History Main / Dhampyr

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': A dhampir is the result of a Thin-Blood vampire (usually of the 15th or 16th Generation) breeding with a human. Also, ghouls who crossbreed for a generation can produce a revenant, which is biologically almost the same as a dhampir.
** And apart from being capable of going out in the sunlight, they're pathetic. Every generation, the vampire blood thins out a little bit -- double the generation, half the blood, and vampires capable of making dhampyr are pretty wimpy already. A dhampyr is double the generation of the (usually) father -- which means they've got almost no vamp blood at all. They're also one of the signs of the apocalypse, the "Time of Thin-Blood" being one of the main parts.
*** One notable ability that they can have (depending on the storyteller-- see the ''Time of Thin Blood'' book), however, is the ability to see through ALL supernatural illusions, and see the world for what it truly is. They can also have ''another'' drawback-- thin and fragile bones, due to one of their parents being dead. So... BlessedWithSuck, really.
*** White Wolf, in later editions, made a habit of doing this with a lot of the Special Snowflake character types that had popped up in earlier editions. Take the classic Abomination, for instance. Half-vampire, half-werewolf, all kick-ass? Not quite. A werewolf who's been Embraced has all the weaknesses of both races, loses almost all werewolf powers, is despised by vampires, who usually won't teach it vampire powers... oh, and is immediately inflicted with a permanent supernatural suicidal depression. The gamemakers got even less subtle with other Changing Breeds as time went on, to the point where trying to turn a Kitsune were-fox into a vampire causes the Kitsune to explode in a pillar of flame, killing both itself and the vampire.
** In the Asian setting ''TabletopGame/KindredOfTheEast'', a Kuei-Jin (Asian vampire) breeding with a human can produce a dhampyr. They have minimal access to vampiric disciplines, but their main power is their supernatural luck, the spiritual side-effect of the unlikelihood of their birth. This also justifies why the mother is usually human: Kuei-Jin are fertile only if they spend yang-aspected chi when they wake up. If a vampire mother ever ran out of that kind of chi in the course of nine months, she would miscarry, while a vampire father need only spend it on the night of conception. Ironically, both parents can be vampires. This is very rare, however.

* Dhampyr are mentioned in ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', as a mix between human and vampire parents, but never shown. They're called Dhampires, and [[FantasticRacism because their genetics are not pure, which is a point of pride for Vampires, these individuals are ostracized and shunned by their pure-blooded brethren.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:He has his mother's hair... and his father's teeth.]]

** They get to play around with the implications of a vampire with a human son. Connor is not affected by the usual vampiric weaknesses, and so can go places and do things that Angel can't. In his first episode back from Quor-toth, Angel loses Connor when he can't follow him into the sunlight. On the other hand, Angel later has to shield Connor from gunfire.

* In''Film/ZoltanHoundOfDracula'', Dracula turns the innkeeper Veidt Smith into a "fractional lamia": an undead creature that is only part vampire, able to function in the daytime and having no need to drink blood and a [[TheRenfield slave of the Draculas]].

* ''Series/TheStrain'': Mr. Quinlan (Rupert Penry-Jones) was conceived during the Roman Empire when his pregnant mother was bitten by the Master. Quinlan shares the vampires' immortality and enhanced strength, but is not dependent on blood to survive and can withstand sunlight.

* ''Series/TheStrain'': Mr. Quinlan (Creator/RupertPenryJones) was conceived during the Roman Empire when his pregnant mother was bitten by the Master.
Quinlan shares the vampires' immortality and enhanced strength, but is not dependent on blood to survive and can withstand sunlight.

* ''[[Literature/TheStrain The Strain Trilogy]]'': Mr. Quinlan, the "son" of the Master, was conceived during the Roman Empire when his pregnant mother was bitten by the Master (who, using the name "Thrax", was a [[EvilChancellor secret advisor]] to Emperor [[TheCaligula Caligua]]. The Emperor made Thrax regular gifts of young women to feed upon, but Thrax, aware of the possibility of creating a dhampir, insist that all the women be virgins, but the Emperor's servants messed up. Quinlan's mother escaped the PraetorianGuard and bore her child, which was named Quintus. Quinlan shares the vampires' immortality and enhanced strength, but is not dependent on blood to survive and can withstand sunlight.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s hero, Ragna the Bloodedge, is technically a half-vampire, [[spoiler:which is hinted to be a side-effect of Rachel drinking his blood anyway]]. However, fortunately, he's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold than an angsty MartyStu. It probably has to do with the fact that he's the resident series' ButtMonkey (after [[LargeHam Bang]] was "elevated" to the status of TheChewToy).

* ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'' displays the character of Pietro de Blado (Pete), who is a 700-year-old half-human, half-vampire. So it makes him a dhampyr, though the word is not used in the manga. The vampire parent is, of course, the father (nothing is said about the mother!)

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* In Creator/NancyACollins' graphic novel ''Dhampire Stillborn'', the protagonist Nicholas Gaunt is a dhampyr.
* ''Dhampyr'': in the first issue of this series, Harlan Draka pretends to be a dhampyr, [[spoiler: until he finds out he is really one.]] In this series, vampires are ''burned'' and killed by a drop of blood from a dhamphyr (apparently because of its hybrid nature). Vice versa, also since Harlan is mainly human, he is able to suck blood from the Masters of the Night (the high vampires), reversing the use. By the way also the Masters of the Night, if willing, are able to suck blood from other Masters, albeit rarely; usually, they try to avoid a war between themselves, but they are very territorial.

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* ''Daughter of Darkness'' is about the eponymous woman who goes to Romania in search of her father, who is a vampire lord. Her arrival, and her heritage as a half-vampire causes a power struggle among the local bloodsuckers.

* In the novelization for ''Film/DraculasDaughter'' written by "Carl Dreadstone" (actually Ramsay Campbell), set in ''Franchise/UniversalHorror'' strongly implied that the titular vampire woman, is a dhampir, as Dracula attacked a pregnant woman, and the baby, a girl, born half human and half vampire.

* Sonja Blue, from Nancy A. Collins' ''Midnight Blue'' series, is an extremely rare HalfHumanHybrid vampire, which means she has many vampire strengths and lacks most of their weaknesses. However, she also has a raging case of SplitPersonality and SuperpoweredEvilSide, so it kinda evens out.

* Cat, the titular Literature/NightHuntress, is the product of a vampire father and her human mother. Bones rates her as weak as the weakest vampire when they meet. After training, she is much stronger than any vampire her age, including her father. At one point Bones calls her a Master vampire, she often gets the best of Masters in straight fights, and she even flies once briefly, which is an ability exclusive to Masters. She has the strength, speed, vision, and hearing of a vampire, and can sense their power when they are nearby. She doesn't heal instantly, her sense of smell is no better, and she can't hypnotize humans unless she drugs them first. Also, Cat is not bothered by silver or sunlight. One other advantage she has is that half-vampires are incredibly rare and she still has a pulse, so vampires think she's a human and underestimate her capabilities. [[spoiler:When she becomes fully vampire, her strength increases significantly, she drinks undead blood instead of human (and temporarily absorbs special abilities from it), becomes vulnerable to silver, and gains the healing, olfactory, and hypnotizing abilities. Despite her strength, her aura is that of a young vampire, again causing her to be underestimated.]]

* The RPG ''All Of Their Strengths'' has this as one of the available race options (understandably, because the name itself is a ShoutOut to ''Blade'').

* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' introduces a dhampyr in the final arc, [[spoiler: the boy who will grow up to become Literature/VampireHunterD. He believes himself to be the offspring of Integra Manga/{{Hellsing}} and [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Alucard]], but is actually the offspring of Integra and [[HasTwoMommies Seras Victoria]]]].

* Eddie Munster from sitcom ''Series/TheMunsters'' is half-vampire as he is the son of a vampiress mother and a non-vampire technically "human" father (well, made of human parts). Curiously, though, he is a werewolf.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':
** ''Breaking Dawn'' has [[spoiler:Renesmee Cullen, the child of Edward and human-at-the-time Bella. She's a half-vampire that shows both human and vampire traits. She is the reason for the main conflict with the BigBad at the end of the last book, and her birth is the biggest plot element for most of said book]].

* ''Film/{{Blade}}'': The title character's mother was turned into a vampire when she was pregnant with Blade, causing him to develop into a vampire/human hybrid. He is immune to all the vampiric weaknesses, but still ages. He has SuperStrength. His tag line is ''All the strengths, none of the weaknesses'', despite the fact he doesn't ''have'' all the strengths, and is constantly fighting his blood addiction. Though to be fair, the Thirst isn't a "weakness". It boosts his powers exponentially. Blade himself just refuses to feed on people for the most part because it makes him feel less human. A normal vampire doesn't have that moral compass.

** 4th Edition later brought out the Vryloka. Considered "living vampires", they share some of the benefits (increased lifespan and speed/dexterity), and can ''choose'' whether to count as "human" or "undead" for each specific effect against them, but none of the weaknesses. They also gain an ability that gives them a quick boost once an encounter. They can also take "utility" powers at later levels, which are everything from "drink the blood of a slain enemy once a day to not have to eat or drink", to shapeshifting into a wolf or a bat, to "raise a dead ally back to life by feeding it your blood, and if they're human they can become Vryloka". They're still not considered full vampires, though; that's a ''class'' instead of a race, and just so happen to have primary/secondary stats in line with the Vryloka's racial bonuses, and were introduced in the same book...

* Averted in ''Film/TheMonsterClub'', in which vampires readily crossbred with other monsters (werewolves and ghouls) and produced some weird hybrids, but apparently ''not'' with humans, who were just lunch.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'', in which the title character was only ''claiming'' to be half-vampire on his mother's side. Or rather, vigorously and repeatedly ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denying]]'' he was, to set up a fake psychic scam and rip off his college classmates.

** Averted by the 1st Edition half-''strength'' vampire, which was simply a vampire-victim that had arisen as a less-powerful undead controlled by its sire. Also by the pseudo-vampire, which was a living creature with a vampire's appearance, hit dice, and slam attack, but none of its powers or undead traits.