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* {{Archdemon}}: Colcanarr is apparently one as he's not at all like the other demons in the show and commands an army of the damned. [[spoiler: Manfred manages to defeat him with his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Colcanarr is apparently one as he's not at all like the other demons in the show and commands an army of the damned. [[spoiler: Manfred manages to defeat him with his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
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* BigBad: The demon Colcannar serves as the BigBad for Season 1 of Midnight Texas. He's an {{Archdemon}} who tries to lead an army of evil into the city.
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* VirginPower: [[spoilers: Fiji reveals that she is a virgin, but for those gifted with magic, the older the virgin the more powerful they are. Also overlaps and plays some with VirginShaming because Fiji's more embarrassed about her virginity than the extent of her abilities.]]
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* ShipperOnDeck: Bobo appears to support Lemuel and Olivia as a couple.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Olivia certainly doesn't. Which conflicts with Lem's desire to turn her, so their relationship can be endless.
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* EmotionEater : Lemuel was granted the ability to feed off of psychic energy by Manfred's Grandma. This allows him to feed without killing people. His scenes with Olivia suggests that he is able to feed off of negative emotions like anger or shame. This ability also gives him the ability to kill vampires with a touch. Though Lemuel has not killed a human in this way on screen, victims do take on a deathly pallor when he feeds and it leaves them physically drained. Lemuel is however, perfectly capable of feeding on human blood and seems to enjoy it. He does save his thirst for AssholeVictims however so he still does fit as FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.
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Manfred Bernando is a Romani with PsychicPowers who is advised by his dead aunt grandmother to go to Midnight, Texas in order to escape his former clients. Midnight, Texas turns out to be a haven for various supernaturals who have decided to retreat from the world.
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* TheAtoner: Lemuel regrets his past as a blood-drinking vampire. Somewhat of a zig-zagged trope as he doesn't so much feel the need to make amends as simply stop doing evil. He also has no objections to Olivia's profession. Reverend Sheehan is another example as he doesn't wish to harm anyone as a weretiger and locks himself up during full moons to protect the locals.
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* TheAtoner: Lemuel TheAtoner:
**Lemuel regrets his past as a blood-drinking vampire. Somewhat of a zig-zagged trope as he doesn't so much feel the need to make amends as simply stop doing evil. He also has no objections to Olivia'sprofession. Reverend profession.
**Reverend Sheehan is another example as he doesn't wish to harm anyone as a weretiger and locks himself up during full moons to protect the locals.
**Lemuel regrets his past as a blood-drinking vampire. Somewhat of a zig-zagged trope as he doesn't so much feel the need to make amends as simply stop doing evil. He also has no objections to Olivia's
**Reverend Sheehan is another example as he doesn't wish to harm anyone as a weretiger and locks himself up during full moons to protect the locals.
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* NeckSnap: happens in "Blinded by the Light"
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* SpiritualSuccessor: An obvious one to ''Series/TrueBlood'' with it being about a rural Southern town populated with an inordinate amount of monsters. It also serves as something of a successor to ''Series/Grimm'' as well, being an action series which is mostly about an oddball cast of humans and monsters.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: An obvious one to ''Series/TrueBlood'' with it being about a rural Southern town populated with an inordinate amount of monsters. It also serves as something of a successor to ''Series/Grimm'' ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' as well, being an action series which is mostly about an oddball cast of humans and monsters.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed in "Blinded by the Light" where the Midnighters basically state they don't see any reason to treat a human serial killer any different from the numerous monsters they'd already slain, especially since a number of them are nonhuman themselves. This came at a somewhat odd time in the show given they'd just massacred a group of white supremacist AllBikersAreHellsAngels for kidnapping Fiji the previous episode.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed in "Blinded by the Light" where the Midnighters basically state they don't see any reason to treat a human serial killer any different from the numerous monsters they'd already slain, especially since a number of them are nonhuman themselves. This came at a somewhat odd time in the show given they'd just massacred a group of white supremacist AllBikersAreHellsAngels [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels bikers]] for kidnapping Fiji the previous episode.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed in "Blinded by the Light" where the Midnighters basically state they don't see any reason to treat a human serial killer any different from the numerous monsters they'd already slain, especially since a number of them are nonhuman themselves. This came at a somewhat odd time in the show given they'd just massacred a group of white supremacist AllBikersAreHellsAngels for kidnapping Fiji the previous episode.
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* AssholeVictim: Pretty much a major theme of the show, actually. The Midnighters may be a collection of monsters and weirdos but they run on DarkIsNotEvil and PayEvilUntoEvil. Whenever they do kill people, which is frequently, they only do those who are much-much worse than themselves.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Along with AssholeVictim, this is how the Midnighters maintain their status as [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Friendly Neighborhood Monsters]]. The monsters they kill are much-much worse than themselves.
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* BloodKnight: It's clear Lemuel loves fighting but holds it back until he can unleash it against AssholeVictim types.
* BreakTheCutie: Creek undergoes this after finding out [[spoiler: her brother was a serial killer and her father, essentially, let it happen.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Creek undergoes this after finding out [[spoiler: her brother was a serial killer and her father, essentially, let it happen.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Bobo's father [[spoiler: turns out to have been a white supremacist criminal mastermind.]]
** In "Unearthed", a father abused his daughter so badly she killed herself. Unfortunately, this being Midnight, Texas, that's not the end of it.
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* BrokenPedestal: In "Unearthed", Fiji found out [[spoiler: Bobo came from a family of white supremacists who blew up the church containing her mother. Bobo was present as a bystander but it, combined with the fact he'd lied about it, destroys her near-worshipful belief in Bobo.]]
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Olivia gives Fiji a low-key makeover for her dinner date with Bobo and shows up looking quite nice.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Fiji has a cat familiar and is one of the nicest people in Midnight.
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* OccultBlueEyes: Lemuel has these, being a vampire.
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* SmallCharacter,BigImpact: Aubrey Harrison is dead by the time she's introduced, but it's her murder that puts the series into motion.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Connor, despite being the younger sibling, shows this towards Creek in the episode "Sexy Beast"
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Creek wants to go to a strip club with Manfred the next time he goes (he was on an investigation but the reaction from Manfred was very telling).
-->"You are perfect!"
-->"You are perfect!"
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* FantasticRacism: The people of Midnight suffer a lot of this from the locals who suspect what they are. It's also implied they're just suffering the general kind as well.
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* UrbanFantasy: Midnight, Texas falls squarely within the genre as it's about a town with a fallen angel, psychic, witch, vampire, and weretiger plus a number of humans.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The Sons of Lucifer are a CaptainErsatz of the Hell's Angels and not even remotely subtle about it.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Lemuel has a mild case of it with his creator, Zachariah. While he broke up with his creator over whether humans were worth killing or not, he decided to give him another chance. [[spoiler: Zachariah ends up betraying Lemuel and getting killed along with all of his brood.]]
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''Midnight, Texas'' is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC as a summer entry to the 2016–17 network television schedule. The series was commissioned on May 13, 2016. Midnight, Texas is based on the book series of the same name by author Creator/CharlaineHarris who also wrote ''Literature/TheSouthernVampireMysteries'', the novels which were adapted into the ''Series/TrueBlood'' television series. The series premiered on July 24, 2017.
Manfred Bernando is a Romani with PsychicPowers who is advised by his dead aunt to go to Midnight, Texas in order to escape his former clients. Midnight, Texas turns out to be a haven for various supernaturals who have decided to retreat from the world.
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* Bobo Winthrop: The human proprietor of the Midnight Pawn.
* Fiji Cavanaugh: A quirky free spirit-spirited witch who own Midnight's magic store.
* Joe Strong: A fallen angel who has visions of the apocalypse coming to the town.
* Creek Lovell: A mortal waitress and later Manfred's girlfriend.
* Lemuel Bridger: A vampire who feeds on energy rather than blood.
* Olivia Charity: A freelance assassin who is lovers with Lemuel Bridger.
* Rev. Emilio Sheehan: A quiet weretiger who presides over the wedding chapel.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Despite being gorgeous and possessing superpowers, Fiji turns to complete mush around Bobo.
* AffablyEvil: Olivia and Lemuel may or may not qualify as evil but they're cheerful right up until the point they murder you.
* TheAtoner: Lemuel regrets his past as a blood-drinking vampire. Somewhat of a zig-zagged trope as he doesn't so much feel the need to make amends as simply stop doing evil. He also has no objections to Olivia's profession. Reverend Sheehan is another example as he doesn't wish to harm anyone as a weretiger and locks himself up during full moons to protect the locals.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The premise for the series is the various monsters of Midnight, Texas are decent people who just want to be left alone. [[spoiler: Theyr'e also the soldiers for the side of good against the rising demon horde.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A number of multi-racial and interracial relationship Texas townsfolk (as well as a gay couple) are tormented by the local gang of Neo-Nazi bikers. The townsfolk are also harassed and abused by the nearby police. It's just said townsfolk also have superpowers.
* FunctionalMagic: Fiji possesses this and may be the most powerful of the townsfolk.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Lemuel is this way because he can feed on energy rather than demons.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Olivia isn't a bad person at heart and prefers to kill "evil" targets with her one on-screen kill being a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* LighterAndSofter: Is restricted to PG-13 sex and violence due to being on network TV, unlike ''Series/TrueBlood.'' The supernaturals are also, by and large, much nicer people than the ones on that show.
* MasterOfDisguise: Olivia is capable of impersonating a wide variety of looks. It's not an InformedAttribute either as she does well in changing her appearance during her hits.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The chief villains harassing the town are a gang of Neo-Nazi bikers.
* PsychicPowers: Manfred possesses these. His grandmother and ancestors appear to have also had access to FunctionalMagic.
* QuirkyTown: Midnight is a town with a weird reputation even among the surrounding communities. It's {{Justified}} as most of the populace is supernatural.
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Manfred Bernando is a Romani with PsychicPowers who is advised by his dead aunt to go to Midnight, Texas in order to escape his former clients. Midnight, Texas turns out to be a haven for various supernaturals who have decided to retreat from the world.
These include:
* Bobo Winthrop: The human proprietor of the Midnight Pawn.
* Fiji Cavanaugh: A quirky free spirit-spirited witch who own Midnight's magic store.
* Joe Strong: A fallen angel who has visions of the apocalypse coming to the town.
* Creek Lovell: A mortal waitress and later Manfred's girlfriend.
* Lemuel Bridger: A vampire who feeds on energy rather than blood.
* Olivia Charity: A freelance assassin who is lovers with Lemuel Bridger.
* Rev. Emilio Sheehan: A quiet weretiger who presides over the wedding chapel.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Despite being gorgeous and possessing superpowers, Fiji turns to complete mush around Bobo.
* AffablyEvil: Olivia and Lemuel may or may not qualify as evil but they're cheerful right up until the point they murder you.
* TheAtoner: Lemuel regrets his past as a blood-drinking vampire. Somewhat of a zig-zagged trope as he doesn't so much feel the need to make amends as simply stop doing evil. He also has no objections to Olivia's profession. Reverend Sheehan is another example as he doesn't wish to harm anyone as a weretiger and locks himself up during full moons to protect the locals.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The premise for the series is the various monsters of Midnight, Texas are decent people who just want to be left alone. [[spoiler: Theyr'e also the soldiers for the side of good against the rising demon horde.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A number of multi-racial and interracial relationship Texas townsfolk (as well as a gay couple) are tormented by the local gang of Neo-Nazi bikers. The townsfolk are also harassed and abused by the nearby police. It's just said townsfolk also have superpowers.
* FunctionalMagic: Fiji possesses this and may be the most powerful of the townsfolk.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Lemuel is this way because he can feed on energy rather than demons.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Olivia isn't a bad person at heart and prefers to kill "evil" targets with her one on-screen kill being a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* LighterAndSofter: Is restricted to PG-13 sex and violence due to being on network TV, unlike ''Series/TrueBlood.'' The supernaturals are also, by and large, much nicer people than the ones on that show.
* MasterOfDisguise: Olivia is capable of impersonating a wide variety of looks. It's not an InformedAttribute either as she does well in changing her appearance during her hits.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The chief villains harassing the town are a gang of Neo-Nazi bikers.
* PsychicPowers: Manfred possesses these. His grandmother and ancestors appear to have also had access to FunctionalMagic.
* QuirkyTown: Midnight is a town with a weird reputation even among the surrounding communities. It's {{Justified}} as most of the populace is supernatural.
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