History Series / Trueblood

** Downplayed with Sophie Anne Leclerq. While she has a few fans thanks to Evan Rachel Wood's performance, she still falls into this trope because of how vile she is. She spents years [[HumanTraffickers having humans procured for her and forcing them to become her blood prostitues/sex slaves]] and used [[spoiler: Bill]] for 35 years to accomplish this. She's callously dismissive of Godric's death to Eric's face ("Sorry about your maker. That blows.") She constantly tries to assert her dominance over Eric, and at one point sexually assaults him by grabbing his crotch. When [[spoiler: Bill]] disappears in season 3, she tells Eric to "let him rot" despite [[spoiler: Bill being in QSA's employment.]] She has vampires drained to pay off her IRS taxes and uses Eric to sell the blood, only to frame him and Pam for it when the Magister comes to investigate. Even her relationship with Hadley turns out to be one-sided as she's [[spoiler: perfectly okay letting Eric drain Hadley if she can keep her secrets.]] Basically, she's a vain and greedy narcissist who cares for no one but herself, and doesn't have any redeeming qualities outside of her looks and wardrobe choices.

** In season 2, when Lorena tells Eric that she hasn't seen Bill in over 70 years, Eric claims he hasn't seen Godric for much longer than that and is still fiercely loyal to him. However, in a season 3 flashback, it's revealed that Godric and Eric were together in 1945 in Germany tracking down werewolves loyal to Russell Edgington. This would mean it's been 64 years since Eric last saw Godric, which makes his claim to Lorena false.

** Bill's Civil War flashbacks in season 7. In previous seasons, it's never once hinted at or mentioned that Bill was oppossed to joining the Confederacy or of the treatment of black slaves during that period of time. In fact, Bill claims he "knew little of the political or ideological conflicts" back then, and proudly talks about his time in the Confederate army, going as far as to call it "a destiny handed down to us above." Furthermore, in Episode 2 he's asked point-blank by Tara if he was a slave-owner when he's reminiscing about his time as a human, and all he says is that he personally didn't, though his father did. This gets retconned in season 7 where he is suddenly shown being opposed to getting in a war with the North (to the point he gets kicked out of a bar of pro-slavers and pro-Confederates) and him leading a poorly organized Underground Railroad for black slaves '''in broad daylight''' that predictably ends in failure.

* [[AngryBlackMan Angry Black Woman]]: Tara is a mild [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]].

** [[UnfortunateImplications So when a male vampire has an orgasm...]]

* MainliningTheMonster: The series have vampire blood as a hot commodity. It's essentially treated like a very addictive drug.

** Taken UpToEleven during Antonia's spell [[spoiler:to force all vampires to Meet the Sun.]]

** Tommy Merlotte. It's a bit low to act like a dick to the one member of your family who looked out for you, and double so [[spoiler: AFTER HE SAVES YOU FROM A DOG FIGHTING RING.]] He turned his dickish tendencies UpToEleven later, when he [[spoiler: complimented Sam for nearly murdering a man, flirted shamelessly with an obviously not receptive Jessica, taunting Hoyt, and MAULING HIM after getting punched in the face.]] DisproportionateRetribution much?

* SilverHasMysticPowers: Silver hurts vampires and drains them of their energy while leaving bloody burns on their bodies. It also prevents vampires from healing as long as the silver is on their skin. Season 5 takes this UpToEleven when The Authority uses a torture device to inject pure silver into a vampire's blood, which renders them weak and unable to move.

** The show in general, the the standard Vampire Romance genre. While the show will gleefully sexualize vampirism, it's not as quick to romanticize it. Every now and then, you are hit over the fact that they may be pretty, they may be smooth, but vampires are still, first and foremost, blood hungry predators.

* {{Mooks}}: The Vampire authority has an army of vampire gaurds. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHa84zhYxs It's also mentioned by Nan Flanagan]] that they have humans who work for the Authority as well.

** Eric's right-hand woman, Pam, who also seems to prefer the ladies, usually. In a miniepisode involving casting for a dancing position at Fangtasia, Eric practically has to force Pam to leave before "enjoying the show" with a hot Russian dancer. Before she leaves, however, she mentions that she'd like a more private audience with the girl. She gets it in the series proper. See also the development of her relationship with [[spoiler: Tara]] at the end of season 5, who's also bisexual.
** It seems that all the vampire girls, [[TheOlderImmortal the oldest ones]] more specifically, [[ImmortalityBisexuality are bi]], but show much more interest in other women than men.

[[caption-width-right:350:It's [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken finger-lickin' good]].]]

->''"Series/TrueBlood makes teen drama Literature/{{Twilight}} look like an after-school special on the Creator/{{Lifetime}} network. It's...for grown-ups, with enough plot twists and turns to shock your brain into overload."''

** Bill's Civil War flashbacks in season 7. In previous seasons, it's never once hinted at or mentioned that Bill was oppossed to joining the Confederacy or of the treatment of black slaves during that period of time. In fact, Bill claims he "knew little of the political or ideological conflicts" back then, and proudly talks about his time in the Confederate army, going as far as to call it "a destiny handed down to us above." Furthermore, in Episode 2 he's asked point-blank by Tara if he was a slave-owner when he's reminiscing about his time as a human, and all he days is that he personally didn't, though his father did. This gets retconned in season 7 where he is suddenly shown being opposed to getting in a war with the North (to the point he gets kicked out of a bar of pro-slavers and pro-Confederates) and him leading a poorly organized Underground Railroad for black slaves '''in broad daylight''' that predictably ends in failure.

** Bill's Civil War flashbacks in season 7. In previous seasons, it's never once hinted at or mentioned that Bill was oppossed to joining the Confederacy or of the treatment of black slaves during that period of time. In fact, Bill claims he "knew little of the political or ideological conflicts" back then, and proudly talks about his time in the Confederate army, going as far as to call it "a destiny handed down to us above." Furthermore, in Episode 2 he's asked point-blank by Tara if he was a slave-owner when he's reminiscing about his time as a human, all he days is that he personally didn't, though his father did. This gets retconned in season 7 where he is suddenly shown being opposed to getting in a war with the North (to the point he gets kicked out of a bar of pro-slavers and pro-Confederates) and him leading a poorly organized Underground Railroad for black slaves '''in broad daylight''' that predictably ends in failure.

** Bill's Civil War flashbacks in season 7. In previous seasons, it's never once hinted at or mentioned that Bill was oppossed to joining the Confederacy or of the treatment of black slaves during that period of time. In fact, Bill claims he "knew little of the political or ideological conflicts" back then, and proudly talks about his time in the Confederate army, going as far as to call it "a destiny handed down to us above." This gets retconned in season 7 where he is suddenly shown being opposed to getting in a war with the North (to the point he gets kicked out of a bar of pro-slavers and pro-Confederates) and him leading a poorly organized Underground Railroad for black slaves '''in broad daylight''' that predictably ends in failure.

*** This is a case of bad book to show translation. Though they are called panthers in the books as well, Sookie makes it clear that the animals described are in fact mountain lions ([[IHaveManyNames aka]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar pumas, cougars, panthers, catamounts]]). Every physical description of them in the books confirms this. The show depicts a different type of cat commonly referred to as a panther, namely [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther melanistic leopards]] or "black panthers".

* SuperLoser

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex

* TheFairFolk

* DecadentCourt: Vampire society is largely modeled after feudalism in Medieval Europe. It consists of vampire monarchs who spend most of their time either indulging in their luxuries, accumulating treasure, feeding on humans, or are attempting to take control of territories owned by other monarchs (either through force or political marriages). Overseeing all of this is a shadow government known as The Authority. As shown in season 5, it consists of Vampire Chancellors who are perfectly okay backstabbing each other as long as they get to keep their power.

* YankTheDogsChain

* VampiresAreSexGods

* VanHelsingHateCrimes

* VirusVictimSymptoms

* RapeAndSwitch: Tara's coming out as a bisexual woman in the fourth season indirectly implies that she switched teams after getting raped. However, it was possibly implied that Tara just never ''tried'' women before, particularly where Sookie asks her why she never told her about liking girls before and she replies that she "didn't know".

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Eddie, Bill, and Jessica.

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Bill spied on Sookie for Sophie-Anne (revealed in the Season 3 finale "Evil Is Going On") and was later revealed in season 4 to have been hired Nan Flanagan and the AVL to "sow the seeds of discord" within the vampire monarchies.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale:
** Averted. When Arlene realizes that she and Terry had sex during the black-out caused by Maryann's spell, she becomes deeply concerned that she may have coerced him (Terry had previously avoided physical intimacy because of his PTSD), saying "I think I might have done something terrible."

** Also averted with Crystal and every nubile female in "Hotshot", as they [[spoiler:line up for their turn with Jason, who is wounded, feverish, strapped to the bed, and under the effects of Viagra. He did NOT enjoy it]] and the scene is creepy as all hell. Not quite so averted by the show unfortunately. The director of the episode, David Petrarca, and Alan Ball have basically said that [[http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2011/07/true-blood-if-you-love-me-why-am-i-dyin.html he deserved it]].
** Also, Maryann's first encounter with Sam (where she catches him trying to steal from her and has sex with him) is just dripping with {{squick}}.