History Series / Moonlight

* [[ABNegative AO Negative]]: Beth

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Josh]]

* KissOfTheVampire: Josef's girls enjoy being snacked on.

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Mick and Beth

** [[{{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.

* StayInTheKitchen: Mick tries to keep Beth away from actually fighting, which she finds somewhat irrtating.

* VampireDetectiveSeries (obviously)

* VitriolicBestBuds: [[HeterosexualLifePartners Josef and Mick]] [[HoYay rag on each other]] quite a bit

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: averted, as humans are killed too.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Not Mick! A lot of other vampires have no problem at all with their eternal lives.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* BadassLongcoat: Mick

%%* ShoutOut: [[LeeroyJenkins Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss!!]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Coraline]]
* VampireBitesSuck

* VegetarianVampire

* CurseThatCures: Beth asks Mick to do this for her fatally wounded fiance. He refuses. [[GenreSavvy He musta seen that ep of]] ''ForeverKnight.''

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A doctor jumps out of his car to give aid to a hit-and-run victim, who [[spoiler:is actually a vampire and promptly turns him]].

* NeverFoundTheBody: Coraline. Ironically, one of the main ways to kill a vampire in this series is by fire which reduces them to dust. Mick last saw her in a building which was turned in a small inferno. As such, he felt pretty justified in thinking she was dead since she'd been staked right before then.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Coraline

* FleurDeLis

* HotForTeacher: Christian seduces his students with the vampire angle and then seduces them.

* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Wife]]: Mick hates Coraline for turning him/
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Mick has this attitude towards his vampirism.

* SerialKiller: One kills two college student and tries to kill [[spoiler:Beth]] in a Mission-Based example.
** There's another in the second episode. He's either a Visionary type (it's stated her can't help himself) or a Power/Control-motivated killer (he's an abusive spouse that threatened to kill his wife if she left him), and likely a combination of the two.

* ShoutOut: [[LeeroyJenkins Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss!!]]
* StayInTheKitchen: Mick tries to keep Beth away from actualy fighting, which she finds somewhat irrtating.

The show revolves around Mick St. John, a 85 years 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 [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer pretty young blonde...]]

Not to be confused with ''MoonlightLady''. Or ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}''.

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 [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer pretty young blonde...]]

* VampiresAreRich: Mick casually refers to losing a million dollars betting on a sports game.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Most of the vampires are in their 20s and 30s. Their actual ages are occasionally measured in centuries.

** Vampires also and have a pulse. Staking them causes paralysis, but burning and beheading seem to be the only ways to eliminate them.

Not to be confused with ''MoonlightLady''. Or ''{{Moonlighting}}''.

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...]]

* CombatPragmatist: Mick has no problem using his vampire powers to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stop]] human opponents.

** The next target is [[spoier:Julia]] in the second episode.

* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Wife]]

* FriendOnTheForce: Beth is on a FirstNameBasis with an officer named Carl, who breaks and gives her a little information on the first murder victim, even though she's a reporter, not an investigator, and he waves away at least one other reporter who refers to him only as "lieutenant".

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A doctor jumps out of his car to give aid to a hit-and-run victim, who [[psoiler:is actually a vampire and promptly turns him]].