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** And the police think Tara's making things up when she tells them she saw a naked woman standing on the road with a pig.
** Andy lampshades this trope, saying "And people thought ''I'' was crazy 'cause I thought I saw a ''pig''."
* [[Armor
* [[Artistic License]]: In both real life and [[Classical Mythology|Greek mythology]], maenads were human women who became members of the cult of Dionysus. In the show, they're just short of being deities themselves, if Maryann is anything to go by.
** Queen Sophie-Anne [[Hand Wave|hand waves]] this by mentioning that Maryann and her kind indeed started out as human women (even giving an accurate description of how the Hellenic women became absorbed into the Dionysian cult) but through blind faith they became immortal and gained a myriad of other special powers. Also, this could be interpreted as an exaggeration of some myths that maenads gained the ability to perform miracles through worship of their god.
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* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: "Then by the power invested in me by the one true Vampire Authority, whose wisdom and justice we hold sacred, I hereby pronounce you {{spoiler|King William Compton of Louisiana.}}" This while {{spoiler|Bill}} is covered in his predecessor's blood.
** "Now go clean yourself up; you're covered in queen."
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Bill and Jessica had their problems, but {{spoiler|when Russell nearly kills her, Bill gives the loon a stern talking to, provoking the King into kicking his ass, but Bill's selflessness save her}}.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Woohoo, is this show ''full of them''. From the sociopathic Rene, and Russell Edginton {{spoiler|following Talbot's death}} to the subdued and '''apparently''' sane Lorena and Franklin. Before her reformation in Season 4, a V-addicted Debbie could count too. Even Steve Newlin happens to be this, willing to kill Sookie simply for loving a Vampire. [[Blatant Lies|Traitor to her race]], indeed.
* [[Badass]]: Godric.
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*** Hell, he counts a demi-god amongst his kills. He had help, but still...
** Sookie, for all her hang ups, is a genuinely nice person and will forgive the people she loves for a lot. But push her too far and she'll {{spoiler|laugh maniacally as she shoves your husband's remains down the garbage disposal. And she’ll make you watch.}}
** An evil example; Russell was, at first, quite pleasant and genial, and his relationship with Talbot was adorable. Even when he started getting sinister, he was still very much [[Affably Evil]]. Then {{spoiler|Eric staked Talbot}} and he [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|lost his temper in a very public fashion. ]]
** [[Nice Guy]] Hoyt sure knows how to hit the sore spots in his ex-girlfriend Jessica after half a season of being played about.
* [[Big Bad]]: The show follows the seasonal big-bad formula.
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* [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]]: Sarah Newlin
* [[Body Horror]]: From Lorena's [[Fan Disservice|infamous]] Exorcist-esque sex scene to {{spoiler|the face of a cursed Pam being rotted away, to the point where she peels a lump of flesh off her cheek}}, not even mentioning all the usual creepy stuff happening in a setting filled with supernatural monsters...Safe to say sooner or later, something's bound to either [[Squick]] you out or scare the pants off you.
* [[Bond One
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Jason.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Everyone under Maryann's influence. Also, quite a few members of the Fellowship Of The Sun ''act'' that way, especially Luke.
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{{quote| '''Hoyt''': [[Discussed Trope|We had a code, and you broke it!]]}}
* [[Broken Aesop]]: The show presents vampires as a metaphor for marginalized human groups, especially homosexuals, down to bigoted signs saying "GOD HATES FANGS" and an episode where Bill asks Sookie to marry him in Vermont. But homosexuals do not, as a rule, go around murdering people and eating them. Many vampires actually are highly dangerous, even the "nice" ones (see Jessica's [[Accidental Murder]] of a trucker). Also, gays do not have mind-control powers that they can use to force you to do their bidding.
* [[Brother
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Arlene, Arlene, Arlene. What is harassing Jessica, a young vampire with poor impulse control, supposed to achieve, exactly?
* [[Buried Alive]]: {{spoiler|Eric and Bill do this to Russell at the end of season 3. Bill also tries to do this to Eric, but he is freed by Pam.}}
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* [[Cat Fight]]: Sookie Vs. Debbie.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]] / [[Mythology Gag]] / [[Shout Out]]: In "If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'", Sookie is shown reading a [[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries|Charlaine Harris novel]].
** The first time Grandma Stackhouse appears on screen, she's reading the novel the first season is based on. [[Dude, Not Funny|She probably should have skipped to the end]].
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the first two seasons Jason Stackhouse was borderline retarded. In the third season he was just pretty damn stupid. After Joining the Sheriffs department and being forced to look after a Hotshot for a little over a year he has been forced to mature and is now fairly intelligent. (He still comes off as a bit dim every now and again but watching season 1 Jason vs season 4 Jason it is almost stunning to see the difference in character.)
* [[Chainsaw Good]]:
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** Bill threatens a ditzy college coed within an inch of her life
** and lets not forget the oft mentioned runaway drug addict/long lost Stackhouse cousin Hadley, who eventually appears as a member of Sophie-Anne's court.
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: When Jason is being interrogated in connection to the murder of a woman he was videotaped having sex with. The tape shows the woman faking her death, Jason [[My God, What Have I Done?|freaking out]] and running away, and then the woman laughing once he's gone. When the cops suggest that he came back later and killed her for real, using the tape to fake his ''innocence'', his defense, which the cops accepted, was "I'm not that smart!"
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]: In "Frenzy," Rosie reminds Jason he did this to Patsy Lyle. His defense: "She was fine when we started!"
* [[Dump Them All]]: {{spoiler|In the finale of True Blood season four, Sookie turns down all three of her love interests. In the case of Bill and Eric, it's a classic "I'm not picking either of you" ending to a Love Triangle. Alcide gets a gentler "sorry, but I don't feel that way about you" rejection. }}
* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]: Happens to Marnie when {{spoiler|she's invites the spirit of a 400 year old necromancer to possess her}}. However, we already see shades of this during her first couple of appearances; after purposefully hijacking the coven's circle for an experiment into necromancy (briefly resurrecting her dead bird) she immediately seeks to bring back a ''human being''. Lord knows where (or ''how'') she intended to acquire a body...
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* [[Fingore]]: Jane Bodehouse cuts off her own finger under the influence of Maryann. Then she [[Squick|holds up her maimed hand and shows off a mad grin]]. She eventually gets it sewn back on once {{spoiler|Maryann is killed}}.
* [[Filk Song]]: The hilarious [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8tODhvb47s "Oh Sookie"] by [[Snoop Dogg]].
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Russell Edgington
** [[The Dragon]]: Bill for a while, then Eric. Both are a [[Dragon With an Agenda]], particularly Eric.
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*** This is a case of bad book to show translation, though they are called panthers in the books, Sookie makes it clear they are actually mountain lions, they just get called panthers. Every physical description of them in the books confirms they are mountain lions.
** While most of season 3 is focused on the Russel plot and introducing us to the Weres, in some of the later episodes it begins setting up Jesus and Holly as witches, which were the focus of season 4.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: Apart from the main plot of the season, there are ''several'' (often intersecting) subplots involving the rest of the cast.
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]]: Eddie, Bill, and Jessica.
** Present Day Godric is probably the most friendly vampire on the show. He's a complete pacifist, only killing when it's necessary {{spoiler|like when he killed Gabe to protect Sookie, who Gabe had beaten and nearly raped}}. Judging from Eric's origin flashback, that used to be different back in the day.
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* [[Gorn]]: Vampires drinking the blood of humans is not pretty. Usually thre is at least a little bit of blood dripping down the human's neck. And that's if they are being civil. Then there are the times when vampires get staked and pop like bloody balloons.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: {{spoiler|Royce's death at the hands of Eric}}.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Sookie, although she has dropped several [[Precision F
* [[Green Rocks]]: Vampire blood has traces of that. It not only heals, it sharpens your senses, makes you stronger and occasionally gives you [[Erotic Dream|erotic dreams]] of the vampire it came from. It also can be used as a drug and an aphrodisiac. The effects any specific character receives from "V" seem to depend on what the writers want it to do that day.
* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: In a few cases, there are only one or two differences between the "good guys" and the "bad guys."
* [[Hate Plague]]: In order to manipulate Tara into letting her stay with her, Maryann uses her powers to cause a brief [[Hate Plague]] at Merlotte's.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: The gays as vampires metaphor is [[Anvilicious]], and usually [[Played for Laughs]]. But the rest of the time it's clear that they are ''vampires'' and are ''fucking scary''. The sole purpose of [[Troubled but Cute|Jessica's]] existence seems to revolve around this plot.
* [[The Hedonist]]:
{{quote| '''Maryann:''' We ''need'' to be out of control. We ''crave'' it."}}
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'''Bill: ''' [[Dramatic Pause|...]] He...hurt you... }}
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Parodied - The intro features the infamous Westbro Baptist Church slogan "God hates fags," modified to "God hates fangs."
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: The majority of murder victims thus far have the glassy, sightless stare. Some even have way more blood than the human body should hold pooled around them.
* [[Homoerotic Dream]]: Lafayette for Eric and Sam for Bill.
* [[Honey Trap]]: A male case with {{spoiler|Eric}} seducing {{spoiler|Talbot}} so that he'll let his guard down.
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* [[I Feel Guilty You Take It]]: Sookie gets a big inheritance—but A)she never liked that relative and B)she feels responsible for his death, {{spoiler|because Bill killed him after she told Bill her uncle hurt her}}. She gives the money to Jason, and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Ignoring By Singing]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in one episode: One of the main characters is a psychic, and one of her friends wanted to keep a secret from her. When the psychic tunes into her friend's thoughts, all we hear is "LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA".
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with Bill and Jessica, who have a father-daughter dynamic.
** And for [[Nightmare Fuel]] with Bill and his creatrix. Season 3, Episode 3 anyone? * shudder*
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Sookie regarding her power, which forces her to constantly hear all people's nasty dirty little secrets and ugly emotions. Her grandmother is the only one who sees it as a gift -- but only that when it's useful.
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode title is also the name of a song featured in the episode, often during the end credits.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Trust me--''everyone'' gets a turn with it in each season. It's not even worth listing specific examples.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Jesus to Lafayette in the Season 4 finale.
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son]]: Bill and Lorena as seen in their flashbacks. Godric and Eric. Eric and Pam. Bill and Jessica platonically, after she gets past her [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|teenaged vampire angst.]]
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Maryann feeds Tara and Eggs a "hunter's soufflé" {{spoiler|made with a human heart.}} However, Tara and Eggs are unaware of the soufflé's special ingredient...
* [[Important Haircut]]: Tara in the season 3 finale.
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** When Maryann transforms, she wears a ritualistic bull mask. Technically not a straight example of this trope since it's just costuming, but the effect is the same, giving her the appearance of a minotaur.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: In his zeal to protect Sookie {{spoiler|Bill turns on Eric, sends a killer after Pam and challenges Sophie-Anne to a fight to the death, all to keep Sookie's fairie-ness a secret.}}
* [[Long
* [[Magical Abortion]]: Arlene believes that [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]], so she tries to have one of these instead (don't ask how it's any different - it's Arlene, she isn't that bright).
* [[Magical Queer]]: Jesus. Lafayette is this in a literal sense, but he is a main character with depth and his own storyline.
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** Arlene keeps her nightie on for sex in "I Hate You, I Love You".
** Deborah Ann Woll obviously has a no-nudity clause in her contract. The measures ''True Blood'' takes to keep Jessica's nipples hidden in sex scenes while showing almost every other square inch of her body are heroic.
* [[
* [[Monster Fun Facts]]: And how!
* [[Monster Is a Mommy]]: Mavis in season four.
* [[Monster Mash]]: Russel's alliance with (some of) the Weres of Mississippi.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Russel's speech to the world after he kills a news anchor on-air. See [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] below.
** Eric is fantastic at this because he does it twice in "Evil is Going On". After Sookie has told off all the vampires in Fangtasia and Bill is glaring at Alcide, which prompts Eric to say: "Well, if you two are finished eye-fucking each other, we can go." The second time occurs in that same episode after {{spoiler|Eric tattles to Sookie that Bill had manipulated her into falling for him and Sookie kicks him out of her house.}} While Bill lies on the ground, emotionally ravaged, Eric looks at him and says: "I want my phone back."
* [[More Than Meets the Eye]]: Bill of all people. Looks like a nice enough vampire who's gone home to mainstream. As of season three we learn from the Vampire of Mississipi that Bill is an upcoming player in vampire politics. And that he may or may not be a valued agent of the Vampire Queen of Louisana.
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{{quote| '''Maryann:''' Please don't be so negative. It is ''my day''...<br />
'''Sookie:''' And you're in ''my house'', and those are ''my friends''. Plus... Jane Bodehouse. }}
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In the Season Three premiere, Jessica frantically tries to keep the trucker she fed on in the second season finale from dying.
** Season Four has a quite surprising one: {{spoiler|It's actually Antonia and not Marnie who has this reaction when their plan to wreck the reputation of vampires results in numerous innocent people being killed, and Marnie has to [[Hannibal Lecture]] her into continuing to work together.}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Anyone familiar with [[William Shakespeare]] or perhaps ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' should recognize that Sookie's in trouble the moment [[The Fair Folk|Mab]] introduces herself.
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** And in season 3 we find out that {{spoiler|she's part fairy and her blood is sought after by vampires because drinking it allows them to be safely exposed to daylight}}.
* [[Never One Murder]]: Bon Temps is a very dangerous place.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine|No, Mr. Compton, I Expect You To Dine]]
* [[Not So Stoic|Not So Sociopathic]]: Most vampires put up a front that they're violent, cold, and heartless. [[Hidden Depths|But]]...
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Tara's mother says this when Tara catches her with Reverend Daniels, and the reverend tries to spin a story about how he accidentally spilled something on his pants.
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** Reversed by Talbot (Russell Edgington's "husband") who, despite taking the more feminine role in the relationship, is taller than Russell.
** Also reversed by Eric and Godric (depending on how you interpret their relationship); Eric is practically a giant while Godric, who is depicted as the dominant one in the relationship, is unusually short for a man.
* [[One
** She returns in season four, {{spoiler|to give Pam treatment for her rotting face.}}
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: BILLBILLBILLBILLBILL. Often seems to resort to chewing the scenery to disguise it.
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* [[Property of Love]]: The series {{spoiler|at least until the third season}} has this as one of it's basic premises. Sookie have given herself to Bill out of love, without being hypnotized like so many other fangbangers. Also, being his makes her off-limits to other vampires.
* [[Plot Armor]]: Sookie. She should be dead about fifteen times over by now.
* [[Protagonist
** The vampires vs the witches. The vampires raped and murdered Antonia and her coven in the past, and in the present they attack and terrorize Marnie and her coven. But in the end, it's Antonia and Marnie who are the villains.
** Bill really does not seem to care about the welfare of humans very much. He has no moral qualms about fucking with their minds, and in season four he tells Sookie that killing innocent humans is justified if it keeps ''vampires'' safe. He kidnaps Marnie and holds her prisoner back when she's still harmless. When he arranges a peace talk with Antonia, he promises to go alone and breaks his word since he fully intends to kill or capture her rather than work something out. But since he's always nice ''to Sookie'', he's supposed to be a good guy, or at the very worst an [[Anti
* [[Precision F
** The Magister: "Back your shit down!"
* [[Psychotic Lover]]: Lorena. Even after Bill tells her multiple times that he hates her guts and can't stand the sight of her, she still has the nerve to ask him "When will we see each other again?"
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** Human Eric seems to have been some sort of proto-Jason. The vampire version isn't chaste, either.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: All the vampires except for Jessica.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: [[Nightmare Fuel|Russell gives one]] [[Humans Are Bastards|to humanity]] in "Everything is Broken". Probably the best piece of writing the show's ever had, and worth quoting in full:
{{quote| '''Russell''': Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Russell Edgington and [[Exposition of Immortality|I have been a vampire for nearly three-thousand years]]. Now, the American Vampire League wishes to perpetuate the idea that [[Not So Different|we are just like you]]. I suppose in a few small ways we are. We're [[Narcissist|narcissists]]. [[
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: The reasoning behind {{spoiler|Godric's}} suicide-by-sunrise
** Also kind-of the case with {{spoiler|Tommy Merlotte. His "skin-walking" shifting is pretty literally tearing up his insides every time he does it, but after realizing how much he's completely screwed up his life, and everyone else's lives that he's touched lately, he decides to do it one more time to encounter a surefire beat-down if not deliberate murder in his brother's place. Turns out they didn't actually want to kill him just "kick the shit out of him", but Tommy was so messed up from the shifting that it was fatal anyway, and he asked to be taken back "home" to Merlotte's instead of a hospital, since he [[Death Seeker|didn't want to keep living anyway]].}}
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** There's a copy of Bram Stoker's [[Dracula]] in Eric's office hilariously enough.
** In season two, Sam interrupts Andy who is in the midst of watching [[Dirty Jobs]] when he needs a place to hide from Maryann.
** In the season four episode ''She's Not There'', it is revealed that Marnie Stonebrook, {{spoiler|the head witch}} played by Fiona Shaw ([[Hey
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Two straightforward examples: Jessica with Hoyt and Arlene with Terry. Ironically, due to [[Fantastic Racism]], the 2 women can't stand each other.
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Reverend Newlin. He's a creepy little weirdo.
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** That and what the public sees is revealed to be totally fake when she questions Eric on behalf of the AVL. Actually, she's a huge ''bitch''.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Erik Northman is introduced with one of these shots, and he reprises the pose every time his ass touches a piece of furniture.
* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: Used hilariously by Sam when he addresses the 'God Who Comes'.
* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: "Miss Jeanette", who took Tara for approximately $1500 on exorcisms for her mother and herself. She even gave Tara "snake juice" to drink. Tara then found out she was a fake, and she more or less confessed to it. Nonetheless, Maryann's claim that she was called to Bon Temps due to Tara trying to exorcise her demon points to Miss Jeanette doing * something* right. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|she got killed for it.}}
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Russell Edgington's [[Motive Rant]] to the Magister in episode 3x07 has revealed him to be one.
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* [[Take a Third Option]]: Bill and Eric have repeatedly clashed over "ownership" of Sookie, who seems to be having trouble making up her mind. In a Season 4 dream sequence, Sookie suggests [[OT 3|an interesting solution]].
{{quote| Sookie: "I’m proposing that the two of you be mine."}}
* [[Take That]]: In Season 4, Bill delivers a ''delicious'' one when he discusses how Vampires have infiltrated and controlled powerful institutions throughout history, such as the Catholic Church in the 1600's, and in the modern day, Google and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Fox News.]] This moment also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** In [[Real Life]], Stephen Moyer was asked how he thought ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' stacked up against True Blood. His response?
{{quote| Stephen: [[Take That|What's Twilight?]]}}
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* [[Theme Song]]: Jace Everett's "Bad Things". Which is [[So Cool Its Awesome|awesome]].
* [[There Are No Adults]]: With cops and outside law enforcement agencies.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Debbie vs Sookie in season 3. "GET OUTTA MAH' HOUSE BITCH!"
** Lafayette uses this occasionally, notably to Tara and Jesus. "Just you, bitch. Just you."
* [[This Is Sparta]]:
{{quote| Godric: "Retract...your...fangs. Now."}}
** Or Russell during his [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|speech]].
{{quote| '''Russell''': "Why...would we...seek...equal...rights? You...are not...our equals!"}}
** Who can forget Queen Sophie Anne and Eric in Season three, Episode One?
{{quote| '''Sophie Anne''': *after screaming in rage, has Eric pinned to the wall* "With all due respect? I am due A LOT more respect than that, Mr. Northman. And I'm sorry to compromise your manhood like this, but hell hath no fury like a vampire queen broke. Move. The. Blood."}}
* [[Time Skip]]: A small one at the end of the first season, with a couple of months passing between {{spoiler|Rene's death}} and the discovery of {{spoiler|Miss Jeannette's body.}} There's a second one between the end of season three and the start of season four, {{spoiler|with Sookie thinking she's only been in the fairy realm for a few minutes, when it's actually been over a year.}}
* [[Title Drop]]: "Tru Blood" is the blood substitute that vampires drink so they don't have to kill people. Russell Edgington delivers a Title Drop in exactly the opposite spirit (see [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] above).
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of The Universe]]: Despite being a small Louisiana town, a lot of crazy shit happens in [[Weirdness Magnet|Bon Temps]]. Queen Sophie-Anne even [[Lampshade|lampshades]] this in Season 2 by saying how random it is that a maenad would be there ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], though she wouldn't have a way of knowing that).
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jason Stackhouse. Detective Andy. Tara (as of Season 2 and on).
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{{quote| '''Sam:''' "I'm not the killer, I swear. I'm a shapeshifter."}}
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Lafayette is gay and black. Eddie is gay and a ''[[Fantastic Racism|vampire]]''. Jesus is a gay, Hispanic, and Wiccan.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Sookie and Bill, Sam, Tara, and Jason all have separate stories that intersect with each other every so often.
** And Jessica as well, after being added to the main cast in season 2.
* [[The Unmasqued World]]
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* [[Vampires Own Nightclubs]]: Eric owns one, named "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Fangtasia]]".
* [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]
* [[Viewers
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Eric has one after finding out his attempt to kidnap Bill was preempted by someone else kidnapping Bill first.
** Russell has one when {{spoiler|he finds out that Eric has killed Talbot.}} This severely unhinges him, causing him to {{spoiler|carry [[Companion Cube|Talbot's remains in a cut crystal jar]]}}.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: "Hard Hearted Hannah", in the episode of the same name.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]:
** Eric highlights his hair in between enforcing his own sort of order in his domain.
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** Tommy after {{spoiler|taking advantage of having shifted into a Fake!Sam to sleep with Sam's girlfriend}}.
** In season 4, Jason, at the roadside {{spoiler|just before collapsing after escaping from Hotshot}}.
* [[Well
* [[Wham Episode]]: The end of "Everything is Broken".
** The season 4 finale, "And When I Die".
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** Present-day Godric appears to be a thinly-veiled parallel to Jesus; he's around two-thousand years old, talks in a level, Buddha-like voice and is a pacifist who believes that vampires and humans should coexist as equals. He says humans are justified in their hatred of vampires because of the fact that many vampires are generally cruel and savage. The symbolism is made clearer by the fact that the [[Complete Monster|Fellowship of the Sun]] planned to have him mounted on a crucifix and killed by the sunlight in front of the congregation. He even wears Jesus sandals in his last scene.
** This is a stark contrast to the Godric who appears in Eric's flashback; {{spoiler|he kills Eric's men - presumably because he just wanted one Viking, not three - then turns Eric into a vampire because he thought his fighting spirit was "beautiful" (Admittedly, he kind of asks first if Eric is okay with that).}}
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: The whole town is scandalized when Sookie takes up with Bill, and Sam in particular wonders, well you know. For that matter, a lot of viewers aren't sure what she sees in him either...
** {{spoiler|It turns out that they were right to wonder, Bill fed her his blood explicitly so that she would want him and was only interested in her because the Queen wanted him to get close to her. But in all fairness, he abandons his mission after coming to genuinely care for her. But the damage was done.}}
** It's stated in show that she finds being with Bill ''peaceful'' because she ''can't'' hear his thoughts. It would probably put you off your stroke to hear what your partner was ''really'' thinking.
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: As expected for a show set in a rural area with an extremely specific accent. Made worse by the extensive [[Fake American]] in the cast. The only one who consistently manages to even hit "Louisiana" is Sam Trammell, who is ''from'' Louisiana.
** In the fourth Season, the Mexican and Spanish accents can get this from native speakers. The normal mispronunciations that English speaking actors do are not present, and inded sometimes reverse (the lack of rolling "r" sound in words is exchanged for an exageration of said sound) which make it hard to know where the actors are from and where they learned Spanish. Doubled by the fact that 400 year old Spain Spanish is spoken in a very similar accent to modern day Mexican Spanish.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Where The Hell Is Bon Temps]]: While the show generally treats it as a distant suburb of Shreveport, the contradictory specifics of its location and travel times to other cities tend to confuse Louisiana natives.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Godric}} and surprisingly, {{spoiler|Maryann}}.
* [[Whos Watching the Store]]: Merlottes sure seems to always have employees running off. Becomes a minor plotpoint in S3, when Arlene and Terry (and maybe Jessica) are the only reliable employees at Merlotte's, and Arlene ends up forcing Sam to hire some more waitreses, because she is massively overworked and pregnant.
* [[
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: By covering her hands in soil, Maryann can transform them into bestial claws that produce a deadly neurotoxin.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Throughout the third season, and in every werewolf vs. vampire fight the werewolf (or 'wolves) has lost. Even fledging vampire Jessica managed to best one!
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*** He also tries to shoot Maryann in the head with a shotgun. Needless to say, that didn't work either.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: [[Word of God]] described Andy Bellefleur as someone who thinks he's in a [[Cop Show]]. Other characters [[Lampshade Hanging|have commented]] on this from time to time.
* [[Yank the
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Vampire Queen Sophie-Anne LeClerq, who outright states that she loves to see two men together.
* [[Year Outside, Hour Inside]]: Sookie enters the fairy realm in the season three finale. At the start of season four, she realises that time passes more slowly in the fairy realm {{spoiler|and she returns home to find she's been gone without a trace for a year. Her grandfather is also there, believing a matter of hours has passed when it's been twenty years in reality.}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: In "Release Me", {{spoiler|Maryann has a zombified Eggs kill Daphne, right after kissing her on the cheek and sweetly thanking her for her service.}}
** Karl getting shot in the head:
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