History WesternAnimation / TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf

* MatchCut: Coins rain down the screen during a montage of Vesemir's hedonism, then transition into the many blood soaked medallions still hung up at Kaer Morhen, demonstrating the [[SadClown trauma lying beneath the Witchers' idealized lifestyles]].

** In the books and games the Witcher students were subjected to brutal but logical and pragmatic training lessons, the instructors actually wanting as many of them to succeed as possible, where in this the students are subjected to tests so senselessly dangerous that it comes down to sheer dumb luck if any of them manage to survive. [[spoiler:It's implied at the end that Vesemir will reform the training to save as many as he can, bringing them more in line with their canon depiction.]]

* AdapationAmalgamation: The story is essentially a mash up of the book Season of Storms and an original origin story prequel based in part on snippets here and there from the books and games about Vesemir's origins (e.g the Kaehr Mohren pogrom still happened but many details were changed in the name of creative liberty).

* Expy: Kitsu the elf/mahr hybrid is one of the Aguara from Season of Storms (which the film takes a lot of inspiration from in general plot wise, to the point of near Adapational Amalgamation). Both are female foxy shapeshifters derived from female elven girls (that abduct said girls and take them as their own) who can create powerful magic illusions and both seek vengeance against a Witcher and his comrades for the perceived death of their "child" but ultimately spare said Witcher. Their names also mean "fox" in a foreign language (Guarani and Japanese respectively). Aguara are naturally occurring antherion though in SS, whereas here they are genetically made crossbreeds. Unless this is to imply aguaras actually where created from elven/mahr experimentation originally and over time this knowledge was lost and they passed into myth as "always being there"....

* AdapationalAmalgamation: The story is essentially a mash up of the book Season of Storms and an original origin story prequel based in part on snippets here and there from the books and games about Vesemir's origins (e.g the Kaehr Mohren pogrom still happened but many details were changed in the name of creative liberty).

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Even when the crossbreeds are discovered and the King orders the Witchers exterminated, Deglan refuses to take responsibility for the massacre about to occur, saying that it would have happened eventually. Both Ilyana and Vesemir acknowledge that he's right that humans would have come for them eventually, but neither are about to let Deglan off for giving them a justification.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Downplayed, as Tetra carries a heavy grudge and hatred against witchers in general, but she starts warming up to Vesemir after he saves her life and joins her in casual conversation. She tells him a story about how a sorcereress was killed by a witcher who framed her for poisoning a noble. Vesemir thinks the story is just negative propoganada and instead of sympathizing, mocks her by [[EvilisCool admiring the witcher.]] [[spoiler: What he doesn't realize is that she is telling him her FreudianExcuse and by mocking her, he's only worsened her biases against him.]]

* {{Antihero}}: Vesemir will do some unscrupulous actions such as rob the dead or con people out of their money, but he only kills people in self-defense and only kills monsters that he views as a threat to himself or the people around him.

* FantasticFoxes: Kitsu, the mutated elf, is able to transform into a fox.

* HeroismAddict: [[spoiler:The mages at Kaer Morhen have been secretly experimenting on captured monsters, trying to engineer new ones in order to provide the Witchers with things to hunt.]]

** Unlike their nuanced but overall heroic depictions in the books and the games, where the pogrom of Kaer Morhen was the result of years of resentment building up against a people who had served and protected the North for many years and didn't deserve it, fueled in part by the dehumanizing lies and slander of the Monstrum printed against them as well as how rare monsters were becoming to the average person with the School of the Wolf's success, Witchers [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer considered necessary]], here the Monstrum's claims about them are [[spoiler: more or less proven correct. The Witcher leaders of Kaer Morhen were behaving like [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] of Kaedwen, creating monsters and unleashing them on the North, preying on the peasants, coming along like greedy conmen after and tricking people into hiring them to defeat the very problems they were creating. With no care for how many innocents this dirty trick of theirs almost certainly ended up harming and murdering over the years. Arguably justifying [[TheExtremistWasRight Tetra's]] entire point against them and the massacre of Kaer Morhen in this universe.]] Of course this is slightly downplayed in that it isn't clear [[spoiler:exactly how many Witchers]] were in on it.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: With the exception of Vesemir, not a single Witcher survives the sacking of Kaer Morhen (aside from the trainees).]]

''The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf'' is an adult animated film animated by Creator/StudioMir, based on the ''Literature/TheWitcher'' series of books. It serves as a {{Prequel}} to the [[Series/TheWitcher2019 Netflix series]], starring Vesemir.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Kitsu the elf controlling the monsters plaguing the forest [[spoiler:was mutated by Roderick and Deglan, as part of an effort to create new monsters so humanity would find Witchers too useful to wipe out]]. This applies to Tetra herself as well for the Witchers, when one of them murdered her mother long ago.[[spoiler: Taken even further with the heavy implication that Vesemir himself was the Witcher who framed and murdered Tetra’s mother.]]

After saving a young boy from a Leshen, Vesemir (Creator/TheoJames) suspects that the monster was controlled by someone after it says something in old speech. He's forced to work with Tetra Gilcrest (Creator/LaraPulver) , a witch with a hatred of witchers. The movie goes into detail about how he became a Witcher.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: [[spoiler: After learning that the Witchers are behind the creation of a new wave of monsters in the North, Tetra uses this as a justification to kill all of them, rather than investigate and punish the conspirators.]]

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Kitsu the elf controlling the monsters plaguing the forest [[spoiler:was mutated by Roderick and Deglan, as part of an effort to create new monsters so humanity would find Witchers too useful to wipe out]]. This applies to Tetra herself as well for the Witchers, when one of them murdered her mother long ago.

The movie premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 23, 2021.

* RedRightHand: Tetra's mastery of fire magic. Sorcerers that specialize in fire tend to be unstable and jump to idealogical extremes.

* BlackandWhiteInsanity: [[spoiler: After learning that the Witchers are behind the creation of a new wave of monsters in the North, Tetra uses this as a justification to kill all of them, rather than investigate and punish the conspirators.]]