History Characters / WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019

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For characters from [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows the film]], go [[Characters/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2014 here]].

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!The Roommates

[[folder:Nandor]]
!!Nandor the Relentless
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KayvanNovak

Formerly a renowned and fearsome soldier in the former Ottoman Empire and leader of the vassal country of Al-Quolanudar (now in modern-day Iran). Nandor is the house's unofficial leader, and has difficulty expressing his affection for his loyal familiar Guillermo.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a laid-back, soft-spoken, and overall pleasant-seeming guy, particularly in comparison to Nadja and Laszlo, but he's committed countless horrible atrocities in the past and seemingly doesn't hold a bit of remorse for them, generally treats his familiars closer to disposable tools than actual people, and, as a vampire, continues to regularly kill innocent humans for sustenance.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: The core of his relationship with Guillermo, although he does protect Guillermo and is shown to care for him in his own (very selfish and ineffective) way.
* AmbiguouslyBi: When asked who George Washington was in "Ancestry", he answers "America's first gay president", the look on his face implying that this information was personal. In season two, as an act of desperation when he and Laszlo are suffering from blue balls, they agree to "finish each other off and never speak of it again."
* AnimalLover: One of the hilarious ironies of Nandor's character is that he's slaughtered thousands of human beings in his long existence and takes great pride in this fact, but is a huge softy when it comes to every other species of living thing. He scolds Guillermo for damaging a "spider house" while dusting, he's extremely offended when Colin Robinson jokes about him having eaten a cat, and when he first meets the witches' goat familiar he delightedly talks to it as if it were a child. We even learn that his human ghost's UnfinishedBusiness has nothing to do with any of the human lives he's taken but is based on his guilt over having been forced to kill and eat his horse, Jahan, whom he loved more than any of his wives or children.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A (mostly) platonic variant, but when pressed, he truly does care for Guillermo and quietly accepts his conditions for return without arguing much.
* BadBoss: Zigzagged a bit. Nandor frequently uses Guillermo for meaningless tasks, clearly has no intention of ever actually turning him and will offer up Guillermo to save himself. However, he truly seems to think they're friends and his worst behavior seems to be his attempts at friendliness. When we meet his old familiar Benjy, it seems this is entirely normal for how he treats familiars.
* BarbarianLonghair: He used to be a plundering warlord, and still has his long hair, complete with a man bun.
* BenevolentBoss: While he's objectively a poor employer, Nandor also truly cares about Guillermo underneath it all and has put his neck out for his familiar while also concealing Guillermo having killed another vampire. For a vampire, this is incredibly lenient behavior.
* BloodKnight: What he was in the past, and we still see it flare up from time to time. When Laszlo reports that there's a ghost in the front yard, Nandor immediately charges out to face the perceived enemy. No one seems to question that he should be the one to duel with a werewolf, and while escaping from the Council he's the one who tries to fetch a sword to fight.
* BookDumb: Laszlo sneers condescendingly that Nandor is "unafflicted with the burden of a university education". To be fair, he was a cultured aristocrat by the standards of his time, but that time was almost 1,000 years ago and the culture in question has long since been destroyed.
* BungledHypnotism: Repeatedly. Despite being the oldest of the trio, Nandor never mastered the basic mind control ability, with the results in his victims ranging from awkward silence to a psychotic break.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: His justification for [[spoiler:ransacking Nadja's home village as he publicly claims it was just one part of his long career as a military commander. Privately he confesses that specific attack was the result of everyone being drunk and doing it for a laugh. However, since he ''did'' hide the painting of Nadja's village being desecrated for several years, it indicates he was aware of how she'd react when she found the painting.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: In Season 2 Nandor acquires the habit of punctuating his moments of frustration with "...''[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]]'' guy" (and, on one occasion, "Fucking girl").
* CloudCuckoolander: All vampires are like this in this setting, but Nandor takes it UpToEleven compared to the others -- ''everyone'' in the house plays OnlySaneMan to him at one point, and if you know what Laszlo and Nadja are like that's really saying a lot.
* CompositeCharacter: Combines Viago from the movie's stuffy but dorky LeaderWannabe traits with Vladislav's ineffectual RetiredMonster ones.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Nandor was a legendary warrior and general in his mortal life, and spent much of his vampiric immortality pursuing this even further. Now, after over a thousand years of this, he can barely interact with human beings in even the simplest relatable capacity, and entirely relies on a proxy (Guillermo) to do so.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Even though it's clear that he's no longer a force to be reckoned with as of his time in Staten Island, he can still effortlessly stop a murderous zombie dead in his tracks.
* TheFogOfAges: In the 600-odd years since he ruled Al Quolanudar, he's completely forgotten how to speak its native tongue -- which, for practical reasons, is just Farsi. His own (fluent) ghost scoffs at the indignity.
* HeelRealization: When Guillermo [[spoiler:leaves him for a new master briefly in season 2]], Nandor realizes how poorly he's treated Guillermo and makes concessions to have him return.
* HiddenDepths: In TheNineties, he tried filing for citizenship because he was a massive fan of the 1992 United States men's national basketball team. The only reason why he didn't finish was because he was too swept up in the macarena craze at the time.
* HopelessWithTech: Zig-zagged. Though he thinks he literally needs to wake the computer up from sleep mode, hasn't checked his emails in over a decade, and hasn't really grasped what makes a password secure, he is aware of what things like an Ethernet cable are for and doesn't really have any other problems with the laptop or email after getting into his inbox.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Once the powerful and bloodthirsty emperor of his own country, now a Staten Island layabout who's so ineffectual that not even his roommates respect him enough to listen to him. Humorously, he seemingly couldn't care less about all the power and influence he's lost, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday and mostly just treats his days as an emperor as one of many phases in his life when he reflects on them]].
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Frequently. Guillermo and Colin repeatedly tell him not to [[spoiler:knock on the window of his descendant]]. He instantly does it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Nandor [[spoiler:sacrifices himself, Nadja, and Laszlo]] in order to protect Guillermo from [[spoiler:death at the trial]]. [[spoiler:They don't end up being killed thanks to [[SpannerInTheWorks Colin]], but it's the thought that counts.]]
** A line in the Season 1 finale implies that Nandor really does intend on [[spoiler:turning Guillermo]] at some point, since he adds a year to it for throwing holy water on him.
** Him gifting Guillermo with a portrait of him as a vampire instead of turning him into one may come across as callous, but he seems to genuinely think of it as a way of keeping his promise to make Guillermo a vampire. Also he clearly put effort into making it.
* LargeHam: It is not that his fellow vampires aren't hammy (it seems to come with the territory), but Nandor stands out as the least subtle member of the main trio.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the only surviving member of the long-dead civilization of Al-Quolanudar (which was apparently absorbed into the Ottoman Empire). He was unaware of this until recently, having been deposed from the throne and driven into exile by his subjects for being a bloodthirsty tyrant and undead abomination.
* LeaderWannabe: Nandor really likes to make himself out to be the guy in charge of the main trio. But it is made clear that his actual sway over Nadja and Laszlo is rather limited, and that they both just sort of humor his attempts to assert his authority, while the Baron doesn't take them seriously, at all.
* LivingDistantAncestor: Had 37 wives in life (all at once), and apparently has over 200,000 living descendants. In the first season finale he tracks down one of his descendants [[spoiler: and accidentally gives her a heart attack.]]
* TheMagnificent: "The Relentless". While it may have once applied to him back during his days as a conqueror, now it's more a [[NonIndicativeName Non-Indicative]] or even IronicNickname.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Nandor does not seem to understand how badly he upsets and offends Guillermo by not turning him and stringing him along. He really seems to think that a glitter portrait of them together is the height of benevolence.
* PetTheDog:
** Nandor shows sporadic kindness towards Guillermo. In season two, when Topher attempts to kill him, Nandor saves his life and instantly slays the abomination without a thought. Whether or not he appreciates Guillermo as much as he should, he feels some amount of protective instinct over him.
** His strangely genuine grief for his distant descendant.
* {{Polyamory}}: While he's fairly sexless in modern times (particularly in comparison to the kinky Laszlo and Nadja), he had 37 wives and even more concubines during his days as an emperor, which left him with over 200,000 living descendants.
* RetiredMonster: Nandor was once a brutal emperor obsessed with bloodshed and conquest. A couple hundred years later and, while still a bit of a jerk, he mostly just comes off as a doddering middle-aged guy without much of anything in the way of ambition or savagery.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When he realizes Nadja is about to discover he burned her village, his expression is one big "hoooo boy."
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Implicitly underwent this at some point between the end of his days as a savage conqueror and his more mild-mannered contemporary self, though this may have more to do with growing older and less interested in ruling over people than actually turning over a new leaf.
** When Guillermo is finally fed up with Nandor's treatment, Nandor genuinely seems to realize how he's behaved and accepts Guillermo's conditions for return, coupled with a promise to turn him into a vampire for real. [[spoiler:And he turns his old familiar Benjy just as he promised decades ago.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Guillermo has been his familiar for a decade yet he still hasn't turned him into a vampire. This is implied to be a thing with vampires and familiars in general, and is hinted to be mainly related to how vampires (being immortal) experience the flow of time in an entirely different way - he isn't really aware that Guillermo has been with him for ten years already, since for him it doesn't make much difference.
* WarriorPrince: His past occupation as a human, before he was chased out of his country.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His accent isn't an ''unrealistic'' Persian accent, per se, but it certainly has the aspects of it that would be amusing to a native English speaker played up. (Kayvan Novak was born to Iranian immigrants in RealLife and speaks fluent Farsi.)
* TheWorfEffect: Oh yes. He's the greatest warrior among the main cast, which is why his ability to fight conventionally is always neutralized for comedy purposes early on, to the point of making him a ButtMonkey and his combat prowess an InformedAbility. Highlights include trying and failing to pull an axe off the wall during a dramatic escape attempt from the Vampiric Council ("It's welded on there!"), being paralyzed and yanked magically through the air as cargo by a coven of witches, charging heroically at a ghost with sword in hand only to pass harmlessly through it and end up [[CoveredInGunge dripping with ectoplasm]], etc. The one time we've seen him win a fight it was as a GuileHero against a monstrous werewolf twice his size, by getting it to jump off the roof after a chew toy.
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[[folder:Nadja]]
!!Nadja of Antipaxos
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Natasia Demetriou

A European vampire and Lazslo's sire and wife. Nadja is often slightly more down-to-earth than Nandor or Lazslo, but is not without her own quirks, including being nostalgic for her human life.
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* AccidentalMisnaming:
** She finds Jeff so underwhelming as a name for Gregor's current incarnation, she refuses to use his name in favor of either Gregor or any combination of letters beginning with "Je-".
** She also defaults to calling Guillermo "Gizmo".
* AgentMulder: She is the most likely in her group to ascribe supernatural means (necromancy, ghosts, witches, etc.) as either the problem or solution to the current problem of the episode. It's implied through bits of her backstory that she has a lot more faith in the supernatural than the other vampires because they were common occurrences in her life as a human, so she has no reason to stop believing as a vampire.
* AsideGlance: Whenever something confusing or stupid happens, expect her to furrow her brow and mouth "What?" at the camera.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She adores her husband, in spite of how much they can bicker at points and has some heartwarming moments with him in an evil vampire sort of way. Notably, even after she realizes that Laszlo has abandoned her to flee from a fight, she's overjoyed when he returns and excitedly announces it to the rest of the house.
* BaitAndSwitch: "There's nothing more devastating than finding out your husband has done porn... and it's so BLOODY boring!"
* BerserkButton: Nadja has issues when writing music doesn't go her way, to say the least.
* DarkActionGirl: Although a comic version, Nadja is shown to be a vicious killer when she needs to be.
* ElegantGothicLolita: Nadja dresses in very long Victorian dresses, generally in black lace.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Jenna does, and she's ''extremely'' popular with all her male lovers.
* FemmeFatale: Literally, as Jeff discovers.
* {{Goth}}: Her fancy Victorian dresses give off this look.
* HappilyMarried: To Laszlo. They may fight from time to time, but they have a wild and happy sex life. They're also fully devoted to one another emotionally and being separated from him makes Nadja miserable.
* HotGypsyWoman: She mentions coming from a family of gypsies, and is suitably vampish.
* InstantSeduction: She's able to seduce others and put them under her thrall.
* LovableSexManiac: According to Nandor, she and Laszlo are "perverts". It's implied she has a lot of sex, both with her husband and with others.
* OnlyOneName: She is only ever referred to as Nadja.
* ParentalSubstitute: She turns Jenna into a vampire and quickly adopts her like a mother, calling Jenna her 'stupid little baby.'
* PetTheDog: Nadja is probably the most prone to genuine kindness among the group and probably the nicest to mortals in general.
* PerkyGoth: Although the perkiness is somewhat downplayed, she always wears dark clothes and she is quite perky in social situations.
* PimpedOutDress: Fond of elegant black ball gowns.
* {{Polyamory}}: She and Laszlo are in an "open marriage", according to Demetriou. According to Jemaine Clement, by way of Paul Simms, Laszlo doesn't mind as long as the lovers are not human.
* ProperlyParanoid: Nadja is repeatedly demonstrated to be deeply superstitious to the point of paranoia regarding witches, their activities, and their presence. Her superstition is pervasive to the degree that she blames them for deeds ranging from carpet-snagging to semen-stealing. [[spoiler:In season 2, a coven of witches abduct Laszlo and Nandor for the specific purpose of stealing their semen. While much of her folk superstition may be just that, she was quite right about at least one thing.]]
* RagsToRiches: Unlike Nandor and Laszlo, who were both born into privilege, Nadja was a humble peasant girl before she became a vampire aristocrat and her childhood is frequently a source of PovertyForComedy jokes. This is part of the reason she has a PetTheDog reaction to underdog women like Jenna and decides to turn her.
* SensualSlavs: PlayedWith. She's appealing to ''everyone'' and speaks with a generic Eastern European accent. However, season two implies Nadja is Greek.
* SlapSlapKiss: She and Laszlo have this kind of relationship, with her doing most of the slapping -- her introduction shows her floating through the hallway chasing Laszlo sword in hand, screaming "I ought to kill you, you bastard!"
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only regular female member of the group.
* StalkerWithACrush: Whenever she encounters Gregor's reincarnation. She says it best: "I am seeing another man. But he does not see me because I sneak up behind him."
* StrawFeminist: Nadja is just as obliviously selfish and entitled as the men of the house, with the twist that she'll interpret pushback as being because she's a woman. When denied entry to a party because of her demanding attitude and bizarre appearance, she spends the rest of the night spitefully tormenting the male guards because she assumes she was turned away because of sexism.
* WallCrawl: She mentions being an excellent climber, and is shown vertically scaling walls.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Nadja's accent is a stereotypically thick "vampire accent" while ''also'' being a British accent. It makes sense, since she's implied to have come from Greece (or a Greek-speaking region of southern Europe) but have moved to Britain around the time she kills and turns Laszlo. In RealLife, this is British actor Natasia Demetriou doing an exaggerated impression of her immigrant parents' Cypriot accent.
* WomenAreWiser: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]: She's generally a little more sensible than her male counterparts, but she'll also do things like caving to the Baron's thirst for alcohol-laced blood. She's also the most emotionally impulsive of the three and has by far the shortest and most violent temper.
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[[folder:Laszlo]]
!!Laszlo Cravensworth
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MattBerry

An English nobleman, and Nadja's husband. Laszlo is hedonistic and more of a comedic sociopath than Nandor or Nadja.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Even by vampire standards Laszlo is a horny bugger. He doesn't discriminate either, having had one-night stands with both men and women and has a collection of pornography that he starred in that has existed since pornography was invented. In "The Trial", he claims that he wished he had more sex in his undead life, only for the others to point out that he had lots of sex already.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He was an English nobleman in his human life, and he's definitely the most casually evil of the main cast.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: It doesn't come up much, but Laszlo is the youngest of the three main blood-drinking vampires, with Nadja having turned him and Nandor having been a vampire long before either of them were born.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: He was Jack the Ripper. He mentions it pretty casually.
* BeardOfEvil: He does hurt children and a lot of other people, but he is also a hilarious SociopathicHero -- with a beard.
* CallingYourAttacks: Played for laughs. He'll yell "''BAT!''" when turning into a bat, and "''Human form!''" when turning back.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Not usually, he's usually completely happy for Nadja to sleep with whomever she wants. [[spoiler:The one exception is Jeff/Gregor, whom he killed in ''every past life''.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler:Not only has he known all along about Jeff/Gregor/etc and Nadja, it turns out he was responsible for each of Jeff's constant decapitations throughout his many lives. When she finds out, Nadja exclaims in awe that he is an 'evil genius'. That he was also Jack the Ripper may add to this as well.]]
* DepravedBisexual: He had an affair with the Baron in the past, and lots of women, and men, and he's also a casual [[AffablyEvil murderer]] who [[WouldHurtAChild violated one of the few moral principles the vampire community has]] on a whim.
* DirtyCoward: All the main vampire characters have moments of not living up to the "nocturnal apex predator" hype, but this guy most of all. The most notable moment of this is him accepting Jim the Vampire's challenge to a duel, only to immediately turn into a bat and fly off the moment his CirclingMonologue has him no longer between Jim and the house, with Nadja sighing "He's not coming back". (And, sure enough, the premise of the episode is that he seems to be willing to completely abandon his old life -- including his marriage to Nadja -- to live out the rest of his days in hiding in Clairton, Pennsylvania as "Jackie Daytona" the ordinary human bartender.) He also spends the episode "The Return" conspicuously hiding behind Nadja while exploring the sewer so any monsters can get her first, while bluntly denying doing so when Nadja calls him out on it.
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: He occasionally smokes a pipe, to underline his supposedly sophisticated background.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Season 3 suggests that "Laszlo" is actually a nickname for his real first name, Leslie.
* EvilBrit: Laszlo's brand of British accent immediately lets you know what archetype of vampire he is -- pompous, narcissistic Byronic bastard.
* GardenOfEvil: Laszlo maintains a topiary garden made in the shape of demons, a rabbit he is particularly proud of, and his favorite vaginas. His mother's is his favorite.
* HappilyMarried: To Nadja. He counts her vulva as one of his favourites, and he composed Nadja's {{Leitmotif}}.
* HasAType: In "Witches", it is elaborated that he has a thing for tall, dark-haired people with European accents, having slept with Lilith (who dressed herself like Nadja for a disguise), a random other witch and [[spoiler:Nandor]] for this reason.
* HenpeckedHusband: Being the {{Jerkass}} and DirtyCoward that he is, he has an odd way of showing it most of the time, but it's pretty clear Nadja is the only being in the world he truly loves and truly fears. (It makes sense, since she's the one who sired him as a vampire in the first place.)
* HistoricalDomainSuperperson: He's a vampire whose gifts consist of flying, glamoring, and turning into a bat. Laslor later reveals to Nadja and Nandor as they think they're dying that he was UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
* HistoricalRapSheet: [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy He was]] UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and his obstinate refusal to get rid of his [[ArtifactOfDoom cursed witch skin hat]] caused the Irish Potato Famine. He also turned Elvis Presley into a vampire some time in the 1970's.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: Nadja turned him, they're married, and they still love each other ''very'' deeply.
* {{Jerkass}}: All vampires are fundamentally like this in this universe, but Laszlo has a tendency to take it UpToEleven, in matters both great and petty.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He rather smugly considers himself a "man of science" but references disproven or irrelevant theories like alchemy and swamp gas as an explanation for poltergeist phenomena.
* LovableSexManiac: Laszlo's dying wish is to have had more sex. Nadja points out that he'd already had "a lot of sex. Like a-a lot of it." [[spoiler: His ghost]] reveals in [=S02E03=] that Laszlo died just as he was on the brink of orgasm [[spoiler: and in order for his ghost to move on, he had to help him...[[ADateWithRosiePalms finish]] what he started]]. His interest in the Vampiric Council's library is mainly just to get his hands on even more pornography.
* MadArtist: Laszlo is a parody of the trope of an immortal vampire becoming obsessed with creating great works of art that are depraved by human standards, like his topiaries of female genitalia, his long career as a porn performer or his extensive catalogue of music he's composed that ended up being stolen by Music/DexysMidnightRunners and Music/TheSpiceGirls.
* MagicalFlutist: In one episode, he charms raccoons with the power of music.
* MeaningfulName: It's highly appropriate for a shameless DirtyCoward to have the surname "Cravensworth".
* PaperThinDisguise: With only the addition of a single toothpick in his teeth, Laszlo can transform himself into Jackie Daytona, a Pennsylvanian bartender with a love of volleyball. It's enough to flawlessly fool Jim the Vampire.
* PetTheDog: Laszlo might be the most evil of the trio, but as Jackie Daytona he becomes a supportive friend to the girls' volleyball team and tries to raise enough money to get them to state competition.
* PornStache: He has a goatee and he's been in almost every form of porn film since the invention of moving pictures.
* ReallyGetsAround: In contrast to Nandor (generally shown to be uninterested in romance) and Nadja (committed to marriage with Laszlo and her star-crossed romance with Gregor), it's revealed in "Witches" that Laszlo [[spoiler:will sleep with pretty much ''anyone'' with long dark hair, including Nandor. Nadja is infuriated at how this has all been going on behind her back.]]
* SociopathicHero: Laszlo is probably the most evil of the trio, having once turned a baby out of boredom, been a famous serial killer and has zero angst about who he murders, but he's also arguably the most focused on of the three that the audience follows.
* UnusualEuphemism: Laszlo tends to make a death-rattle noise while making a slashing gesture across his throat as a euphemism for "kill", especially when talking about killing other vampires ([[ApeShallNeverKillApe which is their society's greatest taboo]]). When Nandor tries to imitate this he ends up just saying "quack".
* UpperClassWit: His primary mode of communication, especially given his stereotypical posh English accent.
* WouldHurtAChild: In "The Trial", he confesses to having turned a baby, [[EvenEvilHasStandards something that is considered a massive crime in the vampire community]], which he only got away with it because another vampire wound up taking the fall for it. [[ForTheEvulz He did it because he was bored]].
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[[folder:Guillermo]]
!!Guillermo de la Cruz
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Harvey Guillén

Nandor's long-suffering human familiar, who has served him for a decade in the hopes of getting turned into a vampire.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Becomes this as he begins honing his vampire hunting skills, becoming very swift and agile in combat. He's once seen scaling a fire escape up a high building in ''seconds'' (which clearly pleases him). Harvey Guillén ended up losing 20 pounds and putting on a lot of muscle to prepare to do the stunts in Season 2.
* AffablyEvil: He's a pretty good guy but, as a vampire's familiar, is complicit in the murders of several innocent people.
* AmbiguouslyGay: WordOfGod is that he has some romantic feelings for Nandor, and he has thus far never shown any attraction to women.
* AscendedFanboy: His desire is to become one of these; getting transformed into a vampire after idolizing them since he was a teenager. Considering he's a NoRespectGuy and Nandor is a BadBoss, that isn't likely to happen any time soon.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: He resents Nandor for understandable reasons, but still [[spoiler:he has a hard time when he finally decides to leave him... and has a huge, genuine grin when they make up.]]
* BadassNormal: Despite being the only human, he ultimately kills the Baron and succeeds in protecting the vampires from an entire theater of Vampiric Council vampires. [[spoiler:Downplayed in that he's descended from a line of vampire hunters.]]
* BadassLongcoat: In his LetsGetDangerous moment in the Season 2 finale, Guillermo puts on an ''excellent'' example of this trope, a long trenchcoat with plenty of pockets to hide wooden stakes, crucifixes and bottles of holy water.
* BasementDweller: Not literally -- that's where Colin Robinson lives -- but Guillermo's sad, constricted life inside the first-floor closet he uses as a bedroom fits this stereotype pretty well. And according to his former friend Jeremy his life wasn't going so well before he entered Nandor's service either, living in his mom's apartment, working at Panera and spending most of his free time on video games.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Guillermo's lot in life is to serve Nandor, who often makes this a very difficult affair, with a promise to turn Guillermo into a vampire that is questionable at best.
* BerserkButton: Other familiars being turned into vampires tends to get to Guillermo just a bit.
* CharacterDevelopment: He's much more easily frustrated with and less subservient toward Nandor in season 2. Having to secretly defend him from vampire assassins every hour of the day without so much as a 'thanks' probably has something to do with it.
* ChekhovsSkill: At the start of season 2's episode 9, Guillermo mentions wanting to market a blood remover on Series/SharkTank. Later, when negotiating with the witches to free the vampires, Guillermo speaks as if he's making a deal on the show to convince them.
* TheChewToy: He's easily the lowest-ranked member of the household, which is supposed to make him more sympathetic.
* ColorMotif: He dresses in beige and brown because he finds them to be safe, bland, and comforting colors to wear as a ward against the unsafe life as a vampire's familiar. A visual sign in his development for season 2 is forgoing those colors as he becomes bolder and more self-assured in himself.
* CowardlyLion: Guillermo is very open about how life as a vampire familiar has him in a near-constant state of utter terror and nausea. The man seems to have a naturally soft heart and weak stomach, and the blood-soaked debauchery his masters revel in makes his life a living hell. And yet when push comes to shove, Guillermo ''always'' ends up coming through and taking care of business -- indeed, the healthy fear born of being the OnlySaneMan in the house means he's often the only one capable of doing so effectively.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Guillermo may appear to be a mild-mannered little familiar, but vampire hunting is in his blood and he's taken down numerous vampire assassins. He even fights his way out of a vampire-occupied house.
* DependingOnTheWriter: In Season 1, there's a lot of variance between whether he is completely desensitized to having to lead people to their deaths for the sake of his masters or slightly disturbed by it and in constant battle with his own morality. By Season 2, his morals are much more consistent.
* TheDogBitesBack: Sick of the abuse and neglect from Nandor, Guillermo briefly leaves him in season 2 before they negotiate his return.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: It tends to grate on Guillermo he is underappreciated despite all he does for the trio. [[spoiler:This attitude eventually leads to him leaving the trio in episode 8 of season 2 for 'a better offer.']]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early episodes have him come off as contentedly resigned to helping his master kill innocent people, whereas he's more consistently shown to be at least somewhat conflicted about it in later ones.
* {{Fanboy}}: Is a noted fan of Antonio Banderas' character in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', who he cites as his inspiration to aspiring to become a vampire himself.
* GeekPhysiques: A round, bespectacled guy who is an outcast due to his love for vampires, plus he's a nerdy virgin, by his own admission.
* HypercompetentSidekick:
** Nandor would be in a much sorrier state without Guillermo, who manages the affairs of the entire trio on a regular basis.
** Similarly, the Staten Island Mosquito Club would've all been killed in their very first hunt if he wasn't around to save them.
* InsistentTerminology: He's not a killer. He just finds people easy to kill. It's [[DistinctionWithoutADifference different. No, really.]]
* InTheBlood: Is descended from a famous vampire hunter, and has killed at least two vampires ''by accident''. At the end of the episode he discovers his ancestry, he throws away some stakes he had lying around... all three of which immediately ''stab through paintings of Nandor, Laszlo and Nadja.'' Guillermo himself is unnerved by this. Come season 2, Guillermo has killed every vampire assassin sent after the trio and a vampire named Carol believes he is a slayer by his scent alone.
* ImmuneToMindControl: [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that the vampires have spent time hypnotizing him on so much petty nonsense that Guillermo has just built up a natural immunity to vampire hypnotism and only pretends to be hypnotized because it's less of a hassle that way.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: A servant of vampires who is descended from, of all people, ''Van Helsing himself.'']]
* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:In an attempt to deny that his relation to Van Helsing means he's predisposed to killing vampires, he notes that would be like saying because another ancestor was a baker, it would grant him instant talent at baking. [[ImmediateSelfContradiction Then Guillermo notes that he]] actually ''is'' a great baker and that was probably not the greatest example to pick.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: in "The Curse," Guillermo reluctantly follows the Mosquito Club to a house they claim belongs to vampires. The vampires get the drop on them, prompting Guillermo to unleash hell on the undead family.
* MamasBoy: When he briefly leaves Nandor's service, he is shown being fussed over by his apparently single mother.
* MeaningfulName: His last name [[spoiler: De la Cruz, Spanish for "[[BilingualBonus Of the Cross]]", suggesting he comes from a family of {{Vampire Hunter}}s.]]
* MoralityPet: For Nandor. Although Nandor usually treats him badly, he's also willing to sacrifice himself for Guillermo and defends him to the other vampires.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Towards Nandor, most of the time.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Inverted for the second season finale, as he finally informs the main trio what his full name is [[spoiler:after murdering an entire theater full of vampires working for the Vampiric Council.]]
* NervousWreck: Guillermo is always one incident from freaking out, as shown when Jenna gets turned or when he brings his friend to the orgy.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is likely meant as an {{Expy}} of Creator/GuillermoDelToro. Both are portly Hispanic men with similar hair-styles and glasses and a deep association with vampires [[spoiler: and vampire-hunters]].[[note]]del Toro having directed ''Film/{{Cronos}}'', ''[[Series/TheStrainTVSeries The Strain]]'' and ''Film/BladeII''[[/note]]
* NoRespectGuy: He does ''everything'' for the vampires, yet he gets no respect from anyone and only fleeting respect from Nandor. [[spoiler:It finally gets to him and Nandor promises to treat him better.]]
* OneManArmy: Can hold his own against dozens of vampires at once, seemingly entirely on reflex.
* OnlySaneMan: He's consistently the most reasonable and intelligent of the main cast.
* PunchClockVillain: He doesn't appear to get any particular pleasure out of rounding up virgins for the vampires to kill (and tries to prevent them from having one of his friends in 'The Orgy'), but he still does it.
* RaisedCatholic: He was, which makes the vampires' lust very difficult.
* TheRenfield: Fills this role for Nandor. And unofficially for Laszlo and Nadja, since theirs keep dying. When [[spoiler:he leaves them twice in the second season, they turn out to be incredibly dependent on him to fix all their messes and are barely functioning without a familiar's presence.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He's descended from Van Helsing, which puts his ability to kill vampires by accident in a completely different context.]]
* SanitySlippage: After Jenna becomes a vampire, Guillermo is... less than happy.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Freely believed in vampires even before meeting one, yet assumed that vampire hunters were fictional until he found out that he is descended from one.
* SequelEscalation: Guillermo was conceived as an escalation of the RunningGag of Jackie being Deacon's ButtMonkey in the original film, building on several {{Deleted Scene}}s involving her that were cut for time.
* StayOnThePath: Zigzagged. Guillermo wants nothing more in the world than to jump off the path and become a vampire... except that Nandor ''refuses'' to do so. He's slightly peeved by this.
* SycophanticServant: Generally to Nandor, which makes it even more notable when [[TheDogBitesBack he actually does snap back at Nandor]].
* TokenHuman: He is the only human in the Staten Island Coven, though he became Nandor's familiar to [[VampireVannabe cure himself of that affliction.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** His initial vampire kills were largely unintentional. But as of the premiere of Season 2, he's killed almost a dozen vampire assassins to protect Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo from them.
** Big-time by the end of season 2. In addition to his developing vampire-killing talents, he gains more self-esteem and confidence regarding his status, not only demands but receives more respect from Nandor, starts standing up for himself and outright disregarding Laszlo and Nadja's unwarranted commands, and even negotiates profitable business/sacrificial arrangements with other supernaturals on behalf of the group.
* TooMuchInformation: Due to his Catholic upbringing, the one aspect of vampire life that he explicitly is super uncomfortable with is the lurid and wild sex. Which as familiar, he is required to describe for the bi-annual vampire orgy.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Vampire Council does this to him. They immediately dismiss the idea that he could have been responsible for the Baron's death. He ''actually did kill the Baron'' (albeit unintentionally), kills another vampire on his way out of the building, and later becomes a skilled if reluctant vampire-killer, his undead body-count growing steadily. Guy isn't nearly as pathetic as he looks.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He very accidentally [[spoiler:kills The Baron and sets off the rage of the Council.]]
* VampireVannabe: He just wants to be [[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire Armand]].
* YesMan: He can't bear to tell Nandor no most of the time, such as when Nandor shows him a duck mask and asks him if "[he] thinks it's a mood-killer or if [he] would cum".
-->I'm not sure.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: To an extent. Guillermo idolizes vampires and desires to become one, but, as a descendant of Van Helsing, is much more predisposed to hunting them. What prevents this from being a straight example is that, prior to learning of his heritage, he assumed vampire hunters were fictitious and barely even thought about them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colin Robinson]]
!!Colin Robinson
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1a63121c_6eeb_4cb4_902e_2cd712777288.jpeg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarkProksch

A daywalking 'energy vampire' who can drain the energy of others around him.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: While standard vampires are clearly undead, the exact mechanics of psychic vampires are... unclear. For example, his ancestry report just has the impossible response of simply saying he's "100% White." This ambiguity is lampshaded in "Ghosts" where he outright says he doesn't know what his deal is.
* BadBoss: After he gets promoted, Colin Robinson deliberately makes his employee's jobs harder just to feed on them. It proves to be so potent for him that he goes DrunkWithPower.
* BaldOfEvil: He's ''probably'' not an outright murderer like the other vampires, but he still comes off as much more malicious than them.
* BasementDweller: He has a job, but he does literally live in the basement of the house and rarely leaves it (and even has one of his hobbies down there be Internet {{troll}}ing).
* BeingEvilSucks: As he notes to the camera crew, the problem with being an energy vampire is that on the occasions when he needs some emotional support or wants to express genuine friendship, everyone just assumes he's trying to feed and tunes him out.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: While seemingly the most milquetoast member of the household, Colin is far more gluttonous in his vampirism than the others, and takes sadistic pleasure in using his powers. When breaking up with another psychic vampire, he casually states he believes himself superior to humanity.
* TheBore: His main method of feeding is hooking people around him into interminable lectures about trivialities.
* ColorMotif: To underline how hard he tries to be boring, the clothes Colin wears tends to be grey, muted brown, or beige.
* DaywalkingVampire: Sunlight doesn't harm psychic vampires, allowing him to hold a normal job and everyday life.
* EmotionEater: He is a psychic vampire of the more common energy vampire subtype, which drain the life from their victims by boring or irritating them instead of drinking their blood. They can feed on other vampires as well as normal people, but are most likely mortal. Episode 3 sees him encountering one of the rarer emotional vampires, who drain their victims through the sympathy and pity generated by telling people sob stories.
* {{Expy}}: Colin Robinson is {{Typecasting}} in general for Mark Proksch, who's played awkward {{nerd}}s in a number of roles, but is very eerily similar to his initial breakout role as "[[https://deadspin.com/fake-yo-yo-trickster-fools-every-tv-station-everywhere-5535220 K-Strass the Yo-Yo Master]]" in 2010, where a recently unemployed Proksch successfully {{troll}}ed local TV news stations throughout the Midwest. Proksch's shtick as "K-Strass" -- to trick news stations into inviting him on the air for something that was already IncrediblyLameFun, performing yo-yo tricks as a grown man, only to [[StylisticSuck totally fail to do so]] and then deliberately waste huge amounts of their time with boring, meandering anecdotes and painfully awkward attempts at patter -- is ''completely on the nose'' for something Colin Robinson would come up with as a clever way to drain energy from thousands of people at once.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Laszlo notes in the very first episode, Colin Robinson grows stronger by the day. Colin starts off with mostly trivia facts to drain his victims, later proceeding to more elaborate tangents, and eventually upgrading to awful humour. This eventually culminates in being able to spout simple one-liners and his targets just ''collapse'' on the spot.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: It is pretty clear that the rest of the roommates actively avoid him (or at least try to keep him out of vampire affairs). They have a pretty good reason to; he ''deliberately'' makes himself a pest just so he could feed on them and him feeding on their would-be victims drains them of their vitality and thus makes them virtually useless to them. The only reason they keep him around is because he is the only one there with a paying job and thus keeps their home running, and is repeatedly described as having come with the house.
* FullNameBasis: It's never just "Colin" with him. It's always "Colin Robinson." Even when he's greeting his friends.
* TheGenericGuy: {{Invoked| Trope}}. Compared to everybody else on the show. He wears simple ordinary clothes, has no fangs, and is bald. You couldn't pick the guy out of a lineup. His ancestry test results even say he is "100% white", which, as Guillermo points out, should be impossible because they're supposed to say things like a certain percent Dutch, a certain percent Irish, etc., not just "white".
* GloomyGray: He feeds by inflicting boredom and irritation on everyone around him, deliberately cultivates IncrediblyLameFun, and wears mostly grey, beige, and brown clothes.
* GoodHurtsEvil: Being a good, supportive friend, without any ulterior motive, is apparently analogous to {{autocannibalism}} for energy vampires. [[spoiler:This fails to stop him from being one to Nandor on the night of his descendant's funeral]].
* IncrediblyLameFun: All of Colin Robinson's interests and hobbies fall into this category, and it's not clear to what degree he actually enjoys these things for their own sake and to what degree it's just a means to {{Troll}} and piss off the people around him so he can feed.
* InsufferableGenius: "Genius" is putting it strongly, but Colin Robinson is an endless wellspring of "fun" facts, irrelevant trivia, unwanted advice, meandering anecdotes, dated pop culture references, etc. on almost any topic under the sun. He seems to have cultivated the persona of a pedantic nerd because it's such an effective way of irritating people and draining their energy, and at one point mentions that these pursuits have led him to be "invited to join Mensa".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When the main three are [[spoiler:about to be executed painfully]], Colin Robinson goes out of his way to save them, despite them insulting and disrespecting him even then. When Laszlo is [[spoiler:trapped in animal rescue]], Colin Robinson helps Nandor to rescue him. There are multiple instances of Colin Robinson helping the others and expressing genuine sentiments of friendship regarding them. While he is indeed a troll and an annoyance who usually takes the opportunity to feed at least a little, the help that he provides often seems sincere and to outweigh the benefit to himself.
* LifeDrain: Eventually, Colin's VampiricDraining becomes so potent that he can literally knock people unconscious (even kills a potted plant instantly) with a gesture. Prolonged exposure to it causes the other vampires to [[RapidAging rapidly age]].
* MagikarpPower: While initially presented as an underpowered lesser version of vampire compared to the other three, in the episode "Colin's Promotion" his potential finally reaches Laszlo's expectations. When he's been feeding heavily and is highly charged, Colin Robinson can instantly drain humans unconscious with a gesture, and can subdue the other vampires to the point of being nearly crippled, easily outmatching all three at once. The only person who proves to be capable of stopping his power-trip [[spoiler:is himself]].
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Unlike the vampires, he is capable of having a visible reflection in mirrors. Said reflection looks like him, except for having light-blue, glowing skin.
* MysteriousPast: Compared to the other housemates, Colin Robinson's backstory is hardly ever elaborated on -- all we know so far is that he's ''far'' older than he appears to be (Laszlo says he "came with the house" and season 3 states that he's about a hundred years old) and doesn't seem to age, but does seem to have had a human grandmother (or at least she was mortal enough to die and become a ghost). It's also noted that Colin Robinson himself has ''zero'' clue how he is an energy vampire, whether it was natural or a transformation.
* OccultBlueEyes: Whenever he feeds, his eyes gain a sinister blue glow.
* OnlySaneMan: This is usually Guillermo's role, but Colin Robinson fills in for him when he's unavailable. Unlike more typical vampires, energy vampires fit in just fine with normal human society and are seemingly much more capable of logical thought, even if it's all filtered through their predatory lens.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: When he feeds on a huge amount of energy, one of his newly developed powers is SelfDuplication. The three Colins Robinson each start to feed on one another so severely that two of them die.
* SlasherSmile: He tends to put on a twisted grin when he feeds.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Colin Robinson does this to ''himself'' in a hilariously mundane way as his duplicates employ the same techniques he uses to bore people on the original him and self-cannibalize each other in the process.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Colin Robinson is a completely different type of vampire from the others. He is an "energy" vampire compared with the more traditional blood-sucking vampires. He can easily pass for human and walk around during the day. However, under normal circumstances, he lacks the powers of other traditional vampires, and is not able to transform into animals or fly like the others, and seems to lack other supernatural abilities.
** When he has access to large amounts of energy, he ''does'' develop the ability to fly, super strength, and even [[ComboPlatterPowers the ability to multiply himself for maximum irritation.]]
* ShoutOut: Colin Robinson is repeatedly described in passing as "that ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}-looking guy". (Although actual fans of ''Dilbert'' would know that he much more closely resembles Dilbert's coworker Wally, both in appearance and in terms of his {{sociopath}}ic and {{troll}}ish personality.)
* TheSociopath: The creators of this show stole the term "energy vampire" from a RealLife description of what interacting with someone on the sociopath spectrum is like (someone who directly takes pleasure from causing other people harm, be it major or minor, and can't help but do so even in the course of an ordinary social interaction). Colin Robinson's personality is just taking a somewhat {{New Age}}y description of how RealLife {{Jerkass}}es affect the people around them and making it a LiteralMetaphor.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Energy vampires are apparently parasites who have evolved to fit perfectly into the environment of a modern StandardOfficeSetting and then proceed to make it more soul-crushing than it already is. (Colin fits in ''so'' well that he ends up being KickedUpstairs to management despite [[TheDilbertPrinciple having no idea what the company actually does]].)
* TechnicalPacifist: There's a fair amount of BlackComedy in the fact that Colin Robinson is so much more unlikable and disturbing than the other vampires even though they're all mass murderers while we've never seen his powers actually kill somebody (and it's not clear whether they can, as opposed to just [[NonLethalKO rendering people unconscious]], although "Colin's Promotion" suggests they might become lethal when he's at full power).
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Psychic vampires are apparently much more common than regular, undead vampires, and have far fewer tells. ''Any'' annoying coworker could be one.
-->"In fact, you probably know an energy vampire. We're the most common kind of vampire."
* TokenEvilTeammate: Despite being the only vampire on Staten Island that ''isn't'' ObviouslyEvil, he is the given least redeeming traits, literally sustaining himself by making his friends, coworkers, and everyone else miserable and frustrated, and making himself as much of a [[TheMillstone millstone]] and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] as possible. Even when he tries being genuinely nice for whatever reason, he is quickly disgusted by it and backtracks.
* {{Troll}}:
** While he usually feeds by being boring and tedious, he also feeds on anger directed toward him, so he also makes a nuisance of himself whenever possible for both sustenance and pleasure, and clearly (to the audience) enjoys doing so. Both humans and fellow vampires are fair targets to him.
** He even becomes an actual internet troll in Season 2, when he discovers that he can drain people from the comfort of his room by leaving obnoxious comments on their social media pages. He notes that the energy he gets from draining someone digitally isn't as pure as what would he get from draining them face to face, but it can still be filling enough, implying that this way of feeding is a kind of junk food for him. He becomes such a troll that he trolls a literal troll to a standstill.
[[/folder]]

!Vampires

[[folder:The Vampiric Council]]
!!The Vampiric Council
!!!Tilda, Evan the Immortal Princess of the Undead, Danny, Paul & Wesley the Daywalker
!!!Other mentioned members: Tom, Brad, Rob, and Kiefer
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TildaSwinton, Creator/EvanRachelWood, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/PaulReubens, Creator/WesleySnipes

* ActorAllusion:
** All of them are [[CastingGag played by actors who had previously played vampires]], and get to bare those vampire fangs.
** More specifically, they rail on Wesley for [[Film/{{Blade}} popularizing vampire-hunting]].
** Evan is the only one to have a [[GratuitousPrincess royal-sounding title]], alluding to Creator/EvanRachelWood's role as [[Series/TrueBlood the Vampire Queen of Louisiana]].
* AffablyEvil: Most of them are just enforcing order, and don't seem to get any particular enjoyment out of killing people.
* CastingGag: They are intentionally made up of actors who played vampires in previous works.
* CelebrityParadox: Many of the movies referenced by the Council have been explicitly mentioned in the franchise -- ''Film/{{Blade}}'' was mentioned in the original film despite "[[Creator/WesleySnipes Wesley]]" being on the Council, Guillermo was inspired to try to become a vampire by ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' despite "[[Creator/TomCruise Tom]] and [[Creator/BradPitt Brad]]" being mentioned, etc. It's left deliberately unclear whether this is because the actors [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy actually are vampires]] or it's just a ContrivedCoincidence.
* TheDanza: {{Invoked|Trope}}, the implication being that the celebrities themselves actually ''are'' vampires is part of the humor.
* DaywalkingVampire: Wesley, who is Skypeing in from the West Coast, is very smug about sitting in front of an uncovered window and basking in sunlight in front of everyone else.
* TheDilbertPrinciple: The three New Zealand vampires didn't seem like particularly successful representatives of their community back in the 2014 film, and had a number of AlwaysSomeoneBetter moments with their rivals -- most notably between Vladislav and the Beast -- but now they're apparently important enough to travel all the way to another continent to pass judgment on other vampires' crimes. This is lampshaded to a degree, with dialogue implying that serving on the Council is seen by many high-ranking vampires (like "[[Film/InterviewWithTheVampire Tom and Brad]]") as an irritating chore more than an honor.
* DirtyCoward: Despite his reputation as a great warrior, Vladislav's ''immediate'' reaction to Guillermo showing up at the Nouveau Théâtre des Vampires is to flee in bat form and let the actors and audience get slaughtered.
* GratuitousPrincess: Evan is specifically called "The Immortal Princess of the Undead" in her introduction for no real reason; Wesley is the only other one referred to by a title ("Daywalker") and she even says there's no need to use her full name.
* GreaterScopeVillain: For season 2. None of them actually make an appearance except for [[spoiler:Vladislav in the season finale]] but they have been sending vampire assassins to eliminate the main characters for escaping punishment and [[spoiler:arrange a trap to execute them for good in the season finale.]]
* IAmNotSpock: Invoked; the line about unseen member Rob wanting to leave the vampire council behind references Creator/RobertPattinson's notorious disdain for ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', despite it being his StarMakingRole.
* NoShirtLongJacket: Helping the joke about the Council mainly just being vampire celebrities, it's explicitly drawn attention to how Danny doesn't have a shirt to show off his "sick Mexican tattoos".
* SchmuckBait: The Council don't bother hiding the fact that they're the sponsors of the Nouveau Théâtre des Vampires when they send their invitation to the Staten Island vamps. Either they were [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny too absent-minded]] to remove their emblem from the stationery or they bet on the protagonists being too absent-minded to remember that they're still wanted criminals who narrowly escaped execution just a year ago. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough They were, of course, correct in this assumption]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: Implied to be the case with Wesley, who other council members point out is not only a {{daywalking vampire}} but [[HunterOfHisOwnKind also a]] {{vampire hunter}}. [[{{Film/Blade}} Which should sound familiar.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Baron]]
!!Baron Afanas
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DougJones

* AbortedArc: The Baron is set up as the BigBad in the pilot episode, and it's implied the plot of the show will revolve around the main trio trying to meet his demands to show progress in conquering the New World while trying to maintain TheMasquerade. The Baron ends up coming back midway through the season and [[spoiler: unceremoniously dying at the end of that episode.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: It's quickly revealed when he shows up in the flesh that he has no genitals, which Nadja claims made their lovemaking even better. [[spoiler:He actually feels insecure about this trait because of his inability to have children.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: As soon as they get the chance to interact with him at length in "Baron's Night Out", the gang get the sinking realization that this elder vampire is, as Laszlo puts it, "mad as a wax banana".
* TheDreaded: Everyone is terrified of him as soon as he shows up in the pilot, even with him seemingly comatose and unresponsive inside his coffin, [[spoiler: until his sudden and [[AntiClimax anticlimactic]] death at the end of "Baron's Night Out"]].
* EyeAwaken: [[spoiler: His final libations at his funeral [[NotQuiteDead restores]] the [[RedEyesTakeWarning ominous glow]] to his eyes.]]
* TheFogOfAges: The Baron's odd behavior seems to be because of his advanced age -- as he puts it, "my mind is devouring itself".
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hilariously, the Baron turns out to have been this for the Vampiric Council, who are mostly just fine with the status quo of vampirekind and regarded his demands for conquest just as contemptuously as the trio did.
* HughMann: Even after much discussion trying to get the Baron to put on regular human clothing, the Baron is still a pretty conspicuous sight, with his horrifically disfigured face and his tendency to just [[RefugeInAudacity go up to people and tell them he's a vampire, then start drinking their blood in full view of the public]].
* InVinoVeritas: Only after getting drunk does he spill his emotional burdens on the roommates and become more personable with them.
* LooksLikeOrlok: As with Petyr from the movie (only even ''more'' monstrous) with the implication being it's the result of their [[TheOlderImmortal immense ages.]]
* MyNaymeIs: It's revealed that [[spoiler:he isn't actually a baron, it was a mutation of the nickname "The Barren" based on his lack of genitals.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being an ancient, powerful vampire, he lets his hair down with the group and shows a much sillier side.
* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: After all the buildup over how scary and dangerous he is, he's suddenly burnt to a cinder at the end of episode 6, by a mere human, ''by accident''.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Petyr from the film. Both are ancient vampires that LooksLikeOrlok who are implied to have been the one who turned the group into vampires (or in his case, Nadja, who then turned Laszlo) and [[spoiler: is eventually killed by being exposed to direct sunlight due to human clumsiness.]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: He demands that the trio stop their life of immortal goofing off and finish conquering the New World, although he's out of it enough that he doesn't seem to really draw a distinction between doing this and TakeOverTheCity (he assumes Staten Island must be the capital of the New World if the vampires live there).
* UpperClassTwit: Despite being a leading figure of vampire society, he is woefully out of touch with current affairs.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Lampshaded trope. The trio lament that they just got to know the Baron as a surprisingly nice, fun guy before he burns to death in the sunlight.]]
* WorthIt: His reaction when he insists on tasting a pizza, even though vampires can't eat human food and he ends up [[VomitIndiscretionShot projectile-vomiting]] so much that he propels himself across a parking lot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenna]]
!!Jenna
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BeanieFeldstein

* ApologeticAttacker: Her first victim's final moments of life are spent with Jenna quickly assuring him it's okay before she kills him.
* BatPeople: Jenna is incapable of fully turning into a bat, and instead turns into a horrifying baby-sized bat-like humanoid that can barely fly.
* ButtMonkey: She is the lowest on the pecking order in her [=LARPing=] group, with her suggestions mocked and brushed aside, and it is heavily implied that her boyfriend is abusive.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She has a tough time with most of her vampire powers at first, and is totally hopeless at mind control and seduction compared to Nadja -- but once she ''does'' trigger her superpower it turns her into a truly terrifying predator.
* GeekPhysiques: One of the reasons Jenna gets bullied by her fellow nerds is the fact she's overweight. She gets some mean jokes at her expense over this when she becomes a vampire, like her total failure to WallCrawl and her bat form being almost too heavy to fly. (When she first appears in the pilot as a virgin sacrifice she's a visual contrast to her SpearCounterpart Jonathan, who's the scrawny gangly type of geek.)
* {{Invisibility}}: This turns out to be her special vampire ability, probably due to the fact that she's spent much of her life being ignored.
* MoralityPet: Although Nadja is still a merciless vampire, she's genuinely kind to Jenna and shows a softer side of herself.
* NaiveNewcomer: To being a vampire and the vampire world in general.
* NiceGirl: Jenna is even kind to the [[AcceptableTargets ska band member]] she murders at the frat party.
* PersonalityPowers: A bullied nerd who is often ignored gets the power of invisibility.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Nick from the film, having originally been brought by Guillermo to be eaten, only to eventually be turned into a vampire instead.
* UndeathlyPallor: She starts looking a lot more ashen after getting turned.
* VegetarianVampire: Jenna ''tries'' to live like this before she fully transforms into a vampire, but Nadja tells her this is why she feels so sick and weak all the time. She's still pretty reluctant the first time she makes a human kill, but starts taking to it pretty quickly.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:She probably grows into a ferocious killer in her last appearance in Season 1, but it's still ambiguous.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Nadja takes a liking to her, and even turns her into a vampire, because she reminds her of herself when she was her age.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Simon]]
!!Simon the Devious
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NickKroll

A vampire who rules over the Manhattan vampires and owns the Sassy Cat nightclub. He was a close friend to the Staten Island trio when all the vampires first arrived in America.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first it seems like he is a genuine friend to Laszlo and Nadja, having moved to America together and genuinely happy to see each other. By the end of "Manhattan Night Club", it turns out that he thinks nothing of them, having only allowed them into the club so that he could take Laszlo's witch-skin hat. [[spoiler:He does this trick a second time in "The Return" for the same reason, milking them of their generosity by playing up his bad situation so that he could take the hat in a vain attempt to stick it to them]].
* DrivenByEnvy: [[spoiler:In "The Return", it is revealed that despite all of his success and the crew he had amassed, he has found no satisfaction in the fruits in his ambition. The primary reason why he wants Laszlo's witch-hat is in a vein attempt to have what they have: an ability to "settle" and have a genuine connection with someone.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After stealing the cursed hat from Laszlo, he tries to pull his fire-arrow trick only to blow up his entire club due to the curse.]]
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler: When he reappears in "The Return", he's gone from being a New York VampireMonarch with a massive coterie of followers to a skulking hermit in the sewers, with his "crew" reduced to just two vampires, Count Rapula and Carol. Subverted when this turns out to have been a ruse to trick Laszlo into letting him steal the accursed hat back, but then double-subverted when this leads to his crew abandoning him for real.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He proclaims that none of his vampire associates (or zombie accountant) really matter to him as their relationship is empty and hollow compared to Nadja and Laszlo's love. When he starts to drown because of the cursed hat, the crew promptly point out that he just said he didn't really care about them, so they don't have any reason to go out of their way to help him.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's devious. It's right there in the name. Also a trope that applies to his "crew" (the "Leatherskins") and to the monikers used by several members of said crew ("the Silent One", "Blagvad the Exsanguinator").
* VampireMonarch: While it isn't specified just how far of a reach he has in the vampire world, he is explicitly said to be one of the most powerful vampires in New York City, the Staten Island Trio meeting with him specifically for this reason.
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[[folder:Jim]]
!!Jim the Vampire
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarkHamill

A vampire who claims that Laszlo owes him rent money from the 1800s and demands retribution.
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* AffablyEvil: He might be Laszlo's enemy, but he's entertainingly goofy, has a genuine grievance and ultimately abandons the feud.
* {{Determinator}}: He's been hunting Laszlo for 167 years, which sounds pretty intense until you realize that Laszlo has been lounging around the same house for much of that time and hasn't been making much of an effort to hide his location from the world.
* HeelRealization: When his fight with Laszlo destroys the fundraiser money, he realizes the negative consequences of his obsessive feud.
* IHaveManyNames: And his primary one is "Jim".
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!Other Humans

[[folder:Jeff]]
!!Jeff Suckler/Gregor
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jake [=McDorman=]

A mortal man Nadja secretly sees without Laszlo's knowledge. She believes that he might be the latest reincarnation of her lover Gregor, a knight whom she accidentally decapitated during their last encounter. Nadja states that he's been reincarnated multiple times (sometimes reborn as a woman and an animal) but always suffers the same fate as before.
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* ActorAllusion: The way Jeff's past-life regression causes him to suddenly [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] seems highly reminiscent of Jake [=McDorman=]'s past role in ''Series/{{Limitless}}''.
* BadassBaritone: His speaking voice is normal, but his voice notably deepens when he unlocks his PastLifeMemories of the valiant warrior Gregor.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Jeff is an uncoordinated and generally uncool guy, but shows himself to have the potential to be just as skilled of a warrior as he was during his time as Gregor after his memories of his past lives are restored.
* FailOSuckyname: With a name like "Jeff Suckler", he's pretty much destined to be a loser. Nadja is extremely disappointed to learn his name.
-->'''Nadja''': It's like a weak ejaculation.
* FirstGuyWins: Nadja admits she struggles to get over Gregor, although she's happy with Laszlo.
* FutureLoser: A rare example involving {{Reincarnation}}. Gregor was a valiant, charismatic, and romantic knight while Jeff, his most recent reincarnation, is an awkward and passive loser who runs the tollbooth at a parking garage. Nadja also suggests that ''all'' of Gregor's previous incarnations (including the ones in mundane and unflattering professions like a washerwoman) were infinitely more charming than Jeff is.
* GenderBender: One of Gregor's past incarnations Nadja remembers with fondness was female (a French washerwoman). This is still less of an adjustment to have to make than the times he reincarnated as an [[BestialityIsDepraved animal]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He's a totally normal, sane parking lot employee until Nadja returns and makes him remember all his past lives. He becomes literally madly in love with her, remembering all his lifetimes of loving her, but is also unhinged because those memories involve the life of a warrior along with all the deaths he suffered.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Inverted. It's fine for Nadja to sleep with whomever she wants... [[spoiler:except Jeff/Gregor, whom Laszlo always kills.]]
* MasterArcher: Nadja extols Gregor's skill at archery, and disappointed when Jeff doesn't seem to actually know how to use a bow and arrow at all. Once he gets his memories back, we get to see him pull off a OneHitPolykill ''with a [[AbnormalAmmo suction cup arrow]] from the fairground''.
* OffWithHisHead: All of his lives end with him being decapitated in some way [[spoiler:by Laszlo.]]
* PastLifeMemories: Nadja eventually awakens these in Jeff, revealing that her obsession with him being Gregor's reincarnation was RealAfterAll.
* RedStringOfFate: All of his reincarnations seem fated to run into Nadja, who is able to identify them as Gregor regardless of who or what they are.
* ReincarnationRomance: Nadja has had passionate romances with all of his reincarnations throughout history, even the non-human ones.
* SuperStrength: Like Gregor before him, though he can only tap into it when Nadja's around.
* TookALevelInBadass: Jeff suddenly becomes a much cooler and more dangerous person, after having spent most of the series as a dorky NonActionGuy, once his Gregor memories return. Unfortunately, this [[GoMadFromTheRevelation has side effects for his mental health]].
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[[folder:Topher]]
!!Topher
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HaleyJoelOsment

Laszlo and Nadja's latest familiar.
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The vampires all adore Topher, to the point that they [[spoiler:take him to a necromancer to be resurrected after his accidental death, just because they miss having him around]].
* CameBackWrong: After being [[spoiler:accidentally electrocuted, the vampires take him to a necromancer to be resurrected. He does come back... as a snarling, nearly-mindless zombie that just climbs the ceilings, runs riot around the house eating small animals, and eventually attacks Guillermo]].
* {{Foil}}: Is initially set up as this to Guillermo, who's over-worked, cautious, cares deeply for his master, and gets zero respect from the household, whereas Topher is a lazy, selfish {{Jerkass}}, with no interest in becoming a vampire, unthinkingly lets ''vampire assassins'' into the house, and is positively ''adored'' by the main vampires. [[spoiler:It doesn't last long, though.]]
* {{Fratbro}}: Comes across as one of these in his interactions with Guillermo.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Is shown to be possibly the ''only'' person immune to Colin Robinson's energy draining abilities. Despite everything Colin throws at him, he confesses that he just finds Colin "really interesting".
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:After the vampires return zombie Topher to Wallace the necromancer, he puts Topher to work in the basement under his hut, making trinkets for his gift shop. Given how many other zombies are also there, one can safely assume that Wallace isn't very good at his job...]]
* PokemonSpeak: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, he can only say his name, "High-Five!", or "Doze Apples!"]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: When Nandor saves Guillermo from being killed by Topher he overcomes TheWorfEffect for once and brutally snaps his neck, only for Topher to revive and attack again [[FailedAttemptAtDrama while he's in the middle of eulogizing him]]. This ''keeps on happening'' as Nandor keeps trying different methods of killing him -- strangling, drowning, electrocution (the way he originally died as a human) -- until he gives up and the vampires bring Topher back to Wallace.]]
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[[folder:Staten Island Mosquito Club]]
!!Claude, Tonya, Shanice, and Derek
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CraigRobinson (Claude); Abigail Savage (Tonya); Veronika Slowikowska (Shanice); Chris Sandiford (Derek)

Staten Island's local vampire hunter society. Guillermo accidentally discovers them while searching for virgins.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Derek is constantly trying to get the group, which consists of both men and women, to have an orgy.
* AscendedExtra: Shanice is a minor character in season 1 before getting a more prominent part as a member of the vampire hunter society in season 2.
* AutobotsRockOut: The hunters feel the need to blast rock music at full volume in the van on the way to the vampire house to get hyped for the upcoming battle, which Guillermo doesn't really appreciate.
* BaitAndSwitch: We're lead to believe that the house full of vampires they're planning to raid belongs to the main trio, only for it to turn out to belong to a completely different, much larger, and ''much'' more aggressive group of them.
* BoyishShortHair: Tonya's hair is quite short.
* TheComicallySerious: Claude tries to come across as a serious and legitimate vampire hunter, but is completely undermined by the utter lameness of the other three and the group as a whole's incompetence at fighting vampires.
* FantasticRacism: Claude's sole motivation for hunting vampires is his belief that, as monsters, they are naturally evil. Prior to the group's first hunt, he had never even knowingly met one.
* AFriendInNeed: Shanice took good care of a bitten Jenna while she was sick and displaying unusual symptoms, and before knowing just what was wrong with her.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Ignoring Guillermo, who isn't fully integrated with them, the group consists of two guys (Claude and Derek) and two girls (Shanice and Tonya).
* TheGenericGuy: Tonya thus far has no outstanding characteristics compared to the other three.
* HeroAntagonist: They're fairly likable people, vampires ''are'' killers in this story, and their first targets are a particularly nasty bunch, but they do have the potential to end up at odds with the main characters.
* HeroicWannabe: They view themselves as heroic vampire hunters, but not only are the vast majority of vampires seen in the series generally fairly harmless, but they themselves are utterly inept and non-threatening. Were it not for [[OneManArmy Guillermo]], they all would've been killed in their very first hunt.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Claude attempts to train the other three and Guillermo in the ways of hunting vampires despite having never even knowingly met any himself, let alone fight one. Ironically, Guillermo, his supposed pupil, has ''far'' more experience both interacting with and killing vampires than he does.
* LargeAndInCharge: Claude, the leader, is a somewhat burly guy.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Derek certainly is, and is constantly trying to get them to have an orgy so that he can lose it under the flimsy justification that it will protect them from vampires.
* OhCrap: Their first actual fight with vampires evokes some of this from them.
* PetTheDog: Guillermo's determination to infiltrate and sabotage the vampire hunters' cell is sorely tested by the fact that the hunters are the first people in a long time to show him any affection or respect, including Claude pronouncing his name correctly.
* SacrificialLamb: Derek is abandoned and seemingly killed during their first attempt at a vampire hunt just to prove how woefully unqualified they are.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted with Claude, who ''tries'' to come across as this, but is too ineffectual to be very threatening.
* TooDumbToLive: They attempt to hunt an entire house full of vampires ''at night'' without any kind of practical experience or training, and it's only thanks to Guillermo's intervention that any of them make it out alive.
* UncertainDoom: The last we've seen of Derek so far is him getting swarmed by a group of vampires after the group's first attempt at a hunt goes awry.
* [[VengefulWidow Vengeful Roommate]]: Shanice was Jenna's roommate and one of her only friends. When Jenna suddenly disappeared, Shanice assumed that the vampires were responsible, and thus has vowed to avenge Jenna by killing them, not realizing that Jenna was turned willingly.
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Characters from the television series ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''.

* BadassBeard: He's a veteran pillager and sports a clipped beard to look the part.

* NotSoDifferent: With his antiquated manner, innocuous name, casual ruthlessness and surprising yet selective moral backbone, he fits the mould of another vampire roommate. He also goes to Pennsylvania for the exact same reason Laszlo did.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Mark Proksch

A European vampire and Lazslo's sire and wife. Nadja is often slightly more down-to-earth than Nandor or Lazslo, but is not without her own quirks. She's nostalgic for her human life and has a ReincarnationRomance with a mortal named Gregor.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kayvan Novak

* GloomyGray: He feeds by inflicting boredom and irritation on everyone around him, deliberately cultivates IncrediblyLameFun, and wears mostly grey and beige.

* LovableSexManiac: Laszlo's dying wish is to have had more sex. Nadja points out that he'd already had "a lot of sex. Like a-a lot of it." [[spoiler: His ghost]] reveals in [=S02E03=] that Laszlo died just as he was on the brink of orgasm [[spoiler: and in order for his ghost to move on, he had to help him...[[ADateWithRosiePalms finish]] what he started]].

* MysteriousPast: Compared to the other housemates, Colin Robinson's backstory is hardly ever elaborated on -- all we know so far is that he's ''far'' older than he appears to be (Laszlo says he "came with the house") and doesn't seem to age, but does seem to have had a human grandmother (or at least she was mortal enough to die and become a ghost).

!!Nadja

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Inverted. It's fine for Nadja to sleep with whoever she wants... [[spoiler:except Jeff/Gregor, who Laszlo always kills.]]

Formerly a renowned and fearsome soldier in the former Ottoman Empire and leader of the country of Al-Quolanudar (now in modern-day Iran). Nandor is the house's unofficial leader, and has difficulty expressing his affection for his loyal familiar Guillermo.

* LivingDistantAncestor: Had 37 wives in life, and apparently has over 200,000 living descendants. In the first season finale he tracks down one of his descendants [[spoiler: and accidentally gives her a heart attack.]]

* MysteriousPast: Compared to the other housemates, Colin Robinson's backstory is hardly ever elaborated on -- all we know so far is that he's ''far'' older than he appears to be (Laszlo says he "came with the house") and doesn't seem to age, but does seem to have had a human grandmother (or at least she was mortal enough to die and become a ghost).

* BadBoss: Zigzagged a bit. Nandor frequently uses Guillermo for meaningless tasks, clearly has no intention of ever actually turning him and will offer up Guillermo to save himself. However, he truly seems to think they're friends and his worst behavior seems to be his attempts at friendliness. When we meet his old familiar Benjy, it seems this is entirely normal for how he treats familiar.

* VolleyballCoach: His eventual fate; he becomes the coach in the small town Jackie Daytona briefly made a home, and he seems pretty happy about that.

!Other Humans

[[folder:Jeff]]
!!Jeff Suckler/Gregor
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jake [=McDorman=]

A mortal man Nadja secretly sees without Laszlo's knowledge. She believes that he might be the latest reincarnation of her lover Gregor, a knight whom she accidentally decapitated during their last encounter. Nadja states that he's been reincarnated multiple times (sometimes reborn as a woman and an animal) but always suffers the same fate as before.

-->In fact, you probably know an energy vampire. We're the most common kind of vampire.

* CompositeCharacter: Combines Viago from the movie's stuffy {{Adorkable}} LeaderWannabe traits with Vladislav's ineffectual RetiredMonster ones.

* HotGypsyWoman: She mentions having gypsy blood, and is suitably vampish.

* AmbiguouslyBi: When asked who George Washington was in "Ancestry", he answers "America's first gay president", the look on his face implying that this information was personal.
** Confirmed in "Witches", where it's revealed [[HoYay he and Laszlo have slept together at least once.]]

* BloodKnight: What he was in the past, although he seems fairly subdued and generally ineffective now.
** When Laszlo reported that there was a ghost in the front yard, Nandor immediately took up arms and blood-thirstily charged the perceived enemy without question or regard for self.
** Generally he seems to be the "fighter" of the group - Laszlo notes that he's "second to none" with an axe, no-one seems to question that he should be the one to duel with a werewolf, and while escaping from the Council he's the one who tries to fetch a sword to fight.

* PetTheDog: His sporadic kindness towards Guillermo and his (strangely genuine) grief for [[spoiler:his distant descendant]] both count.
** Nandor ''does not'' tolerate zombie Topher attempting to kill Guillermo, and slays the abomination on the spot without question, saving Guillermo's life. Complete with a [[NeckLift neck-lift]] and [[NeckSnap neck-snap]]. Nandor may be somewhat of a neglectful ditz, but you ''do not'' fuck with his loyal familiar.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She adores her husband, in spite of how much they can bicker at points and has some heartwarming moments with him in an evil vampire sort of way.
* BaitAndSwitch:
-->There's nothing more devastating than finding out your husband has done porn... and it's so BLOODY boring!

* [[ILoveYouVampireSon I Love You Vampire Mom]]: Nadja turned him, they're married, and they still love each other ''very'' deeply.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: While early episodes raise the question of whether he's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane really an energy vampire]] or just a really boring man who enjoys boring people, this is quickly resolved and he's clearly supernatural. However, what precisely he ''is'' and whether he's considered human is up in the air. For example, his ancestry report just has the impossible response of simply saying he's "100% White." This ambiguity is lampshaded in "Ghosts" where he outright says he doesn't know what his deal is, unlike his vampire roommates who are clearly undead.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: while seemingly the most milquetoast member of the household, Colin is far more gluttonous in his vampirism than the others, and takes sadistic pleasure in using his powers. When breaking up with another energy vampire, he casually states he believes himself superior to humanity.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While initially presented as an underpowered lesser version of vampire compared to the other three, in the episode "Colin's Promotion" he demonstrates a surprising degree of ability and cunning, and proves that his potential has been underestimated. When he's been feeding heavily and is highly charged, Colin Robinson can instantly drain humans unconscious with a gesture, and can subdue the other vampires to the point of being nearly crippled, easily outmatching all three at once. The only person who proves to be capable of stopping his power-trip [[spoiler:is himself]].

* OnlySaneMan: This is usually Guillermo's role, but Colin Robinson fills in for him when he's unavailable. Unlike the blood-drinking type of vampires, energy vampires fit in just fine with normal human society and are seemingly much more capable of logical thought, even if it's all filtered through their amoral, sadistic lens.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Colin Robinson is a vampire but has a completely different set of powers from the others. He is an "energy" vampire compared with the more traditional blood-sucking vampires. He can easily pass for human and walk around during the day. However, under normal circumstances, he lacks the powers of other traditional vampires, and is not able to transform into animals or fly like the others, and seems to lack other supernatural abilities.

* TheSociopath: The creators of this show stole the term "energy vampire" from a RealLife description of what interacting with someone on the sociopath spectrum is like (someone who directly takes pleasure from causing other people harm, be it major or minor, and can't help but do so even in the course of an ordinary social interaction). Colin Robinson's personality is just taking a somewhat {{New Age}}y description of how RealLife {{Jerkass}}es affect the people around them and [[UpToEleven making it literal and supernatural]].
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Energy vampires are apparently parasites who have evolved to fit perfectly into the environment of a modern StandardOfficeSetting and then proceed to make it more soul-crushing than it already is. (Colin fits in ''so'' well that he ends up being KickedUpstairs to management despite having [[TheDilbertPrinciple no idea what the company actually does]].)

** He even becomes an actual internet troll in Season 2, when he discovers that he can drain people from the comfort of his room by leaving obnoxious comments on their social media pages. He notes that the energy he gets from draining someone digitally isn't as pure as what would he get from draining them face to face, but it can still be filling enough, implying that this way of feeding is a kind of junkfood for him. He becomes such a troll that he out-trolls a literal troll to the point of a stand-still.