American Horror Story: Difference between revisions

* [[French Maid Outfit]]: Moira wears a highly-eroticized version of this as her younger self, complete with garter belt.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Marcy invokes this when she pulls a gun on Larry during the open house. Too bad she's [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].

* [[Ghost Shipping]]: {{spoiler|Violet and Tate.}}

* [[Glasgow Smile]]: Given to both Elizabeth Short and {{spoiler|Travis'}} corpses by {{spoiler|Charles Montgomory.}}

* [[Moe Greene Special]]: {{spoiler|How Constance killed Moira. She's even impressed with her own marksmanship.}}

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Young Moira

** Revealed in the first part of the Halloween two-parter to have been at least partially caused by {{spoiler|the man in the rubber suit, who first tries to drown then snaps Chad's neck. After Patrick walked into the room, he killed him as well.}}.

** {{spoiler|Charles and Nora Montgomery, after Nora discovers just what their child had become. She kills him, then herself.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: The opening for "Rubber Man". {{spoiler|The Rubber Suit Man who fathered one of Vivien's twins and killed Chad and Patrick is Tate!}}

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Billie Dean, the medium who Constance contacts after {{spoiler|Violet discovers that Tate's dead}}.

** [[Fridge Logic|Why don't they make the effort to tell someone where the bodies are for proper burying so they could go to rest?]]

** This seems to only be the case with Moira, we don't know why everyone else is stuck there and it's not possible that all of their bodies are buried on the grounds since there are records of their deaths, meaning that someone would have had to have found their bodies following said deaths (or else the records would have just said that they disappeared.) The only condition for someone becoming a ghost in the house is that they die on the grounds, not that their bodies remain there.

* {{spoiler|[[Ship Sinking]]: Tate and Violet, torpedoed near the end of the season once Violet learns that Tate killed Chad and Patrick and raped her mother.}}

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Ben's patient Derek from "Piggy Piggy" definitely falls under this.

** Larry Harvey says that when he murdered his family under the influence of voices, he felt like an obedient child. The character played by Laurence Harvey in [[The Manchurian Candidate|''The Manchurian Candidate'']] murdered people under the influence of {{spoiler|his mother.}}

** Larry Harvey is also the name of one of the founders of Burning Man. And what happened to the show's Larry Harvey?

* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Tate, towards Violet. Likes to stare at her while she sleeps. {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along|He's not breaking in, though.]]}}

** Larry is a platonic version of this to Ben. He keeps appearing out of nowhere and talking to him. Though Ben is repulsed by him, he apparently just wants to be buds. In episode three, he even helps Ben out by {{spoiler|killing Hayden.}}

**** {{spoiler|Larry claims the whole reason he wanted the Harmons out of the house was so he could stay close to Constance. When she discovers this, Constance is fairly disgusted.}}

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Tate and Violet, {{spoiler|due to Tate being [[Dead All Along]]}}.

* [[Straw Misogynist]]: The Armenian man who plans on buying the house displays this behavior, especially towards Constance and Moira. {{spoiler|However, this isn't the reason why Constance, Moira, and Larry team up to do away with him. He planned on tearing the house down.}}

* [[Suicide By Cop]]: {{spoiler|Tate.}}

** When Vivien starts seeing the ghosts, he thinks she's gone crazy.

** He only believes Vivien's story about the Rubber Man ''after'' speaking to Luke. {{spoiler|And even then they both think it's someone who broke in!}}

** Episode 6, when Tate {{spoiler|shoves his fingers down Violet's throat to try to keep her from dying. Thank goodness, too. Who knows what would have happened if she had died in that house.}}

*** {{spoiler|Episode 10 reveals what would've - and did - happen. Tate wasn't able to save her, and she became one of the house's ghosts.}}

** Less of an example, but still wham-worthy, is "Smoldering Children". {{spoiler|Larry takes the fall for Constance, who is suspected of murdering Travis, and it's revealed that Violet did not survive her overdose.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Violet calls both of her parents out on their neglectful behavior towards her.