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* BadassInCharge: Amelie and Bishop. Oliver as well, and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority all for good reason]].
* {{Badass Normal}}: When you've lived in this town for long enough, it's bound to happen. Though notable ones are Shane.
* {{Badass Biker}}: Shane's dad and his biker gang.
* {{Bitch In Sheeps Clothing}}: You know Oliver, the really cool old guy? He's a vampire. A complete {{Jerkass}} one at that.
* {{Badass Normal}}: When you've lived in this town for long enough, it's bound to happen. Though notable ones are Shane.
* {{Badass Biker}}: Shane's dad and his biker gang.
* {{Bitch In Sheeps Clothing}}: You know Oliver, the really cool old guy? He's a vampire. A complete {{Jerkass}} one at that.
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* BadassInCharge: Amelie and Bishop. Oliver as well, and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership all for good reason]].
*{{Badass Normal}}: BadassNormal: When you've lived in this town for long enough, it's bound to happen. Though notable ones are Shane.
*{{Badass Biker}}: BadassBiker: Shane's dad and his biker gang.
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* {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}: Myrnin. Dear god. Apparently showing up at your door and borrowing a Crock-Pot isn't crazy behavior for him.
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* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: TPU's fraternity, Epsilon Epsilon Kappa. Also known as EEK.
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* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: FunWithAcronyms: TPU's fraternity, Epsilon Epsilon Kappa. Also known as EEK.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Amelie wants to create a space where her people will be safe, even if the humans aren't quite happy, [[spoiler: and to cure the disease threatening to wipe out the former]]. If this fails, however, she makes it quite clear that nobody will survive. [[KillEmAll Human or vampire]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Amelie wants to create a space where her people will be safe, even if the humans aren't quite happy, [[spoiler: and to cure the disease threatening to wipe out the former]]. If this fails, however, she makes it quite clear that nobody will survive. [[KillEmAll Human or vampire]].vampire.
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* ElderlyImmortal:
** Oliver is a 400-year-old vampire who has long gray hair and looks middle-aged. He was turned into a vampire when he was 60, and hence looks his age before his siring.
** Bishop looks like an old man and he's the oldest vampire in existence, being over a thousand years old.
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* ReligiousVampire: Dr. Theo Goldman and his family are vampires and devoted Jews. The vile vampire Bishop, out of a mix of bigotry and hatred of Theo and his family's happy life and devotion, had them turned into vampires as a way to mock and break their faith. However, to Bishop's annoyance, this didn't work and they stayed together and are still faithful even in the present.
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Midnight snacks in ''Ghost Town''.
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* ElementalShapeshifter: The Draug have the ability to transform into living water in order to move around and envelop their victims to consume them.
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* MonsterProgenitor: Magnus is the Master Draug. He acts as a HiveQueen, being able to manufacture all other members of the Draug species, with them effectively being extensions of his will.
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* VampireMonarch: Amelie is the queen of all of the town of Morganville's vampires, which are also the last vampires left in the world as well. Amelie created the town as a safe haven for her kind.
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* {{Abusive Parents}} Shane and Eve's dads.
** Eve's ''mom.'' ("Just because you never loved your father...")
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* {{Attempted Rape}}: Claire in The Dead Girl's Dance.
** Which [[CallBack becomes a momentary nightmare moment]] for her in Feast of Fools, when she helps stop a similar incident.
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* CarFu: Eve, an intentional case of DrivesLikeCrazy.
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** TookALevelInJerkass: Part of toughening up, apparently, although she at least tries to keep it in check.
* {{Town With A Dark Secret}}: Well, duh.
* TrueCompanions: The residents of Glass House.
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* VilerNewVillain: Amelie's father Bishop. She's a ruthless vampire, but she's a WellIntentionedExtremist. Bishop by contrast is a ruthless sociopath far more prone to violence and bloodshed, who'd let vampires go extinct if it means he'd be on top. She's AffablyEvil, Bishop's [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness is fake]].
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The ''Morganville Vampires'' Series is a series of young adult novels written by Creator/RachelCaine. The books center around Claire Danvers, a sixteen year-old genius who graduated from high school early and started school at a small town college to satisfy her overprotective parents. When a girl in the dorms threatens Claire's life, she resorts to answering an ad in the paper for a roommate in a four bedroom house. Which is how she meets Eve Rosser, a goth girl a few years older than Claire who works at the local coffee shop in town. Eve introduces Claire to the two other boys who live in the house, Shane Collins and Michael Glass. Claire barely gets in the door when Eve tells Claire the secret of the quiet college town-- it's inhabited by vampires.
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The ''Morganville Vampires'' Series is a series of young adult novels written by Creator/RachelCaine. The books center around Claire Danvers, a sixteen year-old genius who graduated from high school early and started school at a small town college to satisfy her overprotective parents. When a girl in the dorms threatens Claire's life, she resorts to answering an ad in the paper for a roommate in a four bedroom house. Which house, which is how she meets Eve Rosser, a goth girl a few years older than Claire who works at the local coffee shop in town. Eve introduces Claire to the two other boys who live in the house, Shane Collins and Michael Glass. Claire barely gets in the door when Eve tells Claire the secret of the quiet college town-- it's inhabited by vampires.
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The first novel was adapted into [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954TvdqgzNfYdQ-btKcAKvWU a web series]] in 2014 and published on YouTube by Creator/GeekAndSundry.
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The first novel was adapted into [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954TvdqgzNfYdQ-btKcAKvWU a web series]] in 2014 and published on YouTube Website/YouTube by Creator/GeekAndSundry.
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* VampireProcreationLimit: During the early years of vampires, vampire numbers almost overwhelmed the human population due to their ability to transform humans into vampires rapidly as well as the human population being smaller than it was today. In order to prevent the humans running out and hence endangering the vampire's food supply, it was agreed by the higher vampires of the time to remove the knowledge of how to create more vampires, simply by refusing to teach it. Over time, this knowledge became lost even to the elder vampires resulting in it only being available from two sources, these being the world's oldest vampire, Amelie as well as an ancient spell book where it was written down.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Frank]] ind ''Ghost Town''.
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** Mr Bishop is an even better example. Bishop is fairly polite and well spoken but that simply holds an utter monster whose perfectly fine killing even his own daughter and [[spoiler:creating a virus to send all vampires except his followers into extinction]] if it means that he can get power for himself.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Oliver]] is a rather classic example. While not without redeeming qualities, [[spoiler:Oliver]] acts fairly calm, polite and is even [[SoftSpokenSadist soft spoken]] but say the wrong thing or piss him off and that facade breaks revealing him to be thoroughly cruel underneath that.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Oliver]] FauxAffablyEvil:
**[[spoiler:Oliver]] is a rather classic example. While not without redeeming qualities, [[spoiler:Oliver]] acts fairly calm, polite and is even [[SoftSpokenSadist soft spoken]] but say the wrong thing or piss him off and that facade breaks revealing him to be thoroughly cruel underneath that.
** Mr Bishop is an even better example. Bishop is fairly polite and well spoken but that simply holds an utter monster whose perfectly fine killing even his own daughter and [[spoiler:creating a virus to send all vampires except his followers into extinction]] if it means that he can get power for himself.
**[[spoiler:Oliver]] is a rather classic example. While not without redeeming qualities, [[spoiler:Oliver]] acts fairly calm, polite and is even [[SoftSpokenSadist soft spoken]] but say the wrong thing or piss him off and that facade breaks revealing him to be thoroughly cruel underneath that.
** Mr Bishop is an even better example. Bishop is fairly polite and well spoken but that simply holds an utter monster whose perfectly fine killing even his own daughter and [[spoiler:creating a virus to send all vampires except his followers into extinction]] if it means that he can get power for himself.
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!!The series comprises of the following books:
# ''Glass Houses'' (October 2006)
#''The Dead Girls Dance'' (April 2007)
#''Midnight Alley'' (October 2007)
#''Feast of Fools'' (June 2008)
#''Lord of Misrule'' (January 2009)
#''Carpe Corpus'' (June 2009)
#''Fade Out'' (November 2009)
#''Kiss of Death'' (April 27, 2010)
#''Ghost Town'' (October 26, 2010)
#''Bite Club'' (May 3, 2011)
#''Last Breath'' (November 1, 2011)
#''Black Dawn'' (May 1, 2012'')
#''Bitter Blood'' (November 6, 2012)
#''Fall Of Night (May 7, 2013)
#''Daylighters'' (November 5, 2013)
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* AffablyEvil: For a measure of evil at least, Amelie in the initial books is ruthless and willing to do "[[WellIntentionedExtremist anything]]" to keep vampires safe but isn't unnecessarily cruel and speaks in a polite and calm voice. She can also show genuine kindness to others and is know to PetTheDog.
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* AffablyEvil: For a measure of evil at least, Amelie in the initial books Amelie is ruthless and willing to do "[[WellIntentionedExtremist anything]]" to keep vampires safe but isn't unnecessarily cruel and speaks in a polite and calm voice. She can also show genuine kindness to others and is know known to PetTheDog.
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* CrapsackWorld: Yes, this town somehow makes it, between humans literally referred to as the slave race, vampire turf wars, [[WellIntentionedExtremist various]] [[MagnificentBastard characters]]' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo concepts]] of acceptable losses, and the resulting mayhem that is every single volume.
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* CrapsackWorld: Yes, this town somehow makes it, between humans literally referred to as the slave race, vampire turf wars, [[WellIntentionedExtremist various]] [[MagnificentBastard [[ManipulativeBastard characters]]' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo concepts]] of acceptable losses, and the resulting mayhem that is every single volume.
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The Morganville Vampires ''Morganville Vampires'' Series is a series of young adult novels written by Rachel Caine.Creator/RachelCaine. The books center around Claire Danvers, a sixteen year-old genius who graduated from high school early and started school at a small town college to satisfy her overprotective parents. When a girl in the dorms threatens Claire's life, she resorts to answering an ad in the paper for a roommate in a four bedroom house. Which is how she meets Eve Rosser, a goth girl a few years older than Claire who works at the local coffee shop in town. Eve introduces Claire to the two other boys who live in the house, Shane Collins and Michael Glass. Claire barely gets in the door when Eve tells Claire the secret of the quiet college town-- it's inhabited by vampires.
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The first novel was adapted into [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954TvdqgzNfYdQ-btKcAKvWU a web series]] in 2014 and published on YouTube by Geek & Sundry.Creator/GeekAndSundry.
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* {{Badass}}: Quite a few.
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** TheSmartGuy: Claire
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItTheseDays: Midnight snacks in ''Ghost Town''.
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* CliffHanger: The end of most books, usually in less than pleasant ways (spoiler: in order; Shane's dad kills Michael, Claire sells her soul to Amelie, Amelie's father comes to town, Morganville civil war, Bishop ''wins'', [[LaserGuidedKarma the heroes beat Bishop]].
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* CliffHanger: The end of most books, usually in less than pleasant ways (spoiler: in order; Shane's ways. In order: [[spoiler:Shane's dad kills Michael, Claire sells her soul to Amelie, Amelie's father comes to town, Morganville civil war, Bishop ''wins'', [[LaserGuidedKarma the heroes beat Bishop]].Bishop]]]].
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!!Tropes in this work:
* {{Abusive Parents}} Shane and Eve's dads.
** Eve's ''mom.'' ("Just because you never loved your father...")
* {{Action Survivor}}: Claire and Eve. Hell. Probably everyone.
* AndIMustScream: Michael in Book 1. Nearly made a vampire (something he ''despises'', by the way), came back as a ghost that dies again every single morning, stuck that way until sunset and his return to a proper body, and stuck in the house for ever, because the house is what kept him "alive" in the first place. This status does not change, no matter how much his [[TrueCompanions housemates]] need his help. What becomes the only way out of this? [[spoiler: Voluntarily become a vampire.]]
* {{Attempted Rape}}: Claire in The Dead Girl's Dance.
** Which [[CallBack becomes a momentary nightmare moment]] for her in Feast of Fools, when she helps stop a similar incident.
* {{Badass}}: Quite a few.
* BadassBookworm: Claire moves from being a small school-obsessed girl who got up extra-early to avoid a bully, to [[TookALevelInBadass dealing with vampires trying to kill her on a regular basis]]. Still school obsessed. Also, Myrnin.
* BadassInCharge: Amelie and Bishop. Oliver as well, and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority all for good reason]].
* {{Badass Normal}}: When you've lived in this town for long enough, it's bound to happen. Though notable ones are Shane.
* {{Badass Biker}}: Shane's dad and his biker gang.
* [[spoiler:{{Bitch In Sheeps Clothing}}: You know Oliver, the really cool old guy? He's a vampire. A complete {{Jerkass}} one at that.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Bishop in Lord of Misrule]] specifically, but it's [[OhCrap rare]] to find a volume that ends on a truly peaceful note.
* {{Black And Gray Morality}}
* {{Boarding School of Horrors}}: TPU.
* {{Broken Bird}}: Eve.
* {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}: Myrnin.
* CarFu: Eve, an intentional case of DrivesLikeCrazy.
* {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}: Myrnin. Dear god. Apparently showing up at your door and borrowing a Crock-Pot isn't crazy behavior for him.
* CliffHanger: The end of most books, usually in less than pleasant ways (spoiler: in order; Shane's dad kills Michael, Claire sells her soul to Amelie, Amelie's father comes to town, Morganville civil war, Bishop ''wins'', [[LaserGuidedKarma the heroes beat Bishop]].
* CoolOldGuy: Oliver, the hippie dude running the cool coffee shop he maintains as Neutral Territory--between humans and vampires, despite his own human status. [[spoiler: His status as [[BitchInSheepsClothing otherwise]] is perhaps the nastiest shock of Glass Houses.]]
** Myrnin, in spite of his apparent age. When he's not acting under [[spoiler: [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody vampire Alzheimer's]]]], anyway.
* CrapsackWorld: Yes, this town somehow makes it, between humans literally referred to as the slave race, vampire turf wars, [[WellIntentionedExtremist various]] [[MagnificentBastard characters]]' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo concepts]] of acceptable losses, and the resulting mayhem that is every single volume.
* {{Estrogen Brigade Bait}}: Michael and Shane in-universe.
* EvilIsSexy: Monica Morrell is an in-universe example
* EasilyForgiven: Well, ''forgiven'' may be a strong word, but Shane has a weird way of dealing with those who've hurt him. He hates Monica, but more in the way you'd dislike a colossal jerk (which she is) than the way you'd dislike [[spoiler:the responsible for the death of your sister]], which she also is. He often chafes under Amelie's authoritarian and vampire-slanted rule, but he doesn't seem to hold a grudge against her for [[spoiler:having his mother assassinated]]. And finally, while he's slow to forgive [[spoiler:Jason]] for nearly getting Claire killed, he quickly shrugs off the fact that he also [[spoiler:stabbed Shane in the stomach and landed him in the hospital.]]
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Lord of Misrule has this feel to it. [[TheBadGuyWins And then Bishop wins.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For a varying value of "evil" in the cases of [[MadScientist Myrnin]], [[IceQueen Amelie]], and even [[PetTheDog Oliver]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Frank]]. As the former points out, at least the Morganville residents are trying. The BigBad he's comparing them to... [[LackOfEmpathy Not so much]].
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Michael
** TheLancer and TheBigGuy: Shane
** TheSmartGuy: Claire
** TheChick: Eve
* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: TPU's fraternity, Epsilon Epsilon Kappa. Also known as EEK.
* {{Go Mad From The Revelation}}: Miranda. Every. Time.
** In ''Ghost Town'' [[spoiler: a lot of people get [[ItMakesSenseInContext magical amnesia]] and forget [[TearJerker the deaths of their loved ones]] or the fact that they're vampires]]. It doesn't end well.
* {{Handsome Lech}}: Shane.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Frank]] ind ''Ghost Town''.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell]]
* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItTheseDays: Midnight snacks in ''Ghost Town''.
* JailBaitWait: Shane and Claire.
** In spite of Claire's many, many efforts.
* {{La Resistance}}: a group of people lead by Captain Obvious. [[spoiler: That is until Bishop takes over Morganville and Amelie is forced underground with her followers.]]
* {{Mad Oracle}}: Miranda.
* MadScientist: Myrnin
* {{Magitek}}: Claire valiantly tries to explain away the most blatant examples of magic, such as the teleporting doorways, amnesia field around the town, etc (all held together by [[spoiler: a steampunk vampire computer]]). Good luck with Bishop's [[MindControl evil tattoo]], though.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: One of the more blatant symptoms of [[spoiler: vampire Alzheimer's.]] Poor Myrnin.
* {{Near Villain Victory}}: [[spoiler: Lord of Misrule and Carpe Corpus take place during Bishop's rule over Morganville.]]
* OhCrap: Claire when she realizes [[spoiler: she went down the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast trap-door spider's]] alley]].
** Many a [[SerialEscalation volume]] ends this [[CliffHanger way]]
* {{Perky Goth}}: Eve Rosser.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Amelie shifts between this and BadBoss. Surprisingly [[spoiler:Oliver]] as well, but only ''very'' occasionally.
* {{Steampunk}}: How Claire describes [[spoiler: the vampire computer holding Morganville together]].
* SnarkKnight: [[WorldOfSnark Standard]] character technique of trying to stay sane. [[CrapsackWorld Good luck with that.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Claire. Oh, my God, Claire.
** TookALevelInJerkass: Part of toughening up, apparently, although she at least tries to keep it in check.
* {{Town With A Dark Secret}}: Well, duh.
* TrueCompanions: The residents of Glass House.
* UndyingLoyalty: The Glass House residents, with their "weird mini fraternity." [[spoiler: Even ''before'' Michael becomes fully undead]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Amelie wants to create a space where her people will be safe, even if the humans aren't quite happy, [[spoiler: and to cure the disease threatening to wipe out the former]]. If this fails, however, she makes it quite clear that nobody will survive. [[KillEmAll Human or vampire]].
* WorldOfSnark: And how!
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: One of the saddest versions ''ever.'' After [[spoiler: Claire]] [[DeathIsCheap "dies,"]], Shane starts claiming [[TalkingToTheDead he can hear her.]] This naturally freaks the hell out of Michael and Eve. Eve, whose usual names for Shane are [[InsultOfEndearment (affectionate)]] "jackass" or "asshole," suddenly begins calling him "sweetie" and "honey." Paraphrased:
-->Shane: No! No! You don't call me that. You call me jackass, or asshole, or jerk, or--not sweetie! Not--not honey! Stop!
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!!Tropes in this work:
* {{Abusive Parents}} Shane and Eve's dads.
** Eve's ''mom.'' ("Just because you never loved your father...")
* {{Action Survivor}}: Claire and Eve. Hell. Probably everyone.
* AndIMustScream: Michael in Book 1. Nearly made a vampire (something he ''despises'', by the way), came back as a ghost that dies again every single morning, stuck that way until sunset and his return to a proper body, and stuck in the house for ever, because the house is what kept him "alive" in the first place. This status does not change, no matter how much his [[TrueCompanions housemates]] need his help. What becomes the only way out of this? [[spoiler: Voluntarily become a vampire.]]
* {{Attempted Rape}}: Claire in The Dead Girl's Dance.
** Which [[CallBack becomes a momentary nightmare moment]] for her in Feast of Fools, when she helps stop a similar incident.
* {{Badass}}: Quite a few.
* BadassBookworm: Claire moves from being a small school-obsessed girl who got up extra-early to avoid a bully, to [[TookALevelInBadass dealing with vampires trying to kill her on a regular basis]]. Still school obsessed. Also, Myrnin.
* BadassInCharge: Amelie and Bishop. Oliver as well, and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority all for good reason]].
* {{Badass Normal}}: When you've lived in this town for long enough, it's bound to happen. Though notable ones are Shane.
* {{Badass Biker}}: Shane's dad and his biker gang.
* [[spoiler:{{Bitch In Sheeps Clothing}}: You know Oliver, the really cool old guy? He's a vampire. A complete {{Jerkass}} one at that.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Bishop in Lord of Misrule]] specifically, but it's [[OhCrap rare]] to find a volume that ends on a truly peaceful note.
* {{Black And Gray Morality}}
* {{Boarding School of Horrors}}: TPU.
* {{Broken Bird}}: Eve.
* {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}: Myrnin.
* CarFu: Eve, an intentional case of DrivesLikeCrazy.
* {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}: Myrnin. Dear god. Apparently showing up at your door and borrowing a Crock-Pot isn't crazy behavior for him.
* CliffHanger: The end of most books, usually in less than pleasant ways (spoiler: in order; Shane's dad kills Michael, Claire sells her soul to Amelie, Amelie's father comes to town, Morganville civil war, Bishop ''wins'', [[LaserGuidedKarma the heroes beat Bishop]].
* CoolOldGuy: Oliver, the hippie dude running the cool coffee shop he maintains as Neutral Territory--between humans and vampires, despite his own human status. [[spoiler: His status as [[BitchInSheepsClothing otherwise]] is perhaps the nastiest shock of Glass Houses.]]
** Myrnin, in spite of his apparent age. When he's not acting under [[spoiler: [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody vampire Alzheimer's]]]], anyway.
* CrapsackWorld: Yes, this town somehow makes it, between humans literally referred to as the slave race, vampire turf wars, [[WellIntentionedExtremist various]] [[MagnificentBastard characters]]' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo concepts]] of acceptable losses, and the resulting mayhem that is every single volume.
* {{Estrogen Brigade Bait}}: Michael and Shane in-universe.
* EvilIsSexy: Monica Morrell is an in-universe example
* EasilyForgiven: Well, ''forgiven'' may be a strong word, but Shane has a weird way of dealing with those who've hurt him. He hates Monica, but more in the way you'd dislike a colossal jerk (which she is) than the way you'd dislike [[spoiler:the responsible for the death of your sister]], which she also is. He often chafes under Amelie's authoritarian and vampire-slanted rule, but he doesn't seem to hold a grudge against her for [[spoiler:having his mother assassinated]]. And finally, while he's slow to forgive [[spoiler:Jason]] for nearly getting Claire killed, he quickly shrugs off the fact that he also [[spoiler:stabbed Shane in the stomach and landed him in the hospital.]]
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Lord of Misrule has this feel to it. [[TheBadGuyWins And then Bishop wins.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For a varying value of "evil" in the cases of [[MadScientist Myrnin]], [[IceQueen Amelie]], and even [[PetTheDog Oliver]] and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Frank]]. As the former points out, at least the Morganville residents are trying. The BigBad he's comparing them to... [[LackOfEmpathy Not so much]].
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Michael
** TheLancer and TheBigGuy: Shane
** TheSmartGuy: Claire
** TheChick: Eve
* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: TPU's fraternity, Epsilon Epsilon Kappa. Also known as EEK.
* {{Go Mad From The Revelation}}: Miranda. Every. Time.
** In ''Ghost Town'' [[spoiler: a lot of people get [[ItMakesSenseInContext magical amnesia]] and forget [[TearJerker the deaths of their loved ones]] or the fact that they're vampires]]. It doesn't end well.
* {{Handsome Lech}}: Shane.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Frank]] ind ''Ghost Town''.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell]]
* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItTheseDays: Midnight snacks in ''Ghost Town''.
* JailBaitWait: Shane and Claire.
** In spite of Claire's many, many efforts.
* {{La Resistance}}: a group of people lead by Captain Obvious. [[spoiler: That is until Bishop takes over Morganville and Amelie is forced underground with her followers.]]
* {{Mad Oracle}}: Miranda.
* MadScientist: Myrnin
* {{Magitek}}: Claire valiantly tries to explain away the most blatant examples of magic, such as the teleporting doorways, amnesia field around the town, etc (all held together by [[spoiler: a steampunk vampire computer]]). Good luck with Bishop's [[MindControl evil tattoo]], though.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: One of the more blatant symptoms of [[spoiler: vampire Alzheimer's.]] Poor Myrnin.
* {{Near Villain Victory}}: [[spoiler: Lord of Misrule and Carpe Corpus take place during Bishop's rule over Morganville.]]
* OhCrap: Claire when she realizes [[spoiler: she went down the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast trap-door spider's]] alley]].
** Many a [[SerialEscalation volume]] ends this [[CliffHanger way]]
* {{Perky Goth}}: Eve Rosser.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Amelie shifts between this and BadBoss. Surprisingly [[spoiler:Oliver]] as well, but only ''very'' occasionally.
* {{Steampunk}}: How Claire describes [[spoiler: the vampire computer holding Morganville together]].
* SnarkKnight: [[WorldOfSnark Standard]] character technique of trying to stay sane. [[CrapsackWorld Good luck with that.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Claire. Oh, my God, Claire.
** TookALevelInJerkass: Part of toughening up, apparently, although she at least tries to keep it in check.
* {{Town With A Dark Secret}}: Well, duh.
* TrueCompanions: The residents of Glass House.
* UndyingLoyalty: The Glass House residents, with their "weird mini fraternity." [[spoiler: Even ''before'' Michael becomes fully undead]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Amelie wants to create a space where her people will be safe, even if the humans aren't quite happy, [[spoiler: and to cure the disease threatening to wipe out the former]]. If this fails, however, she makes it quite clear that nobody will survive. [[KillEmAll Human or vampire]].
* WorldOfSnark: And how!
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: One of the saddest versions ''ever.'' After [[spoiler: Claire]] [[DeathIsCheap "dies,"]], Shane starts claiming [[TalkingToTheDead he can hear her.]] This naturally freaks the hell out of Michael and Eve. Eve, whose usual names for Shane are [[InsultOfEndearment (affectionate)]] "jackass" or "asshole," suddenly begins calling him "sweetie" and "honey." Paraphrased:
-->Shane: No! No! You don't call me that. You call me jackass, or asshole, or jerk, or--not sweetie! Not--not honey! Stop!
