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Gabourey Sidibe’s Queenie is back in American Horror Story Season 13, and the version of her that is arriving is not the same woman who left Coven and later appeared in Apocalypse.
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According to comments from the creative team around the premiere, Queenie is embracing a side of her power she has only flirted with before: voodoo. That single shift may turn out to be one of the most important character decisions of the season — especially in a story already gathering every major power in the franchise against an ultimate evil.
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Who Queenie Has Been Until Now
Queenie entered the franchise as one of the young witches at Miss Robichaux’s Academy. Her power set was always distinctive — the ability to harm others by harming herself — but her identity was tied more to the coven structure than to any older tradition. She was a witch among witches, often the most grounded and least enchanted by the pageantry of Supreme politics.
In later appearances she remained connected to that world. What she was not, at least not fully, was a practitioner standing in the lineage that Angela Bassett’s Marie Laveau represents. Season 13 is changing that.
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What Embracing Her Voodoo Side Actually Means
In interviews surrounding the launch, Ryan Murphy and the cast described Queenie’s arc as a deliberate move into voodoo territory. The idea is not that she is abandoning witchcraft. It is that she is expanding it — reaching for a tradition that has always existed alongside the coven but has rarely been centered in the same way.
Marie Laveau has been the franchise’s primary face of voodoo. Her power is older, bloodier, and less interested in the academy’s rules. Bringing Queenie into that space creates an immediate and productive tension. One is the established Voodoo Queen. The other is a younger witch choosing to step closer to that same current.
The season appears ready to let them occupy the same story without forcing one to cancel the other out. For American audiences who loved Coven, this is the character development that was always waiting to happen.
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Why This Matters for the Larger Crossover
Season 13 is already gathering characters from across the franchise to face a threat described as sitting “above the Antichrist.” In that context, every returning figure needs a reason to be present that is larger than nostalgia. Queenie’s turn toward voodoo gives her one.
If the ultimate evil is tied to the portal under the Apollyon and to the entity on the 13th floor, then older forms of power become more valuable than academy technique. Voodoo, in the show’s own mythology, has always operated closer to the ground and closer to the dead. Related: Timelines explained and Mr. Nas Devil theory.
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What to Watch for in the Witch-Focused Episodes
Upcoming titles already circulating — including “The Return of Devil’s Night,” “The Baddest Witch of Them All,” and “Hell No” — are the natural places for Queenie’s voodoo turn to move from implication to action. If the pattern holds, her evolution will not stay private. It will collide with Marie Laveau’s authority, with Cordelia’s leadership of the coven, and with the larger threat that brought all of these characters into the same frame.
For longtime Coven fans in the United States, this is the version of Queenie the earlier seasons only sketched. Season 13 appears ready to finish the sketch. Whether that means alliance, rivalry, or sacrifice will decide how much of the coven survives what is coming through the portal under the Apollyon.
Queenie, Marie Laveau, and the Ultimate Evil
If Mr. Nas — or whatever sits above the Antichrist — is the force gathering these characters, then Queenie’s evolution is not a side plot. It is preparation. Older power, closer to the dead, is exactly the kind of tool a season built on portals and thirteen-death rituals would need. Whether Queenie becomes a bridge between the academy witches and Marie Laveau’s tradition, or a rival inside that tradition, will shape the second half of American Horror Story Season 13.
FAQ: Queenie Voodoo American Horror Story Season 13
Is Queenie using voodoo in AHS 13?
Creative comments around the premiere state that Queenie is embracing her voodoo side. The early episodes introduce the idea; later episodes are expected to develop it more fully.
Does this change Queenie’s powers?
It expands them. The show frames the shift as Queenie reaching toward a tradition that has always existed alongside the coven rather than replacing her existing abilities.
How does this involve Marie Laveau?
Marie Laveau remains the franchise’s central voodoo figure. Queenie’s move into related territory sets up both potential alliance and potential conflict between the two characters.
Queenie has always been one of the franchise’s most grounded witches. Season 13 is asking what happens when that grounded character decides the old tools are no longer enough and reaches for something older still.
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