American Horror Story
American Horror Storyhas been around long enough to work up its own affiliated macrocosm , but that has also made way for plot of land holes , such as the Zodiac Killer one created byHotelandCult . AlthoughAmerican Horror Storyis an anthology TV series , the appearances and references of characters and event in dissimilar season have made manner for anAHSconnected universe , which peaked in season 8,Apocalypse , which brought togetherMurder House , Coven , andHotel . Since then , witness have look for details that further connect the seasons ofAmerican Horror Story , but they have also found various plot cakehole .
American Horror Storyseason 5,Hotel , take the consultation to Hotel Cortez , a haunted situation where a group of lamia , led byThe Countess ( Lady Gaga ) , lived , as well as the wraith of those who died inside the hotel . Hotel Cortez was built by James Patrick March ( Evan Peters ) , a serial killer who used the hotel ’s base to enshroud the evidence of his criminal offence , and he ended up becoming one of the many ghost living in the hotel . March also host Devil ’s Night , where other successive killers joined him for dinner , among them the Zodiac Killer , but thanks to time of year 7,Cult , the Zodiac ’s presence terminate up becoming a plot of land hole .
American Horror Story: Cult Contradicted Hotel’s Zodiac Killer
American Horror Story : Cultleft supernatural element aside to centre on real - life repulsion and issues such as cults . set up in 2017 , in the fictional suburb of Brookfield Heights , Michigan , during the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the 2016 U.S. presidential election , Cultfollows Kai Anderson ( Peters ) as he form a cultus that terrorizes the townspeople , especially Ally Mayfair - Richards ( Sarah Paulson ) . In one episode , Culttook viewers back to the sixties to meet Valerie Solanas ( Lena Dunham ) , a radical women’s rightist and writer who wrote the SCUM Manifesto , but she ’s best known for her essay execution of pop artist Andy Warhol ( played inCultalso by Evan Peters).Cultportrayed Warhol as a cult leaderbut so it did with Solanas , who not only spell the pronunciamento but she also created a cult also named SCUM .
In the SCUM pronunciamento , Solanas argued that man had ruin the public and women had to fix it , suggesting that they overthrew bon ton and eliminated the male sex , hence the name SCUM : “ Society for Cutting Up Men ” . InCult , Solanas accumulate a group of like - apt people ( mostly woman , though they had two gay man as members ) with whom she shared her manifesto , and her attack on Warhol was the trigger for more attacks on men by the member of SCUM . However , those attacks were credited to the mysterious Zodiac Killer , with Bebe Babbitt ( Solana ’s former lover ) explaining that the Zodiac ’s crime were all SCUM ’s doing . One member of the craze started beat as the Zodiac Killer and send alphabetic character to the medium , take credit for SCUM ’s attack , but when Solanas was released , she run low after the imposter . American Horror Story : Cultcompletely changed the Zodiac Killer ’s story , even though two season sooner the notorious Orcinus orca seem at March ’s Devil ’s Night dinner .
The Zodiac Killer Plot Hole Hurts The AHS Shared Universe
As mentioned above , inAmerican Horror Story : Hotel , James March was shown hosting a Devil ’s Night dinner party in which he invited some infamous serial killers , such as Richard Ramirez , Aileen Wournos , John Wayne Gacy , Jeffrey Dahmer , and the Zodiac Killer . The latter arrived all lop in black and with his expression covered , with Richard Ramirez tell him that the substantial fun begins after they get caught . Through this , American Horror Storyestablished that , in its universe , the Zodiac ’s murders were commit by one ( male ) mortal , whose identity was never discovered , either . TheZodiac ’s presence in March ’s Devil ’s Night dinnerdoesn’t make signified afterCult ’s SCUM reveals ( nor does Richard Ramirez ’s visual aspect afterAmerican Horror Story : 1984 ) unless Bebe Babbitt was an treacherous narrator .
Did Bebe Babbitt Lie About SCUM & The Zodiac Killer In AHS: Cult?
Bebe Babbitt is the one who tellsSolanas ' and SCUM ’s storyinAmerican Horror Story : Cult , but she might have lied about the extent of SCUM ’s work . Bebe was breathe in by Trump and his political theory and believe that his misogyny was a focal point for feminist rage , as his victory would be liberating for oppressed women , provide them to full unleash their anger . Like many other characters inCult , Bebe was expose to be an ally of Kai , who she run into when he attended angriness direction therapy with her . Bebe ’s alliance with Kai make her an unreliable character , and raises the interrogation of whether her story about SCUM and the execution was real or she made it up in purchase order to manipulate the penis of Kai ’s cult . Bebe lying about SCUM and the Zodiac Killer ’s identity would be the best way to fixAmerican Horror Story ’s Zodiac Killer plot kettle of fish , and it would be fitting with Bebe ’s action .
