History Characters / TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Her character in "Literature/TheRaven" was the narrator's lost love, here she's his granddaughter.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler:And Verna made sure it would be like this. Instead of killing Lenore violently, not that she wanted to ''at all'', she does so with a simple touch to her forehead that leaves her body completely untouched. Her ghost reflects the lack of trauma in her death, where the only disturbing features are her ProphetEyes and UndeathlyPallor which all of the ghosts share (the ones that have skin, anyways).]]

* CloneAngst: If Madeline's AI project worked as she promoted it, [[spoiler:there's an immortal copy of Lenore's consciousness that thinks it's her, [[AndIMustScream endlessly repeating "nevermore"]] ]].

* TooImporantToRememberYou: Played with--she knows her assistant Beth's name perfectly well, but insists on using the name Tina for her because she thinks it's funny to call her two assistants Toby and Tina.

* TheirOwnWorstEnemy:

*** Verna also presents Lenore with no choice. [[spoiler:Lenore already made the choice to save Morella at the expense of her family's public image, and so Verna tells Lenore of the positive things her choice will bring and lets her die as peacefully as possible.]]

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Despite ostensibly being a well-intentioned doctor-scientist, she is willing to fudge the data and numbers related to her chimpanzee test subjects to hide her failures. Verna holds her unethical chimpanzee testing as a mark against the Ushers while [[spoiler:killing Camille]].

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:It's shown after his death that all of his struggles involving Pluto's death and her replacement weren't real, implying much of what the audience sees of his story is this. In particular, the ''entire scene'' at the Animal Shelter, per the picture Leo took that Pym shows to Roderick in "The Tell-TaleHeart," appears to have actually taken place in a dark, ruined, and filthy room.]]

* PunchclockVillain: Beth at least is only working for Camille so that she can pay off her student loan debt, and while both of them are willing to keep working for her while no longer being in a relationship, they're not too broken up when she fires them.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: She may be an asshole who demands sexual services from her assistants and carries intense grudges against most of her siblings (especially Victorine). But she's ''extremely'' good at what she does, which is manipulate the people involved in news and social media to create exactly the narrative she wants exactly when she wants it. Nothing proves this point more than her own death; the second she's down for the count, the headlines stop saying things like "tragic accident" and start saying things like "suspected murder-suicide". Lampshaded by Verna when she notes that Camille [[spoiler:kept a file of Arthur's wrongdoings just in case she ever needed blackmail material on him.]]

* TooImportantToRememberYou: Played with--she knows her assistant Beth's name perfectly well, but insists on using the name Tina for her because she thinks it's funny to call her two assistants Toby and Tina.

* GentleGiant: Even with his many faults, he's one of the nicests Ushers and easily towers over the rest of the cast.

* AdaptationalSexuality: The lead character in "Literature/TheBlackCat" was married to a woman. Leo is in a relationship with a man and has affairs with people of different genders.

* TheHedonist: All of Roderick's children use the family money mostly to live lives of easy comfort and pleasure. A good deal of the Ushers are also quite promiscuous in a rather twisted way: Roderick had six children born through five women, most of them illegitimate, and is attracted to Juno in part because she's absorbed ''so'' much ligodone into her system that he can fantasise about having sex with the drug that made him rich; Tamerlane has a cuckquean fetish; Camille made her assistants {{Sex Slave}}s in all but name; Napoleon regularly cheats on his boyfriend with boys and girls; Prospero has constant drug fueled orgies.

* RageBreakingPoint: The usually professional Verna takes a more active role than usual in orchestrating Frederick’s death after what he does to Morella. Because of her BlueAndOrangeMorality, it’s indicated that it wasn’t strictly because it was an act of domestic abuse. While she’s clearly upset by how they treat their partners, no other case of the Ushers harming someone they’re in a relationship with invokes such a visceral response (for example, Verna [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] participates the least in Victorine’s death, even though Vic let her girlfriend bleed to death). And considering Verna’s certainly done worse to far more people (and even played in a hand in Morella getting scalded and put into this situation, even if she did try to prevent it), it likely wasn’t because it was an act of torture either. What apparently got to her was that Frederick specifically ripped out Morella’s teeth with pliers. Verna can see the lives the Ushers could’ve had had they remained uncorrupted and Frederick apparently would’ve been “a pretty good dentist.” This Frederick perverting the memory of his good counterpart upset Verna so much she decided to break her personal rules.

* HiddenDepths: Unlike the Ushers, he's willing to accept the consequences of his actions, [[spoiler:which means he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite his distaste for the source of his family's wealth, he doesn't mind living off it and using it to propel his video game company while still dealing drugs to his siblings from time to time. On a side note, video games can become addictive as well.

* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Most of the romantic partners or spouses of the Ushers are good people who sincerely love them, and end up being thoroughly disappointed and heartbroken when their true nature emerges. The exceptions are Morrie, who does seem to be frustrated in her marriage to Frederick; Jenny and Faraj, who go along with Perry's schemes [[spoiler:and wind up dead]]; and Toby and Beth, who are only in a relationship with Camille because it's part of their contract and eventually refuse to sleep with her any more (although they're still willing to work for her, until she fires them) [[spoiler:and end up handing over the evidence that ensures Pym's downfall]].

* TheHedonist: All of Roderick's children use the family money mostly to live lives of easy comfort and pleasure. A good deal of the Ushers are also quite promiscuous in a rather twisted way: Roderick had six children born through five women, most of them illegitimate; Tamerlane has a cuckquean fetish; Camille made her assistants {{Sex Slave}}s in all but name; Napoleon regularly cheats on his boyfriend with boys and girls; Prospero meanwhile has constant drug fueled orgies.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:It's shown after his death that all of his struggles involving Pluto's death and her replacement weren't real, implying much of what the audience sees of his story is this.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: She's typically very dispassionate and hands-off when it comes to doing her job, but even she greatly enjoys condemning [[spoiler:Frederick]] to a horrifyingly slow and gruesome death, all the while enjoying every second of it. Since he put in great efforts into [[spoiler:brutally torturing his own wife while she was struggling just to to stay alive from severe acid burns]], it's only fair she gave him a ''personal touch.''

* PayEvilUntoEvil: She can be swift and merciful when it comes to killing people, but she can also drag out her murders tortuously when it comes to those who are truly despicable like Frederick.

* NoSell: Her survival after [[spoiler:getting {{KOed}} in the forehead by a rather heavy mic stand thrown across the room by an unraveling Tamerlane]] comes as something of a shock--most viewers would assume that she had been killed outright, like so many of the Ushers' other disposable associates. As it turns out, her addiction to Ligodone meant she barely felt it.

* NoSell: Her survival after [[spoiler:getting KOed in the forehead by a rather heavy mic stand thrown across the room by an unraveling Tamerlane]] comes as something of a shock--most viewers would assume that she had been killed outright, like so many of the Ushers' other disposable associates. As it turns out, her addiction to Ligodone meant she barely felt it.

** Verna presents Perry with the choice to stop his blackmail sex party and heavily implies there will be significant consequences if he doesn't.

** Verna presents Leo with the choice to adopt any cat in the shelter or to abuse his power by adopting the one she says is already spoken for to cover for his lies and worsening drug abuse.

*** Verna also presents Lenore with no choice. [[spoiler:Lenore already made the choice to save Morella at the expense of her family's public image, Verna tells Lenore of the positive things her choice will bring, and lets her die as peacefully as possible.]]