History Series / ForeverKnight

* BackForTheDead: Janette was PutOnABus at the beginning of season three, but [[TheBusCameBack came back]] to announce that [[SexChangesEverything being with a mortal lover had made her mortal too]]. And then Nick ends up [[spoiler:having to bring her back across in order to save her life]].

** There was the case of [[spoiler:Janette, Nick's vampire lover. After being PutOnABus, she returned for one episode, having somehow become human. She was then mortally injured, and Nick turned her back into a vampire, explicitly against her will, rather than let her die. The irony of this was not lost on anybody.]]

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Natalie tries to wean Nick off his vampirism (which she thinks is mostly psychological) by encouraging him to eat small amounts of food, take garlic pills and use a sunbed. He's also shown touching candle flames and exposing himself to religious symbols to deal with his fear of them. In the past just trying to touch a cross caused Nick's hand to burst into flame, whereas now he only gets a minor burn. This proves useful when he's able to ward off [=LaCroix=] by holding a cross; even though it should effect Nick just as much, [=LaCroix=] breaks and flees before he does.

* DramaticHourLong
** The first season aired with 40 minutes per episode on CBS, and 47 minutes on Canadian broadcasts. Fans were soon passing around videotapes of the "Canadian versions" and posting transcripts of missing scenes; while many of the longer episodes contained filler scenes of [[MrFanservice Nick brooding]], some contained important plot points or character development. The later two seasons only had one version.

-->'''[=Lacroix=]:''' I shall wait until the flames go out, then I shall scatter her ashes to the wind. [[VillainousBSOD I may even say a prayer.]]

* ClipShow: "Close Call," in which Schanke starts putting together all the strange things he's noticed about Nick (and comes ''this close'' to confirming that Nick is a vampire).

* {{Flashback}}: Every episode has flashbacks to something in the past (usually of Nick, but sometimes one of the other vampires) that's related--directly or thematically--to the case being investigated. The flashbacks are sometimes happening InUniverse, as Nick is called out over his ThousandYardStare or drifts into oncoming traffic.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Nick and Vachon; others not so much. Vampires don't have to kill when feeding, but their bloodlust means they have a very good chance of draining the victim once they've started.

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "Hunted", Nick and Schanke track a vigilante killer who offers two million dollars to any criminal who escapes her hunt alive. When she discovers that Nick is a vampire, she kidnaps Schanke and holds him hostage to force Nick to play along.

* ImmuneToBullets: Nick is often shot in the line of duty, but since he's a vampire he quickly recovers. He'll often use this to his advantage as well by [[TakingTheBullet making himself a shield for other people]] who wouldn't be able to survive it otherwise. Of course he always claims it was OnlyAFleshWound or he was wearing a BulletproofVest.

** In the pilot Nick and Schanke don't like each other much. After Schanke borrows Nick's vintage Cadillac without asking and crashes it, he thinks Nick will be furious. He is, but admits that Schanke was right about the case they were investigating, so agrees to forgive him instead.

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: After realising that Nicholas and Natalie have fallen in love, [=LaCroix=] threatens to kill her (in payback for Nicholas [[MySisterIsOffLimits refusing to let his sister]] be brought across after [=LaCroix=] had fallen in love with her). Nicholas claims that [[SheMeantNothingToMe he's only manipulating Natalie]] to give her added incentive to cure him, so [=LaCroix=] challenges Nicholas to bring her across. Nicholas vamps out and pretends he's about to do so, and fortunately [=LaCroix=] [[EvenEvilHasStandards changes his mind at the last moment]].

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: After realising that Nicholas and Natalie have fallen in love, [=LaCroix=] threatens to kill her (in payback for Nicholas [[MySisterIsOffLimits refusing to let his sister]] be brought across after [=LaCroix=] had fallen in love with her). Nicholas claims that [[SheMeansNothingToMe he's only manipulating Natalie]] to give her added incentive to cure him, so [=LaCroix=] challenges Nicholas to bring her across. Nicholas vamps out and pretends he's about to do so, and fortunately [=LaCroix=] [[EvenEvilHasStandards changes his mind at the last moment]].

* {{Fanservice}}: Albeit of the FamilyFriendlyStripper version--ToplessnessFromTheBack and lingerie, but not much else.

* SeenItAll: In "If Looks Could Kill", when Natalie suggests that the mystery of the week involves "some kind of [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] thing", Nick retorts, "Something I haven't encountered in 800 years on several continents?"

* GoIntoTheLight: A flashback to when Nicholas was brought across showed that after his blood was drained by [=LaCroix=], he saw a veiled woman standing in a glowing doorway. [=LaCroix=] then called on Nicholas to turn away from the light and return to him, while the veiled woman offers him the [[TwoRoadsBeforeYou choice]] of going on to the Afterlife, or returning to Earth to live as a vampire. That week's FlatlinePlotline involved Nicholas recreating his NearDeathExperience to see if the other choice is still an option or if he's eternally damned.

* ImmuneToBullets: Nick is often shot in the line of duty, but since he's a vampire he quickly recovers. He'll often use this to his advantage as well by making himself a shield for other people who wouldn't be able to survive it otherwise. Of course he always claims it was OnlyAFleshWound or he was wearing a BulletproofVest.

* ValentinesDayEpisode: In "Be My Valentine" the SerialKiller-of-the-week is killing lonely women. In other news, Dr. Natalie Lambert and her RomanticVampireBoy, [[VampireDetective Nick Knight]] decide to stop being JustFriends. Unfortunately [=LaCroix=] has other ideas.

** Nick met UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc in various stages of her life--as peasant girl, warrior and martyr. He also implies that he helped Music/LudwigVanBeethoven write his symphonies after he went deaf.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [=LaCroix=] has the ability to make [[ImmuneToMindControl "Resisters"]] forget, if not the existence of vampires, then certain memories. He uses this as a ResetButton on Natalie to forget Nick's LoveConfession.

* MustBeInvited: Averted for RuleOfDrama. Kinda inconvenient if a cop can't enter a perp's place without an invite.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Averted; our vampires are pretty much the 1800s classics. Garlic repels them, sunlight causes them pain but doesn't kill them particularly quickly (although it will still kill them), stakes or beheadings kill them, crosses repel them and so on. However MustBeInvited is averted for RuleOfDrama, and MissingReflection (handwaved as resulting from Nick's humanity) for budget reasons.

* HenPeckedHusband: Schanke is alway griping about, or trying to placate, his [[TheGhost unseen wife Myra]].

* HotterAndSexier: The replacement of Nick's first partner, a balding middle-aged guy, with his second, an attractive young blonde.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
** Averted; our vampires are pretty much the 1800s classics. Garlic repels them, sunlight causes them pain but doesn't kill them particularly quickly (although it will still kill them), stakes or beheadings kill them, crosses repel them and so on.
** Nick casts a reflection, handwaved as resulting from his humanity. Really, it was a budget thing.
** One episode shows that even ''dogs'' can be turned.
** MustBeInvited is averted for RuleOfDrama, given the amount of breaking and entering Nick does, [[CowboyCop often without a warrant]].

** Some of the tricks Nick plays on Schanke via the JediMindTrick are a bit cruel, like getting him to wash his car or not giving him FakeMemories to replace his LaserGuidedAmnesia so he looks like an idiot--the latter after Schanke shot a woman ''to save Nick's life.'' Furthermore any officer-involved shooting is shown to be investigated by InternalAffairs, with serious consequences for Schanke's career if it looks like he's hiding something.

* WhoNeedsEnemies

--->"After all, when you have a friend in the Nightcrawler, who needs enemies?"

* {{Nepotism}}: Tracy is the daughter of the police commissioner, and is very aware of the effect this has on her career and how people treat her. This makes her overly eager to prove herself on her own merits.

** Nick met UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc in various stages of her life--as peasant girl, warrior and martyr.

* BloodyHorror: When Nick tries to kick his addiction, he has a nightmare of him confessing his BloodLust at a TropaholicsAnonymous meeting, whereupon blood starts oozing out of the podium.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In one episode a woman whom Nick had dismissed as being a vampire because she'd been seen in daylight turns out to have a SplitPersonality, one vampire and the other human. Natalie sees this as a good sign for curing Nick, and in an AmnesiaEpisode this appears to be the case (they're even able to have sex) although the effects are only temporary.

** Lampshaded by [=LaCroix=] whose efforts to 'help' Nicholas often leave him in the lurch.