10 Biggest WTF True Blood Moments

5. Eric Is On Fire

True Blood Bill Billith
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True Blood wasn’t particularly afraid of killing off characters, often in spectacularly violent and gruesome ways, but there were those who you knew were safe. Sookie and Jason, for example, were going nowhere, and nor did it seem Eric Northman would be.

Having drank Warlow’s blood, which allows him to walk in the sunlight, Eric decided to take himself off on a well-earned vacation. Relaxing with a book atop a mountain, things get a little too hot when the power of the fae-blood wore off, and to total shock everyone’s favourite Nordic bloodsucker burst into flames.

Thankfully he did return in season 7, as Pam eventually tracked him down and he made a full recovery, but for almost a year we were left wondering as to the state of the Viking vampire. 

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