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Original books

  • Badass Decay: The Tiger Justified in Sixth Watch: He has become a separate entity from Twilight.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Both Edgar and Gennadiy Saushkin arguably crossed this in Last Watch, when the former threatened Anton's family and Moscow with a nuclear weapon to convince him to help them find the Crown of All; his casual usage of people as pawns also bears mention. Gennadiy arguably did this when he killed and drank blood from 52 men and women in order to become a Grand vampire and have revenge on Anton, after the deaths of his son and his wife.

Film adaptation

  • Awesome Music: TT-34's "Jack" in both movies.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: in the first movie, Zavulon plays a fighting video game, and his character has a sword. At some point, Zavulon uses his cellphone to play, holding the phone as if it was the sword, and his movements are reproduced in-game. Looked cool by then. Two years later, came the Wii...
  • Magnificent Bastard: The film version of Zavulon lacks his original counterpart's racism. Zavulon leads the Dark Others, a magical organization that's been in a cold war with its Light counterpart for centuries. When Zavulon learns that a couple of powerful Great Others have been born, he reveals to one of them that his Light-aligned father, the work's hero Anton Gorodetsky, tried to have him aborted, convincing him to join the Dark. After training the boy for a couple years, Zavulon has Anton framed for murder by promising a vampire he'd make his son human if he did the killing. After killing the son for attacking him when his manipulations are exposed, Zavulon reveals that this was all a plan to get the two Great Others to fight, as one spilling the other's blood would make the cold war hot again. The scheme goes off without a hitch, only being stopped when Anton uses a powerful item to rewrite time.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: The video game adaptation, developed by Nival and published by CDV Software, was met with very mixed reception due to the bugs and the dialogue. It holds a score of 54 out of 100 on Metacritic.

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