Nightshade Extract Bullets

Nightshade Extract Bullets

Nightshade is a flower plant used in Underworld: Blood Wars to create a poison that paralyzes or kills Vampires. Most Vampires die upon exposure to nightshade; stronger Vampires and Vampire-Corvinus Strain Hybrids are paralyzed instead. Nightshade is also poisonous to humans and many animals. Its effect on other types of Hybrids and Lycans is unknown.

The Vampires’ weakness to nightshade seems to be a well-kept secret, perhaps unknown even to most Vampires: neither humans nor Lycans have been known to use nightshade against Vampires. Even during the Purges, when many anti-Vampire weapons became available to the public, there is no indication that nightshade-based weapons were in use.

In Underworld: The Final Chapter, after Semira survives being stabbed through the mouth by David (like how Viktor survived being stabbed through the mouth by Lucian), and flees the Eastern Coven after the death of Marius, she uses her knowledge of the Vampires' weakness to nightshade to eventually commission the invention of nightshade extract bullets, copied from the Vampires' silver nitrate bullets and the Lycans' ultraviolet ammunition. When shot, a nightshade extract solution is excreted from the round directly into the bloodstream of the Vampire victim, clogging it with poison.

Underworld: The Final Chapter

The inspiration for the nightshade extract bullets comes from Semira's knowledge of the Vampires' weakness to nightshade, and the designs of the Vampires' silver nitrate bullets and the Lycans' ultraviolet ammunition.