Characters / What We Do In The Shadows 2019 The Roommates

Characters from the television series What We Do in the Shadows (2019).

For characters from the film, go here.

The Staten Island Roommates

In General

• Affably Evil: The vampire roommates are depraved murderers with people skills from bygone eras, but they're also quite chilled out and fun-loving.
• Deadpan Snarker: The roommates are all very snarky, rarely passing up a chance at being so.
• Depraved Bisexual: They're not picky about their sexual partners, of whom there are many.
• Even Evil Has Standards: They may be vampires, but there are some lines they draw at.
  • When Nandor is yanked out of the Wellness Center, everyone is baffled by his appearance and his continual denial at this being brainwashing.
  • When Nandor assumes Colin is lying about his death despite the evidence that it was genuine, the group are upset.
• Hemo Erotic: One episode has the roommates preparing a vampire orgy, which gives the audience a greater glimpse into their kinks and sexual histories.
• Impoverished Patrician: They dress and act like your typical Vampire Aristocrats despite having only one servant that works for them pro-bono (and various servants that die on the job), a rickety old house and are fairly low on New York's pecking order as far as vampires are concerned. This is especially odd considering Nadja was a commoner before they were sired.
• Jerkass: The vampire roommates are shown to be self-centered dorks, but Nandor is the worst one.
• Manchild: They may be centuries-old and Seen It All, but they have the emotional intelligences of rowdy teenagers at best.
• Spiked Blood: Drinking the blood of people who took party drugs causes the vampires to go a bit nuts.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The roommates have parallels with the roommates from the film.
  • Nandor is similar to Vladislav in that they're both tyrants who conquered neighbouring nations.
  • Nadja is similar to Viago, being the "mother" of the group and having a long-lost love. The scene where Nadja turns Jenna vaguely resembles the scene where Viago feeds on a woman planning to go to university.
  • Laszlo is similar to Deacon, as they're boorish lotharios and the youngest of their respective trios.

Nandor

Nandor the Relentless

Portrayed By: Kayvan Novak

"In the old days, it would not have been my style to make an alliance. I would have slaughtered my neighbors in battle. But... then you wake up and you think, 'I've got no neighbors. What if I want to borrow something?'"

Formerly a renowned and fearsome soldier in the former Ottoman Empire and leader of the vassal country of Al-Quolanudar (now in modern-day Iran). Nandor is the house's unofficial leader, and has difficulty expressing his affection for his loyal familiar Guillermo.

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• Affably Evil: He's a laid-back, soft-spoken, and overall pleasant-seeming guy, particularly in comparison to Nadja and Laszlo, but he's committed countless horrible atrocities in the past and seemingly doesn't hold a bit of remorse for them, generally treats his familiars closer to disposable tools than actual people (though enough time with Guillermo sees him slowly working his way out of this), and, as a vampire, continues to regularly kill innocent humans for sustenance.
• All Take and No Give: The core of his relationship with Guillermo, although he does protect Guillermo and is shown to care for him in his own (very selfish and ineffective) way.
• Ambiguously Bi: When asked who George Washington was in "Ancestry", he answers "America's first gay president", the look on his face implying that this information was personal. In season two, as an act of desperation when he and Laszlo are suffering from blue balls, they agree to "finish each other off and never speak of it again." (with an earlier scene from the same episode suggesting they'd had sex at least once before).
  • Much less ambiguous come season 3, when he outright states he likes men and women.
  • Another season 3 scene has him taken aback when the woman he's interested in is a lesbian. Not because she's attracted to women, but because she's only attracted to women.
    • Season Four abolishes the ambiguity by establishing that many of his "wives" were men. When "trying out" his resurrected wives to see who he would remarry he shows no favoritism to the females and in fact the only one shown that he actually tries to have sex with was one of the men.
    • By Season Five, when Laszlo is stricken with a bout of malaise, Nadja complains that she and he are down to only having sex sixteen times a week. Nandor comments that he and Laszlo are down to three.
• Animal Lover: One of the hilarious ironies of Nandor's character is that he's slaughtered thousands of human beings in his long existence and takes great pride in this fact, but is a huge softy when it comes to every other species of living thing. He scolds Guillermo for damaging a "spider house" while dusting, he's extremely offended when Colin Robinson jokes about him having eaten a cat, he tries to befriend a bird that keeps flying into his room (even naming it “Matthew”), and when he first meets the witches' goat familiar he delightedly talks to it as if it were a child. We even learn that his human ghost's Unfinished Business has nothing to do with any of the human lives he's taken but is based on his guilt over having been forced to kill and eat his horse, Jahan, whom he loved more than any of his wives or children.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A (possibly) platonic variant, but when pressed, he truly does care for Guillermo and quietly accepts his conditions for return without arguing much.
• Bad Boss: Zigzagged:
  • Nandor frequently uses Guillermo for meaningless tasks, clearly has no intention of ever actually turning him, and will offer up Guillermo to save himself. However, he truly seems to think that they're friends, and his worst behavior seems to be his attempts at friendliness. When we meet his old familiar Benjy, it seems that this is the way he usually treats familiars.
  • By Season 3 its more downplayed. He takes Guillermo’s promotion to bodyguard the most seriously, and is Guillermo’s biggest advocate to make sure that Guillermo is treated as part of the team. When Guillermo proves he's no longer such a doormat, he vows to make Guillermo a vampire when they return to Nandor's homeland, this time with completely sincerity ("My word is my bond."). Indeed, he's crushed when he thinks Guillermo stiffs him at the train station.
  • Unfortunately, by Season 4, it’s been undone. Nandor transforms his wife into a clone of Guillermo’s boyfriend. This ends up ruining their relationship and is one of the reasons why Guillermo leaves the house at the end of the season and asks Derek to turn him into a vampire.
• Being Evil Sucks: Pretty much the point of the character. In season one he talks sadly about how if you murder your neighbors, soon you don't have any neighbors. By season 3, he so desperately wants to become human that he falls for a transparent grifter.
• Barbarian Longhair: He used to be a plundering warlord, and still has his long hair, complete with a man bun.
• Benevolent Boss: While he's objectively a poor employer, Nandor also truly cares about Guillermo underneath it all and has put his neck out for his familiar while also concealing Guillermo having killed another vampire. For a vampire, this is incredibly lenient behavior.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Never forget that, despite his quirks and apparent cluelessness, Nandor was once a feared and ruthless Blood Knight. It's very telling that when Guillermo decides to go behind Nandor's back, and hires another vampire to turn him, he spends the rest of the season treading on eggshells around Nandor hoping he doesn't find out. Other characters learn Guillermo's secret as time goes on, and they are all equally wary. This is very justified: When Nandor does eventually discover the truth, he flies into an Unstoppable Rage, and Guillermo has to go into hiding.
• Blood Knight: What he was in the past, and we still see it flare up from time to time. When Laszlo reports that there's a ghost in the front yard, Nandor immediately charges out to face the perceived enemy. No one seems to question that he should be the one to duel with a werewolf, and while escaping from the Council, he's the one who tries to fetch a sword to fight.
• Book Dumb: Laszlo sneers condescendingly that Nandor is "unafflicted with the burden of a university education". To be fair, he was a cultured aristocrat by the standards of his time... but that time was almost 1,000 years ago and the culture in question has long since been destroyed.
• Bungled Hypnotism: Repeatedly. Despite being the oldest of the trio, Nandor never mastered the basic mind control ability, with the results in his victims ranging from awkward silence to a psychotic break.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: His justification for ransacking Nadja's home village, as he publicly claims that it was just one part of his long career as a military commander. Privately, he confesses that that specific attack was the result of everyone being drunk and doing it for a laugh. However, since he did hide the painting of Nadja's village being desecrated for several years, it indicates that he was aware of how she'd react when she found the painting.
• Catchphrase: In Season 2 Nandor acquires the habit of punctuating his moments of frustration with "...Fucking guy" (and, on one occasion, "Fucking girl").
• Cloud Cuckoolander: All vampires are like this in this setting, but Nandor takes it up a notch compared to the others — everyone in the house plays Only Sane Man to him at one point, and if you know what Laszlo and Nadja are like, that's really saying a lot.
• Composite Character: Combines Viago from the movie's stuffy but dorky Leader Wannabe traits with Vladislav's ineffectual Retired Monster ones.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Nandor was a legendary warrior and general in his mortal life, and spent much of his vampiric immortality pursuing this even further. Now, after over a thousand years of this, he can barely interact with human beings in even the simplest relatable capacity, and entirely relies on a proxy (Guillermo) to do so.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Even though it's clear that he's no longer a force to be reckoned with as of his time in Staten Island, he can still effortlessly stop a murderous zombie dead in his tracks.
  • Most notably, he's the only vampire who isn't immediately torn to shreds by Guillermo, who's become a Vampire Hunter. In season 4, he shows off his sword skills, which are still sharp enough to deliver a Curbstomp Battle.
• Didn't Think This Through: After bragging that he could fly into space if he wanted to, Nandor put his money where his mouth is and successfully flew into orbit...forgetting that the Sun is in space.
• Domestic Abuse: Nandor's thoughtless treatment of Guillermo and his wife Marwa both have very toxic elements to them:
  • Guillermo: Like the vampire norm, he strings Guillermo along and prolongs his tenure as a familiar. When Guillermo gets a boyfriend, Nandor turns his wife into a duplicate of said boyfriend, which disturbs Guillermo when he has to see them getting romantic with each other. Then after Nandor relents to Guillermo's pain and disgust and sends the clone on his way, Guillermo's boyfriend starts cheating on him with his own duplicate, all due to Nandor's oblivious selfishness.
  • Marwa: He claims to love her, but he uses his djinn to alter her appearance and personality to fit his numerous whims, at one point turning her into a female version of himself. Eventually an envious Nandor just wishes for Marwa to be a complete physical and mental clone of Guillermo's new boyfriend, erasing what was left of her identity.
• Expy: As noted in Composite Character, he seems to be based on two characters from the films: Viago, by being a more uptight vampire and Leader Wannabe, and Vladislav, being a former tyrant and Retired Monster. Leads to Expy Coexistence when he encounters them after being summoned by the Vampiric Council.
• The Fog of Ages: In the 600-odd years since he ruled Al Quolanudar, he's completely forgotten how to speak its native tongue — which, for practical reasons, is just Farsi. His own (fluent) ghost scoffs at the indignity.
• Gentile Jew-Chaser: Nandor has high respect for the Jewish people, so when he meets one he tries to make the unwitting guy his best friend. Things take a turn for the disturbing when Nandor makes Guillermo circumcize him.
• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: After being promoted to co-heads of the Vampiric Council, he's the Gentle Touch to Nadja's Firm Hand, advocating for a more merciful way of leadership while Nadja ... doesn't.
• Heel Realization: When Guillermo leaves him for a new master briefly in season 2, Nandor realizes how poorly he's treated Guillermo and makes concessions to have him return. This only lasts until the finale of the fourth season, where Nandor—due to his immortal nature dictating the Status Quo Is God and leaving him desperate for stimulation—transforms his wife into a clone of Guillermo's boyfriend. This is the move that finally convinces Guillermo to give up on Nandor.
• Hidden Depths: In The '90s, he tried filing for citizenship because he was a massive fan of the 1992 United States men's national basketball team. The only reason why he didn't finish was because he became too swept up in the Macarena craze instead.
• Hopeless with Tech: Zig-zagged. Though he thinks he literally needs to wake the computer up from sleep mode, hasn't checked his emails in over a decade, and hasn't really grasped what makes a password secure, he is aware of what things like an Ethernet cable are for and doesn't really have any other problems with the laptop or email after getting into his inbox.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Once the powerful and bloodthirsty emperor of his own country, now a Staten Island layabout who's so ineffectual that not even his roommates respect him enough to listen to him. Humorously, he seemingly couldn't care less about all the power and influence he's lost, and mostly just treats his days as an emperor as one of many phases in his life.
• Innocently Insensitive: Nandor treats the very few humans who love him both with utterly thoughtless callousness. For one, he really seems to think that making a glitter portrait of them together as Twilight-style vampires is a gesture of the height of benevolence that honors the spirit of his promise to turn Guillermo into a vampire that night.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Frequently. Colin Robinson and Guillermo repeatedly tell him not to knock on the window of his descendant. He instantly does it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Nandor sacrifices himself, Nadja, and Laszlo in order to protect Guillermo from death at the trial. They don't end up being killed thanks to Colin Robinson, but it's the thought that counts.
  • A line in the Season 1 finale implies that Nandor really does intend on turning Guillermo at some point, since he adds a year to it for throwing holy water on him.
  • Him gifting Guillermo with a portrait of him as a vampire instead of turning him into one may come across as callous, but he seems to genuinely think of it as a way of keeping his promise to make Guillermo a vampire. Also, he clearly put effort into learning how to make glitter portraits, and it is a very nice glitter portrait.
  • In the finale for Season 5 it's revealed that the actual reason Nandor has put off turning Guillermo into a vampire for so long is because he believes Guillermo is too soft-hearted to really enjoy being a ruthless, blood-drinking monster. He's right.
• Large Ham: It is not that his fellow vampires aren't hammy (it seems to come with the territory), but Nandor stands out as the least subtle member of the main trio.
• Last of His Kind: He's the only surviving member of the long-dead civilization of Al-Quolanudar (which was apparently absorbed into the Ottoman Empire). He was unaware of this until recently, having been deposed from the throne and driven into exile by his subjects for being a bloodthirsty tyrant and undead abomination.
  • However, in the season 4 premiere he mentions that he visited his ancestral village and it was exactly the same as when he left it because everyone there was a vampire, so there are apparently a few more Al-Quolanudar residents still "alive".
• Leader Wannabe: Nandor really likes to make himself out to be the guy in charge of the main trio. But it is made clear that his actual sway over Nadja and Laszlo is rather limited, and that they both just sort of humor his attempts to assert his authority, while the Baron doesn't take them seriously, at all. Colin Robinson, meanwhile, doesn't really answer to anybody, and Nandor is no exception. The only one who actually ever regularly defers to him is Guillermo, and Guillermo clearly isn't happy with the state of things.
• Living Distant Ancestor: Had 37 wives in life (all at once), and apparently has over 200,000 living descendants. In the first season finale, he tracks down one of his descendants and accidentally gives her a heart attack.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Season 3 has Nandor, feeling increasingly lonely and listless centuries after the deaths of his wives, try to woo multiple women, the first two soundly rejecting him in romance, and part of the reason he's so easily taken into a cult is the misguided belief that his sex with Jan means the latter is interested in him as a romantic partner.
• The Magnificent: "The Relentless". While it may have once applied to him back during his days as a conqueror, now it's more a Non-Indicative or even Ironic Nickname.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Nandor shows sporadic kindness towards Guillermo, often in the form of jumping in to save him from danger without a thought. Whether or not he appreciates Guillermo as much as he should, he feels some amount of protective instinct over him.
  • His strangely genuine grief for his distant descendant.
  • He's always very kind to animals, refusing to even hurt spiders.
  • After decades apart from him, he decides to turn his now-elderly previous familiar Benjy into a vampire, as he promised.
• Polyamory: While he's fairly restrained in modern times (particularly in comparison to the kinky Laszlo and Nadja), he had 37 wives and even more concubines during his days as an emperor, which left him with over 200,000 living descendants. He notes that he didn't really talk to them much and they generally hated him, which is likely why he feels compelled to woo people over romantically in the modern day. Season 4 later clarifies that his 37 wives were not exclusively women and several of them were also men.
• Retired Monster: Nandor was once a brutal emperor obsessed with bloodshed and conquest. A couple hundred years later and, while still a bit of a jerk, he mostly just comes off as a doddering middle-aged guy without much of anything in the way of ambition or savagery.
• Ship Tease: "The Wedding" heavily implies Nandor subconsciously realizes Guillermo's crush on him, and feels the same for him. His last wish to the Djinn is that Marwa likes whatever he likes—a few scenes later, Marwa cuddles up to Guillermo, gushes over what a good job he's done and kisses him.
• Skewed Priorities: Nandor is right that stealing Guillermo's new boyfriend from him would be extremely hurtful to Guillermo, but never stopped to consider whether Guillermo would also be disgusted by his attempt to Take a Third Option by turning his own wife into a clone of the man instead.
• Sole Survivor: Ends up as this after the whole Wellness Centre fiasco.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When he realizes Nadja is about to discover he burned her village, his expression is one big "hoooo boy."
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • Implicitly underwent this at some point between the end of his days as a savage conqueror and his more mild-mannered contemporary self, though this may have more to do with growing older and less interested in ruling over people than actually turning over a new leaf.
  • When Guillermo is finally fed up with Nandor's treatment, Nandor genuinely seems to register how he's behaved and accepts Guillermo's conditions for return, coupled with a promise to turn him into a vampire for real. And he turns his old familiar Benjy just as he promised decades ago.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Guillermo has been his familiar for a decade yet he still hasn't turned him into a vampire. This is the standard thing with vampires and familiars in general, and is suggested to be at least partially related to how vampires (being immortal) experience the flow of time in an entirely different way—when Guillermo reminds him he's been his familiar for ten years, he's surprised by how much time has passed.
• Warrior Prince: His past occupation as a human, before he was chased out of his country.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: His accent isn't an unrealistic Persian accent, per se, but it certainly has the aspects of it that would be amusing to a native English speaker played up. (Kayvan Novak was born to Iranian immigrants in Real Life and speaks fluent Farsi.) Possibly Justified if his accent is meant to be Al-Quolanudarese rather than Persian.
• The Worf Effect: Oh yes. He's the greatest warrior among the main cast, which is why his ability to fight conventionally is always neutralized for comedy purposes early on, to the point of making him a Butt-Monkey and his combat prowess an Informed Ability. Highlights include trying and failing to pull an axe off the wall during a dramatic escape attempt from the Vampiric Council ("It's welded on there!"), being paralyzed and yanked magically through the air as cargo by a coven of witches, charging heroically at a ghost with sword in hand only to pass harmlessly through it and end up dripping with ectoplasm, etc. The one time we've seen him win a fight it was as a Guile Hero against a monstrous werewolf twice his size, by getting it to jump off the roof after a chew toy.
  • Subverted as of Season 4. During an argument that escalates into a full fight, he becomes the only vampire seen on the show to actually land a hit on the formerly untouchable Vampire Hunter, Guillermo. It's later shown that his sword skills are still incredibly sharp, which suggests that he's much more capable with a specific weapon.

Nadja

Nadja of Antipaxos

Portrayed By: Natasia Demetriou

"You are supposed to support me when I want to kill someone!"

A Greek vampire and Laszlo's sire and wife. Nadja is often slightly more down-to-earth than Nandor or Laszlo, but she's still not without her own quirks. She's nostalgic for her human life and had a Reincarnation Romance with a mortal named Gregor.

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• Accidental Misnaming:
  • She finds Jeff so underwhelming as a name for Gregor's current incarnation, she refuses to use his name in favor of either Gregor or any combination of letters beginning with "Je-".
  • She also defaults to calling Guillermo "Gizmo". By season 3, she settles on alternating between Guillermo and "Gizmo", depending on whether she's in the mood to respect him or feeling contempt towards him.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her husband Laszlo consistently refers to her as "my darling", showing that for all his faults, he really does love her.
• Agent Mulder: She is the most likely in her group to ascribe supernatural means (necromancy, ghosts, witches, etc.) as either the problem or solution to the current problem of the episode. It's implied through bits of her backstory that she has a lot more faith in the supernatural than the other vampires because they were common occurrences in her life as a human, so she has no reason to stop believing as a vampire.
• Ambiguously Bi: It's more downplayed than with Nandor, but "Animal Control" confirms at least one of Gregor's past incarnations was a woman- specifically, a washer woman who would bathe Nadja (with dirty mop water) as they had sex.
• And Show It to You: She deals with the rogue vampire cell in Staten Island by tearing out the heart of one of their members, intimidating the others in the process.
• Aside Glance: Whenever something confusing or stupid happens, expect her to furrow her brow and mouth "What?" at the camera.
• Ax-Crazy: She's got a nasty temper, so it makes it pretty easy to set her off on murderous rampages.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She adores her husband, in spite of how much they can bicker at points, and has some heartwarming moments with him in an evil vampire sort of way. Notably, even after she realizes that Laszlo has abandoned her to flee from a fight, she's overjoyed when he returns and excitedly announces it to the rest of the house.
  • Additionally, her actions in Season 5 show that she has grown quite fond of Guillermo despite her repeated mockery of him, even going so far as to help him keep the secret of his new vampirism from Nandor, and launching into a Roaring Rampage of Rescue to rescue him from The Familiar Urgent Care doctors when they decide he needs to be put down.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: While it's unclear how much or even if she did torture them, she has a collection of stuffed animals, each of which she apparently hates, and she's very evil.
  Nadja: (in front of a stuffed owl) This one is a very special creature to me. When I first met Laszlo, I was walking on the moors with him, and this owl flew over and scratched my head, and I said "kill that fucking bitch please, Laszlo".
• Bait-and-Switch: "There's nothing more devastating than finding out your husband has done porn... and it's so BLOODY boring!"
• Berserk Button: Nadja has issues when writing music doesn't go her way, to say the least.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite her quirks, she's still a vampire, and won't hesitate to remind you if necessary. Best demonstrated in Season 5 when she embarks on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue to save Guillermo from the Familiar Urgent Care doctors who have decided he needs to be put down.
• Body Horror: A body-swapping spell gone wrong briefly left her with Colin Robinson's face grafted onto the back of her head.
• Boisterous Bruiser: She knows how to throw down, and when she does or is about to, she's a vicious trash-talker.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Despite generally being more down-to-earth and practical than Lazlo and Nandor, she does have her own quirks, namely her habit of attributing any misfortune to the supernatural. However...
• The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: Nadja *is* living in a world where the supernatural exists, and she's right more often than one might expect. Most notably, she repeatedly insists that Laszlo's beloved hat is curse, despite his protests - she's 100% right, as the hat has continuously brought misfortune to anyone who wears it. At one point she claims that witches steal semen to make magnets and, when Lillith's coven captures Nandor, Laszlo, and Colin, she sheepishly admits that this is true.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: She gets really creative with her threats when she's feeling murderous.
  Nadja: I swear, I am going to rip that man to shreds and make a dress out of it! I'll go to his family's house and say "Do you like this? This is your son, and I'm wearing him as a dress!"
• Dark Action Girl: Although a comic version, Nadja is shown to be a vicious killer when she needs to be.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Though it's Played for Laughs, Nadja frequently mentions that awful things happened to her family, like her mother being eaten by a bear and how she is the only one out of the 17 siblings in her family to actually survive.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Nadja dresses in very long Victorian dresses, generally in black lace.
• Even Evil Has Standards: What gets Nadja to give in on not killing Guillermo's family is the realization that she'd see the same tragedy of watching the family all die around her play out for Guillermo, something she wouldn't inflict even on someone she sees as pathetic like Guillermo.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Jenna does, and she's also extremely popular with all her male lovers.
• Femme Fatale: Literally, as Jeff discovers.
• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: After being promoted to co-heads of the Vampiric Council, she's the Firm Hand to Nandor's Gentle Touch, doling out extreme punishments and squashing any resistance they might encounter in their reign.
• Gold Digger: At one point, she tries to seduce a Rat Pack tribute act to get them to give her all their money. Naturally, it's Subverted almost immediately, as she bluntly asks them all their money only after a few flirtatious lines, and goes right back to her old tactics by threatening them.
• Goth: Her fancy Victorian dresses give off this look.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She gets angry rather easily. And it’s hard to cool her down.
• Happily Married: To Laszlo. They may fight from time to time, but they have a wild and happy sex life. They're also fully devoted to one another emotionally, and being separated from him makes Nadja miserable.
• Hidden Depths: It's revealed in "Pine Barrens" that Nadja loves Mamma Mia!, and watches it whenever she misses her homeland.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Her human life would be nearly impossible to play for laughs... if she didn't refer to it with a nostalgic fondness that couldn't be more dissonant with the already comically tragic events she lived through.
• Hot Gypsy Woman: She mentions coming from a family of gypsies, and is suitably vampish.
• Hypocritical Humor: She's often somewhat composed and amenable during the confessionals, even in moments where she's being insanely violent or cruel.
• Instant Seduction: She's able to seduce others and put them under her thrall.
• Kicked Upstairs: At the end of Season 3, she's promoted from the Vampiric Council of the New World to the Vampiric Council of London. Season 4 opens with her returning to America because she eventually realized this new position was a way to corral unpopular vampires with perpetual busywork.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: According to Nandor, she and Laszlo are "perverts". It's implied that she has a lot of sex, both with her husband and with others. She even admits to her own ghost that she is "very very horny".
• Only One Name: She is only ever referred to as Nadja, though starting in Season 3 she is occasionally referred to as Nadja of Antipaxos. Given that she was a peasant in her human life, it's possible that she simply does not have a surname (and didn't adopt the name Cravensworth when she and Laszlo married). The season 3 finale confirms this and also reveals that it was Laszlo's entire reason for abandoning England when his club acquaintances were very classist about marrying someone with no surname or social standing.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Has an extremely vague accent. When she gets mad, Natasia Demetriou very often slips into her British accent.
  • This still works for Nadja, as she has spent a lot time around Lazlo. It can be assumed she picked up some of his accent.
• Parental Substitute: She turns Jenna into a vampire and quickly adopts her like a mother, calling Jenna her 'stupid little baby.'
• Pet the Dog: Nadja is probably the most prone to genuine kindness among the group and probably the nicest to mortals in general.
• Perky Goth: Although the perkiness is somewhat downplayed, she always wears dark clothes and she is quite perky in social situations.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Fond of elegant black ball gowns.
• Polyamory: She and Laszlo are in an "open marriage", according to Demetriou. According to Jemaine Clement, by way of Paul Simms, Laszlo doesn't mind as long as the lovers are not human.
• Properly Paranoid: Nadja is repeatedly demonstrated to be deeply superstitious to the point of paranoia regarding witches, their activities, and their presence. Her superstition is pervasive to the degree that she blames them for deeds ranging from carpet-snagging to semen-stealing. In season 2, a coven of witches abduct Laszlo and Nandor for the specific purpose of stealing their semen. While much of her folk superstition may be just that, she was quite right about at least one thing.
• Rags to Riches: Unlike Nandor and Laszlo, who were both born into privilege, Nadja was a humble peasant girl before she became a vampire aristocrat and her childhood is frequently a source of Poverty for Comedy jokes. This is part of the reason she has a Pet the Dog reaction to underdog women like Jenna and decides to turn her.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: She and Laszlo have this kind of relationship, with her doing most of the slapping — her introduction shows her floating through the hallway chasing Laszlo while screaming "I'm going to fucking kill you!"
• The Smurfette Principle: The only regular female member of the group.
• Stalker with a Crush: Whenever she encounters Gregor's reincarnation. She says it best: "I am seeing another man. But he does not see me because I sneak up behind him."
• Straw Feminist: Nadja is just as obliviously selfish and entitled as the men of the house, with the twist that she'll interpret pushback as being because she's a woman. When denied entry to a party because of her demanding attitude and bizarre appearance, she spends the rest of the night spitefully tormenting the male guards because she assumes she was turned away because of sexism.
• Super-Scream: In Season 4 she debuts an ability to shout with such force that she shatters objects and deafens everyone around her, topped off with a demonic reverb effect. She calls it her "assertive voice", but she mostly uses it when angered.
• Wall Crawl: She mentions being an excellent climber, and is shown vertically scaling walls.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Nadja's accent is a stereotypically thick "vampire accent" while also being a British accent. It makes sense, since she originally hails from Greece but was living in England around the time she killed and turned Laszlo. In Real Life, this is British actor Natasia Demetriou doing an exaggerated impression of her immigrant parents' Cypriot accent.
• Women Are Wiser: Downplayed: She's generally a little more sensible than her male counterparts, but she'll also do things like caving to the Baron's thirst for alcohol-laced blood. She's also the most emotionally impulsive of the three and has by far the shortest and most violent temper.

Laszlo

Leslie "Laszlo" Cravensworth

Portrayed By: Matt Berry

"I became a vampire to suck blood and to fuck forever."

An English nobleman, and Nadja's husband. Laszlo is hedonistic and more of a comedic sociopath than Nandor or Nadja.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Always refers to Guillermo as "Gizmo."
• Achievements in Ignorance: It made clear several times, that despite Lazlo’s belief in himself being a man of science, his actual scientific knowledge ranges from being centuries outdated to flat-out nonexistent. And yet despite this, he’s made a surprising number of breakthroughs throughout the series, from his therapy sessions with Guide actually uncovering her repressed memories (especially impressive considering him continually dismissing her concerns as “hysteria”), to him actually managing to create a series of living sapient Guillermo animal clone hybrids as part his many failed attempts to figure out why Guillermo’s transformation wasn’t working. Likewise several of his inventions, such as his energy transfer machine, actually end up working.
• Affably Evil: Despite being perhaps the most sociopathic and evil of the vampires, Lazlo's also frequently the cast member who builds the most human attachments, such as Sean or the Clairton, PA girls' volleyball team. See Jerk with a Heart of Gold below.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: He was an English nobleman in his human life, and he's definitely the most casually evil of the main cast.
• The Baby of the Bunch: It doesn't come up much, but Laszlo is the youngest of the three main blood-drinking vampires, with Nadja having turned him in 1711 and Nandor having been a vampire long before either of them were born.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy:
  • He was Jack the Ripper. He mentions it pretty casually.
  • He captained the Titanic “for two seconds”.
• Beard of Evil: He does hurt children and a lot of other people, but he is also a hilarious Sociopathic Hero— with a beard. It starts off as a goatee in the pilot, but becomes a full beard by episode 2.
• Big Beautiful Man: He's heavier than his fellow Vampires, but he's also a snazzy dresser, quite The Charmer (especially with Nadja), and clearly has never had a problem attracting multiple sexual liasons.
• Boomerang Bigot: Subverted. Despite being a complete pansexual hedonist himself, Laszlo gets very exasperated in "The Grand Opening" when Guillermo admits that little Colin loves musical theater... because Laszlo personally despises musical theater itself.
  • Played straight: he's an Englishman who hates England and considers the British "a pack of classist wankers", and he refuses to return under any circumstances because his high society fellows treated Nadja like scum and refused to accept their marriage.
• Break the Haughty: After showing a ton of stubbornness and refusal to heed his roommates’ advice, Season 4 ends with him utterly broken after child Colin grows back into an adult and forgets the time they spent together.
• Calling Your Attacks: Played for laughs. He'll yell "BAT!" when turning into a bat, and "Human form!" when turning back.
• Characterization Marches On: He doesn’t seem too thrilled to see Sean in the latter’s first two appearances as he is in later episodes.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Not usually, he's usually completely happy for Nadja to sleep with whomever she wants. The only exception is Jeff/Gregor, whom he killed in every past life. Except he said that it wasn't out of jealousy, he just knew that Gregor always ended up upsetting Nadja.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Not only has he known all along about Jeff/Gregor/etc. and Nadja, it turns out that he was responsible for each of Jeff's constant decapitations throughout his many lives. When she finds out, Nadja exclaims in awe that he is an 'evil genius'. That he was also Jack the Ripper may add to this as well.
• Depraved Bisexual: He's had innumerable sexual encounters with both men and women (including the Baron and Nandor). He was one of the very first porn actors in history, with a filmography that spans an entire century of adult films (some of them featuring only men such as Vampire Tricked in Steam Room); while preparing for the vampire orgy, he mimicks giving and receiving a blowjob at the same time; and he's also a casual murderer who violated one of the few moral principles that the vampire community has, which is turning a baby on a whim.
• Dirty Coward: All the main vampire characters have moments of not living up to the "nocturnal apex predator" hype, but this guy most of all. The most notable moment of this is him accepting Jim the Vampire's challenge to a duel, only to immediately turn into a bat and fly off the moment that his Circling Monologue has him no longer between Jim and the house, with Nadja sighing "He's not coming back". (And, sure enough, the premise of the episode is that he seems to be willing to completely abandon his old life — including his marriage to Nadja — to live out the rest of his days in hiding in Clairton, Pennsylvania as "Jackie Daytona" the "ordinary human bartender".) He also spends the episode "The Return" conspicuously hiding behind Nadja while exploring the sewer so any monsters can get her first, while bluntly denying doing so when Nadja calls him out on it.
  • Juxtapose this with season 5, where he reveals he's a world class fencer capable of holding off multiple opponents at once with a sword. He can fight... but he doesn't like to.
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: He occasionally smokes a pipe, to underline his supposedly sophisticated background.
• Embarrassing First Name: Season 3 reveals that "Laszlo" is actually a nickname for his real first name, Leslie.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all of Laszlo's sexual depravity and willingness to sleep around, the siren's chicken half seems to be where he draws the line.
• Expy: Is based on Deacon from the film, due to being the youngest vampire obsessed with sex, though in the pilot hair his facial hair resembled Vladislav's. Leads to Expy Coexistence when he encounters Deacon after being summoned by the Vampiric Council.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Even by vampire standards Laszlo is a horny bugger. He doesn't discriminate either, having had one-night stands with both men and women, and has a collection of pornography that he starred in that has existed since pornography was invented. In "The Trial", he claims that he wished he had more sex in his undead life, only for the others to point out that he had lots of sex already. He's even wanked off his own ghost, although hilariously that seems to be one of the few encounters he seems to regret.
  • In season 5, when he's in a funk for an episode and is barely responding to anyone or anything, Nadja says they're down to having sex a 'mere' sixteen times a week. Nandor then complains that he and Laszlo are only doing it three times a week.
• Evil Brit: Laszlo's brand of British accent immediately lets you know what archetype of vampire he is — pompous, narcissistic Byronic bastard.
• A Fool for a Client: He reveals in Season 3 that he used to be a barrister on the Queen's bench in England, centuries ago, but he mainly just defended himself for various crimes like soliciting and pornography. The only other clients he defended were pigs and horses.
• Garden of Evil: Laszlo maintains a topiary garden made in the shape of demons, a rabbit he is particularly proud of, and his favorite vaginas. His mother's is his favorite.
• Happily Married: To Nadja. He counts her vulva as one of his favourites, and he composed Nadja's Leitmotif. It's also revealed at the end of the third season that the reason he furiously swore never to set foot in England again was that his wealthy peers treated Nadja badly and looked down on him for marrying someone with no surname or social standing.
• Has a Type: In "Witches", it is elaborated that he has a thing for tall, dark-haired people with European accents, having slept with Lilith (who disguised herself as Nadja, rather poorly), a random other witch, and Nandor for this reason.
• Henpecked Husband: Being the Jerkass and Dirty Coward that he is, he has an odd way of showing it most of the time, but it's pretty clear that Nadja is the only being in the world whom he truly loves and truly fears. (It makes sense, since she's the one who sired him as a vampire in the first place.)
• Hey, You!: Always refers to Guillermo as Gizmo. He would also do this with baby Colin, calling him Boy.
• Historical Domain Superperson: He's a vampire whose gifts consist of flying, glamoring, and turning into a bat. Laszlo later reveals to Nadja and Nandor as they think they're dying that he was Jack the Ripper.
• Hidden Depths: He's a few cards short of a full deck, but he's actually quite a skilled psychotherapist.
• Historical Rap Sheet: He was Jack the Ripper, and his obstinate refusal to get rid of his cursed witch skin hat caused the Irish Potato Famine. He also turned Elvis Presley into a vampire some time in the 1970's.
• I Choose to Stay: He stays at their house in Staten Island at the end of the season 3 finale to take care of Colin Robinson's baby duplicate when the other vampires and Guillermo have all left New York one way or another.
• I Love You, Vampire Son: Nadja turned him, they're married, and they still love each other very deeply.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: All vampires are fundamentally jerks in this universe, but Laszlo has a tendency to take it up a notch, in matters both great and petty:
  • It's made clear on more than one occasion that he loves Nadja a great deal and refuses to go back to England because his former gentlemen's club looked down on his marriage to her since she was a "peasant" with no family name or social standing.
  • Throughout Season 3 he goes out of his way to spend more time with Colin Robinson after learning that energy vampires always die on their 100th birthday, and he wants to make sure Colin Robinson has a good time before his inevitable death.
  • Season 4 continues this trend with his abrasive but genuinely sincere methods of trying to raise the young Colin as, effectively, his own son. It's weird, it's creepy, it's exploitative, and Lazlo really does love the boy.
  • Though he's assuredly evil even by vampire standards, he does have a moral code... of a strange sort. When he's trapped in the animal shelter, he attempts to rally the animals stuck there with him by promising to free them. When Nadja rescues him instead, he insists on going back to release his "fellow inmates", as he made a "gentleman's promise".
  • In Season 5 Laszlo devotes a considerable amount of time and energy to trying to figure out what the issue with Guillermo's delayed vampiric transformation is, trying to fix it, and keeping it all secret from Nandor. One gets the impression through all of this that he really does just want to help Guillermo out.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He rather smugly considers himself a "man of science" but references disproven or irrelevant theories like alchemy and swamp gas as an explanation for poltergeist phenomena.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Laszlo's dying wish is to have had more sex. Nadja points out that he'd already had "a lot of sex. Like a-a lot of it." His ghost reveals in S02E03 that Laszlo died just as he was on the brink of orgasm and in order for his ghost to move on, he had to help him "finish what he started". He's also starred in thousands of pornographic films ever since cinema was first invented (which he's collected over the years), and his interest in the Vampiric Council's library is mainly just to get his hands on even more pornography.
• Mad Artist: Laszlo is a parody of the trope of an immortal vampire becoming obsessed with creating great works of art that are depraved by human standards, like his topiaries of female genitalia, his long career as a porn performer, or his extensive catalogue of music he's composed that ended up being stolen by Dexys Midnight Runners and The Spice Girls.
• Mad Scientist: By season five, Lazlo’s combination of his belief in himself as a “man of letters”, education and science, coupled with his incredibly outdated and poor knowledge of the subject, has caused him to evolve into this. He attempts multiple different questionable to flat-out dangerous experiments in his attempts to figure out why Guillermo’s transformation into a vampire is progressing in such a strange and unforeseen manner, in the process accidentally creating a whole host of animal-human hybrid abomination clones out Guillermo’s DNA. He also manages to create a machine that transfers energy directly from Nandor to Colin Robinson, which despite causing agonising pain to the subjects and nearly killing Nandor, turns out to work.
• Magical Flutist: In one episode, he charms raccoons with the power of music.
• Meaningful Name: It's highly appropriate for a shameless Dirty Coward to have the surname "Cravensworth".
• My Girl Is a Slut: His reaction to the various revelations of Nadja's sexual escapades is usually interest and excitement... not that he loses out to her in this regard anyway.
• Odd Friendship: Season 3 puts particular emphasis on Laszlo's friendship with Colin Robinson, whose personalities couldn't be more different; Laszlo is a sharp-witted, incredibly flamboyant Lovable Sex Maniac and Colin Robinson is a deadpan troll who's so boring he literally thrives on it. Laszlo claims it's out of pity, but it's actually because he's learned Colin Robinson is Secretly Dying. When Colin is reborn as a helpless infant, Laszlo decides to take care of him even at the cost of abandoning Nadja, shifting Laszlo's role from Colin's "friend" to practically his new father.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: At the end of season 4, after having raised the rapidly-growing young version of Colin Robinson for a full year, all of Laszlo's effort is rendered for nothing when Colin Robinson regains his old memories and loses his ones of Laszlo raising him. Laszlo doesn't have a sarcastic quip for the occasion. All he can do is wordlessly sink by the piano in complete devastation.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: He says that when he was human he was the most beautiful person in his town, although it was only because everyone had leprosy, and he was lucky that it did not affect his face.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: With only the addition of a single toothpick in his teeth, Laszlo can transform himself into Jackie Daytona, a Pennsylvanian bartender with a love of volleyball. It's enough to flawlessly fool Jim the Vampire.
• Parents as People: He’s essentially child Colin’s father and while he does love him, his ways of showing it aren’t exactly good ways.
• Pet the Dog: Laszlo might be the most evil of the trio, but he still shows a soft spot on occasion.
  • As Jackie Daytona he becomes a supportive friend to the girls' volleyball team and tries to raise enough money to get them to state competition.
  • Appears to have a genuine friendship with (or even romantic attraction to) his neighbor Sean.
  • Shows affection towards Colin Robinson and starts spending a great deal of time with him after finding out that the latter is dying.
  • Though he's often rude and insulting to Guillermo, he actually manages to be supportive of him in "The Casino" when Guillermo is talking about his repressed upbringing. Laszlo not only tells Guillermo that sex is nothing to be ashamed of — in his own way — but encourages him to talk about himself openly, and seems genuinely interested in what he has to say.
• Porn Stache: He has a goatee and he's been in almost every form of porn film since the invention of moving pictures.
• Really Gets Around: In contrast to Nandor (at first shown to be uninterested in romance and later failing to woo people successfully) and Nadja (committed to marriage with Laszlo and her star-crossed romance with Gregor), it's revealed in "Witches" that Laszlo will sleep with pretty much anyone with long dark hair, including Nandor. Nadja is infuriated at how this has all been going on behind her back.
• Sociopathic Hero: Laszlo is probably the most evil of the trio, having once turned a baby out of boredom, been a famous serial killer, and has zero angst about who he murders, but he's also arguably the most focused on of the three that the audience follows.
• Unusual Euphemism: Laszlo tends to make a death-rattle noise while making a slashing gesture across his throat as a euphemism for "kill", especially when talking about killing other vampires (which is their society's greatest taboo). When Nandor tries to imitate this, he ends up just saying "quack".
• Upper-Class Wit: His primary mode of communication, especially given his stereotypical posh English accent.
• Would Hurt a Child: In "The Trial", he confesses to having turned a baby, something that is considered a massive crime in the vampire community, which he only got away with it because another vampire wound up taking the fall for it. He did it because he was bored.

Colin Robinson

Colin Robinson

Portrayed By: Mark Proksch

"One of the best ways to drain people's energy is via the internet."

A daywalking "energy vampire" who feeds by draining people's energy instead of blood, usually by boring or irritating them. Due to his habit of being deliberately annoying, the other vampires aren't too fond of his company, but they put up with him since he "came with the house" and he's the only one with a paying job between them.

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• Ambiguously Human: While standard vampires are clearly undead, the exact mechanics of psychic vampires are... unclear. For example, his ancestry report just has the impossible response of simply saying he's "100% White." This ambiguity is lampshaded in "Ghosts" where he outright says he doesn't know what his deal is. In Season 3 he starts to question his own nature, as he has no idea how he became an energy vampire in the first place and wants to learn more about his lineage.
• Bad Boss: After he gets promoted, Colin Robinson deliberately makes his employee's jobs harder just to feed on them. It proves to be so potent for him that he gets Drunk with Power.
• Bald of Evil: He's probably not an outright murderer like the other vampires, but he still comes off as much more malicious than them.
• Basement-Dweller: He has a job, but he does literally live in the basement of the house and rarely leaves it (and even has one of his hobbies down there be Internet trolling).
• Being Evil Sucks: As he notes to the camera crew, the problem with being an energy vampire is that on the occasions when he needs some emotional support or wants to express genuine friendship, everyone just assumes he's trying to feed and tunes him out.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While seemingly the most milquetoast member of the household, Colin Robinson is far more gluttonous in his vampirism than the others and takes sadistic pleasure in using his powers. When breaking up with another psychic vampire, he casually states he believes himself superior to humanity.
• The Bore: He deliberately cultivates himself as this, since as an energy vampire, he feeds off of other people's boredom. His main method of feeding is hooking people around him into interminable lectures about trivialities.
• Born-Again Immortality: After he dies on his 100th birthday (as all energy vampires are fated to do), the season 3 finale shows Laszlo discovering a baby version of Colin Robinson that apparently crawled out of the dead Colin Robinson's corpse. Over the course of season 4, the new Colin grows up within less than a year. At the completion of his puberty, he instinctively tracks down a hidden archive room in his house filled with journals full of his previous incarnations' memories and devours them in one sitting. The new old Colin Robinson finally emerges fully restored to his old self, with no memories of the previous months.
• Butt-Monkey: Not as much as Guillermo, but he’s seen as a nuisance, especially early on.
• Cold Ham: Colin Robinson is the least overtly hammy roommate, but visibly gnaws at the air at some feedings.
• Color Motif: To underline how hard he tries to be boring, the clothes Colin Robinson wears tends to be grey, muted brown, or beige. When Colin Robinson briefly goes into politics, his campaign ads use the exact same boring colors, which was likely an intentional choice as he was trying to lose. In the same episode it's revealed that all energy vampires wear these colors.
• Daywalking Vampire: Sunlight doesn't harm psychic vampires, allowing him to hold a normal job and everyday life. In addition to the sun, Colin is able to speak the name of God without bursting into flame and will appear in mirrors, although with a disturbing blue skin tone.
• Emotion Eater: He is a psychic vampire of the more common energy vampire subtype, which drain the life from their victims by boring or irritating them instead of drinking their blood. They can feed on other vampires as well as normal people, but are most likely mortal. Episode 3 sees him encountering one of the rarer emotional vampires, who drain their victims through the sympathy and pity generated by telling people sob stories.
• Expy: Colin Robinson is Typecasting in general for Mark Proksch, who's played awkward nerds in a number of roles, but is very eerily similar to his initial breakout role as "K-Strass the Yo-Yo Master" in 2010, where a recently unemployed Proksch successfully trolled local TV news stations throughout the Midwest. Proksch's shtick as "K-Strass" — to trick news stations into inviting him on the air for something that was already Incredibly Lame Fun, performing yo-yo tricks as a grown man, only to totally fail to do so and then deliberately waste huge amounts of their time with boring, meandering anecdotes and painfully awkward attempts at patter — is completely on the nose for something that Colin Robinson would come up with as a clever way to drain energy from thousands of people at once.
• Foreshadowing: As Laszlo notes in the very first episode, Colin Robinson grows stronger by the day. Colin Robinson starts off with mostly trivia facts to drain his victims, later proceeding to more elaborate tangents, and eventually upgrading to awful humour. This eventually culminates in being able to spout simple one-liners that make his targets just collapse on the spot.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It is pretty clear that the rest of the roommates actively avoid him (or at least try to keep him out of vampire affairs). They have a pretty good reason to; he deliberately makes himself a pest just so he could feed on them, and him feeding on their would-be victims drains them of their vitality and thus makes them virtually useless to them. The only reason they keep him around is that he is the only one there with a paying job and thus keeps their home running, and is repeatedly described as having come with the house.
  • However, by Season 2, Colin Robinson begins to realize this. After some Character Development, by Season 3, he and the gang are much friendlier with each other. They seem to hang out with each other for fun more, and he seems to have stopped draining his roommates. By the end of season 3, he and Laszlo are True Companions.
• Full-Name Basis: It's never just "Colin" with him. It's always "Colin Robinson." Even when he's greeting his friends. It's implied to later be an Energy Vampire thing overall, as various Energy Vampires are only referred to by full name (except Pamela in the season 2 finale).
• The Gadfly: Loves making fun of people, not just his roommates.
• The Generic Guy: Invoked. He wears simple, ordinary clothes in boring colors (most commonly beige and gray), has no fangs, and is bald. You couldn't pick the guy out of a lineup. His ancestry test results even say that he is "100% White", which, as Guillermo points out, should be impossible because they're supposed to say things like a certain percent Dutch, a certain percent Irish, etc., not just "White".
  Guillermo: People are from all different places. It just can't say "White" on your paper. Oh, wow. "100% White." No other nuance.
• Good Hurts Evil: Being a good, supportive friend, without any ulterior motive, is apparently analogous to autocannibalism for energy vampires. This fails to stop him from being one to Nandor on the night of his descendant's funeral.
• Hidden Depths: For all his casual sociopathy—even toward his roommates, whom he's not above draining—Colin does repeatedly prove that he values their friendship in ways that aren't immediately apparent. One of his A Day in the Limelight episodes, "Colin's Promotion," opens with Colin genuinely hurt when the other roommates snap at him and assume he's draining them even when he's honestly trying to hang with them. Earlier he admits to the cameraman, with complete candor, that he's worried about taking his promotion due to the idea it would cut into "roomie time."
  "It's like the old adage, you know? Coworkers die. Vampire roommates, they're forever."
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: An interesting inversion. In stark contrast to his roommates' rather flamboyant and extravagant wardrobes, Colin Robinson pretty much always dresses like an especially conservative grandfather, with most of his clothes leaning hard into Fashion Dissonance of the most uncool kind, and usually coming in colors like grey, brown, or beige.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: All of Colin Robinson's interests and hobbies fall into this category, and it's not clear to what degree he actually enjoys these things for their own sake and to what degree it's just a means to Troll and piss off the people around him so he can feed. He seems to become genuinely invested in the Monaco Grand Hotel and Casino's information channel, singing along with the theme song even though he doesn't know the maid's there.
• Insufferable Genius: "Genius" is putting it strongly, but Colin Robinson is an endless wellspring of "fun" facts, irrelevant trivia, unwanted advice, meandering anecdotes, dated pop culture references, etc. on almost any topic under the sun. He seems to have cultivated the persona of a pedantic nerd because it's such an effective way of irritating people and draining their energy, and at one point mentions that these pursuits have led him to be "invited to join Mensa".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When the main three are about to be executed painfully, Colin Robinson goes out of his way to save them, despite them insulting and disrespecting him even then. When Laszlo is trapped in animal rescue, Colin Robinson helps Nandor to rescue him. There are multiple instances of Colin Robinson helping the others and expressing genuine sentiments of friendship regarding them. While he is indeed a troll and an annoyance who usually takes the opportunity to feed at least a little, the help that he provides often seems sincere and to outweigh the benefit to himself.
• Life Drain: Eventually, Colin Robinson's Vampiric Draining becomes so potent that he can literally knock people unconscious (even kills a potted plant instantly) with a gesture. Prolonged exposure to it causes the other vampires to rapidly age.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Colin Robinson has been Secretly Dying on his 100th birthday, but Laszlo decided not to tell him anything so Colin Robinson would die peacefully.
• Magikarp Power: While initially presented as an underpowered lesser version of vampire compared to the other three, in the episode "Colin's Promotion" his potential finally reaches Laszlo's expectations. When he's been feeding heavily and is highly charged, Colin Robinson can instantly drain humans unconscious with a gesture, and can subdue the other vampires to the point of being nearly crippled, easily outmatching all three at once. The only person who proves to be capable of stopping his power-trip is himself.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Unlike the vampires, he is capable of having a visible reflection in mirrors. Said reflection looks like him, except for having light-blue, glowing skin.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Almost always relegated to this role when the roommates all go out to do things together (particularly at Simon's party). Nandor, Laszlo, and Nadja form a full comic trio between the three of them, while Colin Robinson is happy to hang by their side and vex everyone they try to interact with.
• Mysterious Past: Compared to the other housemates, Colin Robinson's backstory is hardly ever elaborated on - all we know so far is that he's far older than he appears to be (Laszlo says he "came with the house" and season 3 states that he's about a hundred years old) and doesn't seem to age, but does seem to have had a human grandmother (or at least she was mortal enough to die and become a ghost) and claims that both parents were human as well - although that latter point may be Subverted by Season 3, in which he states that he doesn't remember his mother very well because she was boring, "and still is." Given that he has stated his age to be almost 100, it's heavily implied here that his mother may also be an energy vampire if she is still alive. It's also noted that Colin Robinson himself has zero clue how he is an energy vampire, whether it was natural or a transformation.
  • Much of this is explained in the season 4 finale: Energy vampires live for exactly 100 years, at which point they expire. An identical child will emerge from their corpse and grow to adulthood over the span of several months, at which point they will instinctively seek out diaries of their former life and regain their memories, at the cost of the memories they developed over their childhood.
• Odd Friendship: Season 3 puts particular emphasis on Laszlo's friendship with Colin Robinson, whose personalities couldn't be more juxtaposed; Laszlo is a sharp-witted, incredibly flamboyant Lovable Sex Maniac, and Colin Robinson is a deadpan troll who's so boring he literally thrives on it.
• Occult Blue Eyes: Whenever he feeds, his eyes gain a sinister blue glow.
• Older Than They Look: About to turn 100 years old as of Season 3, but looks about half that. This is his natural appearance, and rapidly grows into it from childhood over the course of a few months.
• Only Sane Man: This is usually Guillermo's role, but Colin Robinson fills in for him when he's unavailable. Unlike more typical vampires, energy vampires fit in just fine with normal human society and are seemingly much more capable of logical thought, even if it's all filtered through their predatory lens.
• Other Me Annoys Me: When he feeds on a huge amount of energy, one of his newly developed powers is Self-Duplication. The three Colins Robinson each start to feed on one another so severely that two of them die.
• Resurrective Immortality: In the season four finale, it's revealed this is how energy vampires work- his new child form has his personality overwritten by the original after a year, effectively bringing him back to life
• Screw Yourself: "I'll be honest with you, my look-alike is kinda giving me a chub."
• Slasher Smile: He tends to put on a twisted grin when he feeds.
• Shout-Out: Colin Robinson is repeatedly described in passing as "that Dilbert-looking guy". (Although he much more closely resembles Dilbert's coworker Wally, both in appearance and in terms of his sociopathic and trollish personality.)
• The Sociopath: The creators of this show stole the term "energy vampire" from a Real Life description of what interacting with someone on the sociopath spectrum is like (someone who directly takes pleasure from causing other people harm, be it major or minor, and can't help but do so even in the course of an ordinary social interaction). Colin Robinson's personality is just taking a somewhat New Agey description of how Real Life Jerkasses affect the people around them and making it a Literal Metaphor.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Energy vampires are apparently parasites who have evolved to fit perfectly into the environment of a modern Standard Office Setting and then proceed to make it more soul-crushing than it already is. (Colin Robinson fits in so well that he ends up being Kicked Upstairs to management despite having no idea what the company actually does.)
• Super-Toughness: He can tank getting run over by a car and then hit by that same car and smashed between it and a wall without apparent injury, or at least heals quickly enough so it doesn't show. Nor does he mind being set on fire.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Colin Robinson does this to himself in a hilariously mundane way, as his duplicates employ the same techniques he uses to bore people on the original him, and self-cannibalize each other in the process. When he runs afoul of a Troll, he dominates the discussion by talking about bridges until the sun rises.
• Technical Pacifist: There's a fair amount of Black Comedy in how Colin Robinson is so much more unlikable and disturbing than the other vampires, even though they're all mass murderers while we've never seen his powers actually kill somebody (and it's not clear whether they can, as opposed to just rendering people unconscious, although "Colin's Promotion" suggests they might become lethal when at full power).
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Psychic vampires are apparently much more common than regular, undead vampires, and have far fewer tells. Any annoying coworker could be one.
  "In fact, you probably know an energy vampire. We're the most common kind of vampire."
• Token Evil Teammate: Despite being the only vampire on Staten Island that isn't Obviously Evil, he is given the fewest redeeming traits, literally sustaining himself by making his friends, coworkers, and everyone else miserable and frustrated, and making himself as much of a millstone and gadfly as possible. Even when he tries being genuinely nice for whatever reason, he is quickly disgusted by it and backtracks.
• Troll:
  • While he usually feeds by being boring and tedious, he also feeds on anger directed toward him, so he also makes a nuisance of himself whenever possible for both sustenance and pleasure, and clearly (to the audience) enjoys doing so. Both humans and fellow vampires are fair targets to him.
  • He even becomes an actual internet troll in Season 2, when he discovers that he can drain people from the comfort of his room by leaving obnoxious comments on their social media pages. He notes that the energy he gets from draining someone digitally isn't as pure as what would he get from draining them face to face, but it can still be filling enough, implying that this way of feeding is a kind of junk food for him. He becomes such a troll that he trolls a literal troll to a standstill.

The Boy/"Colin"

A new entity that emerged from the corpse of Colin Robinson after he expired on his 100th birthday. Whether he is Colin reborn or a new being altogether is still ambiguous.

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• Ambiguous Situation: There is debate both in-universe and out about how he relates to Colin Robinson, and whether he is a new lifeform or Colin reborn.
• Ambiguously Gay: As he ages into a pre-teen, he develops theater-kid tendencies that Laszlo firmly believes mark him as gay; it's especially notable in comparison to the old Colin Robinson, who seemed to be asexual.
  Colin: So check out this village from "Infinity Wars [sic]"! It's cool, right? But guess what, you can MOD it, so it looks JUST like the set from South Pacific, right?
  Laszlo: ...Oh, no.
• Cheerful Child: Despite how neglectful and temperamental the gang can be towards him, he's on the whole a very happy kid with a passion for musical theater and video games.
• Death of Personality: After reading the diaries of his previous self, his new identity completely subsumes to that of the original Colin Robinson. He notably has no memories of his year as Child Colin, confirming that his old self is effectively gone. Although at one point in season 5 he mentions having a dream about being a child raised by Laszlo, implying that he does still remember it on some subconscious level.
• Emo Teen: Colin suddenly hits puberty, which causes him to lose his childlike sense of wonder and become an angst-addicted brat (who is now the same size as adult Colin).
• Full-Name Basis: Averted. Unlike his predecessor Colin Robinson, he's simply referred to as Colin.
• Obscured Special Effects: Little Colin doesn't show up nearly as much as his adult self did due to the modest special effects used to superimpose Mark Proksch's head onto a child's body looking too conspicuous.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: In season 4, the new Colin grows from an infant, to a toddler, to a child roughly 6-7 years old in the span of less than a year. Guillermo notes how Baby Colin is constantly outgrowing new clothes, often as fast as the time it takes to get from breakfast to dinner. In the final few episodes of the season, he returns to the size of an adult.
• Took a Level in Kindness: As strange as he can sometimes be, Child Colin is much nicer than the previous one, excitedly chattering about how he's learned to knoll his LEGO and recreate movie musical sets with them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t last, which gets to…
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In the final few episodes, he becomes an adult and is much less social and more aggressive. By the end, he becomes regular Colin.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Seems a bit prone to violence, being very good with a sword, and shooting Laszlo with a nail gun when the vampire asked him for a nail. Laszlo being Laszlo, he isn't upset about this and takes it in stride. He also really likes taking a hammer to the drywall in the basement, so much so that his description of it to Sean has him asked if he's ever felt the urge to hammer people.
• Verbal Tic: He starts most of his sentences with "Guess what?". It drives Laszlo up the wall; he tells Colin that he doesn't need to preface everything he says with it.

Their Familiar

Guillermo

Guillermo de la Cruz

Portrayed By: Harvey Guillén

"Being a vampire's familiar is like being a best friend. Who's also a slave."

Nandor's long-suffering human familiar, who has served him for a decade in the hopes of getting turned into a vampire.

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• Acrofatic: Becomes this as he begins honing his vampire hunting skills, becoming very swift and agile in combat. He's once seen scaling a fire escape up a high building in seconds (which clearly pleases him). Harvey Guillén ended up losing 20 pounds and putting on a lot of muscle to prepare to do the stunts in Season 2.
• Affably Evil: He's a pretty good guy but, as a vampire's familiar, is complicit in the murders of innumerable innocent people.
• Ambiguously Gay: Word of God is that he has some romantic feelings for Nandor, and he has thus far never shown any attraction to women.
  • In Season 4, he's implied to be in a romantic relationship with a man he was heard talking to on the phone by the camera crew.
  • He is pretty quick to agree to seduce the Guide, but only transactionally, and even then he is VERY eager to call it off when she seems to be willing to.
  • No longer ambiguous as of the seventh episode of Season 4, in which he comes out to his family. The next episode shows him with a boyfriend.
• Ascended Fanboy: His desire is to become one of these, getting transformed into a vampire after idolizing them since he was a teenager. Considering he's a No-Respect Guy and Nandor is a Bad Boss, that isn't likely to happen any time soon. Come season 5, he's been turned by his friend Derek, with his transformation taking place over the course of several episodes, all of which explore the unintended consequences of getting his wish without thinking it through completely.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He resents Nandor for understandable reasons, but still he has a hard time when he finally decides to leave him... and has a huge, genuine grin when they make up.
• Badass Normal: Despite being the only human, he ultimately kills the Baron and succeeds in protecting the vampires from an entire theater of Vampiric Council vampires. Downplayed in that he's descended from a line of vampire hunters, and utterly fails to hurt the Council's witch Guide.
• Badass Longcoat: In his Let's Get Dangerous! moment in the Season 2 finale, Guillermo puts on an excellent example of this trope, a long trenchcoat with plenty of pockets to hide wooden stakes, crucifixes, and bottles of holy water.
• Basement-Dweller: Not literally — that's where Colin Robinson lives — but Guillermo's sad, constricted life inside the first-floor closet that he uses as a bedroom fits this stereotype pretty well. And according to his former friend Jeremy, his life wasn't going so well before he entered Nandor's service either: living in his mom's apartment, working at Panera, and spending most of his free time on video games.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Guillermo's lot in life is to serve Nandor, who often makes this a very difficult affair, with a promise to turn Guillermo into a vampire that is questionable at best.
• Berserk Button: Other familiars being turned into vampires tends to get to Guillermo just a bit. That, and seeing other familiars who haven't been turned, many of which have clearly been strung along with promises for decades just like Nandor is doing with him.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Guillermo is a decent person, but he makes it clear he has his limits.
• Big Beautiful Man: Guillermo is certainly on the heavier side, but he is definitely easy on the eyes and is not presented as unattractive in any way.
• Bodyguard Crush: As of season 3, Guillermo has been promoted from the position of familiar to the official bodyguard to Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo because of his vampire slaying abilities. It is also revealed in season 3 episode 2, and further confirmed in season 3 episode 3, that Guillermo has feelings for Nandor.
• Body Horror: In Season 5 after going through the motions of turning into a vampire, Lazlo notices that Guillermo has grown a tiny pair of wings.
• Character Development: He's much more easily frustrated with and less subservient toward Nandor in season 2. Having to secretly defend him from vampire assassins every hour of the day without so much as a 'thanks' probably has something to do with it.
• Characterization Marches On: Early episodes have him come off as contentedly resigned to helping his master kill innocent people, whereas he's more consistently shown to be at least somewhat conflicted about it in later ones.
• Chekhov's Skill: At the start of season 2's episode 9, Guillermo mentions wanting to market a blood remover on Dragon's Den. Later, when negotiating with the witches to free the vampires, Guillermo speaks as if he's making a deal on the show to convince them.
• The Chew Toy: He's easily the lowest-ranked member of the household, which is supposed to make him more sympathetic.
• Color Motif: He dresses in beige and brown because he finds them to be safe, bland, and comforting colors to wear as a ward against the unsafe life of a vampire's familiar. A visual sign in his development for season 2 is forgoing those colors as he becomes bolder and more self-assured.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In contrast to Jackie in the film, who is shown to have her own life with her family outside of being a familiar and mainly just wants vampirism for the immortality, Guillermo is consistently noted to be in the gig because of a complete adoration for vampires and has nothing going on in his life outside of serving Nandor as a spiritual Basement-Dweller.
• Cowardly Lion: Guillermo is very open about how life as a vampire familiar has him in a near-constant state of utter terror and nausea. The man seems to have a naturally soft heart and weak stomach, and the blood-soaked debauchery that his masters revel in makes his life a living hell. And yet when push comes to shove, Guillermo always ends up coming through and taking care of business— indeed, the healthy fear born of being the Only Sane Man in the house means that he's often the only one capable of doing so effectively.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Guillermo may appear to be a mild-mannered little familiar, but vampire hunting is in his blood and he's taken down numerous vampire assassins. He even fights his way out of a vampire-occupied house.
• Deadpan Snarker: Particularly when he’s upset.
• Depending on the Writer: In Season 1, there's a lot of variance between whether he is completely desensitized to having to lead people to their deaths for the sake of his masters, or slightly disturbed by it and in constant battle with his own morality. By Season 2, his morals are much more consistent.
• Didn't Think This Through: It’s clear he didn’t really think ahead about turning into a vampire.
• Disappeared Dad: His father has yet to be brought up.
• The Dog Bites Back: Sick of the abuse and neglect from Nandor, Guillermo briefly leaves him in season 2 before they negotiate his return.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: It tends to grate on Guillermo that he is underappreciated despite all he does for the trio. This attitude eventually leads to him leaving the trio in episode 8 of season 2 for 'a better offer.'
  • By Season 4, he's vocally sick of the vampires' mistreatment and inability to recognize the way they constantly demean him. The only thing seemingly preventing him from leaving their service entirely is his fear of something hurting Baby Colin Robinson and his role as Nandor's best man. When Colin Robinson returns and Nandor’s wedding is over, he quits being a familiar.
• Fanboy: Is a noted fan of Antonio Banderas' character in Interview with the Vampire, who he cites as his inspiration to aspiring to become a vampire himself.
• Geek Physiques: A round, bespectacled guy who is an outcast due to his love for vampires, plus he's a nerdy virgin, by his own admission.
• Grew a Spine: He's introduced as Nandor's Beleaguered Assistant who gets no respect from any of the vampires, but still does whatever they ask of him in the vain hope that Nandor will make him a vampire someday. He gradually starts to stand up for himself more, with Season 2 showing that he's finally sick of Nandor's treatment of him, and in Season 3 he's more willing to talk back to the vampires when he disagrees with them.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick:
  • Nandor would be in a much sorrier state without Guillermo, who manages the affairs of the entire trio on a regular basis.
  • Similarly, the Staten Island Mosquito Club would've all been killed in their very first hunt if he wasn't around to save them.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Numerous episodes have shown that Guillermo has no social life beyond Nandor. This causes him to develop an unhealthy attachment to his familiar duties to compensate.
• Insistent Terminology: He's not a killer. He just finds people easy to kill. It's different. No, really.
• In the Blood: Is descended from a famous vampire hunter, and has killed at least two vampires by accident. At the end of the episode in which he discovers his ancestry, he throws away some stakes that he had lying around... all three of which immediately stab through paintings of Nandor, Laszlo, and Nadja. Guillermo himself is unnerved by this. Come season 2, Guillermo has killed every vampire assassin sent after the trio, and a vampire named Carol believes that he is a slayer by his scent alone.
• Immune to Mind Control: Season 3 reveals that the vampires have spent so much time hypnotizing him over petty nonsense that Guillermo has just built up a natural immunity to vampire hypnotism, and only pretends to be hypnotized because it's less of a hassle that way.
• Irony: A servant of vampires who is descended from, of all people, Van Helsing himself.
• Lamarck Was Right: In an attempt to deny that his relation to Van Helsing means that he's predisposed to killing vampires, he notes that that would be like saying that because another ancestor was a baker, it would grant him instant talent at baking. Then Guillermo notes that he actually is a great baker, and that was probably not the greatest example to pick.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: in "The Curse," Guillermo reluctantly follows the Mosquito Club to a house that they claim belongs to vampires. The vampires get the drop on them, prompting Guillermo to unleash hell on the undead family.
• Mama's Boy: When he briefly leaves Nandor's service, he is shown being fussed over by his apparently single mother.
• Meaningful Name: His last name is De la Cruz, Spanish for "Of the Cross", suggesting that he comes from a family of Vampire Hunters.
• Morality Pet: For Nandor. Although Nandor usually treats him badly, he's also willing to sacrifice himself for Guillermo, and defends him to the other vampires.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Towards Nandor, most of the time.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Inverted for the second season finale, as he finally informs the main trio what his full name is after murdering an entire theater full of vampires working for the Vampiric Council.
• Nervous Wreck: Guillermo is always one incident from freaking out, as shown when Jenna gets turned or when he brings his friend to the orgy.
• Nice Guy: The kindest member of the main cast.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is likely meant as an Expy of Guillermo del Toro. Both are portly Hispanic men with similar hair-styles and glasses and a deep association with vampires and vampire-hunters.^note del Toro directed Cronos, The Strain, and Blade II.
• No-Respect Guy: He does everything for the vampires, yet he gets only fleeting respect from Nandor and none from anyone else. It finally gets to him and Nandor promises to treat him better.
• One-Man Army: Can hold his own against dozens of vampires at once, seemingly entirely on reflex.
• Only Sane Man: He's consistently the most reasonable and intelligent of the main cast.
• Papa Wolf: The only reason he stays with the vampires in Season 4 is to look after child Colin.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He doesn't appear to get any particular pleasure out of rounding up virgins for the vampires to kill (and tries to prevent them from having one of his friends in 'The Orgy'), but he still does it.
• Refusal of the Call: When Guillermo learns that he is a descendent of Van Helsing, and therefore VERY skilled at killing vampires, even unintentionally, his immediate response is to reject the very notion of it and swear to never use those abilities. Unfortunately for him, The Call Knows Where You Live, and he is forced to kill dozens upon dozens of vampires throughout season 2, whether they attack him directly or are among the groups of vampire assassins that have been coming after the roommates.
• The Renfield: Fills this role for Nandor. And unofficially for Laszlo and Nadja, since theirs keep dying. When he leaves them twice in the second season, they turn out to be incredibly dependent on him to fix all their messes and are barely functioning without a familiar's presence.
• The Reveal: He's descended from Van Helsing, which puts his ability to kill vampires by accident in a completely different context.
• Sanity Slippage: After Jenna becomes a vampire, Guillermo is... less than happy.
• Selective Obliviousness: Freely believed in vampires even before meeting one, yet assumed that vampire hunters were fictional until he found out that he is descended from one.
• Sequel Escalation: Guillermo was conceived as an escalation of the Running Gag of Jackie being Deacon's Butt-Monkey in the original film, building on several Deleted Scenes involving her that were cut for time.
• Trademark Favorite Food: His favorite drink seems to be Yoo-Hoo chocolate milk.
• Slow Transformation: In season 5, Guillermo has Derek sire him, but somehow his transformation to vampire is taking far longer than it should, with his vampire powers and weaknesses only appearing gradually over a period of weeks.
• Status Quo Is God: His frustration with this is what drives him to leave the house.
• Stay on the Path: Zigzagged. Guillermo wants nothing more in the world than to jump off the path and become a vampire... except that Nandor refuses to do so. He's slightly peeved by this.
• Stout Strength: Despite his chubby build, Guillermo can hold his own one-on-one against vampires, including throwing one into a wall hard enough to break the plaster.
• Sycophantic Servant: Generally to Nandor, which makes it even more notable when he actually does snap back at Nandor.
• Token Human: He is the only human in the Staten Island Coven, though he became Nandor's familiar to cure himself of that affliction. He becomes a vampire in season 5, but is turned back into a human in the season finale after deciding he's not ready for vampirism.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • His initial vampire kills were largely unintentional. But as of the premiere of Season 2, he's killed almost a dozen vampire assassins to protect Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo from them.
  • Big-time by the end of season 2. In addition to his developing vampire-killing talents, he gains more self-esteem and confidence regarding his status, not only demands but receives more respect from Nandor, starts standing up for himself and outright disregarding Laszlo and Nadja's unwarranted commands, and even negotiates profitable business/sacrificial arrangements with other supernaturals on behalf of the group.
• Too Much Information: Due to his Catholic upbringing, the one aspect of vampire life that he explicitly is super uncomfortable with is the lurid and wild sex. Which, as familiar, he is required to describe for the bi-annual vampire orgy.
• Twofer Token Minority: Mexican-American and gay.
• Underestimating Badassery: The Vampire Council does this to him. They immediately dismiss the idea that he could have been responsible for the Baron's death. He actually did kill the Baron (albeit unintentionally), kills another vampire on his way out of the building, and later becomes a skilled if reluctant vampire-killer, his undead body-count growing steadily. Guy isn't nearly as pathetic as he looks.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He very accidentally kills The Baron and sets off the rage of the Council.
• Vampire Vannabe: He just wants to be Armand.
• Yes-Man: He can't bear to tell Nandor no most of the time, such as when Nandor shows him a duck mask and asks him if "[he] thinks it's a mood-killer or if [he] would cum".
  "I'm not sure."
• You Are What You Hate: To an extent. Guillermo idolizes vampires and desires to become one, but as a descendant of Van Helsing, is much more predisposed to hunting them. What prevents this from being a straight example is that, prior to learning of his heritage, he assumed that vampire hunters were fictitious and barely even thought about them.