The films Vampire Academy (2014) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) are very similar. Some elements that make these two films very similar are: the main female protagonist is chosen to help save a race of supernaturally powered beings, there is a plot about good versus evil and how this basic story element helps move both of these horror movie plots along, and lastly, how the main character finds out that she is both a human mixed with something supernatural and must use their newly found powers to save the people they love from evil forces. These are some of the ways how the films, Vampire Academy and Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, are similar with both plot and character development.

First, one of the elements that make the films Mortal Instruments; City of Bones and Vampire Academy very similar is how a seemingly normal girl is chosen to protect a race of supernatural beings. In Vampire Academy, Rose Hathaway, who is played by Zoey Deutch, who seems to be a very normal girl, is chosen by a council to be the guardian of the Moroi. The Moroi are peaceful, mortal vampires who live on earth due to the threat of evil vampires who are immortal and are out for the blood of these vampires due them being mortal. The way that this plot point connects to the Mortal Instrument movie is that the two girls, Rose from Vampire Academy and Clary from the Mortal Instruments, who is played by Lily Collins, are both seemingly normal girls who have to protect their people from outside evils, much like a guardian angel would.