History Fridge / Daybreakers

** At first glance, it would seem like the number of vampires that smoke is actually rather astounding... until you realize that the health problems caused by such are no longer a concern, thanks to immortality.
*** AddictionDisplacement is probably to blame as well.
*** And with virtually no one eating solid food anymore, farmers might as well grow tobacco, so it's probably a whole lot cheaper.
*** That would be interesting to see in this universe - the vamps would be harvesting at night.

* There's really some serious FridgeHorror to the revelation that the girl at the beginning of the film is Patient Zero, when you think about it for a moment. Putting together some of the information in promotional materials, it's not too hard to reconstruct what happened. With her apparently being an American and the natural host of the virus being ''Desmodus rotundus'' (the common vampire bat), her family were probably on some sort of trip when their daughter fell ill. Presumably, for her to have even survived, that initial transmission from animal to human couldn't have been as dramatic as the human-to-human transmission we see later. Within a few hours, though, it would have become obvious that something was very wrong with their preteen child, regardless. She would have been old enough to understand that, too, and none of them would have had a clue what was going on. Just that she felt pain after exposure to sunlight, that her teeth were growing and changing in shape for no apparent reason (which would likely be agonizing), and that she suddenly had cravings for blood. There's a decent chance she wouldn't have even mentioned that last part at first, out of a fear that she was losing her mind. Official graphics showing the spread of the virus suggest that it started in the Los Angeles area, so her family probably brought her home to seek medical treatment, and then...well, what happened then is left to the imagination, but "where was her family during the intro?" really does turn into a horrifying question, all things considered. She was still apparently living in her childhood home even though she was old enough to live alone, after all, with all the furnishings left the same ten years on. When you consider who would have probably been the closest living people when the desire to drink ''someone's'' blood became entirely irrepressible, and how frenzied a starving vampire becomes, it gets hard to picture an answer to that question that isn't heartbreaking and awful.

** Also, another reason why she committed suicide could also be because she felt guilt for starting the vampire pandemic in the first place.

* This movie shows why most vampires in fiction go for a Behind the scenes rulership than a turn the world strategy, a world of vampires would be fully unsustainable due to vampires only needing a VERY specific kind of food, which if most of the world need would run out very fast, hence the usual vampire trope of power behind the throne.
* One wonders if the parents even care their child committed suicide at the beginning of the movie?

* There's really some serious FridgeHorror to the revelation that the girl at the beginning of the film is Patient Zero, when you think about it for a moment. Putting together some of the information in promotional materials, it's not too hard to reconstruct what happened. With her apparently being an American and the natural host of the virus being ''Desmodus rotundus'' (the common vampire bat), her family were probably on some sort of trip when their daughter fell ill. Presumably, for her to have even survived, that initial transmission from animal to human couldn't have been as dramatic as the human to human transmission we see later. Within a few hours, though, it would have become obvious that something was very wrong with their preteen child, regardless. She would have been old enough to understand that, too, and none of them would have had a clue what was going on. Just that she felt pain after exposure to sunlight, that her teeth were growing and changing in shape for no apparent reason (which would likely be agonizing), and that she suddenly had cravings for blood. There's a decent chance she wouldn't have even mentioned that last part at first, out of a fear that she was losing her mind. Official graphics showing the spread of the virus suggest that it started in the Los Angeles area, so her family probably brought her home to seek medical treatment, and then...well, what happened then is left to the imagination, but "where was her family during the intro?" really does turn into a horrifying question, all things considered. She was still apparently living in her childhood home even though she was old enough to live alone, after all, with all the furnishings left the same ten years on. When you consider who would have probably been the closest living people when the desire to drink ''someone's'' blood became entirely irrepressible, and how frenzied a starving vampires becomes, it gets hard to picture an answer to that question that isn't heartbreaking and awful.

* this movie shows why most vampires in fiction go for a Behind the scenes rulership than a turn the world strategy, a world of vampires would be fully unsustainable due to vampires only needing a VERY specific kind of food, which if most of the world need would run out very fast, hence the usual vampire trope of power behind the throne.

*** There may be pragmatism at work as well - [[WeHaveReserves the vampire population is unsustainably high]], so the more vampire soldiers that die due to [[HollywoodTactics reckless tactics]] and inneffective armour, [[AMillionIsAStatistic the better]].

* There's really some serious FridgeHorror to the revelation that the girl at the beginning of the film is Patient Zero, when you think about it for a moment. Putting together some of the information in promotional materials, it's not too hard to reconstruct what happened. With her apparently being an American and the natural host of the virus being ''Desmodus rotundus'' (the common vampire bat), her family were probably on some sort of trip when their daughter fell ill. Presumably, for her to have even survived, that initial transmission from animal to human couldn't have been as dramatic as the human to human transmission we see later. Within a few hours, though, [[AdultFear it would have become obvious that something was very wrong with their preteen child, regardless]]. She would have been old enough to understand that, too, and none of them would have had a clue what was going on. Just that she felt pain after exposure to sunlight, that her teeth were growing and changing in shape for no apparent reason (which would likely be agonizing), and that she suddenly had cravings for blood. There's a decent chance she wouldn't have even mentioned that last part at first, out of a fear that she was losing her mind. Official graphics showing the spread of the virus suggest that it started in the Los Angeles area, so her family probably brought her home to seek medical treatment, and then...well, what happened then is left to the imagination, but "where was her family during the intro?" really does turn into a horrifying question, all things considered. She was still apparently living in her childhood home even though she was old enough to live alone, after all, with all the furnishings left the same ten years on. When you consider who would have probably been the closest living people when the desire to drink ''someone's'' blood became entirely irrepressible, and how frenzied a starving vampires becomes, it gets hard to picture an answer to that question that isn't heartbreaking and awful.

** For all we know, her parents got killed by ravenous subsiders or became subsiders themselves. Which might be part of why she opted to commit suicide ''then'', rather than doing it years ago, if she hates being a vampire so much.

** Promotional material indicates that she’s Patient Zero. Locked in a child’s body since the start of the outbreak, it’s entirely possible that she moved out to a rural area to escape the modern world she created.

* One wonders if the parents even care their child committed suicide at the beginning of the movie?

*** Most of their armor doesn't really seem all that ''advanced'', just very specifically catered to hold out UV rays (the anti-sunlight helmet is really just a metal case with a camera and a screen on the inside). Most of their tech isn't too far advanced from what it is now, just catered to a specific task. Combine that with the reality that [[http://youtu.be/1nLRymWv-CA a modern crossbow bolt can penetrate IIIA body armor]] and stab vests are intended to stop handheld blade strikes, not pointy projectiles, one can see how modern armor simply wouldn't be all that effective against their prey's weapons of choice.

* this movie shows why most vampires in fiction go for a Behind the scenes rulership than a turn the world strategy, a world of vampires would be fully unsustainable due to vampires only needing a VERY specific kind of food, which if most of the world need would run out very fast, hence the usual vampire trope of power behind the throne.

*** Maybe their bodies only metabolize red blood cells, leaving the white ones undigested?

**** There may be pragmatism at work as well - the vampire population is unsustainably high, so the more vampire soldiers that die due to [[HollywoodTactics reckless tactics]] and inneffective armour, the better.
*** Most of there armor doesn't really seem all that ''advanced'', just very specifically catered to hold out UV rays (the anti-sunlight helmet is really just a metal case with a camera and a screen on the inside). Most of their tech isn't to far stretched from what it is now, just catered to a specific task. Combine that with the fact that [[http://youtu.be/1nLRymWv-CA a modern crossbow bolt can penetrate IIIA body armor]] and stab vests are intended to stop handheld blade strikes, not crossbow bolts, and its easy to imagine that their body armor simply isn't all that effective against their prey's weapon of choice.

** Most of there armor doesn't really seem all that ''advanced'', just very specifically catered to hold out UV rays (the anti-sunlight helmet is really just a metal case with a camera and a screen on the inside). Most of their tech isn't to far stretched from what it is now, just catered to a specific task. Combine that with the fact that [[http://youtu.be/1nLRymWv-CA a modern crossbow bolt can penetrate IIIA body armor]] and stab vests are intended to stop handheld blade strikes, not crossbow bolts, and its easy to imagine that their body armor simply isn't all that effective against their prey's weapon of choice.

**** There may be pragmatism at work as well - the vampire population is unsustainably high, so the more vampire soldiers that die due to [[HollywoodTactics reckless tactics]] and inneffective armour, the better.

**** There may be pragmatism at work as well - the vampire population is unsustainably high, so the more vampire soldiers that die due to hollywood tactics ane inneffective armour, the better.

*** Bullets may not kill them, but they may suffer temporary wounds that splatter blood around before they heal. With a crippling blood-shortage going on and most of their fellow soldiers half-starved, spraying the red stuff all over is probably not a good thing even if the leaks do plug themselves within seconds.

*** Bullets may not kill them, but they may suffer temporary wounds that splatter blood around before they heal. With a crippling blood-shortage going on and most of their fellow soldiers half-starved, spraying the red stuff around is probably not a good thing even if the leaks do plug themselves within seconds.

*** And with virtually no one eating solid food anymore, farmers might as well grow tobacco, so it's probably a whole lot cheaper.

* FridgeBrilliance: When the vampire army's Hummer explodes after being skewered through the windshield, it looks like a particularly grievous case of [[EveryCarIsAPinto Hollywood exaggeration]]... until you find out that the [[MadeOfExplodium vampires explode when killed.]]