History ComicBook / ThirtyDaysOfNight

* {{Masquerade}}: The vampire elders of the Old World ''try'' to uphold one, having lived long enough to realize secrecy is the primary advantage preventing TheHunterBecomesTheHunted in mankind's favor. New World vampires, on the other hand, are so absurdly ''incapable'' of subtlety that their kin across the pond decide KillThemAll is the only way to preserve that advantage.

* BackToBackBadasses: Max and Fiona in ''30 Days Til Death'', while fighting the Enforcers, although they clearly expect to be overrun in short order.

* BecomingTheMask: Vaguely hinted at with Rufus. First he shows some sadness at the neighbors dying but that may just be because it means the end of his masquerade, but then also he takes Serafinna with him when he tries to run instead of abandoning her.

* BigBadDuumvirate: these crop up every so often, but often resolve themselves. In the original miniseries, the American vampire Marlow is behind the attack on Barrow. The Elder vampire Vicente is more than a bit frustrated, but his solution is even worse for the Barrow residents. Future stories include Mr. Reyes and the Zero Family Circus in ''Juarez'' and [[spoiler: Eben Olemaun]] and Father Paul in the ongoing.

* BrokenBird: Serafina in ''30 Days Till Death'': has it pretty bad. She's a drug addicted prostitute abducted off the streets by Rufus and brainwashed into thinking she's his girlfriend while he has her go cold turkey to serve as TheBeard for him by making him appear more human. Then just as she's satin to enjoy being sober an off the street, one of Rufus's guests causes her to relapse, and that same day she finds herself in the crossfire when the enforcers show up.

* CrapsackWorld: Vampires are a rampant epidemic who grow daily, in the universe of the comic, infesting just about every major city. [[spoiler:And those in charge are trying to keep it a secret]].
* CurbStompBattle: less than a dozen European vampire enforcers vs over 100 American vampires in New Orleans in ''30 Days to Death'' and only one enforcer died while the American vampires suffered more than 90% casualties.

* 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 is officially dead, 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''.
* DuelToTheDeath: Eben and Vicente in the original mini square off. Vicente realizes he has made a horrible error underestimating the 'New Blood.'

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

** 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 however, in the comic 'Juarez or Lex Nova and the Case of The 400 Dead Mexican Girls,' with the titular Lex Nova, a vampire private eye who monologues to himself (aloud) and manages his blood habit [[{{Chupacabra}} by drinking from goats]].
** 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.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Once Rufus' vampire kin show up at his apartment, everything he's done to try and maintain a sense of normalcy falls apart due to their inability to keep their hunger in check or just behave in general causing Rufus no end of grief. Then the vampire death squad he was hiding from shows up...

* HeelFaceTurn: Dane goes from trying to re-kill Eben in front of Stella and stop her in her quest to expose vampires to aiding her once he discovers that Eben didn't kill Marlow.
* HeroAntagonist: The enforcers wiping out American vampires in ''30 Days to Death'' could count, given how so many deserve it.
* 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, after seeing 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.
* IronButtMonkey: Stella, in ''Dark Days''. Though she TookALevelInBadass, she has to deal with ''a lot'' of shit. Her attempt to expose vampires is seen as a publicity stunt for her book, which gets labeled as fiction by its publishers, her and the hunters end up all going their separate ways, and she has the only existing copy of evidence of the Barrow massacre destroyed. In the end, when she resurrects Eben, he bites and turns her into a vampire.

* InformedAbility: We're informed at one point by the only FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire around that most vampires didn't care for the attack on Barrow and just want to co-exist without too much bloodshed. To say this ''is very contradictory to every time we see other vampires in action'' is an obvious understatement.

* {{Masquerade}}: The vampires in the comic definitely seem to enforce their own version of it, as the leader of the vampires attacking Barrow in the original miniseries is killed by Vicente to uphold it. Also, the above mentioned elders in ''30 Days of Death'' launch an attack on the vampires of America because they were breaking the masquerade.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Annual 2004 features a book club discussing Stella's book, when they start to believe it, and one of their members convinces the rest that their creepy neighbor is a vampire, and the group goes up to his house and kills him. [[spoiler:It turns out that the member who made the accusation in the first place is the ''real'' vampire.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rufus letting his old coven mate Martin and a few others who survived the New Orleans CurbStompBattle lay low with him, which quickly attracts the enforcers that they escaped from.

* 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]].

* RealMenLoveJesus: Rufus's neighbor Karl.

* TheRenfield: Agent Norris starts out as a bug eater, who are pretty much the in-universe equivalent of this trope. Though apparently, these become full-blown vampires later.

* 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]]), [[CrazyIsCool Lex Nova]] and [[spoiler:Stella, though she still does kill a room service clerk in hunger]].
* WeakenedByTheLight: Pretty much the only weakness of the vampires in this series. It's notable that vampires here are way more susceptible to sunlight than most, bursting into flames and dying with even minor exposure to the sun's rays and even UV lamps. This is kind of balanced, however, by their [[MadeOfIron total immunity to basically every other form of attack.]]

* MonsterClown: The Zero Family Circus from ''Bloodsucker Tales'' is composed of clown-[[CardCarryingVillain themed]] vampires, the alpha Bingo Zero and his [[BattleHarem babes]] Halo and Echo.

* BadassBeard: John Ikos.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: ''Juarez'' is the closest thing the series has to a SelfParody, but Reyes, the main antagonist of that series, is still a horribly odious character, being a wealthy man bored with his riches, raping and killing the girls of Juarez en masse.

* StupidEvil: Vicente calls the vampires participating in the Barrow massacre this, though it's also applicable to most of the vampires seen in the series. They are, with very few exceptions, AlwaysChaoticEvil, and insist on being as vicious as possible and leaving behind trails of mutilated, blood-drained corpses. And those are just the ones that ''don't'' care about the {{Masquerade}}.

* HeroAntagonist: arguably the enforcers wiping out American vampires in ''30 Days to Death'' given how so many deserve it.

* NotSoDifferent: Lilith, from Stella. Both are grieving widows who take extreme measures to avenge their husbands, and both accuse each other of murder.

* AliensInCardiff: Vampires in Barrow

* BecomingTheMask: vaguely hinted at with Rufus. First he shows some sadness at the neighbors dying but that may just be because it means the end of his masquerade, but then also he takes Serafinna with him when he tries to run instead of abandoning her.

** Played straight however, in the comic 'Juarez or Lex Nova and the Case of The 400 Dead Mexican Girls,' with the titular Lex Nova, a CrazyAwesome vampire private eye who monologues to himself (aloud) and manages his blood habit [[{{Chupacabra}} by drinking from goats]].

* 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]].

* 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 [[Main/WouldHurtAChild feed on two children caught hiding as a snack]].

* 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. However, with the reveal that ''30 Days Of Night'' crosses over with ''CriminalMacabre'', this trope is very apt.

* GothicPunk

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rufus letting his old coven mate Martin and a few others who survived the New Orleans SurbStompBattle lay low with him, which quickly attracts the enforcers that they escaped from.

* SelfParody: ''Juarez'' is notably goofier than the rest of the series and plays out like this, with a comically insane protagonist, jabs at vampire clichés, and a LaughablyEvil secondary antagonist. However, it's still set in the series' trademark CrapsackWorld, and has maybe one of the most grim settings and storylines in an already bleak series.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Stella is accidentally killed with no fanfare whatsoever.]]

** Dane's a pretty nice guy as well. So's Billy.

* LooksLikeOrlok: Eben. A little horrible fire damage, a little drinking the blood of the oldest vampires he can get...

* ''30 Days of Night'': The original miniseries.
* ''Dark Days''

* ''30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow''
* ''30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales''

* ''30 Days of Night: Dead Space''
* ''30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease''
* ''30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella''
* ''30 Days of Night: Red Snow''
* ''30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow''
* ''30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'Til Death''
* ''30 Days of Night: Night Again''

This comic series has also been adapted into [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight a 2007 film of the same name]].

''30 Days of Night'' is a three-issue comic book miniseries written by Creator/SteveNiles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and published by Creator/IDWPublishing in 2002.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dane spends a year 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.[[labelnote:note]]Although [[spoiler:Dane is killed off]] in the novel ''Immortal Remains'', which may or may not be a spinoff[[/labelnote]] 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.
** Some of Rufus's background neighbors aren't seen the second time the enforcers come back to the building. They probably died, but might have left during the interval between the attacks.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Stella is revived long enough to drag Eben into death with her with a final kiss.]]

* A LighterShadeOfBlack: Rufus is a cold-blooded killer with a bloody past, yet he actually makes an effort to lay low and avoid indiscriminate killing after the Elders start sending hit squads, while hardly any other vampire who appears in that story arc even tries to show self-control.

[[ThisIsGonnaSuck This Is Gonna]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Suck]].

* TheRenfield: Agent Norris.
* 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. There are, being generous, maybe four or five vampires in the entire thing who aren't bad people. Even [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Dane]] isn't above killing people or enacting horrible vengeance.
* SuicideBySunlight

* TheVirus: Vampirism is portrayed as this later in the comics, with a single bite or scratch converting humans. ''Spreading the Disease'' is even about a vampire cult spreading vampirism via contaminated alcohol. Vampirism is at least somewhat supernatural, however, as [[spoiler:dead vampires can be re-generated if blood is poured on their remains]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dane spends a year 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.
** Dane [[spoiler:is killed in the spinoff novel, ''Immortal Remains.'']]