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There's also two supplementary miniseris: ''Blood Trails'', which acts as a prequel to the first movie, and ''Dust To Dust'' which takes place afterward.

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There's also two supplementary miniseris: miniseries: ''Blood Trails'', which acts as a prequel to the first movie, and ''Dust To Dust'' which takes place afterward.
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* AffectionateGesturetotheHead: Eben hugs and pets his little brother on the head while comforting and consoling him. Stella does the same thing.

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* AffectionateGesturetotheHead: AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Eben hugs and pets his little brother on the head while comforting and consoling him. Stella does the same thing.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: There is not a full day of normal sunlight before the curtain is suddenly rolled down for a month and then the sun rises up like normal. Due to the earth's tilt, latitudes closer to the poles get longer nights during winter time (and longer days during summer). The closer to the poles the more drastic the effect, with communities above the arctic circle experience the sunlight slowly vanishing until an extended period when the sun does not reach above the horizon. On midday there is a gloomy dawn-light, rather than complete darkness. When the sun finally comes back it only reaches above the horizon for a short while before vanishing, with sun appearing more and more as spring comes.
** Notably, Barrow (now Utqiagvik) actually has 67 days without sunlight.
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* CuteCry: While most of the tears shed in the film are pretty messy, Jake manages to cry quite prettily when he [[spoiler: Eben infects himself with vampire blood so he can fight Marlow]], knowing it means he will lose his last blood relative.

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* CuteCry: While most of the tears shed in the film are pretty messy, Jake manages to cry quite prettily when he [[spoiler: Eben infects himself with vampire blood so he can fight Marlow]], knowing it means he will lose his last blood relative.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Eben grabs an axe and wields it for most of the films.
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* AffectionateGesturetotheHead: Eben hugs and pets his little brother on the head while comforting and consoling him. Stella does the same thing.


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* CuteCry: While most of the tears shed in the film are pretty messy, Jake manages to cry quite prettily when he [[spoiler: Eben infects himself with vampire blood so he can fight Marlow]], knowing it means he will lose his last blood relative.


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* NerdyInhaler: Averted. Eben has asthma that he treats with an inhaler but is a handsome, athletic ActionSurvivor cop. Even when he suffers from an asthma attack latter in the film, it does nothing to lessen his coolness factor.


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* PutOnABus: Despite being Eben's little brother and therefore Stella's younger brother-in-law, Jake is bizarrely absent from the sequel film. What makes this especially strange is that Jake would only be sixteen at the time of the sequel and Stella should presumably be his guardian.


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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Jake is understandably shocked and horrified when he [[spoiler: beheads the little vampire girl with an ax]]. Eben, Stella, and Beau are quick to comfort Jake and reassure him that he did the right thing, but Eben also points out this reaction is a pretty good indicator that he won't be up to constantly chopping down vampires left and right.
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* KubrickStare: The vampires of this movie are very fond of pulling these, especially [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/209a339f4cf03c2be1279e6443c3539f/0d85ffd8391a658a-72/s540x810/ef331b6c4f0228536d383e7ca5e24b150cae49d8.gifv Arvin]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/5/5a/Iris_-_30_Days_of_Night.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101016134616 Iris]].

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* KubrickStare: The vampires of this movie are very fond of pulling these, especially [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/209a339f4cf03c2be1279e6443c3539f/0d85ffd8391a658a-72/s540x810/ef331b6c4f0228536d383e7ca5e24b150cae49d8.gifv Arvin]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/5/5a/Iris_-_30_Days_of_Night.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101016134616 [[https://i0.wp.com/www.audienceseverywhere.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/30-Days-of-Night-5.jpg Iris]].

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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The large grinding machine is shown at the start of the film. Unsurprisingly, a vampire is thrown into it not long after the survivors reach the plant.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The large grinding machine is shown at the start of the film. Unsurprisingly, a vampire is [[GroundByGears thrown into it it]] not long after the survivors reach the plant.]]



%%* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: The Stranger.

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%%* * HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: The Stranger.Stranger, who kills the sled dogs and sabotages the communications to facilitate the vampire invasion in the hopes of being allowed in their clan.


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* KubrickStare: The vampires of this movie are very fond of pulling these, especially [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/209a339f4cf03c2be1279e6443c3539f/0d85ffd8391a658a-72/s540x810/ef331b6c4f0228536d383e7ca5e24b150cae49d8.gifv Arvin]] and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/5/5a/Iris_-_30_Days_of_Night.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101016134616 Iris]].
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%%RepairDontRespond** Not entirely the case fortunately, as a wide shot of the burning town shows a few other survivors emerging from their hiding places.

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%%RepairDontRespond** %%Administrivia/RepairDontRespond** Not entirely the case fortunately, as a wide shot of the burning town shows a few other survivors emerging from their hiding places.
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* EventTitle: ''30 Days of Night''.


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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Eben allows himself to burn in the sun after turning himself to fight the vampires.]]


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* TheXOfY: ''30 Days of Night''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There is no escape. No hope. Only hunger, and pain." '']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There [[caption-width-right:345:''"There is no escape. No hope. Only hunger, and pain." '']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There is no escape. No hope. Only hunger, and pain." '']]
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** Not entirely the case fortunately, as a wide shot of the burning town shows a few other survivors emerging from their hiding places.

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** %%RepairDontRespond** Not entirely the case fortunately, as a wide shot of the burning town shows a few other survivors emerging from their hiding places.



* GrimUpNorth: Takes place in Barrow, Alaska.
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: The Stranger.

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* %%* GrimUpNorth: Takes place in Barrow, Alaska.
* %%* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: The Stranger.



* ProHumanTranshuman: [[spoiler: Eben]].

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* %%* ProHumanTranshuman: [[spoiler: Eben]].



* SoundOnlyDeath: Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.

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* %%* SoundOnlyDeath: Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
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There's also two supplementary material, ''Blood Trails'', which acts as a prequel to the first movie and ''Dust To Dust'' which takes place afterward.

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There's also two supplementary material, miniseris: ''Blood Trails'', which acts as a prequel to the first movie movie, and ''Dust To Dust'' which takes place afterward.



* ActionGirl: Stella Oleson

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* %%* ActionGirl: Stella OlesonOleson.
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* {{Expy}}: Beau is the movie's answer to the comic's John Ikos, who's practically a one-man army against the vampires. They even [[BadassBeard look a little similar]].

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* {{Expy}}: Beau is the movie's answer to the comic's John Ikos, who's practically a one-man army against the vampires. They even [[BadassBeard look [[ManlyFacialHair a little similar]].
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* ManlyFacialHair: Beau probably kills the most vampires and has a pretty long and thick beard.
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* BadassBeard: Beau probably kills the most vampires and has a pretty long and thick beard.
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* FeralVampires: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] of the modern day. The vampires sail their raggedy old ship to a small village and start hunting people down like wolves.

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* FeralVampires: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] {{Trope Codifier}}s of the modern day. The vampires sail their raggedy old ship to a small village and start hunting people down like wolves.
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* FeralVampires: One of the TropeCodifiers of the modern day. The vampires sail their raggedy old ship to a small village and start running people down like wolves.

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* FeralVampires: One of the TropeCodifiers [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] of the modern day. The vampires sail their raggedy old ship to a small village and start running hunting people down like wolves.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: A downplayed example. The vampires in the graphic novel are fully capable of speech, whereas in here, most of them emit [[HellIsThatNoise horrid shrieks]].



* AdaptationalIntelligence: A minor example of an inversion. The vampires in the graphic novel are fully capable of speech, whereas in here, most of them emit [[HellIsThatNoise horrid shrieks]].


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* AxCrazy: The vampires are all extremely violent and animalistic.
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** Not entirely the case fortunately, as a wide shot of the burning town shows a few other survivors emerging from their hiding places.
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* BlackSpeech: The vampires speak in an odd combination of words and animal-like sounds like hisses and screeches. When they want to signal others, they let out [[NightmareFuel terrifying screams]].

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* BlackSpeech: The vampires speak in an odd combination of words and animal-like sounds like hisses and screeches. When they want to signal others, they let out [[NightmareFuel [[HellIsThatNoise terrifying screams]].
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Denise is the one who says the final line, not Aaron.


'''Aaron:''' Oh, you will? Where's the fun in that?

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'''Aaron:''' '''Denise:''' Oh, you will? Where's the fun in that?
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* FeralVampires: One of the TropeCodifiers of the modern day. The vampires sail their raggedy old ship to a small village and start running people down like wolves.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Despite all the extreme vampire gore in the film, the camera doesn't show Jake chopping off the [[UndeadChild little girl vampire's]] head with the fire axe, presumably for InfantImmortality reasons.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Despite all the extreme vampire gore in the film, the camera doesn't show Jake chopping off the [[UndeadChild little girl vampire's]] head with the fire axe, presumably for InfantImmortality reasons.axe.



* InfantImmortality: [[CreepyChild One was]] (literally but temporarily). [[NightmareFuel The others weren't]].

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* AlwaysNight: The film is set during the one month where Barrow, Alaska is without sun.



* AlwaysNight: The film is set during the one month where Barrow, Alaska is without sun.

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* AlwaysNight: The film is set during AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Eben does this willingly, reasoning from what he's seen that he'll be able to control himself long enough to kill the one month where Barrow, Alaska is without sun.other vampires before he succumbs to his new instincts]].

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* {{Expy}}: Beau is the movie's answer to the comic's John Ikos, who's practically a one-man army against the vampires. They even [[BadassBeard look a little similar]].



* StupidEvil: Marlow, with an even bigger emphasis on the "stupid" than in the graphic novel. He and his pack slaughter almost everyone presumably on the very first of the [[TitleDrop 30 days of night]], leaving them to stalk the streets of Barrow over the course of the next month, leaving with very little in the way of food. ''Then,'' close to the end of the period of darkness, he finally gives his speech to the surviving vampires about how they've given humans reason to suspect their existence. Of course, this is all largely because Vicente, the elder vampire who gave the speech at the end, was AdaptedOut and became a CompositeCharacter with Marlow.



* TakingOverTheTown: Several minutes are dedicated to showing this trope in action. The sequence is either really cool (the humans put up a legitimate but doomed fight), or [[NightmareFuel utterly terrifying]].

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* TakingOverTheTown: Several minutes are dedicated to showing this trope in action. The sequence is either really cool (the humans put up a legitimate but doomed fight), or [[NightmareFuel utterly terrifying]].terrifying.
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Because without this disclaimer this might be weird to keep reading about "Barrow" and hear it constantly name-dropped in dialogues


The film is set in Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the USA and as such has one month with no sunlight. During this period, most of the townsfolk leave for sunnier pastures.

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The film is set in Utqiagvik, Utqiagvik[[note]]Barrow at the time of filming and named as such in-universe[[/note]], Alaska, the northernmost town in the USA and as such has one month with no sunlight. During this period, most of the townsfolk leave for sunnier pastures.
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The film is set in Barrow, Alaska, which the film quickly tells us is the northernmost town in the USA and as such has one month with no sunlight. During this period, most of the townsfolk leave for sunnier pastures.

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The film is set in Barrow, Utqiagvik, Alaska, which the film quickly tells us is the northernmost town in the USA and as such has one month with no sunlight. During this period, most of the townsfolk leave for sunnier pastures.

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