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Selene

The main protagonist of the series. Selene is a vampire and one of the best Death Dealers in the Fur Against Fang war, believing that her family were slaughtered by werewolves. She was turned by Viktor because she reminded him of his deceased daughter Sonja. She is a skilled marksman and fighter, making her probably the most prominent Badass in the series.

She has a change of heart when she falls in love with human turned werewolf Michael Corvin, and is responsible for turning Michael into a Hybrid Monster. She finds out that Viktor killed her family, and she kills him by slicing his head in two. In Evolution, she learns her family built William's tomb, hence why Viktor killed them, and becomes a true immortal after drinking Alexander Corvinus' blood, and kills Marcus.

  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Selene used one to slice Viktor's head in two.
    • Subverted in Evolution when Selene uses a downed helicopter's propeller to kill Marcus.
  • Action Girl: Although, creator Len Wiseman instructed Kate Beckinsale not to use Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley as a basis for her role; but Officer Bud Wight instead.
  • Anti-Hero: Type III.
  • Badass
  • Badass Longcoat: Of the leather variety. In Awakening she makes a point to break into a store so she can get a new longcoat. This one isn't made of leather, so she ditches it when she comes across a leather one.
  • Battle Couple: With Michael.
  • Bottomless Magazines: Played with. She does reload, but not as often as she should.
  • Capulet Counterpart: First she is a merciless werewolf killer, but then becomes a heroic badass and girlfriend to a werewolf.
  • Cute Little Fangs: First seen when she bites Michael to make him a vampire. Awakening shows the first time she uses them to drain a person, who had just shot her in the head. It heals the wound, and rejuvenates her.
  • Dark Action Girl
  • Dead Little Sister: Her entire family was brutally murdered.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Michael in the first movie.
  • Fan Service: Most of Selene's outfit are made out of leather.
  • Genetic Memory: Selene has forgotten memories of her life before her family's slaughter, which prove to be a key plot point in Evolution. Justified, she's over 600 years old.
  • The Gunslinger
  • Guns Akimbo: Her preferred fighting style.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather
  • Hot Amazon
  • Hot Chick with a Sword: Though swords are not her main weapons, she briefly uses one to chop off Victor's head.
  • Hot Mom
  • Ice Queen
  • Immortal Hero: As a vampire she can be killed, until she drinks Alexander Corvinus' blood and becomes a proper immortal.
  • Lady of War: Who said gunslinging can't be elegant?
  • Mama Bear: Though she was surprised to learn she had a daughter, she unsurprisingly becomes very protective of her.
  • Like A Daughter To Me: To Viktor for most of her existence as a vampire, until the events of the first movie.
  • Meaningful Name: Selene means "moon".
  • Not So Stoic
  • Of Corsets Sexy: Selene wears a corset over her catsuit. The sequel implies that the corset has an actual function: being bullet-resistant, which comes in handy when the character gets buckshot straight to the chest. The corset comes away with only minor damage, and Selene just gets pissed off.
  • Promotion to Parent
  • Really 600 Years Old
  • Self-Made Orphan: She achieves this trope after she kills Viktor.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: Selene and Michael, mirroring Lucian and Sonja's romance.
  • Super Strength: She shoulder-checks a van in the third film and flips it.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Hurting or killing Michael can result in Selene decapitating you or having your body ripped to shreds.

Michael Corvin

A descendant of Alexander Corvinus, Michael is an ordinary nurse until he becomes the target for the Lycans to create the first vampire/lycan hybrid. He is turned into a werewolf by Lucian and later is bitten by Selene to heal him from gunshot wounds. He is turned into a hybrid, becoming one of the series' many badasses. He becomes Selene's boyfriend and currently one of two people to still be alive in the series, the other being Selene.

Eve (Subject 2)

A young Hybrid Monster who Selene finds after awakening 12 years after the purge of vampires and lycans. Actually the daughter of Selene and Michael.

  • Badass: Takes after her parents.
  • Creepy Child: When in her hybrid form. Not to mention the first kill she does involves ripping a lycan's head in two.
    • Its head? Eve nearly tore the entire thing in two.
  • Cute Bruiser
  • Genetic Memory: Can see through the eyes of her parents, and they can do the same in return.
  • Hybrid Monster
  • Ill Girl: She spent her whole life in a lab and has never drank blood before.
  • Living MacGuffin: The lycans plan to extract her genetic code to make lycan clones.
  • Purposefully Overpowered: Fights the Big Bad of Awakening whilst her mother fights The Dragon.
    • Possibly justified. Her father Michael is a Lycan/Vampire hybrid, shown to be incredibly strong and resilient, even capable of regenerating after spending several hours effectively dead whne he's killed by Marcus. Selene, her mother, is a possibly invulnerable Vampire/Immortal hybrid. Eve is the first person to unite the Lycan, Vampire and Immortal bloodlines.
  • Unskilled but Strong: Can rip a transformed lycan apart with her bare hands but obviously has never been in a real fight. Like father, like daughter.

Lucian

The first Lycan born with the ability to turn back into a human. Lucian falls in love with Sonja, a vampire, and they become Star-Crossed Lovers. When Viktor finds out, he has his daughter executed via sunlight, kicking off the war between vampires and lycans. Lucian fakes his death with help from Kraven and spends the next few centuries trying to find a descendant of Alexander Corvinus who has the right blood to create the first Hybrid Monster. He succeeds in turning Michael into one with help from Selene, but is gunned down by Kraven.

Viktor

The Big Bad of the series. Viktor is one of the three Vampire Elders, and the foster father of Selene. Having Fantastic Racism against Lycans, Viktor went to great lengths to either control or kill them including killing his own daughter Sonja when she became impregnated with a vampire/lycan hybrid.

Amelia

The second of the Vampire Elders. Hardly anything is known about her, making her a bit of a Flat Character. However, she aided Marcus and Viktor catch William and sided with Viktor to imprison him forever.

Marcus Corvinus

The third Vampire Elder, and son of Alexander Corvinus. He was bitten by a bat and became the first vampire. With his lycan brother William out of control, Marcus recruited Viktor, Amelia and their army to catch his brother, only for Viktor to double-cross him and take control of the vampires and imprisoned William forever. In the second film, he is turned into a hybrid and vows to free his brother and rule the world with a new series of hybrids.

  • Angsty Surviving Twin: Is this VERY briefly, William gets his head ripped off, Marcus screams his name, and is promptly killed by Serene.
  • Affably Evil: While he gets the idea to rule the world with hybrids, his main goal is to reunite with his beloved brother.
  • A God Am I: Intends to create a new race of immortals, with himself as their God.
  • Badass: He can bring down a helicopter just by pulling on a rope. However, it leads to his Karmic Death.
  • Bigger Bad: He's possibly worse than Viktor.
  • Bat Out of Hell: He has large bat wings in his hybrid form. Whether or not he had these beforehand is unknown.
  • Blood Brothers: Marcus and William have a strong bond. They had a third brother who was only human and presumably died years ago.
  • Genetic Memory: He can see the memories of others by drinking their blood. Selene, Kraven and Andreas Tanis all become victims to his ability. However, this is revealed to be a trait of all vampires by Rise of the Lycans.
  • Helicopter Blender: Selene pushes him into the spinning blades of a downed helicopter.
  • I Hate You Immortal Dad
  • Lineage Comes From the Father
  • Self-Made Orphan: Kills his father, Alexander Corvinus, claiming that a God has no father.
  • Sibling Team: Marcus and William.

William Corvinus

Alexander Corvinus' second son, and the first werewolf. Unlike lycans, William could never regain his human form and was imprisoned by Viktor in a tomb, which was built by Selene's father.

Alexander Corvinus

Where It All Began, Alexander Corvinus became the first true immortal after his village was ravaged by a plague which he was able to mold into what gave him his immortality. He then fathered three sons, Marcus, William and a third son. Marcus and William were bitten by a bat and a wolf, becoming the first vampire and werewolf, leading to the rest of the events in the films. The third son remained human, but carried the Corvinus Gene that would later lead to Lucian's quest to find a descendant who could adapt to vampire and lycan blood.

Sonja

The daughter of Viktor, and Lucian's lover. The two were the original Star-Crossed Lovers, Sonja becoming impregnated with the first hybrid. Viktor was distraught when he found out and regretfully had her executed via sunlight, kicking off the war. Lucian stole her necklace, actually one of the keys to William's tomb.

Kraven

Viktor's Dragon, Kraven is in charge of the old coven during Viktor's slumber. A Smug Snake and a Manipulative Bastard, Kraven helped fake Lucian's death to become a hero among the vampires, and to keep Lucian's plan under wraps. Their ultimate agreement is to eliminate the vampire elders, so Kraven can rule the vampires and Lucian can create the hybrid. Kraven has a thing for Selene, despite being in a relationship with Erika.

Raze

Lucian's closest friend and a Scary Black Man. He became a lycan in Rise of the Lycans and helped Lucian fight back against their vampire supressors. He has a rivalry with vampire Soren going back to their earliest days. And yes, his voice is actually that deep.

Andreas Tanis

Formerly the historican of the vampire coven, Andreas Tanis was exiled on Viktor's orders, by Selene, for telling "malicious lies". Which as Selene later points out, means he was telling the truth.

Kahn

Selene's Black Best Friend, Kahn is the weapon's specialist in the coven and head of security. He clashes with Kraven, and is just as suspicious of him as Selene is. He is a skilled marksman and inventor, replicating the lycans' sunlight weapon with silver bullets which can harm lycans on the genetic level.

Erika

Kraven's one-and-off girlfriend, Erika is pretty much used by Kraven for sexual tension and he treats her like dirt whilst pining after Selene. Erika discovers Michael is a lycan and tells both Selene and Kraven. Erika ditches Kraven and frees Selene from her imprisonment to get back to Kraven. Her fate afterwards is unknown. In the novelization, she and Selene have a somewhat tenuous friendship, and it's mentioned that she left the mansion and "wondered if Viktor liked blondes."

Singe

A scientist lycan, Singe has spent years trying to find the right carrier of the Corvinus strand, and is at his wit's end. Lucian delivers him Michael's blood and he is proven a carrier. Singe is sent to help retrieve Michael from the vampires but is captured by Selene and forced to reveal Lucian's plan and Kraven's treachery. After Amelia is killed, Viktor punches him to death. His spilt blood leads to Marcus turning into a hybrid.

Soren

Kraven's minion and once Viktor's bodyguard. Little is known about him, but he has a rivalry with Raze. He uses a pair of whips in battle, and is killed by Raze.

David

Introduced in Awakening, David is a survivor of the Purge. The Idealist of the film, David aids Selene, willingly helping her and Eve escape the humans and lycans. He believes the vampires should honour their predecessors and fight back, being at odds with his father Thomas.

Detective Sebastian

The first human since Michael to become a prominent character in the films. A police detective who pities the vampires and lycans, Sebastian teams up with Selene to take down Antigen to save Eve and avenge his dead vampire wife.

  • Badass: He single-handidly launches a one-man assault against Antigen, kills a guard with a rocket launcher, helps stop a van carrying off Eve, and tries to fight the Big Bad, and survives with the intention to cover Selene.
  • Black Best Friend: Carrying on Kahn's legacy.
  • Driven to Suicide: His wife, a vampire, killed herself so he would not have to see her be murdered during the Purge.
  • Fair Cop
  • The Lancer: To Selene, shared with David.
  • One-Man Army
  • Supercop

Doctor Jacob Lane

Chief scientist at Antigen, Jacob Lane kept Selene, Michael and Eve as test subjects to find an antidote. Actually a lycan hoping to create an antidote to silver.

Quint

A Big Badass Wolf known as a Uber Lycan, Quint kidnaps Eve so Dr. Jacob Lane can use her to create an army of lycans, actually being Lane's son.

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