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* MrFanservice: A big audience of the show comes for the eye-candy that [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25100000/Landon-Liboiron-landon-ryan-liboiron-25182831-2560-1918.jpg Landon Liboiron]] and [[http://www.gp.se/image_processor/1.332497.1268746184!/image/2901166507.jpg_gen/derivatives/full/2901166507.jpg?maxWidth=620 Bill Skarsgård]] provide as Peter and Roman, respectively.

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* WorkingClassWerewolves: Werewolf Peter Rumancek lives in a dilapidated trailer and tends to wear the same outfit every day (partly justified in that his family are gypsies, so not having a steady job and moving around a lot comes with the lifestyle). He's contrasted with upir (a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent type of vampire]]) Roman Godfrey, who's [[VampiresAreRich absolutely rolling in it]] (to the point where his mother once casually rented out an entire theme park for him and his cousin for a night).




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* GreenEyes: Members of the Godfrey family have green eyes.
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* VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle: Subverted. Vampire Roman Godfrey and werewolf Peter Rumancek were already best friends ''before'' they met the human Miranda. When she convinces them to have a threeway with her, they both feel weird about it the next morning, but they're never shown fighting over her.
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* FriendlessBackground: Neither Roman nor Peter had friends before they met each other.

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* FriendlessBackground: Neither Roman nor Peter had friends before they met each other. The former because of his upper class background and a mother who taught him not to mingle with "lessers", and the latter because of his lower class background and necessity to keep moving places so people won't find out that he's a werewolf.
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* FamilialBodySnatcher: Towards the end of season 3, Doctor Johan Pryce develops the ability to upload someone's mind into a new body. His employer Olivia, who is dying of a vampiric disease, has him transfer her into an unsuspecting billionaire's body. However, the upload soon decays and Pryce explains that genetic compatibility is an issue. Desperate, Olivia then makes repeated attempts to download herself into all of her three children, each of whom rebuff her or fight her off.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Roman utterly despises his manipulative mother Olivia and did everything possible to distance himself from her, but he ends up becoming a remorseless, selfish predator quite like her with just as little regard for human life or collateral damage.

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* BuryYourGays: The very first person to die in the TV series is [[spoiler: a teenage girl who is on her way to a liaison with her female [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher]].]] Additionally, [[spoiler: one of the few main characters who die is Clementine Chasseur, whose introduction shows her in bed with another woman.]]

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* BuryYourGays: The very first person to die in the TV series is [[spoiler: a teenage girl who is on her way to a liaison with her female [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher]].]] {{teacher|StudentRomance}}]]. Additionally, [[spoiler: one of the few main characters who die is Clementine Chasseur, whose introduction shows her in bed with another woman.]]



%%* ConspicuousCGI: Transformation scenes and Shelley's eye.

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Letha dies when giving birth to her baby, thereby ending the relationship between Peter and Letha for good]].

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Letha dies when giving birth to her baby, thereby ending the relationship between Peter and Letha for good]].good.]]



* HomePornMovie: [[spoiler:Andreas]] and a Croatian mob girl get the bright idea of shooting a porn movie while they're both conspiring to rip off her boss. This obviously comes back to bite them both when he discovers the tape, and uses it to [[spoiler:convince Peter that Andreas has crossed them both and become a liability]].



* HomePornMovie: [[spoiler:Andreas]] and a Croatian mob girl get the bright idea of shooting a porn movie while they're both conspiring to rip off her boss. This obviously comes back to bite them both when he discovers the tape, and uses it to [[spoiler:convince Peter that Andreas has crossed them both and become a liability]].



* KissingCousins: Implied in the novel and the show. [[spoiler:Until it's revealed that Roman and Letha are [[BrotherSisterIncest half-siblings]] and that Roman is the father of Letha's baby]].

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* KissingCousins: Implied in the novel and the show. [[spoiler:Until it's revealed that Roman and Letha are [[BrotherSisterIncest half-siblings]] and that Roman is the father of Letha's baby]].baby.]]



** Shelley [[spoiler:seems to reference Mary Shelley, since Shelley the child is a Frankenstein's Monster-like resurrection/creation of Olivia's dead daughter.]]

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** Shelley [[spoiler:seems to reference Mary Shelley, since Shelley the child is a Frankenstein's Monster-like resurrection/creation of Olivia's dead daughter.]]daughter]].



** Letha is in Greek mythology, [[spoiler: "The river of forgetfulness, one of the five rivers in Hades." and "A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion."]]

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** Letha is is, in Greek mythology, [[spoiler: "The river of forgetfulness, one of the five rivers in Hades." and "A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion."]]



** Peter was completely still when they found out [[spoiler: Letha had died.]]

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%%* ShootTheDog: What Peter had to do to [[spoiler: his cat.]]

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%%* ShootTheDog: What Peter had to do to [[spoiler: his cat.]]cat]].



* ThreeWaySex: Roman and Peter have a spontaneous threesome with Miranda in season 2. They both feel weird about it the next morning, while she's just like "it's the 21st century, guys!".
* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Roman bites Olivia's tongue out]]! Pryce later manages to surgically reattach it, however.

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* ThreeWaySex: Roman and Peter have a spontaneous threesome with Miranda in season 2. They both feel weird about it the next morning, while she's just like "it's the 21st century, guys!".
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* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Roman bites Olivia's tongue out]]! out!]] Pryce later manages to surgically reattach it, however.
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* RedemptionFailure: In the second season Olivia Godfrey starts to regain her emotions and tries to make amends for what a horrible person she's been when she learns that she's dying, even deciding to give up her own life so her daughter Shelley can be happy. Nobody buys it, and her lover Norman is so livid when he discovers that [[spoiler:Olivia killed his wife]] that he decides to rub her miserable fate in her face. Olivia then decides to screw over everyone out of spite and go back to being the same cold-hearted monster she was before.
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* CleanupCrew: Much to his chagrin, Dr. Pryce keeps getting ordered to dispose of bodies whenever a member of the main cast who has him on their payroll kills someone. Since this allows him the leeway to conduct his experiments without interference, he grudgingly obliges.

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* CleanupCrew: Much to his chagrin, Dr. Pryce keeps getting ordered to dispose of bodies whenever a member of the main cast who has him on their payroll kills someone. Since this allows him the leeway to conduct his experiments without interference, interference from above, he grudgingly obliges.
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* CleanupCrew: Much to his chagrin, Dr. Pryce keeps getting ordered to dispose of bodies whenever a member of the main cast who has him on their payroll kills someone. Since this allows him the leeway to conduct his experiments without interference, he grudgingly obliges.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Roman gets incensed whenever someone gets involved with his cousin Letha, although he eventually warms up to her relationship with his friend Peter. [[spoiler:Interestingly, it's later revealed that they're actually half-siblings.]]
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* AdventuresInComaland: Roman spends more than an episode in a coma, where he faces various inner demons represented by people from his life. His good-hearted sister appears as a guardian angel of sorts.


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* EroticDream: During his AdventuresInComaland, Roman's messed-up sexual life is showcased when a classmate he had previously hypnotized and raped appears nude to taunt and fondle him, before turning into his mother Olivia.
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* StraightGay: Dr. Johann Pryce. He's not just completely unremarkable, one might even get the impression that he's actually asexual before he displays an interest in men in later seasons.
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* AccidentalMurder: Roman accidentally hits [[spoiler:Destiny]] so hard that she falls through a glass table when she confronts him about her fiancé's death, then breaks her neck since she's already dying. [[spoiler:Peter later finds out the truth about his cousin's death, leading to their final fight where Peter kills Roman for good at the cost of becoming a wolf for the rest of his life.]]
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* VegetarianVampire: After spending several seasons dealing with the hunger, Roman discovers that most Upir refrain from hunting and instead seek occupations like working in blood banks or morgues so they don't attract too much attention. Or if they do hunt, then criminals are generally fair game.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: In season 3, [[spoiler: Annie]] reveals that she's Olivia's daughter, the result of her brief romance with a gypsy boy centuries ago.
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* ThreeWaySex: [[spoiler: Roman and Peter have a spontaneous threesome with Miranda in season 2. They both feel weird about it the next morning.]]

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* ThreeWaySex: [[spoiler: Roman and Peter have a spontaneous threesome with Miranda in season 2. They both feel weird about it the next morning.]]morning, while she's just like "it's the 21st century, guys!".
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* VampiresAreRich: Most vampires seen in the show are pretty wealthy. Olivia Godfrey comes from actual European nobility and married an American bioscience tycoon. Roman inherits his father's empire when he turns 18 and becomes the youngest CEO alive. In season 3 Roman runs into other vampires, who are all upper class or bourgois.

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* VampiresAreRich: Most vampires seen in the show are pretty wealthy. Olivia Godfrey comes from actual European nobility and married an American bioscience tycoon. Roman inherits his father's empire when he turns 18 and becomes the youngest CEO alive. In season 3 Roman runs into other vampires, who are all upper class or bourgois.bourgeois.
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* OffingTheOffspring: Olivia Godfrey seems to make a habit out of this. She's murdered numerous infants that she herself bore because they lacked the sign that marked them as future vampires. She devours a clone of her own daughter to revitalize herself, and tries to pull a GrandTheftMe on all three of her living children.
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* CruelMercy: Norman finds out that his lover Olivia murdered [[spoiler:his wife]], so he plans on murdering her in revenge. He relents when he discovers that she's already dying from cancer and goes on a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech describing the deleterious effects all the various drugs will have on [[VanityIsFeminine her withering beauty]]. [[spoiler:She doesn't take it well, ultimately murdering him as well.]]
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* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Gender-inverted in ''Series/HemlockGrove''. Olivia Godfrey kidnaps a billionaire so she can replicate her mind onto his since her own body is already dying from a terminal illness. After 'waking up' in her male body, she immediately inspects her package.

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* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Gender-inverted in ''Series/HemlockGrove''.Gender-inverted. Olivia Godfrey kidnaps a billionaire so she can replicate her mind onto his since her own body is already dying from a terminal illness. After 'waking up' in her male body, she immediately inspects her package.
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* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:Clementine Chasseur]] dies after Olivia rips off and eats her entire skin, save her face. She's ''still alive'' but can't move because her neck is broken, so Dr. Pryce gives her a MercyKill.

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* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:Clementine Chasseur]] dies after Olivia (a vampire) rips off and eats her entire skin, save her face. She's ''still alive'' but can't move because her neck is broken, so Dr. Pryce gives her a MercyKill.
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* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:Clementine Chasseur]] dies after Olivia rips off and eats her entire skin, save her face. She's ''still alive'' but can't move because her neck is broken, so Dr. Pryce gives her a MercyKill.
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* CompellingVoice: Roman has some sort of hypnotic effect on people, where he can order them to do anything if he says so very forcefully. It's dependent on eye contact, so someone who's familiar with his power set warns him at gunpoint not to look in her direction.

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* FunctionalAddict: Olivia uses some sort of drug in the form of eye-drops and is fine unless she doesn't have them. Roman smokes, drinks, snorts cocaine, self-mutilates and still manages to make it through the day until he flies off the handle and ends up in a coma.

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* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Gender-inverted in ''Series/HemlockGrove''. Olivia Godfrey kidnaps a billionaire so she can replicate her mind onto his since her own body is already dying from a terminal illness. After 'waking up' in her male body, she immediately inspects her package.
-->'''Olivia:''' Is that really all there is to it? Kind of overrated if you ask me.
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* AndShowItToYou: Olivia rips out [[spoiler:Norman]]'s heart after he turns against her, complete with corny BondOneLiner.


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* GrandTheftMe: When Olivia becomes terminally ill due to an anti-Upir virus, she plans on hijacking someone else's body with her downloaded personality. She first attempts it with a billionaire CEO, but the imprint becomes damaged due to their lack of genetic compatibility. She then successively tries to download herself into all three of her children.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Roman utterly despises his mother Olivia, but he ends up becoming a remorseless, selfish predator just like her with just as little regard for human life or collateral damage.

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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Roman utterly despises his manipulative mother Olivia, Olivia and did everything possible to distance himself from her, but he ends up becoming a remorseless, selfish predator just quite like her with just as little regard for human life or collateral damage.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Roman utterly despises his mother Olivia, but he ends up becoming a remorseless, selfish predator just like her with just as little regard for human life or collateral damage.

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