History Monster / AmericanHorrorStory

* ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke Roanoke]]'': [[WickedWitch Scáthach]] is behind centuries of countless disappearances and murders in name of her ReligionOfEvil. An avid worshipper of the Old Gods who pledged her alliance to them to avoid her execution at the stake, Scáthach killed several British soldiers and left Native Americans to take the fall for the murders. Coming across Thomasin White after she had been exiled by insurgents of [[UsefulNotes/TheLostColonyOfRoanoke Roanoke]], Scáthach saved her in exchange for her soul, corrupting Thomasin into her personal executioner--TheButcher--and forcing the colonists to follow in her religious ways by practicing HumanSacrifice, with not even children being safe. Declaring them to be "children in need of discipline" for wanting to stop the bloodshed, Scáthach performs the ritual of the Blood Moon on the land to enslave their souls for all of eternity. With the Lost Colony slaughtering anyone who comes near Roanoke and adding their souls into their ranks as fresh slaves, Scáthach still oversees them to make sure that her sacrifices are carried out.

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'''James Patrick March:''' ''(laughs)'' Well, then, I guess I'm just going to have to kill God. That is my message to the world. ''(smacks the man in the back of the head with his hammer, killing him)''
-->--''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]'', "[[Recap/AmericanHorrorStoryS05E02ChutesAndLadders Chutes and Ladders]]"

* Franchise-wide: {{Satan}} himself is the GreaterScopeVillain of the ''American Horror Story'' universe. As the orchestrator of several tragic events throughout the anthology, Satan directly assisted the perpetrator of the Night Stalkers murders that started in [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory1984 1984]], Richard Ramirez, granting him immortality and breaking him out of San Quentin State Prison to take more lives. Arriving at [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum Briarcliff Asylum]] through Jed Potter, Satan possesses the young and innocent Sister Mary Eunice, driving her to lewd behavior and trapping her in perpetual agony. Inside Mary's body, Satan personally murders people; helps a Nazi war criminal with his unethical experiments on inmates; inspires a budding psychopath who proceeded to kill her entire family; and unleashes a mass murderer on Sister Jude. When Jude is stripped of her position, Satan tortures her to the point where her reflexes are severely impaired and later rapes Monsignor Timothy Howard solely to debase him and mock his vows of celibacy, intending on rising to the top of the Catholic Church and destroy it from the inside. Using the ghost of Tate Langdon as a conduit at the [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Murder House]] to give birth to TheAntichrist via rape, Satan watches from behind the scenes as his son kickstarts the [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryApocalypse Apocalypse]] in his name with a nuclear holocaust.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStories'' {{spinoff}}'s "[[Recap/AmericanHorrorStoriesS1E3DriveIn Drive In]]": [[AttentionWhore Larry Bitterman]] is a [[MadArtist horror-obsessed filmmaker]] who experiments with the human brain to find a way to achieve the ultimate movie experience. Taking inspiration from [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} MK Ultra]] to create his own masterpiece, ''Rabbit Rabbit'', Bitterman hides subliminal triggers within his movie that result in people slaughtering each other and themselves. After his own editor mutilated herself and six people were killed because of him, Bitterman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for assaulting Tipper Gore when she protested his movie. Longing for his revenge, Bitterman sent his movie to the Starlite movie theater in Los Angeles to replicate and exceed the original massacre in modern day, killing over a hundred people. Bitterman's cruelty truly comes to light when it is revealed that he made a deal with Creator/{{Netflix}} to release ''Rabbit Rabbit'' on the internet, throwing everything into chaos [[FameThroughInfamy for a chance to be remembered]] as one of the greatest directors of all time.

* ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard James Patrick March]], the deceased first owner of the Hotel Cortez, is a wealthy man who [[SerialKiller murdered countless people]] in life and continues to do so as a ghost. When he learned that his wife was still interested in her former lover, he had the man sealed up behind a wall in an abandoned wing of the hotel and [[MurderTheHypotenuse left him there to die]]. He has also served as an EvilMentor to some of [[HistoricalRapSheet history's most prolific serial killers]], and is responsible for corrupting John Lowe into becoming the Ten Commandments Killer. This is part of a project of his in order to "[[BlasphemousBoast kill God]]," purely to spite a particularly defiant religious man he killed while alive. March is [[ItsAllAboutMe completely self-centered]] in his desire for the Countess, arranging her death so that she will be forced to spend eternity trapped in the hotel with him. Finally, March controls the Addiction Demon, a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil strange rapist creature]{ with a drill for a penis whom March uses to threaten others into following his orders. A sadistic, brutal savage who hides his true nature beneath a veneer of class and aristocracy, March is the only member of a morally ambiguous cast without a single redeeming quality.

* ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Hotel]]'': [[ManipulativeBastard James Patrick March]], the deceased first owner of the Hotel Cortez, is a wealthy man who [[SerialKiller murdered countless people]] in life and continues to do so as a ghost. When he learned that his wife was still interested in her former lover, he had the man sealed up behind a wall in an abandoned wing of the hotel and [[MurderTheHypotenuse left him there to die]]. He has also served as an EvilMentor to some of [[HistoricalRapSheet history's most prolific serial killers]], and is responsible for corrupting John Lowe into becoming the Ten Commandments Killer. This is part of a project of his in order to "[[BlasphemousBoast kill God]]," purely to spite a particularly defiant religious man he killed while alive. March is [[ItsAllAboutMe completely self-centered]] in his desire for the Countess, arranging her death so that she will be forced to spend eternity trapped in the hotel with him. Finally, March controls the [[HornyDevils Addiction Demon]], a strange rapist creature with a drill for a penis whom March uses to threaten others into following his orders. A sadistic, brutal savage who hides his true nature beneath a veneer of class and aristocracy, March is the only member of a morally ambiguous cast without a single redeeming quality.