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* HoYay: So so much Ho Yay between our main characters. Especially in the final chapter of Shadow Kissed and a lot of Blood Promise. The part where [[spoiler: Rose leaves the academy and heads to Russia]] is pretty much like a break-up scene, you don't even need to change the dialogue.
* LesYay: Lissa and Rose's relationship can and sometimes is interpreted this way, to the point of being lampshaded.
** For more, check out the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5UmVStHXE trailer]] for the film adaptation.
* LesYay: Lissa and Rose's relationship can and sometimes is interpreted this way, to the point of being lampshaded.
** For more, check out the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5UmVStHXE trailer]] for the film adaptation.
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* HoYay: So so much Ho Yay between our main characters. Especially LesYay: Rose and Lissa, especially in the final chapter of Shadow Kissed ''Shadow Kissed'' and a lot of Blood Promise. ''Blood Promise''. The part where [[spoiler: Rose leaves the academy and heads to Russia]] Russia is pretty much like a break-up scene, you don't even need to change the dialogue.
* LesYay:dialogue:
-->“Why didn’t you tell me?” She cried.
-->“I couldn’t tell anyone,” I said.
-->“You should have told me,” She repeated, “I feel like you don’t trust me.”
-->“Of course I trust you.”
-->“Is that why you’re sneaking off?”
-->“That has nothing to do with trust,” I admitted, “It’s me...well, I didn’t want to tell you. I couldn’t bear to tell you I was leaving or explain why.”
** And then there's this little gem not too long after that:
-->I shook my head, “I have to do this.”
-->“Even if it means leaving me?”
-->The way she said it, the way she looked at me...oh God. A flood of memories flitted through my mind. We’ve been together since childhood. Inseparable. Bound.
** There's also this:
-->“I have to do this.” I said yet again, “I’m sorry.”
-->“You’re supposed to be my guardian and go with me to college,” She argued, “You’re shadow-kissed. We’re supposed to be together. If you leave me...”
** Given that Rose is only going to Russia so she can MercyKill her ex-boyfriend (who has been turned against his will into an evil, soulless vampire) that whole conversation really comes off as Lissa being jealous of how important said boyfriend is to Rose. And then, when Rose ''does'' leave, Lissa falls into this dark, depressed state where she completely changes her personality [[spoiler: (admittedly, most of that was because she was being brainwashed into doing so, but still)]] and starts drinking again, becoming a vapid party girl. It doesn't help that Lissa's own boyfriend tries and fails to bring her out of this state, but when ''Rose'' calls...
** Rose openly states several times in narration that Lissa and Dimitri (the aforementioned boyfriend) are the most important people in her life, and she hopes constantly that she'll never be forced to make a SadisticChoice between them- because she doesn't know how she'd choose.
** It is not an exaggeration to say that the author spends more time developing Rose and Lissa's friendship and showing scenes of them together than she does for Rose and Dimitri.
** Also, the intricacy of Lissa's powers basically ''demands'' that a shadow-kissed companion (in this case, Rose) stay with her for the rest of their lives, comforting her when she falls into depression through usage of said powers, and just basically be a trusted, devoted friend that has the strength to sway her from the Dark Side. So there's that, and all the political hate circling around Lissa, what with the vampire court disapproving of her 'progressive' views on how their society should be, and there are so many monologues on Rose's part about the nature of loyalty and love and how they make life worth living...
** Also, you know the whole 'biting-gives-you-intense-pleasure' thing that most vampire fiction has? Yeah, this series uses it too, although with a fair side of deconstruction. And yes, there are scenes where Lissa bites Rose, and Rose'srelationship can and sometimes is interpreted this way, to narration...doesn't really gloss over things like that.
** Interestingly, thepoint of bullies at the high school they go to do briefly shout insults about them being lampshaded.
** For more, check out'fags,' but Lissa and Rose just ignore them, and it's treated as a fairly common slur, with not much truth behind it. Later, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5UmVStHXE trailer]] for the film adaptation.bullies switch to spreading more malicious rumors.
* LesYay:
-->“Why didn’t you tell me?” She cried.
-->“I couldn’t tell anyone,” I said.
-->“You should have told me,” She repeated, “I feel like you don’t trust me.”
-->“Of course I trust you.”
-->“Is that why you’re sneaking off?”
-->“That has nothing to do with trust,” I admitted, “It’s me...well, I didn’t want to tell you. I couldn’t bear to tell you I was leaving or explain why.”
** And then there's this little gem not too long after that:
-->I shook my head, “I have to do this.”
-->“Even if it means leaving me?”
-->The way she said it, the way she looked at me...oh God. A flood of memories flitted through my mind. We’ve been together since childhood. Inseparable. Bound.
** There's also this:
-->“I have to do this.” I said yet again, “I’m sorry.”
-->“You’re supposed to be my guardian and go with me to college,” She argued, “You’re shadow-kissed. We’re supposed to be together. If you leave me...”
** Given that Rose is only going to Russia so she can MercyKill her ex-boyfriend (who has been turned against his will into an evil, soulless vampire) that whole conversation really comes off as Lissa being jealous of how important said boyfriend is to Rose. And then, when Rose ''does'' leave, Lissa falls into this dark, depressed state where she completely changes her personality [[spoiler: (admittedly, most of that was because she was being brainwashed into doing so, but still)]] and starts drinking again, becoming a vapid party girl. It doesn't help that Lissa's own boyfriend tries and fails to bring her out of this state, but when ''Rose'' calls...
** Rose openly states several times in narration that Lissa and Dimitri (the aforementioned boyfriend) are the most important people in her life, and she hopes constantly that she'll never be forced to make a SadisticChoice between them- because she doesn't know how she'd choose.
** It is not an exaggeration to say that the author spends more time developing Rose and Lissa's friendship and showing scenes of them together than she does for Rose and Dimitri.
** Also, the intricacy of Lissa's powers basically ''demands'' that a shadow-kissed companion (in this case, Rose) stay with her for the rest of their lives, comforting her when she falls into depression through usage of said powers, and just basically be a trusted, devoted friend that has the strength to sway her from the Dark Side. So there's that, and all the political hate circling around Lissa, what with the vampire court disapproving of her 'progressive' views on how their society should be, and there are so many monologues on Rose's part about the nature of loyalty and love and how they make life worth living...
** Also, you know the whole 'biting-gives-you-intense-pleasure' thing that most vampire fiction has? Yeah, this series uses it too, although with a fair side of deconstruction. And yes, there are scenes where Lissa bites Rose, and Rose's
** Interestingly, the
** For more, check out
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* FanPreferredCouple: The pairing generally preferred by the fanbase is [[spoiler:Rose and Adrian]].
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* DieForOurShip: Rose and Dimitri.
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** Lissa gets bashed by Rose/Christian shippers. In Rose/Christian fanfictions, Lissa sleeps with everybody, is jealous of Rose, and uses compulsion without a second thought, while in canon, Lissa's nice, responsible, not at all jealous of Rose, and feels rather guilty whenever she has to use compulsion. Heck, Lissa gets the same treatment even in some Rose/Dimitri fanfictions since ''Spirit Bound'' came out.
** Tasha also gets a lot of this. She shows some interest in Dimitri in ''Frostbite'' and asks him to be her guardian [[spoiler:which he refuses]] and has been bashed ever since. Despite the fact she's incredibly nice. [[spoiler:Though it is kind of justified when you get to the end of ''Last Sacrifice''...]]
** Adrian gets hit by this pretty hard by Rose/Dimitri shippers.
** Then there are the Rose/Lissa shippers that have tendencies to demonize Christian and Dimitri (and Adrian to some extent). The amount of HoYay Lissa and Roseand Dimitri.have canonically does not help.
** Lissa gets bashed by Rose/Christian shippers. In Rose/Christian fanfictions, Lissa sleeps with everybody, is jealous of Rose, and uses compulsion without a second thought, while in canon, Lissa's nice, responsible, not at all jealous of Rose, and feels rather guilty whenever she has to use compulsion. Heck, Lissa gets the same treatment even in some Rose/Dimitri fanfictions since ''Spirit Bound'' came out.
** Tasha also gets a lot of this. She shows some interest in Dimitri in ''Frostbite'' and asks him to be her guardian [[spoiler:which he refuses]] and has been bashed ever since. Despite the fact she's incredibly nice. [[spoiler:Though it is kind of justified when you get to the end of ''Last Sacrifice''...]]
** Adrian gets hit by this pretty hard by Rose/Dimitri shippers.
** Then there are the Rose/Lissa shippers that have tendencies to demonize Christian and Dimitri (and Adrian to some extent). The amount of HoYay Lissa and Rose
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Romitri (Rose/Dimitri) and Dragozera (Lissa/Christian).
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* FandomRivalry: During the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, there were a rash of small fandom wars between the film and ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', after a Godzilla fan insulted Vampire Academy and it's fans when the vampire movie was beating Godzilla in the polls.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The psi-hounds are laughably bad. [[spoiler:Also, Christian setting them "on fire" wasn't very convincing either.]]
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The psi-hounds are laughably bad. [[spoiler:Also, Christian setting them "on fire" wasn't very convincing either.]]
]] They appear heavily unfinished.
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* BetterOnDVD: Moviegoers unfamiliar with the books have been negatively responding to the excessive amounts of InfoDump that fail to make the movie comprehensible.
* ClicheStorm: Not to the degree of ''[[TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'', but the movie was panned a lot for closely resembling ''HarryPotter'', ''{{Twilight}}'' and ''MeanGirls'' among others (the last one's actually a bit of a given since the movie's director also directed ''Mean Girls'').
* ClicheStorm: Not to the degree of ''[[TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'', but the movie was panned a lot for closely resembling ''HarryPotter'', ''{{Twilight}}'' and ''MeanGirls'' among others (the last one's actually a bit of a given since the movie's director also directed ''Mean Girls'').
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* HateDumb: Has been getting flak as "just another vampire movie" before release, while Vampire Academy is actually very different from series as ''{{Twilight}}'': not only is its portrayal of vampires an entire 180, it also centers on ''two'' female protagonists, where the boyfriends are merely side-characters, not the focus of the story.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Avery]], she plans on getting Lissa drunk which not only makes it harder to use her powers, but also so she can kill her and bring her back Shadow-Kissed. What's worse is it's implied that she did it before to her brother.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Avery]], she plans on getting Lissa drunk which not only makes it harder to use her powers, but also so she can kill her and bring her back Shadow-Kissed. What's worse is it's implied that she did it before to her brother.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The books have an huge fan base in Australia.
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* CriticalDissonance: Hit with a 7% score on RottenTomatoes, but the fans like it just fine, or even love it.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The psyhounds are laughably bad. [[spoiler:Also, Christian setting them "on fire" wasn't very convincing either.]]
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* HoYay - So so much Ho Yay between our main characters. Especially in the final chapter of Shadow Kissed and a lot of Blood Promise. The part where [[spoiler: Rose leaves the academy and heads to Russia]] is pretty much like a break-up scene, you don't even need to change the dialogue.
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* HoYay - HoYay: So so much Ho Yay between our main characters. Especially in the final chapter of Shadow Kissed and a lot of Blood Promise. The part where [[spoiler: Rose leaves the academy and heads to Russia]] is pretty much like a break-up scene, you don't even need to change the dialogue.
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* SoBadItsGood: It has been called this by multiple reviewers.
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* BetterOnDVD: Moviegoers unfamiliar with the books have been negatively responding to the excessive amounts of InfoDump that fail to make the movie comprehensible.
* ClicheStorm: Not to the degree of ''[[TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'', but the movie was panned a lot for closely resembling ''HarryPotter'', ''{{Twilight}}'' and ''MeanGirls'' among others (the last one's actually a bit of a given since the movie's director also directed ''Mean Girls'').
* ClicheStorm: Not to the degree of ''[[TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'', but the movie was panned a lot for closely resembling ''HarryPotter'', ''{{Twilight}}'' and ''MeanGirls'' among others (the last one's actually a bit of a given since the movie's director also directed ''Mean Girls'').
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* HateDumb: Has been getting flak as "just another vampire movie" before release, while Vampire Academy is actually very different from series as ''{{Twilight}}'': not only is its portrayal of vampires an entire 180, it also centers on ''two'' female protagonists, where the boyfriends are merely side-characters, not the focus of the story.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:The scene where Christian turns Strigoi, invades St. Vladimir's, kills Dimitri and even goes as far as turning Lissa, before they all circle around Rose threateningly. Yeah, it was pretty obviously a DreamSequence.]]
* SpecialEffectFailure: The psyhounds are laughably bad. [[spoiler:Also, Christian setting them "on fire" wasn't very convincing either.]]
* SoBadItsGood: It has been called this by multiplereviewers.reviewers.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The elemental magic in the movie has been the target of a lot of scrutiny, with reviewers exclaiming "They aren't vampires, they're ''wizards''!"
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:The scene where Christian turns Strigoi, invades St. Vladimir's, kills Dimitri and even goes as far as turning Lissa, before they all circle around Rose threateningly. Yeah, it was pretty obviously a DreamSequence.]]
* SpecialEffectFailure: The psyhounds are laughably bad. [[spoiler:Also, Christian setting them "on fire" wasn't very convincing either.]]
* SoBadItsGood: It has been called this by multiple
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The elemental magic in the movie has been the target of a lot of scrutiny, with reviewers exclaiming "They aren't vampires, they're ''wizards''!"
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* CriticalDissonance:CriticalDissonance: Hit with a 7% score on RottenTomatoes, but the fans like it just fine, or even love it.
* SoBadItsGood: It has been called this by multiple reviewers.
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!! The Book Series in General:
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* NeverLiveItDown: Used InUniverse, Adrian seems to get a lot of grief for Drinking and Smoking when he has an legitimate reason for doing so, rather than to annoy people.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Used InUniverse, Adrian seems to get a lot of grief for Drinking and Smoking when he has an legitimate reason for doing so, rather than to annoy people.people.
!! The 2014 film:
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!! The 2014 film:
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* HarsherInHindsight: Early in Shadow Kiss during the guardian practice exercise, Rose wants Dimitri to have the opportunity to show that he could be a badass Strigoi.
** In Blood Promise, Rose notices that Sydney doesn't seem to eat much of her food, but doesn't think much of it, and actually steals some of her fries. It's later revealed that Sydney has fairly severe body issues.
** In Blood Promise, Rose notices that Sydney doesn't seem to eat much of her food, but doesn't think much of it, and actually steals some of her fries. It's later revealed that Sydney has fairly severe body issues.
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* MagnificentBastard MagnificentBastard" - Victor.Victor.
* NeverLiveItDown: Used InUniverse, Adrian seems to get a lot of grief for Drinking and Smoking when he has an legitimate reason for doing so, rather than to annoy people.
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* HoYay - So so much Ho Yay between our main characters. Especially in the final chapter of Shadow Kissed and a lot of Blood Promise. The part where [[spoiler: Rose leaves the academy and heads to Russia]] is pretty much like a break-up scene, you don't even need to change the dialogue.
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