History Series / FirstKill

Juliette Atwood (Sarah Catherine Hook) is a standard socially awkward lesbian teenager who turned sixteen a few weeks ago - bad news for her, because it means that her vampire lineage is starting to fully assert itself. Now her family expects her to perform her first kill so she may enter the ranks of legacy vampire society, something that horrifies Juliette since she just wants to live her life on her terms. But the pressure of her duties is enough to push her towards Calliope "Cal" Burns (Imani Lewis), the new girl in school who she's been crushing on since they met. They encounter each other at a party and Juliette prepares herself to kill Cal...

* MakerOfMonsters: Oliver's unnamed witch girlfriend makes at minimum a zombie, and is implied to be responsible for much of the influx of monsters into town.

* MissingMom: Theseus's birth mother was killed by a vampire when he was seven. Talia, his dad's wife and mother of his younger half-siblings, still considers him wholly her son and they deeply love each other. Even so, his mother's loss has affected him, with Theseus and his dad planning revenge on her killer for years.

* SecondLove: Jack lost his first wife, Theseus's mother, to a vampire attack, but he's clearly in love with Talia when the series begins, who's the mother of his younger children Calliope and Apollo.

* StraightGay: Ben and Noah, his lover; both lack any stereotypical traits of gay men.

* DawsonCasting: As per usual, but special mention to Sarah Catherine Hook (Juliette), who's actually four months older than Gracie Dzienny (Elinor).

* MissingMom: Theseus' birth mother was killed by a vampire when he was seven. Talia, his dad's wife and mother of his younger half-siblings, still considers him wholly her son and they deeply love each other. Even so, his mother's loss has affected him, with Theseus and his dad planning revenge on her killer for years.

* SecondLove: Jack lost his wife and Theseus' mother to a vampire attack, but he's clearly in love with Talia when the series begins, who's the mother of his younger children Calliope and Apollo.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Cal appropriately compares her and Juliette (who even has the same name with a different spelling as Juliet) with ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', to the point that she quotes the play's prologue while they hide out in their school theatre. Being a legacy vampire and scion of vampire hunters respectively, they both note how much it applies to them. Comparisons continue to be made and the play often quoted throughout the rest of the first season.
* SiblingRivalry: Oliver and Elinor are twins, but at some point before the series Oliver was exiled from his home for being wantonly violent. When he returns, the two do nothing but butt heads. In the finale [[spoiler: he tells Elinor that he blames her for manipulating him into his prior acts of cruelty before leaving her in prison]].

* StarCrossedLovers: Juliette and Cal, a vampire and monster hunter, are drawn to each other despite their different worlds. They're well aware of this, after all the school is putting on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and of course Juliette is named after its lead.
* StraightGay: Ben and Noah, his lover, both lack any stereotypical traits of gay men.
* SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne: [[spoiler: Talia is the only member of her family to defend Theo after he becomes a vampire, to the extent that she frees him when no one is looking and arranges for Juliette's brother Oliver to protect him.]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: Juliette transforms Theo into a vampire to save his life, an action that nobody approves of. As Cal states, she turned him into the thing he hates the most because his mother was killed by a vampire in front of him, which Theo swore revenge over along with his father.]]

* HorrorHunger: As a legacy vampire, Juliette must kill someone shortly after her sixteenth birthday as that's when the hunger become strong enough to take over. She's is terrified of taking someone's life, but her sister and family as a whole remind her that if she doesn't do it on her terms, she'll eventually be forced to feed on the nearest human whether she wants to or not. In the show it's represented by the lights around her turning red and all noises other than nearby pulses fading away. [[spoiler: When Cal begins bleeding from a zombie attack later, Juliette struggles to control herself despite her insistence that she'd never feed on her earlier in the episode]].

* MeetCute: Juliette first meets Cal (who she finds attractive but is too shy to initially approach) through bumping into her accidentally, causing Cal to spill her drink all over herself. Cal brushes off this and it leads to them being at a party later where they kiss.

* DownerEnding: The first season ends with [[spoiler: Juliette and Cal breaking up because Juliette turned Theo into a vampire, and Cal swearing to find a way to kill Juliette after this betrayal. Theo's entire family is debating on whether to kill him now, except for Talia who sneaks him out of the house and handing him over to Oliver to protect him - only for Oliver to reveal that he intends to incorporate Theo into his plans to overrun the town with all manner of monsters]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Elinor may be a vampiric serial killer, who enjoys her killings and collects her victims' IDs as mementos, but she appears to genuinely care about Juliette and her father, expressing worry when the latter is mortally wounded, and agreeing to an arranged marriage to get Davina to save his life.]]

* FullNameUltimatum: "Calliope Antigone Burns, you have crossed my absolute limit. Closing a door when a girl's in your room? That's not how it works in my house."

* AmicableExes: Cal is best friends with her ex-girlfriend Tess.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Elinor may be a vampiric serial killer, who enjoys her killings and collects her victims ID as mementos, but she appears to genuinely care about Juliette and her father, expressing worry when the latter is mortally wounded, and agreeing to an arranged marriage to get Davina to save his life.]]

* HealingFactor: Legacy vampires have one, easily healing from most injuries. It's first seen after Juliette gets staked by Cal. She passes out, but on regaining consciousness she pulls out the stake and the wound heals instantly.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Cal is worried that the Guild's relentless hunting of monsters could lead to them killing ones who don't pose a threat to humans. The Guild doesn't believe that there are any such things and seems to view considering this trope at all as a major red flag.

* HorrorHunger: As a legacy vampire, Juliette must kill someone shortly after her sixteenth birthday as that's when the hunger become strong enough to take over. She's is terrified of taking someone's life, but her sister and family as a whole remind her that if she doesn't do it on her terms she'll eventually be forced to feed on the nearest human whether she wants to or not. In the show it's represented by the lights around her turning red and all noises other than nearby pulses fading away. [[spoiler: When Cal begins bleeding from a zombie attack later, Juliette struggles to control herself despite her insistence that she'd never feed on her earlier in the episode]].
* HypnoticEyes: Elinor is unique in the legacies through having a CompellingVoice ability that's accompanied by this, her eyes glowing yellow as she commands them.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Juliette is constantly feeling the pressure of trying to both fit in to normal society as a vampire and her own vampiric legacy that she wants no part of. Cal feels this to a lesser degree - she loves being a hunter, but that doesn't mean there aren't times where she'd like to stay in the same place for more than a few months, or be able to pursue her desires towards Juliette.

* MercyKillArrangement: Jack and Theo had discussed with each other and agreed to kill each other should one be turned into a vampire or other monster during a hunt.

* NighInvulnerability: Legacy vampires are incredibly hard to kill - sunlight doesn't hurt them, staking them through the heart only incapacitates them, and pure silver causes pain but nothing lethal. There ''is'' record of a guild member killing a legacy and living to tell the tale, but [[spoiler: the silver spears they allegedly used to do the deed don't work]]. By the end of the season there's still no firm way to take out a legacy.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Davina never approved of Sebastian because he was a made vampire instead of a legacy. Margot's marriage to him would have gotten her excommunicated from legacy society if not solely because she was keeper in waiting for the Queen Serpent.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:After Theseus is turned into a vampire, his own dad insists on killing him as a danger. His stepmother (who has become his surrogate mom) warns "[[MamaBear over her dead body]]", and gets him to stop. However, later on she agrees reluctantly, though it turns out she's lying and brings him to Juliette's vampire family instead.]]

** Juliette and Cal find [[spoiler: Theo]] bleeding out and practically dead. It's only when Cal has left that Juliette hears them ask for help and bites him. [[spoiler: She claims she was trying to drain Theo to ease his suffering, but it's implied she knew entirely what she was doing and intended for him to be turned]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Elinor may be a vampiric serial killer, who enjoys her killings and collects her victims ID as mementos, but she appears to genuinely care about Juliette, and her father, expressing worry for the latter is mortally wounded, and agreeing to an arranged marriage to get Davina to save his life.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Cal is worried that the Guild's relentless hunting of monsters could lead to them killing ones who don't pose a threat to humans. The Guild doesn't believe that there are any such things.

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:After Thesues is turned into a vampire, his own dad insists on killing him as a danger. His stepmother (who has become his surrogate mom) warns "[[MamaBear over her dead body]]", and gets him to stop. However, later on she agrees reluctantly, though it turns out she's lying and brings him to Juliette's vampire family instead.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, reproduce naturally, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, [[VampireInvitation requiring an invitation to enter a private home]], and being burned by pure silver (though not killed). They alsp have [[SuperStrength greater strenght]] and [[SuperSenses more enhanced senses]] than humans.

* RunawayBride: Margot ran away from her wedding, leaving her fiance at the altar, as it was the result of an {{arranged marriage}} she'd wanted out of. She later apologizes to her fiance, who forgives her, having come to understand it over time.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: The vampire hunters believe that all vampires are irredeemably evil monsters who will kill innocent humans, so they have to be destroyed without mercy. However, Cal questions this after meeting Juliette, who's a {{nice girl}} disturbed by the idea of killing humans for sustenance. Her family still plans to kill Juliette along with the rest.

* VampireHunter: Cal's whole family are these, plus {{monster hunter}}s in general. She's in training to be this as well. That becomes complicated when she meets a Juliette, whom she's drawn to and questions if they're right in their actions.

* {{Dhampyr}}: Juliette turns out to be one, born to a Legacy vampire and her “human plaything” (who she later married and turned as well).

* HealingFactor: Legacy vampires (or {{dhampyr}}s born to them such as Juliette) have one, easily healing from most injuries. It's first seen after Juliette gets staked incompletely by Cal. She just pulls the stake out on regaining consciousness then the wound closes up instantly.

* MissingMom: Theseus' birth mother was killed by a vampire when he was seven. Margot, his dad's wife and mother of his younger half-siblings, considers him wholly her son though too and deeply loves him, with him also feeling this way toward her. Even so, his mother's loss has affected him, with Theseus and his dad planning revenge on her killer for years.

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Cal appropriately compares her and Juliette (who even has the same name with a different spelling as Juliet) with ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', to the point that she quotes the play's prologue while they hide out in their school theatre. Being a {{dhampyr}} and scion of vampire hunters respectively, they both note how much it applies to them. Comparisons continue to be made and the play often quoted throughout the rest of the first season.

* VampireHunter: Cal's whole family are these, plus {{monster hunter}}s in general. She's in training to be this as well. That becomes complicated when she meets a {{dhampyr}}, Juliette, whom she's drawn to and questions if they're right in their actions.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: The vampire hunters believe that all vampires are irredeemably evil monsters who will kill innocent humans so they have to be destroyed without mercy. However, Cal questions this after meeting Juliette, a {{dhampyr}} she's attracted to and who's a {{nice girl}} disturbed by the idea of killing humans for sustenance. They plan to kill Juliette along with the rest.

* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: Cal appropriately compares her and Juliette (who even has the same name with a different spelling as Juliet) with ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', to the point that she quotes the play's prologue while they hide out in their school theatre. Being a {{dhampyr}} and scion of vampire hunters respectively, they both note how much it applies to them. Comparisons continue to be made and the play often quoted throughout the rest of the first season.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Elinor can make humans forget about things (such as her feeding on things) using her [[HypnoticEyes hypnotic gaze]].

* LesbianVampire: Juliette, naturally.
* MamaBear: Both Margot and Talia are fiercely protective of their children, often nearly coming to blows themselves to protect Juliette and Cal respectively.
** Talia also nearly comes to blows with Jack after [[spoiler: Theo becomes a vampire. He wants to kill him, as he thinks Theo is no different from the mosnters they hunt, but Talia cannot see him a anything other than her son.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, reproduce naturally, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, requiring an invitation to enter a private home, and being burned by pure silver.

* SecondLove: Jack lost his wife and Theseus' mother to a vampire attack, but he's clearly in love with Talia when the series begins.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: Juliette transforms Theo into a vampire to save his life, an action that nobody approves of. As Cal states, she turned him into the thing he hates the most because it attacked and killed his mother in front of him.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Cal is worried that the Guild's relentless hunting of monsters could lead to them killing ones who don't pose a threat to humans.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The burns kids are named after figures from Greek mythology - Theseus, Apollo, and Calliope.

* VampiresAreRich: The legacy vampires are all old money families, including the Atwoods.

-->'''Cal:''' There are only three rules for being a great hunter.\\

-->--''Episode 1x01, "First Kiss"''

''First Kill'' is a supernatural-young adult-queer romance-thriller series that released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on June 10, 2022, and based on a short story of the same name by V.E. Schwab.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: Juliette transforms Theo into a vampire to save his life, an action that nobody approves of. As Cal states, she turned him into the thing he hates the most because it attacked and killed his mother in front of him.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, requiring an invitation to enter a private home, and being burned by pure silver.

* HunterOfMonsters: The Burns family is part of The Guild, an ancient organization devoted to hunting and killing any monster they find.