History Recap / PennyDreadfulS3E9TheBlessedDark

** Vanessa is [[KilledOffForReal dead and buried]]. The culmination of all her struggle, all her searching for even a tiny scrap of happiness and relief from being constantly hounded by the forces of darkness is that she gets to die.

** Lily's revolution has fallen apart, with Dorian having betrayed her murdering Justine. However, she still loves Ethan, the only man she sees as an equal monster, and may yet find him again.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dorian makes this speech to Lily about how life becomes empty and pointless to an immortal and eventually they become like an empty portrait of themselves. He points out that any relationship with a mortal will necessarily be a MayflyDecemberRomance and that any children one has will wither and die of old age in the blink of an immortal eye.

* SpecialEditionTitle: The usual credit opening is replaced by a new one with Sophie Meade singing "Now i lay me down to sleep".

* ZergRush: The Familiars try to kill the heroes this way, and nearly succeed after losing a large amount of their forces until Ethan and Kaetenay arrive and defeat them.

* CurbStompBattle: Dracula has no trouble beating down all the heroes in seconds when he enters the fight.
* DownerEnding: Crosses with BittersweetEnding. The world is saved, but none of the surviving main characters, the good and the bad, get a happy ending. They are all left with loss and grief and emptiness. However, there are moments of hope that still remain.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dorian makes this speech to Lily about how life becomes empty and pointless to an immortal and eventually they become like an empty portrait of themselves. He points out that any relationship with a mortal will necessarily be a MayflyDecemberRomance and that any children one has will wither and die of old age in a blink of an eye.

** John Clare finds his family again from his past life and they welcome him, but he watches his son die and his wife tells him never to come back because he won't use Victor to being the boy back to life.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Dorian makes this speech to Lily about how life becomes empty and pointless to an immortal and eventually they become like an empty portrait of themselves. He points out that any relationship with a mortal will necessarily be a MayflyDecemberRomance and that any children one has will wither and die of old age in a blink of an eye.

* DownerEnding: The world is saved, but none of the surviving main characters, the good and the bad, get a happy ending. They are all left with loss and grief and emptiness.

** Ethan has no family left, having killed his father.

** Jekyll is set on a path of self-destruction in the same way that nearly claimed Victor who [[CasandraTruth tries to warn him in vain]].

* KarmaHoudini: Dracula gets away in the end, but the implication of the series is that now he will never ever be able bring on the end times without her.

* LastStand: When finally reaching Dracula's lair to save Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Kaetenay, Dr. Seward, and Catriona Hartdegen all agree that ItHasBeenAnHonor and they make their final stand against the vampire horde. Surprisingly, they survive it until Dracula himself enters the fight alone and beats them all down.

* LastStand: When finally reaching Dracula's lair to save Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Kaetenay, Dr. Seward, Dr. Jekyll, and Catriona Hartdegen all agree that ItHasBeenAnHonor and they make their final stand against the vampire horde. Surprisingly, they survive it until Dracula himself enters the fight alone and beats them all down.

* LastStand: When finally reaching Dracula's lair to save Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Kaetenay, Dr. Seward, Dr. Jekyll, and Catriona Hartdegen all agree that ItHasBeenAnHonor and they make their final stand against the vampire horde. Surprisingly, they survive it, until Dracula himself enters the fight alone and beats them all down.