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* SpaceIsIntrospective: [[spoiler:As Erin lies dying of blood loss after the Angel slashes her neck, she has a DyingDream where she thinks back to the conversation she held with Riley about what happens after death. She gives an existentialist monologue about what she thinks will happen to her, dreaming of the stars as she describes how the matter that makes up her will eventually go on to form new stars and planets.]]
-->'''Erin:''' You, me and my little girl, and my mother and my father, everyone's who's ever been, every plant, every animal, every atom, every star, every galaxy, all of it. More galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on the beach. And that's what we're talking about when we say "God." The One. The cosmos and its infinite dreams. We are the cosmos dreaming of itself. It's simply a dream that I think is my life, every time.
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* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: [[spoiler: Anyone who dies after consuming the blood of the Angel is resurrected with eye that reflect light much like the cats we see in the first episode. The Angel also has these, although it remains unknown if it is in a state of undeath itself]].

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* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: [[spoiler: Anyone who dies after consuming the blood of the Angel is resurrected with eye eyes that reflect light much like the cats we see in the first episode. The Angel also has these, although it remains unknown if it is in a state of undeath itself]].
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** [[spoiler: The sun rises and kills the vampires]] as they are singing, "Nearer my God to--".

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** [[spoiler: The sun rises and kills the vampires]] as they are singing, "Nearer my God to--".to thee, nearer to --."
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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:Vampires have a primal urge to consume blood, and although it's possible (but difficult) to resist attacking others in order to get it, the sight and smell of fresh blood seems to override any rational thought. It's especially difficult if the Vampire is just feeling it for the first time and is not expecting or prepared for it. Riley is so horrified by his own hunger that he commits suicide, fearing that he legitimately will not be able to control himself when this is combined with his pre-existing alcoholism. Later, Annie [[HeroicSuicide uses to stall for time]] in the final episode]].

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* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:Vampires have a primal urge to consume blood, and although it's possible (but difficult) to resist attacking others in order to get it, the sight and smell of fresh blood seems to override any rational thought. It's especially difficult if the Vampire is just feeling it for the first time and is not expecting or prepared for it. Riley is so horrified by his own hunger that he commits suicide, fearing that he legitimately will not be able to control himself when this is combined with his pre-existing alcoholism. Later, Annie [[HeroicSuicide uses it to stall for time]] in the final episode]].

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* IncitingIncident: The entire Crockett Island tragedy happened because an elderly man with dementia wandered off from his tour group.


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* IncitingIncident: The entire Crockett Island tragedy happened because an elderly man with dementia wandered off from his tour group.
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* ForWantOfANail: The entire Crockett Island tragedy happened because an elderly man with dementia wandered off from his tour group.

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* ForWantOfANail: IncitingIncident: The entire Crockett Island tragedy happened because an elderly man with dementia wandered off from his tour group.
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* DecoyAntagonist: Before any of the vampire stuff starts, Riley repeatedly sees an apparition of the young girl that he killed while driving drunk. It eventually becomes obvious that she's just a manifestation of his guilt, and not related to the main plot.
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** [[spoiler:If a human drinks the Angel's blood, they ''don't'' become a vampire right away, but their body begins to change on a molecular level, with injuries healing and youth restored. The more they drink of it, the more vulnerable they become to sunlight, which attacks and burns out the foreign cells in the body. Crucially, the human needs to physically die (either by some outward cause such as a broken neck or poison, or simply from drinking too much of the "Angel's" blood -- WordOfGod is that the latter is what killed Father Paul in "Proverbs") in order to fully become a vampire themselves, after which they develop the standard bloodlust and eyes that reflect light, like a cat]].

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** [[spoiler:If a human drinks the Angel's blood, they ''don't'' become a vampire right away, but their body begins to change on a molecular level, with injuries healing and youth restored. The more they drink of it, the more vulnerable they become to sunlight, which attacks and burns out the foreign cells in the body. Crucially, the human needs to physically die (either by some outward cause such as a broken neck or poison, or simply from drinking too much enough of the "Angel's" blood to trigger the next stage of the transformation -- WordOfGod is that [[https://www.tumblr.com/flanaganfilm/735669040881795072/hi-mike-so-i-recently-finished-the-fall-of-the the latter is what killed Father Paul in "Proverbs") "Proverbs"]]) in order to fully become a vampire themselves, after which they develop the standard bloodlust and eyes that reflect light, like a cat]].
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Verges on complaining. Misaimed Fandom on the YMMV covers it better but saying the series is a purely anti-religious satire is an oversimplification.


* {{Satire}}: The show ultimately depicts being religious as folly, though in a relatively respectful manner. The first two episodes clearly establish that the writers respect those with religious beliefs by accurately portraying Catholicism, but after that the show gets more and more offensive to religious people. By the end of the the first season, it's clear this is a satire that favors atheism over religious beliefs.
** The DecoyProtagonist is an atheist who tries to stop [[spoiler:the Catholic vampires]], and the first victim of the show, a dog, is killed [[spoiler:by the most well-read Catholic character.]]
** There are some "classic" anti-Catholic tropes present throughout the season, such as [[spoiler:only one Catholic knowing much about Scripture, Catholics drinking literal blood as opposed to blood in the form of wine, the Church embezzling people's money, the monsignor regretting becoming a priest and fraternizing with a member of his flock, the faithful being timid and subservient to the one person who quotes Scripture the most, and Catholics being generally closed-minded concerning other religions.]]
** While there are two characters who are Muslim, [[spoiler:one of them converts to Catholicism]] and by the end of the show [[spoiler:they both die while praying.]] Moreover, [[spoiler:the Catholic vampires all die while singing a hymn, which is a form of prayer.]]
** In the season finale, one of the supposedly devout Catholics, who has attended Mass every day, suddenly goes through a "death-bed conversion" [[spoiler:to atheism, insisting that she will become one with the universe after decomposing and even going so far as to use the phrase "I am that I am," making herself equivalent to God,]] which is the last thing one would expect a devout Christian to say.

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