YMMV / Morganville Vampires

• Complete Monster: The town of Morganville and its vampire citizens represent Black-and-Gray Morality, with the following representing the blackest:
  • Mr. Bishop is the oldest vampire in existence and easily the evilest. Once a brutal warlord overthrown by his daughter Amelie before the series began, Bishop, out of revenge, created a virus which destroyed the minds of vampires and unleashed it in hopes of wiping out his species to rebuild in his image. Coming into the town of Morganville, Bishop torches huge, populated areas and attacks even refugee centers. Bishop also tries to murder his daughter multiple times, even killing her lover in front of her to savor her pain. Returning after his initial defeat, Bishop creates an illegal fighting ring where vampires and humans enhanced by vampire blood fight to the death, intending to create an army to wipe out the town for defying him.
  • Carpe Corpus: Dean is a psychopathic Serial Killer and rapist stalking the town of Morganville. Dean murders his way through the female population of Morganville and later even leaves one of his dying victims at the home of the protagonists just to terrorise them. Dean later tries to murder series heroine Claire Danvers and frame the vampires so he can ignite a conflict between vampires and humans for sheer fun. Dean later decides to highjack the town's teleportation system so he can have his terror spread even more unabated. Claire calls out Dean, saying that, despite his rhetoric of revolution against the vampires, he is really just a predator worse than the vampires. Dean responds by smugly agreeing with her.
  • Last Breath & Black Dawn: Magnus is the Master Draug and introduces himself as "the end" before he snaps heroine Claire's neck. Arriving in Morganville with his Draug, Magnus captures townspeople, human and vampire, to drain to death as he has done countless times before. Plotting to destroy Morganville and exterminate the vampires, Magnus attempts to turn Amelie into his queen to spawn more Draug, plotting to feast upon all seven billion humans on the planet.
  • Fall of Night & Daylighters: Rhys Fallon once achieved his dream of becoming a vampire, hated it, and became human again. Despising his newfound weakness, Fallon sought to punish all vampires, infecting them with a sickness to send them on killing sprees so he may bend Morganville to his own manipulative ends. Having vampires captured, experimented on, and tortured, he uses drugs to break the minds of humans and is gleeful to introduce a drug to force vampires back to humanity, regardless of the 75 percent fatality rate in the process—an act of genocide.
• Magnificent Bastard: The town of Morganville has several morally ambiguous and intelligent masterminds who defend it:
  • Amelie is the serene, cold and polite queen of all vampires and the founder of Morganville. A master at playing people, Amelie will go to any length to protect vampirekind, which include: outplaying her monstrous father by faking a defeat to trick him into poisoning himself, assassinating an innocent woman who nearly exposed Morganville as a haven for vampires and staging the death as a suicide, and embarrassing and defeating the anti-vampire supremacist Rhys Fallon by mentally showing him to be a fool in front of his followers, leading them to turn on him. Amelie is as empathic as she is ruthless and truly cares about the town and Claire, despite employing morally ambiguous methods to defend it, such as trying to destroy the town in order to wipe out the Draug. Facing down her enemies, Amelie defeats all challengers for her throne and forces them to kneel before her while ending the series victorious and in the arms of her lover Oliver.
  • Oliver himself is Amelie's ruthless right-hand man and the only one who can match her brilliance. Having once charmed his people into killing their king before the series, he later became a vampire in his quest for power. As a rival of Amelie, he tries to set up a False Flag Operation by killing a vampire using a Vampire Hunter to sow concerns in the vampire population to use it to usurp her. When he loses, he takes his defeat in stride. Oliver acts as The Mole and feeds false information to Amelie's nemesis Bishop, leading to his defeat and later staring down the master of the Draug before outwitting and killing him. Oliver is ruthless but also empathetic at times, and even helps save the heroes at various times using his wits and fighting prowess. A master of charm and armed with sarcastic wit, Oliver eventually falls in love with Amelie and ends the series as her loyal lover, helping her to decide when ruthless actions are needed over empathetic ones.
  • Myrnin is an insane and charismatic vampiric scientist who has a love for bunny slippers and has a pet spider he named Bob. A master at tricking people into underestimating him due to his insanity, Myrnin uses this to infiltrate Bishop's organisation by faking a surrender and feeding info to his best friend Amelie, gathers blood from Bishop in order to create a cure for a deadly virus infection threatening the town and drains a guard dry to escape when she underestimates him. A master at building awesome gadgets, Myrnin helps to create various weapons such as silver guns to defeat the Draug and helps Amelie turn Rhys Fallon's vampire cure into a way to free his brainwashed prisoners instead. A man who rose from nothing under an abusive parent, Myrnin mixes ruthless drive and unyielding charisma.