History Film / Underworld2003

* MamaBear: Selene now has a daughter Eve. Selene first meets her daughter when she is awakened by Eve when she damages her cryogenic chamber having been frozen in it for 12 years, carrying Eve to full term while sedated. Though at first Selene seems cold towards her daughter, when Eve's life is threatened by the Lycans/other vampires this mom will go to any length to protect her daughter. Selene is the ultimate mom fighting Lyacans, protecting her daughter, all while trying to figure out Michael's whereabouts [[spoiler: Michael is held in the same Cryogenic lab as Selene and their daughter Eve]] Punch Selene she will think nothing of it, touch Eve and it's your funeral.

* ''Underworld: Blood Wars'' (2017), directed by Anna Foerster. it is a direct sequel to ''Awakening'' and features Selene and David from that film taking on a new threat. Creator/TrentGarrett replaces Scott Speedman as Michael Corvin.

** Selene, which means "moon". It would seem unusual on the initial watch of the first film, since she hates the Lycans, but on a rewatch provides foreshadowing that she will betray her coven for the love of one.

* MessianicArchetype: Selene is a rather twisted example, as she is viewed as a traitor by fellow vampires after the first movie. Come ''Awakening'', however, she comes back [[spoiler: from being effectively dead, walks in the sunlight, rallies the younger vampires, and goes around ''resurrecting their dead'']]. Gets eventually exaggerated in ''Blood Wars''.
* MonogenderMonsters: Going by the movies, there was exactly ''one'' female Lycan, Lucian's mother, who was infected while pregnant.[[note]]However in a FreezeFrameBonus when the hideout of Lucian's pack is first shown at least one of the Lycans hanging around the entrance appears to be a woman.[[/note]] Though presumably the virus is just as contagious to both genders, the use of this trope was justified as the vampires wanting only male lycan slaves. There are a few distinct mentions of female Lycans within the novels of the movies. This is averted in ''Blood Wars'', which shows a couple of females among the Lycans and fighting side by side with them, but they have no lines or real character.

** Marcus, original vampire, has a magazine emptied into his face (courtesy of Selene) and then crushed between a truck and a cliff-side. He shrugs it off. Selene is only able to kill him after impaling him through the head, with his own razor wing, and throwing him into helicopter blades. WordOfGod is that while the HelicopterBlender killed him, he would have recovered from the impaled head. Michael is [[ImpaledwithExtremePrejudice impaled on a pipe]], which does seem to kill; only for him to be OnlyMostlyDead.
** Selene, a vampire immortal hybrid, might actually be indestructible. She survived falling through an elevator shaft while the Lycan who tackled her wasn't so fortunate, and she also survived having a grenade go off near her. She also managed to tackle a van with enough force to flip it a couple of times without any long term damage.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are stereotypically pale, blood-drinking, almost completely immortal, highly athletic, and their assassins/soldiers use plenty of GunFu, but the entire condition is supposedly just the result of a mutant [[TheVirus virus]]. They're also [[TechnicallyLivingVampire not undead]], and do not require special things to kill them. For example, sunlight will cause them to burst into flame. However, a stake through the heart is unnecessary; sufficient bullet wounds and similar gore will kill them. They do breathe, but it looks like they've got a substantially increased lung capacity, since Selene was able to hold her breath underwater during their infiltration of William's prison. She was also resuscitated by Michael, during the first movie, and she was shown out of breath. Vampires are also able to reproduce. Similar to ''Film/{{Blade}}'', those born of vampire parents are called "purebloods".
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Caused by the brother strain of the virus, these Weres are large, vaguely humanoid, also immortal, and most can shift at will. Also there are three different "species" of Werewolf in this series. First there's William; the first one to ever exist, who looks the most Wolf-like. Then there's those who are infected by William, known as "1st Generation" Werewolves. Like William, they are unable to return to their Human form ever again. And then there are the "2nd Generation" Werewolves, otherwise known as Lycans. This breed came about when Lucian's mother was bitten and turned into a "1st Generation" when she was pregnant and gave birth to him whilst imprisoned by Viktor. Lucian was born in his Human form and could change between that and his Werewolf form. And when he grew older, Viktor used him to turn more slaves for the Vampires to use, resulting in the majority of the Lycan population. ''Awakening'' features super lycans, enormous beasts at least twice the size of regular lycans, with commensurately greater strength and stamina. They're also immune to silver.

** Marcus intended to wipe out all vampires and lycans, starting over with William as a super race of hybrids. He has time to bite William and start the transformation, but just doesn't.

* RuleOfCool: The series ''runs'' on this. Seriously, what else did you expect from movies with a [[Creator/KateBeckinsale gorgeous]] [[DualWielding dual-wielding]] vampiress clad in skin-tight [[HellbentForLeather leather catsuits]] on one side and [[{{Fanservice}} handsome]], vengeful, [[AbnormalAmmo ultraviolet bullets]]-shooting werewolves on the other? Not to mention all the CostumePorn, StuffBlowingUp and LargeHam everywhere.
* SecretWar: The Vampires and Lycans have been waging one against each other for centuries, unbeknownst to mankind at large save for the occasional rumor or legend. This is thanks to the Cleaners, human spec-ops hand-picked by Alexander Corvinus to make sure that said war is never exposed to the public. [[spoiler:The Cleaners are wiped out in ''Evolution,'' soon making it nigh impossible to keep the SecretWar hidden.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Marcus, and also Selene, if you consider Viktor, the vampire who infected her, to be considered her "father."]]
* ShapeshifterLongevity: Lycans are just as immortal as vampires, since both are the result of mutant viruses infecting members of the Corvinus clan; in fact, this longevity is probably the reason why they were chosen as Viktor's daywalking SlaveRace rather than humans. For good measure, Selene notes in the intro that [[FurAgainstFang the war between the two species]] has become even more dangerous in recent years is because [[StrongerWithAge older lycans are no longer affected by the full moon and can now transform at will]].

* SingleLineOfDescent: {{Subverted}}, at least partly. Alexander Corvinus, the originator of the virus, had one human son, who did (in fact) produce plenty of modern-day progeny, if the wall of Xed-out photos is any indication. But the only one of those people still carries his special genes, and happens to also share his last name. LineageComesFromTheFather does seem to ring true, however, as the surnames shown are all variants of "Corvinus", suggesting the Lycans didn't bother tracking the bloodline through any of Alexander's female descendants.

* SuperSpeed: If Vampires have one thing that puts them above their Lycan cousins, its their physical speed. While Lycans are fast, compared to Vampires, they're nowhere near as fleet of foot. In their Human forms, the Lycans are pretty damn quick, but still marginally slower then Vampires. Selene managed to display her SuperSpeed abilities,[[spoiler: by dodging gunfire and quickly reappearing and overpowering her attacker, and she managed to show this off again, in Awakening; by dodging gunfire and slicing the throats of the Antigen Lycan Guards firing at her.]]

** The vampiric Death Dealers routinely display incredible levels of incredible strength, whether its hitting people with enough force to disable them and throw them like rag dolls, to lifting people up by their necks and leaping all over the place and surviving incredible drops, due to being MadeOfIron.

** Elders and Hybrids have been shown to have incredible levels of strength above that. Marcus [[spoiler: was able to pull a goddamn helicopter out of the sky with a small amount of effort, Michael was able to rip off William's head as if it was attached with tape, and Viktor was able to go toe to toe with Michael, only surpassing him due to experience and tenacity. Selene herself got into the action, killing two random Vampires with blows to the head (and into a wall with one of them), being able to go toe to toe with Marcus and winning (due to being infused with blood from Alexander Corvinus) and tackling a moving van like a linebacker.]]

* TreasureChestCavity: Viktor has one half of the key to William's prison hidden inside his chest. (The other half is hanging around Lucian's neck, or at least was in the first film.)

* VampiricWerewolf: The Hybrids in the series are created from a combination of vampire and Lycan strain virus due to sharing their unique heritage from the original immortal.
** Michael Corvin is the first one seen in the series after being bitten by a Lycan and a vampire in two separate occasions.
** Marcus Corvinus, the second movie's Big Bad, becomes an Hybrid after a unwittingly injesting Lycan's blood, though he looks more like a Chiroptean monster rather than anything vaguely resembling a wolf.
** Eve, Michael and Selene's daughter who's born hybrid.
** Their appereance seems to depend on what order they were turned in. Michael was bitten by a Lycan first and then a Vampire, and he looks like a wolf-man, although more man-like than the Lycans. Marcus was a Vampire first and then ingested Lycan blood, and he became a winged bat-monster, capable of shape-shifting into a human form. Eve, who was born hybrid, looks even more human than her father Michael, as her Vampire and Inmortal heritage (both races had human features) seems to take priority in her physical appereance than her Lycan's.
* VampiresAreRich: The members of Kraven's vampire clan live in a gigantic mansion, throw extravagant balls and wear gorgeous costumes.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Several vampires (including one very prominent heroine) meet their maker via this trope throughout the series, especially after the Lycans learned to develop artificial UV light as ammunition.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Silver for lycans, UV light for vampires.
* WerewolfThemeNaming: 'Lucian' is a real name with an unrelated etymology, but sounds similar to Lycan, which is a shortening of 'lycanthrope' ('wolf-man' or werewolf).
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The city that the films are set in not only doesn't conform to any one location, but the ''continent'' that it's on can't even be conclusively determined. Characters speak with a mix of American, British and European accents, while the city contains a mix of North American and European characteristics in the vehicles (Mercedes police cruisers alongside large Ford sedans) and architecture. The first movie shows German and Hungarian words in Michael's address, the second movie has Hungarian-speaking cops going after Michael (when he tried to eat normal food) as well as several extras speaking French, and the fourth movie seems to be set up in either a Future American City or an AirstripOne Expy. Notice that in all movies, vehicle license plates resemble those used in European Union countries sans the country indicator. The novels try to claim that everything takes place in Budapest and the surrounding area, but this is contradicted the the presence of large bodies of water in ''Evolution'' and ''Awakening''. The Russian truck driver in ''Evolution'' was driving home after making a delivery. The fifth film gives some context by having its third act explicitly set in Scandinavia, but otherwise does little to clarify the series' central location.

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Lycans were once slaves to the vampires, living in squalor and wearing rags. After their rebellion their conditions improved slightly, but they still seem to be stuck living in abandoned buildings or even sewers and have far fewer resources than the vampires, who tend to live in mansions and throw swanky parties. A notable aversion is ''Film/UnderworldAwakening'', where it's revealed that Lycans control [[spoiler: Antigen, a wealthy pharmaceutical company]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Aside from Michael, Corvinus, Sebastian, Thomas, and David, just about every male character Selene crosses paths with has no problem with playing this trope straight. Justified, as they're all villains or anatagonists.

** Viktor rewrote vampire history to appear as if he was the original vampire, when, in fact, it was another Elder, Marcus. While he is quite willing to acknowledge the legend that vampires and werewolves came from the brother Corvinus ("One bit by a bat, the other bit by a wolf"), but he makes fun of it, probably to diminish the connection between Lycans and Vampires. On the other hand, he's quite willing to rewrite [[spoiler:his murder of Selene's entire family]]. Selene shows signs of being aware of this. She recognizes that Kraven is not enough of a warrior to have actually killed Lucian, but as the only survivor could claim that he did. She also initially comments that the Lycans started the war, but then admits that that is what is said anyway. By the second film, she's (accurately) assumed virtually everything Viktor has said is a lie.
** This is also true for most of the Selene arc as a whole. There are villains and sympathetic characters among both vampires and lycans, but since main protagonist Selene is a vampire and the entire story is told (and actually ''narrated'') from her perspective, the vampires invariably get off better than the werewolves. It's especially prevalent in ''Awakening'' and ''Blood Wars'', both of which feature lycans as the main villains.
* YouSexyBeast: Vampires are sleek and seductive, dressing in stylish gothic fashions. Werewolves are brawny, rough-and-tumble men in leather. [[WunzaPlot They have sex]]. Downplayed with Michael, who's a human-turned-vampire/Lycan hybrid.

** Selene a splodes a Lycan's head above the jaw after [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling one to the ground]] and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill emptying her gun into his face]].
** [[spoiler: Kraven]] meets his end to Marcus this way.
** When [[spoiler:William gets his head wrenched apart at the jaws by Michael]], the result is basically the same as if it had been asploded.
** What Subject 2 does to the lycan assaulting her in the van at the beginning of ''Awakening'' fits the bill as well.

* AllThereInTheManual: Erika is apparently a courtesan, but nothing in the film would indicate this, besides her wearing a sexy outfit for the party.

* AntiVillain: By the end of the first movie, [[spoiler:Lucian]] is a villain only by virtue of being on the opposite side. Unless you're one of the hapless Corvinus descendants he's managed to track down and capture...

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Selene starts treating Michael much better once he saves her from apparent drowning.
* BrokenPedestal: Selene begins the film respecting Viktor and would follow his word without question. [[spoiler: Upon discovering he had his own daughter executed for carrying a Lycan's child, not to mention slaughtering her family and convincing her the Lycans did so - she realises he's brainwashed her into becoming a killer who continues the oppression he was responsible for.]]

* CassandraTruth: Selene attempting to warn Kraven and later, Viktor about Lucian being alive.
* CasualHighDrop: During the opening narration, the vampire Selene is kneeling on the edge of a balcony. She jumps off and falls a long way to the ground, lands on her feet and just walks away.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: At first it seems like Lucian, the Lycan leader, is the instigator of the war, out to exterminate all vampires. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he's only after Viktor, who killed his wife and made the war genocidal]].

* DualWielding: Soren, one of the vampire lieutenants, decides the best way to fight a hulking werewolf in an environment with many projections and obstructions is to uncoil a pair of silver razored whips. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out when one of his whips gets wrapped around one of the projecting pieces of structure. Viktor also whips out a pair of large knives from his sleeves during his battle with Selene]]. And of course, Selene and her two pistols.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Viktor is the true BigBad but he did genuinely love Selene like a daughter]].

* FeministFantasy: The protagonist is an ActionGirl in the traditionally male role of the ByronicHero, and is a OneWomanArmy whenever she gets into a fight, while the male lead is in the traditionally female role of the DamselInDistress. The story is about Selene realising the prison she's been in for most of her life and rebelling to become more independent, rejecting a man who feels EntitledToHaveYou and defying her father figure to choose the man she loves. The war is likewise revealed to have been started over injustice at how [[spoiler: an innocent woman was punished for an affair.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: Erika immediately starts gushing about Michael's attractiveness on seeing just a zoomed in image from a surveillance picture. Selene is also seemingly taken with him on first sight.

* {{Irony}}: Selene has a personal hatred of Lycans at the beginning of the film, thanks to the murder of her entire family before she was turned into a vampire. Of course it would be her who falls for a man who's been bitten by one, and becomes an outlaw for that love.

* MundaneSolution: The Nordic Coven doesn't worry much about lycans because the cold climate doesn't agree with them. The lycans just show up in winter gear.

** Selene and David are completely immune to sunlight, a fact that shocks both vampires and lycans when they witness it the first time.
* OhCrap: Semira's and Varga's reaction when Cassius demands they capture Selene alive. Many vampires also have this look when the lycans [[spoiler: flood the previously darkened battleground with sunlight.]]

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler:David]] is revealed to be descended from a member of the original vampire council, which was kept secret to keep him safe.

** Surprisingly averted. Twice. For the same mook. To elaborate: [[spoiler: Only one of the dozen lycans Marius tasks with capturing Selene, Gregor, returns to deliver her message. Marius is understandably pissed at their failure, but instead of delivering the usual treatment, he merely manhandles the guy a bit before walking off. The same mook then gets a second chance to apprehend Selene, only to be forced to report that she was already gone when the lycans arrived. Again, Marius lets him live. This valiant mook later charges David and gets swatted away like a fly, but it's quite likely he survived that, which might well put him into MauveShirt territory]].
** Subverted between Semira and Alexia; Alexia actually does what is asked of her successfully but has been plotting against the Coven and Semira kills her for it once her purpose is fulfilled, making this more a case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

* FauxActionGirl: Sonja. Despite being the leader of the Death Dealers, she needs almost constant rescuing.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A retro-active example: Kraven was obviously "cleaning up Viktor's messes" during the time of ''Rise of the Lycans'', which takes place literally ''months'' before Selene's family is murdered, yet he doesn't appear or even get mentioned at all. Heck, even ''Soren'', who has one of the least prominent roles in the series, appears briefly in the prequel.
** Apparently Shane Brolly was set to return to play the part of Kraven in the original screenplay. For one reason or another, he was replaced by Tanis.

** Subverted between Semira and Alexia; Alexia actually does what is asked of her successfully but has been plotting against the Coven and Semira kills her for it, making this more a case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

** The silver whips used by Soren. In the prequel, he whips Lucian, who can't fight back, and then when Raze - who ''can'' fight back, and is significantly larger - confronts him in the second movie... [[CurbstompBattle Yeah]].

* MundaneUtility: Michael uses his power of PartialTransformation to open paint cans to cover up the windows inside of the garage he and Selene took refugee in during the day, and even switched over his eyes to see in the dark and brought out of his fangs and claws reflexively. Marcus uses his wings to impale and pin people without having to do much of anything else.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Kraven, probably accurately, believes that Viktor only turned Selene because she reminded him of his dead vampire daughter. [[spoiler:Which becomes ''really'' awkward when its revealed Viktor killed his daughter, and Selene's family.]]

** Selene, which means "moon".

%%* ExpositingTheMasquerade: When Selene tells Michael about the werewolves and the vampires.

* ContinuitySnarl: Tannis explains that Viktor didn't kill William out fear of losing his Lycan slaves. But ''Rise of the Lycans'' establishes that the vampires didn't start using Lycans as slaves/daylight guardians until after Lucian was born. Viktor even outright states that Lucian is the first of the Lycans.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: the vampires have been trying to hunt the lycans to extinction for hundreds of years by the time of "Underworld". When the humans finally became aware of the existence of the two races, they went of massive purges to get of both species, with the vampires now becoming the prey to humanity's predator, as they did to the lycans

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: the vampire have been trying to hunt the lycans to extinction for hundreds of years by the time of "Underworld". When the humans finally became aware of the existence of the two races, they went of massive purges to get of both species, with the vampires now becoming the prey to humanity's predator, as they did to the lycans

* ShapeshifterLongevity: Lycans are just as immortal as vampires, since both are the result of mutant viruses infecting members of the Corvinus clan; in fact, this longevity is probably the reason why they were chosen as Viktor's daywalking SlaveRace rather than humans. For good measure, Selene notes in the intro that [[FurAgainstFang the war between the two species]] has become even more dangerous in recent years is because [[StrongerWithAge older lycans are no longer effected by the full moon and can now transform at will]].

* Forever War: The Lycans and Vampires have been at war for over eight hundred years by the time of "Underworld". it's even occasionally referred to as the 'Eternal War'.

* Forever war: The Lycans and Vampires have been at war for over eight hundred years by the time of "Underworld". it's even occasionally referred to as the 'Eternal War'.
** The Vampire-Werewolf war two hundred years prior to that also kind of counts as it waged on for six hundred years between the Vampires and the first Lycan generation of Werewolves, only ending when William Corvinus, the original and most powerful werewolf, was finally captured.

** Lucian, meant to be a "daylight" guard for the vampires

* BadassBaritone: There are no special effects involved in Creator/KevinGrevioux's voice.

** While the BigBad of ''Evolution'', Marcus Corvinus is this for the series as a whole as he's [[spoiler:the first vampire and the one who sired all the rest.]]
** [[spoiler:Viktor]] is this to any film which involves the war between vampires and Lycans (including [[spoiler:''Awakening'']]), as he's the one responsible for setting it off. ''Blood Wars'' also features [[spoiler:a vampire looking to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge him]] as one of the players in its BigBadEnsemble.]]

** In ''Awakening'', the uber-Lycan's super-healing factor is abused by Selene, who [[spoiler:rips a hole in his stomach and leaves an armed silver nitrate grenade inside it, knowing that the wound will heal before he realizes what she did and the grenade will go off before he is able to claw it out of himself again]].

* HybridMonster: Michael Corvin becomes one, specifically the first Half-vampire-half-Lycan. Later, Marcus also becomes one. There's also Subject 2, the daughter of Michael Corvin and Selene. Lucian and Sonja's child would have been a straight Vampire-Lycan hybrid if it had lived. Michael started out as a lycan with the dormant Corvinus gene who had the vampire DNA added later. Marcus was the other way around. Subject 2, on the other hand, was born from Michael's already-existent hybrid DNA mixing with Selene's vampire DNA which had already mixed with pure immortal DNA from Alexander Corvinus. These different combinations and scenarios could explain the different appearances of the hybrids.

** Michael Corvin becomes a werewolf-vampire hybrid by getting subsequently bitten by [[spoiler:Lucius, a werewolf, and Selene, a vampire]].
** Selene becomes a [[spoiler:vampire-Immortal hybrid (among other things, rendering her immune to sunlight) by drinking Alexander Corvinus' blood]] in the second movie.
** The fourth movie reveals that [[spoiler:Selene and Michael's daughter inherited both her dad's werewolf strength and her mom's vampiric abilities. Since most of Selene's pregnancy occurred after she became an immortal, it is likely that Eve inherited immortality, as well, making her a ''triple'' hybrid]].

* ImmuneToBullets: Not exactly, but they don't seem to be very effective. Older werewolves can just push them out of their flesh (or skull, in Lucian's case), and vampires seem able to survive all sorts of impalements. In the second film, Selene takes a shotgun blast to the torso without visible injury, and Marcus survives five or six such shots in a row and is only slowed down with minor bleeding. Silver bullets do kill Lycans, but they can heal from it. The silver nitrate liquid rounds kill them very quickly; and the UV bullets are similarly effective against vampires. Marcus can shrug them off ''because he's that tough'', and Selene's corset may be bulletproof.\\

## Having their necks cut open, as seen with Sonja fighting against Viktor's elite Death Dealers (not even full on decapitation) and Selene killing Antigen guards with a scalpel (of course, at that point, any cuts she deals would be equal to being cut open by a full-length sword). Viktor being an Elder, survived having a full-length sword stabbed into his mouth and out the back of his head, an injury that more than likely damaged the top of his spinal column. That's not something you easily walk away from, as proven twice in ''Blood Wars'' when both Thomas and Semira succumb to the same treatment with fatal results.)

## Being hit with explosive force. (Yes, Trix and Taylor were killed by a silver grenade, but even taking that into consideration, their bodies and everyone else in the ladder chute were gibbed beyond recognition. That grenade was not only loaded with silver, but had more than enough explosives packed into it to render 4 maybe 6 full-grown men into messy chunks. And having an instant HealingFactor won't save you from this either, especially if someone manages to lodge the grenade ''inside'' you so that you heal right before it goes off.)
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The Death Dealers in all incarnations whether its full-face medieval helmets or gas masks. The Cleaners employed by Alexander Corvinus, also wear gas masks whenever they're conducting their Ops, for obvious reasons to avoid contamination and other hazards.
* TheMasquerade: It's revealed in the second film that Alexander Corvinus and his merry men have been following the vampires around and cleaning up their mess. They even mention bribing witnesses to keep their mouths shut. [[spoiler:The fact that Marcus kills all of them is probably what led to the BrokenMasquerade.]]

* MessianicArchetype: Selene is a rather twisted example, as she is viewed as a traitor by fellow vampires after the first movie. Come ''Awakening'', however, she comes back [[spoiler:from being effectively dead, walks in the sunlight, rallies the younger vampires, and goes around ''resurrecting their dead'']]. Gets eventually exaggerated in ''Blood Wars''.
* MonogenderMonsters: Going by the movies, there was exactly ''one'' female Lycan, Lucian's mother, who was infected while pregnant.[[note]]However in a FreezeFrameBonus when the hideout of Lucian's pack is first shown at least one of the Lycans hanging around the entrance appears to be a woman.[[/note]] Though presumably the virus is just as contagious to both genders, the use of this trope was justified as the vampires wanting only male lycan slaves. There's a few distinct mentions of female Lycans within the novels of the movies. This is averted in ''Blood Wars'', which shows a couple of females among the Lycans and fighting side by side with them, but they have no lines or real character.

* EurekaMoment: Lucian has an understated one when he sees the connection between Selene and Michael, probably reminding himself of what he once had with Sonja. He then [[spoiler:encourages Selene to bite him, thus fulfilling his plan to create a vampire-lycan hybrid.]]

* TheGhost: Marcus. He's only mentioned as one of the three vampire elders, who was supposed to take power before Selene awakened Viktor instead. We don't actually see him until ''Evolution'', where we learn how important he really is to the series' backstory.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Viktor, letting Selene live and turning her into a vampire because she reminds him so much of his late daughter Sonja, only to end up [[spoiler:getting killed by his surrogate child]].
* IdiotBall: Kraven. From slipping up and dropping Lucian's name in argument with Selene to... just about everything else his ego leads him to do.

* LoveTriangle: Kraven thinks he's in one with Selene and Michael in the first film. Also, Erika is in love with Kraven but he only has eyes for Selene.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Lucian and Kraven were planning to broker a peace treaty between the vampires and lycans before Selene interfered. Marcus also wouldn't have become a hybrid, and humanity wouldn't have found out about the existence of immortals.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Selene's over reliance on her blood memories to inform Viktor about Lucian being alive and Kraven's conspiracy with him nearly gets her judged. In retrospect, her just mentioning the pendant around Lucian's neck would have been all the proof she needed, but she had no way of knowing that at the time.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Happens when a death-dealer simply stands idly by as a Lycan transforms. [[GenreBlind Bad idea]]!

* WellIntentionedExtremist: While the kidnapping and experimenting on innocent humans is a little distasteful, [[spoiler:all Lucian was really trying to do was prevent the vampires from exterminating his species]].
* WomanScorned: Erika helps Selene escape the house once she overhears that Kraven is planning to make her his queen. Of course you could also interpret it as realizing she had no hope of being with Kraven.
* WouldHitAGirl: Selene constantly finds herself on the receiving end of this trope when Michael is involved. Lucian stabs her in the shoulder while she's trying to escape with Michael from his apartment. Kraven gives Selene a vicious slap to the face when Michael flees the manor. Near the end, Viktor grabs Selene by the neck and hurls her across a room when he discovers [[spoiler:her attempting to turn Michael instead of killing him as she was ordered]]. Not long after that, he punches her out when she attempts to intervene in his fight with Michael.

* BadassNormal: While they get slaughtered by William, the Cleaners themselves are pretty damn badass, considering what they do for a living. They are handpicked by Alexander Corvinus himself, and are selected from the best and brightest in the Special Forces community from around the world, including those of the alphabet agencies that have paramilitary operations. That's nothing to sneeze at. And while we never to get see all of what they do, aside from kicking the crap out of Hungarian Police officers out in the woods; We are given the impression that they've seen action in regards to the Vampires and Lycans, especially with scragglers & other intervening parties from either side.

* BloodlessCarnage: While the movies don't shy away from gore, [[spoiler:William's above-the-jaw decapitation has no blood spatter what-so-ever, just dry meat.]] This is particularly odd, due to behind the scenes interviews with the prop makers noting that they'd used blood pumps.

* CleanupCrew: Alexander Corvinus leads a group of men, appropriately called [[ShapedLikeItself The Cleaners]], who cover up the evidence of lycans and vampires. [[spoiler:They are all killed by Marcus in ''Evolution'', which is what probably led to humans learning of the existence of lycans and vampires in ''Awakening''.]] The novelization explains that all of them come from special forces all over the world.

* {{Gorn}}: There's a scene in where an exiled vamp is having a threesome. One of his partners bites him. [[HemoErotic Bleeding just made it hotter]].
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Selene has a low maintenance bob in the present, as befitting a tomboyish ActionGirl. A flashback to when she was human shows her hair being long. Of course she was human 600 years ago, when most women did have long hair.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Selene rips off one of Marcus's spiked wings and stabs him with it.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: Played with with Viktor and Marcus, but it has nothing to do with Viktor hating being a vampire. On the contrary, Marcus' bite saved his life, and now Viktor wants all the power of the coven for himself. He even rewrote the vampire history to make himself appear the progenitor and forbade anyone from trying to find the truth. Marcus' hate for his own immortal father has to do with Alexander refusing to accept his sons as they are. Nobody seems to hate being an immortal, despite the drawbacks.

* NoOntologicalInertia: As the first vampire, Marcus managed to convince the other vampires that killing him would destroy all of them, and killing his brother William (the first lycan) would destroy all Lycans - thus depriving them of their slaves. When Selene hears about this a thousand years or so later, she immediately sees it for the [[SubvertedTrope lie it is]], but the one telling it to her notes that Viktor believed it enough to not risk it. By the time killing William would have been a viable way to take care of the Lycans, Viktor no longer had the key to his prison, so he had no way of testing the theory.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Marcus and William were twin brothers, yet wound up as different breeds of supernatural creature. Their viruses interacted with different animal DNA (one is bitten by a wolf; the other - by a bat).

* RemovedAchillesHeel: During the climax of the movie, Selene gains immunity to UV radiation (and thus sunlight) [[spoiler: by drinking Alexander Corvinus' blood and becoming a vampire-Immortal hybrid]].
* SchrodingersGun: Remember that amulet around Lucian's neck in the first film? It wasn't until ''Evolution'' when we realized [[spoiler:it was [[MacGuffin the key to William's prison]]]].
* SealedEvilInACan: William, in his sarcophagus. [[spoiler:Justified, however, in that it was all a trick by Marcus to make sure that the vampires wouldn't kill his brother.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: While Selene was already plenty badass, she becomes even moreso after [[spoiler:taking Alexander Corvinus' blood and becoming a vampire/immortal hybrid]]. Marcus even notes it.

* BadassNormal: Raze when still human. First thing he does when confronted with one of the wild and feral Werewolves? Punch the damn thing down.

** Apparently Shane Brolly was set to return to play the part of Kraven in the original screenplay. For one reason or another he was replaced by Tanis.

* WouldHitAGirl: The first thing Viktor does when he arrives on the scene during Lucian's attempt to rescue Sonja? Flat out punch her in the face.

* ZeroGSpot: A vampire and a lycan have gravity-defying sex, hanging off the edge of a cliff.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:David gets resurrected by Selene after his death in battle.]]
* BadassNormal: Detective Sebastian. He may look as if he bought his detective outfit at a Halloween costume store, but when the chips are down he still shoots lycans with a double-barrel over and under grenade launcher and survives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from [[spoiler:Jacob Lane in lycan form.]]
* BulletHoleDoor: Inverted with the bottom of a rapidly descending elevator. [[spoiler:The elevator lands on Selene, but the bullets made the floor weak enough (and she's ''tough enough'') that it doesn't particularly bother her.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Eve to Selene, lamenting how she dreamed of this day, only to be met by a cold and distant mother. Selene defends herself by pointing out she just spent 12 years cryogenically frozen, woke up to a world she doesn't know, the only man she loved is gone, and she just discovered a daughter she didn't know she had. She insists her heart isn't cold, it's ''broken.'']]

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:Subverted when at least part of the anti-monster purge and subsequent genetic research turns out to be a lycan plot.]] Detective Sebastian is also an exception when he's shown to be sympathetic to non-humans. It's later revealed that while his wife had been turned into a vampire, it didn't stop the fact that they still loved each other [[spoiler:until the Feds came around and she elected to step into the sunlight..]]. Contrast overall trope with...
* HumansAreWarriors: Almost as soon as humanity at large discovers the existence of vampires and werewolves, they drive both to the brink of extinction. Selene basically spells out that vampires/lycans have the options of 'run or die.' Standing and fighting doesn't work because modern humanity has been practically ''begging'' for such a foe to unite against. [[spoiler:Even the werewolves had to successfully infiltrate humanity and become the ones in charge of the testing, providing negative results for any Lycan 'discovery' to have themselves declared extinct, rather than continue to stand and fight.]]

* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: When Selene is fighting the GiantMook lycan at the end of the movie, she punches a hole through him and [[spoiler:leaves a grenade inside]]. As he heals instantly, he quips "I heal instantly!". [[spoiler:Cue LudicrousGibs]].
* MamaBear: Selene now has a daughter Eve. Selene first meets her daughter when she is awakened by Eve when she damages her cryogenic chamber having been frozen in it for 12 years, carrying Eve to full term while sedated. Though at first Selene seems cold towards her daughter, when Eve's life is threatened by the Lycans/other vampires this mom will go to any leangth to protect her daughter. Selene is the ultimate mom fighting Lyacans, protecting her daughter, all while trying to figure out Michaels whereabouts [[spoiler: Michael is held in the same Cryogenic lab as Selene and their daughter Eve]] Punch Selene she will think nothing of it, touch Eve and it's your funeral.

* OffWithHisHead: David kills a lycan by first stabbing him repeatedly with his silver blade... [[BuffySpeak thingy]] and then ripping off the guy's head. Made unintentionally funny by how the lycan's scream doesn't actually get going until after his head has flown off-screen.
* OhCrap: Yes, even Selene isn't immune to this feeling. Understandable when you run out of ammo while a lycan is inches away from eating your face. Later, David has this look on his face when his silver shotgun shells don't do squat to [[spoiler:Lang in his lycan-hybrid form]] except for pissing him off. Finally, the Uber-Lycan gets his own moment after [[spoiler: Selene shoves a silver grenade into his stomach]]. Made worse by his pre-mortem BadassBoast.

** One courtesy of David during the car chase scene with the feral lyans.

** And a second one to Lang.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Selene, [[spoiler:first to search for Michael and later to rescue Eve]].

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Apparently [[spoiler:Michael]]. [[spoiler:Although it turns out to be a DisneyDeath.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: It's revealed that instead of hiding from or dying at the hands of humanity at large in the wake of the BrokenMasquerade, [[spoiler:the Lycans opted to embed themselves into human society and use non-human prejudice to their advantage against the Vampires]].
* TookALevelInBadass: David goes from a relatively unskilled idealist to a total badass [[spoiler:after Selene brings him back from the dead.]]

* TheWorfEffect: Deliberately used on Selene to show how out of touch she is with the world. When breaking out of the Antigen labs in the beginning, she is stabbed in the shoulder, leaps out a window to land painfully on a truck, is thrown off the truck when the driver hits the breaks, and is then shot in the head by said driver. The Uber-Lycan is also established as a threat by the way it knocks her around. However, Selene manages to remain a badass in that those things that happen during her escape don't hurt her, as much as they just piss her off; and [[spoiler:she does manage to kill the Uber-Lycan]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The human doctor that took care of Subject 2 gets a NeckSnap for her troubles, administered by Quint on Lang's order.]]

* AbnormalAmmo: This feature receives a strange treatment in ''Blood Wars''. The lycans are shown to still have access to UV ammo, yet when actual combat breaks out, they never use anything but bog-standard bullets against the vampires. The only UV rounds we see in action in the whole movie are fired by a vampire of all things ([[spoiler:Varga uses them to slaughter at least two dozen aspiring Death Dealers and pin the blame on Selene]]) and later by Marius, which is ineffectual because David is immune to sunlight. In a later blink-and-you-miss-it moment during a LockAndLoadMontage one can glimpse a Death Dealer who's about to fight lycans load his gun with UV rounds for... reasons.

* AffablyEvil: Marius for the most part acts calm, collected and quite friendly even during his interactions with Selene.

* AndShowItToYou: A non-heart example, but in their final battle, [[spoiler:Selene rips Marius' ''freaking spine'' out of his back with her bare hand.]] He seems to get barely enough time to glimpse it before dropping dead.

** Marius has no qualms about using his own men as [[HumanShield lycan shields]] against vampire gunfire. This is incredibly callous considering Marius is immune to silver and can quickly heal from being shot, while his men are not immune to silver and die as a result.

* CombatPragmatist: During the climactic battle, the lycans use a heavy grenade launcher to [[spoiler:blast open the vampire fortress' shuttered windows and let the sunlight in. That alone qualifies for this trope, but the individual werewolves take it even further by using their superior strength to grab vampires and force them into the deadly beams instead of wasting any more time or ammo on them.]]

** What Semira plans to become when she discovers that Selene and David are immune to sunlight. [[spoiler:During the near end of the film, she drinks Selene's blood that she had drained from her during Selene's temporary imprisonment, and when she battles David, one of the protective screens on the compound's windows opens and she is bathed in sunlight without any harm. However, she doesn't get to live long enough to enjoy her newfound immunity, as she becomes too distracted in her amazement that David runs his sword through the back of her head.]]

* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler:David]] presents [[spoiler:Marius']] severed head to his troops during the climactic battle. The surviving [[spoiler:lycans]] have a look at it, turn around and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere calmly walk off]].
* TheDragon: Varga to Semira. [[spoiler:Surprisingly subverted near the finale when David rightfully claims leadership of the vampires and Varga immediately swears fealty to him instead - he serves the one in charge, no matter who it is. He then actually remains loyal to David for the rest of the movie and even manages to survive the final battle despite several close calls.]]

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: During his duel with [[spoiler:Semira]], David throws a knife at a shutter control to expose the room to sunlight. [[spoiler:Semira, having drunk a considerable amount of Selene's blood, is now immune to sunlight, but she's so distracted by the sight that David is able to walk up behind her and stab her through the head.]]

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: During the movie's climax, [[spoiler:the Nordic Coven arrives to save the Eastern vampires from Marius' attack and all of them are wearing helmets and armor, except for Lena. Justified since it was used to demonstrate Lena has become a DaywalkingVampire after drinking Selene's blood, as the vampires were fighting during daytime and really needed protection]].

* KarmicDeath: Semira dies the exact same way she killed [[spoiler:Thomas - by getting a long blade stabbed through her neck]].
* KickTheDog: Selene just learned that Michael, her lost lover and her daughter's father, [[spoiler:was KilledOffScreen by Marius, who then used his blood to turn himself into a quasi-hybrid. Marius mockingly offers her the last phial of blood while quipping that that's everything that remains of Michael. She reaches out to take it, tears in her eyes, only for Marius to pull his hand back and down the phial in one gulp. Cue HeroicBSOD.]]
* LeftHanging: The movie ends with [[spoiler:Selene, David and Lena ascending to the rank of vampire elder, a brief shot of Eve (now grown up) reuniting with her mother, and Selene's mandatory ending narration that leaves little doubt about her story being far from over.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Alexia - loyal Death Dealer at night, Marius' bitch... well, also at night, but somewhere else. When she finally makes her move, her life expectancy is measured in minutes due to Semira having known about her off-hours hobby all along. It ends as well for Alexia [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves as one might expect]].]]

* OhCrap: Semira's and Varga's reaction when Cassius demands they capture Selene alive. Many vampires also have this look when the lycans [[spoiler:flood the previously darkened battleground with sunlight.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Michael]].

* ThisIsADrill: Right in the movie's ActionPrologue, David gets shot with a tracking device that is shaped like an oversized drill, has an actual rotating tip, and continues to burrow deeper into his body even while Selene is attemping to remove it.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Part of Selene's and Marius' final battle takes place in a vampire armory with Selene calmly grabbing loaded guns, emptying their clips into Marius, discarding them and switching to other ones without breaking stride. It doesn't work, but it sure looks cool.

** Surprisingly averted. Twice. For the same mook. To elaborate: [[spoiler:Only one of the dozen lycans Marius tasks with capturing Selene, Gregor, returns to deliver her message. Marius is understandably pissed at their failure, but instead of delivering the usual treatment, he merely manhandles the guy a bit before walking off. The same mook then gets a second chance to apprehend Selene, only to be forced to report that she was already gone when the lycans arrived. Again, Marius lets him live. This valiant mook later charges David and gets swatted away like a fly, but it's quite likely he survived that, which might well put him into MauveShirt territory]].

* AnachronismStew: The vampire nobles (the women, at least) seem to be wearing modern evening wear, some even featuring [[BareYourMidriff bare midriffs]]. The date and setting of the film is inexact, but it is clearly supposed to be a medieval setting (the early 13th century according to the novelizations). This is even more jarring when the vampires are shown alongside their human serfs...who wear attire that's actually fitting for the era.