History Manga / VampireKnight

* IllGirl: Maria Kurenai is said to be this. Also, Ichiru was a very rare male example as a child, due to [[spoiler: Zero stealing much of his life force while they were in their mother's womb.]]

* BastardBoyfriend:[[spoiler: Kaname]] is close to the Conflicted type.

* SimpleStaff: Yuuki's weapon until after TheReveal is a collapsible ''bo'', the Artemis Rod, which she keeps hidden strapped to her thigh under her skirt. Since the skirt's pretty short, albeit flared and pleated, it's hard to tell how it doesn't show all the time. The Rod is powerful against vampires, with an arcing, electric-like energy.

** Creator/WendeeLee being casted as an evil, manipulative vampire noblewoman? She was already one in ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''.

*** He takes this UpToEleven recently when he even ignores the fact that [[spoiler:it was Kaname who murdered his family in favor for desperately asking him to live so that Yuuki won't grieve.]]

* MoralDissonance: According to the author early on, Yuuki is meant to represent justice. However, because of either her guilt and/or love towards Kaname, she never expresses any anger towards his crimes, perhaps some discomfort at most, [[spoiler:and even proceeds to sleep with him despite the knowledge of him having caused Zero's tragedy.]] Although, as this was something stated early in the first arc, it may have deliberately changed with Yuuki's own change during the switch of arcs... that, or one can only wonder just what Hino Matsuri's idea of justice is...

** The most desirable blood to a vampire is also ranked by a pyramid. On top is the blood of purebloods, second is a beloved's blood, third is [[AdultFear the blood of children]], and fourth the blood of grown humans.

* AdultFear: The blood of children is apparently more desirable than the blood of grown humans.

%%* CreepyCoolCrosses

The anime has been licensed by Creator/VizMedia. It aired in Australia on Creator/{{ABC3}} and became a hit as one of the channel's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more popular shows]].

A musical adaptation ran in January 2015, then had a revival in July that same year, and follows the original part of the manga up to [[spoiler: Shizuka's death.]] The cast was all female, including Music/Nogizaka46 member Yumi Wakatsuki as the lead portraying Yuki Cross.

** [[spoiler:The way it only seemed to conclude the SeasonalRot however by being rushed, [[LeftHanging leaving several questions unanswered]] as well as having the main trio leave on a rather OOC note, it became a mixture of a [[DownerEnding Downer]] and GainaxEnding to many.]]

%%* NotSoDifferent: Kaname and Rido.
%%** Zero/Yuuki and Ichiru/Shizuka.

* AntiHero: Zero.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Rido.]]

* BallroomBlitz

* BeastAndBeauty

* BettyAndVeronica: Zero and Kaname respectively, for Yuuki's Archie.
* BetweenMyLegs: A panel at the end of chapter 71.

* {{Bishonen}}

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario
* BridalCarry

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Zero and Yuuki.

* CerebusSyndrome
* ChainsOfLove

* CliffHanger
* CoitusEnsues: In [[spoiler:chapter 89, even though Kaname's established that Yuuki isn't happy with him, and Yuuki's established that Zero sated her (previously stated as what proves love between vampires), the two of them still randomly end up sleeping together, to which it's afterwards treated like it never happened.]]

* CoolTeacher: Touga Yagari and Kaien Cross.

* CreepyCoolCrosses

* CuteButPsycho: Shizuka [[spoiler: when disguised as Maria.]]
** Could the LoveTriangle count?

* DancesAndBalls
* DanceOfRomance: [[spoiler:With Yuuki and Zero in chapter 87.]]

* DramaticWind
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: Sara's]] death.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Zero]] certainly did.

* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Cross Academy
* EmoTeen: Zero is a bit of this early on, until he transgresses to TheStoic.
* EmotionlessGirl: Seiren and Rima.

** Did the troper forget about Aidou?

* EvilTwin: Ichiru.
* EvilUncle: Rido
** Can also fall under EvilIsSexy. It doesn't help that his shirt is completely unbuttoned half the time.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Yuuki.
* {{Fainting}}
* FangsAreEvil: Both played straight and averted.

* FingerMuzzle: Zero does this to Yuuki at the masquerade in chapter 87.
* {{Flashback}}
* FlashBackEcho

* {{Foreshadowing}}

* FuroScene: With Yuuki in chapter 27.

* GoodIsNotNice: Zero is this to some extent.

* GreyAndGrayMorality

* HappilyAdopted: Yuuki, for the most parts.
* HappilyMarried: Juri and Haruka.

* HeldGaze: Some between Yuuki and Zero.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Zero, obviously.
* HurtingHero: Zero.

* IfICantHaveYou: The main drive behind [[spoiler:Rido's ]]insanity and acts.

* IncestSubtext: Between Zero and Ichiru.
* IncomingHam: Chairman Cross' introduction.

* InsecureLoveInterest: Zero.
** Ichiru and Kain could count too.

** Aidou may count.
* JigSawPuzzlePlot

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler: Kaname.]]
* KubrickStare: Zero has a few of these.

* LapPillow: Seen at the end of [[spoiler:chapter 56 between Yuuki and Kaname. ]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In several forms.

* LongingLook

** Don't forget Kain, who's always been hopelessly in love with Ruka. [[spoiler: There's still no signs of her returning his feelings.]]
** This would count for Yuuki too. Being aware of the attachment she has for Zero, she continues to feel "unworthy" for Kaname. Kaname is not too happy by the bond she and Zero shares either.
** There's also Ichiru who fell in love with Shizuka, who [[spoiler:while dying in his arms explains how she could never return his feelings, apparently in fear of hurting him like she did with her late level D vampire lover.]]

* LuminescentBlush

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Oh, Yuuki.
* MayDecemberRomance: The extreme version of it. Yuuki and Kaname are roughly [[spoiler:10, 000 years apart.]] [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty Not that you could tell.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Kaname''' (while [[ForceFeeding Zero is drinking from him]]): "You're supposed to hate vampires more than anyone, yet you need blood more than any other vampire. I think you're the most vampire like of us all."]]

* MoodWhiplash: Kaien musing about his hilarious past involving his first meeting with [[spoiler:Juri and Haruka]] is very sweet... until the end of the chapter, where Kaien explains in inner monologue that the reason that began his love/obsession for photography was [[spoiler:after his shocked realization that Juri and Haruka -- two precious people to Kaien -- died without leaving behind a single photograph of themselves.]] It can double as a bit of a {{Tearjerker}}.

* MyHeroZero: Obviously.
* MysteriousPast: Yuuki, until TheReveal. Also apply to Kaname.

* NoNameGiven: Zero and Ichiru's parents.
** [[spoiler:The pureblood woman from Kaname's past.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Kaname and Rido.
** Zero/Yuuki and Ichiru/Shizuka.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:How Kaname kills Aido's father]].
** [[spoiler:Or so it would seem.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: It's a vampire story after all.

* OppositesAttract: Arguably, Zero and Yuuki.

* PeekABangs
* PerpetualFrowner: Zero and Kaname.
* PervertDad: The Chairman...
* PetTheDog: Shizuka's relationship with Ichiru.

* PsychicPowers: A common pureblood ability.

* RedOniBlueOni: Yuuki is red and Zero is blue.

* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:Kaien.]]

* SecurityCling: Yuuki will do this with both Zero and Kaname.
* ShipTease: Kaname and Ruka
** Zero and Maria, most notably in recent chapters though it seems to be more of a case of ReplacementGoldfish (Zero replacing Ichiru to her) than a genuine crush though.
** Rima and Shiki.
** Yuuki and Aidou.

* ShowDontTell: Usually the case with Zero/Yuuki moments.

* {{Shoujo}}

* SleepCute

* StalkingIsLove: Kaname's methods of keeping an eye on his beloved Yuuki transgress a little into this territory.
* StarcrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Yuuki and Zero in the second arc.]]
* {{Subtext}}: Alot of Yuuki and Zero's interactions plays on this.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Kaname and Haruka.
* TearsOfRemorse: Some by Yuuki, along with TenderTears.

* TheBeautifulElite: The vampires. Later, possible deconstructed with characters that, despite everything, still suffer and hide their pain under this.
* TheChessmaster: Kaname.
* TheDogBitesBack: Zero has a moment of this when [[spoiler:he rips off Kaname's hand in chapter 46.]] Extra points for his animal motif ''being'' a dog.
* TheDragon: Ichiru to Shizuka.
** Later, [[spoiler:Takuma to Sara.]]
* TheGwenStacy: [[spoiler:Fuuka]] to Aidou, [[spoiler:the woman from the Ancestor's past to Kaname.]]
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies:]] [[spoiler:Both Yuuki and Zero at the end. Zero sacrifices himself for a child, with Yuuki then sacrificing herself after his death in order to turn Kaname human.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:The pureblood woman from Kaname's past.]]

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: A very bittersweet moment between [[spoiler:Yuuki and Zero in Chapter 46.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Zero]]:''' [[spoiler:Go, Yuuki... Go be next to... the man who can spend eternity with you... But the next time we meet... I will kill you, Yuuki...]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Yuuki]]:''' [[spoiler:Well then, in that case... I will keep running away from you, Zero. So that you will have a reason to live... by still having enemies to go after...]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zero gives out to [[spoiler:Yuuki]] when he found out [[spoiler:she's a Pureblood vampire all along]].
-->'''Zero''': Coming here to talk? You don't really think that would make a difference, do you? Discussing things like turning humans into vampires. But of course you transformed from a vampire into a human. On the other side of this door, I sense an arrogant Pureblood who does nothing but torment people.
* TheReveal: Quite early, that Zero is a vampire.
** [[spoiler:Yuuki is a pureblood vampire.]]
** [[spoiler: Kaname caused Zero's tragedy, not Rido.]]
* TheStoic: Kaname and Zero.

* TitleDrop
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Haruka and Juri.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Yuuki.

* TroubledButCute: Zero.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Slightly averted with Zero.

* {{Tsundere}}: Zero and Juuri.
* {{Twincest}}: Zero and Ichiru receive quite a share of [[HoYay Bro Yay.]]
* TwoGuysAndAGirl
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:In chapter 87, Zero finally learns that Yuuki returns his feelings (though it can be debated that he's had a feeling for a while, and 87 simply served the confirmation.)]] Although, [[YankTheDogsChain his chain is yanked again]] immediately afterwards.
** [[spoiler:At the end of the story, we're told how he and Yuuki lived happily together, with two children, for presumably a thousand years.]]

* VampiresAreRich
* VampireHunter
* VanHelsingHateCrimes

* VitriolicBestBuds: Yuuki and Zero in the first arc.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kaname.

** [[spoiler:It gets better.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yuuki and Zero in the second arc. [[spoiler: TheyDo.]]

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Rido when he's taken over Shiki's body.]]

* [[spoiler:WrongGuyFirst]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Rido]]
* YankTheDogsChain: Zero really can't catch a break from purebloods wanting to use him in one way or another.
** In the first arc, he also had a bad case of having to watch Yuuki's adoration and fawning over Kaname one too many times, [[spoiler:one occasion being right after Kaname ''had just been torturing him''.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: A prominent feature of the Cross Academy's girls' uniform.

* ActionDuo: Yuuki and Zero sometimes take on this role, [[spoiler:especially at the battle against Rido.]]
** [[spoiler: In recent chapters as well when fighting Kaname.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: In the vampire sense, [[spoiler:Yuuki nearly cheats on Kaname in chapter 60, and then completes the cheating in chapter 74 by drinking Zero's blood, which she had promised Kaname she wouldn't.]]

* WomanInWhite: Shizuka.

* PurpleEyes: Zero, Ichiru and Maria.

** [[spoiler:Kaname gives his life at the end to become the furnage, but is resurrected a thousand years later by Yuuki turning him human.]]

** The ending also shows us [[spoiler:Yori's grandchildren, who's grandfather is revealed to be Aidou.]]

* BrokenAesop: [[spoiler:Apparently there's no use striving for coexistence between two different species/societies, in the end it never gets better, so the solution is to mass murder one of the societies in question and then create a cure that can transform everyone into the publically preferred society (in this case, turn vampires into humans.) Whether this will be done against their will or not? Never explained.]]

In 2019, the series received an AudioDrama that came with volume 4 of ''memories'', coming with a {{Revision}} of the original manga ending, along with three original stories.

However, since the original story's finale, the mangaka has released up to four special chapters detailing the character's lives after the end and providing further back story on the side characters, giving special focus to Aidou, Yori, Seiren, Ai and Ren. Arguably these chapters captured the original spirit and appeal that the first half had with its viewers, breathing life into its fanbase again. Now, its been announced that later in 2016, the mangaka will revitalize the series and choose to focus more on Yuuki, Zero and Ai and the relationship they had as a family growing up, known as "Vampire Knight Memories".

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The epilogue takes place a thousand years later, with Yuuki [[BabiesEverAfter along with her daughter and son]] going to the family grave to bring what was left of the Bloody Rose and Yuuki gives her life to Kaname to turn him human.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Zero and Kaname.

* AMinorKidroduction: The serie begins with showing us Yuuki as a child, before skipping ahead in time to when she's 16.

The manga became a victim to ExecutiveMeddling which caused it to end at 93 chapters while the author had originally meant for it to have been more than a hundred. Later it's mostly remembered as the shoujo that used to have its famous GloryDays, ranking top spots in several shoujo lists in Japan, until SeasonalRot heavily kicked in and it ultimately ended on an abrupt note, culminating in the story being considered the mangaka's CreatorKiller instead.

** A more trolling version. [[spoiler:After a thousand years has passed in the last chapter, Yuuki is seen with two children, to which it's made ambiguous whether both of them are Zero's, or one is Kaname's. With the release of a bonus chapter however, the girl is confirmed to be Kaname's.]]

** Also, Ichiru with Zero. Despite his inferiority complex and rather disturbing acts, he genuinly loved Zero.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Zero has a rather disturbing incident before going off to face Rido.]] [[spoiler: Kaname could also count in the flashback that shows his rather decayed body at the moment he's awoken by Rido after a milleniums' long slumber.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of some of the volumes, particularily in the second arc, the characters would comment on having to "wait six months in this position to see what happens next".
* BreakTheCutie: What happened with eleven-year old Zero.

** [[spoiler:In the penultimate chapter, Zero attempts to talk Kaname out of sacrificing himself, explaining that what he does only brings pain to Yuuki rather than acting like compensation for his actions. This was possibly stemming from Zero's own self-destructive thinking throughout most of the story, not believing himself to be worthy of love and more deserving of dying, even ''before'' being turned into a vampire (for "stealing" part of Ichiru's life in the vomb). Having eventually realized his self-loathing mindset had only served to hurt both Ichiru and Yuuki however, rather than being a said compensation, he recognized this similar kind of mindset in Kaname and thus confronted him about it, epitomizing his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: Any interaction between Yuuki and Zero in the second arc may count to this. It's bad, in other words.

* CycleOfRevenge: Zero hates vampires because [[spoiler: Hiou Shizuka, a pureblood, killed his vampire hunter parents AND turned him into a vampire]]. He hates them so much that he vows to kill [[spoiler: her]] and every other pureblood vampire, even [[spoiler: Yuuki once it's revealed that she herself is one]]. He also has no issue offing himself once the deed gets done. Later we find out [[spoiler: Hiou Shizuka killed his parents because ''they killed someone very precious to her'' -- only because this person's name was put on the "assassination list" for some malevolent reason, despite the fact he wasn't a Level E]]. It could have gotten ''worse'' had everyone continued to believe he killed [[spoiler: Shizuka]] which, if not for Kaname, would have brought down the vengeance of the vampire senate on Zero.

* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler:Yuuki and Kaname, being prone to bring out the worst in each other. With him, Yuuki changes from her determined, energetic, joyful and relatively action-driven self to being a needy, insecure, whiny and timid StayInTheKitchen girlfriend, being "reminded of her place" and how weak she is, should she ever oppose him. In turn, Kaname keeps manipulating and killing whoever he sees fit “for her sake” (awaiting no request from her), leaving her with the guilt and sadness from it afterwards. There are also very rare, if none, cases of the two looking happy together (unless you refer to five year old Yuuki.)]]
** Although, they waver between this and RomanticizedAbuse, given how the author still portray them in a romantic light despite all the unhealthy aspects.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:At the end, the solution to coexistence is a sudden discovery of an old theorized cure that can transform vampires into humans.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Kaname, who can manipulate and kill whoever he wants, good or bad, as long as it's "for Yuuki" nearly everyone in the story will free pass him. It's even more ironic when people like Shizuka and [[spoiler:Sara]] were labeled villains for doing far less crimes than that of Kaname's record. Even [[spoiler:Rido]] lived with his unrequited love for a whole ''3, 000 years before going mad'', vs Kaname who couldn't help but treat Zero like dirt from very early on.

* {{Irony}}: Zero's vampire hunter family is killed by a pureblood vampire, next to turning Zero to a vampire himself and making his brother betray him, all in one night. This causes him to hate vampires, purebloods especially.[[spoiler: It's then revealed that Yuuki whom he lives with for four years afterwards, who helps healing his heart and who he falls in love with, [[AwfulTruth is a pureblood vampire.]]]]

** In Vampire Knight, society is divided between vampires and humans/hunters, who don't go very well along. Then you have the fandom mostly divided in two major groups as well; Zero/Yuuki and Kaname/Yuuki supporters. It's hard to decide in which of the two opposing sides you'd rather not end up in the crossfire of.
** Throughout the story Kaname's [[spoiler:death would often be hinted towards/foreshadowed, while most believed Yuuki and Zero to be relatively safe considering their age and "innocence". By the end of the story however, Yuuki and Zero are dead while Kaname's alive (though he ''did'' "die" [[DisneyDeath beforehand.)]]]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Kaname and Zero both about Yuuki, though Zero a bit more obviously as he several times in the first arc mentioned how he only wants Yuuki to smile "from the bottom of her heart". Even after [[spoiler: TheReveal that alienates him, his main reason for separating with Yuuki is apparently because he believes she doesn't need him and will be happy with Kaname.]]

* LesbianVampire: [[spoiler:Sara Shirabuki.]] She could possibly be bisexual, but considering her so far all-female harem. . .

-->'''Zero: '''"Because you were there, Yuuki, I might have been able to live on...".

-->'''[[spoiler:Zero]]:''' [[spoiler:Go, Yuuki... Go be next to... the man who can spend eternity with you. ... But the next time we meet... I will kill you, Yuuki...]]