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** While staying at the farm, Vanessa and Susan share a bed and a BigDamnKiss. However, the very next episode has Vanessa hooking up with a male character, and both Vanessa and Susan previously had relationships with men.

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** While staying at the farm, Vanessa and Susan share a bed and a BigDamnKiss.TheBigDamnKiss. However, the very next episode has Vanessa hooking up with a male character, and both Vanessa and Susan previously had relationships with men.
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Sam, a deaf person, is revealled to be the SerialKiller.]]
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* TakeThat: Old vampire movies. Mohamad called garlic and crosses "Hollywood bullshit".
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* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: In "Help Out", Vanessa and Susan share a bed and a prolonged kiss... and then the next episode has Vanessa hooking up with a male character. [[spoiler:And then the episode after that sees Susan getting killed off.]]
* TheBaroness: Rebecca, Dmitri's second in command.


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* NakedFreakOut: Vanessa has a minor one when Axel walks on her showering. He tells her not to worry since he's seen everything she's got over the years and joins her in the shower in order to save water. The uncomfortable Vanessa then quickly exits the showers covering herself.


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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Axel blames Vanessa for Scarlet's death in the Season 3 finale, and swears to kill her if they meet again.]]

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* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: In "Help Out", Vanessa and Susan share a bed and a prolonged kiss... and then the next episode has Vanessa hooking up with a male character. [[spoiler:And then the episode after that sees Susan getting killed off.]]
* TheBaroness: Rebecca.



* NakedFreakOut: Vanessa has a minor one when Axel walks on her showering. He tells her not to worry since he's seen everything she's got over the years and joins her in the shower in order to save water. The uncomfortable Vanessa then quickly exits the showers covering herself.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Axel blames Vanessa for Scarlet's death, and swears to kill her if they meet again.]]
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* LooksLikeOrlock: The First Elder, and some of the more feral vampires.

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* LooksLikeOrlock: LooksLikeOrlok: The First Elder, and some of the more feral vampires.

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** The episode "Super Unknown" features an abandoned mental hospital now being used as a vampire nest.

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** The episode "Super Unknown" features Renfield House, an abandoned mental hospital now being used as a vampire nest.nest. [[spoiler: The Season 3 finale reveals that it's built above the labyrinth where the Dark One was sealed away.]]



** [[spoiler: Lily Van Helsing, Vanessa's turn of the century ancestor, is revived in the Season 3 finale after some of Vanessa's blood is spilled on her corpse during Vanessa's fight with Sam.]]



** Season 3 changes things up, since by that point [[spoiler: Dmitri, Rebecca, and Harrison are dead and Julius is [[HeelFaceTurn rendered human]]]]. Dmitri's former lieutenants Scab and Ivory emerge as a new major threat, especially after they [[spoiler: take over the Daywalker horde]]. Meanwhile, while [[spoiler: Sam]] is still running, he soon becomes a pawn of the Oracle, who is manipulating him and Vanessa in order to bring about [[spoiler: the creation of a new Elder]].



* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every season ends on one:
** Season 1: In the middle of the resistance's attack on Dmitri's citadel, [[spoiler: Vanessa discovers her daughter has become a vampire]].
** Season 2: [[spoiler: The Elder bites a seemingly-dead Vanessa, reviving her with red eyes.]]
** Season 3: While the human forces in Denver face off with the Daywalkers, [[spoiler: Vanessa and a resurrected Lily Van Helsing have showdown with the newly-made Elder Sam]].



** [[spoiler: Sam loves Mohammed, in his own twisted way. Which is why he's required to kill him in order to extinguish the light in him and become an Elder.]]



* FishOutOfTemporalWater: During her MentalTimeTravel trip to turn of the century China, Vanessa consistently fails to blend in.



* HornedHumanoid: [[spoiler: Sam, after becoming the Fourth Elder.]]



* JokerImmunity: [[spoiler: Sam]] simply will not die, surviving things that it's stated even a vampire shouldn't be able to. Possibly justified by TheReveal in the Season 3 finale that [[spoiler: he's a potential Elder]].



* MegaCorp: Blak-Tech, the company behind Harrison's experiments and the Denver safe zone.



* MysteriousWatcher: Season 3 reveals that a mysterious woman in a black shroud has been viewing Vanessa and [[spoiler: Sam]] from a distance for their whole lives. She turns out to the vampiric Oracle, who states that she's keeping an eye on people with "potential".

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* MysteriousWatcher: Season 3 reveals that a mysterious woman in a black shroud has been viewing Vanessa and [[spoiler: Sam]] from a distance for their whole lives. She turns out to the vampiric Oracle, who states that she's keeping an eye on people with "potential"."potential", meaning those who [[spoiler: are capable of becoming the Fourth Elder]].


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* TheParalyzer: The Oracle is capable of telekinetically freezing people in place.


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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Axel blames Vanessa for Scarlet's death, and swears to kill her if they meet again.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the season 3 finale, Scarlett offers up her life in order to allow Vanessa to become the Fourth Elder so that Sam won't become it.]]



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Vanessa goes on a week-long one of these (mostly off-screen) after [[spoiler: her daughter, once turned back 'human', burns to death in the first rays of the sun that break through the clouds.]]

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Vanessa goes on a week-long one of these (mostly off-screen) after [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her daughter, once turned back 'human', "human", burns to death in the first rays of the sun that break through the clouds.]]



* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the season 3, finale, Scarlett gives her life to try and fuel Vanessa's light so that she can become the Fourth Elder and thus prevent Sam from taking the role. It doesn't work; the Oracle tells Vanessa that she already gave up any hope of becoming the light when she killed Dylan, and thus Sam becomes the Fourth Elder anyway.]]



* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler: The First Elder turns out to have been bound to obey the Van Helsings in exchange for its life.]]
* SuperWindowJump: In "Save Yourself", [[spoiler: Sam]] throws himself out a window to escape when he realizes he's losing his fight with Vanessa.

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* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The First Elder turns out to have been bound to obey the Van Helsings in exchange for its life.]]
* SuperWindowJump: In "Save Yourself", [[spoiler: Sam]] [[spoiler:Sam]] throws himself out a window to escape when he realizes he's losing his fight with Vanessa.

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** At the beginning of the second season, Doc has a flirting scene with another woman. Unfortunately, she has to leave that community soon after. However, they're reunited at the end of the season, and by midway into Season 3 have a RelationshipUpgrade.

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** At the beginning of the second season, Doc has a flirting scene with another woman.woman, Jolene. Unfortunately, she has to leave that community soon after. However, they're reunited at the end of the season, and by midway into Season 3 have a RelationshipUpgrade.



* BoxedCrook: In season 3, Doc is blackmailed into working for the government of Denver under threat of Jolene being killed.



** Near the end of season 2, one of Harrison's experimented on vampires (nicknamed Scarhead) is revealed to have been rendered this as well. And he spreads it to anyone else he turns [[spoiler: ultimately including Ivory and Scab]].
* DeathSeeker: Flesh becomes this in Season 3 after [[spoiler: Lucky's death]], but is hindered by the fact that by this point he's gained a HealingFactor of his own and ''can't'' die.

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** Near the end of season 2, one of Harrison's experimented on vampires (nicknamed Scarhead) is revealed to have been rendered this as well. And he spreads it to anyone else he turns [[spoiler: ultimately [[spoiler:ultimately including Ivory and Scab]].
* DeathSeeker: Flesh becomes this in Season 3 after [[spoiler: Lucky's [[spoiler:Lucky's death]], but is hindered by the fact that by this point he's gained a HealingFactor of his own and ''can't'' die.



** The First Elder refers to Dimitri as his favorite servant [[spoiler: and is clearly upset when Scarlett makes him kill him]].

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** The First Elder refers to Dimitri as his favorite servant [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and is clearly upset when Scarlett makes him kill him]].



* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Julius]] becomes a remarkably loyal and kind follower once Vanessa bites him in the second season.

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Julius]] [[spoiler:Julius]] becomes a remarkably loyal and kind follower once Vanessa bites him in the second season.



** The vampires can recover quickly from all but the most fatal wounds. [[spoiler: The ones experimented on by Harrison can regenerate even from those.]]

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** The vampires can recover quickly from all but the most fatal wounds. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The ones experimented on by Harrison can regenerate even from those.]]



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The more time goes by, the more Vanessa starts acting more like a vampire herself, especially by Season 3 due to [[spoiler: the First Elder reviving her with a bite]].

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The more time goes by, the more Vanessa starts acting more like a vampire herself, especially by Season 3 due to [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the First Elder reviving her with a bite]].bite]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the season 3 finale, Scarlett offers up her life in order to allow Vanessa to become the Fourth Elder so that Sam won't become it.]]



* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: Sam when he becomes a Vampire]].

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* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: Sam [[spoiler:Sam when he becomes a Vampire]].



* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: Ivory takes over the Daywalker horde by killing Scarhead.]]

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* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: Ivory [[spoiler:Ivory takes over the Daywalker horde by killing Scarhead.]]



* LoveIsAWeakness: After falling under the Oracle's sway in Season 3, [[spoiler: Sam]] starts expressing this belief, seeing love as merely something that causes pain and holds people back.

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* LoveIsAWeakness: After falling under the Oracle's sway in Season 3, [[spoiler: Sam]] [[spoiler:Sam]] starts expressing this belief, seeing love as merely something that causes pain and holds people back.



** [[spoiler: Mohamed smothers Sheema after she's crushed by debris.]]

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** [[spoiler: Mohamed [[spoiler:Mohamed smothers Sheema after she's crushed by debris.]]



* MisplacedRetribution: Julius blames Dimitri for [[spoiler: his mother's murder]], when the actual culprit was [[spoiler: Sam]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Mohamed has been working for the vampires all along in exchange for his sister's safety. He seems to regret it, but she is actively helping them.]]

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* MisplacedRetribution: Julius blames Dimitri for [[spoiler: his [[spoiler:his mother's murder]], when the actual culprit was [[spoiler: Sam]].
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Mohamed [[spoiler:Mohamed has been working for the vampires all along in exchange for his sister's safety. He seems to regret it, but she is actively helping them.]]
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* CompanionCube: While stuck alone on an island for most of a month, Scarlet carves a face into a stump and dresses it up to look like a person, just so she has someone to talk to. For [[ShoutOut bonus points]], she calls it "[[Film/CastAway Wilson]]".
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''Van Helsing'' is an American-Canadian television series created by Neil [=LaBute=] and starring Creator/KellyOverton. The show is inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment graphic novel series, ''Helsing''. It first premiered on September 23, 2016 and can be seen on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the U.S and Creator/{{Netflix}} in Canada and the United States.

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''Van Helsing'' is an American-Canadian television series created by Neil [=LaBute=] and starring Creator/KellyOverton. The show is inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment graphic novel series, ''Helsing''.''Helsing'', itself loosely based on the character of Abraham Van Helsing from Creator/BramStoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. It first premiered on September 23, 2016 and can be seen on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the U.S and Creator/{{Netflix}} in Canada and the United States.
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* FreudianExcuse: Axel's protective nature comes from his younger sister going missing under his watch when they were children.


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* LoveIsAWeakness: After falling under the Oracle's sway in Season 3, [[spoiler: Sam]] starts expressing this belief, seeing love as merely something that causes pain and holds people back.
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* MysteriousWatcher: Season 3 reveals that a mysterious woman in a black shroud has been viewing Vanessa and [[spoiler: Sam]] from a distance for their whole lives. She turns out to the vampiric Oracle, who states that she's keeping an eye on people with "potential".


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* PsychologicalTormentZone: A non-paranormal example ([[AmbiguousSituation probably]]) in "Outside World". Vanessa, stuck impaled on a hook and chain, spends the whole episode being visited by visions of loved ones and enemies playing GoodAngelBadAngel, either reminding her of the good she's done, or mocking her that the horrible things she's also done have left her no better than the vampires.
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* DeathSeeker: Flesh becomes this in Season 3 after [[spoiler: Lucky's death]], but is hindered by the fact that by this point he's gained a HealingFactor of his own and ''can't'' die.


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* PoliceState: The Denver safe zone is run like this in order to support the fragile safety of the area.


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* SafeZoneHopeSpot: Denver is long spoken of as being a safe place free of the vampires. But it's unprepared for Daywalkers, who march right in and start slaughtering everyone.
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''Van Helsing'' is an American-Canadian television series created by Neil [=LaBute=] and starring Kelly Overton. The show is inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment graphic novel series, ''Helsing''. It first premiered on September 23, 2016 and can be seen on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the U.S and Creator/{{Netflix}} in Canada and the United States.

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''Van Helsing'' is an American-Canadian television series created by Neil [=LaBute=] and starring Kelly Overton.Creator/KellyOverton. The show is inspired by the Zenescope Entertainment graphic novel series, ''Helsing''. It first premiered on September 23, 2016 and can be seen on Creator/{{Syfy}} in the U.S and Creator/{{Netflix}} in Canada and the United States.
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* ActionMom: Deconstructed with what we see of Vanessa in the second episode flashback. While she is a loving mother to Dylan, having "kick ass for great justice" be your first instinct is clearly ''not'' helping provide a stable environment for raising a child.

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** At the beginning of the second season, Doc has a flirting scene with another woman. Unfortunately, she has to leave that community soon after.

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** At the beginning of the second season, Doc has a flirting scene with another woman. Unfortunately, she has to leave that community soon after. However, they're reunited at the end of the season, and by midway into Season 3 have a RelationshipUpgrade.



* AndShowItToYou: Ivory and Scab do this when they kill Scarhead and his lieutenant.

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* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler: Ivory and Scab do this when they kill Scarhead and his lieutenant.]]



** Vanessa herself was technically dead for the three years between the Rising and the start of the series, being revived after being bitten. [[spoiler:Happens to her again in the last scene of Season 2 (having been shot several episodes earlier) when she's revived by the Elder's bite.]]

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** Vanessa herself was technically dead for the three years between the Rising and the start of the series, being revived after being bitten. [[spoiler:Happens to her again in the last scene of Season 2 (having been shot several episodes earlier) when she's revived by the First Elder's bite.]]



** Near the end of season 2, one of Harrison's experimented on vampires (nicknamed Scarhead) is revealed to have been rendered this as well. And he spreads it to anyone else he turns.

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** Near the end of season 2, one of Harrison's experimented on vampires (nicknamed Scarhead) is revealed to have been rendered this as well. And he spreads it to anyone else he turns.turns [[spoiler: ultimately including Ivory and Scab]].



** The Elder refers to Dimitri as his favorite servant [[spoiler: and is clearly upset when Scarlett makes him kill him]].

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** The First Elder refers to Dimitri as his favorite servant [[spoiler: and is clearly upset when Scarlett makes him kill him]].



* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Sam is revealed to be the SerialKiller]]

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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Sam is revealed to be the SerialKiller]]SerialKiller.]]
* EvilUncle: The Third Elder turns out to be a distant, indirect Van Helsing ancestor.



* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Elder shapeshifts into Susan so that Vanessa is more comfortable talking to him.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The First Elder shapeshifts into Susan so that Vanessa is more comfortable talking to him.



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The more time goes by, the more Vanessa starts acting more like a vampire herself, especially by Season 3 due to [[spoiler: the First Elder reviving her with a bite]].



** Anyone who Vanessa [[spoiler:or Scarlett]] cures also becomes immune from ever being turned back.

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** Anyone who Vanessa [[spoiler:or Scarlett]] cures also becomes immune from ever being turned back. The exception to this is the Elders, who aren't affected.



* KlingonPromotion: Ivory takes over the Daywalker horde by killing Scarhead.

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* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: Ivory takes over the Daywalker horde by killing Scarhead.]]



* LooksLikeOrlock: The Elder, and some of the more feral vampires.

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* LooksLikeOrlock: The First Elder, and some of the more feral vampires.



* MentalTimeTravel: In "I Awake", the Elder sends Vanessa's mind back to relive some memories of her ancestor Lily. Though it's unclear if it's illusion of if she's actually been sent back in time.

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* MentalTimeTravel: In "I Awake", the First Elder sends Vanessa's mind back to relive some memories of her ancestor Lily. Though it's unclear if it's illusion of if she's actually been sent back in time.



* MonsterLord: The Ancients, like Dimitri, are leaders among the vampires. Beyond even them is the Elders, who are the actual rulers of the vampire race.

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* MonsterLord: The Ancients, like Dimitri, are leaders among the vampires. Beyond even them is are the Elders, who are the actual rulers of the vampire race.



** Long ago, the Van Helsings locked an Elder away in a crypt hidden within a mountain.

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** Long ago, the Van Helsings locked an the First Elder away in a crypt hidden within a mountain.



* SecretLegacy: Dimitri reveals to Vanessa that she comes from a lineage of vampire hunters that he's encountered before.

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** The Third Elder, Jacob Van Helsing, was locked inside a cage in a sealed building hidden on a remote island.
* SecretLegacy: Dimitri reveals to Vanessa in the Season 1 finale that she comes from a lineage of vampire hunters that he's encountered before.before. This is expanded on as the series progresses.



** In "Big Mama", Axel and Scarlet get one after the local redneck survivors take the group in.



* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler: The Elder turns out to have been bound to obey the Van Helsings in exchange for its life.]]

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* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler: The First Elder turns out to have been bound to obey the Van Helsings in exchange for its life.]]

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* AbandonedHospital: The first portion of the first season is set in the hospital Vanessa's comatose "dead" body was taken to just prior to the Rising, which Axel's squad fortified over the following months. The group is eventually forced to abandon it when Dimitri's EliteMooks come for Vanessa and overrun the defenses [[spoiler: and Axel [[TrashTheSet blows it up to kill them all]]]].

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* AbandonedHospital: AbandonedHospital:
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The first portion of the first season is set in the hospital Vanessa's comatose "dead" body was taken to just prior to the Rising, which Axel's squad fortified over the following months. The group is eventually forced to abandon it when Dimitri's EliteMooks come for Vanessa and overrun the defenses [[spoiler: and Axel [[TrashTheSet blows it up to kill them all]]]].all]]]].
** The episode "Super Unknown" features an abandoned mental hospital now being used as a vampire nest.



* AndShowItToYou: Ivory and Scab do this when they kill Scarhead and his lieutenant.



* GroinAttack: The Sisterhood ''does'' let male vampires join, but only if they allow themselves to be castrated.



* TheImmune: Vanessa is not only immune to vampire bites, but her blood can actually turn them back human. [[spoiler:Scarlett later turns out to be the same.]]

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* Afraid of Needles: Julius had his fill of shots when he was young, since he was a sick child.

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* Afraid of Needles: AfraidOfNeedles: Julius had his fill of shots when he was young, since he was a sick child.



* TheImmune: Vanessa is not only immune to vampire bites, but her blood can actually turn them back human.

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* TheImmune: Vanessa is not only immune to vampire bites, but her blood can actually turn them back human. [[spoiler:Scarlett later turns out to be the same.]]
** Anyone who Vanessa [[spoiler:or Scarlett]] cures also becomes immune from ever being turned back.
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* RelocatingTheExplosive: In "Veritas Vinci" Doc steps on a booby trap that pulls the pins out of a bundle of grenades. Julius throws them away in time but the shrapnel still catches his leg.

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* RelocatingTheExplosive: RelocatingTheExplosion: In "Veritas Vinci" Doc steps on a booby trap that pulls the pins out of a bundle of grenades. Julius throws them away in time but the shrapnel still catches his leg.

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* Afraid of Needles: Julius had his fill of shots when he was young, since he was a sick child.



* BringMyBrownPants: In "Wakey, Wakey", a teenage Scarlett pulled a knife on a boy who wouldn't keep his hands to himself, causing him to wet himself.



* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Sam is revealed to be the SerialKiller]]



* TheImmune: Vanessa is not only immune to vampire bites, but her blood can actually turn them back human.



* ImprovisedArmour: In "Wakey, Wakey", after initially dismissing a lot of money he finds as [[WorthlessYellowRocks useless]], Axel uses duct tape to cover his arms and vitals with the wads of cash. It works well enough to stop knives.
* {{Lobotomy}}: In "Big Mama", a group of redneck survivors have resorted to catching and eating vampires. They take a chained up vampire and use a power drill on her head until she stops screaming and thrashing. Then they throw her into a oven and she starts screaming and thrashing again, until a horrified Julius gives her a MercyKill.



* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Mohamed smothers Sheema after she's crushed by debris.]]

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** In "Big Mama", Axel, Scarlet, Doc, and Julius become guests of a group of survivors and find out they are catching and eating ''vampires''. The survivors take a tied up vampire and give her a {{Lobotomy}} with a power drill and then throw her in an oven while still alive. Julius is so horrified that he opens the oven and slits the vampire's throat.


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* NakedFreakOut: Vanessa has a minor one when Axel walks on her showering. He tells her not to worry since he's seen everything she's got over the years and joins her in the shower in order to save water. The uncomfortable Vanessa then quickly exits the showers covering herself.


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* RelocatingTheExplosive: In "Veritas Vinci" Doc steps on a booby trap that pulls the pins out of a bundle of grenades. Julius throws them away in time but the shrapnel still catches his leg.


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* ShowerScene: In "Help Me", Vanessa takes a shower to wash off the blood. It turns into a ShowerOfAwkward when Axel joins her, saying they have to take double showers to conserve water.


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* ThrowingTheFight: In a flashback, Julius was a boxer who reluctantly took a dive for some gangsters who bet on his opponent, all to raise money for his ailing mother. Unfortunately, when he demanded his payment, the gangsters stabbed him in the stomach and left him to die instead. The vampire Dimitri, who found the endurance he displayed in the match impressive, then showed up and saved him by turning him into a vampire.


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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Vanessa during her ShowerScene in "Help Me."


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* WorthlessYellowRocks: In "Wakey, Wakey", Axel and Scarlett come across a bank's armored car full of money. Axel comments, "Remember when this shit used to mean something?" He later uses duct tape to turn the money into makeshift armor, as the wads of cash prove thick enough to block blades.
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** Season 3 has the ninja vampires who serve the B'ah. They actually give Vanessa and Scarlet a run for their money.


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* TheRemnant: Portions of the US government and society still exist in safe zones at high enough altitudes to be above the sun-blocking ash clouds. Denver is the most prominently mentioned, finally showing up in Season 3.

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* ManBitesMan: Vanessa adopts this tactic against vampires, as her transformation ability works when she's bitten or when she bites them. It can either turn them human or kill them, but either way they're out of the fight.

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* ManBitesMan: Vanessa adopts this tactic against vampires, as her transformation ability works when she's bitten or when she bites them. It can either turn them human or kill them, but either way they're out of the fight. Also, feeding on human blood gives her an energy boost.
* MentalTimeTravel: In "I Awake", the Elder sends Vanessa's mind back to relive some memories of her ancestor Lily. Though it's unclear if it's illusion of if she's actually been sent back in time.



** "I Alive" presents vampires called "shadow walkers", which can move faster than the human eye can follow and can blend into shadows.



-->'''Mohamed''': You know the kind of shit that happens here after dark.

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-->'''Mohamed''': You don't know the kind of shit that happens here after dark.

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** "Super Unknown" introduces a type of vampire with psychic abilities, which feeds on life force instead of blood.



* TrashTheSet: Dimitri's citadel is completely demolished by the Resistance's attack on it.

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* TrashTheSet: Dimitri's citadel is completely partially demolished by the Resistance's attack on it.
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** "Veritas Vincit": [[spoilers: Vanessa runs into Scarlett and they discover they're sisters who were "grown" in a lab.]]

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** "Veritas Vincit": [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Vanessa runs into Scarlett and they discover they're sisters who were "grown" in a lab.]]
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* BackFromTheDead:
** Vanessa herself was technically dead for the three years between the Rising and the start of the series, being revived after being bitten. [[spoiler:Happens to her again in the last scene of Season 2 (having been shot several episodes earlier) when she's revived by the Elder's bite.]]
** [[spoiler: Flesh is blown up alongside Lucky in the penultimate episode of Season 2, only to be resurrected in the Season 3 premiere thanks to the HealingFactor gained from Scarhead's bite.]]



* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Dylan]]

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* DaywalkingVampire:
** [[spoiler:Dylan]], thanks to Dr. Shlomenko's experiments. [[spoiler: Which inversely makes her a sunlight-vulnerable human upon being turned back.]]
** Near the end of season 2, one of Harrison's experimented on vampires (nicknamed Scarhead) is revealed to have been rendered this as well. And he spreads it to anyone else he turns.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Dylan]][[spoiler:Dylan.]]


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* ForScience: When asked why would create a breed of DaywalkingVampire, Harrison says it was because he could.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Elder shapeshifts into Susan so that Vanessa is more comfortable talking to him.


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** Flesh and [[spoiler:Julius]] gain similar healing abilities after being bitten by Scarhead.


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* TheOner: In the Season 3 premiere, during the fight with Harrison and his goons.

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* {{Adorkable}}: [[spoiler: Julius]] gets a moment of this in Season 2 after becoming human again and getting a chance to eat all the snack foods that weren't available back when he was first turned. He spends several minutes going on about the joys of all the different flavors of potato chip.



* BigBad: Dmitri.



* BigBadEnsemble: For the first two seasons, Dmitri is the primary antagonist, but even there's still the matter of Rebecca and Julius [[TheStarscream plotting against him]]. There's also the matter of the SerialKiller [[spoiler: (Sam)]] running around, who becomes even more dangerous after [[spoiler: becoming a vampire]]. Season 2 adds in Doctor Harrison, the head of the GovernmentConspiracy to experiment on and weaponize the vampires.



* TheDragon: Dimitri has his sister Anastasia, while Julius has his minion Scab. [[spoiler: After Anastasia's death and Julius being turned human, Dimitri recruits his forces, with Scab now reporting to him.]]



* GovernmentConspiracy: It's implied that the government knew about the vampires prior to the Rising, due to how rapidly Axel's squad was sent to retrieve Vanessa.

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* GovernmentConspiracy: It's implied that the government knew about the vampires prior to the Rising, due to how rapidly Axel's squad was sent to retrieve Vanessa. This is confirmed in Season 2, as it's revealed that Vanessa's mother was involved with a secret project to study and experiment on vampires, which is still ongoing even though the government is now gone.



* HealingFactor: Vanessa has a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-like ability to heal any wounds rapidly.

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* HealingFactor: HealingFactor:
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Vanessa has a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-like ability to heal any wounds rapidly.rapidly.
** The vampires can recover quickly from all but the most fatal wounds. [[spoiler: The ones experimented on by Harrison can regenerate even from those.]]


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* MalevolentMaskedMen: Well, not "men" per se, but the Sisterhood all wear creepy skull face masks.

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* AmazonBrigade: The vampire faction known as the Sisterhood.



* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Marquis de Sade was either a vampire himself, or at least served them.



* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Nicole decides to eat a bullet when she becomes trapped in a room with one of Dmitri's vampire assassins.]]

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: BetterToDieThanBeKilled:
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[[spoiler: Nicole decides to eat a bullet when she becomes trapped in a room with one of Dmitri's vampire assassins.]]]]
** After being bit, [[spoiler: Lucky]] blows herself up with a grenade rather than be turned or finished off.



* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Doc]]



* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Doc]], though to her credit she's at least ashamed by it.



* EliteMooks: The Reapers, Dimitri's cadre of assassins.

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* EliteMooks: EliteMooks:
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The Reapers, Dimitri's cadre of assassins.assassins.
** In Season 2, he gets even more elite minions when he allies with the vampire warriors known as the Sisterhood.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Julius' mother is the only person he cares about.
** Dimitri and his sister Anastasia are... [[VillainousIncest very close]].
** The Elder refers to Dimitri as his favorite servant [[spoiler: and is clearly upset when Scarlett makes him kill him]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** The Sisterhood has enough respect for the dead to not fight in a cemetery.
** When he was still human, Dimitri loved BDSM, but wouldn't involve his sister, due to her being too young.


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* LooksLikeOrlock: The Elder, and some of the more feral vampires.


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* MonsterLord: The Ancients, like Dimitri, are leaders among the vampires. Beyond even them is the Elders, who are the actual rulers of the vampire race.
* MonsterProgenitor: The Dark One/First One, the original vampire.


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* SealedEvilInACan:
** Long ago, the Van Helsings locked an Elder away in a crypt hidden within a mountain.
** The Dark One, the original vampire, is apparently sealed in a coffin that only all the Elders together can unlock.


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* SubmissiveBadass: [[spoiler: The Elder turns out to have been bound to obey the Van Helsings in exchange for its life.]]
* SuperWindowJump: In "Save Yourself", [[spoiler: Sam]] throws himself out a window to escape when he realizes he's losing his fight with Vanessa.


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* WhyWontYouDie: This exchange from "Save Yourself", after Vanessa gets a HeroicSecondWind:
-->'''[[spoiler:Sam]]''': (''annoyed'') Why can't you just die?
-->'''Vanessa''': I was just thinking the same about you.
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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:A particularly brutal one in Love Bites. Just when it seems that Vanessa's daughter Dylan has been successfully turned back to normal, she burns to death in the sun.]]

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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:A particularly brutal one in Love Bites."Love Bites". Just when it seems that Vanessa's daughter Dylan has been successfully turned back to normal, she burns to death in the sun.]]

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