History Characters / WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019Humans

* OddFriendship: With Laszlo, the out-of-touch, sex-obsessed vampire next-door who regularly hypnotizes Sean. Despite the fact that they have absolutely nothing in common and don't even seem to hang out together all that much, they genuinely like each other.

* TooDumbToLive: They attempt to hunt an entire house full of vampires ''at night'' without any kind of practical experience or training, and it's only thanks to Guillermo's intervention that any of them make it out alive.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While [[DownplayedTrope not a particularly similar person]], Sean's role as a human best friend to the vampires who has a HundredPercentAdorationRating with vampires (even ultimately including ''[[TheDreaded The Baron]]'') is reminiscent of Stu from the original film.

* FailOSuckyname: With a name like "Jeff Suckler", he's pretty much destined to be a loser. Nadja is extremely disappointed to learn his name.
-->'''Nadja''': It's like a weak ejaculation.

* AscendedExtra: Goes from a minor side character to a regular side character who usually had ADayInTheLimelight episodes OncePerSeason.

* MuggleBestFriend: Played for laughs. Sean's vampire neighbor Laszlo is pretty fond of him and goes along with "human" activities he otherwise would not partake in (eg. gambling, hunting). Sean is totally unaware that his neighbors are vampires and they frequently mess with his mind to make sure he doesn't find out.
* NiceGuy: Sean is pretty loud and boisterous, but he's also aggressively friendly.

* BadassBaritone: His speaking voice is normal, but his voice notably deepens when he unlocks his PastLifeMemories of the valiant warrior Gregor.

* [[VengefulWidow Vengeful Roommate]]: Shanice was Jenna's roommate and one of her only friends. When Jenna suddenly disappeared, Shanice assumed that the vampires were responsible, and thus has vowed to avenge Jenna by killing them, not realizing that Jenna was turned willingly.

[[folder:Derek]]
!!Derek
->'''Portrayed By:''' Chris Sandiford

A nerdy black would-be vampire hunter.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Derek is constantly trying to get the group, which consists of both men and women, to have an orgy.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Derek certainly is, and is constantly trying to get them to have an orgy so that he can lose it under the flimsy justification that it will protect them from vampires.
* SacrificialLamb: Derek is abandoned during their first attempt at a vampire hunt just to prove how woefully unqualified they are. Thankfully, he's turned into a vampire rather than being killed.
* UncertainDoom: The last we've seen of Derek so far is him getting swarmed by a group of vampires after the group's first attempt at a hunt goes awry. Season 3 reveals that he survived and was turned into a vampire, but without anyone around to tell him ''how'' to be a vampire, he has blundered into committing several crimes against vampirism; Guillermo tricked Laszlo into taking him on as an apprentice.
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* TokenHuman: The second human to be living in the house and, unlike Guillermo, seems to have little interest in the supernatural or becoming a vampire even as she lives with them. It's suggested during the wedding that Nandor turn her after they marry but it's left ambiguous if Nandor plans to do that.

For characters from [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows the film]], go [[Characters/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2014 here]].

Characters from the television series ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jake [=McDorman=]

Staten Island's local vampire hunter society. Guillermo accidentally discovers them while searching for virgins.

* SacrificialLamb: Derek is abandoned and seemingly killed during their first attempt at a vampire hunt just to prove how woefully unqualified they are.
* UncertainDoom: The last we've seen of Derek so far is him getting swarmed by a group of vampires after the group's first attempt at a hunt goes awry.

!!Sean

* TheGamblingAddict: As it turns out, he had a serious gambling problem. He relapses in Atlantic City and ends up losing *everything*.

[[In General]]

!Humans

[[folder:Sean]]
!!Sean
->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Atamanuik

The human next-door neighbor. He sometimes witnesses Laszlo doing something vampiric, but is easily hypnotized into forgetting everything. The vampires spare him because he brings their trash cans in when they forget.

* TheGamblingAddict: As it turns out, he had a serious gambling problem. He relapses in Atlantic City and ends up losing *everything*.
* NiceGuy: Sean is pretty loud and boisterous, but he's also aggressively friendly.
* OddFriendship: With Laszlo, the out-of-touch, sex-obsessed vampire next-door who regularly hypnotizes Sean. Despite the fact that they have absolutely nothing in common and don't even seem to hang out together all that much, they genuinely like each other.

[[folder:Jeff]]
!!Jeff Suckler/Gregor
->'''Portrayed By:''' Jake [=McDorman=]

A mortal man Nadja secretly sees without Laszlo's knowledge. She believes that he might be the latest reincarnation of her lover Gregor, a knight whom she accidentally decapitated during their last encounter. Nadja states that he's been reincarnated multiple times (sometimes reborn as a woman and an animal) but always suffers the same fate as before.

* ActorAllusion: The way Jeff's past-life regression causes him to suddenly [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] seems highly reminiscent of Jake [=McDorman=]'s past role in ''Series/{{Limitless}}''.
* BadassBaritone: His speaking voice is normal, but his voice notably deepens when he unlocks his PastLifeMemories of the valiant warrior Gregor.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Jeff is an uncoordinated and generally uncool guy, but shows himself to have the potential to be just as skilled of a warrior as he was during his time as Gregor after his memories of his past lives are restored.
* FailOSuckyname: With a name like "Jeff Suckler", he's pretty much destined to be a loser. Nadja is extremely disappointed to learn his name.
-->'''Nadja''': It's like a weak ejaculation.
* FirstGuyWins: Nadja admits she struggles to get over Gregor, although she's happy with Laszlo.
* FutureLoser: A rare example involving {{Reincarnation}}. Gregor was a valiant, charismatic, and romantic knight while Jeff, his most recent reincarnation, is an awkward and passive loser who runs the tollbooth at a parking garage. Nadja also suggests that ''all'' of Gregor's previous incarnations (including the ones in mundane and unflattering professions like a washerwoman) were infinitely more charming than Jeff is.
* GenderBender: One of Gregor's past incarnations Nadja remembers with fondness was female (a French washerwoman). This is still less of an adjustment to have to make than the times he reincarnated as an [[BestialityIsDepraved animal]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He's a totally normal, sane parking lot employee until Nadja returns and makes him remember all his past lives. He becomes literally madly in love with her, remembering all his lifetimes of loving her, but is also unhinged because those memories involve the life of a warrior along with all the deaths he suffered.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Inverted. It's fine for Nadja to sleep with whomever she wants... [[spoiler:except Jeff/Gregor, whom Laszlo always kills.]]
* MasterArcher: Nadja extols Gregor's skill at archery, and disappointed when Jeff doesn't seem to actually know how to use a bow and arrow at all. Once he gets his memories back, we get to see him pull off a OneHitPolykill ''with a [[AbnormalAmmo suction cup arrow]] from the fairground''.
* OffWithHisHead: All of his lives end with him being decapitated in some way [[spoiler:by Laszlo.]]
* PastLifeMemories: Nadja eventually awakens these in Jeff, revealing that her obsession with him being Gregor's reincarnation was RealAfterAll.
* RedStringOfFate: All of his reincarnations seem fated to run into Nadja, who is able to identify them as Gregor regardless of who or what they are.
* ReincarnationRomance: Nadja has had passionate romances with all of his reincarnations throughout history, even the non-human ones.
* SuperStrength: Like Gregor before him, though he can only tap into it when Nadja's around.
* TookALevelInBadass: Jeff suddenly becomes a much cooler and more dangerous person, after having spent most of the series as a dorky NonActionGuy, once his Gregor memories return. Unfortunately, this [[GoMadFromTheRevelation has side effects for his mental health]].

!The Staten Island Mosquito Club

[[In General]]
!!Claude, Tonya, Shanice & Derek
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CraigRobinson (Claude); Abigail Savage (Tonya); Veronika Slowikowska (Shanice); Chris Sandiford (Derek)

Staten Island's local vampire hunter society. Guillermo accidentally discovers them while searching for virgins.

* AutobotsRockOut: The hunters feel the need to blast rock music at full volume in the van on the way to the vampire house to get hyped for the upcoming battle, which Guillermo doesn't really appreciate.
* BaitAndSwitch: We're lead to believe that the house full of vampires they're planning to raid belongs to the main trio, only for it to turn out to belong to a completely different, much larger, and ''much'' more aggressive group of them.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Ignoring Guillermo, who isn't fully integrated with them, the group consists of two guys (Claude and Derek) and two girls (Shanice and Tonya).
* HeroAntagonist: They're fairly likable people, vampires ''are'' killers in this story, and their first targets are a particularly nasty bunch, but they do have the potential to end up at odds with the main characters.
* HeroicWannabe: They view themselves as heroic vampire hunters, but not only are the vast majority of vampires seen in the series generally fairly harmless, but they themselves are utterly inept and non-threatening. Were it not for [[OneManArmy Guillermo]], they all would've been killed in their very first hunt.
* OhCrap: Their first actual fight with vampires evokes some of this from them.
* PetTheDog: Guillermo's determination to infiltrate and sabotage the vampire hunters' cell is sorely tested by the fact that the hunters are the first people in a long time to show him any affection or respect, including Claude pronouncing his name correctly.
* TooDumbToLive: They attempt to hunt an entire house full of vampires ''at night'' without any kind of practical experience or training, and it's only thanks to Guillermo's intervention that any of them make it out alive.

[[folder:Claude]]
!!Claude
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CraigRobinson

The leader of the Staten Island Mosquito Club.

* TheComicallySerious: Claude tries to come across as a serious and legitimate vampire hunter, but is completely undermined by the utter lameness of the other three and the group as a whole's incompetence at fighting vampires.
* FantasticRacism: Claude's sole motivation for hunting vampires is his belief that, as monsters, they are naturally evil. Prior to the group's first hunt, he had never even knowingly met one.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Claude attempts to train the other three and Guillermo in the ways of hunting vampires despite having never even knowingly met any himself, let alone fight one. Ironically, Guillermo, his supposed pupil, has ''far'' more experience both interacting with and killing vampires than he does.
* LargeAndInCharge: Claude, the leader, is a somewhat burly guy.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted with Claude, who ''tries'' to come across as this, but is too ineffectual to be very threatening.

[[folder:Shanice]]
!!Shanice
->'''Portrayed By:''' Veronika Slowikowska

Jenna's former roommate.
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* AscendedExtra: Shanice is a minor character in season 1 before getting a more prominent part as a member of the vampire hunter society in season 2.
* AFriendInNeed: Shanice took good care of a bitten Jenna while she was sick and displaying unusual symptoms, and before knowing just what was wrong with her.
* [[VengefulWidow Vengeful Roommate]]: Shanice was Jenna's roommate and one of her only friends. When Jenna suddenly disappeared, Shanice assumed that the vampires were responsible, and thus has vowed to avenge Jenna by killing them, not realizing that Jenna was turned willingly.

[[folder:Derek]]
!!Derek
->'''Portrayed By:''' Chris Sandiford

Staten Island's local vampire hunter society. Guillermo accidentally discovers them while searching for virgins.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Derek is constantly trying to get the group, which consists of both men and women, to have an orgy.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Derek certainly is, and is constantly trying to get them to have an orgy so that he can lose it under the flimsy justification that it will protect them from vampires.
* SacrificialLamb: Derek is abandoned and seemingly killed during their first attempt at a vampire hunt just to prove how woefully unqualified they are.
* UncertainDoom: The last we've seen of Derek so far is him getting swarmed by a group of vampires after the group's first attempt at a hunt goes awry.

[[folder:Tonya]]
!!Tonya
->'''Portrayed By:''' Abigail Savage

* BoyishShortHair: Tonya's hair is quite short.
* TheGenericGuy: Tonya thus far has no outstanding characteristics compared to the other three.

[[folder:Staten Island Mosquito Club]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Derek is constantly trying to get the group, which consists of both men and women, to have an orgy.
* AscendedExtra: Shanice is a minor character in season 1 before getting a more prominent part as a member of the vampire hunter society in season 2.

* BoyishShortHair: Tonya's hair is quite short.
* TheComicallySerious: Claude tries to come across as a serious and legitimate vampire hunter, but is completely undermined by the utter lameness of the other three and the group as a whole's incompetence at fighting vampires.
* FantasticRacism: Claude's sole motivation for hunting vampires is his belief that, as monsters, they are naturally evil. Prior to the group's first hunt, he had never even knowingly met one.
* AFriendInNeed: Shanice took good care of a bitten Jenna while she was sick and displaying unusual symptoms, and before knowing just what was wrong with her.

* TheGenericGuy: Tonya thus far has no outstanding characteristics compared to the other three.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Claude attempts to train the other three and Guillermo in the ways of hunting vampires despite having never even knowingly met any himself, let alone fight one. Ironically, Guillermo, his supposed pupil, has ''far'' more experience both interacting with and killing vampires than he does.
* LargeAndInCharge: Claude, the leader, is a somewhat burly guy.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Derek certainly is, and is constantly trying to get them to have an orgy so that he can lose it under the flimsy justification that it will protect them from vampires.

* SacrificialLamb: Derek is abandoned and seemingly killed during their first attempt at a vampire hunt just to prove how woefully unqualified they are.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted with Claude, who ''tries'' to come across as this, but is too ineffectual to be very threatening.

* UncertainDoom: The last we've seen of Derek so far is him getting swarmed by a group of vampires after the group's first attempt at a hunt goes awry.

!Other Humans

[[folder:Topher]]
!!Topher
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HaleyJoelOsment

Laszlo and Nadja's latest familiar.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The vampires all adore Topher, to the point that they [[spoiler:take him to a necromancer to be resurrected after his accidental death, just because they miss having him around]].
* CameBackWrong: After being [[spoiler:accidentally electrocuted, the vampires take him to a necromancer to be resurrected. He does come back... as a snarling, nearly-mindless zombie that just climbs the ceilings, runs riot around the house eating small animals, and eventually attacks Guillermo]].
* {{Foil}}: Is initially set up as this to Guillermo, who's over-worked, cautious, cares deeply for his master, and gets zero respect from the household, whereas Topher is a lazy, selfish {{Jerkass}}, with no interest in becoming a vampire, unthinkingly lets ''vampire assassins'' into the house, and is positively ''adored'' by the main vampires. [[spoiler:It doesn't last long, though.]]
* {{Fratbro}}: Comes across as one of these in his interactions with Guillermo.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Is shown to be possibly the ''only'' person immune to Colin Robinson's energy draining abilities. Despite everything Colin throws at him, he confesses that he just finds Colin "really interesting".
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:After the vampires return zombie Topher to Wallace the necromancer, he puts Topher to work in the basement under his hut, making trinkets for his gift shop. Given how many other zombies are also there, one can safely assume that Wallace isn't very good at his job...]]
* PokemonSpeak: [[spoiler:After his resurrection, he can only say his name, "High-Five!", or "Doze Apples!"]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: When Nandor saves Guillermo from being killed by Topher he overcomes TheWorfEffect for once and brutally snaps his neck, only for Topher to revive and attack again [[FailedAttemptAtDrama while he's in the middle of eulogizing him]]. This ''keeps on happening'' as Nandor keeps trying different methods of killing him -- strangling, drowning, electrocution (the way he originally died as a human) -- until he gives up and the vampires bring Topher back to Wallace.]]
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[[folder:Staten Island Mosquito Club]]
!!Claude, Tonya, Shanice & Derek
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CraigRobinson (Claude); Abigail Savage (Tonya); Veronika Slowikowska (Shanice); Chris Sandiford (Derek)

Staten Island's local vampire hunter society. Guillermo accidentally discovers them while searching for virgins.
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