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**In ''Coven'', Denis O'Hare's character responds to the self-pitying excuses of Jessica Lange's character with "Horseshit!". In ''Freakshow'', his character Stanley does this with her character Elsa.
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* TarAndFeather: The fate of [[spoiler: Penny's father.]] While the freaks chose not to kill him after, the way they tar and father [[spoiler: his head, neck, and groin]] means he may well die from the wounds anyway.
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* KillemAll: [[spoiler: In the finale, Dandy enacts ritual execution of all the freaks. The only survivors are Pepper, The Twins, Jimmy, and Desiree, with the last four killing Dandy themselves]].
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* KillemAll: KillEmAll: [[spoiler: In the finale, Dandy enacts ritual execution of all the freaks. The only survivors are Pepper, The Twins, Jimmy, and Desiree, with the last four killing Dandy themselves]].
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** Elsa is similar, being protective of her "monsters" but also seeing herself as above them.
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Stanley\'s shown to be the new geek act, replacing Meep. Chester\'s wanted for the murders of his wife and her lover. The only reason he got away with it this long was because the police didn\'t know where he was.
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** We never find out what became of [[spoiler:Stanley after the freaks have their way with him]] after episode 12, not even a mention in the finale.
** The same goes for [[spoiler: Chester]]. He's last seen [[spoiler: at a police station, confessing to the "murder" of Marjorie. It isn't shown, or even mentioned what became of him.]]
** The same goes for [[spoiler: Chester]]. He's last seen [[spoiler: at a police station, confessing to the "murder" of Marjorie. It isn't shown, or even mentioned what became of him.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: Inverted. It was actually fairly shocking to learn that [[spoiler: Twisty]] WASN'T a ghost.
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* IncestSubtext: Between Gloria and Dandy, in a ''{{Psycho}}'' fashion. Taken to the extreme when, after [[spoiler: killing Gloria, Dandy turns her into a DeadGuyPuppet mockery of the Tattler twins, whom he's sexually attracted to.]]
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* IncestSubtext: Between Gloria and Dandy, in a ''{{Psycho}}'' ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' fashion. Taken to the extreme when, after [[spoiler: killing Gloria, Dandy turns her into a DeadGuyPuppet mockery of the Tattler twins, whom he's sexually attracted to.]]
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Completely revoked. [[spoiler:All the characters who are portrayed as beautiful are the primary antagonists or commit terrible crimes over the course of the season, while the "freaks" are rejected or subject to violence for their conditions.]]
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* BodyHorror: The two-headed one-bodied Siamese twins, the guy with the forked tongue, the woman with three legs, and the woman stuffed into a tiny bird cage.
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* BodyHorror: The two-headed one-bodied Siamese twins, people of Jupiter come specifically to gawk at and be frightened by the guy with performers for their disabilities or bodily conditions, but it's subverted in that they're never portrayed as monstrous to scare viewers (except in the forked tongue, the woman with three legs, and the woman stuffed into a tiny bird cage.opening credits).
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* CerebusCallBack: Dandy's puppet show in the second episode is rather comedic. However, his interest in puppetry as well as his line, "I like ''real'' puppets," [[spoiler: serve to set up a horrifying scene in a later episode where he turns his mother's corpse into a [[DeadGuyPuppet giant marionette puppet]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Bonnie cracks Twisty with a 2x4 and successfully escapes confinement. Only to be recaptured by Twisty fanboy, Dandy.]]
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** [[spoiler:Bonnie cracks Twisty with a 2x4 and successfully escapes confinement. Only to be recaptured by Twisty Twisty's fanboy, Dandy.]]
** In "Blood Bath", [[spoiler: a depressed Dandy is threatening to shoot himself after Gloria has told him that she doesn't love him anymore. However, Gloria says that she can't go on if he kills himself, which prompts him to shoot her instead.]]
** In "Blood Bath", [[spoiler: a depressed Dandy is threatening to shoot himself after Gloria has told him that she doesn't love him anymore. However, Gloria says that she can't go on if he kills himself, which prompts him to shoot her instead.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Gloria and Dandy are one of, respectively Norma and Norman Bates from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. The main difference is that Norma is abusive and Norman is submissive, while here the roles are reversed.
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* RealityEnsues: While never PlayedForLaughs, Dandy's childish and evil nature, and Gloria's borderline ridiculous attempts to deny that there's anything wrong with her son are so over-the-top that it makes him sometimes fall into LaughablyEvil territory...then "Blood Bath" happens, in which Gloria acts much more realistically like the parent of a mentally unstable person. [[spoiler: Dealing with Dandy has turned her into a chain-smoking nervous wreck, and by the episode's end, she appears to have completely lost her will to live, as she just stands there and allows Dandy to kill her.]]
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Dandy and Jimmy fulfill the respective roles for the twins.
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* IncestSubtext: Between Gloria and Dandy, in a ''{{Psycho}}'' fashion. Taken to the extreme when, after [[spoiler: killing Gloria, Dandy turns her into a DeadGuyPuppet mockery of the Tattler twins, whom he's sexually attracted to.]]
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* LastOfHisKind: No other living Motts are seen or mentioned, not even [[spoiler: after Gloria's death, as they would otherwise have to take care of her affairs, or at least be mentioned in her testament]], so Dandy and Gloria are this to the Mott family. [[spoiler: Since Dandy dies in the finale before producing a heir, the Mott family is now extinct.]]
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** We also never know what happened to [[spoiler: the Motts' fortune after Dandy and Gloria's death]], nor whether [[spoiler: Gloria's corpse was found.]]
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* BloodBath: Dandy [[spoiler: believes that bathing in people's blood will give him their power]]. The first onscreen instance of this comes right after he [[spoiler:kills his own mother]], though the fact that [[spoiler:he is covered in blood after killing Andy]] may suggest that he did this then too.
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** Evan Peters once again ends up in a three-way relationship with two women. [[spoiler: Unlike ''Asylum'' and ''Coven'', two of the three weren't resurrected, although both Bette and Dot died in dream sequences.]]
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* SpoilerOpening: [[spoiler: Creator/EvanPeters' name is being shown along with an amputee, while a baby dropping its head appears before Creator/KathyBates' name rolls around.]]
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Since the words are never spoken on the show itself, I think Tagline is the more fitting trope.
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* ArcWords: "Wir Sind Alle Freaks", [[GratuitousGerman German for]] "We are all Freaks".
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* {{Tagline}}: "Wir Sind Alle Freaks", [[GratuitousGerman German for]] "We are all Freaks".
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and [[BigBadDandy]]along with [[SplitPersonalityChester]] are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and [[BigBadDandy]]along [[BigBad Dandy]]along with [[SplitPersonalityChester]] [[SplitPersonality Chester]] are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and [[BigBad Dandy]]along with [[SplitPersonality Chester]] are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and [[BigBad Dandy]]along [[BigBadDandy]]along with [[SplitPersonality Chester]] [[SplitPersonalityChester]] are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and Dandy along with Cester are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and Dandy along [[BigBad Dandy]]along with Cester [[SplitPersonality Chester]] are the Veronicas.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Jimmy is the Archie while Bette and Dot are the Bettys and Maggie is the Veronica. In another case, Bette and Dot are the Archies while Jimmy is the Betty and Dandy along with Cester are the Veronicas.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Chester's wife and her lover. [[spoiler: Unlike most guys, he did not like it one bit.]]
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* LoveATFirstSight: Salty and Pepper according to Elsa.
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* MultinationalTeam: While mostly Americans, the Freak Show consists of a German (Elsa), a Brit (Paul), a Hindu (Ma Petite), a French (Toulouse) and presumably a Hispanic [[note]] As suggested by the Toledo surname[[/note]] (Dell).
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** Basically anyone who sleeps with Bette and Dot turns the situation as this by default. [[spoiler: Chester and Jimmy are the only ones who did it.]]
** Chester's wife and lover invited him for this. [[spoiler: He doesn't responded well.]]
** Basically anyone who sleeps with Bette and Dot turns the situation as this by default. [[spoiler: Chester and Jimmy are the only ones who did it.]]
** Chester's wife and lover invited him for this. [[spoiler: He doesn't responded well.]]
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** The focus on Stanley's large penis makes it seem as though it'll tie into the plot in some way. It never does.
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* AbortedArc: Several plot points are introduced early in the season, and never resolved or brought up again. This includes Jimmy's murder of the detective in the first episode, as well as the power struggle between Dell and Elsa.
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* AbortedArc: Several plot points are introduced early seemingly forgotten in the season, and never resolved or brought up again. This includes second half of the series including:
** Jimmy's murder of the detective inthe first episode, as well as the power struggle between episode 1
** The twins being wanted fugitives for killing their mother
** Dell andElsa.Elsa's power struggle
** Paul's FriendsWithBenefits relationship with Elsa
** The kids that Twisty captured
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** The twins being wanted fugitives for killing their mother
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** Paul's FriendsWithBenefits relationship with Elsa
** The kids that Twisty captured
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Probably going to be the case for many characters, but so far, we have...
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** At the end of ''Coven'', Fiona Goode, played by Jessica Lange, ends up in her own personal hell after she dies. At the end of ''Freak Show'', Elsa Mars [[spoiler:ends up in her own personal]] ''[[spoiler:heaven]]''.
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** [[spoiler: Edward Mordrake, however, is due to appear again so perhaps those scenes will as well.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: Even though Pepper is locked up at Briarcliff, Elsa tells her she is always with her. That being said, she sees a LIFE magazine that shows Elsa being the queen of Friday nights, dated 1958. Either Stanley is telling the truth about his connections or poor Pepper is thinking Elsa has made it to prime time to cope with what has happened.
** [[spoiler: Well in the finale she ''did'' make it to Hollywood, but without Stanley's help.]]
** [[spoiler: Well in the finale she ''did'' make it to Hollywood, but without Stanley's help.]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Though they do not interact and only share a single non-speaking scene together, [[PsychopathicManchild Dandy]] and [[ConMan Stanley]] are the only two villains shown to be unambiguously evil, and who never seek redemption.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: BigBadEnsemble: Though they do not interact and only share a single non-speaking scene together, [[PsychopathicManchild Dandy]] and [[ConMan Stanley]] are the only two villains shown to be unambiguously evil, and who never seek redemption.
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* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: Edward Mordrake, Twisty and most of the freaks who died in previous episodes returned for the SeasonFinale.]]
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Ma Petite, who up until that time had done nothing but wearing beautiful saris and popping out of jack-o-lanterns]]
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Ma Petite, who up until that time had done nothing but wearing beautiful saris and popping out of jack-o-lanterns]]jack-o-lanterns]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This season has the largest cast of characters to date.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: This season has the largest cast of characters to date.
