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[[File:blood-ties_2382.jpg|215px|thumb|[[Muggle and Magical Love Triangle|Our Love Triangle]].]]
''[[Blood Ties]]'' (2007-2088) is a [[Canadian Series|Canadian Live Action]] [[Vampire Detective Series]] set in [[Toronto]], the old haunting grounds of ''[[Forever Knight]]''. It ran two seasons for twenty-two (22) episodes total on [[Lifetime]].
The series is based on the ''[[Blood Books]]'' by Tanya Huff. [[Vampire Detective Series|The leads are a private investigator, a vampire, and a cop]]. This show [[Played With|plays with]] and subverts several tropes of the [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] genre: we are supposed to sympathize with Henry, but he isn't "friendly" in the conventional sense.
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Strictly speaking though, Henry is the [[Non-Human Sidekick|Vampire]] [[Sidekick]] of this equation. The actual lead is [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Victoria]] [[Weirdness Magnet|"Vicki"]] [[Occult Detective|Nelson]], a human [[Private Detective|PI]] and [[Career-Ending Injury|former cop]], who's wound up specializing in cases from the unearthly side of the tracks. There is a [[Love Triangle]] between Henry, Vicki, and Vicki's [[New Old Flame]] [[Friend on the Force|(Police) Detective]] [[Cop Boyfriend|Mike]] [[Agent Scully|Celluci]], [[Muggle|also human]].
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* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: Mike dies in Vicki's arms after being shot, but Henry hits the [[Reset Button]] on the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] and he's fine.
* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Though in this case, Vicki has a spare pair and they're really just to let Mike know she was in the area.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Henry. Not only is he a [[Bishonen]] vampire with sexy curly hair and a tragic romantic past, but he spent large quantities of the story with [[Shirtless Scene|his shirt off or ripped to shreds]], lounging/writhing around in bed (again shirtless). He's also artistic, multitalented, superstrong, cute, chivalrous, and has a lot of funny stories about his past.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: [[Danny Trejo|Pacha Camac]] is an [[Mayincatec|Incan]] priest who has himself mummified so that he can be resurrected in the future.
* [[Fakin' MacGuffin]]: In "Norman", the heroes Vicki and Henry are forced to give a magic dagger to the demonic villain Norman when he kidnaps Vicki's secretary and holds her hostage. Norman needed the dagger to complete a spell to release the uber-demon Asteroth into the world. However, unknown to the audience, Vicki and Henry had first taken the dagger to a priest to have it blessed before they gave it to Norman, so that when he used it, his spell of summoning failed and he was sucked back down to Hell.
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* [[Game Face]]: Henry extends fangs, and his eyes go black.
* [[Goth]]: Vicki's assistant Coreen is a fairly well adjusted Goth. She even has an episode where she gets Vicki to solve murders at her Goth club.
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: In "5:55". Done at night on this show, of course. It's not entirely clear what actually causes the loop, but it seems to be triggered by {{Spoiler|opening Pandora's Box}}.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Appears when Vicki and Henry enter a barn at night and Vicki starts going on about how she can't see. This trope is justified in-universe by Vicki's retinitis pigmentosa making it seem darker than it actually was, and additionally by Henry (and the were-panther antagonist's) supernaturally acute night vision.
* [[Hollywood Exorcism]]: Coreen is possessed in the final episode by [[Big Bad|Astaroth]], forcing Henry to seek the help of a priest who has done this before. An obvious [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Exorcist]]''. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|It doesn't go well.]]}}.
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