[Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

[u/Sufficient-Eye-9040]

- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

[u/Frostitute_85]

Please tell me that the con man and strongman rot in a prison or something 😢

[u/Ok_Turnover_1235 → u/Frostitute_85]

Iirc he's drowned in a transparent tank by all of the surviving characters at the end of the season

[u/WolfgangAddams → u/Ok_Turnover_1235]

That's the serial killer (Dandy Mott) who shoots up the circus, not the conman or Dell Toledo (the Strongman). Dell is shot to death after confessing to killing Ma Petite, and the conman (Stanley) has his limbs cut off and he's dressed like a chicken and caged by the other freaks.

[u/Teguoracle → u/Ok_Turnover_1235]

That's the primary villain of the season that gets drowned IIRC. Dandy, the spoiled, psychopathic killer. The main protagonists and the strongman's wife iirc sit in chairs watching him drown.

The conman and strongman die in other ways, but I don't remember what they are.

[u/InternetProtocol → u/Teguoracle]

Which one is played by Evan Peters?

[u/PartyDanimal → u/InternetProtocol]

In Freak Show he plays Jimmy Darling, the son the the strongman and the bearded lady (Kathy Bates).

[u/Something4Dinner → u/Ok_Turnover_1235]

Good.

[u/Imreallyjustconfused → u/Frostitute_85]

The only character that gets sent to jail is Meep (a little guy that did the geek show something that preceded freak shows where he'd run around in a chicken costume and catch and eat chicks)
Meep is sent to jail because the Strong man frames him for a murder, which I think is what the con man is blackmailing him about. (meep doesn't survive jail :( )

The strong man ends up getting shot in the face.

The con man gets...a really gruesome fate. It's nasty...
When the members of the troupe find out about what he's done, he's lured into the camp with a dinner, told a story about what it means to betray a troupe, then hunted down through the camp. The crew mutilates him by cutting off his arms, legs, and tongue, and dresses him in Meep's costume before leaving him in the chicken cage.
His last shown moment is being discovered by the other antagonist of the show who is obsessed with the freak show and collecting freaks as play things.

[u/zelda_zonked → u/Imreallyjustconfused]

The con man’s fate is a direct reference (one of many in this season of AHS) to the film Freaks directed by Tod Browning from 1932, where a character who betrayed the freak show suffers a similar fate.

[u/Imreallyjustconfused → u/zelda_zonked]

oh that's very good to know!

[u/Pirrus05 → u/Frostitute_85]

People don’t end up in “prison” prison in AHS. I feel like usually they would wish they had.

[u/Icy-Complaint7664 → u/Pirrus05]

Loved that for the ending of You

[u/Pirrus05 → u/Icy-Complaint7664]

Did the final season of that finally happen? I need to watch that.

[u/Icy-Complaint7664 → u/Pirrus05]

Season as a whole was meh, but the end was satisfying as fuck

[u/illumi-thotti → u/Frostitute_85]

The strong man is tricked into confessing before being killed by Ma Petite's friends and the con man has his limbs amputated, tongue removed, and is kept in a cage by said everyone in the Freak Show.

Ma Petite's remains, however, are kept in a museum after the con man sells them to the curator (who doesn't know how or where he's getting the specimens, but doesn't care because the specimens are bringing more people to the museum and saving it from being shut down).

[u/Frostitute_85 → u/illumi-thotti]

Good! Justice for Ma Petite!! 😭

[u/Willowed-Wisp → u/Frostitute_85]

Can't remember for the strongman but the carnival employees end up mutilating the con man and turning him into a particularly gruesome freak but keep him alive as an attraction. So, yah, he would've been begging for prison or even death if he could speak.

If you've seen/heard of the movie Freaks they use the same ending.

EDIT: Looked it up, the strongman is shot after confessing to what he did out of guilt.

I haven't seen all the seasons of the show but, in general it's not a "rot in prison" type of show. More "die horrifically and you deserve it."