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{{work|wppage=Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel)}}
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{{quote|''The following article has been approved for publishing because it serves the cause of the Light.''|''Night Watch''}}
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'''Other works in the Franchise:'''
* [[Night Watch (2004 film)|''Night Watch'' (2004 film)]]
* [[Day Watch (film)|''Day Watch'' (film)]]
* [[Night Watch (video game)|''Night Watch'' (video game)]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Zabulon may be the head of the Moscow Day Watch (making him incredibly powerful, several centuries old, and probably the most ruthless and dangerous Dark Other in the former Soviet Union) and the sworn enemy of the Night Watch in general and Geser in particular, but he is generally polite and friendly to everyone, seems to have a certain fondness for Anton, generally acts as though he is enjoying himself immensely, and regards Geser as a beloved rival (it is even implied in ''Twilight Watch'' that part of the reason that neither Geser or Zabulon have advanced beyond the rivalries of the Watches is because they enjoy playing out their rivalry). It's mentioned somewhere that Zabulon is nearly a millennium old. And he remarks to Gesar that he had dreamed that they would one day work together, during the climax of ''Twilight Watch''. While giggling in a slightly less-than-sane way.
* [[And I Must Scream]]
** The spell that the Inquisitors suggest that Anton use {{spoiler|to defeat the ultimate vampire Kostya}}, is called the Sarcophagus of Ages. It locks the victim and the caster in said sarcophagus together until the end of the universe.)
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* [[Evil Redhead]]: Alisa Donnikova
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Both the Light and Dark have contempt for vampires and werewolves, with the Dark seeing them mostly as useful pawns and the Light tending to assume they are [[Exclusively Evil]], since the Others who become them tend to be the type who would go for eating innocents. Interestingly enough, both groups provide examples of rare [[Dark Is Not Evil]] Dark Others. Not exactly [[Exclusively Evil]] but rather too animalistic to be considered proper humans. In the case of vampires, they may also turn people into new vampires who, without proper initiation and guidance may turn into real monsters (as shown in the first part of ''[[Day Watch]]''). The same thing can happen with werewolves. Vampires and werewolves are the only Others who can turn humans into their kind ({{spoiler|until ''Twilight Watch'', that is}}).
* [[For the Evulz]]: Light Others are generally prone to seeing Dark Others like that. Dark Others tend to be more [[Pragmatic Villainy|pragmatic]] though. At some point, the Night Watch determines that a group of Dark Others are trying to resurrect an ancient and powerful Dark Other and confront the Day Watch over it. The Dark Others balk at the suggestion, wondering why ''anyone'' would resurrect a certifiably insane Dark Other who would be of no use in politics and would probably [[Scaled Up|turn himself into a dragon]] and [[Chaotic Stupid|burn down a few cities]] before [[Magic Versus Science|getting shot down by human jets]].
* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: In ''Day Watch'', [[Amnesiac God|Vitaly]] discovers that his bag is full of dollars and immediately thinks he's up to something illegal.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Alisa refers to Anton as this in ''Day Watch''. She sees his act in the previous novel of draining others of happiness so that he could prevent himself from turning heel as the kind of selfish individualism that a Dark One should strive for.
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: The plots of the first two books were basically about [[Xanatos Roulette|Xanatos Roulettes]] by Moscow Night Watch and Day Watch, respectively, which usually lead to [[Gambit Pileup]].
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