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    Fiona Goode 

Fiona Goode

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"I'm Fiona Goode. I'm in charge everywhere."
"You girls need to learn to fight. When witches don't fight, we burn."

As Supreme Witch of the Salem descendants, the glamorous Fiona Goode lives a life of style and luxury, traveling the world and hobnobbing with celebrities. Now, she returns home to Miss Robichaux's Academy in New Orleans with plans to rule her coven again and maybe repair her estranged relationship with her daughter Cordelia.


  • Abusive Parents: She's physically abusive and neglectful toward Cordelia.
  • Amnesia Loop: Heavily implied to be trapped in one, as the Axe-man implies that she's been in Hell for a long time by the time we see her, but that she loses her memory every morning and doesn't remember any of their previous encounters, forcing her to relive the same misery of realizing she's in Hell and trapped with the Axe-man for eternity.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: When the Axeman tells her his story, she says she does not believe in ghosts. Which given everything else she has seen, well... Though there is a strong possibility she is just saying that to mock him, or because she doesn't believe his story specifically.
  • The Archmage: The Supreme of the current generation, and was willing to kill the Supreme of the previous generation and anyone she thought was the Supreme of the next generation.
  • Bad Boss: Self-involved and utterly deceitful, she is a terrible leader. She eventually plans to murder everyone in the coven, including her daughter, so she can continue being the Supreme. And it's implied she'd do the same thing to the next generation of witches.
  • Bait the Dog: Fiona appeared to be someone who is a major Jerkass but at least somewhat cared. It isn't until "The Replacements" when you could see the real Fiona and how ruthless she can be in order to preserve herself.
  • Big Bad: Of the season. Though Marie was originally built up to take the role of Big Bad, it is the actions of Fiona that are ultimately the most damaging to the coven. Reaches its apex when she plots to murder ever single one of the witches in order to retain her vitality and position as Supreme.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: Forms an alliance with Marie Laveau.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Decides to double-cross and break the heart of a psychopathic ax-murderer. End well, end well it did, but then Hell happened.
  • Character Death: Her real death is when she dies in Cordelia's arms after her life force is taken by her daughter becoming Supreme.
  • Deadpan Snarker: This being a Jessica Lange role, she tends to get some of the better lines.
  • Driven to Suicide: Attempted. Spalding's ghost talks her out of it.
  • Dramatically Missing the Point / Dude, Where's My Respect?: Absolutely demands respect and appreciation as the Supreme, ignoring the fact that she regularly belittles, abuses, betrays, and plots to murder the witches in her coven.
  • Enemy Mine: Joins forces with Marie, whose kind she had been trying to start a war with, when the witch hunters prove to be an even bigger threat to her and her coven.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Even she's appalled by the things LaLaurie did. In "Head," as much of a bitch she can be, she's in awe by witnessing LaLaurie's beheaded (but live and kicking) corpse by the hands of Laveau.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She actually cares deeply for Cordelia, although in a rather twisted way.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Came back to say goodbye to Cordelia before she died.
  • Faking the Dead: She implanted fake memories of her death into the Axe-Man so that Cordelia would use her second sight to confirm her death, and with the identity of the next Superior still unknown, make all the remaining candidates perform the Seven Wonders so she could have one last chance at offing them.
  • Fantastic Racism: Zig-zagged. She's very openly bigoted towards Voodoo practitioners—to the point of plotting to end the already strained truce between them and the Salem descendants— and at one point, she insists that even the weakest witches are better than the best normal humans. However, she's disgusted by LaLaurie's ignorance and has explicitly stated that there's nothing she hates more than a racist.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Spending eternity with the Axe-Man in Hell. ...And even worse than that, she has to spend eternity with the Axe-Man in Hell in an really ugly house.
    Fiona: What is this... KNOTTY PINE!
  • Frameup: Used Queenie's ability to transfer pain and injuries to other people to frame Myrtle by giving her acid burns on her hand.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: Even by her own admission, she was a horrible Supreme.
  • Heel Realization: Part of the other witches' plot to kill and replace her is to have her confront the people she killed and achieve this. It works, although she doesn't end up killing herself.
  • Hot Witch: MILF version
  • Immortality Seeker: Wants immortality and youth.
  • Hypocrite: She loathes Voodoo practitioners (who are all shown to be of African descent) even moreso than the average Salem witch and is plotting to start a war with them, yet she forces Delphine to be the school's maid and Queenie's personal slave because as Fiona puts it, there's nothing she hates more than a racist. Driving the point further is that Fiona has an almost equally low view of normal humans and Delphine is one, albeit one cursed with immortality.
  • Ironic Hell: All powerful, fashionable, and a man-eater who was used to living in the lap of luxury. After she dies, she's sent to hell where she's forced to live in a tacky rundown home while trapped in a loveless relationship with none of her powers.
  • Ironic Name: Her last name is Goode; she's anything but. However, she fully lives up to the Borgia part of her name.
    • Her surname is most likely an allusion to her being a descendant of Sarah Goode, one of the accused during the Salem trials.
  • Jerkass: She's rude, arrogant, and seems to care only about herself.
  • Killed Off for Real: The Axe-Man hacked her to death and fed her to gators, guaranteeing she won't be coming back.
    • This turned out to be an illusion she planted in the Axe-Man's memory and she was still alive, at least until she finally succumbed to her life force being drained and absorbed by Cordelia. She's then sent to hell by Papa Legba, ensuring she won't be coming back to life any time soon.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Starts an anecdote about a calico cat just before being axed in the back.
  • Klingon Promotion: She killed the last Supreme to become the current one. She later killed Madison to remain in her position, thinking that she was her successor.
  • Lady of Black Magic: A charismatic witch who always exudes an air of glamour and grace. She's also the current Supreme and a master of the Seven Wonders.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Fiona is doing practically everything she can to make war break out between the witches and the Voodoo practitioners, including trying to make Bastien's attack look unprovoked rather than an attempt at Delphine. Even before she officially became the current Supreme, she tried to pin her murder of the last on Marie.
  • Narcissist: Fiona loves herself more than anyone else.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her callous disrespect of Marie is the main reason why Marie refuses to use her voodoo to help Cordelia get around her infertility.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Not only does she share many characteristics with Hillary Clinton, she is directly compared to her at one point. (Could also be considered a Take That!.)
  • Offing the Offspring: Despite regretting what a horrible mother she was, she would still willingly murder Cordelia if she had to.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • While wandering through the hospital after Cordelia's blinding, she comes across a grieving mother whose baby was stillborn and brings it back to life.
    • She shows genuine kindness to Marie after Hank kills all of Marie's allies. Even though it would be very easy (not to mention very in-character) to take Marie out while she's at her lowest point, she doesn't even consider it. It's enough to bring Marie to tears.
    • She also restores Kyle's mental state after Zoe and Madison's shoddy resurrection, although she had pragmatic reasons for that one.
  • Properly Paranoid: She doesn't like Cordelia's husband Hank. We learn of this right after we find out that he's both cheating on Cordelia and murdering his mistresses. Not only are they his mistresses, but they are actually witches. AND he's been working for Marie the entire time.
  • She's Back: For whatever reasons, she had been away for many years before returning back home.
  • The Sociopath: She only cares for herself, and will murder friends and family to stay alive.
  • The Soulless: When she tries selling her soul for immortality, Papa Legba tells her she doesn't have one to sell. As we later see her in Hell, this obviously wasn't literal, but her soul was too empty to be any good to him, since no matter what atrocity he'd make her commit, she'd barely feel any remorse or sadness from them, which is what he lives off of.
  • Strong as They Need to Be: One moment, she's on the verge of death and can barely rattle a door. Next moment, she's murdering powerful witches effortlessly and bringing down an entire corporation with her curses. Exactly how drained of her power she is is...inconsistent, to say the least.
    • During the aforementioned bringing down of the company, she collapses and Marie has to take care of her, so it shows that she at least had some trouble with it.
  • Superpower Lottery: Given she is the Supreme of the current generation, she possesses a quite wide array of powers, namely the Seven Wonders.
    • Mind over Matter: Telekinesis. She tends to use this to great effect, pinning people to walls or tossing them away.
    • Playing with Fire: Pyrokinesis. Uses it to set fire to Laveau's shop.
    • Mind Manipulation: Concilium. Can mentally manipulate people into doing things or forgetting. Stronger individuals can resist, but she'll turn their minds into mush for the effort.
    • Teleportation: Called "Transmutation". Doesn't use it a lot, but a noticeable use was when she transmuted in front of Anna Leigh to slash her throat.
    • Seers: Divination. The ability to derive knowledge about something or someone outside of the use of the physical senses.
    • To Hell and Back: Descensum. The ability to descend into one's personal hell and return.
    • Healing Hands / Life Drinker: Vitalum Vitalis. The balancing of the scales of life and death. Fiona brings a stillborn baby back to life and pulls Queenie from the brink of death. She also drains a doctor of his life force, momentarily restoring her youth.
  • Vain Sorceress: She's all about trying to get her youth back.
  • Would Hurt a Child: She kills teenagers Madison and Nan, and she is more than willing to sacrifice children or loved ones to Papa Legba in exchange for immortality. Though, he calls off that deal.

    Cordelia Foxx 

Cordelia Foxx, née Goode

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" I have half a mind to enchant the locks after you leave."
Played By: Sarah Paulson
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

The idealistic headmistress of Miss Robichaux's Academy, Cordelia Foxx is fiercely protective of the girls entrusted to her care. In the face of her larger-than-life mother Fiona, she struggles to maintain order amid the dark forces of chaos gathering within the school.


  • Alchemy Is Magic: Is good with potions and herbs.
  • Big Good: It takes some time to become Supreme, but she becomes this by the end of Coven and well into Apocalypse.
  • Blind Seer: After going blind, she sees things from being in contact with others and ghosts. She loses this power after Myrtle restores her sight, and regains it after she put her replacement eyes out with gardening shears.
  • Broken Masquerade: She went on television and revealed the Coven.
  • Butt-Monkey: This poor woman can't get a break. Since the series began, she's been humiliated time and again, be it by her mother doing whatever she wants, and her repeated failures to have children. Later, we find out her husband is not only cheating on her, but kills the woman (a witch) he's sleeping with, and that he's The Mole for the witch hunter cooperation, and later, she gets a jar of acid thrown right in her eyes. It's also explained that her mother has been putting her down for years growing up, which lead to her low sense of self-worth and stifling her powers.
  • Character Death: Stabs herself in the chest so Mallory would become she Supreme, her stab wound would heal, and she could kill Michael. Undone by Mallory.
  • The Chosen One: She's the next Supreme. And it comes a huge shock to her.
  • Disability Superpower: Going blind after taking some sulfuric acid to the face seems to have given her a degree of empathy. Myrtle would restore Cordelia's sight and she loses her second sight powers as a result. However, Cordelia blinds herself in "Protect the Coven" to get them back.
  • The Dog Bites Back: After having suffered through enough crap for a lifetime over six episodes, upon learning that Fiona killed Madison, Cordelia immediately decides she is fed up and enlists Zoe to help kill Fiona.
  • Eye Scream: Gets a jar of acid thrown in her face at the end of "Fearful Pranks Ensue." After having her sight restored sometime later, she willingly blinds herself with gardening shears to regain her Disability Superpower.
  • Fainting: Upon seeing Madison and Queenie returned from the dead in Apocalypse.
  • The Generic Girl: Or at least, according to her mother. Of course, when she gains and then loses her second sight, her mother still treats the way she was before, believing her to be nothing.
  • The Good Queen: In contrast to her mother, in the season finale, she shows every sign of becoming one of, and possibly the, best Supreme the coven has ever had.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: What her stabbing out her replacement eyes to regain her second sight is viewed as.
    • She does this again in Apocalypse where she gives up her title as Supreme to Michael Langdon and the warlocks after he brought Misty back from hell. Though it may be temporary as she has strong suspicions regarding Langdon's abilities.
    • Happens a third time during the Apocalypse finale. She stabs herself in the heart in her order to heal a badly wounded Mallory, thus giving her sufficient power to complete the time travel spell. (Mallory was meant to be the Supreme after Cordelia but she would be fully powered only after the preceding Supreme's death).
  • Hot Teacher: She's the headmistress of the Academy, and quite a looker at that.
  • I Am Not My Father: Or Mother, as the case may be. In Apocalypse, she worries that she's becoming more like Fiona because of her actions as Supreme.
  • Lady of Black Magic: She grows into this, eventually succeeding her mother as Supreme.
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: It's revealed she feels this way about Queenie's death in Hotel when she reappears in Apocalypse.
  • I See Dead People: Part of her new powers.
  • Law of Inverse Fertility: She desperately wants to have a baby with Hank, but it turns out she's infertile.
  • Mama Bear: Fondly calls all the other young witches 'her girls', and is extremely protective of them to the point of sacrificing herself so she could ensure their existence.
  • Master Poisoner: Tried to give her mother a "health infusion" that would have put her in a coma for a few days (or weeks, or years, who's counting).
  • My Greatest Failure: When Queenie died during the events of Hotel, Cordelia did everything in her power to get her back. But the hotel's dark powers wouldn't allow her to Queenie's spirit to return to the mortal world. She views being unable to bring Queenie back to be her greatest failure as Supreme.
  • Morality Pet: For Fiona, to some degree.
  • Parental Abandonment: Fiona was a neglectful and absent parent; she was more concerned with herself than Cordelia.
  • Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: The finale reveals that her apparent powerlessness stems from crippling suppression and self-doubt. Once she begins to believe in herself, she's able to complete the Seven Wonders with ease. Myrtle implies that the reason the other witches had all been manifesting such unexpected powers was because Cordelia's dormant magic needed to let itself out somewhere.
  • Shed the Family Name: A variation, as she drops her husband's name upon becoming Supreme. Justified, as 1) he was The Mole; not someone whose name she would want to keep and 2) it wasn't his real name anyway.
  • The Smart Girl: When she returns to the school, Fiona finds her daughter inside a botany room, taking notes after smoking and studying a weed-type plant. She also seems to be working on something to make people young again.
  • The Stool Pigeon: When the Council shows up at the school, Cordelia instantly blurts out everything that's happened in the past couple weeks without even knowing what the Council wants to talk about (Madison's disappearance). One reviewer referred to it as "pulling a Zoe."
  • Thanatos Gambit: With all her allies except Myrtle dead and Mallory dying, Cordelia realises she has no choice but to kill herself to allow Mallory the power to travel back int time and prevent Michael's ascension to power and the apocalypse.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Steadily grinds her way up over the course of the series, gaining some self-confidence and a Disability Superpower. Then she power levels up the ranks in the finale when she finds out she's the Supreme.
    • By the time Apocalypse, she's now become a more confident and assertive ruler who takes crap from nobody.
  • Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Her mother complimented her on the attempted murder of her.

    Spalding 

Spalding

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"Three-hundred years my family has been a clan of watchers...and now, I see everything."
Played By: Denis O'Hare

A mute butler at Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, his family served the coven for ten generations. He handles getting rid of the bodies.


  • Living Doll Collector: He turned Madison's body into one more of his dolls. He also takes the baby Marie kidnapped in as his own 'doll,' although it looks like he'll be taking a more caring approach with the latter.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Begins to show a knack for this after he becomes a ghost.
  • Poltergeist: After he's killed off.
  • Psycho Supporter: To Fiona, as a ghost. In "Protect the Coven," he manipulates Delphine into getting rid of Marie Laveau after Fiona has made peace with her, because he doesn't approve.
  • The Speechless: He's a mute. He cut out his tongue in order to prevent himself from confessing that he witnessed Fiona murdering the previous Supreme, as Myrtle had enchanted his tongue so that he could only tell the truth.
  • Stalker with a Crush: One towards Fiona, and it wouldn't be the first time either.
  • Taking the Heat: When he is found out by the girls that he kept Madison's body after her death by Fiona, he takes the heat for her.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Fiona. He cut out his own tongue to prevent himself from being forced to testify against her. He claimed to kill Madison when the rest of the coven girls found her corpse and claimed it was for sex, expecting to die for her. Even after he died, he haunted the home to tell Fiona that she was being manipulated into being killed.

    Madame LaLaurie 

Madame Delphine LaLaurie

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"I am Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie, and you're nothing!"
Played By: Kathy Bates
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse
"Hell is real. I've seen it, down in that box."

A high-society Creole socialite in 1830s New Orleans. Her love of hosting elegant parties is matched only by her taste for the gruesome torture of her slaves. Though murdered by the New Orleans Voodoo Queen for her sins, LaLaurie's fate is revealed as one worse than death. And one that has not yet ended. Shortly after being awoken in the present day, she's forced into being the coven's personal maid — much to her chagrin.


  • Abusive Parent: She's highly critical of her daughters, eager to marry them off no matter what they want. And when she finds out one of her daughters was seeing a slave, she loses her shit big time. When they planned to kill her, she has one chained, one's leg broken, and said she planned to do worse.
  • And I Must Scream: She was subjected to Captain Jack Harkness levels of torture, as she was Buried Alive for over a hundred-plus years, unable to die.
  • Black Widow: Freely admits she planned on murdering her husband eventually. The Voodoo witches beat her to it.
  • Blood Countess: She's a 19th century rich socialite who likes to torture her slaves for fun, and uses their blood as skincare in order to look younger. Although cursed, she becomes immortal. Even though she can be intimidated, she still keeps an arrogant (and racist, of course) attitude in her "second" life.
  • Butt-Monkey: She gets no respect from anyone and her well documented past has made her an acceptable target at all times. Ironically, the one person with whom she forms any sort of positive bond is Queenie.
  • Character Death: After her immortality is revoked, Queenie stabs her in the chest.
  • Character Development: After the events of Episode 3, she becomes a lot more humble and agreeable than before. Being saved by an African-American when you used to be one of the most horrible bigots in history will do that to you. She comes to see Queenie as a friend and seeks to become a new and better person. However, this all does not last.
  • Complete Immortality: Marie seemed to have cursed her with this. This turns out to be bound to Marie's own immortality. When Marie loses hers, so does Delphine.
  • Death Seeker: Which is tricky due to her immortality.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Both when she was a bored aristocrat and as a cursed immortal. She finds it in performing horrific surgeries on black people and using their blood as a moisturizer.
  • Enfant Terrible: When she was a child, she would kill animals.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's evil to the core, no question. But she loves all her daughters. Even "the ugly one," in her words. Her hell is to watch her daughter being tortured for all eternity.
    I don't care what kind of monster anybody says I am, I loved my girls...in my own way. Even the ugly one. From the moment she came out of my belly, she was a shame to me; she had the face of a damn hippo. But I loved her just the same.
  • Fair for Its Day: In-Universe. She tries explaining that she's a "product of her time," only to be told that excuse is a "crock of shit."
    • And it is. As stated during the tour of her house, her treatment of her slaves went way beyond anything permitted by the Code Noir, which was pretty harsh in and of itself.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Spending eternity being tortured by Marie LaVeau, along with her daughters.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Downplayed to some degree. She is bombastic and The Atoner, but she is still quite an evil woman. When talking to Queenie about her horrible deeds, she mentions about killing a newborn baby and while she does feel regret, she still holds no bounds of what she is capable of doing and could do.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: Comes with the territory when you've spent over a century buried underground. She calls a TV a "magic box" and thinks that it's lying when she sees Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
  • Historical Domain Character: Delphine LaLaurie.
  • Historical Villain Downgrade: Delphine's crimes were worse than depicted on the show, the riot was her fellow slaveowners turning against her for her ill-treatment of the slaves, and she survived the riot.
  • Human Resources: She killed slaves for their pancreases to make a youth potion...in addition to her other crimes against humanity.
    • She killed a newborn baby born from an affair between her husband and a young pretty slave, using the baby's blood for her youth potion and driving the mother to suicide.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Although she has at least made lip service to the idea that the world has moved on since her time, and seems affected by the Negro spiritual at the end of "Head," in "Protect the Coven," she resumes her old ways as she is Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life.
  • Irony: Fiona makes her a maid at the school. When she doesn't do her job properly, Fiona makes her Queenie's personal slave.
  • Karmic Death: She is finally killed in her own torture room, by the type of person she hated so much. And the only reason she can die in the first place is because she already butchered Marie.
  • Large Ham: Kathy Bates is having a lot of fun; LaLaurie is prone to making grandiose statements.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Marie puts her in a cage not unlike the type she kept her poor victims in, and even uses her blood as a beauty treatment in a similar way.
    • She also sends her still-living head back to the coven in a box, just like the coven did to Bastien.
  • Losing Your Head
  • Narcissist: She eventually winds up taking a job showing people around her home, which has been converted in the modern day to a sort of museum/house of horrors dedicated to her.
  • Mad Artist: She relates her lust for blood and murder to artistic inspiration.
  • Mercy Kill: Had to re-kill one of her daughters after they returned as zombies.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: She gradually begins to realize how much of a monster she was.
  • Never Found the Body: Because she was Buried Alive.
  • Odd Friendship: A tremendously odd one with Queenie.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Even if she wasn't a Serial Killer, the way she behaves towards everyone of color she encounters is reprehensible. She can't stand the idea of Barack Obama being President of the United States.
    • After Queenie sells her out to Marie, she loses any kind words she had for black people.
  • Serial Killer: She has this aspect in common with her historical counterpart. She might even be more brutal.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: LaLaurie considers herself "a visionary, ahead of her time."
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After a rather severe application of Break the Haughty, she manages to befriend Queenie and tries to genuinely better herself. It's a hell of a mountain to climb, but she seems to be getting there... until Queenie betrays her to Marie, at which point she reverts to her old hatreds and indulgent villainy.
  • Villain Has a Point: She gives a scathing put-down to Queenie's suggestion that she prostrate herself and seek forgiveness, viewing such an act as faux public penitence that's purely for show. Having seen a lot of this in the modern world, she would rather just be honest about herself, whatever that damns her to.
  • Would Hurt a Child: She murdered a newborn baby to use the blood as a beauty treatment. That's above and beyond. Even she considers it the worst thing she did.

    Anna-Leigh Leighton 

Anna-Leigh Leighton

The Supreme before Fiona.


    Kyle Spencer 

Kyle Spencer

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Played By: Evan Peters

The charismatic leader of his school's Kappa Lambda Gamma chapter. A native of New Orleans' Ninth Ward, Kyle has spend the years since Katrina supporting his single mother.


  • Advertised Extra: Next to Spalding, Kyle had the least essential arc.
  • And Call Him "George": The reason why Fiona made him the coven's replacement guard dog.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: He rejects Madison's advances, pushes her away, announces his love for Zoe, and runs to her.
  • Battle Butler: At the end of the season, he takes this role at the Academy.
  • The Big Guy: The role he plays for the coven, acting as their "guard dog."
  • Body Horror: His body was so badly mangled in the car wreck that Madison started picking up parts from the other frat boys in the morgue that she found attractive to make a "perfect boyfriend" for Zoe. This results in something that neither Kyle or his mother recognizes as "his" body.
  • Came Back Wrong: Madison's idea was to piece him together (using parts of his fraternity brothers) and resurrect him after she killed him by accident.
    • Zoe's been educating him in order to help him re-integrate back into society. Fiona seems to have improved his mental state in "Head," enough to speak clearly and play Gin.
  • Character Death: Killed by Madison flipping over the bus. Resurrected by Zoe and Madison.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He's nowhere to be seen during the Coven-centric flashback scenes in Apocalypse.
  • Dead Star Walking: Evan Peters is a very popular returning actor on AHS, but he's killed in the first episode. After that, however, he becomes a literal dead star walking.
  • Nice Guy: He's a good-hearted fellow who tries to help Madison and stop his "brothers."
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He's killed when trying to stop his frat brothers who raped Madison.
  • Lovable Jock: He's the only member of the fraternity who's a decent human being.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Very different. Actually, he's better described as "FrankenKyle."
  • Parental Incest: His mother was... inappropriate with him.
  • Passing the Torch: Last seen wearing Spalding's old butler threads, indicating that he's become his replacement.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Delivered to Madison as he strangles her to death when she tells him she loves him.
    Kyle: You're not that good of an actress.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: After his resurrection, his mindset is basically that of a frightened toddler. He calms down after the witches "raise" him by having him watch children's television and giving him simple books to read.
  • The Quiet One: After he Came Back Wrong, he's barely able to speak, so he's normally quiet. Gets a lot better after Zoe gets some education tapes and re-teaches him.
  • Rape as Backstory: Who knows how long his mother made him serve as replacement "man of the house"...
  • Satellite Character: He's basically been Zoe's pet boyfriend all season, largely due to his reduced mental state. We get more about his wants and goals in flashbacks, before his death.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: Spends most of the finale in a snappy butler outfit.
  • Super-Strength: Just like Frankenstein's creature, too.
  • Three-Way Sex: With Madison and Zoe.
  • Tragic Monster: Sure, he Came Back Wrong with lots of scars, can barely talk and is prone to violent fits, but he seems more overwhelmed at his situation than angry or belligerent at others. It's also implied he still has his memories (or is starting to regain them). Like the ones about his mother molesting him that make him lash out.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: His absence in Apocalypse is never explained, or even noted, in spite of being close to Zoe.

    Prudence Mather 

Prudence Mather

A former Supreme.
  • Character Death: She kills herself so that her successor will become Supreme.

    Prudence Mather's successor 

Prudence Mather's successor

A former supreme.

    Marianne Wharton 

Marianne Wharton

A former Supreme.

    Mimi 

Mimi DeLongpre

A former Supreme.

Students

    Zoe Benson 

Zoe Benson

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"Did we just marry the devil, because I don't know if I'm down with that?"
Played By: Taissa Farmiga
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse
"Witch up!"

Girl Next Door Zoe Benson has her life turned upside down in an instant when her true lineage is violently revealed. Ripped from her family and the only life she has ever known, Zoe must all-too-quickly learn to navigate her strange and uncontrollable gifts.


  • Ambiguously Bi: While Zoe is clearly attracted to men she does have sex with Madison during a threesome with her and Kyle. However, it's not clear if she's genuinely attracted to women or simply had sex with Madison out of loneliness and her and Kyle being the only two people she knew of who wouldn't be killed by her power.
  • Anti-Hero : Zoe is a Type IV. The most heroically aligned out of the coven. Not that it's saying much, as she is not averse to killing evildoers, though this often has her as the voice of reason.
  • Back for the Dead: Returns in Apocalypse, but is killed by Michael and Miriam before the titular disaster happens, and Cordelia is unable to revive her.
  • Back from the Dead: In Coven. Revived by Cordelia after dying via accidental impalement.
    • Deader than Dead: Mead shoots her in the head, and Michael destroys her soul, leaving Cordelia unable to bring her back again.
  • Character Death:
    • Teleoprts herself onto a spiky fence and dies. Resurrected by Cordelia.
    • Shot in the face by Miriam Mead robot. Her soul is destroyed by Michael so Cordelia can't resurrect her. Undone by Mallory.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Madison's Veronica. While Madison is very lust-driven in her relationship with Kyle, Zoe is more focused on rehabilitating and educating him.
  • Big Damn Heroes: She saves Nan and Luke from zombies.
  • Blessed with Suck: Her main power is a vagina that kills people she has sex with. Except for Kyle and Madison, who have already died once.
  • Break the Cutie: We're just getting warmed up.
  • Can't Have Sex, Ever: Because she's Blessed with Suck. Except with Kyle and Madison.
  • Chainsaw Good: Goes to town with one when the school is attacked by zombies.
  • The Cutie: Definitely the most adorable witch in the coven.
  • Decoy Protagonist: It looked like she was going to be the lead. She had a lot of screen time, was shown to be very powerful, and was setting herself up to be a great leader. But no, she is not the Supreme and loses focus near the end. However, she is at the very least the Supporting Protagonist.
  • Dispel Magic: One of her powers that she developed allowed her to completely cancel the necromantic ritual that Marie LaVeau had cast it on the covenant's home.
  • Fake Cutie: As adorable and naive as she is, she's not above murder and deception.
  • Girl with Psycho Weapon: Again, chainsaw.
  • Healing Hands: Seems to have a more narrow form of it. She helps Misty bring Madison back from the dead, presumably due to her affinity with the dead.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Out of the coven, she's got the least practical gifts, mostly being about the undead and interacting with spirits. It also happens that a certain Voodoo Queen is very susceptible to them.
  • Hypocrite: Despite murdering people when she feels it is necessary, Zoe is quick to criticize others for doing the exact same thing.
  • I Lied: In regards to giving Axeman release. She only promised him release, she would never go through with it.
  • Ironic Name: Zoe is Greek for "life."
  • Last of Their Kind: Zoe rightfully points that she, Madison, Nan and Queenie are what's left of the Salem descendants.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: Whenever things get very dangerous, she's always the first to take action.
  • Lovable Coward: Averted. Zoe seemed to be leaning this way in the latest episode, but ultimately struck down when she came to Nan and Luke's rescue against zombies.
  • Mercy Kill: She was going to attempt this on Kyle, but he ran away before she got the chance.
  • Necromancer: Seemingly developing powers related to spirits and the undead as the season goes on.
  • Only Sane Man: She tends to be the voice of reason in the conflicts of the others.
  • Out with a Bang: One of her powers is essentially this. Anyone besides Madison and Kyle who get into bed with her won't be waking up.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Zoe killed the frat boy who led the gang rape of Madison by herself, raping him while he was in a coma. She also killed Spalding.
  • Recessive Super Genes: While her parents have no magic powers whatsoever, it's her grandmother she inherits said powers from.
  • Relationship Upgrade: With Kyle.
  • Seers: When it comes to the undead and spirits, she is incredibly adept at dealing with them, despite having no knowledge about them. When trying to move Axeman on, she is able to pick out an exact book in a foreign language containing a spell that will get rid of him.
  • The Stool Pigeon: The moment the police came investigating a murder, she sold out everyone. This happens in a moment of panic, however.
  • Teleportation: In "The Seven Wonders."
  • Tele-Frag: She impaled herself in a game of Teleportation Tag with the others.
  • Three-Way Sex: With Madison and Kyle.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In "Burn, Witch! Burn!" and after, she's setting herself up to be the leader. This involves beheading several zombies and using her influence over the undead to overpower Marie La Veau.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She is quick to resort to killing in the face of injustice, as seen at the end of "Bitchcraft."
  • Vagina Dentata: Subverted, but the same basic principle. Having sex with her will result in a fatal stroke.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She isn't good at planning things. A good example is her spectacular failure at attempting to revive Kyle and re-integrate him into society. She takes a brain that hasn't had oxygen for days and places it on top of a pile of badly sewn body parts, resurrects it, attempts to pass it for human, and then sends it back to its sexually abusive mother. Needless to say, this was not a good move.

    Madison Montgomery 

Madison Montgomery

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Played By: Emma Roberts
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

"As the next Supreme, I'm going to drag this coven out of the dark ages. Crotch-less panties for everyone!"

A student witch at Miss Robichaux's Academy, with the power of telekinesis. A former teen actress, she's a total party girl and something of an Alpha Bitch who bonds with Zoe due to her tensions with Queenie and Nan. Murdered by Fiona in episode 3 out of fear that she would become the next Supreme, but it is revealed she has a heart murmur that the Supreme would not have. Resurrected by Misty. She later shows up at the end of the third episode of Apocalypse along with Cordelia Goode and Myrtle Snow, having been brought back from her personal hell by Michael Langdon.


  • Alpha Bitch: She tries to be, anyway. Queenie, in particular, has no problem putting her in her place.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Madison is trapped in Hell again in the revised timeline's Apocalypse, but Mallory promises to go back for her after she "sweats it out" a little longer. It's unclear whether she actually returns for Madison, given it's not shown onscreen.
  • Back from the Dead: Resurrected by Misty and Zoe. The first time anyway. And once again, following her second death by being strangled by Kyle, as she shows up in Apocalypse. Michael Langdon rescued her from her personal hell — working retail.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Zoe's Betty.
  • Break the Haughty: First, she gets in a fight with Queenie and loses, then she gets telekinetically bitch-slapped by Fiona (whom Madison later learns is the Supreme) and, lastly, she's gang-raped by frat boys at a party. And that's just the first episode!
    • The moment Misty gets back from being entombed, she kicks her ass.
  • Broken Bird:
    • After she's gang-raped by a bunch of frat boys. Later, after spending several days being dead, the once brash and confident girl is left timid, uncertain and even more broken. Although she bounces back somewhat.
    • She seemed to be nicer post-revival, but it should be noted that she turned for the worse when Kyle and Zoe got together without her.
  • Came Back Wrong: She claims to be unable to feel anything upon resurrection.
  • Can't Take Criticism: When her director criticized her performance in a music video, her response was to kill him.
  • Character Death:
    • Fiona slits her throat. She is resurrected by Zoe and Misty.
    • She is stranged by Kyle. In the erased timeline, she is resurrected by Michael. In the new timeline, Mallory eventually resurrects her.
    • In the erased timeline, Michael makes her head blow up.
  • Character Development: Madison shows more signs of self-lessness and maturity after her resurrection in "Apocalypse". While she still remains self-centered, vulgar and judgmental, she takes her role as Cordelia's council member more seriously and does her best to ensure the safety of her Supreme and the Coven. She shows more kindness to those around her and is even willing to reflect on her own past actions.
  • Date Rape: The victim of it.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Marks herself as such by calling Zoe "Sabrina" and tossing around insulting, cynical quips from there on.
  • Dead Guy on Display: Her body ends up residing inside Spaulding's room.
  • Depraved Bisexual: While Madison is seen almost exclusively flirting with and having sex with men she also has sex with Zoe by way of a threesome with her and Kyle.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: In "The Sacred Taking," she's visibly shocked by Queenie killing and gutting a man before taking his heart out. Granted, the man was a rapist who had assaulted three or more according to Queenie, but oddly Madison, who had murdered her own rapist(s), is taken aback by this.
  • Exhausted Eye Bags: After being brought Back from the Dead.
  • Fate Worse than Death: As seen in Apocalypse, her personal hell is working retail.
  • Forgot About Her Powers:
    • She's the direct victim of the same one twice, without even a token attempt at handwaving to explain why: When a furious Misty Day decides to kick her ass, Madison somehow forgets that she has magical powers. So instead of throwing her attacker through a wall, or setting her on fire, or controlling her mind, or teleporting away, she instead simply allows the much larger and stronger woman to thrash her. The exact same thing happens again in the finale, when Kyle attacks her, though this time with fatal results. The latter could be justified by the fact that she was an emotional wreck by that time; the former was probably just cathartic for the fans and Misty.
    • A more minor example, but she is shown several times carrying a lighter with which to light her cigarettes, seemingly forgetting her pyrokinesis. There's little danger involved in lighting them with magic, given that she lit Fiona's cigarette effortlessly from one room over in the third episode.
  • Girls with Guns: In the '"Apocalypse" finale, she takes the machine gun from the remains of the Mead android and fires at Langdon point blank.
  • Hard-Drinking Party Girl: In Queenie's words:
    "Madison Montgomery is a stone-cold bitch who loves hard drinking, big dicks and trouble. If she's dead, it's probably 'cause she got wasted and offered the Grim Reaper a hand job or something."
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Related above, she stays behind to stall Langdon while Cordelia and the others prepare the time travel spell.
  • Hot Witch: Hot damn, is she ever! And she knows how to use it, although her rockin' bod doesn't work on Luke.
  • Hypocrite Is taken aback by Queenie murdering a rapist with 3-plus sexual assaults to his count, despite having killed nearly all of the frat boys who had gang-raped her via telekinesis without a thought.
  • Informed Flaw: Her acting ability is apparently terrible.
  • Ironic Hell: In Apocalypse, Michael Langdon finds Madison's soul in her personal hell, forced to work in a retail store, constantly being verbally abused by rude customers, no one recognizing her celebrity status, and being cattle prodded by her manager if she doesn't do her job correctly. The personal massagers are also always out of stock so she's unable to get off as well!
  • Jerkass: She's generally dismissive of others. Even after death.
  • Killed Off for Real: Subverted. Fiona, convinced that Madison was destined to be the next Supreme, tries to get her to off her the same way she did the previous Supreme. Madison refuses and her throat winds up slit in the struggle. Turns out she was wrong. Her body is then kept around by Spaulding for several episodes until she is brought back to life.
    • Later, she was strangled to death by Kyle for letting Zoe die.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: She has used her powers to kill a director by making a light fall onto his head, landing her in the school. She later uses her powers to flip an entire moving bus over, causing it to crash and blow up.
  • Mind Control: Picks it up after about thirty seconds of tutoring from Fiona.
  • Mind over Matter: And that's "mind over a lot of matter." Although her control over her telekinesis is sometimes a bit lacking, she has plenty of raw power.
  • Minidress of Power: Wears a very sexy blue one, but Luke is sadly immune.
  • Must Have Nicotine: Upon rising from the dead, her first words are "I need a cigarette."
  • Ms. Fanservice: Especially in her awesome blue dress, and even when she turns up in red to shock Fiona.
  • Narcissist: A malignant example given that she displays sociopathic and sadistic character traits. Like Fiona, she craves to be the center of everyone's attention and exhibits no concern for others' well-being aside from the extent that doing so reinforces her bloated ego. However, unlike Fiona, she seems almost completely incapable of experiencing shame and harbors no attachments to anyone or anything. Following her resurrection, her sociopathic qualities become even more pronounced as she wantonly gratifies herself through reckless thrill-seeking behavior and sadistically exercising power over others.
  • Necromancer: Brings a man back from the dead effortlessly, just to demonstrate to Misty how powerful she's become. Though this may have been a trick of some sort.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She flips the gang rapists' bus in order to get revenge, but not only does she end up not killing her main rapist, she kills the only one of them that had tried to stop her rape. And then when she tries to bring Kyle back, he comes back wrong.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: She has been called "Lindsay Lohan with magic powers."
  • Pet the Dog: In Apocalypse, she feels sorry for Tate and Violet's tragic romance and brings them together.
  • Playing with Fire: She develops the ability to set things on fire with her mind in episode 3.
  • Rape and Revenge: Promptly flipped over a limo bus of the frat boys who raped her and killed seven of them, but not the one who started it.
  • Red Herring: Being brought back from the dead cured her heart murmur, which seems to put her back in the running for being the Supreme. Except it doesn't.
  • Scars Are Forever: At first, her Slashed Throat wound never healed after she was brought back to life and wears a scarf to conceal it. Later episodes show that her neck is just fine, albeit looking like a normal scar.
  • Sex for Solace: Has sex with Kyle since it's the only time she can feel anything.
  • Shower of Angst: After being raped.
  • Slashed Throat: How she ends up being killed by Fiona after the latter begged her to kill her only to slash her throat with a knife.
  • Smoking Is Glamorous: Her smoking is in the style of a movie star (or more specifically, a child star grown into a sexy bad girl), and she carries her cigarettes in an elegant, old-fashioned cigarette case.
  • Smug Super: If there's one common trait about Miss Madison Montgomery, it was that she is very smug and having powers just added more to her favor.
  • Sore Loser: She reacts poorly when she fails the divination test in the finale.
  • Spoiled Brat: Has a raging sense of entitlement and reacts very poorly to being told "no".
  • Stage Mom: Her mother was like this.
    She snorted most of my coke and let me get busted by the cops!
  • Story-Breaker Power: Starts with immensely powerful telekinesis, then develops pyrokinesis, then (apparently) makes a start on learning telepathic compulsion. One wonders if the reason for her abrupt death was because otherwise she would have effortlessly destroyed the army of zombies by squashing them all into little cubes, then turning them into charcoal briquettes. Only becomes more apparent upon her return, when she develops Transmutation, Vitalum Vitalis, and Descensum, surpassing most of her fellow witches by developing a total of six out of the Seven Wonders. Even though she was not fated to become the Supreme, it's clear that she was on her way to becoming a very powerful witch.
  • Superpower Lottery: See above. She's incredibly powerful and has developed a lot of abilities over the course of the show.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: To near Jesse Pinkman levels.
  • Three-Way Sex: With Zoe and Kyle.
  • Token Evil Teammate: She's the least moral among the witches and would need even the simplest of motives in order to betray them. In Apocalypse, she questions Cordelia's willingness to trust her loyalty to the Coven. Even mentioning that she could very well be working for Langdon after resurrecting her.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: When we see her again in Apocalypse, she's noticeably matured a lot, and helps to —among other things— help bring Moira's ghost to peace, and leads Violet and Tate to reconcillation.
  • Tranquil Fury: After her gang rape, just watch, as she calmly walks over to where Zoe was in the street and with a wave of her hand, she flips over an entire bus which then explodes, all without a scream or anything. Just a silent rage.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Misty brings her back from the dead. A few episodes later, Madison knocks Misty out and buries her when she starts overshadowing her.
    • She let Zoe remain dead despite the fact that she brought her back to life as well.
  • Villainous Breakdown: When she fails the Divination portion of the Seven Wonders, she completely loses it.
  • Walking Spoiler: Not as horrible as Dr. Thredson from the season before, but she is a vital and spoiler-ish character.
  • Woman Scorned: After Kyle makes it clear that he only loves Zoe, Madison vowed to take him apart.
  • Your Head A-Splode: In the "Apocalypse" finale, Langdon has her head exploded.

    Misty Day 

Misty Day

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"Power of resurgence. I like the sound of that."
Played By: Lily Rabe
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

"That's the thing. You can't be your best self until you find your tribe. I'm still looking for mine."

A young woman from a backwoods Pentecostal community in the bayou of Louisiana, Misty Day is misunderstood and even feared by those in her own community. Without a coven to call her own, Misty spends her days meandering the swamps and listening to Stevie Nicks. She loves animals and was thought to be the next Supreme.


  • Action Girl: Madison tries to get away with entombing her. Misty responds by kicking her ass so thoroughly that Madison is forced to crawl away futilely, and is only saved when Kyle separates the two.
  • And I Must Scream: Her ultimate fate, as she is forced to relive dissecting a frog against her will in a loop. Thankfully she escapes with the help of Langdon. Or in the revised timeline, with the help of Nan and Papa Legba, as a favor to Mallory for killing Langdon.
  • Animal Motif: She's first seen resurrecting a dead dove, and her many shawls give the impression of wings.
  • Back from the Dead: Resurrected by Michael Langdon in Apocalypse.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Misty is one of the most genuinely nice people you can hope to come across and loves all living things, even showing reservations about hurting a plant. But she will kick the ass of anyone who tries to hurt her, one of her friends, or harms an animal.
  • Buried Alive: Madison had her entombed after knocking her out. She gets out.
  • Burn the Witch!: Was burned at the stake.
  • Character Death:
    • She is burned alive by religious fundamentalists who believed she worships the Devil. She resurrects herself.
    • She dies of starvation after Madison buries her alive. Resurrected by Queenie.
    • She can't get out of Hell during the Descensum part of the Seven Wonders. Her body turns to ashes. In the erased timeline, she is resurrected by Michael. In the new timeline, Nan and Papa Legba resurrect her.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She is initially presumed dead and used as a cautionary tale to the Academy witches. Then it turns out she managed to save herself. Then it turns out she has a talent for bringing main characters back from the dead, and may be the next Supreme.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Living in isolation after being unsuccessfully burnt at the stake has made Misty desperate for human company and more than a little strange.
  • Danger Takes a Backseat: How she meets Zoe after she and Madison had brought Kyle back to life.
  • Detect Evil: She warns Cordelia that she could feel an evil presence emitting from Langdon when he came to rescue her from hell.
  • Fangirl: She absolutely loves Stevie Nicks.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Locked in an endless loop dissecting/reviving frogs in Hell. Subverted in Apocalypse when Langdon arrives and gets her out.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Explicitly states she doesn't need magic to fight.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Very much so, to the point where poachers are what she hates the most. With emphasis on the "living" part. Unfortunately for her, this is also the reason why she is trapped in Hell, as she just can't bring herself to let that frog die.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: The girl can fight. She beat the hell out of Madison for entombing her.
  • Healing Hands: She has the power to bring the dead back to life, any type. She raised alligators who were poached and used them to kill the poachers. She's also raised Myrtle, Madison, and Joan from the dead.
  • Healing Herb: She's also good at preparing these.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: She's overjoyed to have Zoe around, making sure she'll come back. Averted when she chooses not to join the Academy, not liking the bad vibes of the place.
  • Killed Off for Real: Her soul descended to Hell and didn't return after sunrise. Her body turned to dust. That is until Apocalypse.
  • Nice Girl: From what we've seen, so long as you don't go around poaching animals or, you know, trying to burn her at the stake, or even entombing her, she's a very nice girl.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Unfortunately, her well-intentioned resurrection of Joan means that Joan is alive and able to kill Luke. And, in fact, her resurrection of Madison comes back to bite her personally.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: She is not pleased when Madison tries to kill her.
  • Not Quite Dead: Survived being burned as a witch by using herbs she found in the swamps.
  • The Ophelia: Wild hair, in tune with nature, more than a little out there... all she needs to do is kick off her boots and she would be a spitting image.
  • Pet the Dog: After she finds Myrtle's burnt corpse, she brings her back to life and starts to heal her. While Myrtle didn't come back perfectly, it's certainly an improvement upon the charred pile of flesh and bones she was before. While it's unknown whether Misty was aware of how Myrtle was innocent of the crimes she was burnt at the stake for, the fact remains that she gave an innocent woman a second chance at life.
    • Also, has a rather sweet moment where she takes the time to thank Cordelia, the mistreated Butt-Monkey of the school, for teaching her potions, saying what a great leader she thinks Cordelia is.
  • Punny Name: "Misty Day" is pretty self-explanatory as far as puns go.
  • Put on a Bus: After being resurrected by Langdon and reunited with her coven in Apocalypse, Misty asks to take a leave of absence in order to regain herself after her period in Hell. Thus she isn't as involved in the events of the season as her witch sisters.
  • Quirky Curls
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Averted. She serves this purpose to bring Fiona back to the Academy and serve as a cautionary tale, but she actually survived and disappeared from public view.
  • Story-Breaker Power: To the point where characters had to become smart enough to get around this.
    • Her power to bring back the dead would totally ruin Cordelia's realization of being the Supreme, thus she's killed off permanently before Zoe's death.
  • Sweet Home Alabama: Has a strong Southern accent, raves about the healing properties of the bayou, and is a very sweet girl. She only loses her Nice Girl attitude when Kyle breaks her CD player and when she’s buried alive.
  • Unexplained Recovery: It is never really explained how she turned up alive and well after being burned alive. Misty makes an offhand mention that she brought herself back from the dead, but nothing more is elaborated on that, or if she is even correct in her claim.
  • Would Rather Suffer: After Cordelia reveals that she was brought back to life thanks to Langdon and even gave up her title as Supreme to do so, Misty says that it would have been better if she stayed in Hell, as she could feel an evil force coming from him.

    Nan 

Nan

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"If I was the Supreme, I would only do good."
Played By: Jamie Brewer
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

A student witch at the academy. In addition to having Down Syndrome, she is a clairvoyant and empath who knows more than she lets on.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: The nicest, sweetest girl at the academy. Then she finds out Luke's mom killed him. And forces her to drink a bottle of bleach.
    • She also ends up as Papa Legba's assistant in Hell, and admits that she quite enjoys it.
  • Blessed with Suck: Her abilities can be helpful, but also open her up to more negative emotions such as her trip to Madame LaLaurie's home. It gets to the point of having to release Delphine in order for the emotions she was sensing from her to stop. She is also the only witch shown whose powers have no immediate combat use. She does eventually develop the power of mind control, but is killed before she gets a chance to do much with it other than kill Joan.
  • Break the Cutie: Upon discovering that Joan murdered Luke, Nan forces her to drink bleach with her newfound Mind Control powers.
  • Broken Pedestal: Doesn't seem all too pleased to see Cordelia in Apocalypse.
  • Camp: Dressed as a Puritan when Fiona told the girls to wear something black for a class trip. However, her clothing style is by far the most conservative of the four students, barring the occasional high heel.
  • Character Death: Drowned by Fiona and Marie as a sacrifice for Papa Legba.
  • I Choose to Stay: She has the chance to come back to life at the end of Apocalypse, but decides to stay in Hell instead.
  • The Empath: She doesn't just see the past; she can feel the emotions of other people.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. Zoe finds out, through a spell, that Fiona and Marie killed her, and Queenie is seen trying to contact her in the beginning of "The Seven Wonders". Played somewhat straight in Apocalypse where it seems that Zoe never told Cordelia what happened to her and Cordelia was thus shocked to learn she was in Hell.
  • A Hell of a Time: In Apocalypse, Nan admits that she's having a wonderful time in Hell with Papa Legba.
  • Killed Off for Real: Fiona and Marie drown her and give her soul to Papa Legba.
  • Kill the Cutie: Drowned by Fiona and Marie, both as an offering to the Voodoo Spirit and to eliminate her as a threat.
  • Knight Templar: Downplayed. Nan insists she will still use her powers for good even after forcing someone to drink bleach, even if it was deserved.
  • Mind Control: Is revealed to have gained this by episode 10.
  • My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Her power, demonstrated when she senses Zoe's past within a few minutes of meeting her.
  • Mundane Utility: She has used her powers to learn boys' favorite foods and woo them.
    • She also uses headphones to listen to music to block out most of her power troubles.
  • Nice Girl: Assures Zoe she will find love again and convinces an aggressive Queenie to stop hurting Madison.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Not knowing who she was, she lets Delphine go because she was "thinking too loud" and Nan couldn't stand it. Delphine then knocks Queenie out with a candlestick.
  • Power Incontinence: Can't shut off her power. She can, however, wear earphones.
  • Really Gets Around: She reveals this when Madison calls her and Queenie virgins. Makes sense, since her power means she can tell when a guy is into her.
  • The Snark Knight: She becomes this somewhat towards the end of her arc, exerting her power over Madison and telling Marie Laveau to eat her shit.
  • The Stool Pigeon: Called the Council of Witches when she couldn't sense Madison.
  • Through His Stomach: Nan successfully catches the affections of Luke by giving him yellow cake with buttercream frosting, the one thing he can't resist! Her cooking even manages to get Luke to ignore Madison's obvious attempts to seduce him.
  • Support Party Member: Mostly benefits the coven through her telepathy and clairvoyance, as her powers - like Zoe's - have little application in combat.
  • Supreme Chef: Did you see the cake she made for Luke?
  • Token Good Teammate: Nan is thus far the most gentle and perceptive of all the girls, despite her participation in the student hazing. This may have something to do with her Blessed with Suck empathy powers, or she was just having childish fun with the others.

    Queenie 

Queenie

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"You just wanted love and they called you a beast. They called me that too."
Played By: Gabourey Sidibe
Appearances: Coven | Hotel | Apocalypse

An inner-city math prodigy from Detroit, Queenie never identified with the mostly-white witches on television until she became one herself. Having grown up in foster care, she may have finally found a true family at the Academy... if she can survive the experience.


  • Anti-Hero: Is the only character on the show, aside from Zoe, that thoroughly enjoys employing the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique and Pay Evil unto Evil a little too much.
  • Ate His Gun: To kill Hank using her voodoo powers.
  • Back for the Dead: Queenie makes a return appearence in the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel ... only for her throat to get slashed by one of the Cortez's ghosts, rendering her "human voodoo doll" powers ineffective.
    • Back from the Dead: Michael Langdon retrieves her from the Cortez in Apocalypse, implying she's alive again.
      • And then she's killed yet again, by Michael and Miriam. Cordelia isn't able to revive her.
      • Deader than Dead: Madison believes that Michael used his ability to destroy souls on her and the other victims of his and Miriam's purge.
      • Subverted in the finale when Mallory is successful in changing the timeline and is able to convince Queenie not to go to Los Angeles for her vacation.
  • Big Eater: She's an over-eater and aware of it.
  • Brawn Hilda: She's very aggressive and has the size to back it up.
  • Burger Fool: What she was before joining the coven. She considers it the worst period of her life, to the point that being stuck there forever is her personal Hell.
  • Character Death:
    • ,She bleeds out after Bastien attacks her, but is resurrected by Fiona.
    • She is stabbed by James March in the erased timeline. She is resurrected by Michael in the erased timeline, and convinced to not go to the Hotel Cortez by Mallory in the new timeline.
    • She is shot by robot Miriam Mead in the erased timeline. Her soul is destroyed by Michael so Cordelia can't resurrect her.
  • Desperately Craves Affection: Even the most love hungry people would usually think of better options than a Minotaur on a search-and-destroy mission, but Queenie has an interesting definition of "the right guy" to wait for.
    • When offered affection from Marie in exchange for Delphine, she sells her out (though only after having Delphine confess her worst crime).
  • Disproportionate Retribution: A customer at her old fast food job was harassing her so she used her powers to deep fry his hand. It's how she was found.
  • Feels No Pain: She says it verbally after stabbing herself with a fork to torment Madison.
    • Though it only seems to work when she activates her powers, as Delphine cracked her good with a candlestick holder.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: She and Delphine have saved each other, and the two have grown closer because of it. Then subverted when Queenie assists Marie in capturing Delphine.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Non-villainous variant.
  • Go-Karting with Bowser: Upon being killed and trapped in the Hotel Cortez, Queenie spends the next several years playing poker with James Patrick March, one of the deadliest serial killers in the series.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: She can go from calmly reasonable to "Bitch I will eat you!" rather quickly.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Shoots herself in the head so she can remotely kill Hank and save Marie. She survives, but the intent is still the same.
  • Informed Ability: Supposedly very good at math. It doesn't really play into anything.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Rather gleefully uses it on Spalding.
  • Never Found the Body: Zoe mentions that they never found the body and the police have yet to release the names of the dead from the hair salon massacre, leaving her fate during "The Magical Delights Of Stevie Nicks" ambiguous.
    • She lived, due to the discovery of an 11th-Hour Superpower. But even then, it was established that even if she did die, the witches planned to bring her back anyway.
  • No-Sell: Averted. Her powers only work if she does it to herself. She can still be attacked and injured normally. Played straight when she makes a return in Hotel, when Ramona Royale attacks her, but takes the damage herself. Perhaps she expanded her abilities in between Coven and Hotel.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Like many of the witches and doesn't seem to question the morality of it much.
  • Sassy Black Woman: Queenie lives to deflate Madison's pretenses with a few sharp words.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Abandons the coven in order to join Marie Laveau. Doesn't seem all that happy to go back when Marie switches sides.
  • Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: Since she's a living voodoo doll she can harm herself and an identical wound will appear on her victim. She also recovers extremely quickly from such wounds.
  • Slashed Throat: On the receiving end, courtesy of James Patrick March. Because March is a ghost, her human voodoo doll power doesn't work on him.
  • There Is No Higher Court: While arguing with the customer at her old job:
    Customer: Let me speak to your manager!
    Queenie: I am the manager!
  • Token Minority: Not only is she currently the only black witch at the Academy, but she's also the descendant of Tituba, the Token Minority of the Salem Witches.
  • Voodoo Doll: She describes herself as a human voodoo doll; whatever she inflicts on her body appears on anyone she chooses, while causing no pain or injury to herself. Unfortunately for her, this power doesn't work on ghosts and merely vaguely distracts robots...

    Millie 

Millie

Played by: Grace Gummer
A student witch at the academy in 1919.
  • Character Death: Judging by Zoe's claim that she, Nan, Queenie, and Madison are the only Salem descendants left, she isn't alive.

    Helen 

Helen

Played by: Lyndsay Kimball
A witch who was a bully towards the other students when Fiona was a child.

Others

Voodoo Witches

    Marie Laveau 

Marie Laveau

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"She done mess with the wrong witch."
Played By: Angela Bassett
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

The Voodoo Queen who is well-known throughout New Orleans. Her status in the Voodoo practice is equivalent to that of the Supreme Witch Fiona Goode. She runs a hair salon as a front to live normally in modern society. She once made a truce between the witches and the voodoo practitioners of New Orleans, until Fiona's actions put it under strain.


  • The Ageless: Marie was born in 1794. She looks damn good for 220!
    • In Episode 11, we find out she's actually some 90-120 years older than even that.
  • Anti-Villain: While she can be terrifying, the only people she openly and directly attacks are people who really had it coming (though she's less than concerned about collateral damage) and she also gives free haircuts to her nicer customers at the salon.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: Set up as the main antagonist of the season and the biggest threat to the Coven. However, when she's briefly overshadowed by the Delphi Trust she puts aside her differences with the academy witches and teams up with Fiona to destroy the corporation.
  • The Cameo: She makes a minor appearance in the Apocalypse finale where she helps the Coven fight back against Langdon.
  • Character Death:
    • The first time she dies, she is dismembered by Delphine and her immortality is taken by Papa Legba.
    • Her second death is when Michael takes our her heart with his bare hand and eats it. This death was undone by Mallory.
  • Crusading Widow: Her lover Bastien was one of Madame LaLaurie's victims. Only except her lover is alive still.
  • Deal with the Devil: Her immortal life comes at the price of one innocent soul (a baby) per year, starting with her firstborn.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: Marie is set up as the main antagonist, only to be overshadowed by the Delphi Trust. She teams up with Fiona to destroy them, but has her immortality revoked by Papa Legba in the penultimate episode.
  • Enemy Mine: With the Salem witches against the witch hunters.
    • She joins forces with them again in the Apocalypse finale.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Zigzagged. She sacrifices babies to maintain her immortality, but balks at the prospect of torturing Delphine's daughter, saying that the girl did nothing to deserve it.
  • Evil Laugh: When Cordelia asks for a spell to have a baby, Marie lets loose some cackling worthy of a witch.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Becoming exactly what she hated: a merciless torturer hurting innocent people.
  • The Fashionista: Appropriately for an immortal witch who moonlights as a hairdresser, Marie is always shown to be on top of the contemporary fashions over the years.
  • Historical Domain Character: Marie LaVeau was a voodoo priestess by night and hairdresser by day in real life.
  • Historical Villain Upgrade: The real Marie LaVeau was a Voodoo priestess, healer and herbalist, and didn't go around sacrificing babies and selling her soul for vengeance.
  • Hypocrite: The way she calls Fiona a witch almost makes it sound like a derogatory term. This is odd, considering that her practice is witchcraft by definition and how she claims that the Salem witches got their powers from voodoo practitioners like her.
  • Ironic Hell: She's forced to become a sadistic torturer in the same manner Delphine was which doubles as one for Delphine who's tortured, along with her daughters, in the same manner she tortured her slaves. The two also intensely hated each other and are now forced to live with one another for all eternity.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • She makes it a thing to ensure that horrible people unlucky enough to have hurt the people she cares for wind up getting hit with this trope hard.
    • She ends up on the receiving end of it when she's hacked into pieces by Madame LaLaurie, effectively ending her immortality, and is sent to Hell to torture the LaLaurie family in the same fashion Delphine tortured her slaves, becoming the very thing she loathes.
  • Moral Myopia: Atrocities against blacks? Unforgivable. Atrocities against whites? Hilarious.
  • Mortality Phobia: Why she made her deal with Papa Legba. She tried to take it back when she realized exactly what the price was, but too late.
  • Never My Fault: When she winds up in Voodoo Hell and claims to be innocent, she conveniently forgets that she murdered Delphine's relatively-innocent family and has been sacrificing babies to Papa Legba for almost two centuries. Legba is all too happy to remind her.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: She's a fan of the practice.
    • This is how she deals with Madame LaLaurie, torturing and hanging her family before burying her alive. In episode 4, she then raised LaLaurie's daughters as zombie slaves.
    • Sending a zombie horde to tear apart some racists who lynched a little boy.
    • She kills her successor Dinah Stevens in the Apocalypse finale for helping Langdon destroy the witches and the world itself.
  • Perpetual Poverty: Invoked. While not necessarily poor, she's over 300 years old and lives a relatively humble lifestyle as the owner of a local hair salon. Marie Laveau in real life was a hairdresser; within the show, it makes sense that she'd continue the practice over the years.
  • Properly Paranoid: In the 60s, she was very wary of what would happen when schools were first integrated. Anyone with a basic understanding of the Civil Rights movement in America knows why. When you've lived for three centuries and have only seen unrelenting hatred and bigotry towards your race for that entire time...it's easy to understand why'd you be wary about how this "Civil Rights Movement thing" was going to turn out.
  • Read the Fine Print: Thought she was selling her own soul for immortality, but in actuality she has to sacrifice an innocent soul every year to keep up her end of the bargain. And she realized this when Papa Legba came for the first payment, her own child.
  • Sassy Black Woman: She's adopted this persona in order to live a normal life in the modern day, but can abandon it at the drop of the hat when she realizes she's around someone who knows how powerful she is.
  • She Who Fights Monsters: Her targets may be the monstrous Madame LaLaurie and the ruthless Fiona, but Marie descends to the same depths as they do to get what she wants. Showcased most brutally when she imprisons LaLaurie in a similar cage to the one LaLaurie kept her victims in, and uses the same "beauty treatment." Except Marie applies it like war paint.
    • It's also enforced when she finally ends up in Hell. She is forced to torture Delphine's daughters, who by her own account never did anything to her, in the same manner that Delphine once tortured her slaves.
  • Sole Survivor: After Hank's attack on her salon, she appears to be the only survivor. Subverted when it's discovered that Queenie lived.
  • Teleportation: Marie uses this power for the first time in Apocalypse to execute Dinah in order to fulfill Cordelia's deal with Papa Legba that brought her back from Hell - and send Dinah down in her place.
  • Undying Loyalty: Her lover Bastien? The slave who was forced to live with a dead bull's head on top of his? Not only did she deliver some serious revenge, but he's still with her, and she still seems to care for him. However, it seems that he might also be there to do her dirty work for her.
  • Would Hurt a Child: She sacrificed 178 babies to Papa Legba between 1834-2012 in order to maintain her youth and vitality, the first one being her own child.

    The Minotaur 

Bastien / The Minotaur

Played By: Ameer Baraka

Delphine LaLaurie: "My great literacy began with Greek mythology. I used to sit in Daddy's lap and he would read me those histories full of their vengeful gods and wondrous miraculous creatures. But the Minotaur was always my favorite. Half man, half bull. And now, I have one of my very own."

A slave working for Delphine LaLaurie, who was unlucky enough to have both caught the attention of one of her daughters and to be caught seeing her one night. As punishment, he's sent to LaLaurie's attic, where he was trotted and forced to wear a dead bull's head over his own. He was freed by his lover, the voodoo queen Marie LaVeau, but only after having gone through immense torment.


  • And I Must Scream: Tortured, mutilated for blood, forced to wear a bull's head and spent over a century like that, apparently also made immortal by Laveau. This was on top of being a slave!
  • Character Death:
    • The first time he dies, he bleeds out from Delphine's torture.
    • The second time he dies, this time for good, is when Fiona decapitated him and Papa Legba takes away his, Marie's, and Delphine's immortality.
  • Killed Off for Real: After living as an inhuman monster for decades, he's finally killed for good by Fiona.
  • Losing Your Head: Fiona rips it off to send to Marie.
  • Our Minotaurs Are Different: What LaLaurie makes him into.
  • Questionable Consent: No one will ever know if he really wanted to have sex with LaLaurie's daughter or was just too afraid of her wrath to refuse.
  • Tragic Monster: Imprisoned and brutally tortured by Delphine LaLaurie just to cover up her daughter's indiscretion with him.

    Chantal 

Chantal

Played By: Dana Gourrier

A hairdresser at Cornrow City who assists Marie with spells.


  • Character Death: Shot by Hank.
  • The Dragon: More accurately, she's a hounsi, a devoted follower of a voodoo priest who helps with rituals.
  • Killed Off for Real: She's among Hank's victims when he bursts into Cornrow City, Guns Akimbo.
  • Noble Top Enforcer: She's visibly uncomfortable with Marie raising the dead to attack the Academy and has to be convinced to go along with it.

    Gummy 

Gummy

One of the people who works at Marie's salon.

    Cora 

Cora

The mother of Henry, a boy lynched by racists.

    Chinwe 

Chinwe

Played by: Philip Fornah
One of the people who works at Marie's salon.

    Papa Legba 

Papa Legba

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Played By: Lance Reddick
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

A voodoo loa with a sinister connection to Marie LaVeau.


  • Adaptational Villainy: His counterpart in Real Life Voodoo, like all other loa, is no more evil or good than whatever purpose the practitioner calls on his aid for. Here, he's basically a Satanic Archetype, making pacts that involve the sacrifice of infants and having his own domain in Hell.
  • Affably Evil: Papa Legba is charming, laid-back and reasonable, with no qualms about doing cocaine with Fiona or having tea with Queenie. Also, he demands innocent souls (i.e. babies) in exchange for immortality.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Just before he consigns Madame LaLaurie to hell, he makes a list of her sins as "crimes of murder, torture, passion, fashion and being an all-round no-good, miserable bitch."
  • Borrowin' Samedi: His appearance and personality have a lot more in common with Baron Samedi than the Papa Legba of myth. He rules over the dead, has white face paint, etcetera.
  • Dark Is Evil: He certainly takes a lot of pleasure in his work.
  • Deal with the Devil: He made one with Marie LaVeau for immortality, which she regrets to some degree. Fiona attempts to make the same deal, though he turns her down, claiming that she has no soul.
    • In Apocalypse, he makes a new one for Cordelia: he'll trap Langdon in the underworld in exchange for the souls of her students. Naturally she refuses. However, in the finale, Cordelia makes a new deal with him: the resurrection of Marie Laveau in exchange for Dinah Stevens, the most corrupted Voodoo Queen, to serve as his new servant.
  • Don't Fear the Reaper: He and Nan were on good terms when he took her soul away, and he implies that she'll be well taken care of.

The Witches' Council

    Myrtle Snow 

Myrtle Snow

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"I have a book of matches in my pocket and I'm just dying to light this fire."
Played By: Frances Conroy (old) & Michelle Page (young)
Appearances: Coven | Apocalypse

A graduate of Miss Robichaux's Academy, the eccentric Myrtle Snow serves as head of the Witches Council. Despite her complicated past with Fiona, Myrtle has a very close relationship with Fiona's daughter Cordelia.


  • Back from the Dead: Resurrected by Misty after being burned at the stake.
    • At the end of the series, she lets herself be burned at the stake again so that Cordelia will not be a hypocrite.
    • Happens once again in Apocalypse, in which she shows up along with Cordelia Goode and Madison Montgomery. A flashback reveals that Cordelia brought her back for help against Michael. At the end of the season, with Michael having been killed in the past, her resurrection never happens.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Much friendlier than Fiona, and generally one of the most moral witches in the series. But as a few people have found out the hard way, she has a stomach for violence that far outstrips Fiona. After the other two members of the Council wrongly condemn her to death, she gets revenge by paralyzing them, scooping their eyes out with a melon baller while they're still alive, slowly dismembering them, and dissolving their mutilated corpses in acid.
  • Burn the Witch!: She's burned at the stake by the Council for blinding Cordelia.
  • Came Back Strong: She mentions that her powers have increased substantially after being resurrected by Misty.
  • Cassandra Truth: Her power (or at least what she chooses to do with it) is "Guardian of Veracity in the Vernacular," and she's dead right about Fiona murdering the previous Supreme and Madison, and getting Spaulding to cover for her in both cases, but for one reason or another, she always ends up looking jealous and paranoid when bringing this to the attention of others.
  • Character Death:
    • She is burned at the stake because Fiona believed she blinded Cordelia. She is resurrected by Misty.
    • She is burned at the stake again, this time for good, for killing Cecily and Quentin.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: She's more than a little odd, complimenting Zoe's mother on her drapes as her men drag away her daughter.
    I'm just mad for tartan!
    I do love a key lime pie, even more than an île flottante! Call me a Philistine!
  • Deadpan Snarker: She's very fond of a good quip, even in dire circumstances like Michael Langdon's unstoppable rampage in the Outpost.
    "It appears as though we're fucked, my dear."
  • Defiant to the End: She does this twice, once when she originally died and the other time when truthfully died.
  • Does Not Like Men: Comes up in Apocalypse where she is rather open about how she views men as highly incompetent compared to women, and scoffs at the idea of there being a male Supreme. Somewhat averted as this only appears to apply to the warlock council. Myrtle often speaks highly of and has been in love with many men (including Egon Von Furstenberg, Halston, DaVinci, and even slaps Zoe for insulting Kyle). She appears to greatly admire artistic and creative men.
    Cordelia (to the warlocks): Men are simply not equal to women when it comes to magical ability.
    Myrtle Snow: Not to mention everything else.
  • Foil: Can be succinctly described as "the Anti-Fiona". She's a homely redhead to Fiona's traditionally beautiful blonde, a flamboyant eccentric to Fiona's subdued Ice Queen, the aging former beauty to Fiona's voracious Mrs. Robinson, and a surrogate mother to Cordelia where Fiona was her mother In Name Only. While Fiona is adept at quietly manipulating people, and will always lie to further her own agenda, Myrtle forces people to tell the truth in her capacity as "Guardian of Veracity in the Vernacular", and she can be mercilessly violent to people who don't share her reverence for the Truth. While Fiona is motivated entirely by self-interest, Myrtle is shown to be unafraid of self-sacrifice, and ultimately demands to be burned at the stake for her past misdeeds.
  • Frameup: How Fiona deals with her.
  • Hero Antagonist: Fiona did kill the last Supreme and Madison; Myrtle is exactly right to try to bring her to justice, but the universe seems stacked against her.
  • Honorary Aunt: Cordelia refers to her as "Auntie Myrtle."
  • I Was Quite the Looker: A flashback shows she was rather pretty as a teenager. She just hasn't aged as well as Fiona.
  • Large Ham
    Can you imagine these poor Salem witches traveling all the way down here in covered wagons, without a proper charcuterie platter or a bidet! Absolutely savage!
  • Living Lie Detector: One of her abilities is that she's a "vernacular in the truth" and can tell when a lie is being spoken. Which does not stop Fiona from getting over on her numerous times.
  • Nerd Glasses: Of the cat-eye brand; Myrtle has apparently favored the style since The '70s when she was especially bookish (and, in Fiona's words, hadn't yet developed any style).
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bares a striking resemblance to Grace Coddington in personality and appearance.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: After arriving with Zoe on her first day, Zoe turns and sees that she had already vanished.
  • Parental Substitute: She's more of a mother to Cordelia than Fiona ever was, and the two care very deeply for one another.
  • Revenge Before Reason: So driven by her hatred of Fiona that the Council members had no trouble believing that she planned out the attack on Cordelia, whom she treated like a daughter. Fiona seems to genuinely believe Myrtle did it. Subverted, because she's innocent. Hank's father Harrison claims responsibility for the attack in "Head."
  • Sanity Slippage: After she is burned to death and resurrected, evident by her gruesome murder of the Council members. Not that she was ever all there to begin with.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Kyle/Zoe.
  • Unexplained Recovery: She's somehow been revived a second time between the events of Coven and Apocalypse, but it's not explained. Ultimately explained in "Traitor" — Cordelia resurrected her (against Myrtle's wishes) to help fight off the impending apocalypse.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: In Apocalypse, she calls out Cordelia for her willingness to go along with the requests of the warlocks. She's downright furious when she goes as far as to relinquish her title as Supreme to Langdon for completing the Seven Wonders.

    Cecily Pembroke 

Cecily Pembroke

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Played By: Robin Bartlett

A member of the Witches' Council that visited the Academy. She serves as the stenographer and keeps an official record of the meeting.


  • Butt-Monkey: Relentlessly mocked by Fiona, Myrtle and Quentin for her boring personality.
  • Character Death: Dismembered by Myrtle after having her eye scooped out.
  • Dirty Coward: She becomes a shameless ass-kisser when Myrtle, whom she condemned to death, turns up alive.
  • Eye Scream: Has one eye scooped out with a melon baller by Myrtle.
  • The Generic Guy: And mocked because of it.
  • Make Sure He's Dead: Myrtle disposes of hers and Quentin's bodies in acid.
  • The Starscream: Implied to be part of the reason she so quickly condemned Myrtle.
  • The Stoic: She's much more reserved than the camp Quentin and hammy Myrtle.

    Quentin Fleming 

Quentin Fleming

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Played By: Leslie Jordan

A warlock, or male witch, as well as a member of the Witches' Council. He is a famous author, whose books are on the bestseller list. It was mentioned that it was Fiona's magic that made his books successful.


  • Camp Gay: He's very similar to his actor, Leslie Jordan.
  • Character Death: Dismembered by Myrtle after having his eye scooped out.
  • Deal with the Devil: Well, not the Devil per se, but he did make one with Fiona to make him a very successful author.
  • Dirty Coward: He becomes a shameless ass-kisser when Myrtle, whom he condemned to death, turns up alive.
  • Expy: Of Quentin Crisp, a noted gay writer whose witticisms and appearance closely match this character's. If not for his surname, the audience could be forgiven for assuming he's meant to be Crisp.
  • Eye Scream: Has one eye scooped out with a melon baller by Myrtle.
  • Killed Off for Real: Myrtle disposes of his and Cecily's bodies in acid to ensure this trope.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a Camp Gay author, and his speech pattern and clothing style is very similar to Truman Capote's.
  • The Starscream: Implied to be part of the reason he so quickly condemned Myrtle.

    Elsa 

Elsa

Played by: Geraldine Singer
A council member from when Anna-Leigh was Supreme.
  • Character Death: We know she's dead because the current council members are different.

    Lanchester 

Lanchester

Played by: Leslie Castay
A council member from when Anna Leigh Leighton was Supreme.
  • Character Death: We know she's dead because the current council members are different.

    Bartholomew 

Bartholomew

Played by: Michael P Cahill
A council member from when Anna Leigh Leighton was Supreme.
  • Character Death: We know he's dead because the current council members are different.

Delphi Corporation

    Hank Foxx 

Hank Foxx AKA Henry Renard

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Cordelia's husband. In actuality, he comes from a long line of witch hunters. Marie hired him to kill the descendants of all the Salem witches, thinking that she'd be able to handle him in the event he came after her. She was wrong.


  • Anti-Villain: Almost all of his actions are motivated by love for his wife, his father, or somehow both.
  • Ate His Gun: Actually, Queenie ate the gun; Hank just took the damage.
  • Beard of Evil: He has a scruffy beard, but it's unclear how outright evil he is and how much is his Punch-Clock Villain routine.
  • Becoming the Mask: Marie accuses him of this, and it seems to be partly accurate judging from his reaction to getting kicked out by Cordelia. His father also picks up on this.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's supportive of Cordelia and wants to have a baby with her. On the surface. He's a witch hunter in reality, and has only gotten close to the witches so he can kill them.
  • Character Death: Queenie shoots herself in the mouth and uses her powers to blow Hank's brains out.
  • Deadpan Snarker:
    Fiona: You know why I got a female attack dog?
    Hank: Because bitches stick together?
  • Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: He's a witch hunter mole inside the Academy whose marriage to Cordelia is a front. At first it's revealed that he's working for Marie LaVeau. Then it turns out that he's really working for an Ancient Conspiracy of witch hunters and that his alliance with Marie is an unauthorized action he did on his own initiative to take down both the Coven and Marie. And a part of him genuinely loves Cordelia and doesn't want her to get hurt in all of this.
  • The Dragon: A reluctant one, to Marie.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being raised to hate witches and being tasked to kill them, Hank grows to truly love Cordelia, to the point that he chooses to attack the voodoo witches as a last effort to protect her. He succeeds in taking down all of them but Marie, at the cost of his life.
  • Guns Akimbo: He knows that most voodoo magic is very ritualistic and requires time to work, so he resorts to this in order to catch Marie and her followers off-guard. It would have worked if he'd made sure to finish off Queenie.
  • Hidden Villain: In "Head," he ultimately is revealed to have been this for the first half of the series after he explains to his father that he has been secretly working behind the scenes to exacerbate tensions between the Salem and Voodoo witches so that they will be driven toward annihilating one another.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: Despite being a skilled gunman and fairly competent double agent, his father considers him to be this due to his inability to meet the standards of discretion and ruthlessness required of the witch hunter profession.
  • Killed Off for Real: When he shoots up Marie's salon, Queenie uses her voodoo powers and a gun he dropped to blow his brains out.
  • Meaningful Name: "Reynard" is a name for foxes in French folklore.
  • The Starscream: He was always planning on betraying Marie and rampages through her hair salon at the end of "Head."
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He used to be a nice kid who loved his father, but also had huge conflicting feelings about being raised to kill people. His father's conditioning eventually got rid of what guilt he had—until he fell in love with Cordelia.
  • Walking Spoiler: Though he is a minor yet recurring character, it's very hard to describe whom Hank actually is, other than stating he is Cordelia's husband—which barely touches the surface.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: To his father Harrison Renard.
  • The Witch Hunter: He's a witch hunter hired by Marie the Voodoo Queen to kill the witches, having done it to nine so far. He's actually from a long line of witch hunters and was ready to go after Marie once he was done with the Salem witches, but is killed when he chooses to go after her in a last-ditch effort to protect Cordelia.

    Harrison Renard 

Harrison Renard

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The CEO of Delphi Trust.


  • Big Bad Wannabe: Is absolutely no match for the combined might of Fiona and Marie, who easily destroy his comapny and kill him.
  • Character Death: Axed in the neck by Fiona.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Seems to have become this by the time of the story's present.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite their difficult relationship, Harrison does love his son and is distraught after Queenie kills Hank.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When he realizes there's no way to avoid what's coming, he just calmly pours himself some tea and sits down after congratulating Fiona and Marie on how well they played the game.
  • Fallen Hero: In his past, he was a courageous (albeit zealous) soldier for the cause of protecting humanity against the evils of witchcraft. By the story's present, he has become a ruthless and manipulative corporate kingpin who is all but consumed by his lust for more power.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: In order to accumulate the resources necessary to combat witches on a global scale, he played an active role in transforming the secret order to which he belongs into a massive multinational corporation with ties to banking, arms dealing, and politics. By the time of the series' present, he and his inner circle have been engaged in the affairs of the "corporation" for so long that they seem to have lost sight of their order's relatively altruistic origins in favor of accumulating wealth and power at all costs.
  • Knight Templar: He genuinely believes that his organization has the world's best interests at heart...even while taking the lives of innocents to cover their tracks.
  • The Man Behind the Man: To Hank and by extension, Marie LaVeau (for the first half of the story, at least).
  • Meaningful Name: Renard is French for "fox(x)."
  • Papa Wolf: In a flashback, he rescues his son Hank from a witch by knocking him out of the way to take the full brunt of a fire spell before gunning her down. Similarly, after Hank is killed by Queenie, he is later shown grieving over his photo and later uses the organization's declining stock to seek vengeance against New Orleans' covens.
  • Red Right Hand: His hand is permanently scarred from an encounter with a witch who had the power of pyrokinesis.
  • Slashed Throat: Dies from an ax to the throat, though not outright beheaded.
  • Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Sees all witches as monsters, regardless of the morality of the individual witch.

    David 

David

Played By: Mike Colter

Trusted confidante of Harrison Renard and the number two man at Delphi, which Hank seems to have some resentment about. He's present with Renard and the rest of the board at the ill-fated meeting to negotiate with Fiona and Marie.


LaLaurie Family

    Louis LaLaurie 

Louie LaLaurie

Delphine's husband.

    Marie Borgia Delphine Lopez 

Marie Borja (Marie-Borgia) Delphine Lopez ("Borquita")

The oldest daughter of Delphine LaLaurie.


  • Abusive Parents: Delphine had no qualms locking up her daughters with the slaves in the attic (and all the attendant horrors) to discipline them.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear whether the version of her who appears in Hell and is tortured by Marie Laveau is the real soul of Borquita or an apparition created by Papa Legba, because as far as the viewers are aware, she didn't do anything deserving of being consigned to Hell. Even when she was helping out Delphine in the torture chamber, it was against her will.
  • Butt-Monkey: Every single scene Borquita's in (except maybe a couple where she's a mind-controlled zombie) has her subjected to verbal abuse, humiliation and/or physical torture by Marie Laveau or her own mother.
  • Character Death: She is hanged by Marie.
  • Friend to All Living Things: In her first (chronological) scene, Borquita can't bring herself to kill a chicken. Four years later, Delphine forces her to help out in the torture chamber despite her begging not to.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: Borquita does a lot of screaming and crying when she's taken to the chamber of horrors for plotting against Delphine, has her leg broken, and then gets told that she'll be left there for a year and forced to eat poop on Christmas morning.
  • Posthumous Character: She's long-dead by the time the present events of the series begin.
  • Running Gag: Writer Brian Juergens, who reviews the show for The Backlot, couldn't make out Borquita's name at first, so he called her something different in every episode synopsis before settling on "Bon Qui Qui."

    Marie Pauline LaLaurie 

Marie Louise Pauline LaLaurie

Played By: Raeden Greer

The youngest of Delphine LaLaurie's three marriageable daughters. Despite her social standing in New Orleans society as a LaLaurie and youth advantage over her sister and half-sister (her mother believes her to be the ugly one and with no main talent), she only had eyes for the black servant Bastien.


  • Abusive Parents: She had it slightly worse than her sisters, since Delphine considered her the least of the three.
  • Character Death: She is hanged by Marie.
  • Death Glare: Pauline gives her mother hateful, angry looks when she's confronted over having sex with Bastien and when she's locked in the torture chamber. In the latter incident, her anger gives way to stunned fear after being told that she's going to be left there for a year.
  • Hollywood Homely: She may have been talent-less, but when we see her in a flashback, she's actually fairly attractive.
  • Pet the Dog: Pauline seems upset watching Bastien get taken away. She also expresses disgust at how Delphine treats her slaves even worse than she does Pauline and her sisters.
  • Posthumous Character: She's long-dead by the time the present events of the series begin.
  • The Unfavorite: Delphine considered her the talent-less "ugly one."

    Marie Louise Jeanne LaLaurie 

Marie Louise Jeanne LaLaurie

Played by: Ashlynn Ross
One of Delphine's daughters.
  • Character Death: She is hanged by Marie.
  • I Was Just Joking: Marie convincingly (but vainly) pleads that the sisters talking about killing Delphine wasn't serious while chained up in the torture chamber.
    Marie: We were never gonna do anything. It was just silly talk.

Outsiders

    Alicia Spencer 

Alicia Spencer

Played By: Mare Winningham

Kyle's mother. Kyle's death brings her to the brink of suicide from which Zoe pulls her back by returning her son.


  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She appears to be a grieving, if trashy, mother. Behind closed doors, she sexually abuses her son and has been for a while.
  • Character Death: Kyle kills her when she tries to molest him again.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Smokes weed openly in front of Zoe, and she certainly isn't the most put-together person.

    Kaylee 

Kaylee

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A young witch with the power of making things burn, who was approached by Cordelia to join the Academy.


    Archie Brener 

Archie Brener

Played By: Grey Damon

One of Kyle's frat brothers. Along with some of his other friends, Archie gang-rapes Madison at a party and then is later heavily injured when she telekinetically flips their bus. Zoe comes to the hospital to see if Kyle is still alive but sees it is Archie who survived, not Kyle. In turn, Zoe begins to fondle him and then rapes him, killing him with her deadly vagina.


  • Asshole Victim: With major emphasis'' on asshole, he planned and participated in Madison's gang rape, even videoing it on a camera phone. He probably deserved worse.
  • Character Death: Zoe rapes him with her killer vagina.
  • Hate Sink: Desipte being a minor villain, he's easily the most repulsive character this season.
  • Jerk Jock: Averted, actually. He got along well with Kyle and his fellow frat brothers. His dark, rapist side is hidden enough that Kyle is shocked to see what he gets up to.
  • Out with a Bang: Doubles as Death by Irony; Zoe rapes him to death, a repayment for his rape of Madison.

    The Axeman 

The Axeman

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"Undoubtedly, you Orleanians think of me as a most horrible murderer, which I am, but I could be much worse if I wanted to."
Played By: Danny Huston

"They have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am invisible, even as the ether that surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman."

A murderer who met his end in 1919. He has been watching over Fiona for all her life at the coven and was in love with her. When he finds out she was going to leave him, he kills her and feeds her to the alligators, then attacks the rest of the Coven, meeting the same fate as he did in 1919. However, in actuality, Fiona faked her death, and when she passes on, she finds herself in her personal hell, coupled with the Axeman for all eternity.


  • Advertised Extra: Played by a very well-known actor, is set up to be a major Big Bad, and yet is given nothing much to do, aside from dating Fiona and slaughtering the Delphi Trust before dying for real.
  • Back from the Dead: Zoe brings him back as part of a deal to show her Madison's body.
  • Brought Down to Normal: Went from a frightening Poltergeist, and then back to being human once Zoe brings him back from the dead.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He freely and happily admits to being a horrible murderer.
    • As noted above, he refers to himself as a "demon from the hottest hell." That's a quote from the real Axeman, by the way.
  • Character Death:
    • He is stabbed multiple times by the coven from 1919 and became a ghost, but he was resurrected by Zoe, Queenie, and Nan.
    • The permanent death of his was when Misty, Madison, Zoe, and Queenie stab him multiple times like the 1919 coven did.
  • The Charmer: As part of his Faux Affably Evil persona.
  • Death of a Thousand Cuts: Got turned into a human pincushion by the Academy girls of 1919.
    • The same goes for the second time.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His full name is never directly revealed (as the real identity of the historical Axeman remains unsolved), however in one of the clubs he performed at one of the waitresses called him "Joe", a likely reference to the case's prime suspect; Joseph Momfre, and possibly revealing Momfre to be the Axeman's identity in Coven.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's a remarkably suave and jovial gentleman quick with a witty comment and quicker with a smile... even when he's butchering people with an ax.
  • Historical Domain Character: Based on The Axeman of New Orleans.
  • If I Can't Have You…: He killed Fiona off in the end when she was going to leave him, cutting her to pieces and feeding her to the alligators so Misty can't bring her back.
    • Only he didn't, because Fiona tricked him. But he would have probably done it.
  • Karma Houdini: He did die, but it was to help Fiona. And his eternity with Fiona is his Heaven. Probably because his Heaven is her Hell.
    • The Axeman of Fiona's Hell probably wasn't the real one, but a duplicate.
  • One-Man Army: As seen in "Protect the Coven," he massacres the entire Delphi Trust board members within a matter of seconds.
  • Poltergeist: Capable of interacting with the real world despite being dead, pre-resurrection.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In Fiona's Hell, she loses her memory every morning and has to relive the same misery of realizing she's in Hell over and over again for all eternity. This isn't the case for him, however, as he remembers all of their previous encounters and has grown tired of her not remembering him.
  • Serial Killer: Like his historical counterpart.
  • Senseless Violins: Hides his ax inside his saxophone case.
  • Stalker with a Crush: He's been watching Fiona all her life. The first thing he does after leaving the Academy is find and seduce her.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Twice he makes the mistake of angering the Coven, and twice he dies for his foolishness.
  • Wife Husbandry: Tells Fiona he’s been watching her since she was a child, even once seeing her as a daughter. That changes for him when she becomes a young woman. Yuck.

    Luke Ramsey 

Luke Ramsey

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The son of Joan Ramsey.


  • Character Death: Smothered with a pillow by his mother.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Done to him by his mother, and holy shit is it terrible.
  • Killed Off for Real: He was cremated, eliminating any chance of revival.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Before we even know his name, he has his shirt off and is obliviously eyed up by Queenie, Nan, and Madison.
  • Nice Guy: In contrast to his mother, Luke is a good-natured fellow who treats others kindly without judgment. Only Madison seems to rub him the wrong way, and that's because Madison wants to rub him all kinds of ways.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Tries to get rid of the zombies, gets an ax to the back. Then he took a bullet for Nan. And having Nan confront his mom about murdering her husband ends with her smothering him.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: When Madison and Nan first visit, the former is wearing an extremely form-fitting dress with the express intention of making him her "Fall fling." She continues to drop hints (and pretty blatant ones at that), but Luke is more interested in Nan's kind nature and the delicious cake she made for him. It's promptly lampshaded when Madison outright states "Are you seriously ignoring me for dessert?"
  • Ship Tease: While he didn't seem to like Madison, Nan made a very good first impression on him, and he clearly views her fondly.
  • Sickbed Slaying: His mother suffocates him while he lies weakened on a hospital bed.
  • Taking the Bullet: For Nan.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: One of the, if not the, only truly nice, innocent characters in the entire season. He acts kind toward everyone, shows genuine interest in Nan as a potential partner, lists sweets as his only vice, and takes a bullet to protect Nan. His mother ends up killing him while he's stuck in a hospital bed.

    Joan Ramsey 

Joan Ramsey

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Played By: Patti LuPone

A fundamentalist Christian woman who moves in next door to the Academy with her son Luke. She strives to protect herself and her son from all that is dark and ungodly.


  • Abusive Parents: Whereas most super-religious parents force their kids to pray or read the Bible all night, Joan gives Luke a bleach enema.
  • Asshole Victim: To quote Fiona: "She [Nan] killed the neighbor, but the bitch had it coming."
  • Back from the Dead: Forced back to life by Misty on Fiona's orders not thirty minutes later.
  • Character Death: Shot by Hank in the chest, but revived by Misty. Later, she permanently dies because Nan forced her to drink bleach with mind control.
  • Death by Irony: Joan would give her son a forced bleach enema. Nan later uses her Mind Control to force Joan to drink the bottle of bleach.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's the worst kind of religious fundamentalist, but she does genuinely love her son. Later subverted when she decides that she should smother him with a pillow after he finds out that she murdered his father.
  • The Fundamentalist: She's deeply religious, to the point of attending church several times a week and giving a Bible to any new home she visits.
  • Holier Than Thou: Brings a copy of the Bible every time she visits a new home and slut-shames Madison by saying her dress was so scandalous that she was concerned about the long-term effects it would have on her son. Madison, of course, finds this hilarious.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: She's correct that she and Luke would not have been in any danger if the girls hadn't taken a liking to him. Granted, she turned out to be abusive, so this isn't exactly a bad thing. Also, while slut shaming Madison might not be a very Christian thing to do, Madison tries to seduce her son the day after Madison meets him.
  • Offing the Offspring: She suffocates Luke when he finds out she killed his father.
  • Sickbed Slaying: While Luke is semi-comatose and weak, she murders him.
  • Too Dumb to Live: After killing and cremating her son to cover up the murder of her husband, Joan thinks it's a good idea to invite Zoe and Nan into her home, the latter of whom she knows can read minds, is aware of the first murder, and loved Luke. Smart thinking.
  • Yandere: Murdered her husband when he planned on leaving her for another woman.

    Stevie Nicks 

Stevie Nicks

Played by: Stevie Nicks
Misty's favorite singer.

    Bobby 

Bobby

A student who was in Misty's class when she was a student. An demon taking his form is in Misty's hell.

    Mr. Kingery 

Mr. Kingery

Played by: Wayne Pére
Misty's teacher from when she was a student. An illusion of him tortures Misty in her hell.

    Dr. Zhong 

David Zhong

Played by: Ian Anthony Dale
Fiona's doctor.
  • Character Death: Fiona takes his life force to make herself younger, which only works for a moment.

    Charlie Taylor 

Charles "Charlie" Taylor

Played by: Kurt Krause
Zoe's boyfriend.
  • Character Death: He is killed by Zoe accidentally, with her killer vagina.

    Nora Benson 

Nora Benson

Played by: Arabella Field
Zoe's mother.

    Dennis Ramsey 

Dennis Ramsey

  • Character Death: Bees were put in his car by Joan so they would sting him and he would have an allergic reaction.

    Henry 

Henry

Played by: Tyson Ford
Cora's son who was murdered by racist men.

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