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* {{MalevolentMaskedMooks}} - The Death Dealers in all incarnations whether its full-face medieval helmets or gas masks.

* MalevolentMaskedMooks - The Death Dealers in all incarnations whether its full-face medieval helmets or gas masks.

Not to be confused with TheUnderworld, [[{{Hell}} that underworld]], the band {{Music/Underworld}}, [[CoronationStreet this one]] or a MetroSpecificUnderworld, which it may loosely reference.

* ImmuneToBullets - Not exactly, but they don't seem to be very effective. Older werewolves can just push them out of their flesh, and vampires seem able to survive all sorts of impalements. In the second film, Selene takes a shotgun blast to the torso without visible injury, and Marcus survives five or six such shots in a row and is only slown down and bled a bit.

** Alternately, proto-lycan females could've been culled after Lucian's birth, because [[MamaBear their instinct to protect their offspring]] made them unmanagable even for whip-wielding vampires. Lucian's mom ''did'' look ready to pounce on anyone who came near when she was killed.

* FamilyUnfriendlyMoral - In the first two films, Viktor's [[UnfortunateImplications obsession with little girls]] leads him to severe problems, such as a werewolf revolt, and a super werewolf thing that kills him. Lesson? Kill your daughter while she's young. Or alternately, kill your father. The original vampire has learned this in the final film.
* {{Fetish fuel}}: Selene. This troper finds it a little hard to believe that the full-length PVC/leather catsuit was intended as anything else.

* MonogenderMonsters - Going by the movies, there was exactly ''one'' female Lycan, Lucian's mother, who was infected while pregnant. Though presumably the virus is just as contagious to both genders, the use of this trope was [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as the vampires wanting only [[MenAreTheExpendableGender male lycan slaves.]]

* YouFailScienceForever - The "silver nitrate" bullets the werewolves use have a liquid metal inside them, but actual silver nitrate is clear and colorless, not metallic. [[RuleOfCool Probably mostly there for the convenience of the audience,]] [[MST3kMantra best not to think about it to hard.]]

** This troper wants to recall something about Scott Speedman's privates being plastered (rather than photoshopped). And also just assumed the shot in question was before actual insertion and Michael was [[UnusualEuphemism 'ringing the bell']] (or [[IncrediblyLamePun 'painting the doorway']]) before entering.
*** To quote Mrs. Beckinsale during an interview about this very scene: "...if they move, then it’s terribly embarrassing, but if it doesn’t move it’s terribly insulting and you think they’re gay. So he lashed it to his leg, tied it in three knots and... I think was in physical torment as well as everything else"

* AntiVillain: By the end of the first movie, Lucian is a villain only by virtue of being on the opposite side. His noble motives were actually [[TheReveal a surprise]] at the time, but later movies [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready made this common knowledge]].

## Markus Corvinus seems to gain the memories of any creature whose blood he drinks, in any amount and in any situation, yet no other character does so. Lucian bites Michael and ''implants'' his memories, but not other character "transmits" data to other people when they bite, they only "receive" memories.

** It's more than Markus. Selene explains that only elders have the ability to properly arrange their memories into a coherent history. It's what she was attempting to do when she awakened Victory, with less than perfect results, and in general, it's implied to be the way the elders manage to maintain consistent rule, despite their two hundred year bouts of hibernation. Michael's fragmented memories from Lucian are more likely a side effect of being turned rather than anything to do with blood, as seems to be the case with vampires.

** Also there are three different "species" of Werewolf in this series. First there's William; the first one to ever exist, who looks the most Wolf-like. Then there's those who are infected by William, known as "1st Generation" Werewolves. Like William, they are unable to return to their Human form ever again. And then there are the "2nd Generation" Werewolves, otherwise known as Lycans. This breed came about when Lucian's mother was bitten and turned into a "1st Generation" when she was pregnant and gave birth to him whilst imprisoned by Viktor. Lucian was born in his Human form and could change between that and his Werewolf fom. And when he grew older, Viktor used him to turn more slaves for the Vampires to use, resulting in the majority of the Lycan population.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Amelia
** She was specifically shown dead (probably because of the aformentioned violent reaction of vamps bitten by lycans and vice versa) in the scene where the Death Dealers (who aren't in league with Kraven) go to check the reason for her lateness.

Not to be confused with [[{{Hell}} that underworld]], the band {{Music/Underworld}}, [[CoronationStreet this one]] or a MetroSpecificUnderworld, which it may loosely reference.

## Markus Corvinus seems to gain the memories of any creature whose blood he drinks, in any amount and in any situation, yet no other character does so. Lucian bites Michale and ''implants'' his memories, but not other character "transmits" data to other people when they bite, they only "receive" memories.

* Badass - Most of the cast, especially Selene.

* DiagonalCut - Selene's duel with Viktor.

* HamAndCheese - Bill Nighy is actually a good actor. Viktor, however, is the hammiest character in an ''extremely'' hammy franchise.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Viktor, letting Selene live and turn her into a vampire, because she reminds him so much of Sonja, only to end up [[spoiler:getting killed by his "daughter".]]
* HissBeforeFleeing
* HybridMonster - Michael Corvin becomes one, specifically [[spoiler:the first Half-vampire-half-Lycan]].

* ImmuneToBullets - not exactly, but they don't seem to be very effective. Older werewolves can just push them out of their flesh, and vampires seem able to survive all sorts of impalements.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent - the vampires are stereotypically pale, blood-drinking, almost completely immortal, highly athletic, and use plenty of GunFu, but the entire condition is supposedly just the result of a mutant [[TheVirus virus]].

* {{Sequelitis}} - the first sequel was a victim, but the third seems to have inverted it; ''Rise of the Lycans'' [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel got better reviews than either predecessor]].

* StarCrossedLovers - Lucian and Sonja in the backstory, later (and with far happier results) Selene and Michael.