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* BatmanGambit: Lee Jay [[spoiler:kidnaps and threatens to murder Julia]] to get Mick to turn himself in.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Josef snaps at Mick for not killing Lee Jay when he had the chance, because Josef thinks he only let the guy go so Beth wouldn't think badly of him.
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* NeverSuicide: Not in the first episode, at least.
* NotSoDifferent: Lee Jay pulls this on Mick.
* Really700YearsOld: Josef is specified to be "four hundred going on thirty".
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* {{Masquerade}}: Vampires work to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world, although exceptions are made for some humans. Heck, Josef pretty much has a harem of sexy girls he drinks from, who seem quite fond of the arrangement themselves. He and Mick are also seen going to what appears to be more or less a blood bar in a {{Flashback}}.
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* {{Masquerade}}: Vampires work to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world, although exceptions are made for some humans. Heck, Josef pretty much has a harem of sexy girls he drinks from, who seem quite fond of the arrangement themselves. He and Mick are also seen going to what appears to be more or less a blood bar in a {{Flashback}}.
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* SerialKiller: One kills two college student and tries to kill [[spoiler:Beth]] in a Mission-Based example.
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* CombatPragmatist: Mick has no problem using his vampire powers to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stop]] human opponents.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Beth's cameraman attaches a mike to her bra in the first episode. Her shirt hangs open then, and [[spoiler:Christian]] rips it open again later.
* {{Protectorate}}: Mick took it upon himself to protect Beth when she was young.
* TranquillizerDart: Beth is stabbed with some sort of syringe to put her under. InstantSedation is actually [[AvertedTrope averted]], though. She gets groggy almost immediately and looks like she's out, but she's still just-barely-conscious for the next several minutes.
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* WomanInWhite: Coraline in Mick's [[Flashback [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] in the first episode.
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** AND HOW!
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A [[ShortRunners short-lived]] VampireDetectiveSeries that ran from 2007 to 2008 on CBS. Some saw it as a shameless ripoff of [[Series/{{Angel}} several]] [[Series/BloodTies other]] [[Series/ForeverKnight vampire]] shows. It started to develop its own mythology, but was cancelled before it could really find its footing. It's notable that while critics panned the acting and dialogue, almost everyone was agreed that side character Josef Kostan was a real gem.
The show revolves around Mick St. John, a 90 year old private investigator (though thanks to vampirism, he looks pretty good for his age). Despite being turned well over 50 years ago, Mick still has some angst about being a vampire, and refuses to kill for food. He has no qualms killing bad guys or other vampires, though. He also has some surprising hang-ups regarding a [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer pretty young blonde...]]
Not to be confused with ''MoonlightLady''. Or ''{{Moonlighting}}''.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* [[ABNegative AO Negative]]: Beth
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* BadassLongcoat: Mick
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Evil definitely exists in the form of some brutal vampires and even humans. But our protagonists, even cute and innocent Beth, aren't afraid to kill...even humans.
* [[CantGrowUp Can't Grow Up]]
* DaywalkingVampire: Vampires don't particularly like being out in the sun and they're very sensitive to it, but it doesn't make them burn up.
* DeadpanSnarker: Josef
** "Sorry, not questioning your loyalties. Vampire solidarity. Rah, rah, rah and all that."
** "Hey, you have a soft spot for the mortal ones. A fascination with all the charming things they do, while listening to the 'tick, tick, tick' of their own looming demise. That's fine. That's good. Everyone needs a hobby."
** "You seriously drink this stuff? What is it, like, non-fat, soy, vegan blood?"
** "Hey look. I know you have morals and scruples and that's fine, sort of."
** Hell, EVERYTHING Josef says falls in this category.
* EmergencyTransformation: Mick refuses to do this for [[spoiler:Beth's boyfriend]], saying "It's not life." [[WhatTheHellHero She calls him on this at the end of the episode]], pointing out that, obviously, ''he'' seems to find it preferable to being dead. (Note that we'll never really know for sure whether he does or not, as he was never offered a choice.)
* {{Flashback}}: To Mick's past, all the time.
* FleurDeLis
* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Wife]]
* InMediasRes: Multiple episodes
* ImmortalImmaturity: A teenage vampire was featured in one episode.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Josh]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Mick and Beth
* MoralDissonance: Mick murders people throughout the course of the show.
** Beth also let vampires kill a paparazzo because he threatened Mick.
* MurderByCremation: In the episode "Doctor Feelgood", a newly-turned vampire goes rabid and kills a lot of random people (including his wife). Being a doctor, he goes back to his hospital, where Mick tracks him down and stakes him (which only paralyses vampires). He then feeds him to the cremation oven at the morgue downstairs.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Coraline
* OlderThanTheyLook: Most of the vampires are in their 20s and 30s. Their actual ages are occasionally measured in centuries.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can [[spoiler: become human again with a specific drug, though the effects don't last.]] While they mention an aversion to sunlight, Mick is often seen in daylight. It seems as long as he shades his eyes, he's fine. In reality, as long as he doesn't stay out too long, he'll be fine. Sunlight acts more like a poison than an incinerator.
** Vampires also and have a pulse. Staking them causes paralysis, but burning and beheading seem to be the only ways to eliminate them.
** [[{{Irony}} Ironically ]], the sunlight and the paralysing stake is actually more "true" to the Vampires of the original Dracula than any other of the modern vampires.
** Vampires are allergic to silver, which is actually a neat way of reconciling the whole silver bullet thing with the vampires' lack of reflections in mirrors (which are, or at least used to be, backed with silver) and that you can't take a photograph of them (silver salts in film emulsion).
*** Which apparently means you can take a ''digital'' photo of a vampire with no problems.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Series/ForeverKnight''...in the United States.
* SilverHasMysticPowers: Film and mirrors made with it can't picture vampires.
* ToBecomeHuman: Mick [[spoiler: and Coraline]] take the steps towards this.
* ShoutOut: [[LeeroyJenkins Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss!!]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* VampireBitesSuck
* VampireDetectiveSeries (obviously)
* VampiresAreSexGods: At least Josef is...
** AND HOW!
* VegetarianVampire
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[HeterosexualLifePartners Josef and Mick]] [[HoYay rag on each other]] quite a bit
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: averted, as humans are killed too
* YourVampiresSuck: One of the first things mentioned in the first episode is that many of the stereotypical ways of killing vampires don't work. Crosses don't kill them and, in Mick's own words, if you were to spray Holy Water on him, the only thing that would happen is that he'd get wet.
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A [[ShortRunners short-lived]] VampireDetectiveSeries that ran from 2007 to 2008 on CBS. Some saw it as a shameless ripoff of [[Series/{{Angel}} several]] [[Series/BloodTies other]] [[Series/ForeverKnight vampire]] shows. It started to develop its own mythology, but was cancelled before it could really find its footing. It's notable that while critics panned the acting and dialogue, almost everyone was agreed that side character Josef Kostan was a real gem.
The show revolves around Mick St. John, a 90 year old private investigator (though thanks to vampirism, he looks pretty good for his age). Despite being turned well over 50 years ago, Mick still has some angst about being a vampire, and refuses to kill for food. He has no qualms killing bad guys or other vampires, though. He also has some surprising hang-ups regarding a [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer pretty young blonde...]]
Not to be confused with ''MoonlightLady''. Or ''{{Moonlighting}}''.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* [[ABNegative AO Negative]]: Beth
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* BadassLongcoat: Mick
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Evil definitely exists in the form of some brutal vampires and even humans. But our protagonists, even cute and innocent Beth, aren't afraid to kill...even humans.
* [[CantGrowUp Can't Grow Up]]
* DaywalkingVampire: Vampires don't particularly like being out in the sun and they're very sensitive to it, but it doesn't make them burn up.
* DeadpanSnarker: Josef
** "Sorry, not questioning your loyalties. Vampire solidarity. Rah, rah, rah and all that."
** "Hey, you have a soft spot for the mortal ones. A fascination with all the charming things they do, while listening to the 'tick, tick, tick' of their own looming demise. That's fine. That's good. Everyone needs a hobby."
** "You seriously drink this stuff? What is it, like, non-fat, soy, vegan blood?"
** "Hey look. I know you have morals and scruples and that's fine, sort of."
** Hell, EVERYTHING Josef says falls in this category.
* EmergencyTransformation: Mick refuses to do this for [[spoiler:Beth's boyfriend]], saying "It's not life." [[WhatTheHellHero She calls him on this at the end of the episode]], pointing out that, obviously, ''he'' seems to find it preferable to being dead. (Note that we'll never really know for sure whether he does or not, as he was never offered a choice.)
* {{Flashback}}: To Mick's past, all the time.
* FleurDeLis
* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Wife]]
* InMediasRes: Multiple episodes
* ImmortalImmaturity: A teenage vampire was featured in one episode.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Josh]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Mick and Beth
* MoralDissonance: Mick murders people throughout the course of the show.
** Beth also let vampires kill a paparazzo because he threatened Mick.
* MurderByCremation: In the episode "Doctor Feelgood", a newly-turned vampire goes rabid and kills a lot of random people (including his wife). Being a doctor, he goes back to his hospital, where Mick tracks him down and stakes him (which only paralyses vampires). He then feeds him to the cremation oven at the morgue downstairs.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Coraline
* OlderThanTheyLook: Most of the vampires are in their 20s and 30s. Their actual ages are occasionally measured in centuries.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can [[spoiler: become human again with a specific drug, though the effects don't last.]] While they mention an aversion to sunlight, Mick is often seen in daylight. It seems as long as he shades his eyes, he's fine. In reality, as long as he doesn't stay out too long, he'll be fine. Sunlight acts more like a poison than an incinerator.
** Vampires also and have a pulse. Staking them causes paralysis, but burning and beheading seem to be the only ways to eliminate them.
** [[{{Irony}} Ironically ]], the sunlight and the paralysing stake is actually more "true" to the Vampires of the original Dracula than any other of the modern vampires.
** Vampires are allergic to silver, which is actually a neat way of reconciling the whole silver bullet thing with the vampires' lack of reflections in mirrors (which are, or at least used to be, backed with silver) and that you can't take a photograph of them (silver salts in film emulsion).
*** Which apparently means you can take a ''digital'' photo of a vampire with no problems.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Series/ForeverKnight''...in the United States.
* SilverHasMysticPowers: Film and mirrors made with it can't picture vampires.
* ToBecomeHuman: Mick [[spoiler: and Coraline]] take the steps towards this.
* ShoutOut: [[LeeroyJenkins Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss!!]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* VampireBitesSuck
* VampireDetectiveSeries (obviously)
* VampiresAreSexGods: At least Josef is...
** AND HOW!
* VegetarianVampire
* VitriolicBestBuds: [[HeterosexualLifePartners Josef and Mick]] [[HoYay rag on each other]] quite a bit
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: averted, as humans are killed too
* YourVampiresSuck: One of the first things mentioned in the first episode is that many of the stereotypical ways of killing vampires don't work. Crosses don't kill them and, in Mick's own words, if you were to spray Holy Water on him, the only thing that would happen is that he'd get wet.
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