Underworld (film): Difference between revisions

** The werewolf doctor in ''Underworld'' has a family tree showing the dates for the Corvinus family dating back to the 5th century AD with Marcus Corvinus.

** And then there's Alexander, who reveals himself to have been the father of the original Marcus Corvinus; still alive after approximately 1600 years.

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Sonja in ''Rise of the Lycans''. Despite being the leader of the Death Dealers, Sonja needs almost constant rescuing.

** And for the ladies, Michael almost always fights shirtless, while in the third film, Lucian shows off just about ''everything''.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: The setting was similar enough to White Wolf's ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' tabletop RPG that there was a legal fracas over it around the time of the first film's release. Otherwise, the film is generally thought of as ''[[The Matrix]]'' with vampires and werewolves.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: If you watched the movies in production order, there's no way you didn't know how ''Rise of the Lycans'' was going to end.

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: The premise.

* [[Genetic Memory]]: Carried in the blood of both werewolves and vampires are the "parent's" memories, which can be accessed by drinking.

** The super lycan in the same film is {{spoiler|doomed by his own [[Healing Factor]]. See [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]].}}

* [[Hiss Before Fleeing]]: Vampires in general.

* [[Hybrid Overkill Avoidance]]: Why there are no hybrids before Michael.

* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Michael Corvin becomes one, specifically {{spoiler|the first Half-vampire-half-Lycan}}. Later, {{spoiler|Marcus also becomes one}}. There's also Subject 2, the daughter of Michael Corvin created in a lab. Oddly, none of them are quite the same kind of hybrid, despite being mixes of the same species.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Hybrids are TOUGH. {{spoiler|Markus, original vampire, has a magazine emptied into his face (courtesy of Selene) and then crushed between a truck and a cliff-side. He shrugs it off. Selene is only able to kill him after impaling him through the head, with his own razor wing, and throwing him into helicopter blades. [[Word of God]] is that while the [[Helicopter Blender]] killed him, he would have recovered from the impaled head. Michael is [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impaled on a pipe]], which does seem to kill; only for him to be [[Only Mostly Dead]]. Selene, a vampire immortal hybrid, might actually be indestructible.}}

** Not to mention Eve, {{spoiler|the daughter of Selene and Michael, whom Selene flat-out states will grow to become even ''more'' powerful than she is.}}

* [[Not So Different]]: Alexander Corvinus gives both this and a [[Reason You Suck Speech]] to Selene when she asks him for help killing Markus. For her response, see [[Calling the Old Man Out]].

{{quote|'''Selene:''' ''(on whether or not Corvinus could have stopped the war)'' Yes!