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* [[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.
* [[Fully -Embraced Fiend]]: Henry embraces his vampiric nature. He seduces a girl every night to secretly snack on her while doing other stuff. He does give a speech to [[Action Girl|Vicki]], including "someone has to die" in it. Coincidentally, the victim they are talking about is not dead, as Henry leads her to assume. He turned the girl. At the same time, Henry also has qualities of a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]].
* [[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.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Appears when Vicki and Henry enter a barn at night and Vicki starts going on about how she can't see in the (well illuminated) set. There are two possible justifications: 1) Henry the vampire was facing off against a were-panther, both of whom had no problem seeing in the dark, so the audience was seeing it from their point of view, and 2) Vicki has retinitis pigmentosa, so it appeared darker to her than it actually was.
* [[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 (Film)|The Exorcist]]''. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|It doesn't go well.]]}}.
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: "Bad Juju."
* [[Horny Devils]]: Emmanuel the gardener.
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* [[Raised Catholic]]: Henry.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Henry was only seventeen when he was turned.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: Sadly goes awry, when this time {{spoiler|Helen is born ten years ahead of her lover Lee since he was in a coma before dying, and has already married and gotten knocked up by the [[Romantic Runner -Up]], having waited for him for several years.}}
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Henry actually has a night job that he makes money from (comic writing), but he seems to have saved up well over the years. Plus, well, the crime-fighting with Vicki.
* [[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.}}
* [[Self -Mutilation Demonstration]]: Henry demonstrates his vampiric nature to Vicki by shoving a knife through his hand.
* [[Serial Killer]]: Magnus.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Vicki and Henry are supposed to be this in a symbolic way. Vicki's retinitis pigmentosa means that she can't see at night. Henry's vampirism means that he will be seriously hurt by daylight. Her realm is the day, his is the night.
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