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* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Averted with Henry, whose eyes go black when he puts on his [[Game Face]] and while under hypnosis, as he is a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] ([[Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness|for a given value of "friendly" anyway]]).
* [[Body Surf]]: "D.O.A."
* [[Born-Again Immortality]]: The lovers in "We'll Meet Again" had this power. They would [[Reincarnation|reincarnate]] after death, and their memories would return [[Puberty Superpower|once they reached puberty]]. They would find each other and spend another lifetime together as a couple. {{spoiler|Things go awry when the woman dies in an accident which simultaneously puts the man in a coma for ten years.}} When he reincarnates as Lee and finally gets his memories back, he can't find her.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: "Heart of Fire" is a good example of this: the ultra-handsome, charming and quirky Henry Fitzroy is physically tortured by a mad priest, who beats, drains and starves the vampire into confessing his sins so the priest can kill him. The priest also enthusiastically Breaks the Cutie by showing him videos of his ex-girlfriend betraying him, trying to bait him into exsanguinating [[Love Interest|Vicki]], and twisting a device that's lodged around Henry's heart with metal spikes. As the final Break the Cutie moment, he even kills a cute little rat Henry had spared despite his desperation for blood.
* [[Charm Person]]: Henry, via [[Compelling Voice]]. Vicki is resistant.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Henry.
* [[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
* [[Fantasy Helmet Enforcement]]: A bizarre example, where a child is shown sneaking out of the house to ride his bike. Just because you are the evil spawn of a dark elf, sneaking out of the house to murder one of the neighborhood children, that's no reason to ignore bicycle safety.
* [[Fight Clubbing]]: "Necrodome." Yeah, guess what the twist to that one is.
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* [[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.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Appears when Vicki and Henry enter a barn at night and Vicki starts going on about how she can't see
* [[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.]]}}.
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: "Bad Juju."
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'''Vicki''': "Isn't everybody?" }}
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: The girl with the imaginary friend in "Gifted."
* [[Muggle and Magical Love Triangle]]: Vicki's
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Mrs. O'Connor.
* [[Nerd]]: Norman, combined with [[Loners Are Freaks]] and [[Stalker with a Crush]].
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* [[Rain of Blood]]: One of a villain's victims drips onto Vicki.
* [[Raised Catholic]]: Henry.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Henry was only seventeen when he was turned.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: Sadly goes awry
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Henry actually has a night job that he makes money from (
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: The opening credits of "Wrapped" (at least in the TV version) feature "Guset Stars."
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: In the series finale, a demon makes Vicki choose between the life of one of her friends, or the power to save the world, which includes reversal of her near-blindness. {{spoiler|She chooses her friend.}}
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* [[Trophy Room]]: Of shapeshifters.
* [[Truncated Theme Tune]]: ''[[Blood Ties]]'' has a full theme song and opening sequence, but (at least on Lifetime Real Women where it's currently being rerun), the theme is cut down to a title card and brief musical clip, and the credits are all shown during the next scene.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Det. Mike Cellucci is asked for his badge in the finale. Considering he's been threatened with it for two seasons and finally
* [[Undercover As Lovers]]: Vicki infiltrates a fertility clinic by posing as a patient and gets Mike to pose as her husband.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Henry and Vicky.
* [[Vampire Hunter]]: Monsignor Javier Mendoza is a
** Interestingly, the only anti-vampire weapon they show him having is a sun-shaped Chinese-made object that weakens a vampire to the point of a human being stronger. The object has to be physically attached to the vampire's chest to work, requiring trickery, given the vampires' speed.
** Mike attempts this too in early episodes, and helps Javier
* [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]]: Henry is a master at performing the [[Kiss of the Vampire]], so there's a long line of bimbos who want to jump his bones. (The book version is cheerfully bisexual, [[No Bisexuals|but this version is apparently straight]].)
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Vicki. Her demon tattoos draw supernatural things to her, explaining why all of her cases suddenly have to do with monsters and demons.
* [[Wendigo]]
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: "
* [[Wipe That Smile Off Your Face]]: A voodoo witch does this to Coreen.
* [[Wunza Plot]]: She's a Canadian police detective who is slowly losing her sight. He's a vampire. They fight crime!
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