History Series / WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Either Colin is an actual "energy vampire" who drains people of their lifeforce, or he's just some crazy guy who's pretending to be one and is very good at [[TheBore boring people]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: Colin's the only vampire ([[AmbiguousSituation assuming he really is one]]) who doesn't murder people for food; the worst he does is leave them extremely tired for a short period.

** Nadja offers to teach [[spoilers:Jenna]] how to seduce "men... and women," and winks happily into the camera upon learning [[spoilers:Jenna's]] a virgin. In the following episode, Nadja says [[spoilers:the werewolves have made [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Laszlo's bush replica of his mother's vulva]] look like his sister's.]]

** Nadja offers to teach Jenna how to seduce "men... and women," and winks happily into the camera upon learning Jenna's a virgin. In the following episode, Nadja says the werewolves have made [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Laszlo's bush replica of his mother's vulva]] look like his sister's.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire; he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there are the facts that [[GlowingEyes his eyes get a subtle blue glow]] whenever he "feeds", and that the other vampires complain that the blood of his victims has a "bitter" taste and no nutritional value, suggesting that there is indeed something more to him than meets the eye.

Like the film the show is a {{Mockumentary}} which follows the lives of a group vampires living together and their antics as they struggle to understand and adapt to the modern mortal world. Instead of taking place on New Zealand though, the show jumps to the neighbour of Staten Island, New York. There the four vampires, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a former soldier of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Laszlo (Creator/MattBerry), an English nobleman, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), another European vampire and Laszlo's sire, and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a DayWalker "energy" vampire are living together in a commune. Assisting them is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), Nandor's familiar whom Nandor has promised to turn into a vampire someday.

* AffablyEvil: The vampires are murderous, bloodsucking monsters, but that doesn't stop them from lovable goofballs.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there are the facts that his eyes gets a subtle blue glow whenever he "feeds", and that the other vampires complain that the blood of his victims have a "bitter" taste and no nutritional value, suggesting that there is indeed something more to him than meets the eye.

* TheBore: Colin invokes this, as he sustains himself on human boredom, and have specialized in telling long, rambling, and ultimately pointless stories about either himself or very esoteric tropics to his victims.

* EmotionEater: Rather than feeding on blood, Colin feeds on the negative emotional energies humans emit when they are bored or angry, and have therefore specialized in being both as insufferably boring and extremely annoying to his victims as possible. He is apparently also capable of feeding on the negative energies of vampires.

* ILoveTheDead: Nadja admits to Jeff that she accidentally killed his past incarnation, Gregor, mid-coitus and continued banging the corpse. [[TooDumbToLive He stills offers to give her his number and meet her again]].

* LooksLikeOrlok: Just as Petyr in film, the Baron has this appearance too, in stark contrast to the other vampires. Also like with Petyr, it is implied to be a result of his advanced age.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Laszlo has a very inflated ego and seems to think of himself a sexy, badass super-vampire. He’s really a bumbling loser with a frail old lady as his familiar.

* {{Troll}}: Aside from boredom, Colin can also feed on feelings of anger, so when he is not attempt to bore people out of their skulls, he deliberately tries to be as huge of a nuisance to them as possible.

''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a SpinOff BlackComedy {{Sitcom}} of the [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows film of the same name]], created by Creator/TaikaWaititi and Jemaine Clement for Creator/{{FX}}.

* VillainProtagonist: While the vampires seem nice enough they do kill people for food and keep future victim locked up in their basement.

Like the film the show is a {{Mockumentary}} which follows the lives of a group vampires living together and their antics as they struggle to understand and adapt to the mortal world. Instead of taking place on New Zealand though, the show jumps to the neighbour of Staten Island, New York. There the four vampires, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a former soldier of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Laszlo (Creator/MattBerry), an English nobleman, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), another European vampire and Laszlo's sire, and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a DayWalker "energy" vampire are living together in a commune. Assisting them is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), Nandor's familiar whom Nandor has promised to turn into a vampire someday.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there are the facts that he gains SupernaturalGoldEyes whenever he feeds, and that the other vampires complain that the blood of his victims have a "bitter" taste to it, suggesting that there is indeed something more to him than meets the eye.

* TheBore: Colin invokes this, as he sustains himself on human boredom, and have specialized in telling long, rambling, and ultimately pointless stories about very esoteric tropics to his victims.

* {{Troll}}: Aside from boredom, Colin can also feed on feelings of anger, so when he is attempt to bore people out of their skulls, he deliberately tries to be as huge of a nuisance to them as possible.

* {{Reincarnation}}: Nadja believes that Gregor, a knight she loved in medieval times, has been reincarnated as a guy named Jeff, who she begins stalking/trying to kindle a relationship with.

* EmotionEater: Rather than feeding on blood, Colin feeds on the negative energies humans emit when they are bored or angry, and have therefore specialized in being both as insufferably boring and extremely annoying to his victims as possible. He is apparently also capable of feeding on the energy of vampires.

''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a SpinOff BlackComedy {{Sitcom}} of the [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows film of the same name]], created by Creator/TaikaWaititi and Jemaine Clement for Creator/{{FX}}. Like the film the show is a {{Mockumentary}} which follows the lives of four vampires: Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a former soldier of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Laszlo (Creator/MattBerry), an English nobleman, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), another European vampire and Laszlo's sire, and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a DayWalker "energy" vampire. Assisting them is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), Nandor's familiar whom Nandor has promised to turn into a vampire someday.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there is the fact that he gains SupernaturalGoldEyes whenever he "feeds", suggesting that there is indeed something more to him.

* EmotionEater: Rather than feeding on blood, Colin feeds on the negative energies humans emit when they are bored or angry, and have therefore specialized in being both as insufferably boring and extremely annoying to his victims as possible.
* ExactWords: Done in an especially lazy and hackneyed manner by Nandor; [[spoiler:to weasel out of making Guillermo a vampire as promised, he paints a portrait in which Guillermo is portrayed as a vampire and treats that as if it's the promised reward.]]

* LooksLikeOrlok: The Baron, in stark contrast to the other vampires. Implied to be a result of his advanced age.

* OutWithABang: How Nadja's ex-lover Gregor ''actually'' died. Apparently she occasionally gets so worked up during sex that she just slices her partner's head off for no particular reason.

''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a SpinOff of the [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows film of the same name]], created by Creator/TaikaWaititi and Jemaine Clement for Creator/{{FX}}. Like the film the show is a {{Mockumentary}} which follows the lives of four vampires: Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a former soldier of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Laszlo (Creator/MattBerry), an English nobleman, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), another European vampire and Laszlo's sire, and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a DayWalker "energy" vampire. Assisting them is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), Nandor's familiar whom Nandor has promised to turn into a vampire someday.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there is the fact that he gains SupernaturalGoldEyes whenever he "feeds", suggesting that there is indeed something supernatural about him.

* AffablyEvil: The vampires are murderous, bloodsucking monsters, but that doesn’t stop them from lovable goofballs.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring. But then again, there is the fact that he gains SupernaturalGoldEyes whenever he "feeds", suggesting that there is indeed something supernatural about.

* BiTheWay: Turns out the Baron has had “intense love affairs” with both Nadja and Laszlo. Hilariously, both of the latter two seem to think they’re the only ones he’s slept with.

* BrickJoke: Throughout the pilot episode, the vampires scold Guillermo to make absolutely certain that all the windows are securely boarded over before the Baron arrives to minimize the risk of sunlight getting in. [[TemptingFate Guillermo insists they’re all fine]]. [[spoiler:The very last scene of the episode is one of the boards Guillermo put up falling down and letting in a beam of sunshine ''[[OhCrap right on the Baron’s coffin]]''.]]

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Guillermo tries to claim he isn’t a murderer, he just finds people who are easy to kill and lures them into a situation where they’ll be murdered. [[BlatantLies It’s totally different]].

* ExactWords: Done in an especially lazy and hackneyed manner by Nandor; [[spoiler:to weasel out of making Guillermo a vampire as promised, he paints a portrait in which Guillermo is portrayed as a vampire and treats that as if it’s the promised reward.]]

** The Baron’s dramatic speech about taking over America gets awkwardly interrupted when he notices the documentary crew and has to have their presence explained to him.
* FantasticRacism: Parodied when the vampires try to claim they left Europe because of “prejudice” against their kind; which is to say, Europeans got sick of being eaten by vampires and started getting good at killing them.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Either Colin is an actual “energy vampire” who drains people of their lifeforce, or he’s just some crazy guy who’s pretending to be one and is very good at [[TheBore boring people]].

* OutWithABang: How Nadja’s ex-lover Gregor ''actually'' died. Apparently she occasionally gets so worked up during sex that she just slices her partner’s head off for no particular reason.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Colin’s the only vampire ([[AmbiguousSituation assuming he really is one]]) who doesn’t murder people for food; the worst he does is leave them extremely tired for a short period.

* VillainsOutShopping: In the first episode, Guillermo and Nandor go out shopping for party supplies like glitter and construction paper to prepare for the Baron’s arrival. Nandor tries to pay for it all with a centuries-old coin and threatens to stab the cashier when he refuses to take it.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The Baron doesn't grasp how large America is or why it would be so difficult for the vampires to take it over.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no real evidence that Colin is a vampire, he shows no supernatural powers and his energy draining could just be the fact that he's extremely boring.

* EmotionEater: Rather than feeding on blood, Colin feeds on the negative energies humans emit when they are bored, and have therefore specialized in being as insufferably boring to his victims as possible.

* TheBore: Colin invokes this, as he sustains himself on human boredom, and have specialized in telling long, pointless stories about very esoteric tropics to his victims.

* DayWalker: Colin is able to go out during the daytime.

* VillainProtagonist: While the vampires seem nice enough they do kill people for food and keep future victim locked up in their basement.

''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a SpinOff of the [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows film of the same name]], created by Creator/TaikaWaititi and Jemaine Clement for Creator/FX. Like the film the show is a {{Mockumentary}} which follows the lives of four vampires: Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a former soldier of the UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire, Laszlo (Creator/MattBerry), an English nobleman, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), another European vampire and Laszlo's sire, and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a DayWalker "energy" vampire. Assisting them is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), Nandor's familiar whom Nandor has promised to turn into a vampire someday.