History Literature / VampireBreath

It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E17VampireBreath the seventeenth episode of the second season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].

It was adapted into the seventeenth episode of the second season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].

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!!The episode provides examples of:

* AdaptationDistillation: No time travel takes place, and instead of having a castle, Count Nightwing has an underground lair beneath the Martinezes' house.
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Cara and Freddy's birthday is in this episode. They spend most of it fending off a hungry vampire, only to learn [[spoiler:he was their grandfather and had forgotten due to the Vampire Breath containing his memories]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Count Nightwing is perfectly willing to drain kids of their blood. He becomes horrified on learning that [[spoiler:Cara and Freddy are his grandchildren, and he nearly killed his family]].
* ForcedTransformation: Gwendolyn gets turned into a cockroach in this version after Nightwing regains his powers.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Besides the need for Vampire Breath, some of them (specifically Freddy and Cara after getting their new coffins) go to sleep at night. However Gwendolyn claims the vampires she lives with sleep during the day like traditional vampires.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Freddy Martinez and Cara are just best friends who are said to look like siblings in the book. In the episode, they actually are siblings.
* ShipSinking: The Freddy/Cara ship is sunk due to them being [[RelatedInTheAdaptation brother and sister]] in the episode.
* TheStarscream: Gwendolyn in this version when she gets her hands on the Vampire's Breath. Stating to Nightwing once she absorbs it completely it'll make her more powerful then him.

* BalefulPolymorph: Gwendolyn gets turned into a cockroach in this version after Nightwing regains his powers.

* WhamLine: "Daddy!" says Freddy's mother when Freddy calls her for help. [[spoiler:She saves them from Count Nightwing by revealing to him that Freddy and Cara are his grandkids, and she's happy to see her dad up and about. Oh, and she knows where his fangs are]].

* BookcasePassage: While fighting in the basement, Freddy and Cara accidentally knock over a cabinet of china, knocking it over and revealing a secret door to a ''tunnel''.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover shows Nightwing having hair, while in the book he is bald.

* DecoyDamsel: Gwendolyn who passes herself off as a normal human who's a slave to the vampires. Unsurprisingly she's revealed to be a vampire herself when she think she has Freddie and Cara alone.

* VillainousRescue: The two children accidentally fall out of a window, and would have been squished many stories believe if Count Nightwing had not come swooping in via flying in his bat form to save them.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Vampires can turn into bats, in this setting, as demonstrated by the ones in Count Nightwing's castle, who transform and fly off into the night soon after they awaken.

* ExactWords: When Freddie and Cara meet Gwendolyn, she claims she knows a way out. But once she leads the two to a seculed area, she reveals she's a vampire and her definition of "a way out" was to let her bite and turn the two.

* MacguffinMelee: Upon finding the one remaining, unused bottle of Vampire Breath in Count Nightwing's larder, Freddy and Cara then starts playing "Monkey in the Middle" with it, which consists of Freddy and Cara tossing the bottle at each other while keeping it out of Nightwing's hands.

* WouldHurtAChild: Count Nightwing tries biting Cara. He then realizes he doesn't have his fangs.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Freddy Martinez and Cara are just best friends who are said to look like siblings in the book. In the episode, they actually are siblings.

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* GetBackToTheFuture: This is Freddy and Cara's goal, after they're kidnapped into the past.

* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Count Nightwing does, and also keeps his spare bottle of Vampire Breath. There's also over two dozen other vampires in his castle, all of whom sleep in coffins.

** Also, the bottle to Vampire Breath is shown to be green, even though it is blue. The original cover actually has it as blue, which was changed for some reason.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Freddy and Cara's relationship almost seems like a G-rated BDSM thing. At one point Cara punches Freddy so hard he sees stars, and he [[TooKinkyToTorture likes it.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires in this setting don't survive on blood alone, they also drink the namesake. And it seems to be the source of most of their abilities.

* {{Bookends}}: The book begins and ends with [[spoiler: werewolves. It starts with Freddy telling a werewolf story and ends with Cara drinking "Werewolf Seat"]]