YMMV / American Vampire

• Anti-Climax Boss: The Beast, once incarnated in Jim Book, is pathetically easy to take down, despite all the hype of it being the biggest Big Bad of the entire setting, it's implied this is partially because Jim Book, was a sub-par host.
• Complete Monster:
  • Chase Hamilton, a famous Hollywood actor in the silent movie era, came to fame by striking a deal with B.D. Bloch, repaying the Vampire Hunter who initially saved Chase's life by murdering him before he could slay Bloch, feeding said hunter to Bloch himself. In exchange for wealth, prestige and power, Chase has used his charm to lead countless aspiring young starlets, vagrants and other easily-missed nobodies to Bloch, carting their mangled bodies by the literal truckload each night into a ravine full of the bodies of those Chase has led to their doom. One of the final victims of this operation is Pearl Jones, who is made a vampire by Skinner Sweet and offered Chase as her first victim; Chase doesn't even recognize her.
  • Bernard D. "BD" Bloch is the most loathsome of the twisted Carpathian vampires. The true ruler of Hollywood, Bloch makes a deal with Chase Hamilton to elevate the latter to Hollywood stardom in exchange for a near-nightly sacrifice of aspiring starlets who are given to Bloch to be torn apart and drained by him and his coven with the corpses stacked high in the desert. Others are kept in Bloch's chambers, hung on meathooks in agony to be drained at the leisure of the coven, while Block intends to torture the new American vampire Pearl Jones to discover her weaknesses.
  • Lord of Nightmares: Dracula, the Big Bad of this miniseries, is depicted as a feared, ancient monster of pure evil and a Multiple-Choice Past. Dracula was the first Carpathian vampire; as the Carpathian strain wasn't powerful or virulent, it went ignored, allowing the species to become immensely populous, at which point near the end of the 1700s he launched genocidal warfare on all previous vampire strains, exterminating many. After being bound and imprisoned by the vampire-hunting organization Vassals of the Morningstar, Dracula was still occasionally able to reach out, twisting the minds of mortals—including Prince Albert Victor, who thus became Jack the Ripper—into homicidal insanity, often forcing them to murder their loved ones. When he encounters the leader of the Vassals, Linden Hobbes, who was one such victim, Dracula brutally attempts to dismember him, mocking him all the while with a vision of Hobbes's dead son attacking him.
  • The Gray Trader, or the Great Traitor, was once Hurin, humanity's greatest hero. Joining the eldritch Beast, the original source of all monsters, Hurin became its now-monstrous protector and greatest servant. Attempting to revive the Beast to bring about Hell on Earth, the Trader tortures and kills countless innocents, often using the voices of their loved ones to torture them or convince them to allow him to devour them and convert them into soulless demon servants of the Beast. The Trader converts an entire mining community into soulless husks of themselves while "seeding" a woman with the Beast, forcing her to give birth to it in an agonizing process that lasts weeks. Torturing his victims for information, the Trader locates multiple vampire children and feeds them to his master as well before unleashing his monsters on America, resulting in mass slaughter. In a final attempt to unleash its master upon the earth, the Trader contaminates the world's water supply with the Beast's "milk", transforming many into its demonic servants, torturing the Council of Firsts, and forcing Jim Book to become the new vessel for the Beast before laying waste to Las Vegas. Devoted only to the Beast and bringing about the end of days for humanity, Hurin demonstrates how far even humanity's greatest hero can fall.
• Designated Hero: Skinner fucking Sweet. Starts out as a pure Villain Protagonist; train robber, multiple murderer, rapist-by-proxy, pimp, and Manipulative Bastard, ends the series as an acerbic but ultimately well-intentioned Anti-Hero and savior of the world, even sacrificing his own life to destroy the Beast. Meanwhile, it seems as though readers are expected to forget any of the horrible things he did.
• Les Yay: Pearl takes Hattie's betrayal very badly, as though they'd just had an extremely bad breakup. Hattie is the same way before her betrayal, tearfully demanding the doctor take her blood to replace Pearl's.
• Narm: Hattie is inspired to go from lost, drifting waif to dominating vampire queen by...seeing a terrible Sci Fi film. Also, most of Hattie's dialogue consists of overwrought ranting about Pearl which can get real old.
• Tearjerker: Now with its own page.

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