Awesome / What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

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Season One

• Guillermo slaying multiple vampires by pure accident due to his Van Helsing blood.
  • Actually confessing to this to save his "friends" is also both heartwarming and stupid. Thankfully, the Vampire Council doesn't believe him.
• Just how the producers were able to convince Tilda Swinton, Danny Trejo, Paul Reubens, Evan Rachel Wood, and Wesley Snipes to all show up playing off the various vampires that they've portrayed in movies and TV shows as the Council.

Season Two

• Guillermo kills FIFTEEN vampire assassins sent after the trio without them ever cluing into the fact. Made even more impressive by his being severely sleep-deprived the whole time.
• When the Mosquito Club stumbles on a real nest of vampires during their first excursion, Guillermo escapes... then he grits his teeth and goes back in to save the idiots. He cuts his way through the horde with ease, flashing his crucifix with one hand and using his stake with the other, rescues the Mosquitos one by one, culminating in throwing one out the window to save her, then double flipping the bird to a horde of vampires before rolling backwards out the window himself. He only failed to save one of the Mosquitos, and it's later revealed in the season finale that the entire group is dead, implying that Guillermo went back at some point and completely finished the job.
• Colin gets promoted. This allows him to drain so many people at such a rapid pace that he evolves into a better energy vampire, until just a single word from him is enough to hurl somebody through the air with enough force to crack wood.
  • Climaxes with Colin draining the main vampire trio until they are immobile old people, and making two copies of himself.
• We find out how Colin Robinson got his job: He didn't. He just walked in, claimed a desk, and pulled a years-long Bavarian Fire Drill so nobody would ever call him on it.
• Facing an actual troll, Colin Robinson is not only able to drain it but keeps talking all through the night until the sun comes up and the troll turns to stone (though the troll gets some points for grabbing Colin's arms before he turns completely).
• In "Witches", Guillermo not only manages to find the exit from the witches' maze, but he also manages to save Nandor, Laszlo, and Colin Robinson's lives by making a business proposal to the witches.
• Guillermo murders an entire theater full of vampires without any back-up.
  • Made even more awesome by the vampire theater mocking the idea of a human familiar killing a vampire just one minute earlier. Who's Laughing Now??

Season Three

• Guillermo's vampire slaying heritage increases by the episode. He starts the season being able to hurl stakes with enough force to leave them embedded in walls, and in episode two, manages to swing upwards into a vent like he's a trained acrobat.
  • By extension, The Guide sees a vampire slayer in the house and treats them like a mere annoyance. They must've seen more than a few vampire slayers in their day.
• The Guide's abilities seemingly grow yet again when Nandor, Nadja, and Guillermo are looking for the Chamber of Judgment. She reveals that she's been behind Guillermo for half an hour, close enough to smell him, without him being aware. She ends up scaring the vampire slayer that has so far been a match for every other vampire that we've seen.
• After finally getting sick of the household's nonsense, Guillermo proceeds to deliver the mother of all Curbstomp Battles to Nandor.
  Guillermo: The only reason you're alive is that I let you live.
  • Nandor deserves some credit. Guillermo had, until then, won every single fight handily. Nandor at least gets a couple of decent licks in, which is more than any other opponent of Guillermo’s could say.

Season Four

• Guillermo and Nandor get into another fight... But this time, the fight sees both parties decide to take it seriously.
  Guillermo: Do you remember how this went down last time?
  Nandor: I Let You Win to teach you a lesson about humility. [...] You cheated last time.
  Guillermo: I didn't have to.
  • Guillermo opens up by hurling a stake at Nandor so fast that Nandor, a vampire, has to catch it rather than dodge it. And when Nandor decides to just use his super strength to push Guillermo through a wall, Guillermo gets back up almost immediately.
  • Nandor, on the other hand, picks up a sword and reveals himself to be Strong and Skilled. His skill with the blade immediately transforms the fight from a Curbstomp Battle into a Curb-Stomp Cushion, to the point where Guillermo actually looks like an unfit human rather than an unstoppable vampire slayer.
• While it's admittedly needlessly convoluted and utterly insane, you have to respect Simon the Devious for setting up and running a multiseries prime-time tv show for the sole purpose of making Lazlo into a fan so he'll let Simon and his Gang into his house to steal his hat. And it all work out exactly as planned. Pointless and excessive his plans might be, but he's not called Simon The Devious for nothing.

Season Five

• Despite all expectation for it to be another example of classic Nandor bluster, Nandor manages to defy what was considered possible for vampires and successfully fly into outer space.
• Laszlo successfully creates a sunscreen using Guillermo's "daywalker" sweat that allows him to go out into the sunlight and enjoy a day at the beach.
• After Guillermo is taken captive by a "veterinarian" (in this case, a vampiric medic who treats familiars), Nadja tears through the clinic to rescue him. At one point, she manages to take down several attendants with a Super-Scream.
• Guillermo and the Baron have a brief skirmish. Guillermo has, up until now, curbstomped nearly every opponent he’s faced, with only Nandor proving any sort of challenge. The Baron proves why he’s The Dreaded as he utterly outmatches Guillermo and has him on the back foot for most of the fight.
• Laszlo fends off a number of replicating fencers without difficulty, only getting overwhelmed when he's outnumbered about sixteen to one.
• When Nandor is finally told about the fact that Guillermo's vampiric transformation is struggling to take hold, he both instantly knows the cause and he knows how to complete the transformation, showing that while he's often oblivious he's far from the idiot he's been made out to be for the past five seasons.
• Nandor's abject wrath when he finds out Guillermo got himself turned by another vampire is everything we were warned it would be, and it really drives home the point that this goofus is also an ancient and terrible vampire lord. Even if he doesn't realize there's more than one Panera Bread in New York.
• Colin Robinson reveals that not only can psychic vampires rob people of energy by being banal and boring, they can also give people energy by being cool, funny, and interesting. He revives a comatose Nandor by revealing A: he's latino, B: he changed his name because the initials of his first name spelled 'ASS' and C: He proves it by revealing the hunting knife he wears that he was given by his then-boyfriend Davy Crockett with his initials stamped into the leather.