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* [[spoiler: TraumaCongaLine: Goes through it in episode 2: She allowed one of her fiance's friends to stay the night; with (allegedly) nothing happening between them. Her fiance presumed the worst and thought they cheated on him. This [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to kill two people before blowing his own brains out right in front of his wife]].]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Xavier was found at a park with a heroin needle in his arm and was stated to be a complete mess before that agent found him and cleaned him up.


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* FauxYay: A victim of this. He agreed to star in a gay porn to help bolster his career; but the "agent" in question is really just a pimp and he's using that movie to blackmail and extort Xavier into his services. He actually isn't gay.


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* TheUnreveal: Played for laughs in episode 2.
--> '''Chet:''' Ok, I confess, I took steroids back then.
--> '''Brooke:''' WE ALL FUCKING KNOW THAT ALREADY!

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* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Well he is a Method actor but the point still stands, he is a trained actor who is making ends meet in a aerobics studio.

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* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Well he is a Method actor but the point still stands, he is a trained actor who is making ends meet in a an aerobics studio.




!! Serial Killers
[[folder: Benjamin Richter/Mr. Jingles]]
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Jonas]]
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A mysterious young man suffering from amnesia; in actuality, a long-deceased counselor killed during the Camp Redwood massacre.


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* ButtMonkey: So far, Jonas has been killed numerous times, and he keeps on returning back to life.
* GhostAmnesia: Jonas has a perpetual state of amnesia, his current memories became wiped after being killed, entering a new blank slate.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Similar to the first season, Jonas became one, much to the shock and horror of finding out about it.
* UnfinishedBusiness He's anchored to Camp Redwood for reasons unknown to him.
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!! Serial Killers
[[folder: Benjamin Richter/Mr. Jingles]]
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* BlackWidow: Her husband died and left her with a fortune. Whether this has anything to do with her is, so far, unresolved.

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* BlackWidow: Her husband died and left her with a fortune. Whether this has anything to do with her is, so far, unresolved.unclear.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Xavier and Montana ostensibly are no longer together, but he's not the least bit happy about her interest in Trevor.


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* BoyishShortHair: Rita has boyish short hair, which seems to signal her status as TheLadette.


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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Mr. Jingles wears one.
* CrustyCaretaker: Mr. Jingles was Camp Redwood's groundskeeper before he went on his first killing spree there.


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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Mr. Jingles was dishonorably discharged from the army, and had recently returned from Vietnam at the time of the first Camp Redwood massacre.
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* TooDumbToLive: Goes out to answer the payphone after being attacked by a serial killer.

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* TooDumbToLive: Goes out to answer the payphone after being attacked by a serial killer. killer, and keeps her window open despite being the person who knows that serial killers attack during the summer, using open windows.

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* MagneticHero: Played with. Whether he's a hero remains to be seen - he definitely seems to have a DarkAndTroubledPast - but he's the person who gets everyone together to go to the camp. But he might have an ulterior motive...



* GoodBadGirl: She ReallyGetsAround but she's also a badass with a knife under her pillow.

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* GoodBadGirl: She ReallyGetsAround but she's also a badass with a knife under her pillow.pillow, and she's a fun, charming person.
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* TooDumbToLive: Goes out to answer the payphone after being attacked by a serial killer.


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* GoodBadGirl: She ReallyGetsAround but she's also a badass with a knife under her pillow.


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* ReallyGetsAround: Gets oral off Kirchner, had sex with Xavier, and apparently wants Brooke.


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* SassyBlackWoman: A particularly egregious example, despite being a trained nurse, she refuses to help someone who gets injured because "she's off the clock".


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* BlackWidow: Her husband died and left her with a fortune. Whether this has anything to do with her is, so far, unresolved.


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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Even if you don't subscribe to the theory that she's [[spoiler: really the killer]], she's an extremely cold and rude religious nut to everyone.


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* NerdGlasses: She loathes everyone's "sinful" attitude and wears huge glasses.

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* IdiotBall: Despite surviving a deadly encounter with Mr. Jingles, Brooke thinks that it's a good idea to go to a ringing telephone booth in the center of the camp in the middle of the night alone...



---> '''Xavier:''' I'm a serious actor. I trained at Stella Adler. I'm method.

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---> '''Xavier:''' Ever heard of the sexual revolution? Sex won!

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---> --> '''Xavier:''' Ever heard of the sexual revolution? Sex won!



* PillowPistol: She sleeps with a switchblade under her pillow and isn't afraid to use it; she claims to have a suspicious nature.



---> '''Rita:''' How did we get these jobs with no prior experience? That's because anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood!
---> '''Rita:''' Athletes are skanks.

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---> --> '''Rita:''' How did we get these jobs with no prior experience? That's because anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood!
---> --> '''Rita:''' Athletes are skanks.



* TeamMedic: Given her job as the camp director, she serves as this to her coworkers.

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* TeamMedic: Given TheMedic: It was a given considering her job as the camp director, main position. Though it's zigzagged since she serves as this to only provides medical attention at her coworkers.discretion.



---> You wouldn’t know what to do with it if you got it, handsome.

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---> --> '''Bertie:''' You wouldn’t know what to do with it if you got it, handsome.



* BatmanGambit: By faking his suicide, Jingles is able to take an orderly by surprise and kill him instantly. Then he takes his keys and walks out of his room while also allowing all of the patients at the mental ward to leave their rooms. This provided him with an ideal distraction as he made his escape.



* FakingTheDead: He creates a fake suicide by hanging in order to lower the defenses of an orderly. Jingles then takes him by surprise by killing him, taking his keys and allowing all the other patients to leave as a distraction so he can leave.

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* FakingTheDead: He creates a fake suicide by hanging in order to lower the defenses of an orderly. Jingles then takes him by surprise by killing him, taking his keys and allowing all the other patients to leave as a distraction so he can leave.

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---> I'm a serious actor. I trained at Stella Adler. I'm method.

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---> '''Xavier:''' I'm a serious actor. I trained at Stella Adler. I'm method.



---> Ever heard of the sexual revolution? Sex won!

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---> '''Xavier:''' Ever heard of the sexual revolution? Sex won!




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---> How did we get these jobs with no prior experience? That's because anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood!
---> Athletes are skanks.

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---> '''Rita:''' How did we get these jobs with no prior experience? That's because anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood!
---> '''Rita:''' Athletes are skanks.




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* BigBad: Is setting up to be this for the season.


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* FakingTheDead: He creates a fake suicide by hanging in order to lower the defenses of an orderly. Jingles then takes him by surprise by killing him, taking his keys and allowing all the other patients to leave as a distraction so he can leave.
* SerialKiller: His primary archetype.
* TomTheDarkLord: A grim and sadistic serial killer who goes by the name of Mr. Jingles.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Brooke has more than once been frazzled by Chet’s good looks.

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* DistractedByTheSexy: EatingTheEyeCandy: Brooke has more than once been frazzled [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by Chet’s good looks.

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* EightiesHair: He has short, feathered, frosted hair with slight brown roots showing.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Well he is a Method actor but the point still stands, he is a trained actor who is making ends meet in a aerobics studio.
---> I'm a serious actor. I trained at Stella Adler. I'm method.



* DeadpanSnarker: She has some short lines that tell it like it is.
---> Anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood.

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* DeadpanSnarker: She has some short lines that tell it like it is.
is about how she and the counselors got their jobs at Margaret's "Godly retreat for children".
---> Anybody How did we get these jobs with no prior experience? That's because anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood.Redwood!




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[[folder: Bertie]]
--> '''Portrayed By:''' Tara Karsian
* DirtyOldWoman: Her first appearance involves checking out Xavier and making it very obvious and oddly despite her mannerisms, Margaret speaks very well of her.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: She is clearly checking out Xavier.
---> You wouldn’t know what to do with it if you got it, handsome.
* TheLadette: The least feminine of the women in the cast and is introduced looking very scruffy and grungy.
* OldRetainer: Has worked as a cook at Camp Redwood for years until the massacre and is brought back again to her old role.

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* DeadpanSnarker: [[TheFundamentalist Margaret]] gives him the opportunity to dish colorful lines.
---> Ever heard of the sexual revolution? Sex won!
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* PinkIsFeminine: Is introduced wearing pink aerobics gear and even wears a pink striped sweater with other bright colors at camp.


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* EightiesHair: Has long bleached hair with a short mullet style bangs.


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* EightiesHair: Has very short Jheri curled hair.
* {{Hunk}}: Has a very ripped body and is very handsome, even does aerobics.


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* EightiesHair: Has very short, yet bouncy Jheri Curled hair.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has some short lines that tell it like it is.
---> Anybody that knows anything about Camp Redwood doesn't want to be in Camp Redwood.
---> Athletes are skanks.


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* SeventiesHair / EightiesHair: Has shining, voluminous feathered Farrah Fawcett locks that effectively shield the fact she is missing an ear.


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* KickTheDog: What does she say to a clearly traumatized Brooke, who is afraid there is a serial killer out there? She scolds the girl for being dirty and that "cleanliness is next to Godliness".
* {{Meganekko}}: Has large glasses the size of saucers on her face and doesn't look any less sexy than she can try.
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[[folder: Mr.Benjamin Richter/Mr. Jingles]]



* {{Expy}}: Mr. Jingles gives off characterizations of [[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer Ben Willis/The Fisherman]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], in terms of appearance, backstory, and general murder.

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* {{Expy}}: Mr. Jingles gives off characterizations of [[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer Ben Willis/The Fisherman]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], in terms of appearance, backstory, and general murder. He also shares his real first name with the former.



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* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingles's first attack in Camp Redwood, although she [[EarAche lost an ear]].

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* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Mr. Jingles's first attack in Camp Redwood, although she [[EarAche lost an ear]].



* {{Expy}}: Mr. Jingles gives off characterizations of [[Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer Ben Willis/The Fisherman]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], in terms of appearance, backstory, and general murder.



--> '''Portrayed By:''' Zach Villa
* TheBusCameBack: Of a sort, he was a part of Devil’s Night in ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]''.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A very real serial killer who was active during the show's time period.

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--> '''Portrayed By:''' Zach Villa
* TheBusCameBack: Of a sort, he was a part of Devil’s Night in ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]''.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A very real serial killer who was active during the show's time period.
[[Characters/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel See his section under Serial Killers]].
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* BerserkButton: The US Olympics, so much so that he glares at [[NiceGirl Brooke]] for joking about it and throwing a crushed can at Ray for defending her, cutting the latter's hand. (He was apologetic about it afterward.) See ICouldaBeenAContender below.


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* LovableJock: BerserkButton aside, he's a nice enough guy.

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[[folder: Xavier Plympton]]
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* PrettyBoy: He has an attractive face, complete with feathered hair and colourful clothes.


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* PrettyBoy: He has an attractive face, complete with feathered hair and colourful clothes.
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* GagPenis: Montana described his manhood to that of a baby elephants trunk.

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* BadassAdorable: Montana rightly calls her a badass for fighting back and surviving against The Night Stalker, and Brooke is also exceedingly cute.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Brooke has more than once been frazzled by Chet’s good looks.
* FinalGirl: Has all the trappings of a prototypical one so far: she’s nice, intelligent, and has already proven herself capable of escaping danger at least once.
* NiceGirl: Brooke is very friendly and is also insistent on saving the hitchhiker they hit with their car.



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* TheFundamentalist: Very devoutly religious, and very firmly against the “decadence” of the time, most especially the sexual revolution.
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* Satanism: Orders Brooke to "swear on Satan" when he attacks her, in echo of his words to a terrified victim in ''Hotel.''
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--> Portrayed by Cody Fern

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--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BillieLourd



--> Portrayed by [=DeRon=] Howard

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--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' [=DeRon=] Howard



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--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' Gus Kenworthy
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--> Portrayed by Creator/MatthewMorrison

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--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MatthewMorrison



--> Portrayed by Angelica Ross

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--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' Angelica Ross
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--> Portrayed by Leslie Grossman

* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingle’s first attack in Camp Redwood, although she [[EarAche lost an ear]].

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*EarAche: Is missing an ear due to Mr. Jingles cutting it off as a trophy during the 1970 massacre.
* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingle’s Jingles's first attack in Camp Redwood, although she [[EarAche lost an ear]].



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[[folder: Mr Mr. Jingles]]
--> Portrayed by '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnCarrollLynch



[[folder: Richard Ramirez AKA “The Night Stalker”]]
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* Hunk: Both masculine-featured and well-muscled, and played by an Olympic athlete to boot.

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* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingle’s first attack in Camp Redwood, although she [[EarAche lost an ear]].


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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A very real serial killer who was active during the show's time period.

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* HotBlooded: Not much is required to set him off, possibly due to steroid abuse.
* Hunk: Both masculine-featured and well-muscled, and played by an Olympic athlete to boot.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Chet is very bitter at being removed from a US Olympics team due to failing a drug test, and goes to Camp Redwood to get away from the constant Olympics coverage.




* HospitalHottie: The camp doctor, played by the very attractive Angelica Ross.



* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingle’s first attack in Camp Redwood, although she lost an ear.

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* PrettyBoy: He has an attractive face, complete with feathered hair and colourful clothes.


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* AmbiguouslyBi: She shows attraction to Trevor’s penis, and seems to be interested in Brooke.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: She admitted to masturbating to Trevor’s very visible penis in a workout video he appeared in.


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* TheStoner: Mentioned that he bought a large stash of weed to Camp Redwood.


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* GagPenis: Montana described his manhood to that of a baby elephants trunk.
* PornStache: Sports one of these, which was somewhat common in the 80s.


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* SoleSurvivor: She survived Mr Jingle’s first attack in Camp Redwood, although she lost an ear.


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* TheBusCameBack: Of a sort, he was a part of Devil’s Night in ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]''.
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!! Counsellors

[[folder: Brooke Thompson]]
--> Portrayed by Creator/EmmaRoberts
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[[folder: Xavier Plympton]]
--> Portrayed by Cody Fern
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[[folder: Montana Duke]]
--> Portrayed by Billie Lourd
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[[folder: Ray Powell]]
--> Portrayed by [=DeRon=] Howard
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[[folder: Chet Clancy]]
--> Portrayed by Gus Kenworthy
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!! Camp Redwood Staff
[[folder: Trevor Kirchner]]
--> Portrayed by Matthew Morrison
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[[folder: Nurse Rita]]
--> Portrayed by Angelica Ross
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[[folder: Margaret Booth]]
--> Portrayed by Leslie Grossman
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!! Serial Killers
[[folder: Mr Jingles]]
--> Portrayed by John Carroll Lynch
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[[folder: Richard Ramirez AKA “The Night Stalker”]]
--> Portrayed by Zach Villa
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