The Midnight Chronicles: A Demon's Kiss Tropes List
Vampire Story Tropes List
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-The Vampiress has no qualms about feeding on children.
--Similarly, the redneck gang in the flashback arc. Despite orders, they appear to have zero problems with trying to kill Derrick and Tina.
---It gets even worse when the family is cornered by the corrupt police who slam Derrick and Tina down against the cars and shove their guns against their heads with clear intentions to blow their brains out if their family doesn't surrender. You can feel how utterly terrified the kids are in this nightmarish scenario.
----The Cannibals were perfectly happy to beat down on innocent children and sell them to clients for god knows what.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier
-Certainly one of the darkest CoE stories to date.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdultFear
--The vampiress changing into a child to manipulate another child into letting her inside. Now imagine an adult doing the same to a child and spying on her while she's asleep. Heck, just the notion of a stranger roaming around your house while your whole family is asleep and you don't even know she's there.
--See the above entry about the trucks ramming and attacking the family while there are children in the cars!
---Just the fact that someone would actually hire a group of killers to abduct a pre-teen and kill their entire family is horrifying to think about.
-----Oh! And THEN! The corrupt police flat out threaten to murder Derrick and Tina, a pair of innocent kids, who have done nothing to them, just make their family surrender! The family are flat out horrified by this and even Leo, who's been built up as an absolute badass, is briefly stopped by the sheer shock of seeing his son being held at gunpoint enough that he is heavily wounded in the gunfight with the police. It's noted by the adults of the family internally that, while they could win the gunfight, they couldn't do that and ensure the safety of their children and it is this one fact that makes them surrender rather than fight it out despite clearly being able to.
---------Once at the farm, the family are split up into separate houses to be tortured and killed or to await execution while the kids are locked inside of a dimly lit room in cages watched over by two masked cannibals. Remember that while the rest of the family were killing their own captors, they had no real idea what was happening to their children. It gets even worse when they do break out of their cages and get into some brutal fights with their captors. They win but not without getting injured and Derrick was forced to kill a man, something that causes him to break down crying in his fathers arms.
-----------Derrick and Tina VS Thaddeus. While they manage to hold their own, it is still two young teenagers fighting a super strong regenerating cannibalistic madman and while Tina is able to escape unscathed to rescue her mother, Derrick has to throw down with the madman directly and gets strangled by him along with receiving a broken arm for it and is forced to repeatedly set Thaddeus on fire to beat him.
---------------It is confirmed at the end of the flashback arc that Miss Morganstern has some sinister intentions towards Derrick and greater overarching plan for him. In other words, as if The Brannons weren't bad enough, now there's an even worse monster stalking them. On top of that, she hunted down and killed Ambrosia and escaped with the girls she was assigned to protect.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/BreakingAndBloodsucking
-How the story kicks off.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting
-The first power the Vampiress demonstrates, changing from a little girl to her standard form before feeding on the child.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindOverMatter
-The second power she demonstrates, using it to push a cross off of a door.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bishonen
-Derrick and his friends are buff and handsome!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/AmazonianBeauty
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HugeSchoolgirl
-Dolores Palazzo is a hot redhead who's rather athletic and portrayed as attractive because of or despite being muscular.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolSchool
-Trinity University is amazing!
1: The dorms are high class hotel rooms with separate fancy rooms and incredibly fancy showers straight of The Hunger Games.
2: The cafeteria is designed to look like a high class restaurant with plenty of healthy foods and all 'trash' is recycled for cleaning.
3: And the design of the entrances of the school buildings?
4: Even better? The computers the students use are high tech hard light computers!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovableJock
-Randall, Owain and the majority of the cast excluding Josh, despite being tall, muscular jock types, are portrayed as very nice guys and pretty smart. Leading to!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AcademicAthlete
-The majority of the cast are tall, muscular, athletic pretty boys and they have well toned minds to go with their well toned muscles.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/IvyLeagueForEveryone
-Trinity University in a nutshell.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkAndTRoubledPast
-Derrick is implied to have gone through a Texas Chainsaw-esque nightmare at some point in his past. He survived, and according to him his family kicked tons of ass, but it still deeply affected him.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HardLight
-Oh yeah. All part of the super tech of the series. This is explained as being part of how the computers of the University work.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
WELCOME TO 2034!
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-We don't know the full story yet, but Derrick of all people apparently took a street thug's eye out in a street fight in a flashback and left him with a permanent scar!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNeedsOfTheMany
-A few of the students are presented with this as a question regarding the train dilemma and the cannibalism on a stranded vessel scenarios. They give very interesting and well thought out answers to it too.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeAThirdOption
-When Derrick is asked about the cannibalism scenario, Derrick agrees that while it is the duty of a captain/leader to sacrifice themselves for their crew, he firmly states that he in particular would find a way to save everyone and is firmly against cannibalism, both on a moral and emotional standpoint.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay
-Derrick does have some rather..nifty chemistry with his friends. Each of whom are of the Bishi category.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VitriolicBestBuds
-Derrick and Randall are friends but they have no qualms about taking jabs at each other.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishAccents
-Randall again! It sticks out around the others but everyone treats it like normal.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationalNiceGuy
-In the initial drafts of the story, Randall was considerably more of a JerkAss stereotypical jock type, leaving one to wonder what Nicole could possibly see in him. In the final version he's way more chill and his loving relationship with Nicole is more front and center.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SickeninglySweethearts
-Nicole and Randall are near constantly flirting in front of the others. Their friends never miss a chance to joke about it. Its to the point that Nicole casually informs the others that she and Randall have plans to see an erotic movie together!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneCanSeeIt
-Derrick and Dolores aren't exactly subtle about their attraction to each other.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProperlyParanoid
-Despite his best efforts, Derrick can't kick the feeling that his 'nightmare' has something to do with The Professor's disappearance despite all of the rational arguments his friends put forward. Considering the opening of the story, he's obviously right to feel that way.
--The Blackburns in the flashback send out the video confession Fort provided them with to websites and other people before contacting the police, just in case. Considering what happened with the corrupt cops, they were right to do so.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassFamily
-The Blackburns! We meet them in a flashback and Derrick comes from a line of warriors. His parents, one of his aunts and his grandfather are military, his uncle is a former street level superhero and his other aunt was apparently his catwoman! And that's just from their introduction! When it comes time to throw down, they take out large trucks, armed men, snipers and corrupt cops with ease. Only losing to the last group because the kids were in danger. When another family member, Nancy, hears about the trouble they're in, her response is to gather some more family members to go save them.
--The Brannons parallel the Blackburns in this regard. They're certainly monsters but you can't deny that they can throwdown. It takes considerable effort from The Blackburns to take down just two of them and even then it takes a lot out of them. They're also damn near immortal. Leo had to blow Charles to pieces to kill him and Argos and Thaddeus had to dish out insane amounts of damage to kill Viktor while keeping the pressure on him until they burned through his regeneration. It took mangling him with a meat grinder to finish the job!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SiblingRivalry
-The family has no problems snarking to each other. Derrick and his cousin Tina even kinda fight like a brother and sister would!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandicappedBadass
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassGrandpa
-Argos Blackburn is in his 70's, has one good eye (The other being covered by a scar) and he's built like a mountain and moves like a man years younger.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MageMarksman
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGunslinger
-Technically not magic but Leonardo Blackburn fits the bill. His power allows him to create guns out of energy and fire energy blasts from them, via mentally reciting the atomic makeup and internal mechanisms of the various guns. Not only do they have a crazy amount of firepower but they are just as fast as bullets from real guns, making him unbelievably dangerous. The only drawback is that generating the energy for his super guns drains his stamina.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VehicularCombat
-A pair of crazy truck drivers attack the families cars in the flashback, repeatedly pushing and bumping against them and trying to run them off the road, even going so far that they shoot retractable chained harpoons out of their headlights at the family! The family, for their part, were smart enough to armor up their cars so much that the harpoons barley do any damage and then activate rockets from the bottom of the car that let them zip away! They leave oil slicks down on the ground as a present for the truck drivers for when they catch up and it's smooth sailing until a drill spike trap takes out their tires. At this point, Leo has had enough and steps out to deal with the trucks.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PapaWolf
-Leonardo Blackburn. Do NOT Threaten His Family! He was willing to leave the truck drivers behind to get his family to safety initially but when the tires are torn up and it becomes clear that they aren't going anywhere, Leonardo goes full tranquil fury mode, tells his family to hide for their safety and steps out to blow away the trucks in one of the first truly dazzling displays of powers in the series!
--Argos Blackburn as well. The man is even stronger than Leo and will beat you into mush if you try to hurt his loved ones.
---In his own way, Thaddeus Brannon. He might be a cannibalistic psychopath but he clearly loves his family. He mourns the deaths of his two sons that the Blackburns killed, sends his youngest daughters away to safety and has declared war on The Blackburns to avenge the deaths of his own sons.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IJustShotMarvinInTheFace
-Quoted literally by one of the rednecks in the flashback. He apparently shot one of his fellow gang members on accident when the trucks were crashing. This is treated comedically by them but it's still a bit disturbing.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HillbillyHorrors
-The flashback arc is dedicated to this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperStrength
-Grampa Argos might be old but he's still got enough strength to flip a car over on its side and hold it in place to protect the family from sniper fire.
--In the present, this is presented as Owain's power and he is certainly built like it.
---The Vampiress too of course. Naturally.
----And the cannibals as well. At least the ones in Thaddeus's immediate family.
-----Even Derrick has achieved a low level version of this in modern time. At least to the level of a physical peak human.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BOOMHeadshot
-The snipers pull this on the last two survivors of the trucker gang to keep them from talking about their screw up. And to scare the piss out of the Blackburns. It described as being just as horrific and gory as it would be in reality. Leo returns the favor.
--This really does seem to be Leo's preferred method of taking bad guys out. Here a headshot, there a headshot, everywhere a headshot! It turns out to be particularly effective in dropping the Brannons!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColdSniper
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FriendlySniper
-The snipers in the flashback are somewhere in between here. Apparently friendly and personable with each other, sure, but they also have no problems about killing their own friends to keep the boss from getting mad at them and crack jokes while trying to kill an innocent family.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall
-The snipers. The whole reason they were late to the fight with Leo and had to team kill to cover up their own incompetence? They were napping in the forest and had the ringers of their phones turned off. Sure, once they get to work, they're scarily efficient but damn if that wasn't a bad move on their part. At least they acknowledge it in universe that they made a very bad call.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad
-In the flashback arc, the mysterious old man, Thaddeus, who's been referenced a few times is the big villain of that particular story, with the Vampiress heavily implied to be the greater scope villain to him. Whomever the old man is though, he must be bad news, even the snipers are afraid of him!
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
-The cannibals don't seem to have a lot of loyalty to each other. They casually off their own allies while fighting the Blackburns and even joke about it. The only ones that seemed to have any loyalty to each other so far were the sniper brothers Forrest and Fort.At the farm we get another example of this, the corrupt cops clearly don't have all that much loyalty to each other and even the cannibals will kill them if they make them too angry.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IneffectualSympatheticVillain
-Fort The Sniper. To an extent anyway. He's a cannibalistic asshole to be sure but it's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for him with how badly things go south for him. He picks a fight with the wrong family and his brother is subsequently killed and he loses an arm, falls out of a tree and then three of the family members stomp on him and shove guns in his face, force him to talk, make him walk all the way back to the cars and then they smack him down and throw him into a car trunk since they had no where else to put him. Then, just when he thinks he's being rescued, one of his own friends casually kills him. Ouch.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PayEvilUntoEvil
-Let's just say The Blackburns aren't all that concerned about the no kill rule, with the obvious exceptions of Derrick and Tina. If you try to kill them, you better prepare yourselves for a freaking war because they will not stop until you are either taken down or dead.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumanTraffickers
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrganTheft
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CannibalClan
-When the cannibals aren't eating people, they're selling them, either whole or in pieces.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DirtyCop
-The cannibals have an entire unit on their payroll.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSyndicate
-It hasn't been named yet but it is heavily implied that a crime syndicate of some sort is employing the cannibals.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadeOfIron
-Leonardo Blackburn gets shot three times, more bullets graze his body, he gets viciously beaten by electrified batons and then cauterizes his wounds, after having already fired several energy blasts that drained his stamina prior. He's still kicking. While he's super powered, he doesn't super durability. He's just that tough. Leo later throws down with a Brick who unleashes quite a beatdown on him. This very clearly hurts Leo and messes him up but he still gets back up for more, takes another hard hit, gets back up and wins the fight. No armor or super durability. Leo is just that badass.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MamaBear
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionMom
-Josephina and Michelle both. The moment their kids were threatened by the police they started lashing and kicking ass and they were ready to go to war to save them. Josephina was particularly scary about it. Michelle barely kept her cool enough to analyze the situation even despite seeing her brother being shot. But Josephina was nearly blinded by her rage until the others convinced her to stand down. Then she and Michelle team up with each other and Gloria to kick even more ass of the thugs at the farm!
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LockedInAFreezer
-Alessandro and Argos discover some unfortunate civilians had been trapped in cold storage in this way.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheButcher
-Several are employed by the cannibals and they specialize in chopping up humans.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColdBloodedTorture
-Some of the cannibals minions specialize in this but they don't get anywhere before Leo wipes the floor with them.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodThingYouCanHeal
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HealingFactor
-Thaddeus's immediate family have a powerful regenerative power fueled by eating humans and using what they've absorbed to power their regenerative power. Which is a good thing for them because otherwise their fights with the Blackburns would've been much shorter.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CannibalismSuperpower
-The cannibals gain super strength, durability and some measure of super speed and regenerative powers by eating countless people and stockpiling the resulting power over time.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeManWomanHater
-Officer Danny Montgomery, the broken nose cop, is prone to go on severely misogynistic rants at the slightest provocation, something that annoys even his fellow conspirators and is implied to have driven an ex-wife to leave him for another man. Their ringleader even smacks him down and tells him to STFU when he gets tired of his attitude and takes a cut of his payment.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LesCollaborateurs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlyInItForTheMoney
-The dirty cops work alongside the cannibals for money. They are implied to have some standards as they were scared to accompany two of them to processing but go along with it anyway out of fear. They'll even celebrate the fact that their getting the cuts that would've gone to their fellow officers...despite still toasting to their memory. In short they're assholes.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreaterScopeVillain
-Miss Morganstern The Vampiress
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
-Forrest and Fort the Sniper Bros did care about each other despite being murderous cannibals who will shoot their own men. When Forrest is killed by Leo, Fort is left bawling and screaming his name.
--Thaddeus's immediate family love and care about each other like a normal family. The brothers support each other and Thaddeus treats his youngest daughter Macey like a little princess, even giving her cookies and milk. Diablos Brannon's reaction to finding the remains of his brother Viktor is surprisingly heartwrenching for a cannibalistic serial killer. Thaddeus's horrified screams of anguish when they bring back Viktor's body only reinforce this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManOfWealthAndTaste
-Both Thaddeus and Miss Morganstern present themselves this way.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RavenHairIvorySkin
-Miss Morganstern fits this to a tee.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedEyesTakeWarning
-Miss Morganstern is described and shown to have blazing red eyes.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Angrish
-Michelle briefly lapses into this when she gets shot in the shoulder, topping it off with a fuck you while shooting down two of the thugs.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FloweryInsults
-Tina dishes out a great one while bashing one of the cannibals with a chair: "Fuck you! Fuck you, fuck you, you ugly fucking sick fuck, dead mother fucker, you! You think you can take us? You think you can fuck with my family? Fuck you! You greasy-haired, big-ass-foreheaded, small-eyed, massive-nosed, fat-lipped, narrow-necked, round-chested, pot-bellied, smelly-scrotum, dried-ovaried, clock-ran-out, chicken-legged, flat-footed, skinny-armed, rancid-breathed, pimple covered, inbred-bitch!"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CombatPragmatist
-The Blackburns are this and it's one of the major reasons they're still alive. They'll use anything to survive and save their loved ones, even using what some would consider underhanded or unfair tactics, such as: Using human shields, shooting first, killing from surprise, killing you from behind, hiding under corpses to surprise their enemies, grabbing weapons off of dead bodies, utilizing their environment, etc. It is completely justified as well. Most of the family are soldiers and they're in a kill or be killed situation, and thus, they have no inclination to fight fair or cleanly. Even the kids get in on this! Granted, they are primarily defending themselves, as they wanted to fight in the first place, but they acknowledge that they have a big disadvantage when it comes to size and reach, so being pragmatic is the only way they have any chance of surviving their encounters, and thus the kids will turn their handcuffs into brass knuckles, smash their enemies over the backs with metal chairs, hit you in the nuts and eyes and gang up on their enemies to win. The fight still clearly takes a toll on them though.
--The cannibal mooks, at the house at least, to their credit, they try to be this. At the very least, when they know shit is serious, they zerg rush the family, gang up on them and shoot them first, it's just that The Blackburns are better at it than them. Averted in the case of the trio assigned to guard the cages, but in their defense, the kids were cuffed and locked in cages. How were they supposed to know they had lockpicks sewn into hidden pockets in their clothes?
---The Blackburns whip up bombs and weapons and use them freely against the Brannons first chance they get to even the odds against them.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImprovisedWeapon
-Derrick and Tina utilize their own handcuffs and chairs in the room as weapons and Leonardo uses some metal coasters to ricochet bullets off of.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnocenceLost
-The entire flashback arc serves as this for Derrick and Tina.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChildrenForcedToKill
-Derrick is forced to kill one of the masked men in self defense and he is just as mortified by it as one would reasonably expect. This was done to deliberately contrast with the Action-Movie Esque shootouts with the adults.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HairpinLockpick
-Derrick and Tina, and presumably the rest of the family, have these hidden on them in case of emergency. They prove to be extremely useful for the kids.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChairmanOfTheBrawl
-Derrick and Tina utilize two chairs in the room they were trapped in as weapons to even the odds between them and the masked thugs holding them captive.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainousBreakdown
-The cannibals are having a major one over the course of the flashback, with Thaddeus getting the worst of it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PinballProjectile
-Leo pulls off some impressive bullet ricochets while en route to rescue his kids.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MookHorrorShow
-While most of the action scenes in the flashback are standard action fair, the corpses of the mooks the Blackburns leave in their wake greatly disturb the ones who find them.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LogicalWeakness
-While The Brannons regeneration is incredible impressive, it is powered by all of the people they've eaten, which essentially provides them with spare parts. Therefore, their regeneration is still limited. So the plan is to burn them up tons of fire and heat to wear down their regenerative abilities enough that they can be killed.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseMedicine
-The surgery scene. Just being honest. And the scene with Leo cauterizing his wounds now that I think about it. Although it's at least somewhat justified in Leo's case in that Powered's are somewhat tougher than normal people.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/MoralMyopia
-Thaddeus is bloodlusted to the extreme and howling for The Blackburn family's heads because they defended themselves. The fact that The Brannons picked this fight in the first place apparently hasn't been taken into account.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShutUpHannibal
-Thaddeus, obviously not in the best mental health at the moment, screams his revenge at the family and threatens them. Leo responds by coldly blowing off a chunk of his head.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AgonyOfTheFeet
-Diablos gets two of his feet blasted off by Leonardo to set him up for a headshot.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrickBomb
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlmostLethalWeapons
-The Blackburns whip up some smoke bombs, tear gas and chlorform gas bombs out of household materials. Also averts the less than lethal part with the bombs proving very effective against the cannibals, confusing and disorienting them, even flat out dropping a few of them while the family also lobs molotov cocktails down to add to the pain before raining gunfire down.
This proves very effective in routing them the first time around.
Even when they get outside, they have to take a breather and even end up vomiting while their healing factors fix them up.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmokeShield
-Averted! The smoke cloud does disorient the cannibals but it doesn't make them any less vulnerable to a hailstorm of bullets. When The Brannons get outside they have to take a moment while their bodies push the bullets back out and their wounds heal.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakingTheBullet
-Chunk Brannon takes a hailstorm of bullets from The Blackburns to shield his father while they run out of the house. Justified as he's super tough and has a healing factor anyway.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoOneGetsLeftBehind
-The Blackburns and The Rescued have this philosophy. No matter how beaten up they are, they refuse to abandon anybody and will split up to protect their wounded and come up with a plan to rescue each other from the house. This is a huge contrast to how the cannibals treat their men.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeHaveReserves
-The Brannons show little to no concern for anybody who isn't immediate family. They're casually willing to sacrifice, trample, abandon and even eat their own henchmen without a second's consideration for their lives. The corrupt cops realize this too late.
Lampshaded by Josephina: "You signed up with cannibals. What did you expect to happen?"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBystander
-The Rescued might not be as well trained as the Blackburns but they're still willing to stand by The Blackburns in combat all the same and even managed to hold their own through teamwork, a lot of firepower and following the family's instructions. While most of them ended up beaten down by the end, the fact that they managed to hold their own against The Brannons alongside The Blackburns for as long as they did is impressive all on its own.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingBreaks
-The Guest House gets utterly destroyed by the end of the battle.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
-Dread is ultimately killed when the upper half of his body is completely obliterated by Leo. How badly did he get obliterated? His bottom half was smoldering when it dropped back down to the floor!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MultipleGunshotDeath
-Diablos and Romulus Brannon die this way due to their regeneration finally wearing out.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OutOfContinues
-This is essentially what happens when The Brannons regeneration wears out since they're still subject to the Hayflick Limit ( the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops.)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaveMotionGun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KamehameHadoken
-How Leo obliterates Dread Brannon after he lands a hard hit on Josephina. The blast is so incredible that it annihilates a significant chunk of the Guest House and can be seen for miles! Josephina wasn't kidding when she told Derrick that Leo could destroy buildings with his powers! Unfortunately it also completely exhausts him after he'd already been beaten down. Being a determinator, he still drags himself up to keep fighting the others.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeScream
-The Blackburns and The Rescued constantly target the eyes of The Brannons since even if they can regenerate those, they'll be blinded in the meantime, which gives them the chance to outmaneuver The Brannons and hit them from other directions.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSell
-Michelle Blackburn slams a freaking television and an entire bookshelf on Thaddeus. He no sells both of these and proceeds to take her out.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
-Leo and Michelle both take nasty beatings from Thaddeus Brannon once he finally gets his hands on them. Being horribly ragdolled, kicked around, beaten down, and thrown across rooms and out of a window respectively. Though his fight with Leo was a sort of draw since he still managed to blast a hole in Thaddeus's chest and head.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DestinationDefenestration
-Michelle gets thrown out of a second story window by Thaddeus and its shown to hurt pretty badly though she survives. This is also attempted on Argos but he stops himself.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoveredInMud
-Derrick and Michelle end up like this due to the muddy rain filled farm. Derrick and Tina even weaponize the mud by throwing it at Thaddeus to distract him so Tina and the others can save Michelle.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun
-A few of these are fired in the finale of the Flashback Arc.
--The Magnums, established earlier, are reaquired by The Blackburns during the third act and used to take out Thaddeus and Diablos.
---The lighter, established in the cage room and used before, is used to light a bunch of alcohol to BBQ Thaddeus.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsArmy
-The Blackburn Family, established earlier through the phone call, arrive during the finale to save the family.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillingInSelfDefense
-The Entire Flashback Arc is The Blackburns doing this. While they spare a sparse few of the villains, and Thaddeus is killed by Miss Morganstern, the rest of the Brannons along with the thugs who tried to murder them are annihilated.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BattleInTheRain
-Derrick and Tina VS Thaddeus. Somewhat deconstructed though in that all of the rain and mist hindered Thaddeus's vision which gave the cousins a fighting chance. Even more so when they utilize the area and start throwing mud in his eyes and blind him.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithFire
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BattleAmongstTheFlames
-How Derrick's fight with Thaddeus concludes. After luring him inside he throws a bunch of alcohol on him and then lights him on fire with the flamethrower lighter this causes some major damage to Thaddeus and slows him down enough that Derrick can hold his own . He then repeats this some more. Worth noting is that this causes two rooms of the Guest House to be consumed by flames.
Naturally of course Derrick is forced to run through the flames he caused to get safely away from Thaddeus but considering how outmatched he was by him otherwise, it was a worthwhile trade off.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SickeningCrunch
-Heard when Thaddeus breaks Derrick's arm which is accompanied by Derrick screaming in agony.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreAsskickingOneLiner
-Derrick's response to Thaddeus threatening to slaughter his family while he's forced to watch and scream for mercy: "Fuck Your Mercy!" Followed immediately by setting Thaddeus on fire. Even better? This was after Thaddeus had just crushed his arm and had Derrick by the throat!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/YouHaveFailedMe
-Played with regarding Thaddeus's final death. While Ramona does indeed kill Thaddeus for his failure, she admits to him that the whole thing was a test for both families and that the Blackburns were simply better able to handle them then the other way around and that she never really expected much from the Brannons anyway. Thaddeus becomes enraged by this and tries to strike her but he is swiftly obliterated for his efforts.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeHaveBecomeComplacent
-Both families to some extent. The Blackburn had gotten so used to peacetime that they'd lost their edge and weren't as efficient and strong as they used to be. They quickly get most of it back during the fight though. That's right, the badass family is dialed down from how good they were in their primes! The extended family members end up being flat out shocked that they got as badly hurt as they did fighting a mere army.
--The Brannons meanwhile had gotten so used to being top dogs in their little corner of the world that they were underprepared for people fighting back. Leading to their getting scared of the Blackburns, a logical feeling of course, and having difficulty the Blackburns without the Brannons by their side, and the Brannons running headlong into traps and ambushes and even being matched in combat by civilians with guns using simple tactics and Thaddeus being outmaneuvered by teenagers.
Ramona even chides Thaddeus for failing to properly prepare his men for the threat of the Blackburns.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TookALevelInBadass
-Derrick and Tina both take multiple levels following the ten years between the farm and present times. Not only do they get a nano-upgrade afterword, but they also spent a decade putting themselves through hellish training and physical conditioning to be ready just in case this ever happens again. Derrick has become close to a peak physical human with incredible fighting skills and Tina became a world famous action star after winning multiple martial arts contests. Clearly they've come a long way from the scared kids being told to stay hidden while the adults do all the fighting.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperSerum
-The Ambrose Drink is essentially a low level version of this.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperIntelligence
-A downplayed example, but Derrick and his friends basically have this to an extent. They can build hard light hologram projectors with equipment in a lab, just as an example!
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