Like every freak show character died

Only a few of American Horror Story: Freak ShowS letters make it come aliveThe rest were subjected to brutal deaths. From Jessica Lange’s Elsa Mars to the beloved Ma Petite, American Horror Story: Freak Shows Character deaths are truly awful. Following American Horror Story: Coven, Season 4 tells the story of one of the last remaining freak show troupes in 1952’s Juniper, Florida. Juniper also faces the threats of a serial killer clown, a sadistic and spoiled local boy, and con artists who want to kill or capture the performers before they sell them to the Morbidity Museum.

Along with many unnamed figures who were murdered by Freak shows Twisty the Clown, Dandy Mott, and a few of the freak show performers, the majority of the American Horror Story Season 4 characters find themselves the targets of Juniper’s killing streak. The only major Freak show Characters who survive the massacres are Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters), Bette and Dot (Sarah Paulson), Desiree (Angela Bassett), and, although unconfirmed, Stanley (Dennis O’Hare), who either engaged in the murders or had to Watch. The slaughter of their friends and family. In a high body count for American Horror Story, Season 4’s Freak show featured the deaths of a staggering 20 major and recurring characters.

Ethel Darling

Played by Kathy Bates

The second Kathy Bates character in American Horror Story was Ethel Darling, the bearded lady of the Alsace troupe. The mother to Jimmy Darling, aka Lobster Boy, Ethel struggled with an addiction to alcohol before Elsa recruited her, where she would later serve as second-in-command to Jessica Lange. Freak show Character. Ethel was easily one of the most likable Freak show character, and had a story just as tragic as many of them, throwing in her husband, Del, after she caught him trying to kill their young children.

Ethel was diagnosed with cirrhosis and only six months to live, but that would not be the way she died. In “Blood Bath,” Ethel confronts Elsa about her loyalty to the “Freaks“, during which Elsa fatally stabs Ethel in the eye in episode 8, “Bloodbath”. Elsa and Stanley then conspire to cover up the murder by suggesting she was beheaded in a car accident. Her death was particularly tragic due to how much Ethel trusted Elsa and how loyal she had been over the years, making the fact that she eventually died in Elsa’s arms especially heartbreaking.

Ma Petite

Played by Jyoti Amge

Now considered one of the saddest deaths in all of American Horror StorySweet Mahadevi Patel, AKA Ma Petite, is brutally murdered by Dell in Freak show. Stanley wanted to sell Ma Petite to the museum, but Maggie couldn’t go through with the murder. However, Dell, AKA The Strongman, ends up doing the disturbing job for Stanley, as he tricks her into thinking he simply bought her a new dress before snapping her throat as he smothers her to death.

the other American Horror Story: Freak show The characters were led to believe that Ma Petite was killed by a wild animal, but Dell eventually confessed to his crime. Ma Petite’s death was especially difficult to watch for various reasons. Not only was she Anne American horror Story character it is almost impossible to dislike, she was also among the most innocent and vulnerable in the show. Because she didn’t let it out Freak show Alive is hard for many viewers to swallow, as she was one character many hoped would still be alive until the end.

MEP

Played by Benjamin Wolf

Much like Ma Petite, the death of Meep (whose stage name was “Meep the Geek”), was particularly brutal since the character was more-or-less innocent and also unable to defend himself – even though his stage act was biting the heads off of live animals. When a police officer arrives to investigate Bette and Dot for murder Freak show Episode 1, Evan Peters’ character Jimmy Darling plants the badge in Dell’s trailer and leaves an anonymous tip for the authorities to cover their tracks.

Unfortunately, Dell finds the badge and puts it under Meep’s control. MEP was then taken by the police and threatened by inmates in his cell, where the scared American Horror Story Season 4 character tries to hide in a corner. The next morning, Meep’s body is dropped off in a bag by a truck that quickly speeds away, revealing that The other prisoners beat him even though he is innocent.

Play Twisty the Clown

Played by John Carroll Lynch

One of the most iconic characters in American Horror Story: Freak Show Is Twisty the clown, who was so popular that he was going to return to the show in later seasons. Although undeniably terrifying, Twisty has something of a tragic backstory that made his death the final note in an unbelievably sad tale rather than the moment of justice that fictional serial killers meet their demise usually is. Before he became the killer clown, Twisty was a children’s entertainer who, after the death of his mother, tried to take his own life with a shotgun. This failed and his face was permanently left behind.

After being kicked out of a carnival due to false rumors, Twisty went on a killing spree, in which he kidnapped small children and murdered their parents. One night, Twisty and Dandy work together to put on a magic show, where The clown tells his story to Edward Mordrake before the ghost holds him a damned soul And stabs Twisty to death. Twisty’s ghost then joined Edward’s group of cheeky spirits. After dying in American Horror Story: Freak ShowTwisty appeared posthumously in AHS: Cult And American Horror Stories.

Dora

Played by Patti LaBelle

One of the character deaths in American Horror Story: Freak Show What does not involve any members of the titular traveling carnival is that of Patti LaBelle’s Dora Brown. Dora is the maid of the rich Gloria and dandy Mott in American Horror Story: Freak ShowWho dies in the wrath of the serial killer Dundee. She is one of the earlier character deaths in American Horror Story: Freak Show, Meeting her end in episode 4, “Edward Mordrake”.

After she discovers Dandy’s murderous secrets of dissected animal parts, Dandy threatens to kill her, but she says he doesn’t have the courage to do so. The next morning, Dandy returns wearing the mask of Twisty the Clown, where Dora once again says that she is not afraid of him. However, as Dora tries to leave, Dandy slits Dora’s throat with a knifeLetting her bleed out on the tiles.

Andy

Played by Matt Bomer

Matt Bomer American Horror Story Season 4 character is Andy, who is revealed to be Dell’s secret lover. While Bomer played several characters in american horror story, And while Andy in Freak show is less integral to the season’s plot than, say, Donovan in American Horror Story: Hotel, His death scene is still integral to setting the tone of the season.

Matt Bomer Freak show Character Andy is a male sex worker who is regularly visited by Dell. Andy is later paid by Dandy Mott to go to Twisty the Clown’s abandoned bus, where Finn Wittrock’s character tries to stab and kill him. Andy continues to live through much of the process of Dandy dismembering him, but eventually succumbs to the serial killer’s cruel actions and is dissolved in acid.

Gloria Mott

Played by Frances Conroy

Portrayed by oft AHS Actress Frances Conroy, Gloria Mott is the mother of the spoiled and sadistic Dandy Mott. She is an incredibly complex character, just like many played by Conroy on the show, and her death in American Horror Story: Freak Show Also lives up to the series veteran’s other appearances. After recognizing her son’s murderous streak and seeing a therapist about her situation with Dandy, Gloria tries to get Finn Wittrock AHS: Freak Show Character to also see a psychiatrist under the pretense of testing his intelligence.

However, Dandy becomes angered by her secret plans and blames her for his actions. As Dandy holds a revolver to his own head, Gloria tries to stop him by saying that she can never live without him. In response to this, Dandy turns the revolver on his motherAdding to the many Freak show Character deaths. This is an important moment for the show because it reveals just how hard and sadistic Dandy is.

Regina

Played by Gabourey Sidibe

After Mott’s maid, Dora, goes missing, her daughter Regina (AHS: CovenGabourey Sidibe) comes to ask Gloria and Dandy. Unfortunately for her, however, the walk in episode 9, “Tupperware Party Massacre”, would also make the moment she became another death caused by Dandy in American Horror Story: Freak Show. Regina arrives at Dandy’s home and says she has gone to the police, after which he admits to killing Dora and Gloria but suggests he has no intention of killing Regina.

When Regina later returns with an investigator, AHSDandy Mott tells the officer he will give him $1 million if he gets rid of Regina and stops pursuing Dora’s case. The investigator immediately agrees by firing a bullet into Regina’s forehead and killing herAfterwards he helps Dandy Moss bury the American Horror Story Season 4 character’s body.

salty

Played by Christopher Neiman

One of the saddest deaths in American Horror Story: Freak Show is that of Salty, played by Christopher Neiman. However, while it’s another tragic passing with one of the few innocent characters on the show, it’s also noteworthy because it was from natural causes rather than (as is the case with most other deaths in AHS Season 4) Murder.

Salty, a microcephalic performer, is one of AHS: Freak Shows carnival characters, who was brought into the troupe as a companion and eventually husband to fan-favorite character Pepper. Unlike the rest of American Horror Story: Freak ShowS letters, Salty is not murdered, like He died in his sleep from a fake blow. However, Stanley then cut off Salty’s head and sold it to the museum.

Dell Toledo

Played by Michael Chiklis

Not all of the deaths in American Horror Story: Freak Show Was tragic, shocking or difficult to watch. Some are more than welcomed by many viewers, and there is no better example of a AHS Characters who deserved their fate like Michael Chiklis’s Dell Toledo, the Strongman. The father of Jimmy Darling and ex-husband to Ethel, Dell is now married to Desiree and has a murderous criminal past.

in American Horror Story Season 4 Dell Toledo is blackmailed by Stanley into killing one of the other characters, with his first attempt being on Amazon Eve before actually killing Ma Petite. Freak showS Strongman later made an attempt on his own life by hanging, but was saved at the last minute by Desiree. Del then confesses his crime of killing Ma Petite to Desiree, with Elsa Mars fatally shooting the AHS: Freak Show Character in the head for revenge.

Maggie Esmeralda

Played by Emma Roberts

As a show, there are a few deaths in it AHS Which are almost morbidly funny in a bleak way, and Freak show Had one of those moments when Maggie was killed in episode 12, “Show Stoppers”. Emma Roberts’ second AHS The character was Maggie Esmeralda, Stanley’s assistant, who conjures up the freak show to believe she is a fortune teller. Although the way she dies is so unexpected and farcical that it even prompts a chuckle from some viewers, it is also a cathartic moment because of the danger Maggie has put the rest of the traveling troupe of performers in.

After starting a romance with Dandy, Maggie hesitates to take the characters’ lives and sell them to the museum, eventually confessing the truth of her deceptions. Maggie, trying to redeem herself to Jimmy and the rest of the characters, volunteers to be sidelined in half by Chester Creb (Neil Patrick Harris) for an illusion. However, the event proves to be no illusion at all, with Maggie actually dying of her body was severed in the show.

Paul

Played by Matt Fraser

American Horror Story: Freak ShowS Paul, AKA Paul the Illustrated Seal, is the first victim in Dandy’s massacre on the troupe. It’s a violent death to be sure, though it’s somewhat overshadowed since it takes place during an episode where multiple characters meet their end at the hands of Freak show Antagonist, Danny.

The secret lover of both Elsa and Penny, Paul’s relationship with the latter eventually leads to her being mutilated and turned into a “Freak“By her own father. When Dandy Mot comes to kill the troop in AHS: Freak Shows final episode, Paul tries to stand up to him, but it leads to Paul is Dandy’s first victim in the massacre when he is shot and killed.

Toulouse

Played by Drew Rin Varick

AHS: Freak ShowThe performer character Toulouse is another of Dandy’s victims in his cruel slaughter. Much like Paul the Illustrated Seal and the other deaths in episode 13, “Curtain Call”, the moment of Drew Rin Varick’s character is killed a little lost among the general violence and carnage of Dandy’s rampage.

The French ex-cons was shot in the head by Dandy Mot while he was drinking, taking the life of one of Jimmy’s close friends in the troupe. The next time Toulouse was seen in American Horror Story: Freak Show, He led Jyoti Amge’s Ma Petite to meet Elsa in the performance of the afterlife.

Legless Suzy

Played by Rose Siggins

Legless Suzy is one of those American Horror Story: Freak Show Characters in Fraulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities, whose leg was amputated shortly after birth. Like a few of the other characters, Suzy has a criminal past of her own, as she stabbed and accidentally killed a man who had more attention than her for tap dancing.

She was a relatively minor character in the show, and her death during the Freak show Finale is one of several that didn’t have much impact on the story, but was part of a wider bloodshed for the season’s closing act. Susie died in American Horror Story: Freak show when She was fatally shot by Dandy Mott.

Penny

Played by Grace Gummer

Penny (Grace Gammer) started American Horror Story: Freak Show As the nurse at the local Juniper, Florida hospital, but was kidnapped and brought to the carnival by Elsa Mars. Elsa blackmails her into staying with the troupe by threatening to release a video of her drug-fueled orgy with members of AHS Season 4’s Freak Show.

Penny is later revealed to be in a relationship with Paul, but when she tries to move away from her father to be with him, her father mutilates her by giving her a forked tongue, shaving half of her hair and tattooing her with scales. After being accepted as one of the troupe members, Penny is shot and killed by Dandy Inn Freak showSeason finale.

I wiggle

Played by Chrissy Metz

Barbara (This is us‘ Chrissy Metz), AKA Ima Wiggles the Fat Lady, was brought into the group as a new star later in American Horror Story: Freak Shows period. Jimmy ends up taking comfort in Emma after his mother Ethel dies and Emma Roberts’ character Maggie betrays him, with the two having a brief affair.

Ima was a sympathetic character in American Horror Story: Freak Show, And one it was easy for viewers to like. There are some who feel she should have had a more fitting end, though only in the sense that she deserves her own dedicated death. Unfortunately, however, like many of your fellowFreaks– in the Alsace troupe, Ima is brutally shot in the head and killed by Dandy Mott During his final slaughter.

Amazon IV

Played by Erika Ervin

Amazon Eve is the considerably larger woman in Elsa Mars Freak show group, who is known for being fiercely protective of her fellow troupe members like Ma Petite. Eve quickly survives an attempt on her life by Dell, who she throws out of her trailer after beating him and eventually conspires to kill him once and for all. She is definitely one of the more valiant and noble characters in freak show, Although her vast strength and admirable personality traits are not enough to keep her alive until the end of the season.

Amazon Eve then becomes the final victim of Dandy Mott’s slaughter of Elsa’s troop, as she attempts to overpower him in a trailer before he manages to get his gun and shoot her in the leg. After immobilizing her, Eve died in American Horror Story Season 4 when Dandy shot her in the head.

Lillian Hemmings

Played by Celia Weston

Lillian Hemmings is the curator at American Horror Story: Freak Shows American Morbidity Museum, which is buying the bodies of the members of Stanley’s troupe for its exhibition. When Maggie and Desiree travel to the museum and see Ma Petite’s body and Jimmy’s hand, Maggie feints, after Desiree proceeds to kill Lillian.

Lillian was killed by decapitation in American Horror Story: Freak ShowAfter which Desiree sends her head to Stanley. This is one of the more satisfying deaths in AHS Season 4. While Lillian is not as central an antagonist as Del or Dandy, she still represents everything wrong with the culture that forced the “freaks” of the carnival to band together to survive and live on the outskirts of society. For this reason, it was incredibly satisfying to see her killed off.

Dandy Mot

Played by Finn Wittrock

of all AHS Season 4 deaths Few are as satisfying to witness as that of Dandy Mott, the sadistic, spoiled and pampered member of the local elite who uses the traveling carnival as an outlet for his violent impulses. After brutally killing the majority of the characters in American Horror Story: Freak ShowThe torture is turned back on Finn Wittrock’s Dandy Mott.

Dandy killed all of the performers out of bed and dot, whom he wanted to marry; Jimmy, who was not in camp at the time of the massacre; and Desiree, who escaped after Dandy killed Amazon Eve. As revenge, the twins, Jimmy, and Desiree kill Dandy by drugging him, chaining him in a water tankAnd watching as he slowly drowned while the tank filled with water.

Elsa Mars

Played by Jessica Lange

Elsa Mars was Jessica Lange’s last leading role in American Horror StoryAlthough the actress would return for AHS: Apocalypse To reprise her role as Murder houseS Constance Langdon. Elsa Mars is the leader of the troupe in Freak show; A talented singer who is secretly amputated below the knee on both legs. After the members of her troupe learn that she was responsible for killing Ethel and plotting to kill Bette and Dot, Elsa sells the freak show in order to move to Hollywood for a variety show.

Once Elsa’s career is ruined by her old German smack film and she learns that her “Family“In The Freak Show is Massacred, Elsa plans to take her own life by challenging Edward Mordrake on Halloween to claim her. Mordrake agreed to kill her But declaring that she does not belong in his troop, Elsa is then reunited with the other assassins American Horror Story: Freak Show Letters in the afterlife.