History ComicBook / ThirtyDaysOfNight

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are almost invincible, though the measure of their invulnerabilities tends to vary. In one series they are capable of taking shotgun blasts to the face and having grenades go off on their heads, and in another, they die by decapitation. One consistent factor seems to be their vulnerability to UV light, which seems to vary, again with age. A vampire is killed in ''30 Days of Death'' by being hurled out a window at sunset, while a far older vampire manages to run through the light before getting shot in the face. Of course, one newly made vampire in the original miniseries dies at the first light of dawn, and so fast that he doesn't even get a frame showing him burning.

** Also, one of the miniseries featuring a family of yuppies traveling to Barrow to see the original vampires. Instead they find 'ancient vampires' who had adapted to the environment, and look insectlike and [[FoodChainOfEvil feed on regular vampires]].

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Played with in the comic ''30 Days 'Til Death'', where the elder vampires in Germany have simply had it with the younger generation and decides to kill them off. The vampire protagonist, Rufus, responds by deciding to hide among humans, ala his own personal masquerade. It doesn't work out well. Half because Rufus is ''not'' a good person whatsoever and half because his old friends show up and ''destroy'' his efforts, getting the attention of the Elders.

** Played straight as well with [[spoiler:Eben and Stella, who by the end of their own comic, ''Eben and Stella'' have successfully reconciled their morality with being undead monsters, and become the protectors of Barrow]].
*** [[spoiler: The term 'friendly neighborhood' can no longer be applied to Eben, given he just slaughtered the neighborhood. To the last man.]]

* RecycledInSpace: ''30 Days of Night: Dead Space''.[[note]]No relation to '''that''' ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', sadly.[[/note]]

* HumansAreBastards: Discussed. In the second series, the protagonist asks one of the vampires why they seem to automatically become evil as soon as they're turned. He asks her how many people ''she'' knows who wouldn't if they actually had the power to pull it off. Another example in ''Juarez'' when the vampires have after seeking headlines of 400 missing or dead young women, thinking it's their clan patriarch at work...it turns out to be just a group of bored men, which absolutely ''delights'' the head of said clan.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are almost invincible, though the measure of their invulnerabilities tends to vary. In one series they are capable of taking shotgun blasts to the face and having grenades go off on their heads, and in another, they die to decapitation. One consistent factor seems to be their vulnerability to UV light, which seems to vary, again with age. A vampire is killed in ''30 Days of Death'' by being hurled out a window at sunset, while a far older vampire manages to run through the light before getting shot in the face. Of course, one newly made vampire in the original miniseries dies at the first light of dawn, and so fast that he doesn't even get a frame showing him burning.

** Also, one of the miniseries featuring a family of yuppies traveling to Barrow to see the original vampires instead find 'ancient vampires' who had adapted to the environment, and look insectlike and [[FoodChainOfEvil feed on regular vampires]].
* RecycledInSpace: ''30 Days of Night: Dead Space''[[note]]No relation to '''that''' ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', sadly[[/note]].

* TranshumanTreachery: Almost everyone who is turned immediately begins chowing down on their best friends. Notable aversions include Eben, [[spoiler:though he gets a bit worse]], [[CrazyAwesome Lex Nova]] and [[spoiler:Stella, though she still does kill a room service clerk in hunger]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dane spends an annual fighting alongside John Ikos against a lunatic vampire who wants to convert humanity into cattle. When Eben starts doing this on a greater scale than ever before, you'd think Dane might get involved, maybe with these supposed vampires who are against this lunacy. For that matter, we never see John Ikos when Eben massacres Barrow to the last man. Or Brian Kitka, who would be an adult at that time. Agent Norris just kinda vanishes as well. His fate is resolved in one of the novels, but in the only one that could possibly be canon.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The original comic states that the month long darkness lasts from October 17th to December 18th, which is impossible at any location in the world because the darkness is caused by the arctic night, which occurs when a pole is as rotated away from the sun as possible, causing it to stay out of the sun (and winter in the process). At winter solstice (around December 21st) the earth starts to turn the other way around. It's at this time the darkness is at its peak. Right before winter solstice and right after is when such a period will occur. All areas around above the arctic circle will experience a period where the sun will not be able to reach above the horizon because of the earth's position. Barrow is actually located so far north that it actually has ''67'' days where the sun does not reach above the horizon.
* DarkMessiah: Eben is the messiah to the vampires now.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The original comic states that the month long darkness last from the 17th october to the 18th of december, which is impossible at any location in the world because the darkness i caused by the arctic night, which occur when a pole is as rotated from the sun as possible causing it to stay out of the sun (and winter in the process). At winter solictice (arond the 21th of december) the earth starts to turn the other way around. It's at this time the darkness is at it's peak. Right before winter solictice and right after is when such a period will occur. All areas around above the arctic circle will experience a period where the sun will not be able to reach above the horizon because of the earth's position. Barrow is actually located so far north that it actually has ''67'' days where the sun does not reach above the horizon.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Agent Norris tries to get his old partner to back off vampire research by slaughtering his family...though it's also retribution for Andy Grey having slept with Norris's wife. When Norris was officially dead. When Grey finally gets to confront Norris about murdering his family, Norris simply responds "you fucked my wife." Another example is Bingo Zero hypnotizing a security guard into blowing his brains out solely because Bingo blamed him for being stuck in traffic for hours...Bingo basically admitted it was unreasonable, but he was in a ''bad mood''.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One reason the Elders aren't initially interested in Eben's peace overtures? Before Ebem took over from Father Paul, Paul had slaughtered a host of elders...one of them being Lord John Westminster's husband of three hundred years, Brecht. An example in the original series is Vicente and Lilith.
* EvilIsPetty: One short story has vampires try to invade an orphanage for the free treats...problem being, the orphanage's Priest is a demon in disguise cultivating the children for his own purposes later. When the vampires protest they had no idea, they're willing to leave in peace and he has no reason to harm them, he responds "I'm a demon. What am I, if not petty?"

* FatBastard: a few nasty vampires. And Billy Boy from ''30 Days til Death''. Special nod must go to Lord John Westminster of the elders.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are almost invincible, though the measure of their invulnerabilities tends to vary. In one series they are capable of taking shotgun blasts to the face and having grenades go off on their heads, and in another, they die to decapitation. One consistent factor seems to be their vulnerability to UV light, which seems to vary, again with age. A vampire is killed in ''30 Days of Death'' by being hurled out a window at sunset, while a far older vampire manages to run through the light before getting shot in the face. Of course, one newly made vampire in the original miniseries dies at the first light of dawn, and so fast that he doesn't even get a frame showing him burning.

* BaitTheDog: At first, Vicente seems a ReasonableAuthorityFigure as he furiously denounces the Barrow massacre...then reveals his solution is to slaughter anyone left alive and burn the town to the ground...nor is he above deciding to feed on two children caught hiding as a snack.

** Dane [[spoiler:is killed in the spinoff novel, ''Immortal Remains.''

* WheresTheFunInThat
-->'''Denise:''' Neither of you are getting me alone. Neither!
-->'''Aaron:''' Ah! We share, right? None of us have to be greedy.
-->'''Gabe:''' Yeah, come on. We'll be good.
-->'''Aaron:''' Oh, you will? Where's the fun in that?

* DesignatedHero: Alice Blood ''absolutely fucking sucks'' at being the hero. Not only is she remarkably unlikable, she lets a man turn against his wishes to give her superiors a real life vampire, she shows ''spectacular incompetence'' when she [[spoiler: Kills Stella Olemaun, sparking off Eben's insanity]] and utterly fails to be of any use whatsoever through most of the events. The only positive thing she achieves is [[spoiler: her death reviving Stella, who stops Eben herself.]]

* RecycledInSpace: ''30 Days of Night: Dead Space''. [[hottip:*:No relation to '''that''' ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', sadly.]]

* DesignatedHero: Alice Blood ''absolutely fucking sucks'' at being the hero. Not only is she remarkably unlikable, she lets a man turn against his wishes to give her superiors a real life vampire, she [[spoiler: Kills Stella Olemaun, sparking off Eben's insanity]] and utterly fails to be of any use whatsoever through most of the events. The only positive thing she achieves is [[spoiler: her death reviving Stella, who stops Eben herself.]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: Kitchen sink may be stretching it, but in a universe full of vampires, a recent comic has also revealed the existence of a functional [[spoiler: Golem, which possesses people by encasing them in living mud]], as well as the fact that the 30 Days vamps seem to be involved in the ''Infestation'' crossover.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Played with in the comic ''30 Days 'Til Death'', where the elder vampires in Italy have simply had it with the younger generation and decides to kill them off. The vampire protagonist, Rufus, responds by deciding to hide among humans, ala his own personal masquerade. It doesn't work out well. Half because Rufus is ''not'' a good person and half because his old friends show up and ''destroy'' his efforts, getting the attention of the Elders.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Played with in the comic ''30 Days 'Til Death'', where the elder vampires in Italy have simply had it with the younger generation and decides to kill them off. The vampire protagonist, Rufus, responds by deciding to hide among humans, ala his own personal masquerade. It doesn't work out well.

* HumansAreBastards: Discussed. In the second series, the protagonist asks one of the vampires why they seem to automatically become evil as soon as they're turned. He asks her how many people ''she'' knows who wouldn't if they actually had the power to pull it off.

* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: Copious need for blood? Check. Morality shift? Check. Contagious? Very. A single crewman in Dead Space changes after a scratch. These guys are some of the most hostile vampires in fiction.

** When does this happen?
*** The new ongoing series

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