History WebVideo / CarmillaTheSeries

* TakeThat: When studying up on vampires, Laura is briefly seen reading ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' before dismissively chucking it aside. Later, Carmilla mockingly mentions "that sparkly twerp". Repeated in Season 2 [[spoiler:when Laura tosses ''Breaking Dawn'' aside during the sad breakup music montage]].

* AnAesop: Season 3 supplies the best example. [[spoiler: Love is a wonderful thing when you find it, but you can't let it consume everything if it leaves you.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Laura's crush on Danny.

* HostileShowTakeover: While Carmilla was tied up in Laura's room, [=LaFontaine=] took over her Twitter and Tumblr, pretending to be her. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d.

* AlluringAnglerfish: The true form of Lophiiformes -- the light is just a lure.

* GenderNeutralWriting: [=LaFontaine=] is a non-binary character for whom them/they/their pronouns are used.

* OverprotectiveDad: Laura's father, to the point of CrazyPrepared tactics such as supplying his daughter with Bear Spray (an entire bag of cans of it, ''per week''), having her take Krav Maga since she was eight, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and making her have a flip phone so she couldn't send high resolution pictures of herself to others]]. This smotheringly overprotectiveness is what ultimately makes Laura split up with Danny, as Laura went to University to get ''away'' from it.

* ChessWithDeath: [[spoiler: In the Season 3 finale, following Laura's HeroicSacrifice, Carmilla challenges Mattie to a wager in a desperate bid to save her beloved;]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Carmilla''': Pick any game you want. [[BlasphemousBoast Tonight I will kill a god if I have to!]]]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: ''Everyone'' calls the Dean just "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe the Dean]]". Of course, her real name [[spoiler: Inanna]] is a closely-guarded secret, but she does have a legal name in her human guise, [[AwesomeMcCoolName Lilita]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Morgan]]. She's only referred to as "Dean Morgan" on a couple of occasions, usually in an official or bureaucratic context, and the first name Lilita is never spoken aloud on-screen in all three seasons. Moreoever, even after the protagonists learn of her true identity as [[spoiler: Inanna]], they continue to refer to her as "the Dean" most of the times (except, of course, for Carmilla and Mattie, who call her "Mother").

** [[spoiler:Season 3 pushes Laura's UpToEleven, with the first few episodes having her stress clean and ignore danger in a decidedly Perry-esque fashion.]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/c/KindaTV/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=8 The whole series is available to watch]] on Website/YouTube. It can also be purchased [[http://carmillaxmasbundles.vhx.tv on VHX.]][[note]]Season 3 is available with purchase of the movie. Season 0 is exclusive to Youtube.[[/note]] The movie is available for purchase [[http://carmillamovie.vhx.tv here.]] An official web novella, ''[[http://carmillaseries.tumblr.com/post/100859236840/ Silas Confidential]]'', was released during season 1 and is about Laura's dorm neighbor Mary Ringwold.

'''ONLY SPOILERS FROM SEASON ZERO AND SEASON THREE WILL BE WHITED OUT.'''

* AllThereInTheManual: Carmilla, Laura, Perry and Lafontaine's attempt to escape from Silas in between seasons 1 and 2. Only vaguely alluded to at the very beginning of season 2 and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObdNbNYoiQ Christmas Special]], but the entire adventure is written up on the Twitter accounts the cast cooked up for the characters. [[spoiler: The story involved angry villagers, barn fires, Kobolds, riddles, the whole nine yards.]]

** One appears briefly within the series. [[spoiler: Laura visits it briefly near the end of season three. She is sent there by JP/The Library in order to get the fourth talisman but ultimately fails. The sheer darkness of the AU, in which "everyone had given up", convinces her that they have to try and stop the Dean, no matter what.]]

* AMFMCharacterization: One of the first things Carmilla does when she is introduced is turn on rock music. Considering that she never plays music again (on screen - Laura complains on Twitter), this was likely to quickly characterize her as someone who is rebellious, has a bit of an attitude problem and isn't going to be the most considerate roommate.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The season 2 finale strongly implies the Dean has resurrected Danny as a vampire. [[spoiler: Season 3 more than confirms it.]]

* TheAtoner: Carmilla, openly showing regret for the things she did in the cult, especially what happened with Ell, and helping Laura and company with their investigation by providing them with information and backup. In Episode 28 she refers to herself as a "former" minion of the Dean, showing that she's fully switched sides and is helping Laura.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: WordOfGod confirms this as the beginning point of Laura and Carm's relationship. The little kindnesses Laura extended to her in season one, like saying even she deserved better than hopelessness, or offering the trash can to throw her Kleenex in because she was crying after the Dean chewed her out-apparently that was the first time anyone had been pointlessly nice to Carmilla in quite a while.

* BettyAndVeronica: Laura (Archie) with Danny (Betty) and Carmilla (Veronica). [[spoiler:In season three, the roles are reversed, with Carmilla having become much more noble via CharacterDevelopment, and Danny now DrunkOnTheDarkSide.]]

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Starting with season 2. Yes, Laura's InnocentlyInsensitive, incredibly naive, and [[spoiler:willing to kill for the one she loves]], Danny's self-righteous and tends to jump to conclusions, Carmilla is a snarky, apathetic, semi-murderous vampire, and [=LaFontaine=] willingly played God with [[spoiler:J.P.'s mind and Will's body]], but when you compare them to [[spoiler:the Baron, a narcissist who wants to kill ''all'' vampires, Theo, a traitor who killed Danny for his own gain, and the Dean, who possessed Perry, turned Danny into a vampire slave, and wants to bring on TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]], they're all practically saints. Even Mel and Mattie, both of whom are quite openly murderous, don't seem so bad compared to those three.

* BreakTheCutie: Laura and Perry at season 2. They had your peace and happiness over, for a series of murders, vampire coming back from the dead and break up.

* TheCavalry: Episode 35 describes how Carmilla, Danny and the Summer Society, and the Zetas rescued Laura, Perry and the other captives from the coven.
* CelebrityParadox: Laura's dad, Sherman Hollis, is played by Enrico Colantoni - who also played Keith Mars, Veronica's father in ''Series/VeronicaMars'', frequently referenced in ''Carmilla.''

* ChessWithDeath: [[spoiler: In the season 3 finale, following Laura's HeroicSacrifice, Carmilla challenges Mattie to a wager in a desperate bid to save her beloved;]]

* ChristmasEpisode: Taking place after season 1.

** The biggest is at the end of season 1 (which was originally a BolivianArmyEnding as it was unknown whether there'd be a season 2); turns out that the abomination under Silas University wasn't slain, and it seems to be waking up after eating Carmilla's mother. The episode ends with the alarm for a town meeting sounding, and everyone looking to the camera worriedly.
** The ending of season 2 topped it, however. [[spoiler:Perry's not Perry -- she's being possessed by the Dean. Danny is resurrected and turned into a vampire. Mattie is brought back to life. And the Dean is putting her plans into action...]]

* DaddysLittleVillain: Mattie, though she admits she wasn't a fan of the Dean's manipulations. Carmilla is heavily implied to have once been this. In season three, the Dean calls her "my high priestess".

* DeconReconSwitch: Laura's optimism and "love conquers all" viewpoint gets this treatment. In Season One, it's mostly played straight, with Carmilla undergoing a HeelFaceTurn for Laura's sake. Then Season Two happens, and Laura's left [[BreakTheCutie totally broken]], with her relationship with Carmilla having only just barely started to repair itself, and everything she's worked for in shambles. ''Then'' in Season Three, Laura realizes that giving up hope is just not an option, and Carmilla confirms that Laura's love and kindness is what made her truly reform and try to be a better person. [[spoiler:And in the end, Laura's endless compassion saves the world.]]
* DemonicPossession: Episode 31 ends with the Dean using an apparently evil necklace to possess Laura. [[spoiler:Oh, and she's been doing it to Perry for ''all'' of season 2.]]

** We also don't see much of Danny biting Kirsch in the season two finale, or [[spoiler: Dean Morgan digging out [=LaF's=] eye in season three.]] We do get a [[SarcasmMode nice look]] at the bloodied makeshift bandages afterward, though.

* IWillFindYou: Laura spends the entire first Season trying to find and save her roommate Betty.
* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Kirsch and Will are initially the only men seen on screen, with season 2 adding a few tertiary characters and giving JP an actual voice. [[spoiler: And then his own body in the form of the reanimated corpse of Will.]] Justified since the main cast know each other due to living in the same ''girls'' dormitory.

* InsecureLoveInterest: Carmilla thinks she is not good enough for Laura, in season 2.
* InSeriesNickname: After the events of season 2, episode 31, [=LaF=] refers to Laura as "Tinius Mopius Lesbianus" on Twitter.

* LoveHurts: In season 2.

* LesbianVampire: Inevitable, being based on the {{Trope Maker|s}}, although one doesn't require the other. Much to Laura's surprise Carmilla really ''is'' interested in her, not as a meal. [[spoiler: Danny becomes one as well, as of the season 2 finale. However, she definitely liked girls pre-vamping.]]

* {{Masquerade}}: The Austrian police, at least officially, deny Silas University's existence. It is strongly implied the University is not under the Austrian government's jurisdiction. On campus, it's zigzagged: Certain stuff like the Alchemy Club unleashing a fungal apocalypse or the library being an EldritchLocation is just considered the way things are, but Laura at first [[ExtraStrengthMasquerade does not believe in]] vampires or {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, possibly due to [[AllThereInTheManual not having read]] her [[{{Doorstopper}} student handbook]]. By the start of second season, [[BrokenMasquerade everyone on campus knows about the supernatural]]. And in late season 3 [[spoiler:[[TheUnmasquedWorld the rest of the world gets its share of weirdness too. When Laura calls Betty in Princeton, she reaches the "Princeton headquarters of the emergency apocalypse response network" asking the caller to please grab a weapon and join them on the front lines.]]]]

* MoodWhiplash: An episode can go from silly to deadly serious - or vice versa - with alarming speed.

** Season two starts off with an episode that almost solely consists of Carmilla and Laura flirting adorably. Cue the last few seconds, where Perry walks into the room drenched in blood.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Laura, for effectively acting as Baron Vordenberg's campaign manager and allowing him to replace Mattie as Chair of the Silas Board. In which capacity [[TyrantTakesTheHelm he seizes total administrative power over the school]]--and ''puts out a death warrant for all vampires'' (confirmed or suspected).
** And, on a much larger scale, when it turns out that everything Laura did in season 2 played directly into the Dean's hands, allowing the events of season 3 to happen. [[spoiler:Possibly a subversion, though; it turns out that the universe in which nothing in season 2 happened was in even worse shape.]]

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted with a vengeance. Season Zero has a plot point about all the girls on campus suddenly not getting their periods anymore, with Mel and Perry specifically commenting on weird and creepy it is. [[spoiler:At the end of the season, the periods come back... ''all'' at once. The cramps are ''brutal''.]] In Season Three's bonus episodes of Mel's podcasts, we find out that the aversion of this trope has turned into a bit of a problem in the Pit.

** This ends up mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] come season 2 as an improvement in budget and set allows them to do some of the more dramatic events on screen, including the finale.

** The ending of season 1 is one for Carmilla, Laura, and [=LaFontaine=], realizing they didn't kill the Anglerfish after all.
** And the ending of season 2 is one for both Carmilla and Laura when [[spoiler:they realize the Dean isn't dead.]]

** The Dean has an extra array of powers such as DemonicPossession and some sort of [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]], and is implied to be vastly more powerful than Carmilla. Presumably this is due to her connection with the Light. Season 3 reveals that [[spoiler:this is because she is in fact not just a vampire - she's a goddess]].

* {{Prequel}}: Season Zero is set in 2012, before Laura came to Silas.

* ProfessionalsDoItOnDesks: [[spoiler: Laura and Carmilla]], in season 3. ''Twice''.

* RiddleMeThis: [[spoiler: When Carmilla offers to wager her life to resurrect Laura in the season 3 finale, Mattie replies with a riddle. When Carmilla correctly answers it, Mattie restores Laura to life.]]

** More Buffy in season 3. Laura calls the Dean moving to snap her neck "Jenny Calender-ing" her. [[spoiler: [=LaF=] ending up with an eyepatch in the GrandFinale could be considered one to Xander's bloody fate in season 7.]] There's also this lovely line: [[spoiler: "The Dean isn't a demon. She's a god."]]

* ShutUpHannibal: After listening to Mattie tell her how worthless and insignificant she is for all of season two, Laura ''finally'' tells her to can it in 2.26, pointing out that Mattie's hardly the first person to tell her to give up, and yet, Laura's still around.

* StrawFeminist: Mel and Dean Morgan can both come off this way. When the Dean is speechifying at the gang in season 3, she tries to play this angle, complaining about how every time a woman seeks power for herself, she's called crazy. It doesn't work.

** Though all the cell phones in the series seem to be able to access Twitter and Tumblr at any time ([[AllThereInTheManual if the constant feeds are to be believed]]), Laura's outdated flip-phone is exceptional. Over the course of Season 1, it manages to send text messages from both the Silas Library (which is only accessible at night) and from an ''underground'' cupboard. This is lampshaded a few times over the course of the series. The only time this is averted is during a quick break in Carmilla's texts when she retrieves an ancient artifact several miles ''underwater'' - anyone who's dropped a phone into a puddle knows how long they're able to last in those conditions.

** In the Christmas Special the girls try to escape over the mountains. They find that mountains are very dangerous and not at all easy to scale. By season 2 they end up right back at Silas University.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: About a week before dropping the last episodes of Season Three, [=KindaTV=] released the first teaser for ''The Carmilla Movie''. Which many deemed an... odd choice, because [[spoiler:it completely gives away the fact that Laura and Carmilla are both alive and well five years after the events of Season Three, not to mention the fact that the world obviously doesn't really end. A ''lot'' of fans criticized this for killing a lot of the suspense of the last few episodes.]]

* VampiresHateGarlic: In season 1, the students incapacitate a vampire by tying her to a chair and putting a string of garlic around her neck. It's never confirmed that the garlic stops her from escaping, but it seems unlikely that the rope could have held her on its own.

* WhamEpisode: The season 2 finale has [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins, ''at least'' one character killed, two characters BackFromTheDead, and the revelation The Dean is behind ''everything'']]. ''Sheesh''.
* WhamLine: From the season 2 finale.

* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: Season 2 ep.22 starts out with Laura describing the daily release and feeding of the vampires from their daytime cellar hiding spot as one of these.

* FiveManBand: Though they rarely work together as a full group, Laura's allies break down to:
** TheHero: Laura
** TheLancer: Carmilla
** TheBigGuy: Danny
** TheSmartGuy: [=LaFontaine=]
** TheChick: Perry

* RadioVoice: Vordenburg over the intercom
* RealityEnsues:
** Laura spends much of her time spreading word of the vampires and trying to get attention on them, as well as the missing girls, without hiding her identity. She and her friends become targeted in increasingly less subtle ways.
** In the Christmas Special the girls try to escape over the mountains. They find that mountains are very dangerous and not at all easy to scale. By season 2 they end up right back at Silas University.
** You would think waking up an even bigger monster from the twisted imagination of HP Lovecraft would be the end of everything. But, that doesn't really account for the fact that the thing physically cannot get itself out because the hole is too small.
** In Season 2, [[spoiler:the defeat of the vampires has left a total power vacuum, leaving the many students there to attempt to establish order and start killing one another, and even without the innate weirdness ''nobody'' is coming anywhere near Silas]].
* Really700YearsOld: Carmilla was born in the 1600s. Her mother is even older than her and Will's been around since at least the 1930s. Her sister, Mattie, is 1,200 years old.

* AllThereInTheManual: Carmilla, Laura, Perry and Lafontaine's attempt to escape from Silas in between seasons 1 and 2. Only vaguely alluded to at the very beginning of season 2 and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObdNbNYoiQ Christmas Specia]], but the entire adventure is written up on the Twitter accounts the cast cooked up for the characters. [[spoiler: The story involved angry villagers, barn fires, Kobolds, riddles, the whole nine yards.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: Carmilla, Laura, Perry, and Lafontaine's attempt to escape from Silas in between seasons 1 and 2. Only vaguely alluded to at the very beginning of season 2, but the entire adventure is written up on the Twitter accounts the cast cooked up for the characters. [[spoiler: The story involved angry villagers, barn fires, Kobolds, riddles, the whole nine yards.]]

* {{Abusive Parent|s}}: The Dean, to Carmilla.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Carmilla herself. From FauxAffablyEvil PsychoLesbian FemmeFatale to JerkWithAHeartOfGold FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire.

''Carmilla'' is a web series adaptation of [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} the book of the same name]] set in [[SettingUpdate the modern day]]. It concluded in the fall of 2016, with three good-sized seasons and a large amount of extra material. [[Film/TheCarmillaMovie A movie]], set five years after the GrandFinale, was released October 2017. It is available for purchase [[http://carmillamovie.vhx.tv here.]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/c/KindaTV/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=8 The whole series is available to watch]] on Website/YouTube. It can also be purchased [[http://carmillaxmasbundles.vhx.tv on VHX.]][[note]]Season 3 is available with purchase of the movie. Season 0 is exclusive to Youtube.[[/note]] There's an official web novella, ''[[http://carmillaseries.tumblr.com/post/100859236840/ Silas Confidential]]'', about Laura's dorm neighbor Mary Ringwold.

Now has its own [[Characters/CarmillaTheSeries Character sheet]].

* NotSoDifferent: Vordenburg claims that he and Laura are the same, because they both reject the reality of a harsh world and instead try to live by romanticized ideals.

* EvilMatriarch: The Dean,even ''before'' she's revealed to be Carmilla's evil vampire mother.

* {{Transgender}}: Both Episode 26 and WordOfGod confirm that [=LaFontaine=] is nonbinary, preferring "they/them" pronouns.