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* AbsenteeActor: Iris, Donavan and Will don't appear in "Devil's Night".
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Despite becoming one of the hotel's ghosts, Claudia never appears after episode 3, and does not attend the ghost meeting in the finale.
** As far as we know, [[Creator/FWMurnau F.W. Murnau]] is still alive, and would be 134 years old by the time of the epilogue.
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* VampiresAreSexGods: Sorry, "ancient blood virus" carriers are sex gods—it takes less than a minute of screen time for the Countess and Donovan to seduce another couple into a foursome.

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* VampiresAreSexGods: Sorry, "ancient blood virus" carriers are sex gods—it It takes less than a minute of screen time for the Countess and Donovan to seduce another couple into a foursome.foursome. The oldest known vampires infected F.W. Murnau with the blood virus during an orgy.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: March is smitten with the Countess from the moment he laid eyes on her during the opening ceremony of his hotel (back when she was Elizabeth Johnson). The feeling is ''not'' mutual.

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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: Elizabeth kills Tristan after Liz Taylor announces to her that they are having an affair.]]

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[[spoiler: Elizabeth kills Tristan after Liz Taylor announces to her that they are having an affair.]]
** [[spoiler: March tries to persuade Ramona to kill the Countess, knowing she's about to abandon the hotel forever and determined to keep her with him for all eternity, unable to leave.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Marcy]] from ''Murder House'' and [[spoiler:Queenie]] from ''Coven'' check in to the hotel only to, ahem, check out very permanently within the space of an episode. Set up but then {{Averted}} with [[spoiler:Billie Dean]] from ''Murder House'', who is just GenreSavvy enough to make it out alive (but not so much as to refuse to go to the hotel in the first place).

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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Marcy]] from ''Murder House'' and [[spoiler:Queenie]] from ''Coven'' check in to the hotel only to, ahem, check out very permanently within the space of an episode. Set up but then {{Averted}} with [[spoiler:Billie Dean]] from ''Murder House'', who is just lucky or GenreSavvy enough to make it out alive (but not so much as to refuse to go to the hotel in the first place).
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Marcy]] from ''Murder House'' and [[spoiler:Queenie]] from ''Coven'' check in to the hotel only to, ahem, check out very permanently within the space of an episode. Set up but then {{Averted}} with [[spoiler:Billie Dean]] from ''Murder House'', who is just GenreSavvy enough to make it out alive (but not so much as to refuse to go to the hotel in the first place).
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* Drinking from another vampire or [[spoiler: a witch]] is not only possible but supercharges their healing abilities.

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* ** Drinking from another vampire or [[spoiler: a witch]] is not only possible but supercharges their healing abilities.
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** It's also set in a formerly glamorous but now run down Hollywood hotel. Seedy behavior including sex, drug use, and suicides are common place.
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** They are able to walk in sunlight, but as the Countess herself says, it saps their vitality to do so. She also prefers a bed and blackout curtains to a coffin, though her vampire children do sleep in metal and glass coffins. In addition, while these vampires are technically immortal, they can be killed by human means; they only have an enhanced immune system that prevents aging and disease (unless they consume tainted blood). And they can't be photographed or filmed.

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** They are able to walk in sunlight, but as the Countess herself says, it saps their vitality to do so. She also prefers a bed and blackout curtains to a coffin, though her vampire children do sleep in metal and glass coffins. In addition, while these vampires are technically immortal, they can be killed by human means; they only have an enhanced immune system that prevents aging and disease (unless they consume tainted blood). And they can't be photographed or filmed.show up on film as blurs.
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* CreepyChild: The Countess's brood of kidnapped, bloodsucking children.

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* CreepyChild: The Countess's brood of kidnapped, bloodsucking children. [[spoiler: Later, the vicious pack of vampire tweens Alex inadvertently creates when she gives her blood to a patient dying of measles]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: both vampires and ghosts have it to a certain extent, primarily in that becoming one or the other seems to make a person start viewing killing others as being a rather casual thing to do--for the vampires to feed, and for the ghosts to have a purpose in (un) life


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* EasilyForgiven: By the end of the season, every major character with the exception of Scarlett and possibly Holden has either killed, been killed, killed the loved one of another major character, or screwed over another character in a major way, but by the end they have mostly been able to come together as a weird sort of family--[[spoiler: The Countess and Liz Taylor have reconciled, the Swedish girls' murder victim is now in a three-way relationship with them both, Will Drake apparently has forgiven Ramona for killing him enough to allow her to star in his fashion shows, and March and the Countess seem to be at least civil to one another]]. This may be helped by the fact that most of the characters by the end of the show are either ghosts or vampires, and so they'll ''have'' to live together for the foreseeable future


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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Being killed in the Cortez and having any regrets or unfinished business causes you to manifest as a ghost, possibly for the rest of eternity (although it is speculated that if the Cortez were ever torn down they would stop being able to do so). Ghosts can appear or disappear at will and have physical bodies, but cannot leave the Cortez. Being turned into a ghost causes one to crave a purpose to one's undeath, with the default apparently being "murder people" (both the Swedish girls and [[spoiler: Will Drake]] quite casually kill others to have something to do, until they find something else to do with their unlives). Ghosts cannot be captured on film, but can be seen by humans quite easily. Although they're trapped there, most of the ghosts seem quite comfortable hanging out at the Cortez for the forseeable future--[[spoiler: Liz Taylor]] even asks the ghosts to kill her when she's diagnosed with cancer so she can remain with her "family' for the rest of eternity.
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: For most characters anyway. Liz decides to die in the hotel after learning she has cancer, with the Countess performing a MercyKill on her and implied to make amends after the events of the series. She even reunites with Tristan, who had been a ghost at the hotel the whole time]].

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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: For most characters characters, anyway. Liz decides to die in the hotel after learning she has cancer, with the Countess performing a MercyKill on her and implied to make amends after the events of the series. She even reunites with Tristan, who had been a ghost at the hotel the whole time]].
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** Ramona lives with a mansion and a butler despite having minimal education and a few exploitation films streaming for free on {{Creator/Hulu}}.
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* Drinking from another vampire or [[spoiler: a witch]] is not only possible but supercharges their healing abilities.
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*** And finally, [[spoiler: [[AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Billie Dean Howard]] appears in the episode "Be Our Guest."]]

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*** And finally, [[spoiler: [[AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Billie Dean Howard]] appears in the episode "Be Our Guest."]]"
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: For most characters anyway. Liz decides to die in the hotel after learning she has cancer, with the Countess performing a MercyKill on her and implied to make amends after the events of the series. She even reunites with Tristan, who had been a ghost at the hotel the whole time]].
** [[spoiler: It's also revealed in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2022]], John returns to the hotel as a ghost having died years prior after being on the run for his crimes as the Ten Commandments Killer. And even before that, he and Alex and Holden returned there to be safe, all while allowing Scarlet to live a normal life with other relatives. Unfortunately since John didn't die on the hotel property, he can only return to the hotel every Devil's Night, meaning he can't see Alex, Holden, or Scarlet (now an adult) for an entire year]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Billie Dean wanted to contact John Lowe for a number of years on "Devil's Night." She gets her wish, but not before he, March and his "Mt. Rushmore of Murder", and Romana Royale scare Billie Dean into making her forget about the hotel, or else they would murder her and she would be bound to the hotel forever like the other ghosts.]] Needless to say, the trick works.

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* YouMonster: John calls March a monster when [[spoiler: he shows him his trophy room with the heads of his victims]].


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* YouMonster: John calls March a monster when [[spoiler: he shows him his trophy room with the heads of his victims]].
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** In the last episode, [[spoiler: [[AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Billie Dean Howard]] appears]]


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*** And finally, [[spoiler: [[AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Billie Dean Howard]] appears in the episode "Be Our Guest."]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Hotel'' cast.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''Hotel'' cast.]]
[[note]]Second floor, left to right: [[PsychoSupporter Miss Evers]], [[EvilMentor James Patrick March]], [[TheFashionista Will Drake]], [[LonelyRichKid Lachlan Drake]]. Elevator floor, left to right: [[BrainlessBeauty Tristan Duffy]], [[VampireMonarch The Countess]], [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Rudolph Valentino]]. Ground floor stairs, left to right: [[TheUnfavorite Scarlett Lowe]], [[TheVamp "Hypodermic" Sally]]. Ground floor background, left to right: [[TheRenfield Iris]], [[DeadpanSnarker Liz Taylor]], [[UndeadChild The Vampire Triplets]], [[ClingyJealousGirl Donovan]], [[{{Blaxploitation}} Ramona Royale]]. Foreground, left to right: [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Detective John Lowe]], [[DrJerk Alex Lowe]].[[/note]]]]
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** They are able to walk in sunlight, but as the Countess herself says, it saps their vitality to do so. She also prefers a bed and blackout curtains to a coffin, though her vampire children do sleep in metal and glass coffins. In addition, while these vampires are technically immortal, they can be killed by human means; they only have an enhanced immune system that prevents aging and disease (unless they consume tainted blood).

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** They are able to walk in sunlight, but as the Countess herself says, it saps their vitality to do so. She also prefers a bed and blackout curtains to a coffin, though her vampire children do sleep in metal and glass coffins. In addition, while these vampires are technically immortal, they can be killed by human means; they only have an enhanced immune system that prevents aging and disease (unless they consume tainted blood). And they can't be photographed or filmed.
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** Despite the casting of Lady Gaga, there's no musical number in this season.
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* NoNameGiven: Iris and Donovan are never given a surname.
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** Nevertheless, she does call herself a vampire more than once on other occasions.
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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula and {{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}.
** Also à la {{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}, vampires who are starved of blood don't die, but they do decompose until they look like the walking dead.

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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula and {{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}.
[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]/{{Series/Angel}}.
** Also à la {{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]/{{Series/Angel}}, vampires who are starved of blood don't die, but they do decompose until they look like the walking dead.
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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula and {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}.
** Also à la {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}, vampires who are starved of blood don't die, but they do decompose until they look like the walking dead.

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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula and {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}.
{{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}.
** Also à la {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}, {{Buffy}}/{{Series/Angel}}, vampires who are starved of blood don't die, but they do decompose until they look like the walking dead.

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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula.

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** A human must drink a vampire's blood to become a vampire, à la Dracula.Dracula and {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}.
** Also à la {{Buffy}}/{{Angel}}, vampires who are starved of blood don't die, but they do decompose until they look like the walking dead.

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* TheHecateSisters: ft. Iris as the bitter, cynical Crone, Liz Taylor as the calm, eccentric Mother and the Countess as the seductive Maiden.



** "Battle Royale". [[spoiler:Queenie is brought back only to be killed off for real by James Patrick Marsh, someone who is unaffected by her VoodooDoll power as he was a ghost. Donovan (though he is sparred from being a ghost) and the Countess are killed by Liz Taylor and John Lowe respectably, and the Countess is now bound to live in the Hotel forever.]]

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** "Battle Royale". [[spoiler:Queenie is brought back only to be killed off for real by James Patrick Marsh, someone who is unaffected by her VoodooDoll power as he was is a ghost. Donovan (though he is sparred spared from being a ghost) and the Countess are killed by Liz Taylor and John Lowe respectably, and the Countess is now bound to live in the Hotel forever.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Murdering [[spoiler:Will]] where the killed have a possibility to return as ghost wasn't an entirely bright idea which the Countress lampshades as it forces her to change her plans a bit.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Murdering [[spoiler:Will]] where the killed have a possibility to return as ghost wasn't an entirely bright idea idea, which the Countress Countess lampshades as it forces her to change her plans a bit.

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