History Characters / WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019TheRoommates

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Colin Robinson is a completely different type of vampire from the others. He is an "energy" vampire compared with the more traditional blood-sucking vampires. He can easily pass for human and walk around during the day. However, under normal circumstances, he lacks the supernatural powers and abilities of other traditional vampires, such as transforming into animals or flying.
** When he has access to large amounts of energy, he ''does'' develop the ability to fly, super strength, and even [[ComboPlatterPowers the ability to multiply himself for maximum irritation.]]

** [[TropesAreTools This still works for Nadja]], as she has spent a lot time around Lazlo. It can be assumed she picked up some of his accent during the marriage.

** [[TropesAreTools This still works for Nadja]], as she has spent a lot time around Lazlo, so it's clear she may have picked up some of Lazlo's accent.

->''"Being a vampire's familiar is like being a best friend, who's also a slave."''

->''"I was a very ferocious soldier in the Ottoman Empire. Which meant a lot of killing, a lot of pillaging. People would say, 'Please don't pillage me!' And I would say, 'No, I'm pillaging everyone, you included.'"''

** 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 Derek to turn him into a vampire.]]

* 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.

* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler: After reading the diaries of his previous self, his new identity completely subsumes to that of the original Colin Robinson. He notably has no memories of his year as Child Colin, confirming that his old self is effectively gone.]]

* BeardOfEvil: He does hurt children and a lot of other people, but he is also a hilarious SociopathicHero-- with a beard.

* MyGirlIsASlut: His reaction to the various revelations of Nadja's sexual escapades is usually interest and excitement... not that he [[DepravedBisexual loses out to her]] in this regard anyway.

* MyGirlIsASlut: His reaction to the various revelations of Nadja's sexual escapades is usually interest and excitement... not that he [[AnythingThatMoves loses out to her]] in this regard anyway.

** {{Subverted}} as of Season 4. During an argument that escalates into a full fight, he becomes [[spoiler: the only vampire seen on the show to actualy land a hit on the formerly untouchable VampireHunter, Guillermo.]] It's later shown that his sword skills are still incredibly sharp, which suggests that he's just much more capable with a specific weapon.

* 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 RoaringRampageOfRescue[[spoiler:to save Guillermo from the Familiar Urgent Care doctors who have decided he needs to be put down.]]

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Nadja's accent is a stereotypically thick "vampire accent" while ''also'' being a British accent. It makes sense, since she originally hails from Greece but was living in England around the time she kills and turns Laszlo. In RealLife, this is British actor Natasia Demetriou doing an exaggerated impression of her immigrant parents' Cypriot accent.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Always refers to Gulliermo as "Gizmo."
* AffablyEvil: Despite being perhaps the ''most'' sociopathic and evil of the vampires, Lazlo's also frequently the one who builds the most human attachments of the cast, such as Sean or the Clairton, PA girls' volleyball team. See JerkWithAHeartOfGold below.

* BreakTheHaughty: After showing a ton of stubbornness and refusal to heed his roommates’ advice, Season 4 ends with him utterly broken after [[spoiler: the death of child Colin.]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler: His frustration with this is what urges him to leave the house.]]

* DepravedBisexual: He's had innumerable sexual encounters with both men and women (including the Baron), though he clearly seems to prefer women. He was one of the very first porn actors in history, with a filmography that spans an entire century of adult films (some of them featuring only men such as ''Vampire Tricked in Steam Room''); while preparing for the vampire orgy, he mimicks giving and receiving a blowjob at the same time; and he's also a casual [[AffablyEvil murderer]] who violated [[EveryoneHasStandards one of the few moral principles that the vampire community has]], which is [[WouldHurtAChild turning a baby on a whim]].

** In season 5, when he's in a funk for an episode and is barely responding to anyone or anything, Nadja says they're down to having sex a 'mere' sixteen times a week. Nandor then complains that the two of them are only doing it three times a week.

* AFoolForAClient: He reveals in Season 3 that he used to be a barrister on the Queen's bench in England centuries ago but he mainly just defended himself for various crimes like soliciting and pornography. The only other clients he defended were pigs and horses.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Laszlo notes in the very first episode, Colin Robinson grows stronger by the day. Colin Robinson starts off with mostly trivia facts to drain his victims, later proceeding to more elaborate tangents, and eventually upgrading to awful humour. This eventually culminates in being able to spout simple one-liners and his targets just ''collapse'' on the spot.

* DaywalkingVampire: Sunlight doesn't harm psychic vampires, allowing him to hold a normal job and everyday life.

** However, by Season 2, Colin Robinson begins to realize this. After some CharacterDevelopment, by Season 3, he and the gang are much friendlier with each other. They seem to hang out with each other for fun more, and he seems to have stopped draining his roommates.

* OlderThanTheyLook: About to turn 100 years old as of Season 3, but looks about half that.

* ShoutOut: Colin Robinson is repeatedly described in passing as "that ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}-looking guy". (Although actual fans of ''Dilbert'' would know that he much more closely resembles Dilbert's coworker Wally, both in appearance and in terms of his {{sociopath}}ic and {{troll}}ish personality.)

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Colin Robinson does this to ''himself'' in a hilariously mundane way, as his duplicates employ the same techniques he uses to bore people on the original him, and self-cannibalize each other in the process.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His accent isn't an ''unrealistic'' Persian accent, per se, but it certainly has the aspects of it that would be amusing to a native English speaker played up. (Kayvan Novak was born to Iranian immigrants in RealLife and speaks fluent Farsi.)

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Has an extremely vague accent. When she gets mad, Creator/NastasiaDemetriou very often slips into her British accent.

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

* TokenHuman: He is the only human in the Staten Island Coven, though he became Nandor's familiar to [[VampireVannabe cure himself of that affliction.]] [[spoiler:As of the most recent season, he no longer fits this trope, as he is now a vampire.]]