History Characters / WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019TheRoommates

** Played straight: he's an Englishman who hates England and refuses to return under any circumstances, because his high society fellows treated Nadja like scum and refused to acknowledge their marriage.

* {{Manchild}}: They may be centuries-old and SeenItAll, but they have the emotional intelligences of rowdy teenagers.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite her quirks, she's still a vampire, and won't hesitate to remind you if necessary. Best demonstrated in Season 5 when she embarks on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to [[spoiler:rescue Guillermo from the Familiar Urgent Care doctors who have decided he needs to be put down.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Never forget that, despite his quirks and apparent cluelessness, Nandor was once a feared and ruthless BloodKnight. [[spoiler:Guillermo]] finds this out the hard way in Season 5 when [[spoiler: Nandor finds out Guillermo had himself turned into a vampire without Nandor's permission, and flies into an UnstoppableRage.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Never forget that, despite his quirks and apparent cluelessness, Nandor was once a feared and ruthless BloodKnight. [[spoiler:Guillermo]] finds this out the hard way in Season 5 when [[spoiler: Nandor finds out Guillermo had himself turned into a vampire without Nandor's permission, resulting in an UnstoppableRage.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: In Season 4 she debuts an ability to shout with such force that she shatters objects and deafens everyone around her, topped off with a [[VoiceOfTheLegion demonic reverb]] effect. She calls it her "assertive voice", but she mostly uses it when angered.

* AscendedFanboy: His desire is to become one of these, getting transformed into a vampire after idolizing them since he was a teenager. Considering he's a NoRespectGuy and Nandor is a BadBoss, that isn't likely to happen any time soon.

* TheGenericGuy: {{Invoked| Trope}}. He wears simple, ordinary clothes in boring colors (most commonly beige and gray), has no fangs, and is bald. You couldn't pick the guy out of a lineup. His ancestry test results even say that he is "100% white", which, as Guillermo points out, should be impossible because they're supposed to say things like a certain percent Dutch, a certain percent Irish, etc., not just "white".
-->'''Guillermo:''' People are from all different places. It just can't say "white" on your paper. Oh, wow. "100% white." No other nuance.

* BodyHorror: [[Spoiler: In Season 5 after going through the motions of turning into a vampire, Lazlo notices that Guillermo has grown a tiny pair of wings.]]

A Greek vampire and Laszlo's sire and wife. Nadja is often slightly more down-to-earth than Nandor or Laszlo, but she's still not without her own quirks. She's nostalgic for her human life and has a ReincarnationRomance with a mortal named Gregor.

* BadBoss: After he gets promoted, Colin Robinson deliberately makes his employee's jobs harder just to feed on them. It proves to be so potent for him that he goes DrunkWithPower.

* ColorMotif: To underline how hard he tries to be boring, the clothes Colin Robinson wears tends to be grey, muted brown, or beige.

* {{Jerkass}}: The vampire roomates are shown to be self-centered dorks, but Nandor is the worst one

* BadBoss: Zigzagged a bit. Nandor frequently uses Guillermo for meaningless tasks, clearly has no intention of ever actually turning him, and will offer up Guillermo to save himself. However, he truly seems to think that they're friends, and his worst behavior seems to be his attempts at friendliness. When we meet his old familiar Benjy, it seems that this is the way he usually treats familiars.
** By Season 3, this is arguably fully subverted. He takes Guillermo’s [[spoiler:promotion to bodyguard]] the most seriously, and is Guillermo’s biggest advocate to make sure that Guillermo is treated as part of the team. [[spoiler:When Guillermo proves he's no longer such a doormat, he vows to make Guillermo a vampire when they return to Nandor's homeland, this time with completely sincerity ("My word is my ''bond.''"). Indeed, he's crushed when he thinks Guillermo stiffs him at the train station.]]

** Unfortunately, by Season 4, it’s been undone. [[spoiler:Nandor transforms his wife into a clone of Guillermo’s boyfriend. This ends up ruining their relationship and is one of the reasons why Guillermo leaves the house at the end of the season and asks Greg to turn him into a vampire.]]

* AnimalLover: One of the hilarious ironies of Nandor's character is that he's slaughtered thousands of human beings in his long existence and takes great pride in this fact, but is a huge softy when it comes to every other species of living thing. He scolds Guillermo for damaging a "spider house" while dusting, he's extremely offended when Colin Robinson jokes about him having eaten a cat, and when he first meets the witches' goat familiar he delightedly talks to it as if it were a child. We even learn that his human ghost's UnfinishedBusiness has nothing to do with any of the human lives he's taken but is based on his guilt over having been forced to kill and eat his horse, Jahan, whom he loved more than any of his wives or children.

** Unfortunately, by Season 4, it’s been undone. [[spoiler: Nandor transforms his wife into a clone of Guillermo’s boyfriend. This ends up ruining their relationship and is one of the reasons why Guillermo leaves the house at the end of the season.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: All vampires are like this in this setting, but Nandor takes it up a notch compared to the others-- ''everyone'' in the house plays OnlySaneMan to him at one point, and if you know what Laszlo and Nadja are like, that's really saying a lot.

* HeelRealization: When Guillermo [[spoiler:leaves him for a new master briefly in season 2]], Nandor realizes how poorly he's treated Guillermo and makes concessions to have him return. [[spoiler:This only lasts until the finale of the fourth season, where Nandor--due to his immortal nature dictating the StatusQuoIsGod and leaving him desperate for stimulation--transforms his wife into a clone of Guillermo's boyfriend. This is the move that finally convinces Guilllermo to [[BrokenPedestal give up on Nandor]].]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Nandor treats the very few humans who love him both with utterly thoughtless callousness. For one, he really seems to think that making a glitter portrait of them together as ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]''--style vampires is a gesture of the height of benevolence that honors the spirit of his promise to turn Guillermo into a vampire.

** Him gifting Guillermo with a portrait of him as a vampire instead of turning him into one may come across as callous, but he seems to genuinely think of it as a way of keeping his promise to make Guillermo a vampire. Also he clearly put effort into making it.

* LivingDistantAncestor: Had 37 wives in life (all at once), and apparently has over 200,000 living descendants. In the first season finale he tracks down one of his descendants [[spoiler: and accidentally gives her a heart attack.]]

* TokenHuman: He is the only human in the Staten Island Coven, though he became Nandor's familiar to [[VampireVannabe cure himself of that affliction.]]

* LovableSexManiac: Laszlo's dying wish is to have had more sex. Nadja points out that he'd already had "a lot of sex. Like a-a lot of it." [[spoiler: His ghost]] reveals in [=S02E03=] that Laszlo died just as he was on the brink of orgasm [[spoiler: and in order for his ghost to move on, he had to help him "finish what he started". He's also starred in thousands of pornographic films ever since cinema was first invented (which he's collected over the years), and his interest in the Vampiric Council's library is mainly just to get his hands on even more pornography.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: * AnythingThatMoves: Even by vampire standards Laszlo is a horny bugger. He doesn't discriminate either, having had one-night stands with both men and women, and has a collection of pornography that he starred in that has existed since pornography was invented. In "The Trial", he claims that he wished he had more sex in his undead life, only for the others to point out that he had lots of sex already. He's even wanked off his own ghost, although hilariously that seems to be one of the few encounters he seems to regret.

* AnythingThatMoves: Even by vampire standards Laszlo is a horny bugger. He doesn't discriminate either, having had one-night stands with both men and women, and has a collection of pornography that he starred in that has existed since pornography was invented. In "The Trial", he claims that he wished he had more sex in his undead life, only for the others to point out that he had lots of sex already.