American Horror Story: 25 of the greatest AHS villains of all-time

21. Mr. Jingles American Horror Story: 1984

Among the villains of American Horror Story, Mr. Jingles is a unique character. While he is clearly a murderer and villain, he didn’t actually start that way. And that is what makes him a great villain, but certainly not the greatest.

It turns out that he is the product of other people’s evil. He was framed for a massacre he didn’t commit and was tortured (technically) by the institution that locked him up. He was convinced that he was a killer and so he became one.

Let loose on the same camp where he was accused of killing counselors and campers previously, Mr. Jingles took his revenge (at this point he didn’t even know he wasn’t the real killer), killing people indiscriminately. He was brutal and vicious, without mercy. He literally shoved one of the counselors in an oven and cooked him alive.

But he was also a victim. He wasn’t a killer until they made him into one. Even when he did decide to turn his life back around, he was unable to escape his past (he did sell his soul to the devil after all), and was right back where things started, willing to kill and torture. And even if the person or people he wanted to kill deserved it, it didn’t make him any less of a villain. Instead, it solidifies the fact that he really does deserve to be on a list of the greatest villains (even if he doesn’t rank higher than 21).