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* GothsHaveItHard: Both teenagers Tate and Violet are modelled quite purposefully on the goth/emo subcultures. Violet was actually initially written as a goth, and Tate often dresses in quite a goth style, but also both have distinct crossover with emo culture, such as listening to sad music (Music/KurtCobain is a favorite), chain-smoking, and both are shown being fascinated (rather than scared) of the ghosts in the house. Both are self-harmers, and Violet is a depressed teenager who [[spoiler:commits suicide]], while Tate is [[spoiler:a psychopath who burned his stepfather alive, committed a mass shooting, and raped and impregnated Vivien]] from a combination of MommyIssues and the OedipusComplex.

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* GothsHaveItHard: Both teenagers Tate and Violet are modelled quite purposefully on the goth/emo subcultures. Violet was actually initially written as a goth, and Tate often dresses in quite a goth style, but also both have distinct crossover with emo culture, such as listening to sad music (Music/KurtCobain is a favorite), chain-smoking, and both are shown being fascinated (rather than scared) of the ghosts in the house. Both are self-harmers, and Violet is a depressed teenager who [[spoiler:commits suicide]], while Tate is [[spoiler:a psychopath who burned his stepfather alive, committed a mass shooting, and raped and impregnated Vivien]] from a combination out of MommyIssues and the OedipusComplex.MommyIssues.
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* ColdTouchSurprise: When the family moves in, Violet teases Gabriel after touching him by saying she has "cold hands, but warm heart." By this point, she's a [[spoiler:ghost.]] It's heavily implied she was actually only invoking the trope so that Tate would try to kill Gabriel (so he and Violet could be TogetherInDeath), Violet would save his life, but he'd be sufficiently freaked out to leave with his family and not come back.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Ben walks in on the young Moira doing this and quickly exits to his bedroom to do a little of his own.
** Vivien enjoys herself while she has a DreamSequence about Luke, Ben, and the Rubber Man.
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* HasTwoMommies: Before their relationship went to hell, Chad and Patrick had wanted to adopt and raise children. Chad [[spoiler:plans on taking Vivienne's babies, raising them to around age one, then killing them so they can be adorable forever, hoping it will fix his failed relationship with Patrick.]]
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* DeathBySex:
** [[spoiler: Travis hooks up with Hayden twice. She stabs him to death after the second time.]]
** [[spoiler: Travis' death is a callback to a previous episode, where she does the same to Constance's late husband. As he was dead, it didn't affect him.]]
** [[spoiler: Constance murders both her husband and Moira when she catches them in bed together. Though he was actually trying to rape her.]]
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* ResurrectedMurderer: After setting Larry on fire and committing a Columbine-like shooting, Tate is killed by SWAT in his bedroom. As a result, his ghost remains in the Murder House, where he becomes Rubber Man, raping and murdering Chad and Patrick and murdering Vivian. Until [[LoveRedeems Violet's love redeemed him... maybe.]]
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** Hayden informing [[spoiler: Elizabeth that she did ultimately achieve her dream of becoming famous posthumously. One of the very few instances of Hayden not doing something for her own interests during the season.]]
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* ParentInducedExtendedChildhood:
** Chad and Patrick are both desperate to claim Vivien and Ben's baby as their own, both to have something to keep them together and to give them something to do in their eternity together as ghosts. Chad offhandedly mentions that he plans to smother the child while it's still "young and cute", though this doesn't end up happening - [[spoiler: because they end up having yet another breakup and abandon the plan out of sheer despair.]]
** Zigzagged by Nora Montgomery. Having lost her baby to a horrific kidnapping/murder/resurrection in the 1920s, she is obsessed with getting her baby back, and latches onto Vivien and Ben's [[spoiler: one surviving]] baby as a substitute - to the point that she might be willing to go through with Chad and Patrick's plan. However, she doesn't bother with either killing or keeping the baby, if only because she finds herself incapable of putting up with said baby's crying once she has him; as it happens, Nora wasn't much of a mother when she was alive and hasn't changed in death, so she wearily returns him to Vivien of her own free will.

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