Webcomic / Vampire Girl

Go lil' Vampire Girl!

Vampire Girl is a Webcomic miniseries that debuted December 8, 2011 created by Joseph Scarbrough. The comic centered around a vampire girl named Levana, who lives a life of irony, in that she doesn't want to be a vampire, as the life of vampire comes with so many limitations, such as having to avoid fatal sunlight or garlic, that Levana finds her very existence to be a burden, and wishes to find a way to make her a mortal. Meanwhile, when word of her existence gets out, a pair of determined, yet incompetent modern-day vampire hunters make it their mission to hunt her down and destroy her. In Levana's corner to help her find a way to make her mortal are her friends, a Certified Nursing Assistant named Laura, a wizard-for-hire named Sigfred N. LeRoy, and a stereotypically handsome, well-groomed, and dreamy doctor named Dr. Charmin.

The comic originally ran for seventeen strips on Smack Jeeves from December 8, 2011 to March 29, 2012, but the archive was removed altogether in 2020, due to Smack Jeeves' demise. In the summer of 2022, the comic's archive was moved The Duck (after an unsuccessful attempt to host on ComicFury), and a rebooted second season began its 35-strip run on October 19. Despite the nearly ten-year gap between the comic's two seasons, the story makes no mention of the passage of time, and appears to continue on in a single timeline.

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This webcomic provides examples of:

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Levana displayed this characteristic throughout the comic's first season, with two very specific examples being that she basically brushed off a little girl she was baby sitting because she was depressed over her favorite webcomic being discontinued, and by snapping at a random stranger who asked if she was okay as she walked down the street on a warm sunny day while wearing a beach hat, ski mask, sunglasses, scarf, and overcoat.
• Alter Kocker: Sigfred N. LeRoy. Given that it's a webcomic, one wouldn't know, but Word of God is that his voice would sound similar to John Byner's impersonation of Jackie Mason. His word balloons do indicate that he ends his sentences with a bit of a flourish.
• Ambiguously Brown: Dr. Marsala, who also seems to double for Gratuitous Italian, not only has brown skin with rather curly dark hair, but also refers to Sigfred as his "Goombah" (no, not that type of Goomba), which is an Italian slang term for a close associate, colleague, friend, or relative. Also on the Italian front is the fact that he is named after an Italian wine.
• Art Evolution: While the overall art style of the comic remains fairly consistent, obviously, the second sees some noticeable improvements in every aspect, from the drawing and illustrations, to the layout and editing.
• Artistic License – Medicine: Laura provides Levana with sangria as a placebo whenever she has relapses from blood withdrawals to avoid having to take actual pints of blood from the hospital's blood bank. In actuality, stored blood can only last for six months before much of it "dies" becoming useless for people who needed, and it therefore goes to waste; unless vampires are picky as far as drinking live blood or dead blood goes, Laura could have secretly saved the wasted blood for Levana.
• Bad Mood as an Excuse: Averted with Levana, who is depressed over her favorite web comic being discontinued, so much that she basically brushes off the little girl she’s babysitting.
• Berserk Button: Nobody taking the sudden and unexplained disappearance of Levana seriously is this for Laura.
• Big Eater:
  • Goofy Idiot Sidekick is noted for eating an entire bunch of grapes, as well as a large pizza in single sittings.
  • On the pizza front, Levana estimates that she may have eaten up to twelve sizes at a party after she becomes mortal.
• Big "NO!": Levana has three of these in a row that get bigger than the one before when it's implied that a struggling scuffle in the Vampiress' castle leads to her being biten and turned back into a vampire.
• Black Comedy: Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick are killed when they end up running full-speed into a metal door that's slammed in their faces, though it's intentionally Played for Laughs.
• Book Ends: The first season opens and closes with Levana writing about her experiences in a diary.
• Breaking Old Trends: Much of Scarbrough's work tend to border on Denser and Wackier, particulary his Steve D'Monster and Moron League YouTube videos. Vampire Girl, while having its share of genuinely humorous moments is definitely Darker and Edgier in that it contains more thematic elements, such as a character undergoing a physical transformation and having to overcome obstacles and hurdles to achieve such. The comic even contains mild language and death, which is highly unusual for Scarbrough, who often promotes his as being family-friend works.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • When Laura seemingly caves into Levana's urge to drink blood, she assures the readers that Levana isn’t drinking actual blood, but rather, sangria.
  • Vampire Hunter not only breaks the fourth wall later on, he also breaks the fifth wall by engaging in a little meta humor, in which he not only keeps tabs on Levana by reading the comic for himself (see Medium Awareness below), but also acknowledging that the comic is created by the same guy who created Steve D'Monster .
• Breeding Cult: Downplayed, but the Vampiress does suggest that had Levana remained a vampire, she would have contributed to the perpetuation of their species.
• Bumbling Sidekick: More specifically, Goofy Idiot Sidekick, who is this to Vampire Hunter.
• Burn The Vampire! Not exactly in the traditional manner, however, because of Levana's affinity for the sun, the Vampiress decides to sacrifice her by having her tied to a stake, facing the direction of the rising sun.
• Call-Back: Laura having brought Sigfred N. LeRoy into the janitor's closet to speak in private, and not even knowing why she chose such a place in the second season is this to Laura having done the same with Levana back in the original first season of the comic.
• The Cameo: An interesting inversion, in that while Laura searches the internet to find a wizard to hire to help her find Levana, among the search results she finds includes Shirley the Medium.
• Captain Ersatz: Levana has been compared to the likes of both Morticia and Wednesday Addams, and Marceline the Vampire Queen.
• Circling Birdies: Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick come down with a case of these as well as stars and other symbols after having a large metal door slammed into their faces as they attempted to run through an open doorway.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Vampire Hunter takes his job as such very seriously, however, with as overzealous as he is to rid society of vampires, common sense sometimes escapes him. Goofy Idiot Sidekick also pretty much lives up to his name and title much in the same way.
• Color Motif:
  • Played straight with Levana as a reflection of her attitude towards life. As a vampire who was miserable with her life, she wore mostly black; as a mortal who could now embrace and live her life, she wore far lighter colors, such as a sky blue t-shirt.
  • Laura's hospital scrubs are also a light blue, and has been shown to display much calmness whenever Levana would be faced with a problem, such as her relapses from blood withdrawals (working in a chaotic hospital probably also helped her learn how to keep her head in stressful situations).
  • Two of the prominent supernatural characters in the comic have green skin and wear purple outfits. Sigfred N. LeRoy is a wise old wizard who hires himself out to help people in situations that are far more complicated than everyday predicaments; the Vampiress is the evil supreme overlord who rules over all of vampirekind.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Saul and Paul initially dressed in this very manner when they were sent to apprehend Levana, and even used it to their advantage when they snucked in as attendees of a hospital staff costume ball, where they passed themselves of as The Mysterious Mr. Twin-ters.
• Cool Old Guy: Sigfred N. LeRoy is a magical wizard who hires himself out to help everyday people find solutions to their problems. Also, he'll hire himself out as an attorney-at-law.
• Creator Cameo: Creator Joseph Scarbrough and creative consultant Marie Kerns appear briefly as attendees of the costume party, with Scarbrough dressed as a Teletubbie, and Kerns dressed as a cowgirl ninja.
  • Kerns is also given another cameo as "Sorceress Raven" when Laura searches the internet to find a wizard to hire to help her find Levana.
• Cue the Rain: Sigfred magically conjures up a rain storm in order to block the rising sun as it begins to melt Levana's face, AND is also able to cue the sun in order to have the Vampiress, Saul and Paul meet their demise.
• Cute Little Fangs: Being a vampire, it was pretty much a given with Levana.
• Cute Monster Girl: Levana again, though she's a vampire girl.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Levana, with her black hair and black skull t-shirt, notes that one of the things that she dislikes about being a vampire is how ordinary people often associate acts of evil with her kind, such as biting their necks, drinking their blood, and turning them into vampires. She is even disgusted by her own natural thirst for blood, because she knows that people need blood to survive.
• Death as Comedy: Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick dying from having a door slammed in their faces is played for laughs.
• Defiant Captive: Even after Levana is apprehended by Saul and Paul and brought before the Vampiress, she outright refuses to answer any of her questions regarding why and how she was transformed into a mortal, or who helped her achieve her transformation. She even SNUBS the Vampiress in the process, of which she notes as being a display of callous disrespect for her supreme overlord.
• Determinator:
  • Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick will stop at nothing to rid society of vampires, of which Levana is no exception.
  • Laura will stop at nothing to figure out what has caused Levana's sudden and unexplained disappearances, even when other characters don't seem to feel any sort of urgency regarding the matter.
• Deus ex Machina: Sigfred LeRoy alone is able to magically conjure up a rainstorm that not only blocks out the rising sun from bringing any further harm to Levana, but also opens a break in the storm clouds to have the sun vanquish the Vampiress and her lackeys, and even call upon a witch doctor colleague of his in a snap to tend to Levana in her time of need.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick, respectively a vampire hunter and a goofy idiot sidekick.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Mildly subverted with Levana towards the beginning of the comic, as she believes no one can help her curb her thirst for blood, let alone no one would help a vampire in general.
• Dressed to Plunder: For a hospital costume ball, Laura dresses as a pirate, which she also says is a way for her to live out a childhood fantasy of wanting to be a pirate.
• Drunk on Milk: Somewhat averted with Levana, even though we don’t see what kind of effects blood has on her, her urges to drink blood seem rather remisicent of an alcoholic who really wants a drink.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Levana. Kinda comes with being a vampire.
• The Eeyore: Levana has an extensive list of grievances of what she dislikes being a vampire, and even tells Laura that because of that, she's sick and tired of always being depressed over who and what she is.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Just about every small or young child featured in the comic all coincidently and convenient talk like this.
• Emerging from the Shadows: This is how the Vampiress enters the story just before she introduces herself via a monologue.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Sigfred has two of these when he is able to figure what he has at his disposal in his arsenal of magic when it comes to helping Levana out of the situations she finds herself in, such as the procedure that marries magic and medicine that will transform her into a mortal and using a strand of her hair so that her DNA will allow a white magic candle to literally light the way to where she is.
• Evil Minions: Saul and Paul are these to the Vampiress, and she even makes the comparison that if vampirekind were like a bee colony, and she the queen, they would be her most loyal soldiers.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: To find a solution for Levana, Sigfred N. LeRoy searches through a large book, with a cover that reads, The Really BIG Book of Stuff.
• Extremely Short Timespan: A majority of the second season's central storyline takes place over the course of two nights and two days.
• The Faceless:
  • Saul and Paul are initially introduced into the story as such, with their fedoras and trench coats darkening and obscuring every inch of their faces, except for their big red eyes, until they revealed their true selves.
  • The Vampiress, meanwhile, remains this way, as she wears a hooded robe that darkens a majority of her face with the exception of her mouth, and her glowing red eyes.
• Fantastic Racism: Vampire Hunter seems to view all vampires as being evil beings who have no business living amongst us and sucking our blood, which also leads us to...
• Fantastic Slur: Vampire Hunter also tosses the word "vamp" around in such a manner to refer to Levana.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: While not for Halloween specifically, Levana does decide to dress up as a vampire for a hospital staff costume ball.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Saul approaches Levana at the costume party, the sight of all of the pizza she puts onto her plate is not only enough to repel him away, but he also claims to his accomplice that she attempted to kill him.
  • Paul casts no reflection in the bathroom mirror when he hypnotizes Levana.
  • Both Saul and Paul teleport away with Levana.
• Friend to All Children: The jobs that Levana has held down have included babysitting, and presently working as a hospital orderly tending to sick children; clearly, she enjoys what she does, and appears to enjoy caring for children.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Her chronic depression aside, Levana still wishes to be a contributing member of society, and even takes up a job as a babysitter as a means to an end that allows her to travel only by night.
• Funny Background Event: While not so much events, both times that Laura takes somebody into the janitor's closet to speak in privacy, among the various and sundry tools and supplies that clutter the shelves, there are also random and dismembered human body parts just lying around. Given that this is a hospital, It Makes Sense in Context.
• Gilligan Cut: After Laura fails to find Levana to take her home after the party, she mentions to Dr. Charmin the feeling that Levana had just disappeared into thin air; cut to Saul and Paul disappearing into thin air with Levana in their clutches.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Also doubles as Unusual Euphemism when Levana curious uses the word "froggin'" in place of stronger epithets that begin with the letter F, even though the word "freakin'" could have just as easily been used.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The Vampiress, who happens to be the Big Bad of the second season.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Levana is never shown actually drinking blood (which was really just sangria given to her as a placebo anyway), nor is the Vampiress actually shown biting Levana's neck to turn her back into a vampire.
• G-Rated Drug: Averted with Levana having relapses from blood withdrawals.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: Could be justified with Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick; despite the fact that they are the BigBads of the story's first season, in their minds, being in the business of ridding society of vampires is their way of serving their country in ways other men in uniform can't.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: When the Vampiress sentences Levana to face the ultimate consequence for her perceived act of treasion by transforming herself into a vampire, one panel is an extreme close-up of the Vampiress' mouth with saliva dripping from her fangs and lips.
• Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: It's downplayed, but when a child who Levana was tending to in the hospital questions her absence, it takes Laura a moment to come up with a cover story that Levana decided to take the vacation time she earned.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: For the longest time, Laura was the only real friend Levana had when she was a vampire, and even long after she became a mortal, Laura continues to be particularly supportive of Levana, even getting rather miffed when Levana disappears and nobody seems to be too overly concerned for her wellbeing.
• Hidden Depths: Despite Levana's disdain for her (previous) vampish lifestyle, she is shown to possess a considerable amount of knowledge regarding her heritage, such as knowing that history's real Count Dracula was Vlad Tepes, a.k.a. "Vlad the Impaler," a fifteenth-century ruler of Romania, whose favored impalement as a form of execution.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Sigfred relies on this as he lures the Vampiress and her lackey into attacking him, waiting for just the right moment to open the storm clouds he conjured up, thus allowing the sun to shine through and cook them.
• Hospital Hottie:
  • Laura is a sturdy, blonde certified nursing assistant who cleans up nicely.
  • Dr. Charmin even acknowledges that he’s aware he’s a, “Stereotypically handsome, well-groomed, and dreamy doctor.”
• Hypnotic Eyes: Paul uses this on Levana as a way to apprehend her after he and Saul sneak into the hospital costume ball to do just that; it's particularly effective because he does this through a bathroom mirror, in which he casts no reflection.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: A unique variation, in that while in captivity, the Vampiress remarks to Levana on just how beautiful she is, and even suggests had she remained a vampire, some "lucky male vampire" would have been very happy with her as his life partner, thus contributing to the perpetuation of their species.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Something of a Running Gag throughout the second season of the comic, in which whenever Laura requests something specific of Sigfred, only for him to respond, "Dang it, woman, I'm a magician, not a mind reader/miracle worker/medicine man!"
• In Name Only: While the comic was named after the Jonathan Richman song that inspired it, the plot of the comic about a vampire girl who hates being a vampire has nothing to do with Richman's song about being attracted to girls who resemble vampires.
• In the Hood: The Vampiress' robe features a hood that darkens and obscures her face from the nose up; her lackeys, Saul and Paul were initially introduced as Conspicuous Trenchcoat varieties.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Dr. Charmin attends the hospital staff's costume party dressed as a devil. Why? Because he's a a handsome devil.
• Insignificant Anniversary: In the final strip of the first season, Levana makes note of celebrating her one-month anniversary of being mortal in her diary.
• Irony: After Levana spends the entirety of the comic's run wanting to be transformed into a mortal because there are too many everyday notions that could potentially kill her (sunlight, garlic, the typical vampire stuff), and even being kidnapped by the supreme overlord of all of vampirekind who nearly sacrifices her for forsaking her birthright, Levana receives a number of medical bills in the mail from the services rendered to her from Dr. Charmin, Sigfred, and Dr. Marsala to save her life... it's enough to have her scream "I WISH I WAS DEAD!!!"
• Kiss of Death: Levana finds herself on the receiving end of one from the Vampiress after being tied to a stake and informed that she will be sacrificed by the rising sun.
• Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: In order find out more about Levana, Vampire Hunter manages to get her information about her (as a babysitter referal) from his aunt's dog's girlfriend's former owner's sister-in-law's ex-husband.
• Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Levana herself in both forms: her vampire form is the darkness, while her human form is the light.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: Levana explains this to Laura as part of her reason for not wanting to be a vampire, on the grounds that she will always outlive anyone she may befriend.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Levana is the Hebrew word for moon, and given that she is a vampire, night is really the only time of day she can venture outdoors without worrying about being killed by sunlight.
  • Dr. Charmin, who is noted for being a very charming doctor... so charming in fact, that he was named after a toilet paper brand.
• Medium Awareness:
  • A “deleted scene” shows Sigfred N. LeRoy trying to convince Levana that she could be popular being a real-life vampire, but she reminds him, “This isn’t real life, it’s a web comic”.
    • Inverted when Vampire Hunter begins reading the comic himself to prepare himself for Levana’s demise.
• Minion with an F in Evil:
  • Goofy Idiot Sidekick certainly lives up to his name and title, though to be fair, it's not so much that Vampire Hunter is evil himself, he's just more of an overzealous Well-Intentioned Extremist.
  • Initially averted with Saul and Paul, as they prove themselves worthy of being considered the Vampiress' most loyal subjects who carry out her orders without question. It isn't until they attempt to apprehend Laura and Sigfred that they comically collide into each other when the former two give them the slip, which leaves the Vampiress to comment on how she can never depend on her most loyal subjects to do anything right.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Pretty much everyday life is this for Levana once she becomes a mortal, and when considers just how restrictive her previous vampish lifestyle was, her enthusiasm in the mundane is justified.
• Ms. Fanservice: Levana is an attractive young vampire whose black hair and dark clothing gives her a gothic appeal, as well as her fishnet stockings and boots emphasizing her legs.
  • She also spends a majority of the comic's second season in a tight black dress and tied to a stake.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Inverted with Levana, who dislikes life as a vampire, having to avoid sunlight and garlic, among other things.
• Night and Day Duo: Levana and Laura are this when Levana was a vampire; while the black-haired and dressed-in-black Levana was usually stoic and chronically depressed, the blonde and brightly-dressed Laura was Levana's main support network during her vampire plight.
• Nightmare Face: As the sun begins to rise over the horizon, Levana's face begins to melt off of her skull.
• Nurse with Good Intentions: Laura, though she’s not technically a nurse. Still, she just wants to help Levana get through her problems, even if it may mean bending procedures or protocol to do so.
• Oblivious Janitor Cut: Just as Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick are about to penetrate the hospital to take Levana down, a janitor, seeing an exit door left open, closes it, effectively stopping the vampire hunters in their tracks.
• Oh, Crap!: Levana has a big one when she is taken away by the Vampiress, Saul, and Paul to a large wooden stake out in the middle of a forest clearing.
  • She, Laura, and Sigfred have another one as the sun begins to rise over the horizon while Laura and Sigfred fend of an offensive from Saul and Paul, which leads to Levana's face beginning to melt.
• Older Than They Look: Possibly Levana, considering she was a vampire and literally possessed immortality, she could have even been centuries old.
• "Pan from the Sky" Beginning: A video trailer for the comic's second season utilized this in an interesting manner by using the comic's first panel, which was a long shot of the Vampiress' castle. Both of these are rectangular, but while the comic panel is vertically rectangular, the video trailer's aspect ratio is horizontally rectangular, which gave the panel something of a pan-and-scan effect from the moonlit sky downward.
• Perpetual Frowner: Levana was this when she was a vampire, and according to Joseph Scarbrough, this was specifically a stylistic choice when drawing her as a vampire to visually convey just how miserable she was being a vampire.
• Power Trio: Laura, Sigfred N. LeRoy, and Dr. Charmin serve as this when it comes to Levana's transformation into becoming a mortal girl.
• Precision F-Strike: The Vampiress holds the distinction of being the first character to cuss in a Joseph Scarbrough Production, after she witnesses her minions, Saul and Paul, end up crashing into each other in an attempt to apprehend Laura and Sigfred, and mutters, "Oh bloody hell!" in response.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Levana as a vampire (she retains her naturally black hair, but gains noticeably more color in her skin when she becomes human).
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The three villains of the second season are all in possession of red eyes, one of whom has red eyes that glow.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Throughout Season 1, Laura was the red to Levana's blue, and to a lesser extent, Vampire Hunter was also the red to Goofy Idiot Sidekick's blue.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: Well, Sigfred N. LeRoy IS a wizard.
• Sadistic Choice: The Vampiress presents Levana with such - whether or not she testifies for her transformtion into a mortal, it is made perfectly clear that the outcome of either course of action will result in her being severely punished for forsaking her birthright.
• Sarcasm Mode: Both Levana and Laura have tendencies to slip into this mode, and curiously enough, when faced with uncertainty, and even mortal danger.
• Short-Runner: The first season ran from 2011 to 2012 with only a total of seventeen strips... then the second season ran from 2022 to 2023 with an additional thirty-five strips.
• Shout-Out:
  • When devising a plan to destroy Levana, Vampire Hunter falls on inspiration from Bordello of Blood by using a squirt gun filled with holy water.
  • As Levana reads a story to a young child in the hospital, she quotes almost verbatim a "German fairytale" as told in a True Facts video about owls.
    • In another strip, the same child looked forward to Levana reading him a Bowdlerized version of Lizard Has a Shitty Day, a joke from another True Facts video about the tarsier.
  • Saul and Paul, the two trenchcoat and fedora-wearing hoodlums who are sent to apprehend Levana decide to infiltrate the hospital's costume ball by passing themselves off as The Mysterious Mr. Twin-ters.
  • As Laura lists off the different reasons of why being a pirate had been a childhood fantasy of hers, she also quotes a running gag from Muppet Treasure Island about sailing for Zanzibar to meet the Zanzibarbarians... complete with a cameo from Rizzo the Rat who adds, "Aww, brudda. Here they go again."
  • Some of the attendees of the costume party are seen dressed as Rod Rescueman, Patrick Star, [[Series/Teletubbies a Teletubbie]], a Ninja Turtle, and [[Creator/Disney The Big Bad Wolf]].
  • Sigfred N. LeRoy puts a spin on the often misquoted line from
  • Also, the manner in which Sigfred conjures up his magical spells are shout-outs to various musical works, such as The Beatles' "Rain", Wolfgang Parker's "The Mice, The Demons, and the Piggies", and The 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In".
  • Upon seeing the results of Levana's face melting off and Laura remarks how she has never anything so horrific or gruesome despite all of the years she works in a hospital, Sigfred questions as to whether or not she's ever seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Dr. Charmin pointing out that Laura was particularly emotionally involved in Levana's medical procedure was because of their friendship and the care that she possess for her friend is so much like a similar iconic scene from Series/Mash that Laura remarks that such a forced pop-culture reference isn't helping.
• Slapstick: A few moments throughout the comic, namely Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick having a door slammed in their faces as they attempt to run through an open doorway, as well as Saul and Paul crashing into each other head-first when they attempt to apprehend Laura and Sigfred when they pull away at the last second.
• Spock Speak: The Vampiress has a particularly articulate manner of speaking, nor does she use any contractions in her speech either.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Levana throughout much of Season 1 was shown to be pretty distant, or even somewhat hostile towards other people (understandable, given that she was a vampire who didn't want to scare away people with who she was), but was also shown to often turn to Laura as a friend whenever she was in need of support, emotional or otherwise.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Dr. Charmin notes that after Levana's face had been melted by the sun when she had been turned back into a vampire, she suffered the equivalent of third and fourth degree burns, and that the best that medical science can do for her is to debride what of her skin had melted off as well as radical reconstructive surgery to her face, all of which would leave her in excruciating pain.
• Theme Naming: Saul and Paul, who appear to be named after Paul the Apostle, who had converted to Christianity and became a follower of Jesus after he had previously been known to persecute and murder followers of Jesus under the name of Saul.
• Those Two Guys:
  • Season 1 gives us Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick, who are the Fat and Skinny variety, with Vampire Hunter being relatively thin, while Goofy Idiot Sidekick is morbidly obese.
  • Season 2 gives us Saul and Paul, a pair of trenchcoat and fedora-wearing hoodlums, who appear to be a Big Guy, Little Guy variation, with Paul about the same height as many of the comic's other characters, while Saul dwarves all of them.
• Tomboyish Voice: Obviously, given that this is a comic, and therefore character voices cannot be heard, but according to Joseph Scarbrough, if the characters had voice actors, his choice for Levana would be Nika Futterman, and for this exact reason.
• Too Dumb to Live: Vampire Hunter and Goofy Idiot Sidekick literally die from having a door slammed in their faces.
• Traveling at the Speed of Plot: Being a wizard, Sigfred is able to just pop in and out of the places he needs to be in the blink of an eye by magic. In fact, when he brings Laura along with her for such a travel, he warns her that it may leave her disoriented given that mortals are not used to such, and we see that his traveling with her looks very much like traveling through time and space at super sonic speed (specifically 1/1,000 of a second.
• Vampires Hate Garlic:
  • This is one of the reasons Levana has for disliking being a vampire, as this greatly limits her diet of foods she can consume without otherwise having to worry about any fatal consequences. In fact, after she becomes a mortal, she notes in her diary eating twelve or more (she loses count) slices of pizza at a party.
  • Saul freaks out over the pizza he sees Levana having at the hospital costume party.
• Trademark Favorite Food: As noted in the spoiler above, pizza becomes this for Levana, as she not only notes in her diary about eating twelve or more slices at a party, but we actually see her load her plate with several slices at another party.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Laura and a security officer review surveillance from the party to try to figure out what may have happened to Levana, and discover that she appears to not only be unconscious, but also levitating out of the cafeteria for seemingly no reason, said security officer doesn't react beyond remarking, "That's weird." Though, to be fair, he cites his nearly thirty-year tenure as a security officer, and witnessing so many unexplained occurrences via surveillance in that time for how desensitized he is to such.
• Verbal Tic: Sigfred N. LeRoy pronounces his sentence finishers (if they’re a one-syllable word) in a flourish.
• Villainous Breakdown: The Vampiress not only sees through Laura's attempts to employ a little psychology to convince her to spare Levana's life rather than sacrifice it, but she does not take kindly to being, "Defied and inveigled," in such a blasphemous manner.
• Wall of Text: Levana is very prone to this in two different manners: one is that whenever she writes in her diary, the diary page she has just written serves as the background for that particular panel; the other is that sometimes she gets to rambling on about a point she's making that it also takes up the entire background of the panel.
• Weakened by the Light: Not only does Levana's newfound affinity for the sun come back to bite her in the ass when the Vampiress turns her back into a vampire, and ties her to a stake facing the rising sun, but Sigfred also manages to use to this to turn the tables on the Vampiress, Saul, and Paul by luring them into a rainstorm, where upon he opens the clouds to allow them to fly directly into the sunlight, effectively destroying them.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Vampire Hunter is a threat to Levana's existence by profession, even though Levana never did anything to him to warrant him hunting her down to rid her from society, nor does he even understand that she doesn't want to be a vampire, he still sees himself as somebody who serves his country by extreminating vampires, all of whom he sees as evil and sleazy - neither of which apply to Levana whatsoever.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Levana spends much of her entire life as a vampire and was absolutely miserable because of it. After she manages to become a human, she is thoroughly happy with her newfound mortality, but it isn't too long after that when the Vampiress learns of his, has Levana captured, and then bites her and turns her back into a vampire to prepare her for a sacrifice.

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