxCrazy
* BackFromTheDead: As ghosts.
* BatterUp
* CreepyChild
** CreepyTwins
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead
* HotBlooded
* {{Jerkass}}

* SacrificialLamb
* ScarsAreForever
* TeensAreMonsters
* WeaponOfChoice: Their bats.

!!Travis Wanderley
->'''Played By:''' Michael Graziadei

Travis is Constance's lover. He dreams of making it big, constantly auditioning and modeling. Unlike Constance, he has no reservations against nudity and is willing to do anything for the fame. After [[spoiler: Addie's]] death, Constance becomes more impatient with him, which caused him to [[spoiler: cheat on her with [[AxCrazy Hayden]]. Shortly afterwards, he is killed by Hayden.]]

* BrainlessBeauty
* [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]
* [[spoiler: GlasgowGrin]]
* FriendToAllChildren: He has this tendency. He gets along with Adelaide way better than Constance, [[spoiler: and he seems to genuinely enjoy playing with Larry's daughters and doesn't care about them being horribly burned. Their mother is surprised at how fast they bonded with him]].
* MayDecemberRomance: With Constance.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest character in the whole first season cast. [[spoiler: Yes, he cheated on Constance with Hayden, but he genuinely seemed to care about her and wanted to adopt a child with her. He was also one of the few to treat Adelaide with dignity, and after he dies, he even spends time playing with Larry's daughters.]]
** [[spoiler: Even in death, he cares about Constance. He asks Larry about her, and in "Afterbirth" forcibly takes Vivien and Tate's son away from Hayden so that Constance can have him.]]
** It's notable that along with the Harmon's he's one of the few [[spoiler:ghosts capable of creating a YouAreWorthHell type EarnYourHappyEnding by "living" happily with Larry's daughters.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Sleeps with [[spoiler: Hayden]] despite being in a relationship with Constance.

!!Chad Warwick
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ChadWarwick_1668.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I feel like I'm doomed for all of eternity to be trapped in an unhappy, adulterous relationship, working on this goddamn house. Which will never be just the way I want it."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ZacharyQuinto

One of the previous owners of the house. He moved in with his boyfriend Patrick to the house with the desire to adopt a child and build a family, [[spoiler: but they soon start to fall apart. He and Patrick were killed by Tate on Halloween.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing

* CampGay
* ControlFreak
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]
* DeadpanSnarker

* HairTriggerTemper: He completely loses his shit over seemingly little things.
** To be fair to him, he was in a long term relationship [[spoiler: that was about to end]], with neither party willing to address the actual problems. Little stuff may be what they fight about on the surface, but underneath it is all the resentment and other major problems that had built up over the course of their relationship. [[spoiler: As his relationship with Patrick will ''never'' actually end as they both died in the house, he understandably gets even worse.]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeHam

* ThePerfectionist: Halloween parties are '''damn''' serious business.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Didn't so much plan to ''raise'' Vivien's twins as smother them once they were toddler-aged so they'd be 'cute forever'.]]

!!Patrick
->'''Played By:''' Teddy Sears

One of the previous owners of the house and Chad's boyfriend, Patrick spent more time at the gym that inside the house due to his fights with Chad. [[spoiler: When he decides to dress up for Halloween just like Chad wanted to, he finds Tate killing Chad and tries to intervine, but is killed by Tate as well.]]

* AllGaysArePromiscuous
** Though he draws the line at [[spoiler: doing it with Tate.]] He whoops his ass instead. [[spoiler: Tate was his killer.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays]]

* GymBunny
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His absolutely awesome and long-deserved [[spoiler: beat-down of Tate.]]
* ManlyGay: Not camp at all, and he's quite ripped.
* OnlyOneName

* StraightGay: If he wasn't in a relationship with Chad, you would never know.
* YourCheatingHeart: Has repeatedly cheated on Chad.

* DeadPersonConversation: When she speaks with [[spoiler: Addie.]]
* GenderBlenderName
* ISeeDeadPeople

* MustHaveNicotine

An aggressive girl at Violet's new school.

* DefeatMeansFriendship
* DemotedToExtra: After being a large part of Violet's subplot for the first episode, Leah only makes sporadic appearances for several episodes afterward. [[spoiler: She's phased out entirely after Violet dies]].
* DrivenToMadness

* LockedIntoStrangeness
* NearDeathExperience: On the Pilot.
* PutOnABus
* ScarsAreForever: Doesn't look like her scars from the Pilot are healing anytime soon...

* SerialKiller

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BenHarmon_8293.jpg]]

A psychiatrist, married to Vivien Harmon and the father of Violet Harmon. Ben has an affair with one of his psychiatry students, Hayden [=McClaine=], after his wife Vivien has a stillbirth. As a result, he and Vivien decided to move the family from Boston to Los Angeles in an attempt to start anew.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/VivianHarmon_785.jpg]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/VioletHarmon_2387.jpg]]

The rebellious and morbid teenage daughter of Ben and Vivien. She reclutantly settles into the new town and initially has trouble in her new school. She soon meets Tate, one of her father's patients, and becomes attracted to him.

!!Constance Langdon[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ConstanceLangdon_6545.jpg]]

The melodramatic and manipulative neighbour next door.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tate_7398.jpg]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HaydenMcClaine_1758.jpg]]

Ben's young lover, with whom he cheated on Vivien.

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: Harvey beats her to death with a shovel.]]
** [[spoiler: Then she shows up at the end of the first part of the Halloween two-parter, as another of the house's ghosts.]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BryanandTroy_5095.jpg]]

The horribly scarred former owner of the house. [[spoiler: He had an affair with his neighbor Constance, which drove his wife to commit suicide and take their two daughters with her.]] He meets Ben in the Pilot and warns him to stay away from the house, which caused him his injuries. [[spoiler: He later kills Hayden for him and starts blackmailing him for money to keep his mouth shut.]]

A psychiatrist and the Harmon patriarch, hoping to repair the damage he caused his family after having an affair.

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]

The Harmon family matriarch, Vivien is trying to recover from a miscarriage and a personal betrayal.

->'''Played By:''' Evan Peters

->'''Played By:''' Jamie Brewer

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb]]
* [[spoiler: WeHardlyKnewYe]]

->'''Played By:'''

* LoveRedeems: His love for Violet is something he has never felt before, which is weird at the beginning he was acting very much as a sociopath. Of course, it’s arguable as to whether his love is genuine.
** He says he does, but it's possible he doesn't. See MommyIssues above.
** Ultimately this is [[spoiler:averted. He's in love with her, but that doesn't stop him being a monster, albeit a regretful one.]]

* HotMom

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The darkness. It has me."'']]

[[folder: Primary cast]]

!!Tate Langdon
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tate_7398.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi, I'm Tate. [[spoiler:I'm dead.]] Want to hook up?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Evan Peters

->''"I think I have mommy issues. You know a good therapist?"''

An unsettling new patient of Ben's, [[spoiler:later revealed to be the ghost of Constance's murderous son]].

* AnAxeToGrind: He uses an axe to kill [[spoiler:Bianca.]]
* TheAtoner: It almost seems like it, and he probably thinks he is, but he never stops doing monstrous things.
* AxCrazy
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.]]
* BiTheWay: Agrees with Violet that gay porn is hot, though he says it somewhat facetiously. He also offered to have sex with Patrick, although this was to get his wedding ring. Whether or not he is actually bisexual is unknown.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he killed Stephanie, Amir and Kevin in the Westfield High Massacre.]]
* CrocodileTears: In the beginning, towards Ben; arguably throughout the series.
* CryCute: Perhaps the ultimate male example of this.
* DawsonCasting: Tate is 17 years old, Evan Peters was 24 when he played him.
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler:DeadToBeginWith]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments of this.
* {{Expy}}: Tate is a (literally) AxeCrazy, lying, young man who has obsession with a younger girl and a [[spoiler: mentally challenged sibling]], and is first introduced with the KillBill whistle tune playing; he is clearly based on the lead character from the 1969 movie ''Twisted Nerve''.
* FreudianExcuse: For a lot of things. YMMV on how much they actually matter.

!!Lawrence "Larry" Harvey
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LarryHarvey_2465.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Gimme my treat! You '''don't''' want the '''trick'''!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Denis O’Hare

->''"The one thing about the dead is they've got nothing left to lose."''

The horribly scarred former owner of the house. [[spoiler: He had an affair with his neighbor Constance, which drove his wife to commit suicide and take their two daughters with her.]] He meets Ben in the Pilot and warns him to stay away from the house, which caused him his injuries. [[spoiler: He later kills Hayden for him and starts blackmailing him for money to keep his mouth shut.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer
* AffablyEvil: Every once in a while during his friendly chats with Ben, he says something to remind us how insane he is.
** And then he goes completely off the deep end. [[spoiler: He tries to burn the house down, until Chad interrupts.]]
* TheAtoner: He decides to put himself in prison to pay for his crimes. It's partially to protect Constance, though.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord
* BoomHeadshot: How he [[spoiler:kills Hayden.]]
* ButtMonkey
* ConsummateLiar: He constantly lies, especially about how he got his scars.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvilCripple

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: And how!
* LoveMakesYouEvil
* LoveMartyr
* MeaningfulName/ PunnyName/ ShoutOut: His actually works on two levels. There's the more obvious ([[MostTropersAreYoungNerds to this crowd, anyway]]) nod to [[ComicBook/TwoFace Harvey Dent]], but Larry Harvey is also the name of the founder of Burning Man. Oy.
* [[spoiler:PutOnABus: After episode 9, as he's sent to jail.]]
* SanitySlippage
* TraumaCongaLine
* TwoFaced
* ShovelStrike: How he takes care of [[spoiler: Hayden.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: To Constance. She has used this to great effect, getting him to kill her second son, Beau, to prevent him being taken by the state, among other things.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Just ask Hayden!
* WouldHurtAChild
* YourCheatingHeart

!!Constance [[spoiler: Langdon]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I questioned my sanity when I first found out, but this house will make you a believer."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jessica Lange

->''"Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was destined for great things. I was going to be somebody. Person of significance."''

The melodramatic and manipulative neighbour next door.

* AbusiveParent: Constance locks Adelaide in a closet full of mirrors after she interrupts Constance's "business meeting". She also chains her son Beau up in the attic because of a genetic deformity. It's further implied that she physically--and certainly emotionally--abused [[spoiler: Tate]].
* BlondesAreEvil
* BornUnlucky: [[spoiler: All of her children have died, Tate killed 15 people as well as burning her husband at the time, her first husband cheated on her, her most current lover, Travis, was killed by Hayden, and her grandson is a sociopath who may very well be the Anti-Christ.]]
-->'''Moira''': You need to pay for what you've done.
-->'''Constance''': I do... every goddamn day.

* EvilChef: She cooks a deadly dish for Violet in one of the first episodes, but luckily it's eaten by Bianca Forest instead.
* EvilMatriarch
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: [[spoiler: Calls Patrick and Chad's homosexuality an abomination, and even phones in a medium in an attempt to exorcise them in the penultimate episode of season one.]]
* [[spoiler: FinalGirl: She's the only member of the main cast to remain alive by the end (except for Larry, who was sent to jail and likely did not survive much longer there either).]]
* GoldDigger: [[spoiler: Hooked up with Larry Harvey]], not out of love, but so she could get back into the house.
* HauntedHouseHistorian
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: And eventually, she does take [[spoiler: Vivien's son]] out of the house.
* KarmaHoudini: An interesting version of this, while she escapes criminal punishment for her deeds, she suffers greatly through the death of all her children, and anyone she loves.
* LargeHam
* MamaBear: Nobody is allowed to hurt Addy except for her.
** Applies to [[spoiler: Tate]] and [[spoiler: her second son, Beau, who she had Larry kill to prevent him from being taken by the state]], as well. [[spoiler: She will kill to keep her family together, even going so far as to ally with Moira and Larry to off an unpleasant possible buyer. He was going to tear the house down.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: With Travis.
* MustHaveNicotine
* PetTheDog: Largely in regard to her daughter, Addie. Despite her being constantly passive aggressive, belittling her, regarding her with disgust and going so far as to lock her in a room full of mirrors, she still seems to love her and is distraught when [[spoiler: Addie is killed.]] It's a...complex relationship.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* SouthernBelle: Of the aging, Blanche Dubois variety.
* StickyFingers: Constance has no qualms about stealing from Vivien, and does so twice during the pilot.
** As of the third episode, make that just about every time she enters their house.
*** And other people's houses as well.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: An odd example. She wanted to break into movies and certainly has both the ego and dramatic flair, but never succeeded in the first place, which she says was due to [[HorribleHollywood her unwillingness to do nudity]]. She stills acts like a faded Hollywood star, though.
* WouldHurtAChild

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[[folder:Ghosts]]

!!Moira O’Hara
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not naive to the ways of men. Their need to objectify, conquer. They see what they want to see. Women, however, see into the soul of a person."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Frances Conroy & Alexandra Breckinbridge

->''"That's what men do--they make you think you're crazy so that they can have their fun."''

The maid that comes with the house, she appears as an old woman to everyone but living men, who see her as a sexy young girl. [[spoiler: She was Constance's maid when she owned the house with her husband Hugo. When Hugo attempts to rape her, Constance walks in and, believing they were having an affair, shoots Moira [[EyeScream right through her eye]] before killing her husband.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms
* AndIMustScream

* [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot]]
* CoolOldLady: Towards Vivien and Violet (particularly the former).
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]

* [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]
* DoesNotLikeMen: Older Moira is pretty convinced that all men are out to hurt women. She isn't ever impolite to men in general, but when alone with a sympathetic female, she tends to rant a bit.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EvilRedhead: Appears to be, but this is later subverted.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Constance shot her in her eye, and well... it's not pretty.]]
* FrenchMaidOutfit
* GroinAttack: Uses this on [[spoiler: a potential buyer.]]
* HauntedHouseHistorian
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Girl]]: Hey, it's [[SixFeetUnder Ruth Fisher!]]
** And [[HowIMetYourMother Barney's mother]].
** And her younger version is [[TrueBlood Katerina Pelham!]]
* {{Meido}}
* MercyKill: Does this for [[spoiler: her mother.]]
* MsFanservice: As her younger self complete with an erotic maid outfit.
* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]
* NinjaMaid: A [[spoiler: ghost]] maid who can alternate between her younger and older version!

* ServileSnarker

!!Hayden [=McClaine=]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HaydenMcClaine_1758.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not a whore, Ben! I matter!"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Kate Mara

Ben's young lover, with whom he cheated on Vivien.

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim: Harvey beats her to death with a shovel.]]
** [[spoiler: Then she shows up at the end of the first part of the Halloween two-parter, as another of the house's ghosts.]]
* AxCrazy
* [[spoiler:TheBabyTrap]]: Attempts this on Ben, after [[spoiler:she chooses to not have an abortion, and intends to move out to California to force Ben to provide for her and the baby.]]

* [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot:]] The scene is quiet, normal, Ben and Hayden are happily leaving the house after fixing their issues... [[spoiler: and then Larry comes out of the blue and hits her in the head with a shovel, killing her.]]
* ButtMonkey
* CuteAndPsycho
* DeadpanSnarker
* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Subverted when she finds out she's pregnant and sets up an appointment to get an abortion and it's presented as a rational and mature decision. [[spoiler:But then she changes her mind, decides to pull TheBabyTrap on Ben, and tries to move out to California to force him to stay in her life.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil / LoveMakesYouCrazy: Seemed pretty normal prior to sleeping with Ben.
* ManipulativeBitch
* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody:]] There's a gazebo on top of it now, so yeah, not likely to be found.

* SanitySlippage: After [[spoiler: dying.]]
* StalkerWithACrush
* TeacherStudentRomance: She was Ben's student during the affair.
* {{Yandere}}: Even worse after [[spoiler: she dies]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The reason why she [[spoiler: kills Travis.]]

!!Nora Montgomery
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My baby... Where is my baby?"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Lily Rabe

The wife of Dr. Charles Montgomery. He built the house for her, and they were the first residents of the house along with their baby son Thaddeus. She assisted her husband in performing illegal abortions to maintain themselves financially. [[spoiler: Eventually, their son is abducted by the boyfriend of one of their clients, and is later revealed to have been killed by the kidnapper.]]

* AffablyEvil
* [[spoiler: [[AteHisGun Ate Her Gun]]]]
* BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.
* BlondesAreEvil
* BrokenBird

* DespairEventHorizon
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]
* HauntedHouseHistorian: She warned [[spoiler: Tate]] about the ghosts when he was younger and taught him how to manage his way through the house.
* MamaBear
* MadnessMantra: "My baby... where is my baby?"

* PetTheDog
* SanitySlippage: After [[spoiler: the death of her son.]]
* StepfordSmiler

!!Dr. Charles Montgomery
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CharlesMontgomery_2202.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"A writer writes, a surgeon cuts."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Matt Ross

A surgeon in the 1920s who built the house for his wife Nora. However, they eventually fall apart as he becomes more obssessed with his profession and alcohol. He performed illegal abortions to maintain themselves financially. [[spoiler: Eventually, their only son is abducted by the boyfriend of one of their clients, and is later revealed to have been killed by the kidnapper.]]

* AffablyEvil
** FauxAffablyEvil: When he's [[spoiler: cutting up Elizabeth Short's body.]]
* TheAlcoholic

* DeadlyDoctor
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* DrivenToMadness
* FunctionalAddict
* MadDoctor: [[spoiler: After he is driven insane by his son's murder]].

* SanitySlippage: After [[spoiler: the death of his son.]]
* {{Workaholic}}

!!Troy & Bryan Rutger
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BryanandTroy_5095.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"We got bats"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Kai and Bodhi Schulz

A chaotic pair of young boys who were killed inside the house when Addie was a little girl.

* AxCrazy
* BackFromTheDead: As ghosts.
* BatterUp
* CreepyChild
** CreepyTwins

* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead
* HotBlooded

* SacrificialLamb
* ScarsAreForever
* TeensAreMonsters
* WeaponOfChoice: Their bats.

!!Travis Wanderley
->'''Played By:''' Michael Graziadei

Travis is Constance's lover. He dreams of making it big, constantly auditioning and modeling. Unlike Constance, he has no reservations against nudity and is willing to do anything for the fame. After [[spoiler: Addie's]] death, Constance becomes more impatient with him, which caused him to [[spoiler: cheat on her with [[AxCrazy Hayden]]. Shortly afterwards, he is killed by Hayden.]]

* BrainlessBeauty
* [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]
* [[spoiler: GlasgowGrin]]
* FriendToAllChildren: He has this tendency. He gets along with Adelaide way better than Constance, [[spoiler: and he seems to genuinely enjoy playing with Larry's daughters and doesn't care about them being horribly burned. Their mother is surprised at how fast they bonded with him]].
* MayDecemberRomance: With Constance.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest character in the whole first season cast. [[spoiler: Yes, he cheated on Constance with Hayden, but he genuinely seemed to care about her and wanted to adopt a child with her. He was also one of the few to treat Adelaide with dignity, and after he dies, he even spends time playing with Larry's daughters.]]
** [[spoiler: Even in death, he cares about Constance. He asks Larry about her, and in "Afterbirth" forcibly takes Vivien and Tate's son away from Hayden so that Constance can have him.]]
** It's notable that along with the Harmon's he's one of the few [[spoiler:ghosts capable of creating a YouAreWorthHell type EarnYourHappyEnding by "living" happily with Larry's daughters.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Sleeps with [[spoiler: Hayden]] despite being in a relationship with Constance.

!!Chad Warwick
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ChadWarwick_1668.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I feel like I'm doomed for all of eternity to be trapped in an unhappy, adulterous relationship, working on this goddamn house. Which will never be just the way I want it."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ZacharyQuinto

One of the previous owners of the house. He moved in with his boyfriend Patrick to the house with the desire to adopt a child and build a family, [[spoiler: but they soon start to fall apart. He and Patrick were killed by Tate on Halloween.]]

* BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays]]
* CampGay
* ControlFreak
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]

* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* HairTriggerTemper: He completely loses his shit over seemingly little things.
** To be fair to him, he was in a long term relationship [[spoiler: that was about to end]], with neither party willing to address the actual problems. Little stuff may be what they fight about on the surface, but underneath it is all the resentment and other major problems that had built up over the course of their relationship. [[spoiler: As his relationship with Patrick will ''never'' actually end as they both died in the house, he understandably gets even worse.]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeHam
* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* ThePerfectionist: Halloween parties are '''damn''' serious business.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Didn't so much plan to ''raise'' Vivien's twins as smother them once they were toddler-aged so they'd be 'cute forever'.]]

!!Patrick
->'''Played By:''' Teddy Sears

One of the previous owners of the house and Chad's boyfriend, Patrick spent more time at the gym that inside the house due to his fights with Chad. [[spoiler: When he decides to dress up for Halloween just like Chad wanted to, he finds Tate killing Chad and tries to intervine, but is killed by Tate as well.]]

* AllGaysArePromiscuous
** Though he draws the line at [[spoiler: doing it with Tate.]] He whoops his ass instead. [[spoiler: Tate was his killer.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays]]
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* GymBunny
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His absolutely awesome and long-deserved [[spoiler: beat-down of Tate.]]
* ManlyGay: Not camp at all, and he's quite ripped.
* OnlyOneName
* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* StraightGay: If he wasn't in a relationship with Chad, you would never know.
* YourCheatingHeart: Has repeatedly cheated on Chad.

!!Lorraine Harvey
->'''Played By''': Rebecca Wisocky

!!Phil Critter
->'''Played By''': W. Earl Brown

!!Elizabeth Short
->'''Played By''': Mena Suvari

* HistoricalDomainCharacter
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Past]]
!!R. Franklin
->'''Played By''': Jamie Harris

* SerialKiller
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Characters]]
!!Adelaide "Addie" [[spoiler: Langdon]]
->'''Played By:''' Jamie Brewer

* CreepyChild
* HauntedHouseHistorian: From the very first scene in the series, when she warns off the twins not to enter the house.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted. She is not that nice or innocent; she is every bit as messed up and creepy as the other characters on the show.
** She is one of the nicer people on the show though.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* OddFriendship: With Violet. She is initially creeped out by Addie, but later they manage to get along and Violet even gave her a makeover for Halloween so that she looked "like a pretty girl".
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb]]
* [[spoiler: WeHardlyKnewYe]]
* [[ManChild Womanchild]]

!!Marcy
->'''Played By:''' Christine Estabrook

* BitchInSheepsClothing
* HereWeGoAgain
* StepfordSmiler
* WrongGenreSavvy

!!Luke
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LukeAHS_2220.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' Morris Chestnut

A security patroller and installation expert for Heirloom Security, a company hired by Vivien to protect the family.
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!! Michael [[spoiler:Langdon]]

One of Vivien's newborns, fathered by [[spoiler:Tate, as a result of his rape of Vivien. Survived the birth, unlike his mother and twin.]]

* [[spoiler:TheAntichrist]]: Heavily implied to be this.
* CreepyChild

* ManlyGay

* StraightGay

* ManlyGay: If he wasn't in a relationship with Chad, you would never know.

* ManlyGay: If it wasn't for his massively promiscuous nature, you would never know.

* AgentScully

* ADateWithRosiePalms: After he walks in on young!Moira having her own date.

* [[spoiler: [[FinalGirl Final Boy]]: By "Birth", he's the last of the original Harmon family left alive. His status as [[FinalGirl Final Boy]] is quickly revoked partway through "Afterbirth", as Hayden and several other ghosts hang him from a chandelier.]]

* HotDad

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: He tried to kill himself, but Vivien stopped him so that he could raise the baby.]]

* {{Jerkass}}
** DrJerk
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold as well, as he seems to really care for his family, but handles himself poorly.
* JustAFleshWound
* LargeHam: Played by Dylan [=McDermott=], natch.

* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* PapaWolf

* SupernaturalProofFather: When [[PsychoExGirlfriend Hayden]] shows up in episodes 4 and 5 after [[spoiler: Larry killed her the episode before]], Ben jumps to the conclusion that they are working together to get money out of him, [[spoiler: despite the fact he held her dead body in his arms and built a friggin' gazebo over her burial place.]]

** Doesn't even notice that Violet [[spoiler: is dead]], believing that she's only depressed.
** It's only after [[spoiler: he dies]] that he believes. [[spoiler: He then uses that knowledge to help prevent the same thing from happening again.]]

* TookALevelInBadass

* ButtMonkey: A cheating husband? A miscarriage? A home invasion? [[spoiler: Considered utterly crazy]]? [[spoiler: Giving birth to some kind of demon child]]? Yep, it's all happened to our Viv.

* [[spoiler: DeathByChildbirth: Along with one of her twins.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's [[FridayNightLights Tami Taylor!]]

* NiceGirl

* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]

* [[spoiler: RapeAsDrama]]
** [[spoiler: ChildByRape: Her son with Tate.]]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.]]

* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: After she realizes she's dead.]]
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: It is later revealed that she did, in fact, die, as Tate wasn't able to save her in time.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Did not survive her overdose.]]

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]

* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]
* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* [[spoiler: TogetherInDeath: Initially with Tate, but rejects him in favor of her also dead family.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi, I'm Tate. [[spoiler: I'm dead.]] Want to hook up?"'']]

->''"I think I have mommy issues. You know a good therapist?"''

An unsettling new patient of Ben's, [[spoiler: later revealed to be the ghost of Constance's murderous son]].

* AnAxeToGrind: He uses an axe to kill [[spoiler: Bianca.]]

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.]]

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he killed Stephanie, Amir and Kevin in the Westfield High Massacre.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]

* InelegantBlubbering: In the last episode, after [[spoiler: Violet leaves him after finding out the truth about his past actions]], Tate is shown sobbing hysterically, a long string of snot dripping from his nose.

* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: Pre-death, he murders 15 classmates and disfigures his mother's boyfriend. Post-death, he kills more innocents and rapes Vivien, fathering a potential Antichrist in the process.]]

* MommyIssues: Tate describes himself as having these. [[spoiler: They've surfaced as what Moira describes as a compulsive need to please the ladies of the house, and are why he donned the rubber suit in the first place.]]

** Ultimately this is [[spoiler: averted. He's in love with her, but that doesn't stop him being a monster, albeit a regretful one.]]
* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* [[spoiler: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His rape of Vivien.]]

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, he takes responsibility for the heinous crimes he has committed, directly contradicting the denial-riddled nature of a sociopath. This suggests his character may have actually developed from the first episode to the last.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: He raped Vivien because he thought he was helping Nora, the only motherly figure he'd ever received attention and affection from (especially in light of his MommyIssues). Note, however, this only applies after his death and after he meets Violet.]]

->''"The one thing about the dead is they've got nothing left to lose."''

* BoomHeadshot: How he [[spoiler: kills Hayden.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: It's [[TrueBlood Russell Edgington!]]

* [[spoiler: PutOnABus: After episode 9, as he's sent to jail.]]

->''"Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was destined for great things. I was going to be somebody. Person of significance."''

->''"That's what men do--they make you think you're crazy so that they can have their fun."''

* NightmareFetishist

* StrangeGirl: She certainly loves the darker side of things.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Subverted when she fins out she's pregnant and sets up an appointment to get an abortion and it's presented as a rational and mature decision. [[spoiler:But then she changes her mind, decides to pull TheBabyTrap on Ben, and tries to move out to California to force him to stay in her life.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: As a ghost.

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!!Adelaide "Addie" [[spoiler: Langdon]]
->'''Played By:''' Jamie Brewer

* HauntedHouseHistorian: From the very first scene in the series, when she warns off the twins not to enter the house.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted. She is not that nice or innocent; she is every bit as messed up and creepy as the other characters on the show.
** She is one of the nicer people on the show though.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* OddFriendship: With Violet. She is initially creeped out by Addie, but later they manage to get along and Violet even gave her a makeover for Halloween so that she looked "like a pretty girl".
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb]]
* [[spoiler: WeHardlyKnewYe]]
* [[ManChild Womanchild]]

!!Marcy
->'''Played By:''' Christine Estabrook

* BitchInSheepsClothing
* HereWeGoAgain
* StepfordSmiler
* WrongGenreSavvy

!!Luke
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LukeAHS_2220.jpg]]

->'''Played By:''' Morris Chestnut

A security patroller and installation expert for Heirloom Security, a company hired by Vivien to protect the family.

* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy
* DemotedToExtra
* NiceGuy: One of the few actually nice guys in the show.
* MauveShirt
* OnlyOneName: His last name is never revealed.
* PutOnABus: After Ben confronts him, we don't get to see him again.

!!Troy & Bryan Rutger
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We got bats"'']]

->'''Played By:''' Kai and Bodhi Schulz

A chaotic pair of young boys who were killed inside the house when Addie was a little girl.
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* AxCrazy

* BatterUp
* CreepyChild
** CreepyTwins
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead
* HotBlooded
* {{Jerkass}}

* SacrificialLamb
* ScarsAreForever
* TeensAreMonsters
* WeaponOfChoice: Their bats.

!!Travis Wanderley
->'''Played By:''' Michael Graziadei

Travis is Constance's lover. He dreams of making it big, constantly auditioning and modeling. Unlike Constance, he has no reservations against nudity and is willing to do anything for the fame. After [[spoiler: Addie's]] death, Constance becomes more impatient with him, which caused him to [[spoiler: cheat on her with [[AxCrazy Hayden]]. Shortly afterwards, he is killed by Hayden.]]

* BrainlessBeauty
* [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]
* [[spoiler: GlasgowGrin]]
* FriendToAllChildren: He has this tendency. He gets along with Adelaide way better than Constance, [[spoiler: and he seems to genuinely enjoy playing with Larry's daughters and doesn't care about them being horribly burned. Their mother is surprised at how fast they bonded with him]].
* MayDecemberRomance: With Constance.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest character in the whole first season cast. [[spoiler: Yes, he cheated on Constance with Hayden, but he genuinely seemed to care about her and wanted to adopt a child with her. He was also one of the few to treat Adelaide with dignity, and after he dies, he even spends time playing with Larry's daughters.]]
** [[spoiler: Even in death, he cares about Constance. He asks Larry about her, and in "Afterbirth" forcibly takes Vivien and Tate's son away from Hayden so that Constance can have him.]]
** It's notable that along with the Harmon's he's one of the few [[spoiler:ghosts capable of creating a YouAreWorthHell type EarnYourHappyEnding by "living" happily with Larry's daughters.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Sleeps with [[spoiler: Hayden]] despite being in a relationship with Constance.

!!Chad Warwick
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I feel like I'm doomed for all of eternity to be trapped in an unhappy, adulterous relationship, working on this goddamn house. Which will never be just the way I want it."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/ZacharyQuinto

One of the previous owners of the house. He moved in with his boyfriend Patrick to the house with the desire to adopt a child and build a family, [[spoiler: but they soon start to fall apart. He and Patrick were killed by Tate on Halloween.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing

* CampGay
* ControlFreak
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]
* DeadpanSnarker

* HairTriggerTemper: He completely loses his shit over seemingly little things.
** To be fair to him, he was in a long term relationship [[spoiler: that was about to end]], with neither party willing to address the actual problems. Little stuff may be what they fight about on the surface, but underneath it is all the resentment and other major problems that had built up over the course of their relationship. [[spoiler: As his relationship with Patrick will ''never'' actually end as they both died in the house, he understandably gets even worse.]]
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeHam

* ThePerfectionist: Halloween parties are '''damn''' serious business.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Didn't so much plan to ''raise'' Vivien's twins as smother them once they were toddler-aged so they'd be 'cute forever'.]]

!!Patrick
->'''Played By:''' Teddy Sears

One of the previous owners of the house and Chad's boyfriend, Patrick spent more time at the gym that inside the house due to his fights with Chad. [[spoiler: When he decides to dress up for Halloween just like Chad wanted to, he finds Tate killing Chad and tries to intervine, but is killed by Tate as well.]]
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous
** Though he draws the line at [[spoiler: doing it with Tate.]] He whoops his ass instead. [[spoiler: Tate was his killer.]]
* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]
* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays]]
* [[spoiler: DeadToBeginWith]]
* GymBunny
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His absolutely awesome and long-deserved [[spoiler: beat-down of Tate.]]
* ManlyGay: If it wasn't for his massively promiscuous nature, you would never know.
* OnlyOneName
* [[spoiler: OurGhostsAreDifferent]]

!!Billie Dean Howard
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is a very crowded house."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Sarah Paulson

A psychic and old friend of Constance.