Keep it real.
This special introduced Kieran Valentine and C.A. Cupid. Cupid would go on to be a regular supporting character in Ever After High.
Tropes of Love:
- An Aesop: True love is not always glamorous, but a love based on superficial concepts can never compare to it.
- Art Evolution: This was Monster High's first CG special, done by Nerd Corps Entertainment. This trend continues (with improvements in animation) until Great Scarrier Reef.
- Ballroom Blitz: Draculaura's birthday party turns into this, with the ghouls (and Clawd) fighting to save her heart before it's too late.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Valentine and Toralei Stripe. He wanted Draculaura's heart, she wants Draculaura's unhappiness.
- Birthday Episode: Birthday MOVIE.
- Charm Person: Valentine resorts to flat-out hypnotizing Draculaura into loving him when his normal methods don't work. Clawd and the ghouls eventually manage to break the spell when they remind her why she loves Clawd more.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: The movie revolves around Draculaura dealing with her ex-boyfriend before her Sweet 1600.
- Greek Chorus: The three clouds who follow Valentine around. They're there to sing angelically, and make him look good, but occasionally get snide.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Valentine has these which he uses to force people to love him; he uses them on Draculaura so she will love him to the end of time.
- Hypnotize the Captive: Valentine refuses to let Draculaura move on from him and thus hypnotizes her into loving him again.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Clawd shows Draculaura the box Val pinned against the wall, telling her to look in it and realize how much he truly loves her, which causes her to snap out of Val's spell.
- Ironic Echo: The clouds first sing this to Clawd after hypnotized Draculaura dumps him, and then Valentine when un-hypnotized Draculaura forces him backwards into the pit.
- Cloud 1: ♪ You...Cloud 2: ♪ You...Cloud 3: ♪ You...Clouds in unison: GOT DUMPED!
- Jerkass: Valentine, who romances girls and then steals their hearts. Although after this special he eventually went through a Heel–Face Turn and became The Atoner.
- Love Goddess: The Matchmaker Cupid, complete with Love Potion arrows. Course, it's more like Love Demigoddess.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Draculaura gets these when Val hijacks her heart—but they're less swirly than Thousand-Yard Stare-y. Plus Creepy Monotone.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Not only do we have the vegetarian Draculaura, but Valentine is an Emotion Eater instead of a blood drinker.
- Prince Charming Wannabe: Again, Val.
- Kieran Valentine: I can get any chick I want!
- Race Against the Clock: For Valentine and the ghouls: If, before the end of her 1600th, he doesn't get Draculaura's heart or the ghouls don't break his spell—she'll become an Emotionless Girl forever.
- Relationship Sabotage: Toralei's reason to ring up Val and kickstart the plan.
- RevengeSVP: When Cleo and Clawdeen are planning the party for Draculaura's Sweet 1600, they refuse to let Toralei and the Werecat-twins (Meowlody and Purrsephone) come to the party, bringing at least three times that the trio of mean girls have done something bad to Draculaura. Because of this, Toralei starts the whole scheme with Valentine to ruin the party along with Draculaura's relationship with Clawd.
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Val and Clawd, respectively. Clawd's not really poor, mind you, but Val's most certainly loaded.
- Spit Out a Shoe: Toralei coughs up the feathers of a bird she ate off screen.
- Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle: Clawd and Val over Draculaura—Clawd ultimately comes out on top.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Valentine: Find Draculaura? Check. Hypnotize her? Check. Get her heart? Epic Fail.
