History Characters / AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum

->'''Played By:''' John Lee Ames

->'''Played By:''' Devon Graye

->'''Played By:''' Joseph Fiennes

->'''Played By:''' Creator/JamesCromwell, John Cromwell

->'''Played By:''' Mark Englehardt

->'''Played By:''' Robin Bartlett

->'''Played by:''' Lily Knight

->'''Played by''': Jennifer Holland

->'''Played By:''' Britne Oldford

->'''Played By:''' Barbara Tarbuck

->'''Played By:''' Chelsey Valentine & Kristin Slaysman

->'''Played By:''' Mark Margolis

->'''Played By:''' Joe Egender

->'''Played By:''' John Aylward

->'''Played By:''' Nikki Hahn

->'''Played by:''' Chris [=McGarry=]

->'''Played by:''' Lara Harris

->'''Played by:''' Tehya Scarth

->'''Played by:''' Al Pugliese

->'''Played by:''' Robin Weigert

->'''Played by:''' Andrew Rothenberg

->'''Played by:''' Jenny Wade

->'''Played by''': Matthew John Armstrong

->'''Played by''': Joel [=McKinnon=] Miller

->'''Played By:''' Devon Graye, Creator/LilyRabe

->'''Played By:'''Dylan [=McDermott=]

->'''Played by''': Parker Croft

->'''Played by''': Blake Sheldon

->'''Played by''': Joan Severance

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:With Thredson, Arden and Mary Eunice dead, he seems to step in as a final antagonist. However, it's subsequently averted. After he locks up Jude, he becomes a cardinal and washes his hands of Briarcliff, spending most of the show's final act off-screen; he kills himself out of guilt after Lana's Briarcliff documentary airs. The real FinalBoss is Johnny - or Briarcliff itself, depending on how you look at things.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: He's one of many vying for the title.

* BigBad: Of the PresentDay storyline.
* BeardOfEvil
* BoomHeadshot

* HearingVoices

* IcyBlueEyes

* KubrickStare

* PresentDay

* SerialKiller

* WalkingSpoiler
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

* InTheBlood: He was killing animals long before he knew his true parentage.

->'''Played By:''' Naomi Grossman

->'''Played By:''' Mark Consuelos

->'''Played By:''' Gloria Laino

->'''Played By:''' Casey Wyman

->'''Played by''': Lily Knight

->'''Played By:''' Tongayi Chirisa

->'''Played By:''' Lizzie Brocheré

* CareerRevealingTrait: Mentioned and subverted; [[spiler: being a former member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel fleeing from justice, Dr Arthur Arden is noted to likely sport the traditional Waffen-SS blood group tattoo under his left arm - one of the many reasons why the character is never seen with his shirt off. However, when Sister Jude gets in contact with NaziHunter Sam Goodman, he advises her to avoid trying to get evidence of it lest she end up spooking the target, forcing her to acquire a fingerprint to identify him instead.]]

[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm so weak and stupid sister! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"'']]

* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on her husband with two soldiers, resulting in her commitment.

* CharacrerDeath: [[spoiler:He is murdered by Johnny]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Killed in his first appearance to give Shachath an introduction (though she was seen in the cold open about to take [[spoiler:Grace]] before this.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Following her DemonicPossession. Takes to driving Sister Jude mad, but it wasn’t her doing any of tha,t it was the Satan in her.

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->'''Played By:''' Fredric Lehne

->'''Played By:''' [[spoiler:Dylan [=McDermott=]]]

* CoitusInterruptus: Three times in quick succession! First when he's kissing Teresa and pulling her closer on the stairway but she decides it's not the right place and wants to keep exploring. Then, when they're actually having sex, about ten seconds in she [[CuriosityKilledTheCase hears a noise she wants to investigate right away]] and makes a chagrined Leo (who has her [[TemptingFate promise they'll come back there]]) stop and follow the sound. Finally, once they reach the room, Teresa is performing oral sex on him when he sticks his arm through with a camera/flashlight, only to break off once he gets attacked.

* BaldOfEvil: He's very bald.

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:She is shot in the chest by Frank when he was aiming at Kit, but she is revived by the aliens. The second, permanent time is when Alma axes her in the back.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:She is strangled with rosary by Timothy.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Dies in Briarcliff, of unknown causes.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:He's shot in the head by Arden after he abandons the Rasper project.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:She's murdered by the possessed Mary Eunice.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Slices open his hands and later picks out the stitches.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Jed doesn't survive the exorcism.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Dies of an illness]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Tells Monsignor Howard to throw her off the staircase, which he does.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Shot in the head by Lana]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Slashes his wrists in his tub out of guilt.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:His death is oddly moving, as he's DrivenToSuicide following a VillainousBreakdown.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Burns himself alive in a crematorium after Sister Mary Eunice dies.]]

-->'''Arden:''' These are the incurables. Those whose tuberculosis was too far advanced for any of the new miracle drugs to have an effect.
-->'''Howard:''' God bless them.
-->'''Arden:''' Well, He hasn't yet.

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:The possessed Mary Eunice slashes his throat with a Christmas decoration.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Her throat is eaten by a rasper.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Dies of heart failure at Briarcliff]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Stabbed by Bloodyface]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:A possessed Mary Eunice slashes his throat with a mirror shard, killing him.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: Possibly. [[spoiler:He [might] have been killed by the Devil during the exorcism]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Shot in the head by Leigh.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:She was shot in the face by Leigh.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:He is shot in the chest by Leigh.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Teresa meets a grisly end when Johnny Thredson clumsily tries to flay her.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Leo is killed by twin Bloody Face copycats after his arm is torn off by the present day Bloody Face.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Lana shoots him in the head.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacrerDeath]]: [[spoiler:He is murdered by Johnny]].

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:He is murdered by Johnny]].

[[spoiler:Lana's new girlfriend after Wendy dies]].

* {{Blackmail}}: On the receiving end of it from [[spoiler:Dr. Thredson]]. Under threat of [[spoiler:harm to Grace and their child, Thredson]] extorts the location of the confession from him.

* {{Blackmail}}: On the receiving end of it from [[spoiler:Dr. Thredson]]. Under threat of harm to Grace [[spoiler:and their child, Thredson]] extorts the location of the confession from him.

* AlienAbduction: With his wife, Alma. Is returned, unlike Alma, [[spoiler:after being implanted with a microchip. The aliens return for him before he dies.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Lana in the nick of time from [[spoiler:Dr. Thredson strangling her by knocking him out with a large, water type fire extinguisher.]]

* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Before Lana had left on the day she had the interview about the asylum, Sister Jude had a speech to her, regarding this and in hindsight becomes the foreshadowing of her CharacterDevelopment throughout the season:

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She briefly visits her son while he is a child after feeling the need to find him again. When she does, she defends her son against those who are bullying him and tries to comfort him, though is emotionally unable to take him back. [[spoiler:From this single encounter and after growing up in the [[ParentalAbandonment foster system, in which he was treated poorly]], he starts to deduce his true parentage, hoped his mother would come back for him but this all changes when he listens to a tape of his mother trying to abort him, which kicks off his StartOfDarkness as the new Bloody Face.]]