Night Watch (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Vampires are shown to be intolerant to alcohol - getting splashed with it results in burns. Perhaps that's the reason they [[I Do Not Drink Wine|do not drink... wine?]]

* [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampires]]: Anton himself was friends with a family of vampires who lived in the apartment next to his until he killed a vampire in the line of duty.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: Subverted. Anton believes that {{spoiler|Kostya's}} body has never been found after the events of ''Twilight Watch'' and that he may be the new villain in ''Final Watch''. However, Geser almost immediately reveals that {{spoiler|Kostya's}} body was, indeed, recovered but this was kept secret from Anton because it was in a [[Deader Than Dead|very bad condition]] and Anton ''was'' his friend, after all. There is a good chance of the body simply disintegrating during re-entry.

* [[The New Russia]]: It isn't the most negative depiction, but there are a lot of references to the shady new money (with possible connections to [[The Mafiya]]) associated with this setting.

* [[No Such Thing As Wizard Jesus]]: Averted. Jesus ''was'' somehow connected to the Light, but it's unknown whether he was just an overpowered Light Other or [[Physical God|Light itself]].

* [[Not So Different]]: A repeated theme is that the line between Light and Dark Others is very fine indeed.

* [[The Reveal]]: Occurs multiple times in each book. The most notable example is the revelation at the end of ''Last Watch'' that {{spoiler|the Twilight only has six levels, and that the seventh level is simply the real world.}}

* [[Rewriting Reality]]: The Chalk of Fate.

** During the first part of ''The Last Watch'', several characters have dreams that mirror scenes from the ''Night Watch'' film adaptation. The City Light Company, which is a Night Watch front in the movies, is referred to in ''Last Watch'' as one if their former fronts.

** That book also has Anton notice Nadya watching a show with [[Happy Tree Friends (Web Animation)|a theme song going "la-la-la, la-la-la-la, and a blue moose on skis hurtling towards a group of young animals in what is clearly going to be a horrible disaster]]. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He expresses concern over his daughter watching such a thing.]]

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The "dark side", so to speak, of the Night Watch, and the main argument the Light Watch uses against them. Even [[We Didn't Start the Fuhrer|The Nazis]] came out of their attempts to change the world.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Alissa in ''Day Watch'' and to a somewhat lesser extent the other Dark Other protagonists of the novel.

* [[Wicked Witch]]: Played around with Arina. Her true form is a greatly aged crone and her depiction definitely evokes Baba Yaga. Edgar seems to be a male version (both seem to practice the same kind of magic), and his true form is likewise very aged. However, both are a subversion. Neither are that evil, and Anton notes how their true forms show this- many Dark Others become hideous demons in the Twilight, and so the fact that those two still look ''human'' speaks to their relative goodness.

 

* [[Alternate Universe]]: The PC game was basically a combination of book and movie continuities. The character designs harken back to the movie, as does the usage of mundane items to do magic, but the characters can also use spells from the books and Twilight is closer to the way it was depicted in the books.

* [[Capulet Counterpart]]: Anya, to Stas.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Played with. Ordinary guns (and later machine guns) are surprisingly effective against the lower-level Others in the PC game. Not so much with the higher-powered others, but they still do damage, which can be useful when you and your enemy are out of mana.