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* ParanoiaGambit: [[spoiler: What the CelestialBureaucracy is pulling on Mitchell with the "wolf shaped bullet" prophecy]].

*** [[spoiler:And Herrick tries to kill Nina in retaliation for George killing him. Makes it a HopeSpot for the viewer, if they wanted her to live.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Despite George being Jewish, his father had what appeared to be an Anglican [[spoiler: fake funeral. His mother, Ruth, (a Jewish name), wasn't sitting Shivah, the traditional mourning ritiual, after this funeral.]] If the writiers are trying to write a believable Jewish character they should know that even very lapsed, casual Jews practice these rituals.

*** [[spoiler:And Herrick tries to kill Nancy in retaliation for George killing him. Makes it a HopeSpot for the viewer, if they wanted her to live.]]

*** [[spoiler:And Herrick (almost certainly) kills Nancy in retaliation for George killing him. Makes it a HopeSpot for the viewer, if they wanted her to live.]]

As of 30th January 2011, there is a web spin-off, ''BecomingHuman''.

* TearJerker - [[spoiler: From 3x08 - "I'm doing this because I love you." "I know."]]

** [[spoiler:Lea invents the 'wolf-shaped bullet' prophecy just so she can screw with Mitchell's head, in vengeance for the Box Tunnel 20]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent - These werewolves are humans [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting cursed to transform]] into savage, near-mindless beasts, closer to man-wolf than wolf-man. They only transform on the night of the full moon, whether they can see the moon or not. Anyone who survives a werewolf attack becomes a werewolf themselves. The curse is transferred by any wound, not just a bite, and the attack always leaves a very visible scar. The transformation can be partially suppressed by staying in a pressure chamber, although so far all attempts to do so have had unpleasant results. One attempt to incapacitate the wolf-form with tranquilisers subsequently caused violent urges and uncontrollable swearing while in human form, presumably due to the wolf's repressed rage. Vampires can detect werewolves, probably by smell, though werewolves can't detect vampires. As fellow supernatural creatures, werewolves can see ghosts. Werewolves are apparently far rarer than vampires in this universe.

** According to Wyndham there is no record of a female warewolf being impregnated by a male warewolf and none of the Old Ones vampires know what the outcome of such a pregnancy would be.

*** There's the Old Ones, in South America. Mitchell objects to joining them on the basis that, being just over one hundred, he's not an "old" one by vampire standards.

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Nina, in "The Longest Day". She plays the social worker like a fiddle and it's brutal to watch.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The ending of S3E8 is probably one of the few actions that combines this with CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]

* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler: William]] Herrick, [[spoiler: Lee]] Tully and [[spoiler: Anthony]] McNair only ever are referred to by their surname. We only learn their first names [[spoiler: after they have been respectively killed.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The pilot, one of several shown to promote the relaunch of BBC3. Annie was a lot more housebound (the first subplot would have been her trying to fight this), the vampires would have worn suits and driven limos, rather than [[HiddenInPlainSight hiding in plain sight]], Annie's fiance did not own the house, and the comedy was slightly more camp. Not necessarily better or worse, but certainly different.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Brutally subverted by Herrick and [[spoiler: Nina]]. He points out that really what he wants is to [[spoiler: make George suffer in payback for him ripping Herrick limb from limb in Series 1]] but invokes this trope as the reason he's going to spare her and promptly leaves. Then [[spoiler: before the doors have even stopped swinging shut, he comes back in, "And then they're say I was going soft" and promptly shivs her in the back.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero - [[spoiler: George killing Herrick]] may have resolved one problem but as it turns out in series 2 the repercussions involve [[spoiler: [[EvilPowerVacuum a power vacuum in the vampire lot]], the loss of a system which kept the supernatural existence under wraps, and George becoming notorious enough to be targeted by vampires loyal to Herrick.]] Though things are tentatively getting better...wait...Nope, actually [[ItGotWorse it's getting back to worse]].

*** [[spoiler:and Herrick (almost certainly) kills Nancy. Makes it a HopeSpot for the viewer, if they wanted her to live.]]