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{{quote|''"''True Blood'' makes teen drama ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' look like an after-school special on the Lifetime network. It's...for grown-ups, with enough plot twists and turns to shock your brain into overload."''|examiner.com}}
''[[True Blood]]''
The opinions of the public concerning the vampires vary: some people idealize vampires, others scorn them, the rest keep a mostly neutral side. The anti-vampire movement is also fueled by the fact that the vampire blood is extremely addictive to humans, and is known on the black market as the drug ''V''. As a result, there exist ''drainers''
Other supernatural creatures - such as [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shifters]], [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|were-animals]] and [[The Fair Folk|fairies]]
The plot mainly follows Sookie Stackhouse, a young bar waitress from the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Sookie's a telepath, which makes life extremely problematic for her at times.
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* [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]]: The Fellowship of the Sun, a cult running on a quite scary flavor of silliness.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Inverted. Chow is described in the books as being very attractive, with long black hair and a body covered in rare tattoos. In the show, he's short and chubby with a short head of hair. Unusually for a vampire show, the ratio of human-to-vampire attractiveness tends to be about equal, even with a margin for error.
* [[Adaptation Decay]]: Very, ''very'' loosely follows the books. Later seasons only pay lip-service to the plot of the book the season is based off of
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: While the books had Sookie as the sole POV character, the show has more of an ensemble cast, leading to characters getting bigger roles or changing completely, and minor subplots growing to major storylines. Depending on who you ask, this is done with rather mixed success.
** Maryann's role in the show was greatly expanded from her role in the book, in which Callisto (the character Maryann was based on) is confined to a very small subplot. {{spoiler|She attacks Sookie in order to make Eric aware that she's in town and demands tribute (which she receives). Later, she shows up at a sex party, revels in the drunken sexuality for a little while, and kills most of the people in attendance
** Tara, Sookie's best friend, was given a much bigger part, in addition to completely changing race, personality, and... well, everything else.
** Lafayette was a minor character in the first book and
* [[Adorkable]]: Seriously, you have to be some kind of irredeemable asshole not to find Hoyt charming in some way.
** Amnesiac Eric in Season 4 is ''no exception''.
* [[Affably Evil]]:
* [[Agree to Disagree]]: Steve Newlin says this to Sookie when she's disgusted at his belief that God hates vampires.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Tara's mom.
* [[Alien Blood]]:
** Maryann, and presumably other maenads, have black blood that is poisonous to vampires.
** {{spoiler|Sookie's blood might also fit due to her being part-fairy
* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: Shreveport, the third-largest city in Louisiana, serves most of the urban needs for the setting. This smartly averts the usual problem with fictional towns when they have more institutions and specialized businesses than their size would suggest.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Sookie has a spectacularly hideous yellow Honda Civic that's older than she is.
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** While not that bad, Bill is definitely darker than Sam, and both vie for Sookie's affection. Guess who wins?
*** Inverted when Eric becomes a major character; Sookie's attraction to him is inversely proportional to how evil he's being at the time, and he loses out to the more family-friendly Bill on every occasion.
** Alcide is a genuinely caring man, and it looked like his relationship with Debbie was going to be it. Then along came Cooter, an idiotic, V-juice addicted leader of a werewolf biker gang. Debbie decides to marry the latter. Later, Debbie and Alcide get back
** Jessica dumps loving, kind Hoyt for bad boy Jason.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Tara for Jason, Sam for Sookie, Eric for Sookie, Alcide for Debbie. Although most of them move on in one way or another.
** In the second and third season, Lorena's "relationship" with Bill essentially embodies this trope.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Except Hoyt, Terry, and Alcide.
* [[All Myths Are True]]/ [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: We've seen vampires, shapeshifters, werewolves, ''werepanters'', fairies (also known as aliens), a maenad, a witch, and a few ghosts so far.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: In the first season, most folks are wigged out by Sookie's telepathy and rationalize it that she's crazy or mentally weak. If they won't rationalize it, they use it as a reason to be cruel to her. They are also somewhat wigged out by Bill and vampires in general.
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: In the season finale of
** Tara with
* [[The American Civil War]]: Bill's a veteran!
* [[Amnesiacs Are Innocent]]: {{spoiler|Eric}}.
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Priapism brought on by drinking vampire blood is amusing if the person it happens to is a [[Jerkass]] womanizer who doesn't listen to anything but what's behind his zipper.
** Lorena gets this a lot, thanks to Bill and whatever he can get his hands on. Most notably a flat screen TV.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Authority, though it is not so ancient, as it has been around only a couple hundred years.
* [[And I Must Scream]]:
** Setting up Season 4's major cliffhanger, considering {{spoiler|the parking garage that he was silvered and buried in is now a glorified hole
* [[And This Is For]]: Cooter [[Kick Them While They Are Down|kicking a chained up Bill]] in "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" for killing some of his pack.
* [[Angry Black Man|Angry Black Woman]]: Tara.
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* [[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.
** The
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: If
* [[Artistic Title]]: Opening credit sequence is one of the creepiest things ever.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the books,
** Also,
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Sarah has a habit of using [[The Bible]] to seduce Jason. Lafayette and Lettie Mae quote scriptures to try and free Tara from Maryann's spell. Lafayette notes the irony when he tells Lettie Mae, "Just because Jesus and I have agreed to see other people don't mean we don't talk from time to time."
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Played straight with Godric and Eric, but ''totally'' subverted with Queen Sophie-Anne, who apparently relies on luck more than anything. It's revealed in the third season that Eric was only letting her kick him around because of his respect for her rank; {{spoiler|when he switches sides, Sophie-Anne is ''screwed
* [[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
** "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
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Woohoo, is this show ''full of them''. From the sociopathic Rene, and Russell Edginton
* [[Backstab Backfire]]: This is how
* [[Badass]]: Godric.
** Eric's no slouch, either. Until he was [[Badass Decay|freaking neutered]] by Antonia's [[Mind Rape]] in Season 4, that is.
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** Lafayette, too. That AIDS-burger scene may have been [[True Blood/YMMV|narm]] but he beat the crap out of those rednecks.
* [[Badass Crew]]: Bill, Eric, Pam, Jessica {{spoiler|and a flamethrower}}, [[Power Walk|power-walking]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It is as it sounds]].
* [[Batman Gambit]]:
* [[Bed Trick]]: When Tommy shifts into Sam, he doesn't seem too concerned about having sex with Luna, the woman Sam's been seeing.
** He initially resisted her advances, but as soon as she took off her top, [[Distracted by the Sexy|all bets were off.]]
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Louis Pasteur - Vampire, and the one who led the effort to
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Come on, Bill and Eric. Even Sophie-Anne admits to Bill, "You two really should just fuck each other and get it over with. I could watch." Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Sookie doesn't like people talking trash about her to her brother. Just... ''[[Groin Attack|don't]]''.
** Likewise, don't ever insult Sookie in Jason's presence. Or try to hurt her, for that matter.
{{quote|"''DON'T YOU '''EVER''' TALK ABOUT MY SISTER''."}}
** Lorena's is being told that Bill doesn't love her. {{spoiler|She tried to kill Sookie for it
** "''HOW '''DARE''' YOU SPOIL MY OFFERING''!"
** You better not criticize Godric in Eric's presence. Or compare him to Bill Compton.
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** Apparently, calling Sam a pussy (or stealing from him) ain't so crash-hot an idea, either. See [[Beware the Nice Ones]].
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Amy once described the high on [[Fantastic Drug|the illicit drug made from vampire blood]], V, as being better than sex.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Amy is generally an easy-going flower child...
** Season 3
*** 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
** 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.
** In
** Season 2 has
** In
** In
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Subverted in
** Jason rescuing Sookie and Eric in Season 2
** Then subverted again when Jason and Andy try to go and kill Maryann {{spoiler|only to make it barely through the crowd where both are almost immediately turned into zombies
** Jason arrives just in time to save Tara from Franklin. And it was awesome.
* [[Big Eater]]: Maryann. She ordered the entire menu when she went to Merlotte's. She also has a seemingly endless supply of tropical fruit and exotic food. Her favorite secret ingredient for her recipes also seems to be {{spoiler|a human heart
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Russell, the King of Mississippi, has one of these. It literally has a crown on top of it.
* [[Big No]]: Sookie has one when she
** When Russell senses that
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Occasionally subtitled.
** Maryann's Greek incantation, which she uses to turn people into hedonistic zombies, invokes the names of Bromius, Dendrites, Eleutherios and Enorches, which are epithets of Dionysus/Bacchus. The "Io io" part is an ancient Greek interjection (ἰώ), used, among other things, to summon gods.
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** Eric often gets to converse in (spotless, modern) Swedish, mostly with Pam, but also in his flashbacks. His companions' accents fluctuate in quality between astonishingly good and, well, not so good, depending on who it is.
** Talbot occasionally mutters Greek [[Angrish]] to himself, often when storming off in a huff.
** In Season 3, we get a German [[Bilingual Bonus]].
** And Yvetta the Estonian cardiologist-turned-stripper speaks Russian with surprisingly mild accent. Justified, since it would be more logical for Eric and Pam to have learned modern Russian than for them to have learned modern Estonian.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]:
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** That bitch {{spoiler|Daphne}} was working with Maryann all along.
** There's also Nan Flanagan, spokeswoman for the American Vampire League. She seems nice enough on television (especially compared to the Newlins), but in person, she's ice cold.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Pam, Sophie Ann and Tara. Eric might
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Tara.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: "That's Maryann's ''energy inside'' of them!"
* [[Blessed with Suck]]:
** Poor Jessica. She soon discovers that her hymen is going to keep regenerating no matter how many times she has sex. So every time will be like her rather painful (but later pleasurable) first time.
** Vampires in general have superhuman abilities, as well as [[Kryptonite Factor|KryptoniteFactors]]. And older, more powerful vampires become increasingly vulnerable to sunlight, a millennia-old
** Being a medium can be useful, since you can talk to and listen to spirits. If you aren't able to keep them from possessing your body whenever the mood strikes them, however, it's much more of a curse than a blessing.
* [[Blonde Guys Are Evil]]: In
* [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]]: Sarah Newlin.
* [[Body Horror]]: From Lorena's [[Fan Disservice|infamous]] Exorcist-esque sex scene to
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Season 4, a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Eric is about to twist Bill's head off and says, "Here comes death." Sookie distracts Eric long enough for him to let Bill go, Bill turns around and says, "Not for me!" and shoots Eric and two other vampires sent by Antonia to kill him.
* [[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.
*
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Jessica: For the first few episodes after she becomes a vampire it seems like she just has one horrible experience after another
* [[Bridezilla]]: Maryann in the second season finale. "''YOU'' brought this upon everyone!"
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: An unfortunate police officer soils his uniform after a close call with Bill.
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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-Sister Incest]]: Avoiding this is Crystal's reason for abandoning her fellow were-panthers.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Arlene, Arlene, Arlene. What is harassing Jessica, a young vampire with poor impulse control, supposed to achieve, exactly?
* [[Buried Alive]]:
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: When you make a show about the supernatural even a character that's [[Killed Off for Real]] can come back. Gran and Rene pop up in the Season 4 finale.
** So does Steve Newlin, who wasn't Killed Off For
* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Lafayette does not get a boyfriend until
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Sam gets to do it to ''both'' his biological parents after he discovers {{spoiler|they force his brother who's also a shapeshifter into dog fights
* [[Camp Gay]]:
** Lafayette combines a [[Camp Gay]] wardrobe with a [[Hard Gay]] personality. He manages to be just one of the guys on the road crew and as a short order cook, often while rocking guyliner.
** Averted by Talbot, King Russell's consort. He's clearly the "femme" partner in their relationship, but he behaves more like a politician's hard-nosed wife than a mincing, limp-wristed [[Camp Gay]]. The actor based his performance on his Greek mother.
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Jason's girlfriends in Season 1 have a high mortality rate.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Detective Andy for the second half of
** Lafayette's mother Ruby Jean tells him "You've got power, boy. That's why they're coming for you." This may be [[Infallible Babble]], but she also once told him he could breathe underwater.
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Jason in "I Hate You, I Love You".
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Inadvertently, Bill's pronunciation of Sookie's name.
** Lampshaded by Sookie herself in Season 3 Episode
* [[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]].
* [[Chainsaw Good]]:
** Jason, as he turns road construction equipment into an impromptu arsenal. {{spoiler|Subverted in that the chainsaw doesn't do him much good
** Subverted again with Jessica in
* [[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
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Maryann's statue. {{spoiler|According to Maryann, the reason Sam is "the perfect vessel" is because he appeared to Maryann a naked virgin drawn to the statue, which represents the rebirth of Dionysus
** The Greek mythology book Bill was seen reading in a flashback becomes integral in Maryann's defeat.
** The gloves Bill stares at that he later uses to free himself from a silver chain.
** The shotgun with wooden bullets given to Jason from the Fellowship of the Sun's vampire-killing arsenal in Season 2 {{spoiler|is later used by Jason to kill Franklin in Season 3
* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]:
** Debbie in
** Maryanne is frequently seen sporting one of these.
* [[Chew Toy]]:
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* [[Classical Movie Vampire]]: Russell Eddington, King of Mississippi, though he is perhaps the only one so far.
* [[Clear My Name]]:
** Jason is accused of crimes he didn't commit in the beginning of
** And Sam's got in on the action, as well. The police in Bon Temps sure seem to be a ''gullible'' bunch, don't they?
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Many, if not all episodes end with Sookie getting into a situation she is woefully unable to handle all by her little human self. Both the first and second season have also ended with a cliffhanger.
** Taken even further in the
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
** What most of Bon Temps thinks Sookie is.
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* [[Comic Book Time]]: The first three seasons took place over what can't be more than about eight months, which certainly puts things like the Sheriff's reaction to ''yet another'' murder in his county and Sookie's fatigue about the constant violence in her life since she met Bill in a rather startling perspective when you think about it.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The werepanthers' cat forms are clearly animated. While real wolves are used for the werewolves, it was probably much harder for the studio to secure properly-trained panthers.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In
* [[Conveniently Coherent Thoughts]]: There are occasionally a few stray thoughts that don't give Sookie exactly what she's looking for, but they still almost always fall into line with what we expect the character to think ("this jerk better leave right now" "Doesn't she look like a tasty little meal" etc..) and never anything random like "did I water my plants?" or "what a cute skirt, I could use one like that."
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Grandmother Stackhouse. She's an old Southern lady, proper and prim, but she's also very sweet, funny, and doesn't take shit from anybody.
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* [[Cradle of Loneliness]]: Russell does two grisly variants.
* [[Creator Cameo]]:
** Charlaine Harris, the author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries book series, makes a brief appearance in the
** In the first episode, there are pictures posted behind the bar at Merlotte's, one of which is of Charlaine Harris and Alan Ball.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Jessica. That smile of hers... [[Squee|it's overpowering!]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: All of a sudden in Season 3, everyone gets one (
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Though they both deal with the same general themes, the books have a lighter feel to them than the show, for which many of the characters from the books were given [[Darker and Edgier]] "make-overs
** In the books, Russell Edgington is described as a "gay Hugh Hefner" and is a rather laid-back vampire, although notably his people
** Calvin Norris in the books was the noble patriarch of a backwoods Southern family and had a normal and successful blue-collar job. On the show, he is a violent, white trash meth dealer.
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]:
** Sookie indulges in taking matters into her own hands because of her power-related problem.
** When Jason takes the vial of V, he spends hours trying to make his problem go away and ends up having to get the blood drained
** Tara does while showering
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Pam and Tara.
** Eric and Kenya are not too bad, either.
** Talbot was well loved by fans for his snarky comments.
* [[Death by Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Calvin Norris, [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
* [[Death by Irony]]: {{spoiler|Maryann cut out the hearts of her victims as offerings to Dionysus; Sam defeats her by ripping ''her'' heart out
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Eric's father, mother and little sister were all killed
* [[Death by Sex]]:
** The victims of the murders in
** {{spoiler|Talbot}} in Season 3. And killed with
* [[Death Seeker]]:
** {{spoiler|Maryann}}, apparently, along with {{spoiler|maenads}} in general.
** {{spoiler|Godric}} too.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Franklin full stop. Hot Vampire? Check. Cool calm and collected figure? Check. Mysterious past? Check. Bat-themed detective? Check. His own ''theme music''? Check. Psychopathic, socially-retarded, psychologically-damaged man-child with severe [[Psychotic Lover]] qualities? '''Double''' Check.' Makes you rethink how romantic the phrase "we'll be together forever" really is.
* [[Deep South]]: The show manages to delve into many issues plaguing the American South—poverty, racism, homophobia, drug abuse, child abuse, and religious extremism—without demonizing the setting or the people therein.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]:
** It took quite a while until anyone in Bon Temps apart from Sam noticed that Maryann wasn't just a slightly kooky, bohemian social worker.
**
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Any Wiccan worth their athame knows that Samhain is pronounced "sowwen" as it is a Gaelic word. So when a Marnie-possessed Lafayette pronounces it wrong, any knowledgeable neo-pagan would notice it stick out like a sore thumb.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Sam. Emphasis on ''[[Just for Pun|dogged]]''.
* [[Domino Revelation]]:: Vampires appear first, then shifters, goddesses, fairies, and werewolves.
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: Rusell breaks into a newsroom and rips out the news anchor's spine to show the world what vampires are really like before turning it over to the weather.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Somewhat. Bill, Sookie and Jason return from Dallas to find Bon Temps in utter chaos due to Maryann.
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* [[The Dragon]]: Gabe for Reverend Steve Newlin. "Eggs" for Maryann.
* [[Dramatic Wind]]: "Lo, lo, Enorcheeeeeees..."
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] during Antonia's spell {{spoiler|to force all vampires to Meet the Sun
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Maryann had the most anticlimactic defeat ever
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: In
** Pam in
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]:
** Tara, with regard to her alcoholic mother.
** Andy on being basically kicked off the squad for being the only non-idiotic person in the entire town.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Especially vampire blood used as a drug. And
** Jason has a *
** Bill threatens a ditzy college coed within an inch of her life
**
* [[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...
* [[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!"
* [[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!"
* [[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}}.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Good lord, if it wasn't before then it certainly is by Season 4. As of now, there's not a single relationship on the show that doesn't involve one of these: lies, cheating, accidental incest or one of the parties having questionable sanity.
* [[Emergency Transformation]]
* [[Emotion Eater]]: Maryann feeds on the lust, anger and pride generated by those around her.
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* [[Erotic Dream]]: Basically, everyone who ever drank directly from a vampire and is halfway important: Sookie of Bill and Eric, Lafayette (reportedly) of Eric, Tara of Franklin, and Sam... of Bill. Got turned around once, when Eric had one of Sookie. Jason has one of Jessica.
* [[Eternal Love]]: Russell and Talbot. ''Maybe'' also Bill and Lorena, depending on how you define their relationship.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Surprisingly,
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Stupid and bigoted, Maxine Fortenberry oppresses her adult son, and {{spoiler|plots with Summer in order to destroy his relationship with Jessica
* [[Expansion Pack Past]]: Sam.
* [[Exposition of Immortality]]: During Season 1, Bill is invited to speak at a Church meeting for descendants of Civil War families, since he actually fought in the American Civil War. A photo from the period has been turned up that's of Bill and his mortal family.
** Talbot hissy-fits over the tapestry that gets used to put out Lorena after Bill throws burning oil on her because it's centuries old.
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the
** Pam sprays water containing silver particles into his eyes in
** Arlene has a blood vessel in her eye burst, apparently telekinetically, by {{spoiler|her baby, Mikey
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Tara flirts with this in Season 4, but ultimately changes her mind.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Nan Flanagan's "gay stormtroopers".
* [[The Fair Folk]]
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Bill has sex with Lorena and then breaks her neck and ''turns her head 180 degrees'' while still humping her! Don't worry, she's a vampire, so not only does she live, ''she enjoyed it!'' Quite possibly the most hilariously unappealing sex scene in the history of television.
* [[Fang Thpeak]]: Intensity varies by character. Jessica's bad for it.
* [[Fan Service]]:
** Eric's fanservice was ''off the charts'' in the Season 3 opener. His first appearance featured him completely naked having wild sex with a tied up woman and then calmly discussing
** The fanservice is kicked up several more notches by Alexander Skarsgard confirming in Rolling Stone that he was genuinely naked in every nude scene.
** Alcide is a werewolf, which means, of course, he has to be naked before and after transformations.
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** Crystal, Sophie, Lorena - [[It Makes Sense in Context|do we need to say any more]]?
* [[Fanservice Extra]]: Several, most notably [[Playboy]] Playmate Tiffany Taylor as the spectacularly gorgeous nude woman that Nan Flanagan is cavorting with in the back of a limo in Season 3.
* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: The waitresses at Merlotte's wear very tight, skimpy uniforms. Also, the existence of a shirt on Lafayette is questionable at best in some of his scenes in the kitchen, so there's something for the ladies.
** [[Fan Yay|Just the ladies?]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Sam doesn't mind the idea that vampires can have rights; he just doesn't want them in his bar. He is actively insulted, though, if you call him
** Vampires say that humans "do not feel pain as we do" to justify mistreating them; never mind they were all human once themselves. This is probably intended as a parallel to how humans treat animals, with the same - false - justification.
** The Fellowship of the Sun is a religious movement that can't condone killing vampires but sure does cheer when it happens.
* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: Russell's fate:
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: '''Sookie'''. She runs headfirst into any problem boasting that she can take care of herself, but the number of times Sookie has gotten herself out of a mess she put herself in or got into by accident can be counted on one hand. People are ''constantly'' saving her and yet she still acts like the sassy [[Action Girl]] she believes herself to be.
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]: Maryann's sacrificial rituals consist of orgy raves. Her attempted sacrifice of Sam plays out like a festive white wedding.
* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Arlene's baby with Rene survives a [[Magical Abortion]] and seemed to give her nightmares afterwards. Then things got even weirder and creepier, and Arlene worried that the baby was being possessed by the ghost of its father.
* [[Fiery Redhead|Fiery Redhead Vampire]]: Hi there, Jessica.
* [[Filk Song]]: The hilarious [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8tODhvb47s "Oh Sookie"] by [[Snoop Dogg]].
* [[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}}.
** [[Big Bad]]: Russell Edgington.
** [[The Dragon]]: Bill for a while, then Eric. Both are a [[Dragon with an Agenda]], particularly Eric.
*** Albeit the latter in a [[Fake Defector]]-y sort of way.
** [[The Brute]]: Coot, leader of Russell's werewolf [[Mooks]].
** [[The Evil Genius]]: Franklin, Russell's [[Psycho for Hire]].
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Talbot, ''good God'', Talbot. Also Lorena and Queen Sophie-Anne
* [[Flash Back]]: Lots of Sookie thinking on her past. And Tara on hers. Sam gets a bit in
** Eric and Godric also had [[The Dung Ages|a]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|few]].
* [[Foot Focus]]: Sookie washing Eric's feet early in the fourth season,
* [[Foreshadowing]]: A lot of things from later books have already shown up.
** After Miss Jeanette is killed, Tara's mom tells her "There's something evil out there that wanted her soul. If you're not careful, it'll come for yours." Right then, Maryann shows up and pulls Tara into a hug.
** In
*** 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
* [[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.
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* [[Functional Genre Savvy]]: Bill, surprisingly: "I am a vampire. I am supposed to be tormented."
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Steve Newlin, and, by extension, the entire Fellowship of the Sun church.
** Maryann takes her devotion to Dionysus *very seriously*
* [[Fur Against Fang]]:
* [[The Gambling Addict]]: Sophie-Anne. Her success seems to vary- she sucks at scratchies, but kicks ass at Yahtzee.
** Sophie's gambling was supposed to show her terrible financial situation, which is why she had Eric
* [[Genetic Memory]]: Both Jesus and Lafayette receive and share visions of their magic-using ancestors after doing some V.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Sookie getting out of the car all huffy so she can go running alone through the dark woods. Of course the plot armor saved her.
** Tara not realizing that a mysterious social worker showing up out of nowhere and inviting her to live in her mansion where everything is handed to her on a silver platter is just a ''little'' suspicious, not to mention too good to be true.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sookie, to a degree. She thought silver only worked on werewolves.
* [[A God Am I]]: Maryann. Or at least, that's what her little suck-up {{spoiler|Daphne}} thinks.
* [[Gorn]]: Vampires drinking the blood of humans is not pretty. Usually there 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}}.
* [[Go Seduce My Arch-Nemesis]]: Maryann uses {{spoiler|Daphne}} in an attempt to lure Sam in.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Sookie, although she has dropped several [[Precision F-Strike|precision F-strikes]], usually avoids swearing. She even uses "fudge" as a euphemism. She has also called Eric a "big, lying A-hole".
* [[Go Through Me]]: See [[Stupid Sacrifice]] below.
* [[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."}}
** In "I Will Rise Up", she's on the verge of tears when Tara and Eggs comment that the followers of hedonistic religions were crazy.
* [[Hemo-Erotic]]:
* [[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.
* [[Hesitation Equals Dishonesty]]:
{{quote|'''Sookie:''' Did you kill my uncle?
'''Bill: ''' [[Dramatic Pause|...]] He...hurt you...
* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Parodied - The intro features the infamous
* [[Homoerotic Dream]]: Lafayette for Eric and Sam for Bill.
* [[Honey Trap]]: A male case with
** {{spoiler|Bill}} is one for {{spoiler|Sookie
** Lorena for Bill.
* [[Horny Vikings]]: Eric. Duh.
* [[Hot Men At Work]]: Jason, Lafayette and Hoyt work on the road crew.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The show includes HBO's usual touches.
* [[How's Your British Accent?]]: British actor Stephen Moyer famously struggles to manage an American accent. It must have been a relief when a flashback scene put Bill in an English punk rock bar, and he was able to speak in something pretty close to his natural voice.
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Well, not ''literally'' human. Attempted by Maryann with Sam Merlotte and by the Fellowship of the Sun with Eric.
* [[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 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
* [[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
** Bill has this attitude due to being forcibly made vampire by Lorena.
** Jessica was enjoying her new strength and freedom up until she realized she has a self-healing hymen, will never have babies, and can't control her murderous urges around her boyfriend's spiteful mother.
** Sam regarding being a shapeshifter. So what if he can change into any animal of his choice? He just wants what every man wants. A good life, a good woman.
* [["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"
* [[Important Haircut]]: Tara in the
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Jason displays these on the Fellowship of the Sun's shooting range. Even more impressive is that he nails every target while in a fast-moving quad, not to mention hitting
* [[Insubstantial Ingredients]]: "Your blood tastes like freedom." (Sookie's blood allows vampires to walk in sunlight, at least for short periods
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]:
* [[In the Blood]]: Arlene fears
* [[I See Dead People]]: Lafayette seems to develop this.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Most of the story arches on the show involve a situation that starts out as moderately horrible and then gradually escalates to such a point that you're surprised the characters come away from it without post traumatic stress disorder.
** What's worse, the audience usually sees the bad things coming before the characters do, making watching the show a little like watching a
* [[Jerkass]]:
** Eric, both [[The Sheriff|doing his job]] and occasionally, in his spare time. Naturally, not everyone agrees with this categorization. He's a [[Love It or Hate It|polarizing character]].
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** Jason's rival Luke. Although it could be argued he's more [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
** Many of the vampires, especially in their behavior towards humans.
** Detective Andy, in Season One and early Season Two. Good Lord, Detective Andy. Constantly dribbling an [[Idiot Ball]], he's convinced that he is a good cop even though he's actually a drunk who likes to jump to conclusions and genuinely make an ass out of himself, especially after he gets fired and then ''continues to interrogate people without a badge
** Tommy Merlotte. It's a bit low to act like a dick to the one member of your family who looked out for you, and double so
*** Possibly explained by [[Freudian Excuse]] given in the
*** And the first time he shifts into a human being - his brother Sam who just saved him from prison - he succeeds in both [[Kick the Dog|''firing Sookie'']] AND being a total douche with Sam's girlfriend '''that he just fucked'''. Hardly justified, even with his [[Dark and Troubled Past]].
** Arlene. She antagonizes Jessica basically for being in the same room with her, takes weeks to tell Terry that her baby isn't his, and worst of all
*** Slightly justified as
** Sam towards the latter end of
** Tara is loyal to Sookie, but in general she is a very unpleasant person.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Bill attempts this on seeing Lorena at Russell's house.
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: Though by Sookie's reaction, the bite ''hurts'', she says the pain was only temporary.
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: {{spoiler|As of the
* [[Large Ham]]: "Who ordered the hamburger with AIDS?"
** Bill however is easily the most consistently hammy of all the main characters, with shining examples such the notorious "Sook-eh", and a personal favorite of mine, "Jason mah blood can save her!"
** Don't forget, "STOP... Sook-eh is mahn!" Also, when Bill confronts Lorena about how she "deprahved me of mah freedom... mah home... mah humaniteh! I will nevah. evah. love you!"
** Franklin has his moments, especially before his
** Also for Franklin is his "Look how fast I can type 'motherfucker'! Look at that!"
** Russell. His is the TRUE face of VAM-PIAHS!
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* [[Left Hanging]]: The show never fully explains exactly why Maryann was so obsessed with keeping Tara and Eggs by her side, when in fact they had no role in her master plan to {{spoiler|sacrifice Sam}} that couldn't have easily been filled by anyone else.
** Hand-waved by Michelle Forbes; Maryann keeps Tara and Eggs by her side because their emotional turmoil and distraught make them easy prey, since she feeds on human emotional energy.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Sookie and Bill have a warm, positive tune which plays over their romantic scenes, probably to
* [[Lesbian Vampire]]: Pam, though she occasionally goes after men to mix things up. So is Nan Flanagan if her one and only sexualized scene is anything to go by. Queen Sophie-Anne
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Show Godric is quite a bit nicer than his book counterpart. And that includes his flashback self.
*** He's actually got two book counterparts- Godfrey and Appius Livius Ocella- and he's significantly better than both of them ''combined''.
** Although not much has been revealed about Sophie-Anne's background story, it's obvious she wasn't turned at twelve like her book counterpart.
* [[A Load of Bull]]: In the Season Two finale, {{spoiler|Sam takes the form of a white Brahman bull to trick Maryann into believing she successfully summoned Dionysus. Then he impales her on his horn}}.
** 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.
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Sam finds out his birth-parents are still alive, and heads off to find them at the end of season two. {{spoiler|Turns out he has a brother too}}. His relationship with them as well as their... shall we say "[[Abusive Parents|curious]]" family dynamic is shaping up to be the Sam plot of Season 3.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Sookie gives up a little on Bill when he leaves her with no promise to return. And because he tends to do things without explaining to her.
* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: Tara's affection for Eggs causes her to pick up the [[Idiot Ball]] late in the second season, and in the beginning of the third season, when
** Sookie and Bill tend to bring the stupidity out in each other, their single-minded devotion to each other apparently leaving little room in their brains for any coherent, let alone reasonable, thoughts.
* [[
* [[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.
* [[Male Gaze]]: And [[Female Gaze]] too. Lots of shots of breasts and cleavage, but also several shots of shirtless men, or men's bare behinds, or clothed (and unclothed) crotches. Note that this isn't always necessarily [[No Yay|erotic]].
* [[Malignant Plot Tumor]]: The Maryann plot in
* [[Man Child]]: Jason and Hoyt. Also Andy and and Talbot show some traits.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]. From what we hear about Debbie's and Alcide's relationship, she was a pretty dark version of this trope back then. By the time we see them, though, she's dumped him and gone [[Axe Crazy|even crazier.]] Also Amy in
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Maryann and Lorena.
* [[Marriage to a God]]: Maryann's master plan is to wed herself to Dionysus by sacrificing the "perfect vessel". Said vessel happens to be {{spoiler|Sam
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** Maryann's surname is Forrester. Maenads live in the woods.
** Eric Northman. He is, in fact, a former Viking.
** Crystal. Guess what kind of drugs her pounce is involved with?
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Godric. {{spoiler|He killed himself for his sins
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read]]: Sookie hears a lot of things that she'd rather not.
* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Sookie can't help hearing the thoughts, but she's heroic and nice, and will defend even her [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|brother]].
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: A shop assistant sees Bill with Eric and comes to the wrong conclusion, somewhere at the start of
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: In
** After an "anonymous" tip, Sam is discovered at Merlotte's by police
* [[Mistaken for Racist]]: Arlene is stupid enough to use the phrase "you people" when talking to two black people (she meant religious types... maybe).
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: Used rather blatantly after Sookie and Eric have sex. Borders on [[Fridge Logic]] since Sookie was on full display moments ago.
** Arlene keeps her nightie on for sex in "I Hate You, I Love You".
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* [[Momma's Boy]]: Jason's best friend, Hoyt.
* [[Monster Fun Facts]]: And how!
* [[Monster Is a Mommy]]: Mavis in
* [[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
* [[Morality Pet]]: Godric might be called that in regard to Eric.
** Pam, though morally gray herself, has an awful lot of [[Pet the Dog]] moments with Eric in
** Fittingly, Eric is possibly the only person who makes Pam show a more emotional side.
** Talbot, for Russell.
* [[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 Mississippi 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 Louisiana.
** Season Four reveals that {{spoiler|he has been working as an agent for the American Vampire League since the 80s and is part of a conspiracy to take over the vampire power structure}}.
** Lafayette, drug dealer, gigolo, overworked hedonist. Who has two legal jobs and an illegal one, to support and take care of his mother who may or may not have disowned him prior to her mental deterioration.
** Eric's entire character is like this. Eric is actually an old and powerful vampire but does not have an interest in vampire politics or living extravagantly. This often leads to people making wrong assumptions about him which he is more than happy to subvert in a number of bloody ways. He is also very 'feudal' in his approach to loyalty which some might erroneously construe as weakness and subservience.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: In a subversion of usual Hollywood casting, there's only one average-looking man in the cast (Andy Bellefleur); the others are all muscle-studs each with their fair share of admires (even... ''especially'' the more depraved ones like Eric and Franklin). The women on the other hand are slightly more ranged in appearance.
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: Russell and {{spoiler|what's left of Talbot}}.
* [[Murderer POV]]: Sookie gets to see these in image flashes sometimes.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: From the second season finale, during Sookie's exchange with Maryann.
{{quote|'''Maryann:''' Please don't be so negative. It is ''my day''...
'''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.
* [[Neck Lift]]: Pam does this to Tara in "Cold Grey Light Of Dawn".
* [[Never One Murder]]: Bon Temps is a very dangerous place.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Sookie's magic-light-shooting-out-of-her-hands thing.
** Bill just got in some of the action with voice mimicry and the apparent ability to float.
** And in
* [[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.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Yvetta the Estonian dancer. Written off by Eric and Pam as an airhead gold digger,
* [[Oh Crap]]: A quite subtle one in
** {{spoiler|The spirit of Marnie}} coming back to possess {{spoiler|Lafayette}}. Lafayette's reaction is priceless.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Greek Chanting]]:
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* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: The Authority.
** It can be safely assumed that more details about the Authority will be revealed as the series progresses.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Dr. Ludwig, in Season Two, who heals Sookie after {{spoiler|Maryann attacks her}}. She appears to be nothing more than a very frail [[Miniature Senior Citizen]], but she's very knowledgeable of magical healing, is somewhat abrasive and has no apparent fear of vampires whatsoever.
** She returns in Season Four, {{spoiler|to give Pam treatment for her rotting face}}.
* [[One Head Taller]]: Followed by most of the heterosexual couples on the show.
** 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.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: BILLBILLBILLBILLBILL. Often seems to resort to chewing the scenery to disguise it.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: The religious imagery (Order) and sexual debauchery (Chaos) in the opening. All mixed with images of animals, death and rebirth.
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** They live in a sunlit realm full of trees and flowers and crystalline ponds.
** They enjoy sunshine, swimming, dancing, and being naked while doing any of these things.
** As of
** They can enter the human realm and interbreed with humans.
** Their blood is addictive to vampires, and as a result they hate and fear them.
** They have some kind of odd
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]:
** Silver burns vampires quite badly.
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** Vampires can appear in mirrors and are unaffected by crosses and holy water.
** With some exceptions (Bill, Eddie, Godric, Jessica), the vampires treat humans like pets at best, and snacks at worst.
** Apparently, the older vampires get, the more susceptible they are to sunlight:
** Vampires have some sort of psychic connection with people who drank their blood directly from the source - they sense their emotions and can find them anywhere, the person in question has [[Erotic Dream
** Similarly, makers seem to have some connection with their progeny, which means they can find them, mentally call them - and feel when they die.
** The older a vampire, the less blood they require.
** Some vampires can ''fly''.
** Vampires can do nifty
** Vampires have ''extremely'' gory deaths when they are staked,
** The fangs on ''
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]:
** They can transform at will, even during the day.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Sookie and Jason were raised by their grandmother after their parents were killed in a flood. Also, after the first time Sam transformed (accidentally) into a dog, his parents packed up and left him.
** Tara (to an extent) as her mother was a raging alcoholic.
* [[Panthera Awesome]]: Werepanthers,
* [[Path of Inspiration]]: The Fellowship of the Sun.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Eric
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Most of Bon Temps under Maryann's influence.
** Also played straight- more or less- when Sookie walks in on Eric in
* [[Plot Armor]]: Sookie. She should be dead about fifteen times over by now.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Sookie [[Character Development|gradually develops into this]] over the course of the seasons, arguably taking the bravery part of the trope a bit too far.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The show goes back and forth on this, but mostly the police are just completely outclassed when dealing with supernatural entities, and sometimes seem a bit clueless.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]:
** Not kills per
** Andy acting as a witness to Maryann's orgy. [[You Have to Believe Me|"A bull! In a dress! With claws!"]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Jason speculates on the [[Power Perversion Potential]] of Sam's powers.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Sookie, as mentioned above. Also Maryann's outburst of "YOU '''FUCKING''' MORONS!"
** The Magister: "Back your shit down!"
* [[Product Placement]]: Oh, what a cruel hand fate has dealt me, for I can no longer see the light of day, or eat normal food. Thank goodness I have my [[Nintendo Wii]] to pass the time. Well, [[Biting the Hand Humor|he used to.]]
** Fresca!
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** Abita Beer, a Louisiana microbrew, is mentioned at Merlottes, including a neon sign prominently behind the bar.
** "Powers can't be traded like fucking Pokemon cards!"
* [[Property of Love]]: The series
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]:
** 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
* [[Psycho Sidekick]]: Roy, one of the witches in Marnie's/Antonia's coven, who {{spoiler|tries to goad Tara into shooting Sookie and gets excited when he sees Bill's commandos gruesomely killed by three vampires}}.
* [[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?"
** Franklin Mott is an excellent male example of this.
{{quote|Tara: We need to talk.
Franklin: Don't say that. Women say that, everything goes black, and I wake up surrounded by body parts.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]:
** Eric, most notably in the third season.
**
* [[Punny Name]]:
** "Eggs" Benedict.
** The name of Eric's and Pam's club, "Fangtasia", also fits. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Bill, who tells Sookie that many vampires are fond of puns, due to them formerly being regarded as high humor.
** The name of the werewolf bar that Sookie and Alcide visit in the third episode of
** The last name of Alcide's werewolf ex-girlfriend, Debbie Pelt.
* [[Racist Grandma]]: Hoyt's awful mother Maxine, who hates Methodists, Catholics, black people, and (more justifiably) vampires.
* [[Rape Tropes]]:
** [[Attempted Rape]]: Sookie is almost raped by {{spoiler|Gabe}} before {{spoiler|[[Badass|Godric]]}} intervenes.
** [[Rape as Drama]]:
*** Franklin and
*** And in "Hotshot" with Crystal, Jason, and the other females
*** And in
** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Averted. When Arlene realises that she and Terry had sex during the black-out caused by Maryann's spell, she becomes deeply concerned that she may have coerced him (Terry had previously avoided physical intimacy because of his PTSD), saying "I think I might have done something terrible."
{{quote|Tara: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Are you telling me you date raped Terry Bellefleur?"]]}}
** Also averted with Crystal and every nubile female in "Hotshot", as they
*** Not quite so averted. The director of the episode, David Petrarca, and Alan Ball have basically said that [http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2011/07/true-blood-if-you-love-me-why-am-i-dyin.html he deserved it].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Jason has had sex with almost every willing female to cross his path, except his relatives - and poor Tara.
** 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.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]:
** "Bad Things" by country music singer Jace Everett. Yes, ''country music'' singer.
** Each of the closing themes are real, and usually [[Title Drop|reference the episode title]].
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: [[Nightmare Fuel|Russell gives one]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|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]]s. [[It's All About Me|We care only about getting what we want no matter what the cost]] just like you. Global warming, perpetual war, toxic waste, child labor, torture, genocide, That's a small price to pay for your SUVs and your flat screen TVs, your blood diamonds, your designer jeans, your absurd garish McMansions! Futile symbols of pertanence to quell your quivering, spineless souls. But no, in the end we are nothing like you. [[Living Forever Is Awesome|We are immortal]]. Because we drink the [[Title Drop|true blood]]. Blood that is living, organic and human. And that is the truth the AVL wishes to conceal from you because let's face it [[To Serve Man|eating people is a tough sell these days]] so they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA but make no mistake. '''[[Beneath the Mask|Mine is the true face of vampires!]]''' Why would we seek equal rights? [[Fantastic Racism|You are not our equals.]] '''We will eat you. After we eat your children...''' [[Mood Whiplash|now time for the weather. Tiffany?]]}}
* [[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]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Tara saving Sookie from being shot by Debbie}} can be viewed as this, especially {{spoiler|after she willingly signed on with Marnie earlier in the season}}.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: It seems that werewolves are even less apt at taking on vampires than regular humans. Why they continue to pick that fight is something of a puzzle (although, I guess most of them aren't that bright...).
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Lisa, Arlene's daughter who's like ''ten'', dressing as a pregnant tramp for Halloween because she loves ''[[Teen Mom]]''.
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]
* [[Regional Riff]]: The music is designed to invoke the American South.
* [[Religion of Evil]]: Maryann's Dionysus worship. The Fellowship of the Sun might also qualify.
* [[Right Through His Pants]]: Averted throughout the series, [[Fan Service|to the joy of the]] [[Mr. Fanservice|female]] and often [[Even the Guys Want Him|male]] viewers: most recently with Eric and his new Estonian dancer in the
** With the exception of a scene between Bill and Lorena...
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Antonia wants to kill every single vampire in the world. Even [[Adorkable|amnesiac Eric]].
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: Duprez, one of the Vampire Sheriffs of Louisiana.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Lafayette warns Jason that if he's using vampire blood for sexual purposes to have one drop, two at the maximum, or things will get "intense, and ''not in a good way''". Jason, downs an entire ''vial'' and pays the price for it.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: See [[And I Must Scream]] above. {{spoiler|Invoked when Eric mentions how Russell should be effectively contained for at least 100 years in concrete and silver, which Russell laughs off as "a nap" for him, swearing that he will get out
**
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Subtly done with Jesus and Holly revealing their magical abilities towards the end of
* [[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|Rene}} had some issues.
* [[Sex Equals Love]]: Hilariously subverted when Sarah Newlin was ready to leave her husband after two sexual encounters with Jason... and then thinks he's a spy sent to prey on her, and she can no longer justify what was really just lust.
* [[Shaking Her Hair Loose]]: Bill asks Sookie to take the clip out of her hair and shake it free before their first kiss.
** Jessica in
* [[Shaky POV Cam]]:
* [[Shapeshifter Identity Crisis]]: Tommy seems to be starting one, growing out of his self-loathing from
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: In a flashback (
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Tara and Jason after
** The ship resurfaces in
* [[Ship Tease]]: After breaking things off with Bill, It looks as though the SS Sookie/Alcide was getting ready to set sail. But after
**
*** And as of
** Eric, Eric, Eric... oh, and Eric. So much more satisfying in the books.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] -- "I would love to just rip you open and wear your ribcage as a hat."
*** Also, when Jason, while "confronting" a vampire in a training scenario breaks a nearby flagpole in half in order to get a wooden stake, another trainee angrily asks him if he thinks he's "some kinda Muslim Buffy with a dick
** ''[[Blade]]''.
** The vampire hotel in Dallas is called [[Carmilla]] after the eponymous character in Sheridan Le Fanu's classic novella.
** ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
** [[Dorothy Parker]], of all things.
** ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'' a couple of times. When Jason's strength is temporarily enhanced by V, Arlene remarks that she watches ''[[WWE Smackdown|Friday Night SmackDown]]'' with Rene and that nobody on that show, strong as they are, had ever done anything like what Jason just did. In the second season, Hoyt's seen watching ''[[WWE Raw|Monday Night Raw]]''.
** In
** There's a copy of Bram Stoker's ''[[Dracula]]'' in Eric's office hilariously enough.
** In
** In the
* [[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.
** He reappears at the tail end of the
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Literally. After eating Maryann's souffle, Tara and Eggs begin to physically assault each other before having sex on the living room floor.
** Bill and Lorena in
* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Lafayette's client is not above doing V and having sex with men, but he opposes gay and vampire rights as a senator. Also Nan Flanagan: she lies when she says she survives solely on TruBlood.
** 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 *
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Russell Edgington's [[Motive Rant]] to the Magister in
* [[Soft Glass]]: Averted; Tara's mother hits Tara over the head with a bottle and it doesn't break.
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: A vampire's fangs will come out when they get worked up.
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* [[Stealth Insult]]:
{{quote|Jason: "You know I was sitting in that jail and thinking of all the stupid stuff I've done."
Sookie: "That must've kept you busy."
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Sookie's telepathy.
* [[The Stoner]]: Holly enjoys smoking the occasional joint. She describes it as "Nature's valium".
** Hinted at with Terry.
{{quote|'''Arlene''': (smells burning sage) "Smells like pot."
'''Terry''': "Not really."
* [[Strawman Political]]: The Fellowship of the Sun.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: Maryann killing Daphne.
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]: Roy says that if any vampire wants to get to Marnie, they'll have to go through him. One of the vampires he's addressing happens to be a very pissed off Eric Northman. Take a guess at whether Eric is reluctant to lethally go through Roy. Now take a guess as to how much his stand ends up helping Marnie. The answers are, respectively, "He really, really isn't
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Tara's a lesbian now. What?
** Could be a case of [[Rape and Switch]].
* [[Suicide by Sunlight]]
* [[Super Loser]]
* [[Supernatural Elite]]: The vampires operate on a feudal system. A Vampire King/Queen claims a territory and appoints sheriffs to administer it for him/her. Usually, the most powerful and/or oldest vampire becomes the monarch, however, the position can be reached if a vampire is politically connected with the Authority who seem to be a governing council above the monarchies.
* [[Surprise Incest]]: Bill finds out too late that the
* [[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 [[OT3|an interesting solution]].
{{quote|Sookie: "I’m proposing that the two of you be mine."}}
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** In [[Real Life]], Stephen Moyer was asked how he thought ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' stacked up against True Blood. His response?
{{quote|Stephen: [[Take That|What's Twilight?]]}}
** Another ''Twilight'' Take That comes after Hoyt breaks up with Jessica. He throws a copy into a box of her possessions labeled "For you, monster
* [[Tears of Blood]]: '''''True Blood''''' vampires cry blood because [[Our Vampires Are Different|they have no other body fluids]].
** [[Unfortunate Implications|So when a male vampire has an orgasm...]]
* [[Teens Are Short]]: Tommy and [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Godric]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]]
* [[Thank Your Prey]]: Blitzed on vampire blood and in the midst of sex with Jason, Amy turns and slurs that they ought to thank their supplier/kidnapping victim Eddie "for the gift he's given us." Eddie replies with a "Fuck ''you.''"
* [[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
** Lafayette uses this occasionally, notably to Tara and Jesus. "Just you, bitch. Just you."
* [[This Is Sparta]]:
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** 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
{{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
* [[Title Drop]]: "
* [[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 [[
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jason Stackhouse. Detective Andy. Tara (as of Season 2 and on).
** Sookie also runs in fourth place to this trope because she constantly runs into danger without a plan, and worse, without a weapon. See Season 3
** Another notable example of Sookie's shining intelligence occurs in the third episode of
** Bill. Double-crosses Eric, binds him with silver, dumps him into a pit to be buried in cement... and then ''just walks away'' before it even covers Eric's head.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Jason Stackhouse definitely has his moments in Season Two.
** And in Season Three Jason gets even better.
** Jessica in Season 3. And Sookie to a lesser extent.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Lorena, in "It Hurts Me Too". After Bill pins her against a wall and tells her that he'll never love her, she kisses him. He does not react well to this, first going for her throat with his fangs, then responding to her urging him to make love to her by doing so extremely violently to the point that he leaves several cuts on her chest and twists her head around 180 degrees. Lorena ''loves every second of it'', and dreamily says "Oh William, I so love you."
* [[To Serve Man]]: Human hearts. Mm, mm, finger-lickin' good.
{{quote|'''Eric''': "We're always happy to serve humans here at Fangtasia--and I don't mean for dinner."}}
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Eric gets a [[Mind Wipe]] from Lafayette's coven in Season Four.
* [[Trickster]]: Eric and Maryann.
* [[Trigger]]: Layfayette gets a blatant one after {{spoiler|getting out of the vampires' dungeon}}. Terry, Iraq vet, gets an implied one after finding his wife {{spoiler|covered in blood. Don't worry, she's okay
* [[Trust Me, I'm an X]]:
{{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
* [[The Unmasqued World]]
* [[Vampire Bites Suck]]: Subverted with Bill and Sookie because it's done in the course of consensual sex. Played with in the form of Fangbangers, whose personal kink is getting bitten and drunk from. But for the most part, anybody being bitten against their will is ''not'' going to enjoy it at all, and the vampires are usually shown ripping away chunks of flesh in the process of drawing blood.
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* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Nan Flanagan is a firm believer in this. She has scientific evidence, too!
* [[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
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: "Hard Hearted Hannah", in the episode of the same name.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]:
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** Then there's Maryann popping by Merlotte's for some lunch.
** Queen Sophie-Ann seems to spend most of her time playing children's board games.
*
* [[Virus Victim Symptoms]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Eric and Pam are Type 2.
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* [[The Voiceless]]: Big John from Merlotte's kitchen.
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: When Maryann calls upon the powers of Bacchus, her voice gets this [[Evil Sounds Deep|deep]] echo.
** Not so sure if its [[Evil Sounds Deep]]... more like 'someone stepped on a bag of mice'.
** Lampshaded when Jason {{spoiler|acts as the god-who-comes to save Sam from being sacrificed. He also gives some pretty awesome imitation evil laughter, and the rest of the effect is provided by Andy with a flashlight. Amazingly, it works
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Tara, after drinking the "snake juice". Also, the waitress at the vampire bar after {{spoiler|Longshadow}} got staked. Bill after trying to do in Maryann.
** Tommy after
** In
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: One way to interpret King Russell Edgington.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The end of "Everything is Broken".
** The
* [[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 Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]:
** 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 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's Watching the Store?]]: Merlottes sure seems to always have employees running off. Becomes a minor plotpoint in Season 3, 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.
* [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: Variant 1: Arlene finds out that she's pregnant with Renè's child, and despite feeling immensely guilty about it, tells Terry that it's actually his. She actually never told him it was his, just didn't correct him at first. And she latter DOES tell him.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Godric}} and surprisingly, {{spoiler|Maryann}}.
* [[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!
* [[Worthless Foreign Degree]]: Why else would Yvetta go from being a cardiologist in Estonia to a dancer in an American vampire bar?
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Happens more than once.
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]
* [[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
* [[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:
{{quote|'''Maryann''': Aww, poor Karl... you didn't really advance much in this lifetime.}}
* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: Andy throughout
** Although sometimes he's claiming something that's relatively legit. Ergo, "PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG!"
** And near the conclusion of
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Steve's [[Freudian Excuse]] for becoming a [[Sinister Minister]].
** In the Season Three episode "Trouble", Eric finds evidence that {{spoiler|Russell and his werewolves}} killed his father. And his mother. And his ''infant'' sister.
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** Probably also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the redneck vamp:
{{quote|Fuck me? I'll fuck you, boy. I'll fuck ya... * fangs* ... and then I'll EAT ya.}}
** This is an establishing moment for the series: [[Your Vampires Suck]] because ours aren't all decked out in goth attire, have some sort of ethnic accent, or are [[Large Ham
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