American Horror Story: 10 Scariest Villains Ranked

2. Dandy Mott

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Whereas Twisty is the most memorable villain from Freak Show's selection of deplorable characters, it's Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock in his AHS debut) who proved to be the most heinous of them all.

As incredibly spoiled as he is ridiculously wealthy, Dandy is the Patrick Bateman of the world of AHS. He's vain, delusional, and completely psychotic. He becomes enamoured by the freak show in town and becomes obsessed with the Tattler twins when he's told he cannot purchase them as his own property.

His combination of anger and boredom led him to become Twisty's protégé; and when the clown joined Mordrake's ghostly troupe, Dandy would assume his place as Jupiter's resident killer clown.

But even this derangement wasn't enough for the heir to the Mott fortune. Alongside killing his own mother and bathing in her blood, his obsession with the freak show wasn't over yet either. After framing Jimmy for some of his murderous handywork, Dandy was finally able to purchase the show. However, when the troupe quit after being displeased with their new boss, Dandy snapped and gunned most of them down.

Dandy's madness finally ended when the surviving members trapped him in Houdini's water tank and watched him drown.

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