30 of American Horror Story's Most Twisted Characters Ever

While Edward Mordrake (Wes Bentley) does have a monstrous deformity, he's not an evil man at heart. Sure, his second face is traumatizing, but he spends his days rescuing wayward freaks and giving them a family. Plus, once you read about the real Edward Mordrake, you might have a hard time thinking of him as a villain at all.

Coven's minotaur (played by Ameer Baraka) is another tragic figure. Aesthetically, he's an absolute monster, but once the human lover of Marie Laveau, he has the soul of a man. However, he does become Laveau's pawn and has a bizarre tryst with Queenie.

Poor little Infantata (Ben Woolf). Thaddeus, the child of Nora and Charles Montgomery, never really has a chance to live. He's dismembered by the disgruntled boyfriend of one of Charles's patients, and even when Charles puts him back together, he's never really the same. By that I mean he lives in the basement and has an unquenchable bloodthirst.

We really don't even know what the Bed Monster (Alexander Ward) is about yet, but we do know that he lives in a bed, and he is terrifying.

Stanley (O'Hare) may look unassuming, but he's one twisted guy. The only reason he's so low on the list is because he has the oldest motivation in the book: money. He kills freaks and sells their bodies to a museum, and while it's cruel and awful, it's rather bland.

Papa Legba (Lance Reddick) is based on a real legend, and he's a bit of a mixed bag. He sends Fiona to live in her own personal hell, but since she's pretty evil, does that actually make him a hero?

In the present day, Dell (Michael Chiklis) isn't so bad. However, in a flashback we see him letting people watch his wife, the bearded lady, give birth up against a tree for money. He's disgusting on a very subhuman level.

The Axeman (Danny Huston) has two loves: Fiona Goode and murder. He's based on a real person, and his desire to kill unsuspecting people in cold blood is chilling.

Remember Hank Foxx (Josh Hamilton), Cordelia's husband? Something feels off about him from the start, and it turns out that he's part of a society that murders witches. What's sad is that he's not even appreciated by his father, the head witch hunter.

Fiona (Lange) is sneaky and dangerously power-hungry. She begins her career as the Supreme with murder, and she's not afraid to kill again to maintain her title — just as Madison.

Like Fiona, Elsa (Lange) also craves power, but she also wants legions of admiring fans. She dreams of being a star, but stuck in a prison (er, carnival tent) of her own making, she settles for emotionally torturing her minions. Lest you think she's not so bad, recall the time she shows Penny the tape of her own gang rape.

We don't yet know the extent of the Countess's (Lady Gaga) evil, but we do know that she's killed several people with a flick of her silver finger. Some of them are garbage anyway (like Liz Taylor's former co-workers), but most are innocents.

Charles (Matt Ross) is delightfully twisted. He has a bit of a Frankenstein complex (see the Infantata slide) and an addiction to ether. He's not straight-up evil, but he's absolutely mad.

Johnny (Dylan McDermott) is the biological son of Oliver Thredson, aka Bloody Face, and Lana Winters. He essentially inherits his father's insanity and continues his reign of terror.

Joan Ramsey (Patti LuPone) is the next-door neighbor of the girls at Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, and she's one bad b*tch. She essentially keeps her son prisoner, and she's responsible for that infamous Clorox enema. (We're still weeping for poor Luke.)

It's hard not to have mixed feelings about Twisty (John Carroll Lynch). At first he seems like a cold-blooded killer, but the more we get to know him, the sadder he becomes. While his murders are vicious, he doesn't actually understand the pain he's inflicting on people.

One villain I'd rather forget is Alicia Spencer (Mare Winningham), Kyle's mother. Not only is she a rapist, but she rapes her own son. Her crimes are truly next-level, and she does understand them.

We don't know much about the Addiction Demon (Alexander Ward) yet, but the fact that he rapes Gabriel with a drillbit dildo on Hotel's premiere is enough to earn him a high-ranking spot.

We're still waiting to find out the identity of Hotel's Ten Commandments Killer, but we do know he's sick. So far, he's sliced and diced his way through several dozens of victims, all in the name of the Bible's commandments. Nothing like opening a door to find two men crucified to their bedposts with their guts hanging out, right?

When Twisty passes to the great beyond, Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock) takes over his post as the world's creepiest clown. The major difference is that Twisty is confused and sad, while Dandy is bored, spoiled, and fully aware that he's murdering people in a horrific fashion.

Madame Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) is a villain for the ages, but she does slightly redeem herself by the end of Coven. Still, she starts off as a racist murderer who drinks the blood of her slaves. The woman is madness personified.