History Main / LooksLikeOrlok

* In the ''Literature/LauraCaxton'' novels, vampires have the bald head and pointy ear thing going on, and some let their fingernails grow long and claw-like. However, instead of two front teeth fangs, their whole mouths are full of row after row of sharp teeth, like a shark. Oh, and they're also [[EvilAlbino albinos]].

** Two examples: Olrox from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' (his name is a giveaway) and Brauner from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin''. It should be noted that while Brauner physically resembles Orlok, he dresses like the later, classier versions, making him a weird hybrid of the two designs.

* Vampires from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series go through a progression of appearance as they age: They start out fairly human-looking, develop into a more elven/bishonen form with talon-like nails, further evolve to gain more bestial traits like three-clawed hands and feet, and the really ancient ones like Kain and Vorador end up with a far more monstrous look that features pointed, bat-like ears (the shape seems to vary) and mottled skin. The games also show vampires evolving out of humanoid form entirely, given enough time and the right circumstances.

* A short ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' Halloween comic featured what might be Orlok himself as the villain. Sam [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments kicks him in the face.]]

* [[MadScientist Jax-Ur]] in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', the Kryptonian who experiments on [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]] while he's held of Zod's ship.

History time: In the original folklore, most vampires were Eastern European peasants, [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse little different from the people they preyed upon]]. A succession of nineteenth century authors -- [[Literature/TheVampyre Polidori]], [[Literature/VarneyTheVampire Rymer]], [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} Le Fanu]], and ultimately [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Stoker]] -- made them elegant aristocrats, whose attractiveness and dignified bearing disguised an inner corruption. And we all know [[Literature/{{Twilight}} what happened since]].

History time: In the original folklore, most vampires were short, ugly, Eastern European peasants. Then Polidori creates the character of [[Literature/TheVampyre Lord Ruthven]] and suddenly they're all elegant, English, aristocratic and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed look suspiciously like Lord Byron]]. Rymer's ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'' gives them fangs and the whole "wandering the world hating what they've become" thing. Then Sheridan Le Fanu's ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'' was written, and vampires suddenly became alluring, [[LesbianVampire bisexual]] upper-class gothic girls. Then, ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' was written, and they're still elegant aristocrats, but moved back to Eastern Europe, presentable and dignified yet disguising an inner corruption. Thus, horror turned to fetish, and pop culture... ''ahem''... the world was never the same again. And we all know [[Literature/{{Twilight}} what happened since]].

In the early 1920s, F.W. Murnau had a great idea. Since the {{German Expressionis|m}}t movement was all about stylization, why not apply this to vampires? Why not create a vampire that [[RedRightHand looks exactly like what he is]]: a parasitic bloodsucker? And so, ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' got made, and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes very nearly]] destroyed.

Part of Murnau's intention was to make Orlok look like the [[TheVirus plague]]-carrying [[YouDirtyRat rats]] to which he is explicitly compared throughout the film.

* The Strangers from ''Film/DarkCity'', while not as facially deformed as Orlock himself, do strongly give off the same impression with their pallor, baldness and eerie movements.

* Timothy Spall's Peter Pettigrew in ''Film/HarryPotter'' has elements of this, though he's only bald''ing'' and he ditches the longcoat for a much-less-impressive cheap suit. He's TheRenfield, and the character, like Orlock, [[YouDirtyRat is associated with rats]], so it's kinda fitting.

* The Master's appearance from ''Literature/TheStrain'' is heavily influenced by Orlock.

* The Na'kuhl from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' also have the Orlock look.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Nosferatu are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent one of several types of vampire]] in the game setting; and yes, they look like the gentleman pictured at the top of this page. They even have different abilities than the common-or-garden vampire, all of which are taken from the original film, such as telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to turn into a swarm of rats, but just like Orlock, they can't create new vampires by drinking blood.

* Count Orlock appears in ''WesternAnimation/MaryShelleysFrankenhole'' alongside Dracula. He's a mute, so whenever he talks, title cards pop up along with the sound of a dramatic piano.

* Count Chocula, the spokes-vampire for UsefulNotes/GeneralMills' chocolate/marshmallow cereal, isn't ''purely'' this trope -- he has the Lugosian dark hair and widows's peak and tidy, aristocratic clothing, but he has the pointed ears, extra-long fingers with claw-like nails, narrow, hooked nose, and pointy little rat-fangs in place of his incisors rather than as canine teeth. He really owes more to Orlok than to Lugosi.

* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' has an amusing, where the director's GothicHorror approach led him to ask the effects crew to use ''Nosferatu'' as a reference for the ''Indoraptor''. Hence the new hybrid dinosaur has gangly limbs ending in huge claws and weird front teeth.

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' gives us Skullmaster, an ancient warrior-sorcerer with chalk-white skin, fangs, claws, and pointy ears (who's also ''very'' buff). His menacing voice was provided by Creator/TimCurry.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Though Magus is often drawn as a PrettyBoy in FanArt, and his sprite could be mistaken for one, his character portrait is basically Orlok with long, blue-white hair and red eyes. The redrawn art for later releases made his face more conventionally attractive, however.

* Vampires from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series go through a progression of appearance as they age; they start out fairly human-looking, develop into a more elven/bishonen form with talon-like nails, further evolve to gain more bestial traits like three-clawed hands and feet, and the really ancient ones like Kain and Vorador end up with a far more monstrous look that features pointed, bat-like ears (the shape seems to vary) and mottled skin. The games also show vampires evolving out of humanoid form entirely, given enough time and the right circumstances.

* The creatures guarding the statue in the aquarium warehouse in ''WebVIdeo/TheOutCrowd look like this.

* The vampire in the 1979 TV movie version of Creator/StephenKing's ''[[Literature/SalemsLot Salem's Lot]]''. Curiously, this is unique to this version of the story; the original novel's vampire antagonist is perfectly human-looking.

* ''{{Film/Goosebumps}}'' has Count Nightwing, who looks like Count Orlok.

* {{Film/Goosebumps}} has Count Nightwing who looks like Count Orlok.

* Many of the Nosferatu in game art take on this appearance in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', but it can differ quite a bit from the Orlokian norm, as long as it's hideous. This is likely intentional, since the clan has the same name as the movie Orlok came from and has abilities similar to his.
** The version of the Nosferatu in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' can take on many forms foul and fair, but regardless of appearance always has an [[UncannyValley unsettling aura]] that makes social interaction difficult.
* The Necrarch bloodline in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy Battle''.
** The Strigoi even more so - giant mutated bloodsuckers that are barely human. By way of comparison, Necrarch vampires often resemble rotting corpses.

** D&D also has the Keepers, which are basically an {{Expy}} of the Strangers from ''Film/DarkCity''.
* The D&D third edition ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' books introduced the Vrykolakas, a subtype of vampires that look like Orlok. They are specifically described as "night scavengers and plague-carriers" to play up Orlok's plague rat aspects. One key difference is that instead of fangs they have a long, barbed tongue.

* The Vampire creatures in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' are like this.
* Vorcha in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.

* Lord Erebus from ''VideoGame/{{Demigod}}''.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** The series' vampires tend to become increasingly more monstrous in appearance the longer they go without feeding,[[note]]from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' onward, as the peculiarity of the dominant strain in Cyrodiil -- [[VampireVarietyPack other strains]], like the ones in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', remained monstrous even if they had just fed. ''Skyrim'' made it apply to a strain previously indicated to have another quirk.[[/note]] with their faces becoming gaunt and weathered. Vampires of Elven origin, with their already slim builds and pointy ears, are particularly prone to looking like Orlok. The trope is played most straight with the Volkihar Clan in the ''Dawnguard'' DLC of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', who have the power to [[SuperMode transform]] at will into a [[http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/File:VampireLord.png Vampire Lord,]] with grotesque features, pale skin, pointed ears, deadly claws and a partially bald head. Unlike Orlok, Vampire Lords wear loincloths (although Lord Harkon also wears a cloak with a high collar) and have impressive physical builds, skeletal wings and claw-like feet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burns looks like Orlok even when he's ''not'' a vampire. Especially when he wriggles his fingers...
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" Mr. Burns is Dracula, and a few of his underlings look very Orlokian. Burns himself is primarily a parody of Creator/GaryOldman's portrayal of Dracula in [[Film/BramStokersDracula the Coppola movie]], but he does look a little Orlokian, too.

* The Grand Inquisitor from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' fits this greatly. He's bald, has bone white skin, sharp teeth, and golden Sith eyes. With tattoos for extra evilness. Makes sense since he is a Pau'an, the Orlok-looking species mentioned above in Star Wars Film entry, but unlike most of them, he's as evil as he looks.

** The series' vampires tend to become increasingly more monstrous in appearance the longer they go without feeding[[note]]from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' onward, as the peculiarity of the dominant strain in Cyrodiil -- [[VampireVarietyPack other strains]], like the ones in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', remained monstrous even if they had just fed. ''Skyrim'' made it apply to a strain previously indicated to have another quirk.[[/note]], with their faces becoming gaunt and weathered. Vampires of Elven origin, with their already slim builds and pointy ears, are particularly prone to looking like Orlok. The trope is played most straight with the Volkihar Clan in the ''Dawnguard'' DLC of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', who have the power to [[SuperMode transform]] at will into a [[http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/File:VampireLord.png Vampire Lord]], with grotesque features, pale skin, pointed ears, deadly claws and a partially bald head. Unlike Orlok, Vampire Lords wear loincloths (although Lord Harkon also wears a cloak with a high collar) and have impressive physical builds, skeletal wings and claw-like feet.

* This is the inevitable fate of all vampires in ''Literature/StraightOuttaFangton'', part of the ''Literature/UnitedStatesOfMonsters'' world. If you live to be an Ancient One, over a thousand years old, you gradually start becoming a deformed demonic-looking creature. The protagonist, Peter Stone, says the men look like Orlok and the women look like Medusa. Thankfully, they can all shapeshift so it's actually less of a curse than it sounds [[WhoWantsToLiveForever but most don't care enough to bother.]]