Underworld (film): Difference between revisions

* '''''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: Evolution''''' (2006) picks up immediately where the first movie ended: with Viktor and Lucian dead, Selene and Michael ({{spoiler|now the dreaded Vampire-Lycan hybrid}}) find themselves on the run from Marcus, the father of all vampires. Luckily, they are helped by Marcus' immortal father, who is just as interested in stopping him as they are.

* '''''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]].

 

* [[Anticlimax]]: In the first movie, a Lycan starts to transform and it looks like it's going to have a knock-down drag-out fight with a vampire. Said vampire is quickly knocked down and torn to pieces.

** Also in the first movie, Raze and Viktor are about to get in a big fight. The strongest vampire and the strongest lycan, Except that when Raze jumps at Viktor, Viktor catches him in midair and breaks his neck.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The vampires.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Selene's automatic pistols. Apart from the required [[Bottomless Magazines]], pistols are too underpowered to reliably stop mere people, inherently inaccurate even when shot one at a time and in Selene's case, don't even produce particularly good results with the in-universe issue of Lycans extracting or pushing out silver bullets. Notable despite [[Rule of Cool]] because EVERYONE else uses at least a heavy magnum pistol or submachine gun.

* [[Cat Fight]]: Subverted in the second film. Twice. In the span of ''[[Curb Stomp Battle|ten seconds]]''.

* [[Cleanup Crew]]: Alexander Corvinus leads a group of men, appropriately called [[Shaped Like Itself|The Cleaners]], who cover up the evidence of lycans and vampires. {{spoiler|They are all killed by Marcus in ''Evolution'', which is what probably led to humans learning of the existence of lycans and vampires in ''Awakening''.}}

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Raze is played by Kevin Grevioux, who was one of the co-creators of the story.

* [[Creepy Blue Eyes]]: The vampires and the lycans.

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Literally when Lucian leads the Lycan rebellion. {{spoiler|Lucian himself runs afoul of it when Kraven kills him.}}

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Kraven, right at the beginning of ''Underworld: Evolution''.

* [[Dying Like Animals]]: {{spoiler|In ''Awakening'' after the humans have hunted vampires and lycans to the brink of extinction. Lycans apparently went out like boars, rose up and fought the humans; and were massacred. Vampires seem to be chickens, mostly just hiding. The leader of one coven is like a mouse; but in fairness he saw what happened to the boars. Subverted in that the lycans weren't wiped out, they were able to infiltrate the government. They used humans to wipe out vampires, while secretly making themselves stronger.}}

* [[Every Helicopter Is a Huey]]: Very nearly averted in ''Evolution'' - the helicopter shown in long-shots is a modified SA 360 Dauphin that just happens to [[The Coconut Effect|sound like]] a Huey. Unfortunately, sometime between the helicopter landing and [[The Squad]] piling out the back, it's turned into a Huey anyway. In an apparent compromise, the prop used after it inevitably crashes and turns into a [[Helicopter Blender]] looks like some unholy fusion between the two.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Both vampires and lycans (except against silver in the latter's case). Best illustrated in the second film, when Selene suffers severe burns from short-term exposure to the sun, which are gone minutes later.

* [[Helicopter Blender]]: Used at the end of ''Evolution''.

** Thomas, from Awakening, [[Game of Thrones|still doesn't care for the wolf, and always pays his debts.]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Viktor, letting Selene live and turn her into a vampire, because she reminds him so much of Sonja, only to end up {{spoiler|getting killed by his "daughter"}}. In the second film, {{spoiler|Selene rips off one of Marcus's spiked wings and stabs him with it.}}

'''Lucian:''' Yes, you should have. *stabs Viktor through the mouth* But you didn't. }}

** Dr. Lane in ''Awakening'' {{spoiler|has his neck ripped out through his throat by the hybrid he created.}}

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

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: In ''Awakening''. {{spoiler|Subverted when at least part of the anti-monster purge and subsequent genetic research turns out to be a lycan plot.}}

'''Selene:''' And the life of your daughter? Your own flesh and blood?<br />

'''Viktor:''' [[Berserk Button|I loved my daughter! But the abomination growing in her womb was a betrayal of me and the coven!]] I did what was necessary to protect the species! [[Here We Go Again|As I am forced to do yet again!]] }}

** Selene initially averts this. She is ''very'' loyal to Viktor, and is well-enough known for the trait that Andreas Tannis flat-out disbelieves her when she states {{spoiler|she killed him.}}

** Arguably, Sonja also doesn't really suffer from it early on. It's only after she becomes pregnant with a hybrid child fathered by Lucian and subsequently realizes that Viktor will never truly accept Lucian as a son-in-law or the unborn hybrid in her womb as a grandchild that she finally turns on her father.

* [[Large Ham]]: Lots of them, but Viktor takes the cake. Or at least shares it with Kraven.

** He has his moments in the first, for example coming out of nowhere nasally saying, "What's... this... ruckus?". But in the third, he definitely goes for it. "I whanted to believe your liessss. I KNEW it couldn't be truenotmyowndaughter, ''how could youuu?''"

* [[Love Across Battlelines]]: Sonja and Lucian in ''Rise of the Lycans''. The [[Fur Against Fang|never-ending feud]] between vampires and werewolves becomes a full-out war because of Viktor's refusal to accept their relationship.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: The lycans have their own mad scientist, complete with German accent, in the first film. Dr. Jacob Lane in ''Awakening'' also fits the part.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Viktor is surprised when putting someone named [http://definr.com/craven Kraven] in charge of his household doesn't turn out so well.

** Selene, which means "moon".

** Alternately, proto-lycan females could've been culled after Lucian's birth, because [[Mama Bear|their instinct to protect their offspring]] made them unmanageable even for whip-wielding vampires. Lucian's mom ''did'' look ready to pounce on anyone who came near when she was killed.

** Although Lucian's mother is the only ''prominent'' female Lycan, technically two can be seen the background in the first movie. One sits on a raised platform as Raze brings his injured comrade back to the den. Another is visible among the imprisoned Lycans in the Lucian/Sonja flashback.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Kraven. Also Tanis, to a lesser extent, in ''Evolution'' and ''Rise of the Lycans''.

* [[Stairwell Chase]]: In the first film, when the Lycans find Michael and Selene's safe house.

* [[Stock Subtitle]]: The sequels.

* [[Styrofoam Rocks]]: In the commentary, the movie's creators point out in a scene towards the end of the movie that some of the stone debris from someone getting thrown through a wall can be seen to float in a pool of water. Oops.

* [[Viral Transformation]]

* [[We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum for Years]]: when Selene tells Michael about the werewolves and the vampires.

** The first movie shows German words in Michael's address, the second movie has Russian or Eastern European cops going after Michael (when he tried to eat normal food) and the fourth movie seems to be set up in either a Future American City or an [[Airstrip One]] Expy. Notice that in all movies, vehicle license plates resemble those used in European Union countries sans the country indicator.

* [[World of Ham]]