* BizarroEpisode: "Dying For Fame" contain a number of hallucinations by Nick being at a diner, as a rock star, and as a prisoner with the rest of the cast playing different roles. It also has a music video.
* CompleteMonster:
** "Bad Blood": UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper himself was a surgeon-barber so evil his blood [[EvenEvilHasStandards actually made the ancient vampire and Nick Knight's maker Lucien LaCroix sick]]. Upon becoming a vampire, Jack goes on a killing spree in Whitechapel before moving on from England. Jack spends the next centuries stalking the world, [[SerialKiller committing a string of horrific serial murders wherever he goes]]. Finally arriving in Toronto, Jack begins slaughtering innocent people again, ending his spree with the young [[CopKiller police officer Bridget Hellman]], who he drains before finally being destroyed by Nick and the vampire hunter Liam O'Neal. Easily the most savage and violent vampire on the show, and evil even before becoming a vampire, Jack demonstrates the most savage extremes of the nature of vampires in contrast to the repentant Nick.
** "The Fire Inside": "[[SerialKiller Dragon]]", a masked murderer, is a businessman during the day who despises the homeless as "parasites" who scrounge for the money that "hard-working" men like him earn, and views himself as as an "exterminator" in [[KillThePoor wiping them out]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introducing himself]] by luring a homeless man over with loose change, Dragon proceeds to burn him alive, revealing he has been murdering the innocent homeless of Toronto and has tracked a small community of them to the sewers below the city. When Nick and his partner Don Schanke go to save them, Dragon burns a woman doing her laundry to death before attempting to kill every homeless person he finds, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]]. When he encounters Nick, Dragon takes a homeless man hostage and attempts to burn him alive, too, mocking Nick for caring about "trash" and claiming only he can solve the "problem." In a world of murdering vampires, Dragon stands as a stark reminder that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans can sometimes be worse than nearly any supernatural monster]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Janette's bartender Miklos gets a lot of attention due to being one of the show's only AmbiguouslyHuman characters.
** Sewer-dwelling cockney VegetarianVampire Screed is often considered to be the best new character from the [[SeasonalRot controversial]] third season.
* FanPreferredCouple: A number of fans preferred Nick with either Janette or La Croix (or both) to Natalie.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Almost everyone hates the show's ending. The only difference is whether they disregard all of season three or just the series finale.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** "For I Have Sinned" had a lot to deal with the church covering up the murderer in their midst in the name of preserving the confessional. Much is made of what could ruin the church's reputation and trustworthiness...oof. This hits very hard after the pedophilia cover-ups being uncovered.
** "Spin Doctor" features an election with a male and female candidate, allegations of sexism and conflicts of interest, inappropriate affairs, and "battle of the sexes" overtones. Viewed during the 2016 US Presidential election campaign or after the election, it's hard not to see parallels.
* MagnificentBastard: The sire of Nicholas Knight, Lucien [=LaCroix=], was a brilliant Roman general turned into a vampire by his own daughter Divia. Horrified at the corruption Divia succumbed to, with her even suggesting they become lovers, [=LaCroix=] seemingly destroyed and entombed her. Becoming a brilliant, powerful, and dangerous vampire, [=LaCroix=] once arranged for Nick to be hanged by peasants to trick him into succumbing to his killer instincts once Nick renounced his old ways. In the present, [=LaCroix=] frequently manipulates Nick and all around him, even having his own radio talk show as "The Night Crawler" where he frequently promotes his philosophies and schemes. Always charismatic and compelling, [=LaCroix=] also admits to [[EvenEvilHasStandards certain standards]], and always maintains his complex relationship with Nicholas.
* OneTrueThreesome:
** There's a lot of fans who felt this was canon with La Croix, Janette, and Nick.
** Many fans were also happy with the idea of Janette, Nick, and Natalia.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/CatherineDisher is more famous in the States for her voice work, in particular her performance as Jill in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. Her appearance on the ''Crimson Head'' podcast is something ''RE'' fans should seek out. She also played Jean Grey in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''.
** The role of Monica Howard in "Feeding the Beast" is played by Creator/CarrieAnneMoss. She appears as a 12 step program addict.
** Creator/AmandaTapping played one of the lab coats in "Near Death". In addition to [[Series/StargateSg1 Sam Carter,]] she would go on to play a woman injected with vampire blood in the series ''{{Series/Sanctuary}}''.
** UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, who appeared in a few flashback episodes, was played by Creator/ChristinaCox. She later went on to play a woman [[Series/BloodTies2007 teamed up with a centuries-old vampire in Toronto, fighting crime]], though in this case ''she'' was the detective.
** Creator/NicoleDeBoer plays a female street kid that Nick has befriended in the pilot episode.
** Creator/CynthiaPreston plays the FemmeFatale stripper in "Dance by the Light of the Moon".
* ShipToShipCombat: Subverted, in the "list wars" held on the two oldest fan lists, http://www.forkni-l.listserve.edu, and its sister list http://www.fkfic-l.listserve.edu, which pit ships against each other in round robin style stories. The fans go to Toronto, find their way around it and interact with canon characters as each faction, as they are called, comes up with storylines moderated by the War Mistress. These contests are still occasionally held even now.
* {{Squick}}:
** In, "If Looks Could Kill", Schanke goes on about how hot a young woman's picture is before he finds out from Natalie that the model is ''fifteen.''
** When La Croix's daughter Divia bids him to [[VillainousIncest make love to her.]]
* SpiritualAdaptation: The original first edition of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' quoted at least one line from the original pilot, ''Nick Knight.'' From centering on a morally grey vampire protagonist trying to reclaim and hold on to his humanity, dealing with an antagonistic sire, being set in a major metropolitan city in the 90's, and including the phrase "world of darkness" in its intro sequence, there are clear links, which may have gone both ways as the series and game evolved. Many fans consider ''Forever Knight'' to be a better television companion to ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' that the short-lived ''Series/KindredTheEmbraced'' that was an ''actual'' attempt to adapt ''Vampire'' for television.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many fans ''hated'' the third and final season, which killed off or PutOnABus much-loved characters in order to introduce [[ExecutiveMeddling younger and "prettier" new characters]], and especially the EverybodyDiesEnding (to the extent that there have been a number of {{Fix Fic}}s written presenting alternate third or even fourth seasons).
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