History Series / DeathValley

* Captain Frank Dashell: A minor {{cloudcuckoolander}} who also seems to [[AnythingThatMoves have a sexual interest in every member of his team]], Dashell recognizes that there are times to quiet down and do his job [[LetsGetDangerous when the situation becomes serious.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: Captain Dashell has made sexually suggestive remarks, including some minor touching, to both men and women under his command. However, he has also stated (to the camera) that it would be inappropriate for him to engage in any sort of sexual activities with his subordinates.

* DeathBySex: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When a werewolf attacks an Adult Film set, it is the makeup artist who is killed, with all the actors surviving.

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* Officer Carla Rinaldi: The no-nonsense member of the team, Carla [[BoomHeadshot would rather deal with zombies quickly than mess around]]. She has adapted to most of the new supernatural world and is no longer either excited or terrified by monsters, treating each encounter with the blase of experience. Captain Dashell believes her to be Hispanic, which she has refuted [[AmbiguouslyBrown without elaboration]].

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Captain Dashell once tried to reference Carla's quinceañera, to which Carla responds that she is not Hispanic, but she does not elaborate. Her actress, Tania Raymonde, is of French and Russian descent.

* MercyKill: When Deputy Chief Ribbings is bitten by a zombie he pleads [[ICannotSelfTerminate for others to kill him]] so he will not become a zombie. John-John decided to [[{{TakeThat}} wait for thirty seconds]] [[{{PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad}} to confirm if Ribbings was infected]]

* AdultFear: Stubeck is a father of two little girls, and he spends a lot of time worrying what is going to happen to his kids as they grow up. Each time he encounters a woman in a demeaning or dangerous job he tries to discover what happened in their life to force them to this, and how he can help them get out of it.

* FixItInPost: After Billy flirts with a news reporter, on camera, she informs him that he is confusing her with a different reporter that had been killed earlier in the episode. Billy [[CompletelyMissingThePoint continues to hit on her]] until Stubeck makes him realize the situation, whereupon Billy himself turns to the camera and asks if they can fix it in post.

The show was not renewed for a second season, leaving it at twelve episodes.

''Death Valley'' was a Live Action half-hour BlackComedy[=/=]{{Horror}} show on {{Creator/MTV}}. It revolved around the UTF (Undead Task Force), a branch of the Los Angeles Police Department that deal with {{Vampire}}s, [[{{Werewolf}} Werewolves]] and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]] in the San Fernando Valley. A year before the series began, these supernatural monsters suddenly appeared in the Valley for no known reason, forcing its inhabitants to adapt to their suddenly shifted lives.

* IncompatibleOrientation: John-John has a minor crush on Carla, complicated by the fact that she is a lesbian. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope In the season one finale she displayed visible jealousy when he flirted with another woman]], [[BiTheWay and kissed him passionately after rescuing him from a vampire]].]]

* BiTheWay: Julia, Carla's girlfriend, is bisexual. At the end of the series [[spoiler: Carla as well. But maybe only where John-John is concerned.]]

* ClearMyName: When the entire ammo and weapon supply of the UTF is stolen [[SwissCheeseSecurity with nobody even noticing]], many members of the force accuse Kirsten, who had only just revealed the truth about the GBGB parties she had attended with Natalie, the Captains niece. During the climactic fight scene, she charges straight at the zombie horde screaming "I'm not a traitor!"

** Natalie, the Captain's niece, describes [[spoiler: when she was turned]] as being invited over to a male friends house, discovering that he had many other men with him who forced her to drink, and then attacking her when she was drunk and only climbing off her when his girlfriend came home. The entire scene, including the questions Kirsten asked, was a standard depiction of rape disclosure.

** When the documentary crew tells John-John that he swears too much [[GoshDangItToHeck he starts self-censoring what he says]], using the term "MeetTheFockers" instead of "motherf***er."

--> '''John-John:''' "MeetTheFockers!"

-->'''Billy:''' Not on ''TrueBlood'', Jamie, but, uh, y'know what? You can add up all the stuff that doesn't make sense on that show and [[SelfDeprecation make an entire new show.]]

''Death Valley'' was a Live Action half-hour BlackComedy[=/=]{{Horror}} show on {{MTV}}. It revolved around the UTF (Undead Task Force), a branch of the Los Angeles Police Department that deal with {{Vampire}}s, [[{{Werewolf}} Werewolves]] and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]] in the San Fernando Valley. A year before the series began, these supernatural monsters suddenly appeared in the Valley for no known reason, forcing its inhabitants to adapt to their suddenly shifted lives.

->Let's get out there and kill something!
-->'''Captain Frank Dashell'''

** Billy points out that one of the zombies he and Stubeck encounter looks like Mickey Rourke in ''Film/TheWrestler''.

* OutsideContextVillain: The series ended with the introduction of one:[[spoiler:A Shape-shifting being that looked like a demon used its tongue to kill the vampire leader by ripping the vampire's heart out.]] Nobody present had any idea about what had just happened.