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* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Everything Viera does to Gaz in Episode 8 should be considered cruel, but it ''is'' Gaz, after all.
** Though it's not a major focus, there's the awful things Tak does to the cruel skoolchildren on occasion.
** The way the Tallest treat Zim and Skoodge -- while both are utterly loyal to them, Zim is a cruel Invader who brings destruction to all around him, while Skoodge is, despite his genial personality, just as dedicated to conquering the Earth as Zim is.
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** In Episode 13, this is how the NightmareWeaver is ultimately defeated: [[spoiler: after everyone escapes from the nightmares it initially trapped them in, it drags them all into its personal MentalWorld and attacks them with manifestations of the nightmares in a more brute force way. However, this means that the invisibility that Steve is subsequently afflicted with makes him invisible to ''it'' too, allowing him to get close while it's distracted by the others and blow up its head with a conjured bazooka, finally waking everyone up.]]

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* BeneathSuspicion: The Tallest refuse to believe that Zim is Miz because they don't think he'd choose such an obvious alias, and because they don't think he's cool enough to pull off Miz's mystique. Also, they completely overlook several lower-ranked Irkens clearly being inspired by Miz's speeches.

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The Tallest refuse to believe that Zim is Miz because they don't think he'd choose such an obvious alias, and because they don't think he's cool enough to pull off Miz's mystique. Also, they completely overlook several lower-ranked Irkens clearly being inspired by Miz's speeches.



* ButForMeItWasTuesday: In Episode 4, Steve notes that his and Viera's lives have gotten pretty weird if he can consider it pretty normal that she's being chased by a movie crew led by a banshee witch.

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In Episode 4, Steve notes that his and Viera's lives have gotten pretty weird if he can consider it pretty normal that she's being chased by a movie crew led by a banshee witch.



* DeadManSwitch: As revealed in Episode 13, [[spoiler: Norlock had one in place, namely an urn containing a NightmareWeaver magically compelled to go after anyone who was near him at the time of his death, sealed up with a mystic time lock only he could reset]].

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* DeadManSwitch: DeadMansSwitch: As revealed in Episode 13, [[spoiler: Norlock had one in place, namely an urn containing a NightmareWeaver magically compelled to go after anyone who was near him at the time of his death, sealed up with a mystic time lock only he could reset]].
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** Similarly, it's noted that the giant cat Team Save Earth is dealing with in the opening of Episode 13 isn't even the weirdest thing that they've dealt with ''that week''.

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* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Lampshaded in Episode 13, when Viera notes how Team Save Earth probably need to see a therapist after all the things they've dealt with, only for Dib to bitterly point out how, given the sort of stuff they deal with, said therapist would just have them shipped off to the crazy house.



* DeadManSwitch: As revealed in Episode 13, [[spoiler: Norlock had one in place, namely an urn containing a NightmareWeaver magically compelled to go after anyone who was near him at the time of his death, sealed up with a mystic time lock only he could reset]].



* DoorStopper: At twelve chapters, this season is already over 157,000 words long. Which combined with Season 1 makes the series as a whole over 390,000 words.

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* DoorStopper: At twelve thirteen chapters, this season is already over 157,000 nearly 176,000 words long. Which combined with Season 1 makes the series as a whole over 390,000 nearly 409,000 words.


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* DreamEpisode: Episode 13 sees most of the central characters trapped by a NightmareWeaver and needing to fight off their fears to escape.


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** In Episode 13, since the Nightmare Weaver's MentalWorld can only be escaped if everyone it's trapped is broken free of their nightmares, the three teams reluctantly work together to fight it.


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* NightmareWeaver: The actual name of the demonic parasite that attacks the teams in Episode 13 and traps them in their worst nightmares in order to break their minds down so that it can feed on them. It takes the form of a spider-like creature that [[spoiler: appears gigantic in the MentalWorld but is actually only about six inches tall in reality.]]


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* PostMortemComeback: [[spoiler: The Nightmare Weaver's attack in Episode 13 was a contingency plan left behind by Norlock to kill anyone responsible for his death, complete with a recorded message to inform everyone of what’s about to happen to them.]]


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* SeenItAll: In Episode 13, Steve notes that the Catastrophe, a house cat the size of a bus, isn't even the weirdest thing that Team Save Earth have seen this week.
* SeeYouInHell: In Episode 13, [[spoiler: this is Norlock's last line in the prerecorded message he left for whomever triggered his DeadManSwitch.]]


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* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Episode 13 is all about the three teams being trapped in their worst nightmares.


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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour: In Episode 13, Nyx comes to Gaz for help after everyone else is trapped by the NightmareWeaver. Since it's 2 in the morning, Gaz is ''not'' happy with her at first.

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* OddNameOut: Iggins' named underlings in Episode 18 go by the code names "8-Bit", "Expansion Pack", "DLC"... and ''Tim''.



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Iggins' named underlings in Episode 18 go by the code names "8-Bit", "Expansion Pack", "DLC"... and ''Tim''.

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* IntimateLotionApplication: In the fourth entry, Viera asks Dib to apply lotion to her back while she sunbathes, as a means of trying to act on their mutual {{UST}}. A flustered Dib complies, leading to a mixture of awkwardness and enjoyment for them both, only for the moment to be ruined by the arrival of the Slaughtering Rat People.



** [[spoiler: Gaz refuses to listen to Viera's warnings, leaving her at the mercy of a cannibal cult.]]
** [[spoiler: Gaz and the popular girls try to humiliate Viera by forcing her to streak around the skool. She gets revenge by magically stripping them in front of most of the student body, humiliating them instead.]]
** [[spoiler: Gaz locks Dib out of the house naked and calls the police on him for streaking. Later, the security system in Membrane's lab strips her as part of a decontamination procedure and then tosses her out of the house, where the cops she called arrest her. And there's also the fact that she only did this in the first place so Dib wouldn't distract her during an online trivia contest; the subject turns out to be the supernatural, which she has little active knowledge of. She even lampshades the irony of this.]]
** [[spoiler: After learning about the bad luck curse, which led to Steve's HumiliationConga and Dib and Viera being chased by the Slaughtering Rat People, Kleodora tracks down Gaz and punishes her for casting the curse by teleporting her into the forest, naked and in front of the Rat People, who start chasing her.]]

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** [[spoiler: In the first entry, Gaz refuses to listen to Viera's warnings, leaving her at the mercy of a cannibal cult.]]
** [[spoiler: In the second entry, Gaz and the popular girls try to humiliate Viera by forcing her to streak around the skool. She gets revenge by magically stripping them in front of most of the student body, humiliating them instead.]]
** [[spoiler: In the third entry Gaz locks Dib out of the house naked and calls the police on him for streaking. Later, the security system in Membrane's lab strips her as part of a decontamination procedure and then tosses her out of the house, where the cops she called arrest her. And there's also the fact that she only did this in the first place so Dib wouldn't distract her during an online trivia contest; the subject turns out to be the supernatural, which she has little active knowledge of. She even lampshades the irony of this.]]
** [[spoiler: After At the end of the fourth entry, after learning about the bad luck curse, which led to Steve's HumiliationConga and Dib and Viera being chased by the Slaughtering Rat People, Kleodora tracks down Gaz and punishes her for casting the curse by teleporting her into the forest, naked and in front of the Rat People, who start chasing her.]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: In the sixth entry, Gaz sells her soul to Kastrofi in exchange for VoluntaryShapeshifting powers.


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* EldritchAbomination: The sixth entry features Kastrofi, the King Dancing With the Mad. He takes on a form of a vaguely-humanoid figure hidden in a cloak, with multiple glowing red eyes and pale tentacles peeking out to confirm he's not human. He offers people power in exchange for their souls, and rules over a realm in the form of an endless carnival full of people and creatures indulging in limitless hedonism.


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* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler: At the end of the sixth entry, after Gaz is banished to Kastrofi's realm, he invokes their DealWithTheDevil as an excuse to dress her in a skimpy bikini and a SlaveCollar, officially declaring her to be his eye candy.]]


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** [[spoiler: In the sixth entry, the first thing Gaz does with the shapeshifting powers given to her by Kastrofi is make herself into a HeadTurningBeauty in order to avert her ACupAngst, but this just destroys her fearsome reputation, as everyone now sees her as either an object of lust or as a hypocritical bimbo. And after she gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and goes on a rampage to express her darkest impulses, this leads to her being banished to Kastrofi's realm, where he [[ShapeshifterModeLock locks her]] in her beautiful form and reduces her to an eye candy slave to mock her earlier vanity.]]


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* RecursiveFanfiction: The sixth entry was thought up and partially written by a fan, who then submitted it to [=Zim'sMostLoyalServant=] to be completed and posted.
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* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. [[spoiler: Viera does try to help Gaz after she accidentally hands herself over to a cannibal cult, but when she refuses to listen to her Viera just leave her to her fate.]]

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* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. [[spoiler: Viera does try to help Gaz after she accidentally hands herself over to a cannibal cult, but when she refuses to listen to her Viera just leave leaves her to her fate.]]
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* ShowerScene: In the second entry, Viera is having one at the Hi Skool after gym class. Unfortunately for her, this makes it very easy for Gaz and the popular girls to jump her, steal her ModestyTowel, and throw her out into the hallway to try and humiliate her.

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* NothingPersonal: When Ying attacks Team Save Earth, he makes it clear it's only because they're fighting Nyx.

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** At one point, Tak offhandedly mentions trying and failing to spread a [[HatePlague madness-inducing]] drug through cocktail weenies, to Dib's disbelief and confusion.
* NothingPersonal: When Ying first attacks Team Save Earth, he makes it clear it's only because they're fighting Nyx.

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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Gaz pulls this on Dib, tricking him into running out of the shower and then the house with nothing but a ModestyTowel, and then locking him out. [[spoiler: Later, circumstances lead to her ending up in the same position.]]

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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: NakedPeopleTrappedOutside:
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Gaz pulls this on Dib, tricking him into running out of the shower and then the house with nothing but a ModestyTowel, and then locking him out. [[spoiler: Later, circumstances lead to her ending up in the same position.]]]]
** In the fifth entry, after bumping into her on the street, Gaz steals Viera's leopard skin bikini, which also has her house keys in a hidden pocket, leaving her stuck naked outside. As such, she has no choice but to streak down the street after Gaz to try and retrieve her clothes.



* NonMammalianMammaries: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the third entry, as Dib sees Tak naked in her natural Irken form, and the part of his mind not distracted by arousal questions why an {{Insectoid Alien|s}} would have breasts.

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* NonMammalianMammaries: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the third entry, as whenever Dib sees Tak and/or Tenn naked in her their natural Irken form, forms, and the part of his mind not distracted by arousal questions why an {{Insectoid Alien|s}} InsectoidAliens would have breasts.



* ShipperOnDeck: Played for laughs, as Professor Membrane fully supports Dib and Viera as a couple, much to their extreme embarrassment.

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Played for laughs, as Professor Membrane fully supports Dib and Viera as a couple, much to their extreme embarrassment.embarrassment.
** Steve supports Dib and Viera as a couple when he realizes they have mutual crushes and keeps trying to push them together.
** Kleodora, seemingly for her own amusement, also decides to push Dib and Viera together, albeit in a much more aggressive manner.

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* AirVentPassageway: In the fifth entry, Viera does this to sneak into the Hi Skool in order to avoid risking been seen entering naked. In a [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome nod of realism]], she has difficulty squeezing through, complaining that TV and movies make it look so easy.



* CrazyPrepared: Team Save Earth apparently keeps stockpiles of spare clothes and supplies (including spell drives) around the Hi Skool, just in case.

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Team Save Earth apparently keeps stockpiles of spare clothes and supplies (including spell drives) around the Hi Skool, just in case.case.
** In the fifth entry, Dib keeps several hidden satchels of spare loincloths on standby just in case he loses the one he has to wear to the jungle-themed dance, being GenreSavvy to how likely it is that that might happen.



* EveryoneHasStandards: Nny is a homicidal maniac, but is disgusted by the semi-erotic nature of the costumes the Hi Skool students are forced to wear for the jungle-themed party in the fifth entry.



* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Upon seeing Tak naked in her true Irken form, Dib is surprised to find that she's just as busty and curvy as in her human disguise. A part of him wonders if he should find her ''more'' attractive this way.

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Upon seeing Tak naked in her true Irken form, Dib is surprised to find that she's just as busty and curvy as in her human disguise. A part of him wonders if he should find her ''more'' attractive this way.way.
** He ends feeling the same way about Tenn later on.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happens to both Tak and Gaz in the third entry. [[spoiler: The rocket Tak intends to blow up the nudist commune ends up incinerating her clothes instead, while Gaz's attempt to take money from her father's safe leads to her being tossed naked out of the house by his security system, where she's arrested by the police she called on Dib earlier.]]

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: HoistByHisOwnPetard:
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Happens to both Tak and Gaz in the third entry. [[spoiler: The rocket Tak intends to blow up the nudist commune ends up incinerating her clothes instead, while Gaz's attempt to take money from her father's safe leads to her being tossed naked out of the house by his security system, where she's arrested by the police she called on Dib earlier.]]
** In the fifth entry, both Gaz and Zim's actions come back to bite them: [[spoiler: Gaz stealing Viera's leopard skin bikini and stranding her outside naked infuriates the latter, who hunts her down to take it back and toss Gaz in front of the student body naked, while Tak and Tenn do the same to Zim after he accidentally strips them while obsessively trying to strip and humiliate Dib.
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* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: During her streak in the second entry, Viera comes across Nny killing someone. They quickly agree that neither saw anything if the other didn't. [[spoiler: Later, Viera convinces Dib to pretend that the whole situation, including him glimpsing her naked, never happened.]]

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** [[spoiler: Both Zim and Gaz's actions in the fifth entry involving stripping and humiliating their enemies end up backfiring and leaving them the ones stripped and humiliated.]]
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During her streak in the second entry, Viera comes across Nny killing someone. They quickly agree that neither saw anything if the other didn't. [[spoiler: Later, Viera convinces Dib to pretend that the whole situation, including him glimpsing her naked, never happened.]]]]
** Apparently after the events of the third entry, Tak demanded that she and Tenn never discuss [[spoiler: the latter picking her up when she's stranded at the nudist commune]].
** Dib and Viera agree to this at the end of the fifth entry regarding [[spoiler: being forced to dance naked together]].


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** The fifth entry has this happening all over the place regarding the jungle-themed dance: Gaz steals Viera's leopard skin bikini off of her, leaving her stranded naked outside, Kleodora dissolves Steve's loincloth into concealing smoke and threatens to disperse it if he doesn't dance with her, and Zim obsessively tries to steal Dib's loincloth to humiliate him in public. [[spoiler: In the end, Zim succeeds but accidentally also strips Tak and Tenn, who take revenge by stealing his loincloth and tossing him in front of the entire crowded gym, Viera does the same to Gaz after taking back the bikini, and Kleodora pulls the same trick on Dib and Viera to make them dance together.]]
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** At another point in Episode 12, the group ends up in the cartoon ''Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy'' from Issue 21 of the comic series, which is the author's second least favorite issue. They all dismiss it as a terrible show, then Zim blows the characters up.

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** At another point in Episode 12, the group ends up in the cartoon ''Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy'' from Issue 21 20 of the comic series, which is the author's second least favorite issue. They all dismiss it as a terrible show, then Zim blows the characters up.

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* EldritchAbomination: Episode 12 reveals that [[spoiler: the Scary Monkey]] is actually an other-dimensional being called Dqxagnmklormoc the Devourer ([[TomTheDarkLord or "Dave" to his friends]]) that feeds on the intelligence of people who [[spoiler: watch its TV show]]. When confronting Team Save Earth and the Irkens, it warps into a 20-foot-tall Cthulhu-style monstrosity to attack them.



** Downplayed in Episode 12, where Team Save Earth and the two Irken teams all end up TrappedInTVLand and reluctantly work together to escape back to reality, before eventually fighting together against Dqxagnmklormoc/Dave [[spoiler: the Scary Monkey]] when they stumble on his realm and he tries to kill them all.



* FailedASpotCheck: In Episode 12, Zim's team somehow misses the fact that they're carrying out their newest plan within eyesight of Tak and Tenn's base.



** In Episode 12's TrappedInTVLand plot, Steve at one point dismisses slasher movies as having one-dimensional characters that only exist to be moved around until they die in entertaining ways. The author explains that this is his opinion of most movies in this particular sub-genre (while stating he likes the sub-genre in general).
** At another point in Episode 12, the group ends up in the cartoon ''Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy'' from Issue 21 of the comic series, which is the author's second least favorite issue. They all dismiss it as a terrible show, then Zim blows the characters up.



* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "Channel Surfers", GIR turns out to be so stupid that he's actually poisonous to an EldritchAbomination feeding on human intelligence through a TV show, which the others use to escape.

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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "Channel Surfers", Episode 12, GIR turns out to be so stupid that he's actually poisonous to an EldritchAbomination feeding on human intelligence through a TV show, which the others use to escape.



* TrappedInTVLand: In "Channel Surfers", the three teams get sucked into a series of dimensions based on TV shows and movies.

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* DoorStopper: At eleven chapters, this season is already over 144,000 words long. Which combined with Season 1 makes the series as a whole over 377,000 words.

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* DoorStopper: At eleven twelve chapters, this season is already over 144,000 157,000 words long. Which combined with Season 1 makes the series as a whole over 377,000 390,000 words.



* TooSpicyForYogShoggoth: In "Channel Surfers", GIR turns out to be so stupid that he's actually poisonous to an EldritchAbomination feeding on human intelligence through a TV show, which the others use to escape.

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* TooSpicyForYogShoggoth: TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "Channel Surfers", GIR turns out to be so stupid that he's actually poisonous to an EldritchAbomination feeding on human intelligence through a TV show, which the others use to escape.
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* FanArt: One of the stories reviewers, CMR Rosa, commissioned a whole ''gallery folder'' for character pictures from this story [[https://www.deviantart.com/crsto20/gallery/87280726/fanfiction-the-new-adventures-of-invader-zim here]].
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** Don't mention ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', or any similar vampire movies, around Norlock. And don't call him useless.

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** Don't mention ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', or any similar vampire movies, around Norlock. And don't call him useless.



* TakeThat: Norlock, an actual vampire, does not like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Episode 12 even sees him attack a fan convention for a SerialNumbersFiledOff version of the franchise, taking the time to air a lot of the same complaints people have about ''Twilight'' in real life (though the story also takes the time to lampshade how petty some haters of the series can be).

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* TakeThat: Norlock, an actual vampire, does not like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. Episode 12 even sees him attack a fan convention for a SerialNumbersFiledOff version of the franchise, taking the time to air a lot of the same complaints people have about ''Twilight'' in real life (though the story also takes the time to lampshade how petty some haters of the series can be).



* YourVampiresSuck: Norlock is not a fan of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}.'' He also dismisses Dracula as "a hack with a good publicist."

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* YourVampiresSuck: Norlock is not a fan of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}.''Literature/TheTwilightSaga.'' He also dismisses Dracula as "a hack with a good publicist."

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Norlock actually looks like a corpse, is burned by direct sunlight, sleeps in a coffin, has a HealingFactor fueled by the blood he drinks, can hypnotize victims, can see astral projections, knows magic, MustBeInvited into a home, and can transform into a demonic bat monster. Later, he also establishes that he ''can'' cross running water, doesn't have SuperOCD, and holy symbols only burn him if the wielder has faith in them.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Norlock actually looks like a corpse, is burned by direct sunlight, sleeps in a coffin, has a HealingFactor fueled by the blood he drinks, can hypnotize victims, can see astral projections, knows magic, MustBeInvited into a home, and can transform into a demonic bat monster. Later, he also establishes that he ''can'' cross running water, doesn't have SuperOCD, arithmomania, and holy symbols only burn him if the wielder has faith in them.



* WrongGenreSavvy: Bill has a special vampire room to protect him from vampires. By his standards, it's actually a pretty smart move...but unfortunately, all of the vampiric legends that he relied on (running water, SuperOCD counting, etc.) turn out to be wrong.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Bill has a special vampire room to protect him from vampires. By his standards, it's actually a pretty smart move...but unfortunately, all of the vampiric legends that he relied on (running water, SuperOCD obsessive counting, etc.) turn out to be wrong.



* NeatFreak: Ying is rather obsessive with cleanliness. Which makes living in the same place as [[ThePigPen GIR]] somewhat difficult for him.



* SuperOCD: Ying is rather obsessive with cleanliness. Which makes living in the same place as [[ThePigPen GIR]] somewhat difficult for him.

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