History Characters / AmericanVampire

* {{Satan}}: While not the Satan of the Bible, it's the direct inspiration for him and [[spoiler:[[BigRedDevil looks the part]] when inhabiting a human body.]]

* {{Expy}}: To [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]]. Both are SociopathicHero vampires that have gunsliger-esque outfits, fight using guns, often in conflict with other vampires and who have a NiceGirl FriendlyNeighboorhoodVampire as protege.

* BadassNormal: Possibly the series's greatest example, lacking any powers, allies or decades of expierence, but still taking on scores of vampires on his own and fighting Skinner Sweet to a standstill.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: While he is part of the setting's background and his influence affects them, he is never faced by the protagonists in the main series. Rather, he is the BigBad in the limited minisseries ''Lord of Nightmares''. Graduates to a relatively minor threat to the protagonists in ''1976''.

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* UltimateEvil: His body is almost always covered in shadow. That said, he pales in comparison to [[spoiler:The Beast]].

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Pearl appears to kill her near the end of volume one, only for it to eventually be revealed that she was merely put into a death-like state. Other vampires recovered her body from the morgue and used her as a guinea pig to find out the weakness of American Vampires.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Revealed to still be alive in 1967 and hidden in Abilena's basement in the closing moments of the second Anthology.]]

* VillainOfAnotherStory: While he is part of the setting's background and his influence affects them, he is never faced by the protagonists in the main series. Rather, he is the BigBad in the limited minisseries ''Lord of Nightmares''.

* {{Expy}}: Jones has more than an few a similarities with [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Seras Victoria]], both being [[NiceGirl wholesome young women]] [[EmergencyTransformation that were transformed into vamps to survive]], who turned out into gun-toting FriendlyNeighboorhoodVampires.

* {{Expy}}: Jones has more than an few a similarities with [[Manga/Hellsing Seras Victoria]], both being [[NiceGirl wholesome young women]] [[EmergencyTransformartion that were transformed into vamps to survive]], who turned out into gun-toting FriendlyNeighboorhoodVampires.

* HumanoidAbomination: One even more horrifying than ''Dracula''.

* AncientEvil: It was released on Earth in 13.000 BC and for a thousand years reigned supreme until the Vassals challenged it.

* {{Seer}}: The venom of her last hunt has the property of allowing those who are infected by it to have visions of the future at the expense of drawing evil toward them, something she utilizes reluctantly in Issue 34 of the original series.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: It's speculated that rather than [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler a nobleman]], he is also believed to have been a mere pig farmer before rising up as vampire. At the time he was created, his bloodline wasn't particularly powerful or virulent and went by largely ignored by the Vassals until the 1700s, when they became the most populous vampire species in Europe and nearly wiped out the every other species in the world in the following century.

* MultipleChoicePast: Naturally, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler is among his many identities speculated by the Vassals of the Morning Star.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After his resurrection in ''1976'', he sides with the Tongue and its ilk, and ultimately becomes the host to the Beast.]]