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** Kai's is explored in "Holes". [[spoiler:He was a jobless college graduate with a religious studies degree living in his parents' basement when his mother killed his abusive father and then herself in a murder-suicide, the second half of which Kai witnessed and tried to stop. His brother Vince convinced him to help cover it up and hide and preserve the bodies (despite [[DirtyWork Kai's protests]]) so that they could keep collecting their parents' pensions and social security and Winter could finish college, as well as protecting Vince's new psychiatric practice. This caused something in Kai's psyche to snap, but also motivated him to grow up and make something of himself.]] Another layer is added in "Winter of Our Discontent", in which Winter reveals that [[spoiler:she and Kai went to the house of a crazy priest they found on the dark web with the intention of trolling him, only to find that the man was in fact a psychopath who kidnapped and murdered "sinners" as part of his preaching. Kai freed the victims and [[KickTheSonOfABitch murdered the priest]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with one of his own traps]], but Winter reveals that this changed Kai even further.]]
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** Kai's is explored in "Holes". [[spoiler:He was a jobless college graduate with a religious studies degree living in his parents' basement when his mother killed his abusive father and then herself in a murder-suicide, the second half of which Kai witnessed and tried to stop. His brother Vince convinced him to help cover it up and hide and preserve the bodies (despite [[DirtyWork Kai's protests]]) so that they could keep collecting their parents' pensions and social security and Winter could finish college, as well as protecting Vince's new psychiatric practice. This caused something in Kai's psyche to snap, but also motivated him to grow up and make something of himself.]] Another layer is added in "Winter of Our Discontent", in which Winter reveals that [[spoiler:she and Kai went to the house of a crazy priest they found on the dark web with the intention of trolling him, only to find that the man was in fact a psychopath who kidnapped and murdered "sinners" as part of his preaching. Kai freed the victims and [[KickTheSonOfABitch murdered the priest]] priest [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with one of his own traps]], but Winter reveals that this changed Kai even further.]]
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Elsewhere, blue-haired anarchist Kai Anderson (Creator/EvanPeters) revels in Trump's victory, and enlists the likes of his child-hating sister Winter (Creator/BillieLourd) to spread their shared nihilism through a clown-based cult. Their first target? Ally and Ivy's young son, whom Winter is hired to babysit.
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Elsewhere, blue-haired anarchist cult-leader Kai Anderson (Creator/EvanPeters) revels in Trump's victory, and enlists the likes of his child-hating sister Winter (Creator/BillieLourd) to spread their shared nihilism through a clown-based cult. Their first target? Ally and Ivy's young son, whom Winter is hired to babysit.
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After UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is elected President of the United States, Ally Mayfair-Richards (Creator/SarahPaulson) is deeply distraught. The result has especially triggered her coulrophobia (AfraidOfClowns fear of clowns]]) despite the emotional support of her wife, Ivy (Creator/AlisonPill), and her therapist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Creator/CheyenneJackson).
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After UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is elected President of the United States, Ally Mayfair-Richards (Creator/SarahPaulson) is deeply distraught. The result has especially triggered her coulrophobia (AfraidOfClowns ([[AfraidOfClowns fear of clowns]]) despite the emotional support of her wife, Ivy (Creator/AlisonPill), and her therapist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Creator/CheyenneJackson).
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After UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is elected President of the United States, Ally Mayfair-Richards (Creator/SarahPaulson) is deeply distraught. The result has especially triggered her coulrophobia ([[MonsterClown fear of clowns]]) despite the emotional support of her wife, Ivy (Creator/AlisonPill), and her therapist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Creator/CheyenneJackson).
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After UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is elected President of the United States, Ally Mayfair-Richards (Creator/SarahPaulson) is deeply distraught. The result has especially triggered her coulrophobia ([[MonsterClown (AfraidOfClowns fear of clowns]]) despite the emotional support of her wife, Ivy (Creator/AlisonPill), and her therapist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Creator/CheyenneJackson).
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* AfraidOfClowns: Ally has a crippling fear of clowns, which shouldn't be as big of a deal as it is, since she lives in a small suburb of Michigan, so her only real encounter with clowns should be [[AscendedMeme Twisty]] in her son Oz's comic book. But then clowns start appearing everywhere around Ally in her town, and it turns out that Kai's cult dresses up as clowns. [[spoiler:This is an early hint that Ivy is part of the cult and actually put Kai onto Ally in order to gain custody of Oz, telling him about her fear of clowns in order to make her look unstable and lose custody.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Creator/EvanPeters plays not only BigBad Kai Anderson but also historical characters Creator/AndyWarhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, UsefulNotes/JimJones, [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]] and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson. It helps that most of those historical characters appear in flashbacks related by Kai.
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* GirlbossFeminist: This is revealed to be [[spoiler:Ally's]] ultimate fate, with some overlap with FromNobodyToNightmare. [[spoiler:Having been tormented by Kai's misogynistic cult, Ally joined the descendants of [=SCUM=] and is seen gaining political power in the closing moments of the series. [=SCUM=] itself is a murderous organization (bordering on a cult in itself), and [=SCUM=] and its extreme feminist beliefs are portrayed as being behind it.]]
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* MenacingMask: The members of Kai's cult wear terrifying masks each time they kill someone, each vastly different, although most of them are based on clowns and at least some of the masks hinting at the identity of the wearer.
** Kai Anderson is the three-faced clown with exaggeratedly long noses. Kai himself is a manipulative, two-faced person with a bit of a fixation on his phallus.
** Winter Anderson, who's a little more enigmatic than the rest, is the clown with the jigsaw puzzle pattern on her mask.
** Meadow is the BDSM-themed ballgag clown.
** Harrison is the clown with the holes pattern mask, just like the holes in his beehives.
** The clown with the red pentagram on her mask and the arms protruding out of her head resembling horns/antlers is Beverly. She also wears a printed shirt like the one Beverly does.
** Ivy is the elephant-masked clown.
** The blonde clown filming the murder in episode 5 is RJ, Beverly's cameraman.
** The clown with the exposed brain is Detective Samuels.
** Kai Anderson is the three-faced clown with exaggeratedly long noses. Kai himself is a manipulative, two-faced person with a bit of a fixation on his phallus.
** Winter Anderson, who's a little more enigmatic than the rest, is the clown with the jigsaw puzzle pattern on her mask.
** Meadow is the BDSM-themed ballgag clown.
** Harrison is the clown with the holes pattern mask, just like the holes in his beehives.
** The clown with the red pentagram on her mask and the arms protruding out of her head resembling horns/antlers is Beverly. She also wears a printed shirt like the one Beverly does.
** Ivy is the elephant-masked clown.
** The blonde clown filming the murder in episode 5 is RJ, Beverly's cameraman.
** The clown with the exposed brain is Detective Samuels.
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* TheConsigliere: ZigZagged with Winter. Kai clearly loves her, trusts her advice, and listens to her more than anyone else (as she's his sister and was his NumberTwo from the start), but there are also moments where her mixed feelings toward him are very obvious and their power dynamic seems to skew. Additionally, he starts mistreating her more and trusting her less as the story goes on (partly due to [[PoisonousFriend Ally]] manipulating him) and eventually [[spoiler:kills her out of the false belief that she has betrayed him]].
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* TheConsigliere: ZigZagged with Winter. Kai clearly loves her, trusts her advice, and listens to her more than anyone else (as she's his sister and was his NumberTwo from the start), but there are also moments where her mixed feelings toward him are very obvious and their power dynamic seems to skew. Additionally, he starts mistreating her more and trusting her less as the story goes on (partly due to [[PoisonousFriend [[ToxicFriendInfluence Ally]] manipulating him) and eventually [[spoiler:kills her out of the false belief that she has betrayed him]].
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Oz's full name is Ozymandias Mayfair-Richards.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kai dyes his hair blue.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Let's see, the babysitter dresses in some mildly unsettling gothic clothes, behaves in a somewhat condescending manner with the people whose child she's supposed be looking after, seems to care very little about said child, and he (evidently) does not talk much about her, which is frankly unusual... why, Ally and Ivy, does she strike you as good babysitter material? [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as episode 4 reveals that Ivy met Winter beforehand, and episode 5 confirms that she's involved in the cult and is doing this on purpose.]]
