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The main plot revolves around the struggle between the Lycans, a former slave race to the vampires, rebelling and the latter vowing to exterminate them. All because Lucian, a Lycan, and vampire lord Viktor's daughter fell in love and conceived a child. Viktor ordered her killed to ensure the [[Hybrid Monster|"Abomination"]] would not come to term. Lucian escaped and the rest, as they say, is history.

In the modern day, Lycans have been "hunted to near extinction", or so the Vampire nobles think, but in reality they are gathering in numbers and planning on wiping out the vampire leadership with a plot to create their own hybrid on the eve of the vampire elders switching power. This is where Michael comes in. He is, among the descendants of the Corvinus clan, the only one with the genetic makeup capable of letting him be turned into a vampire ''and'' a werewolf. Normal humans can only be turned into one or the other; trying to "mix" causes death. Selene, a vampire Death Dealer with a personal vendetta against all werewolves, notices the Lycan's botched kidnapping of Michael, and helps him escape capture. Along the way, they begin to fall in love, an issue that gets all the more complicated when he gets bitten and starts turning into a werewolf. Can their love survive their species' natural hatred?

 

 

* '''''Underworld''''' (2003) introduces the basic setting, as well as the main characters: Selene and Michael, who are caught in the conflict between Viktor's vampire court and the rebellious Lycans led by Lucian.

* '''''Underworld: Rise of the Lycans''''' (2009) depicts the origin of the Lycan rebellion against their Vampire masters, sparked by the [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] Lucian and Sonja, Viktor's vampire daughter. [[Foregone Conclusion|As may be expected from a prequel]], it has a [[Downer Ending]].

* '''''Underworld: Awakening''''' (2012) is set approximately 12 years after ''Evolution'' and revolves around Selene, fresh out of torpor, trying to find her and Michael's daughter in the midst of [[Broken Masquerade|the extermination of both Vampires and Lycans at the hands of humanity]].

 

Not to be confused with [[The Underworld]], [[Hell|that underworld]], ''[[Ultima Underworld]]'', the band [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]], [[Coronation Street|this one]] or a [[Metro Specific Underworld]], which it may loosely reference.

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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Silver bullets are to be expected, but special liquid silver nitrate bullets are used to prevent the projectiles from being easily removed. The Lycans, for their part, have developed UV rounds for use against the vamps.

* [[The Masquerade]]: It's revealed in the second film that Sir Derek Jacobi and his merry men have been following the vampires around and cleaning up their mess. They even mention bribing witnesses to keep their mouths shut. {{spoiler|The fact that Markus kills all of them is probably what led to the [[Broken Masquerade]].}}

** [[The Unmasqued World]]: In ''Awakening'', humans have [[Broken Masquerade|found out about vampires and lycans]] and started hunting down both of them. Selene, while breaking into a sporting goods/gun store, sees vampire and lycan teeth on sale.

** Selene, which means "moon".

* [[Mono-Gender Monsters]]: Going by the movies, there was exactly ''one'' female Lycan, Lucian's mother, who was infected while pregnant. Though presumably the virus is just as contagious to both genders, the use of this trope was [[Justified]] as the vampires wanting only male lycan slaves.

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