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* '''''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 (
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: Kraven.
* [[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
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: In the first film, one of the vampire lieutenants decides the best way to fight a hulking werewolf in an environment with many projections and obstructions is to uncoil a pair of silver razored whips. {{spoiler|It doesn't work out when one of his whips gets wrapped around one of the projecting pieces of structure.}}. Viktor also whips out a pair of large knives from his sleeves during his battle with Selene.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Fan Service]]: Selene's entire wardrobe composes of leather catsuits. The men are lucky--or villains--if they get more than pants.
** 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 ''[[
* [[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.
** Watching them in ''chronological'' order, however, takes away the first movie's twist that {{spoiler|Kraven didn't kill Lucian}} as Selene claimed in her [[Opening Narration]]. Either way, you will be spoiled--though the chronological order can still work okay if you like [[Internal Reveal|internal reveals]].
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Lycan doctor Singe managed to put behind [[Das Boot|his U-boat experience]].
** Thomas, from Awakening, [[Game of Thrones|still doesn't care for the wolf, and always pays his debts.]]
* [[Hoist
** And Viktor again, in ''Rise of the Lycans''. When Lucian is born, he gets the feeling that he should kill the infant, but doesn't, leading to the following exchange:
{{quote| '''Viktor:''' I should have crushed you under my heel the day you were born!<br />
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** There's also a few distinct mentions of female Lycans within the novels of the movies.
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: William Corvinus is the Progenitor of all Lycans. Markus Corvinus, his brother, is the progenitor of all Vampires. Unlike other Lycans, William cannot change back to a human. Markus, unlike other vampires, is capable of changing form to that of a vampire with bat wings, giving him flight; but only after he becomes a hybrid.
* [[New Powers
** Somewhat justified as, in ''Evolution'', she {{spoiler|became a hybrid 'True Immortal' and Vampire thanks to Alexander Corvinus.}}
*** Additionally, the {{spoiler|heart-pump was preceeded by slashing her own palm open, presumably to allow her enhanced blood to infuse and alter the deceased, albeit to a lesser extent or on a temporary basis.}}
* [[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
** 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.}}
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: As the first vampire, Markus managed to convince the other vampires that killing him would destroy all of them, and killing his brother William (the first lycan) would destroy all lycans--thus depriving them of their slaves. When Selene hears about this a thousand years or so later, she immediately sees it for the [[Subverted Trope|lie it is]], but the one telling it to her notes that Victor believed it enough to not risk it.
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* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Kraven, probably accurately, believes that Viktor only turned Selene because she reminded him of his dead vampire daughter. {{spoiler|Which becomes ''really'' awkward when its revealed Viktor killed his daughter, and Selene's family.}}
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Selene does this in ''Awakening'' {{spoiler|first to search for Michael and later to rescue Eve.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Marcus, and also Selene, if you consider Viktor, the vampire who infected her, to be considered her "father."}}
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Raze.
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*** He does appear to have lost his gun.
* [[Treasure Chest Cavity]]: Viktor has one half of the key to William's prison hidden inside his chest. (The other half is hanging around Lucian's neck, or at least was in the first film.)
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: [[In
* [[Vampire Monarch]]: Marcus Corvinus is the first of the vampire elders.
* [[Viral Transformation]]
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* [[World of Ham]]
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Kraven gives Selene a vicious slap to the face.
* [[Written
** Selene [[Genre Savvy|shows signs of being aware of this]]. She recognizes that Kraven is not enough of a warrior to have actually killed Lucian, but as the only survivor could claim that he did. She also initially comments that the Lycans started the war, but then admits that that is what is said anyway. By the second film, she's (accurately) assumed virtually everything Viktor has said is a lie.
* [[You Sexy Beast]]: Vampires are sleek and seductive, dressing in stylish gothic fashions. Werewolves are brawny, rough-and-tumble men in leather. [[They Fight Crime|They have sex]].
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