History Series / YoungDracula

** Their mother isn't much of a prize either - just in her series three appearance, she manipulates and lies to Vlad to become his regent for fame, totally ignores Ingrid, and [[spoiler:forgets about and leaves her youngest son behind, although arguably she left him behind on purpose like she tried to do in Series 2.]]
** Van Helsing is arguablly worse than the count. It is clear in season one that Jonno doesn't want to be a slayer but he just keeps forcing him into it and trying to make him feel like he is nothing if he doesn't become a slayer.
** Mina Van Helsing has moments of this. [[spoiler:Like when she tricked Jonno into thinking Malik really had bitten him and he was turning into a vampire by swapping his blood for vampire blood to test it. Her plan to get Jonno to stop helping Vlad luckily backfired.]]

** To be fair, though, Ivan and Ingrid are both shown to be able to overcome the evil and bloodlust aspects of their personalities. But Ivan reverts to his evil self after [[BerserkButton smelling the blood of a vampire slayer]] and Ingrid was pretty evil to begin with. Also, re: Vlad not just avoiding the mirror/room, it is implied in one episode (series two, episode 7, ''Insomnia'' for those interested) that his reflection may already ''be'' 'evil', or at least that he can't escape the change, something which is confirmed as of ''Blood Thief''

* EvilCostumeSwitch: an interesting example in episode 3x01 has Vlad change from his school uniform into a black leather jumpsuit and black cape to go rescue Ingrid from the slayers. He's not actually turning evil but he is embracing the vampire side of himself.

* MindControl: Vampires can hypnotize humans by locking eyes with them. Vlad can even do it to his own father, as seen in 1x05

* SpiritualAntithesis: To WesternAnimation/ZombieHotel, another HorrorComedy series on Creator/{{CBBC}}. Zombie Hotel is animated and the main Zombie family get along well, Maggot and Fungus are fraternal twins, they have powers since childhood, and it only lasted a short while.

* WeirdnessCensor: Most of the 'breathers', but the elder Branaghs in particular
** Also subverted [[spoiler:When Vlad actually says the word 'vampire' to Mr Branagh, he realises what's been in front of him all the time]].

Season Four sees [[spoiler: Vlad's enforced, uneasy peace between vampires and slayers]] threatened from all sides. Vlad is forced into an ArrangedMarriage, a new vampire Malik is plotting something, and Erin is having doubts about her and Vlad's relationship. Skeletons fall out of the family cupboard and it all gets very Shakespearean.

** Their mother isn't much of a prize either - just in her series three appearance, she manipulates and lies to Vlad to become his regent for fame, totally ignores Ingrid, and [[spoiler: forgets about and leaves her youngest son behind, although arguably she left him behind on purpose like she tried to do in Series 2.]]

** Mina Van Helsing has moments of this. [[spoiler: Like when she tricked Jonno into thinking Malik really had bitten him and he was turning into a vampire by swapping his blood for vampire blood to test it. Her plan to get Jonno to stop helping Vlad luckily backfired.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Sethius kills other vampires for no reason, and plans to turn all humans into vampires with the deliberate intention of removing their food supply so they fight amongst themselves.]]

* CainAndAbel: Ingrid and Vlad, respectively, [[spoiler: from Series 3 onward - well, Ingrid didn't specifically kill him, but she left him for dead.]]
** [[spoiler: Then taken up to eleven in ''Bad Vlad'': Ingrid finally attempts to murder Vlad out of jealousy at his new evil self, only for him to stop her stake with one finger before throwing her into the sunlight.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: The second series has shades of this, what with [[spoiler: multiple vampires actually getting slain, including one who had been a recurring sympathetic character, Vlad being revealed to the TheChosenOne, and the series ending on what was probably meant to be a dramatic cliffhanger.]] Series three is continuing down this route.

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Those born vampires gain their full powers at age sixteen. Powers start semi-developing before that point, but on a vampire's sixteenth birthday they are locked in a room with the family's blood mirror, where they meet their reflection, which is a pure evil version of themselves, and also an independent entity. A merge is required for the vampire to gain its full powers. "Only the most powerful" of the two personalities is allowed to continue after the merge, which means that the evil personality in the mirror will take over if the individual is not strong-willed enough. [[spoiler: This is why Cousin Boris, who lost to his reflection, comes out of the room completely different, whereas Ingrid remains the same.]] If you try to run away, the reflection breaks through the mirror and chases after you. Which makes you wonder why the protagonist, Vlad, who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]]), just doesn't look in the mirror or even enter the room.

** In ''Loyalty's for Breathers'' a depressed Vlad [[spoiler: ends the episode alone in a darkened room, drinking straight from the bottle.]].

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Sethius is so AxCrazy that ''everyone'' realises the need to put aside their differences and team up with Vlad to stop him.]]

* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler: Vlad, for one episode, after absorbing his [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} literally 1,000 evil reflections.]]]]

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* HunterOfMonsters: Eric van Helsing. [[spoiler: Also Jonno in series 2, and later Kurt, from the Slayers Guild tactical division]]
** Series 3 sets up the idea that the Chosen One is now the main target of the Slayers, while [[spoiler: Erin is also a hunter pretending to be a half-fang, plotting to kill the clan Dracula to save her brother.]]

** Vlad himself later fears that Erin will hate him if he turns her into a vampire, even to save her life. [[spoiler: He does so anyway, and she swears to never forgive him.]]

* InterspeciesRomance: Between Vlad and [[spoiler: Erin]] in Series Three. [[spoiler: A strange example in that Vlad had [[EveryoneCanSeeIt a strong crush on her]] before he discovered she was actually human.]]

* MissingMom: Vlad and Ingrid's mother ran off with a werewolf, and Jonathan's mother left because of van Helsing's vampire obsession. Magda shows up from time to time. [[spoiler: Mina Van Helsing shows up in the latter half of series 2]]
* MonsterMisogyny: Averted. We only really see the Count prey on older females - such as the Headmistress of Stokley Grammar, Mrs Branagh, and [[spoiler: Mina Van Helsing]]. The youngest person he ever preys on is Robin Branagh, and that was in an attempt to try to get Vlad to use his vampire powers.

* NotHisSled: In the books the kids were SwitchedAtBirth. In the TV series Vlad and Robin look this way at first, each fitting into the other's family better. [[spoiler: They're not, no matter how much Robin wishes they were.]]

* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: In ''The Hunt Ball'', this happens. Van Helsing, frightened by a loud noise, shoots the Count in the chest with a crossbow bolt. Said bolt was stopped by a decanter of poisoned blood which Van Helsing had given the Count earlier in the evening.]]
* PokeThePoodle: [[spoiler: After an enormous build-up in the previous episode, the first 'evil' things we see 'Bad Vlad' do are... setting off the school fire alarm and turning Zoltan's head back to front. Rapidly averted, however: he goes on to torture his father, tries to murder Ingrid, and comes dangerously close to killing a schoolgirl.]]

** Then she gets one pulled right in front of her by Ingrid, who deliberately smirks at her to gloat that [[spoiler: Vlad doesn't even trust Erin's warning that Ingrid has a team of half-fangs hunting him.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Vlad's ''1,000 evil reflections''. Not so much in the mirror anymore though...]]
** Also [[spoiler: Sethius, trapped in the Predictum Impava by other vampires for being insane.]]
** And [[spoiler: The Blood Seed, sealed in a number of boxes to stop it growing and bearing the forbidden fruit, which would give whoever ate it power and knowledge to rule the world.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Wolfie seems to disappear after Erin [[spoiler: becomes a vampire and things get much darker.]]

** Vlad, as the Chosen One doesn't have an evil reflection...[[spoiler: he has a ''thousand''.]]

* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler: After the Count is poisoned by Elizabetta, Vlad, in an attempt to save his father's life, bites him to draw the poison out. Its effect seems to take an even harder toll on Vlad, who begins bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, and hands.]]

* {{Villainous BSOD}}: Ingrid seems to be practically catatonic after being [[spoiler: almost killed by Vlad.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Boris offers this to Vlad at the end of ''Bad Reflections'', but he [[spoiler: only pretends to accept]].

** Also subverted [[spoiler: When Vlad actually says the word 'vampire' to Mr Branagh, he realises what's been in front of him all the time]].
* WhamEpisode: [=S4E07 Do The Bite Thing=]. Good grief. [[spoiler: Malik is the Count's illegitimate eldest son, and the mysterious shapeshifter is his mother. Erin is dying, Vlad is going off the rails... and then he turns her into a vampire after she tells him not to, and she swears to [[IHateYouVampireDad never forgive him.]]]]

** Given that Season 3 shows that Vlad's evil self would [[spoiler: easily kill both Ingrid and the Count within a day, they ''may'' learn to be more accepting of the nicer Vlad.]]

* PowerWalk: A short one in season 4 with Vlad, Erin, Bertrand, and [[spoiler:Jono]]

--->'''Morai''':Don't get clever with me, young Dracula!

* YouWillBeSpared: Ingrid, being totally serious, says this word-for-word to the therapist who helps her get past her {{Villainous BSOD}}. The therapist naturally assumes she's joking.

** Both played straight and subverted with Ingrid. She had a crush on Will who was if not strictly speaking ''bad'' a rebel and nonconformist (for example he appreciates her giving him rats as a present). However she outright laughs at Malik, criticising him for being a caricature of a bad boy, desperate to be thought of as edgy and dark.

Season Four sees [[spoiler: Vlad's enforced, uneasy peace between vampires and slayers]] threatened from all sides. Vlad is forced into an ArrangedMarriage, a new vampire Malik is plotting something, and Erin is having doubts about her and Vlad's relationship. Skeletons fall out of the faily cupboard and it all gets very Shakespearean.

* HollywoodNerd: Boris, a solid Type 1. (Until his 16th birthday, that is...)

* VampireVannabe: Robin

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In episode 3x03 when Vlad's tired of telepathy training, he's given a walky talky for practice and sarcastically says "Whisky Tango Foxtrot" (WTF). For a children's show on the BBC, fairly risky.
** When the Count tries to get Vlad to practise his telepathy:
--> '''Vlad''': I hope you can read ''this''.
--> '''Count''': ...Actually, I can. And in answer: I seriously doubt it would fit.
** When the Count tells Renfield his plan to be Miss [=McCauley's=] secret admirer.
--> '''Count''': Then I will reveal myself to her...
--> '''Renfield''': Is that legal?
** At the end of season three, Vlad challenges [[spoiler:Sethius]] to a game to see "who has the bigger fireballs."

Has a [[Characters/YoungDracula character sheet]] which is desperately in need of WikiMagic.

---> '''CountDracula''': I WANT BLOOD, I WANT IT NOW!

* Bloodlust
---> '''The Count''': I WANT BLOOD, I WANT IT NOW!

As of Season Three, the setting has changed somewhat. After the events of the previous series, and the castle burning down, the Dracula clan have been forced to relocated and to hide from the slayers in a school. Vlad learns how to master his powers from a private tutor, Bertrand. They are soon joined by their half-brother Wolfie and Erin, a young half-fang[[labelnote:*]] [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler really a human with slayer training]][[/labelnote]] who Vlad soon develops [[InterspeciesRomance a crush on]], whilst Ingrid continues in her thwarted quest for world domination.

** School isn't compulsory in the UK, anyway.
*** No, but education is. If you don't inform the local council of your home-schooling plans in detail, you can be arrested, which leads us back to the issue in the beginning.
*** Subverted with Season 3, which sees the Count forcing Ingrid to go back to school so he doesn't have to see her all day - despite her being twenty.