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* OffModel: The series features inconsistent animation and bizarre character designs.
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* OriginalGeneration: Harry Grimoire is an original character created for the series that has not appeared in the original video game series.

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* ToServeMan: It is said that Morrigan actually eats her victims, or at the least their souls.

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* ToServeMan: ToServeMan:
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It is said that Morrigan actually eats her victims, or at the least their souls.souls.
** Pyron's brother Terramon is interested in learning if humans have any culinary value and intends to find out, starting with Harry until Felicia and the other renegade Darkstalkers intervene.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Felicia meets teenager Harry Grimoire (himself a descendent of a sorcerer and of Merlin), and later they team up with the remaining Darkstalkers that refused to ally with Pyron: an Atlantean fishman, a FrankensteinsMonster expy, a yeti, and a werewolf.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Jon Talbain isn't the only werewolf that appears in the series. In Hsien-ko's focus episode, she stalks a second werewolf, identified as an executive from South Africa that attacks people.

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* PyramidPower: It is even the name of Anakaris's focus episode. In the first episode, Demitri, on Pyron's orders, uses the ship's TractorBeam to dig Anakaris's pyramid off the ground. Then, in episode 3, Anakaris shows in a flashback that, when he was alive, millenia ago, his pyramid held a magical stone able to shoot beams of light.

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* PyramidPower: It is even the name of Anakaris's focus episode. In the first episode, Demitri, on Pyron's orders, uses the ship's TractorBeam to dig Anakaris's pyramid off out of the ground. Then, in episode 3, Anakaris shows in a flashback that, when he was alive, millenia ago, his pyramid held a magical stone able to shoot beams of light.


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* TractorBeam: In essence, this is the function of the red beam of light that shoots off from Pyron's spaceship, better demonstrated in the first episode: Pyron draws Demitri out of his castle, then orders the vampire to find members of the "old races" and bring them aboard his ship via its tractor beam.
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* PyramidPower: It is even the name of Anakaris's focus episode. In the first episode, Demitri, on Pyron's orders, uses the ship's TractorBeam to dig Anakaris's pyramid off the ground. Then, in episode 3, Anakaris shows in a flashback that, when he was alive, millenia ago, his pyramid held a magical stone able to shoot beams of light.
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* BloodMagic: Morrigan plans to sacrifice Felicia to power Morgan Le Fay's blood ring, in "Donavon's Bane".

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* BloodMagic: Morrigan plans to sacrifice Felicia to power Morgan Le Fay's blood ring, in "Donavon's Bane". After Felicia is released, Morrigan uses her own blood to power her ring.
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* BarrageOfBats: In episode "The Game", Demitri uses a swarm of bats to distract Felicia, separating her from the group and facilitating her capture.
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* {{Atlantis}}: In episode "Pyramid Power", an on-screen flashback shows a still alive Anakaris declaring war on Atlantean ambassadors that resemble Rikuo.
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* BloodMagic: Morrigan plans to sacrifice Felicia to power Morgan Le Fay's blood ring, in "Donavon's Bane".
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In "Donavon's Bane", Morrigan rants to a little bat perched on her shoulder about a way to defeat hunter Donovan, and the animal replies to her in squeaking sounds which Morrigans appears to understand.

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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In "Donavon's Bane", Morrigan rants to a little bat perched on her shoulder about a way to defeat hunter Donovan, and the animal replies to her in squeaking sounds which Morrigans Morrigan appears to understand.

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* AlienInvasion: Pyron does this: he recruits members of Earth's "old races" (a.k.a., the Darkstalkers), so they can rule over human, and Pyron over the "old races".

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* AlienInvasion: Pyron does this: he recruits members of Earth's "old races" (a.k.a., the Darkstalkers), so they can rule over human, humanity, and Pyron over the "old races".


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* LastOfHisKind: In episode 1, after Felicia meets the young Grimoire, she says she believes herself to be the last of her species.


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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Felicia, a member of a race of cat-people, alternates between a humanoid shape and a normal looking white-furred cat.
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* AlienInvasion: Pyron does this.

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* AlienInvasion: Pyron does this.this: he recruits members of Earth's "old races" (a.k.a., the Darkstalkers), so they can rule over human, and Pyron over the "old races".
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: In "Donavon's Bane", Morrigan rants to a little bat perched on her shoulder about a way to defeat hunter Donovan, and the animal replies to her in squeaking sounds which Morrigans appears to understand.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Rikuo's name is bizarrely pronounced "Riku" (rii-kuu) in the series (which is ironic for a merman, given the fact that "riku"[[note]]陸[[/note]] is the Japanese word for ''"land"'')

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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first of two based on the ''Darkstalkers'' games, the other being the later and more faithful ''[[Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge Night Warriors]]'' OVA.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first of two based on the ''Darkstalkers'' games, the other being the later and more faithful ''[[Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge Night Warriors]]'' OVA.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: While Demitri is depicted as more comical in this series, he is also the only character in the series to get with onscreen murder, as he drains Amanda's parents dry. He also killed Hsien-ko's parents and sister in her backstory.

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* {{Gonk}}: Morrigan. To solve this problem, she actually eats her victims.

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* {{Gonk}}: Morrigan. To solve this problem, she actually eats her victims.victims, playing straight to her succubus traits.


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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Pyron forces Morrigan and Dimitri to work with him as his soldiers, though they are often at each other's throats or one upping each other.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first of two based on the ''Darkstalkers'' games, the other being the later ''[[Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge Night Warriors]]'' OVA.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: The first of two based on the ''Darkstalkers'' games, the other being the later and more faithful ''[[Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge Night Warriors]]'' OVA.



* {{Disneyfication}}: All the violence and horror elements from the games were changed or toned down in order to made the series more kid-friendly.

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* {{Disneyfication}}: All the violence The original Darkstalkers was an incredibly hard T-rated game full of violence, {{Fanservice}} and horror elements from elements, which the games were series changed or toned down in order to made the series more kid-friendly.

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