- Main characters who aren’t reporters, detectives, or
free-lancers- Non-Western supernatural creatures
- Non-dragon supernatural creatures
- Supernatural creatures fitting the culture they’re related
to (phoenixes in a Greek neighborhood, kumiho in Koreatown, Dhegdheer in a
Somali neighborhood)- Local mythologies
- Urban legends
- Organizations within supernatural hunting (hierarchies,
safehouses, information networks)- Cooperation with the government
- Immortal characters who act immortal
- Immortal characters who have different moral standards
- Supernatural characters who have different moral standards
- Supernatural characters who have different types of gender
- Supernatural characters who have different types of
sexuality- Supernatural societies totally different from human
societies- Supernatural children
- Supernatural families
- Main characters not ending up in romantic relationships with
supernatural creatures- Non-hypersexual vampires
- Aftermath of reveals of supernatural creatures to the world
- Hybrids
- Hybrids who are neither despised nor uber-powerful
- People who are genuinely afraid of what’s going on
- Non-loner main characters
- Main characters without tragic backstories
- Genuine non-romantic/non-sexual friendships between humans
and supernatural creatures- Cooperation between different types of creatures
- Inter-creature wars
- Non-humanoid creatures
- Stories set not in the United States
- Main characters with no training
- Supernatural creatures who have casual non-romantic sexual relationships
- Without those relationships being demeaning or cheap
- Queer supernatural creatures
- Who aren’t queer-coded to be bad or hypersexual
- Rural or suburban settings
- Laws getting in the way of action
- Ethical quandaries about the humanity (or not) of
supernatural creatures- Supernatural supremacy
- Different races within supernatural species (different types
of vampires, of pixies, of phoenixes, etc.)- Schools for supernatural creatures
- Integrated human/non-supernatural schools
- Speciesism against supernatural creatures
- Genuinely nice supernatural creatures
- Powerful supernatural creatures who aren’t super
manipulative or evil- Dragons (because we can always use more dragons)