This February, Midnight Social Distortion will be celebrating Black History Month by honoring Black horror characters, in particular Black horror survivors, throughout the twenty-eight day period. Each day will feature one black male and one black female survivor in horror and sci-fi to bring light to the positive, albeit still problematic, black champions of representation in horror. Some disclaimers first: obvious spoilers ahead, and not all horror survivors will be featured this go round, but will appear in later posts down the line.
Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe)
Character Arc:
The human voodoo doll herself, Queenie is the smoke that you do not want to fuck with. First appearing in American Horror Story: Coven, Queenie was one of the four students at Madame Robichaux’s Academy who were there to not only hone their powers of witchcraft, but also be safe from Witch Hunters determined to snuff them out of existence. While the other girls were descendants of the Salem Witches, Queenie was the sole descendant of Tituba, a slave who practiced voodoo. Marie Laveau, Voodoo Priestess extraordinaire and the other person you do NOT want to fuck with, brings Queenie to her coven of Tituba descendants and soon after the entire voodoo coven is killed by a punk ass witch hunter. Marie is sparred solely because Queenie took a bullet to her head, which killed the bastard. Despite the audience thinking Queenie was dead, she was in fact alive and was put in the running to be the next Supreme, aka the baddest witch of them all.
Queenie survived her Seven Wonders (the test to become Supreme), but didn’t gain the title of Supreme afterwards. Instead, she later took a trip to L.A. to be on The Price is Right and ended up at the Hotel Cortez, which was haunted like a mofo with murderous ghosts and vampires . Thinking she was safe, Queenie was actually killed by a ghost to serve a starving vampire, and was stuck to haunt the hotel forever.
That is until Michael Langdon, the hell-spawn from AHS: Murder House all grown up, pulled her out of the eternal hell of the Hotel Cortez after Queenie’s Supreme, Cordelia Goode, failed to do so. Once Queenie returned to life she went back to teaching the next generation of witches at the academy. Then Michael returned and killed most of the witches, including Queenie.
Once again we thought our girl was dead, but once the coven’s new Supreme Mallory went back in time and killed Michael, it reset the timeline to the point where Queenie was about to leave for Los Angeles. Mallory warmed Queenie to steer clear of the Hotel Cortez, which solidified Queenie as a survivor. Unless Ryan Murphy goes back and fucks that up.
Fun Trivia
Queenie matches Madison, Myrtle, and Misty for revivals throughout Coven and Apocalypse. However with the time reset, she’s the only one still living.
Final Thoughts
When Queenie was brought back to be killed unceremoniously in AHS: Hotel, fans (or all races) were pissed. So thank God, Ryan rectified that fuckery. She is the boss and I pray that Ryan Murphy doesn’t touch a hair on her body if he decides to return to Madame Robichaux’s anytime soon.
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