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Part One: Red Tide

The Gardners

Harry Gardner

Portrayed By: Finn Wittrock

"Don't be jealous because I found inspiration and you can't play fucking Paganini!"

A struggling television writer. Desperate to finish writing the pilot for his new TV show, he follows his wife to Provincetown, where he falls in with Austin and Belle, who give him a cure for his writer's block that has a terrible price attached.

Everyone Has Standards: He wants Alma to keep her hands clean for as long as possible. He also tries to discourage her blatant contempt for Doris, though he ultimately fails.
Horror Hunger: Like everyone else who takes the Muse, he develops a taste for human blood.
It's All About Me: Displays some tendencies of this, being hyper-fixated on his own writing to the point of ignoring his family at times.
Most Writers Are Writers: A television writer written by television writers.

Doris Gardner

Portrayed By: Lily Rabe

"I'm proud of you. Can we leave now?"

Harry's wife. Formerly a schoolteacher, her pregnancy has inspired her to try her hand at interior decorating, which led her to take a job in Provincetown.

Break the Cutie: The entire show is one for her, as she watches her husband and daughter spiral after taking the Muse and starts to live in constant fear.
City Mouse: She was much happier back in New York, and is ill-at-ease in Provincetown.
Hypochondriac: She has a particular obsession with Lyme Disease and sees nearly every sign of illness or unusual behaviour around her as a possible symptom.
Locked Out of the Loop: Harry goes out of his way to keep her ignorant of the Muse and of its side effects, because he believes she would never understand it.
Ominous Hair Loss: Doris's hair starts to fall out when she takes the Muse. She shaves the rest of it before making the full transformation into a Pale Person.
Uncertain Doom: Last we see her, she has been rendered a Pale Person and left to wander Provincetown. It's not clear if she is one of the Pale People who attack Belle's house, all of whom end up shot by the Chemist or killed by Belle and Austin.

Alma Gardner

Portrayed by: Ryan Kiera Armstrong

"Sounds fine to you because fine is good enough for you. For people like Daddy and I, fine is failure."

Harry and Doris's daughter, a musician with dreams of playing in the New York Philharmonic, but struggles with learning the subject matter.

Acquired Situational Narcissism: After taking the pill and realizing what it can do, becomes wildly obsessed with herself and her own talent to the point of telling people she thinks she is the best in the world and that there is no competition.
Creepy Child: Expresses an interest in death and decay even before taking the Muse.
Daddy's Girl: A dark example. Alma has a good relationship with her father, thinking that he is on the same level of talent and "greatness" as her. In contrast, she has nothing but contempt for her mother (especially after taking the Muse), to the point that she manipulates Doris into taking the pill and becoming a Pale Person.
Enfant Terrible: Kills Chief Burelson when she hears that the Chief is gonna arrest Harry.
Expy: As a sociopathic little girl who begins killing others so that she can be the best, Alma is very similar to Rhoda from The Bad Seed.
Horror Hunger: She develops this after stealing from Harry's stash of the Muse so that she'll be able to play the viola perfectly.
Kids Are Cruel: She’s a child but she’s by far the most casually cruel user of Muse in the series.
Self-Made Orphan: Gets her mother turned into a Pale Person and ends up murdering her own father.
To Be a Master: She will not settle for anything less than being the best violinist in the world, and refuses to let anyone get in her way.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Even before she took the Muse, she was unnaturally interested in death and decay; after taking it, she is shockingly cold and almost nihilistic about her own future outside of her creative passions.
Vegetarian Vampire: A weird play on the trope. At first, she gets by eating roadkill, but then Harry starts bringing her blood taken from people he kills, theoretically keeping Alma's own hands clean. This does not last long, as Alma kills the police chief and then quickly begins killing to feed herself.

Eli Gardner

Harry and Doris's newborn son, born near the end of the season and a person of interest to several persons in Provincetown.

Improbable Infant Survival: Manages to make it out of the season okay.

Provincetown residents

TB Karen

Portrayed by: Sarah Paulson

"I don't do this to be close to you. I do it because you promise to protect me from the others."

A local outcast. A combination of mental illness, addiction, and an unexplained severe cough have made her unemployable, and she spends her days wandering the town and trying to avoid the Pale People.

Emergency Transformation: She reluctantly swallows the Muse to save herself from a swarm of Pale Ones.
Everyone Has Standards: She is the local curmudgeon and does do Belle's dirty work, but absolutely refuses to take the Muse because she doesn't want blood on her hands.
Hidden Depths: She has demonstrated a talent for painting, but without money, she has no way of making a living out of it.
Incurable Cough of Death: It hasn't killed her yet, but her constant coughing causes a lot of people to avoid her.
Suicidal Sadistic Choice: After her Emergency Transformation she has to choose between ending her life or living out her days as one of the creatures she despises. She chooses the former.
Talkative Loon: She is constantly raving and spouting out obscenities at people.
Would Hurt a Child: Occasionally abducts children for Belle to feed on in exchange for drugs and protection from the Pale People, not that she is particularly happy about any of it.

Austin Sommers

Portrayed by: Evan Peters

A playwright, and one of the early adopters of the Muse. He and Belle induct Harry into their fraternity.

The Alcoholic: Openly admits that his life philosophy is to spend life so drunk that he never quite sobers up.
Ambiguously Gay: His flamboyant dress style and penchant for phallic language suggest that he's gay. Although during his days as a drag artist, he was derided as being "a straight boy in a bad wig", which could imply that he may just be campy for the hell of it.
Because You Were Nice to Me: He is loyal to Belle because she talked him into writing again and introduced him to the Muse.
Character Tics: Has a very strange tendency to snap his fingers, particularly when annoyed by something (such as Ursula insulting his and Belle's singing) or about to go for the kill.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even he seems a little unsettled and uncomfortable with Belle's Motive Rant in the finale, though that doesn't stop him from going along with it.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Was once just a down-on-his-luck drag performer with broken dreams, now he's a mass murderer with almost no morals.
Functional Addict: He and Belle only take the Muse during the winter, during which they churn out enough material that they can spend the rest of the year detoxing.
Improbable Age: In his early thirties, he already has three Tonys and a Peabody under his belt. Justified however, due to the nature of the Muse.
Large Ham: Campy and prone to singing mid-speech and generally much more expressive than Belle.
Platonic Life-Partners: With Belle, with whom he spends his winters.
Sinister Switchblade: Is fond of using a switchblade as his weapon of choice, it seems.

Belle Noir

Sarah Cunningham/Belle Noir

Portrayed by: Frances Conroy

A romance writer, and Austin's constant companion.

Awful Wedded Life: Before taking the Muse, she was stuck in an unhappy, toxic marriage to a bitter old man who constantly talked down to her. She killed him while high on the Muse and never looked back.
Cold Ham: Says some of the most absolutely ridiculous and cheesy lines, but in a very cold affect that never gets much louder than a whisper.
Depraved Bisexual: Even before taking the Muse, when she was still married to her husband, she was curious about sex with other women. Since taking the Muse, she's become indiscriminate about the gender or age of her victims, even boasting that she's fed on young virgin girls.
Disproportionate Retribution: Orders Mickey to kill Ursula just because "I don't like it when someone insults my singing."
From Nobody to Nightmare: Pre-Muse, she was a self-published writer in an emotionally abusive relationship. Post-Muse, she's a vicious multiple murderess with a particular fondness for babies' blood.
Laser-Guided Karma: After a season of using the Pale People to threaten people and get her way, she is killed when she is the victim of a Zerg Rush by them and torn apart.
Meaningful Name: As opposed to the Bete Noir.
Motive Rant: Goes on a prolonged one in the finale of Red Tide, demeaning Harry for being a 'screenwriter' and implying that only novelists and playwrights should be considered real writers, and showing a deep disdain for anything connected to Hollywood or non-print media.
Pen Name: "Belle Noir" is hers. Her real name is Sarah Cunningham.
Platonic Life-Partners: She and Austin are inseparable during the winter.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Blatantly classist and looks down on pretty much everyone, though she particularly seems to hate Mickey and Karen.
Pragmatic Villainy: She doesn't really care that Harry's 9-year-old daughter is taking Muse; she's more worried that an irresponsible child might let the secret slip out and damage her career.
The Unfettered: She allows nothing to get in the way of her desires.
Villainous Breakdown: By the time the finale comes, she is progressively losing her grip on reality, to the point of going on a wild Motive Rant to Harry and Alma.
Would Harm a Child: She boasts that she's done some of her best writing while feeding on young girls. She also plans to murder Alma.

Mickey

Portrayed by: Macaulay Culkin

"Everyone’s gotta go, like, Darth Vader to get ahead in life, right?"

A local male escort, and the closest thing TB Karen has to a friend.

Hidden Depths: He is an aspiring writer, and has a weirdly in-depth knowledge of movies and pop culture.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Despite his less-than-respectable job and his thieving and murdering, he's fairly affable. He's also one of the only people in town who shows any kindness to TB Karen.
Karmic Death: He gets drained by Karen, whom he previously left alone with a swarm of Pale Ones to coerce her into taking the Muse.
Nice Guy: He's kind of dumb, desperate, and tends to not think things through, but he legitimately means well and is rather fond of Karen.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His stealing of the pills from Belle and his subsequent alerting Ursula of what is going on in Provincetown is what leads to the Gardners being put in danger. He was also the one who spread the Muse around in the first place, as the Chemist paid him good money to recruit test subjects.

The Chemist

Portrayed by: Angelica Ross

"You hate the world for giving you dreams that were too big."

The creator of the Muse.

Affably Evil: Despite being an immoral drug manufacturer, the Chemist is fairly polite to those who don't piss her off, and even has the decency to explain the effects of the Muse to people who buy it from her personally, giving them a chance to back out before they do so.
Big Bad: The creator of the Muse and, by extension, the cause of the majority of the show's problems.
Big Bad Duumvirate: By the end of the story, she teams up with Ursula to get rid of the vampires and sell the Muse for profit.
Even Evil Has Standards: She is the person responsible for the vampire epidemic in Provincetown, but she finds racism to be something legitimately evil.
Hazy-Feel Turn: By the finale, she turns on Belle and Austin, but still allows Harry to die and continues distributing the Muse in Los Angeles, though for a profit this time rather than for research. In the end, it's hard to say what side she is really on.
Ivy League for Everyone: She's a legitimate biochemical engineer with a PhD from Harvard.
Mad Scientist: Obviously. She creates a drug that turns people into vampires.
Maker of Monsters: She's perfectly fine to turn aspiring artists into bloodthirsty sociopaths or devolved predators for science.
Misanthrope Supreme: When Ursula tracks her down and gives her an extremely lucrative deal for access to the Muse, the Chemist decides to order Austin and Belle to kill Ursula, plus Mickey, Harry and Alma, because she doesn't want to have to deal with more people.
Promoted to Parent: After Alma kills Harry, she adopts Alma and baby Eli.

Chief Burelson

Portrayed by: Adina Porter

The local Chief of Police for Provincetown.

By-the-Book Cop: Austin and Belle suggest she is this (unlike her predecessor), which has forced them to look for victims out of town so that Burelson won't suspect them.
Slashed Throat: Is killed by Alma doing this to her in a fit of bloodthirsty rage.

Lark Feldman

Dr. Leslie "Lark" Feldman

Portrayed by: Billie Lourd

A trained dentist who works as a tattoo artist.

Chekhov's Skill: She only studied dentistry to appease her parents, but her education has allowed her to earn extra money by performing oral surgery on her fellow Muse addicts so that their teeth are better suited to exsanguination.
Cute But Psycho: The gothic lolita look is cute, but she also gleefully describes to Belle how she murdered her previous boyfriend for being too boring.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: She sports a very gothic look with Victorian accents.

Ursula Caan

Portrayed by: Leslie Grossman

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"I represent the producers of The Bachelor. Fucked-up is my bread and butter."

Harry's extremely pushy agent. Initially content to remain in New York City and wait for him to deliver his promised script, she becomes curious when his new script is different from his previous work, and thus comes to Provincetown to find out why.

Big Bad Duumvirate: Forms one with the Chemist to get rid of the vampires and distribute the Muse throughout Los Angeles.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts friendly and affable to people's faces, but privately she has no problem belittling her clients or emotionally manipulating and bullying Doris.
Deadpan Snarker: And how. Practically every line coming out of her mouth is dripping with sarcasm.
Faux Affably Evil: Is very friendly and polite to her clients (most of the time), but is also extremely manipulative and greedy and has no problem covering up crimes.
From Bad to Worse: Provincetown was already suffering from a dangerous, vampire-drug epidemic. Ursula's arrival only manages to exacerbate the problem.
Gaslighting: Helps Harry do this to Doris in order to keep the vampiric effects of the Muse a secret.
Greed: Is motivated only by this, taking advantage of the situation in Cape Cod in pursuit of more money.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Initially seems like a snarky, yet well-intentioned agent trying to help out her client. The truth about her is much nastier.
Manipulative Bitch: She pressures Harry into continuing to use the Muse, and manipulates Alma into turning against her parents.
Only Sane Man: Is the only person to take a look at the number of prolific writers spurned out by Provincetown and become immediately suspicious of it.
The Sociopath: Beneath her snarky and friendly façade, Ursula is a manipulative, power-hungry, and apathetic businesswoman who will gladly let dozens, possibly hundreds, of innocent people die to further her goals.
Spotting the Thread: She quickly realizes that something has changed about Harry based on the quality of his latest writing.

Holden Vaughn

Portrayed by: Denis O'Hare

A real estate agent-turned-interior decorator who has lived in Provincetown for many years. He also serves as one of the Councilmen.

Camp Gay: He's got a certain Tennessee Williams aesthetic.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: After the Gardners cause a state trooper to come to Provincetown to investigate Chief Burelson's death, he threatens to use his powers as a member of the town council to make Belle and Austin's lives miserable unless they get rid of the Gardners.

Martha Edwards

Portrayed by: Robin Weigert

Mikey Edwards

Portrayed by: John Lacy

Tony

Portrayed by: Blake Shields

A snuff-porn star, and one of Harry's first victims after being transformed.

Asshole Victim: He was planning to sodomize Harry to death for a snuff film before Harry killed him.

Melanie

Portrayed by: Rachel Finninger

An amateur snuff-porn producer, and one of Harry's first victims after being turned.

Asshole Victim: She thought nothing of leading Harry to a horrible death.
Honey Trap: She attracts her victims through personals ads before knocking them out and trussing them up.
Nightmare Fetishist: She gets off on watching her boyfriend sodomize other men to death.

Ray Cunningham

Portrayed by: Jim Ortlieb

The ex-husband to Sarah Cunningham, AKA Belle Noir.

Asshole Victim: His death is not mourned, especially by Sarah.
Domestic Abuse: He is emotionally abusive and openly unfaithful to Sarah.

The Singer

Portrayed by: Spencer Novich

A stage singer and acquaintance to Mickey who finds himself as one of the first to take the Muse.

Dreadful Musician: He's not a very good singer, despite his ambition, which results in his transformation into a Pale Person.
Horror Hunger: Like most of the Muse addicts, he developed a hunger for blood. In his case, it was even more horrifying, as he was a vegan pacifist before he transformed.
Ominous Hair Loss: Par for the course for Pale People.

Crystal Decanter

Portrayed by: David Huggard

A drag performer and acquaintance from Austin's past.

Asshole Victim: Another person whose death isn't mourned by anyone.
Jerkass: He's a mean-spirited bully to everyone, and a freeloader.

Jan Remy

Portrayed by: Dot Marie Jones

A Massachusetts State Police trooper.

Rory

A prodigy musician running for the spot as First Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Portrayed by: Benjamin Papac

Part Two: Death Valley

Modern Day

Kendall Carr

Portrayed by: Kaia Gerber

A medical student and recently converted Luddite who convinces her friends to go with her on a 'tech-free' camping excursion.

Arbitrary Skepticism: Blatantly dismisses the possibility of aliens, ghosts, or anything that isn't explained by modern science.
Baby Factory: Her headless corpse is turned into this after her death.
Decoy Protagonist: The show tries to build her up as the leader of the four and a possible protagonist, until she is killed off and replaced by Mamie.
Off with Her Head!: After giving birth to a perfect hybrid, her head is sliced off.
Teacher/Student Romance: Has one with the professor of her "50 Years of Technology" lecture, inspiring some of her Luddite beliefs.
Too Dumb to Live: Even when you’re not a character in a horror series, going camping in a remote area with absolutely no means to contact the outside world if something goes wrong is not considered a best practice.

Jamie Howard

Portrayed by: Rachel Hilson

A self-help guru who goes on the trip with her friends to avoid dealing with a messy breakup.

Slashed Throat: Has her throat slit by the aliens in the finale.
Too Dumb to Live: Even when you’re not a character in a horror series, going camping in a remote area with absolutely no means to contact the outside world if something goes wrong is not considered a best practice.

Cal Cambon

Portrayed by: Nico Greetham

Troy's boyfriend, a well-off and well-traveled college student.

Eaten Alive: Is murdered like this by his own half-alien offspring.
Ethical Slut: Seems like a nice enough person, but frequently alludes to his active sexual history.
Mister Seahorse: Became this thanks to his alien abduction.
Too Dumb to Live: Even when you’re not a character in a horror series, going camping in a remote area with absolutely no means to contact the outside world if something goes wrong is not considered a best practice.

Troy Lord

Portrayed by: Isaac Cole Powell

Cal's boyfriend, an Orthodox Jew set to one day inherit the family law firm.

Eaten Alive: Is murdered by Cal's hybrid baby.
Functional Addict: His only listed hobby is "doing cocaine".
Mister Seahorse: Became this thanks to his alien abduction. If you wonder how the baby came out, let's just say it wasn't pretty.
Sanity Slippage: Seems to suffer this in the episode "Blue Moon". After giving birth to his alien baby (with which he was connected by telepathy) and seeing it killed before his very eyes, he starts obsessing over a recurring joke he and Cal had to form a family and have children. To the point he is ready to do everything to save his boyfriend's alien baby, even if it includes practicing himself a surgical procedure on an abandoned filming stage to deliver the baby...
Too Dumb to Live: In addition to agreeing to go camping in a remote location with no way of contacting anyone if something goes wrong, he attempts to administer a c-section to his boyfriend by himself rather than asking their friend, who is a medical student, to help. Worse, during the procedure he appears to have no supplies on hand to stitch Cal up afterwards. Even if the baby hadn’t turned out to be a face-hugger, Cal probably wouldn’t have lived long after.

Calico

Portrayed by: Leslie Grossman

A strange woman who was taken away by the Men in Black sometime in 1969.

Baby Factory: Became this due to being a strong host able to resist the painful and dangerous delivery of an hybrid baby. Ever since her abduction she says she has been giving birth every year to two or three alien babies. Given she was abducted in 1969 it means she has birthed so far between a hundred and a hundred-and-fifty babies.
Fate Worse than Death: Thinks of her current situation as this.
Meaningful Name: Is named calico, like a cat, which makes sense given her role as a frequent mother for the alien hybrids.
The Quisling: Betrays humanity so that she can be the "mother" to all the hybrids.
Serial Spouse: Alludes to at least 3 failed marriages.

Theta

Portrayed by: Angelica Ross

An inhuman scientist tied to the alien experimentations.

Abusive Parents: Played With. Theta doesn't have any children of her own, yet she seems to view the hybrids she creates as such. Nevertheless, she has zero issues with cutting their throats open and drowning them if they fail to meet her expectations.
Arc Villain: For the Death Valley half.
The Bad Guy Wins: Theta kills off most of the main characters and gets to keep Kendall's body alive as a Breeding Slave for her Half-Human Hybrid army to conquer Earth.
Big Bad: As the head of the alien experiments, she serves as the main antagonist of the arc.
Body Horror: Half of her face is human, but the other half is that of one of the Greys.
Boomerang Bigot: Despite being half-human, she expresses nothing but disdain for humanity. Even worse, despite being an incomplete human-Grey hybrid, she'll coldly slash the throats of any of the children that come out like her.
Casting Gag: Much like the Chemist in Red Tide, Angelica Ross plays the Big Bad Mad Scientist who dislikes humanity and gets away with her crimes in the end.
Fake Defector: Pretends to assist Mamie in saving the human race, but it's all just a ploy.
Faux Affably Evil: Is actually fairly nice and polite to the people under her care. That is, until you stop being useful to her.
Final Solution: Intends to help the Greys exterminate humanity in order to make way for her own creations.
Half-Human Hybrid: Seems to be one of the alien-human hybrids created as a result of the abductions.
The Heavy: She is the most direct threat faced in the season, yet it's heavily implied that even she has superiors to answer to.
Hypocrite: Despite being an imperfect hybrid herself, Theta will gladly murder any other imperfect hybrids that come out of her experiments.
Karma Houdini: Faces zero repercussions for her actions in the end.
Kill All Humans: The ultimate goal of her experiments.
Mad Scientist: She tortures, experiments on, and impregnates humans, while killing any experiments that fail.
Mind over Matter: Displays some level of psychic abilities.
Misanthrope Supreme: Claims that humans are killing Earth, despite being half-human herself.
The Social Darwinist: Believes the Greys to be the superior race compared to humans, thus making the aliens worthy of taking over Earth.
The Stoic: Displays little emotion or feeling.
Take Over the World: The ultimate goal of her experiments once she unleashes them upon the world.
Would Hurt a Child: She nonchalantly slits the throats of any imperfect hybrids, before having her orderlies drown what's left.

Adam

Kendall's lover.

Portrayed by: Samuel Hunt

Steve Jobs

Portrayed by:: Len Cordova

The 1950s

Dwight "Ike" D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrayed by: Neal McDonough

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"No, no. I'm the only one who is thinking straight."

The 34th President of the United States, who learns there is alien life crash-landed in the desert.

Bad Liar: His wife can easily tell when he is hiding something.
Conspiracy Theorist: Begins to believe in these, including in the existence of shapeshifting lizard people.
Deal with the Devil: Made a deal with the aliens, that he would offer up a number of humans every year as experiments in exchange for peace and alien technology.
Historical Domain Character: Kind of a given, considering who he is.
My God, What Have I Done?: Has this several times throughout the season as he faces the repercussions of his deal.
Properly Paranoid: He never trusted the aliens, and his distrust only grows over the years. He is completely in the right about all of this.
The Stoic: Shows little emotion to anyone, even his own wife or his personal confidants.

"Mamie" Eisenhower

Mary Geneva Eisenhower

Portrayed by: Sarah Paulson

Eisenhower's wife, the First Lady.

The Atoner: Becomes this by the finale.
The Corrupter: She is the one responsible for influencing Eisenhower to make the deal with the aliens, despite the costs.
Demonic Possession: Suffers this at the hands of the aliens, as a way of getting Ike to play ball.
Face–Heel Turn: Betrays her husband to work with the aliens.
Heel Realization: It's only near the end that Mamie realizes just how culpable she is in helping end the human race for her own gain.
Historical Domain Character: Obviously, given who she is.
Older Than They Look: Due to alien innovations, she has somehow been able to live forever and hasn't aged since the 70's.
Robosexual: Is carrying on some sort of affair with Valiant Thor, which she says Ike shouldn't be upset about because not only has he himself cheated in the past, since "Val" is an android it's no different than using a vibrator.
Skewed Priorities: Is more concerned with parties, holidays, and breakfast table conversations than Eisenhower's legitimate concerns about what is going on.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Eventually comes to think this.
Your Head Asplode: Dies like this at the hands of Theta.

Maria Wycoff

Portrayed by: Rebecca Dayan

A housewife in the 1950's who becomes the first of many victims to the alien visitors.

Demonic Possession: Or an alien variation of it, as she finds herself being controlled by the aliens for an unknown purpose.
Mouth of Sauron: Is used as this by the aliens at the start of the season.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Claims to be doing what she (or they) is doing in order to find a way to save their species, as their home is dying.
Your Head Asplode: Maria's ultimate fate, as the aliens apparently no longer needed her.

Charles Wycoff

Portrayed by: Adam Noel Jones

Maria's husband.

Timmy Wycoff

Portrayed by: Henry Joseph Samiri

Maria and Charles's son.

Uncertain Doom: We never did see what happened to him after his abduction.

Richard Nixon

Portrayed by: Craig Sheffer

Eisenhower's Vice President and eventually the 37th President of the United States, fresh off of his loss against Kennedy.

Drowning My Sorrows: What he is doing as he tells Eisenhower about Kennedy's plans to go public.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Openly acknowledges that no one really likes him, and that they keep him around for his political expertise.
Historical Domain Character: As a former president and historical figure, he is of course this.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Hates the aliens, non-Americans, Jews, anyone who went to the Ivy League, Democrats, and a long list of people judging by his rants to Eisenhower.
Take Over the World: Briefly alludes to wanting to use the alien technology to let America conquer the world.

John F. Kennedy

Portrayed by: Mike Vogel

The 35th President of the United States, assassinated after he was made aware of the alien treaty.

Arch-Enemy: Is this to Nixon.
Historical Domain Character: The historical US President.
Unknown Rival: Nixon seems to hate his guts and his very existence, but Kennedy doesn't seem to give him much thought at all.

Marilyn Monroe

Portrayed by: Alisha Soper

An American actress and singer in the midst of an affair with John F. Kennedy.

Historical Domain Character: Like so many other characters from the 1950s segment, she is one.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her convincing Kennedy to go public about the aliens is implied to be what lead to both their deaths.

Amelia Earhart

Portrayed by: Lily Rabe

A famed American pilot who went missing in 1937, but reappeared in the 1950s.

Broken Bird: Has been left very unstable and neurotic by whatever she went through on the alien saucer.
Historical Domain Character: The pilot who famously went missing.
Killed Offscreen: We don't see her die, just Eisenhower stumbling upon her bloody remains in the labs after she gives birth to an alien offspring.

Valiant Thor

Portrayed by: Cody Fern

"Mr. President. I believe you've been expecting me?"

A liaison sent as part of the deal made by Eisenhower.

Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: A lesser example than most, as the real Valiant did claim to be an alien, though this version is some kind of alien robot.
Big Bad Duumvirate: Is the aliens' main face on Planet Earth, but is just as much of a threat to everyone involved as Theta.
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Seemed really proud of his joke that "the air ducts seem to carry more sound than air" after learning screams can be heard through them, though Eisenhower was clearly in no mood for it.
Mind over Matter: Possesses some level of this, throwing around Secret Service agents with his mind with ease.
Ridiculously Human Robots: Is clearly some kind of android, but is able to have sex and looks human enough.
Robosexual: Is carrying on some sort of affair with Mamie Eisenhower.
Villains Never Lie: Never actually lies to Eisenhower and even bluntly tells him that the aliens who created him were lying when they threatened to go to the Soviets, and would actually just take what they want from America by force if the president refused.
Villain Respect: Actually seems to respect the Eisenhowers for the sacrifices they made to help his people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Johnson

Portrayed by: Karl Makinen

Historical Domain Character: The 36th US President.

Neil Armstrong

Portrayed by: Bryce Johnson

Historical Domain Character: The famed astronaut.

Buzz Aldrin

Portrayed by: John Sanders

Historical Domain Character: The (still living at the time of airing) astronaut.

Stanley Kubrick

Portrayed by: Jeff Heapy

Historical Domain Character: The famous director.

Henry Kissinger

Portrayed by: Vincent Foster

National Security Adviser, later Secretary of State during the Nixon administration

Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Was actually a lizard-like alien.
Historical Domain Character: The famous (or infamous) Nixon Secretary of State.
Reptilian Conspiracy: Is confirmed to be a member of one of the rival lizard-like aliens infiltrating Earth, though we never find out exactly what his species wants.

Characters / American Horror Story: Double Feature

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