History OurVampiresAreDifferent / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Robo and [[HypercompetentSidekick Jenkins]] sometimes fight off invasions from the "Vampire Dimension". Robo explains:

** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has the Anzati, essentially a race of psychic vampires, featured prominently in the comics about AntiHero Quinlan Vos, whose parents they killed. Anzati live for millennia, have no pulse, and can regenerate from a lot of grievous injuries. They feed by mesmerizing their prey, before inserting the proboscises extending from their cheeks into the nostrils of the victims, and drinking their "soup". That is, their brains, and their imprint in TheForce. Weirdly enough, they're also the resident {{ninja}}s.

* In the horror series, ''ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight'' Vampires, instead of just two neat, little fangs for canines, have entire mouthfuls of pointed teeth, like sharks. A bite or scratch transforms a victim into one of them unless the victim is immediately killed. They have superhuman strength sufficient to rip humans apart like phone books. They are also some of the most hostile vampires ever put to any medium, while still retaining a measure of individuality. Turning into a vampire in this series generally seems to entail degenerating into a [[TranshumanTreachery dick]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Vampires are immortal, super-strong, drink blood, and catch fire in sunlight. They don't even ''need'' to feed on humans, garlic poses no problem to them, and they can survive decapitation. Cassidy runs into a fellow vampire, a guy trying way too hard to be a ClassicalMovieVampire (he says he once tried to turn into a bat and broke both his legs) [[spoiler:and kills him when it turns out he's been running a VampireVannabe cult]].

-->"They're not ''literally'' vampires. Sunlight, garlic, crosses, none of that applies. But we call them vampires because they're ageless super strong monsters that feed on the blood of the living."

* The Vampires in [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]]'s "First Bite" are not only capable of getting pregnant (and impregnating others), but also lose their fangs once converted to Christianity. This one does make sense, from point of view of mainstream theology and conventional mythology. Vampirism is either a curse from God, a punishment for sin, or it's a dark blessing from Satan. Sincerely accepting Christ into one's heart would indeed be more than enough to gain absolution of one's sins, and obviously Satan would have to withdraw his blessing from someone who truly and sincerely loved God. This ''might'' be the first and only time Chick [[ShownTheirWork did his homework]].

* In "Valley of the Vampires" in ''Creepy'' #28 vampires are humanoids with the ears, wings and feet of a bat. Their supposed weakness to garlic, holy water and crosses is a myth perpetuated by them, but they can be harmed by ordinary bullets.

* ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'': Vampires are immortal, super-strong, drink blood, and catch fire in sunlight. They don't even ''need'' to feed on humans, garlic poses no problem to them, and they can survive decapitation. Cassidy runs into a fellow vampire, a guy trying way too hard to be a ClassicalMovieVampire (he says he once tried to turn into a bat and broke both his legs) [[spoiler:and kills him when it turns out he's been running a VampireVannabe cult.]]

* In ''Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula'', vampires are much more bat-oriented. Forming bat wings on parts of their body (from the back, under their arms, from their hands, etc) and also have a weird swirling mist about them. Their skin can be damaged but feeding will fix it instantly. It also takes fate on both sides for religious symbols to work since when confronting Lucy and Dracula's brides. Only Lucy wasn't affected since she states the brides were from a more religious time. Also when heavily damaged rather than blood, a green mist flows from their body and why burst into green flames when fully killed.

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Examples of vampires present in the comic book medium.

[[AC:DC/Vertigo Comics]]
* Their 'regular' vampires are the classic kind, hiding from the sun, eating the innocent, etc. They have 'remote' control over their victims. However, these guys have learned. Running water is very scary, yes, but smelling like a hobo is scarier.
** Pre-Crisis, Superman fends off Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, but what truly terrifies them is ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger, which is well founded since all he has to do when he shows up is banish them with a wave of his cape.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}}'' #14, Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} (Stephanie Brown) teams up with Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} to take on 24 HardLight hologram Draculas.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Final Crisis}}'', the secondary Big Bad (after ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}) was Mandrakk, a rogue, twisted Monitor who fed on the Bleed (aka ''ultramenstruum'') -- which is, technically speaking, the life blood of the ''Multiverse itself''. Mandrakk had once been the good and wise Dax Novu until he had been corrupted and overwhelmed by vampiric hunger. It was further revealed that all the Monitors - meta-beings from a sort of sentient super-universe in which the entire Multiverse was a mere ''lesion'' -- were vampiric in this way -- either by feeding on Bleed, or, in a more metaphorical way, by 'leeching' on the stories of the universes they watched. One female Monitor, Zilla Valla, was seen physically feeding on Overman, a Superman from a universe where the Nazis had won World War II. In spite of the insane scale of the Monitors, Mandrakk was, in the end, killed by having a stake driven through (what presumably was) his heart. Admittedly it was a stake composed of the joint energy of most of the Green Lantern Corps, but the principle remains. Mandrakk also had trouble coming near Franchise/{{Superman}} because of the stored sunlight in his body, so he's weak to sunlight too.
* This trope is central to DC/Vertigo's ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' in several ways.
** First, vampires from different regions of the world or different backgrounds can look, behave, and have powers that are wildly different. Some will be almost indistinguishable from humans, some are incredibly monstrous creatures that look like they could be aliens in a sci-fi movie.
** The dominant group of vampires from the 18th century on are old European nobility with the traditional weaknesses (sunlight, wood, running water). However, when Skinner Sweet, a [[TheWildWest Wild West]] outlaw and the titular American vampire, gets turned inadvertently he turns out to be the first in a new breed. Notably, he (and later, his progeny) can [[DaywalkingVampire walk around in daylight just fine]], has a GameFace with massive claws and fangs, (which can tear people and other vamps apart like they're MadeOfPlasticine) and the elder vampires are at a complete loss as to how to kill him. It doesn't help that he was AxCrazy even before he was turned, and was buried for several decades before being freed, which didn't do much to improve his disposition. It turns out that the new breed [[spoiler: are powerless and vulnerable during the new moon. And gold is a weakness as well]].
** In the second arc we also meet vampires who transform into large bat like creatures.
** The Vassals (the resident vampire hunters) admit that there is no such thing as a 'vampire', just a bunch of different blood-drinking monsters with just enough similarities to be grouped together.
* The DC/Vertigo comic, ''Bite Club'', has vampires as an ethnic group. While they drink blood they can use laboratory made substitutes, They are only little sensitive to the sun but they can be killed relatively easily, also some are color-blind. There are many ways to become a vampire, If you are bitten by vampire bats, then you become an Alpha, Betas are the sons of alphas or other Betas, and you can also make more vampires by biting humans.
* In ''Comicbook/IVampire'', sunlight doesn't harm vampires, but instead simply weakens them. They have a number of shape-shifting abilities, and many of their powers get more powerful as they get older. They are also much harder to kill as they age, and killing a sire within the first three days of a vampire being turned will cure that vampire.
* ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' provides another DC/Vertigo example with the vampires of Rosewood. Formed from a vampire colony which had been mostly destroyed when the town was flooded, the survivors (sleeping in sealed freezer units) adapted and became ''aquatic vampires''. John Constantine explains that the vampire virus is anaerobic; running water is aerated and damages vampires, but they can tolerate stagnant water -- and being underwater shields them from direct sunlight. They were even [[HollywoodEvolution becoming fish-like]].
* Sgt. Vincent Velcro of the ''Creature Commandos'' is a vampire, but an artificial/simulated vampire. This means that while he lacks the supernatural weaknesses of a true vampire, he also lacks many of their more fantastic powers and is much easier to kill (though he ''can'' turn into a bat and back).
* Cassidy from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' is a vulgar, foul-mouthed, grungy character who looks and acts human for almost all intents and purposes. His hair and nails grow, he breathes, he has apparently fathered children (although we never meet any), he has human-temperature skin and bleeds if he's cut. Holy symbols have no effect on him, he casts a reflection and can be photographed, he eats and drinks (and drinks, and drinks...) like a mortal, but needs blood for healing wounds and prolonging his life. He can drink nonhuman blood just fine and prefers getting it from rare steak, and only bites humans if they're trying to kill him. He can't change shape. He doesn't age. Sunlight causes his body to burst into flames but nothing else can kill him, up to and including being shot by the Saint of Killers. Stakes don't kill him, but they hurt, and he has also survived decapitation. He doesn't even have fangs! Despite this, the word "vampire" is never used. The closest the book comes is Cassidy referring to himself as "the V word".
** A {{spinoff}} book contrasts Cassidy with a Gothic poseur vampire in the Lestat mold, to the detriment of the poseur, who gets killed by Cassidy after Cassidy discovers that he is feeding off a group of human Lestat wannabes using the false promise of turning them into vampires, and for being "too much of a wanker to live". (This and Cassidy's own turning imply that ''Preacher'' vampirism works on a disease model and that anybody bitten by a vampire who isn't drained to death turns into a vampire without actually dying. Vampires are implied to be rare because vampires don't have the self-control to bite someone without killing unless they're violently interrupted.)
** Even though Cassidy averts almost all the traditional vampire tropes (he's left with needing blood, although rare meat is good enough, and bursting into flame in the sun), it's revealed near the middle-to-end of the series that Cassidy is very much a metaphorical vampire, based on how he handles relationships.
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has [[spoiler:[[ReligiousVampire The Confessor]]]], a vampire super-hero. He's also [[spoiler:a former priest, and wears a large cross on his costume. The pain helps him resist his bloodlust]].

[[AC: Marvel Comics]]
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has a large variety of vampire types, from Dracula himself to those based on the patterns of insects to "pseudo-vampires" created by science. (See [[http://www.marvunapp.com/list/appvampi.htm here]] for a full list.) Dracula and other traditional, magical vampires beginning with the Atlantean Varnae (ShoutOut to Literature/VarneyTheVampire), originate from a BlackMagic spell cast from the Darkhold, a magical tome written by the demonic Elder God Chthon. Great strength, speed and healing as long as they get blood are kind of universal. Dracula's line has most of the powers he had in the novel. They can control wolves, rats and bats as well as transform into mist, more powerful ones can manipulate the weather. Sunlight weakens almost all types, destroying most on contact. Wood can disrupt their healing and they also are very weak to silver and garlic. A believing Jew can use the Star of David to ward off a vampire just as well as a Christian using a cross can. Conversely, a cross won't work for an atheist or a Jew. If you're an atheist, it might be a good idea to keep some garlic or one of those little Darwin fishes handy.
** A sample of some others: Nosferatu's ilk are like Dracula but look ugly when using the full extent of their power. Adze, found primarily in Guyana, ignore pain to the point they keep going even as they ''burn away''. Charniputra mostly fly above the Himalayas with their great wings, spending almost all non feeding time in the sky. Charniputra also have a tough hide that's hard to damage without the weaknesses. Yuki Onna, the snow vampires of Nippon, spend their time as clouds of razor sharp ice, turning into a humanoid form to feed. Tryks drink other vampires and have none of the weaknesses, they also have retractable claws and spikes. The spikes inject venom that stops vampires from fading away after dying and the drained corpse becomes Tryk larva, which find human hosts to leech off of until adulthood. Queen Tryks have wings and can fly. Aqueos are more like fish people, spending most of their time in the ocean depths where the sun can't get them. ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has vampires that [[YourVampiresSuck specifically don't work like]] vampires in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The only weakness they carry is sunlight and [[EnergyBeings aliens that]] [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows taste like rainbows]].
** Some variations are limited to individual characters:
*** ComicBook/{{Blade}}'s {{dhampire}} birth made him immune to being turned by every type in the sample but he was eventually bitten by Michael Morbius, a science-created vampire instead of a supernatural one, and his [[RePower powers have changed some]]. Spitfire's vampire turn was mostly rejected and the few traits she has are suppressed, they come out [[GameFace when she's angry]].
*** ComicBook/{{Morbius}}'s skin is deathly pale, he needs to drink human blood to survive, he is superhumanly strong and heals fast, but his similarities to the standard vampire begin and end there. Typically, Morbius doesn't even consider himself a vampire so much as a man with an unfortunate condition.
*** Hunger was formerly HYDRA agent Crown, another Franchise/SpiderMan villain, but not nearly as memorable. He was also a "scientifically created" vampire who was not undead.
* In a ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' story in ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'', the Thunder God answers the distressed prayers of a colony of Vikings settled on an island off the coast of what will be the New World. However, he's too late, and they're all vampires. Some attack him on sight, and instantly turn to dust. Their master, {{Dracula}}'s Atlantean predecessor as Vampire Lord, Varnae, however, is almost invulnerable to him, since the gods of {{Atlantis}} that he worshipped are long gone, leading to a savage brawl that only ends when Thor uses Mjolnir to open a portal to the sun -- and even then, Varnae merely makes a TacticalWithdrawal, mildly remarking that he'd almost forgotten what pain felt like. In a Marvel Conan story set millennia earlier, a sorcerer manages to turn Varnae away with incantations spoken in the names of gods of his time. Additionally, it's worth noting that while Dracula generally looks either like his classic evening dress wearing Bela Lugosi type depiction, albeit sometimes with yellow eyes and pointed ears, or a bit more bestial but still human-ish, with red armour, long white hair and clear and obvious fangs, Varnae looks utterly animalistic, like a stereotypical beast-man, despite his loquacious dialogue.
* The biggest DarkSecret of [[ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage Ravencroft, home of the criminally insane]], was that in 1945 there was an experiment done in a secret underground lab beneath the asylum. Dracula and Baron Blood had a deal with the American government where they would join the Allies along with the vampires they command and in return the government would develop a cure for their weakness to daylight. Homeless people were kidnapped and experimented on with a mix of vampire blood and varying strange concoctions. The result were monstrosities that looked nothing alike and were freaks out of B&W horror comics, so they were locked down while Dracula rescinded the deal. There were monsters with slug bodies, blob monsters, things with tentacles, some had too many eyes etc. They were still vampires, albeit extremely weak ones and survived into the 21st century occasionally feeding on unlucky inmates as they learned the duct system of the asylum. They would eventually be wiped out when they broke out in full force and faced a counterattack from [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]], ComicBook/ThePunisher and the supervillains who were the new Ravencroft administration.

* In the horror series, ''ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight'' Vampires, instead of just two neat, little fangs for canines, have entire mouthfuls of pointed teeth, like sharks. Their bite transforms a victim into one of them unless the victim is immediately killed. They have superhuman strength sufficient to rip humans apart like phone books. They are also some of the most hostile vampires ever put to any medium, while still retaining a measure of individuality. Turning into a vampire in this series generally seems to entail degenerating into a [[TranshumanTreachery dick]].

* The biggest DarkSecret of [[ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage Ravencroft, home of the criminally insane]], was that in 1945 there was an experiment done in a secret underground lab beneath the asylum. Dracula and Baron Blood had a deal with the American government where they would join the Allies along with the vampires they command and in return the government would develop a cure for their weakness to daylight. Homeless people were kidnapped and experimented on with a mix of vampire blood and varying strange concoctions. The result were monstrosities that looked nothing alike and were freaks out of B&W horror comics, so they were locked down while Dracula rescinded the deal. There were monsters with slug bodies, blob monsters, things with tentacles, some had too many eyes etc. They were still vampires, albeit extremely weak ones and survived into the 21st century occasionally feeding on unlucky inmates as they learned the duct system of the asylum. They would eventually be wiped out when they broke out in full force and faced a counterattack from ComicBook/MistyKnight, ComicBook/ThePunisher and the supervillains who were the new Ravencroft administration.

* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has the Anzati, essentially a race of psychic vampires, featured prominently in the comics about AntiHero Quinlan Vos, whose parents they killed. Anzati live for millennia, have no pulse, and can regenerate from a lot of grievous injuries. They feed by mesmerizing their prey, before inserting the proboscises extending from their cheeks into the nostrils of the victims, and drinking their "soup". That is, their brains, and their imprint in TheForce. Weirdly enough, they're also the resident {{ninja}}s.
* Aside from being [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred years old]] the vampire in ''Theo's Occult Curiosities'' displays none of the traits usually associated with vampires: He is unaffected by sunlight (he spent 150 years living in the jungles of South America) doesn't seem to be able to transform himself into a Bat, etc. He does drink blood, but that is more because of a warped sense of duty, he is a devout Christian who believes that God has chosen him to purify the souls of sinners by drinking their blood, than out of necessity.
* In the cult comic series ''Trencher'', the title character fights a vampire named Dr. Tushman who lives on farts instead of blood, frequents a strip club where they only serve baked beans for his victims, and, when he's finished draining a victim, puts a fake butt over their real butt in order to cover up the bite marks. Trencher beats him by lighting a match. Yes, it is as ridiculous and immature as one would expect from Keith Giffen.
* Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/TheUnwritten''. Since the comic is all about stories interacting with the real world, when one character gets turned into a vampire, his friends have to run tests to figure out which author's vampire rules are in play.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Final Crisis}}'', the secondary Big Bad (after ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}) was Mandrakk, a rogue, twisted Monitor who fed on the Bleed (aka ''ultramenstruum'') -- which is, technically speaking, the life blood of the ''Multiverse itself''. Mandrakk had once been the good and wise Dax Novu until he had been corrupted and overwhelmed by vampiric hunger. It was further revealed that all the Monitors - meta-beings from a sort of sentient super-universe in which the entire Multiverse was a mere ''lesion'' -- were vampiric in this way - either by feeding on Bleed, or, in a more metaphorical way, by 'leeching' on the stories of the universes they watched. One female Monitor, Zilla Valla, was seen physically feeding on Overman, a Superman from a universe where the Nazis had won World War II. In spite of the insane scale of the Monitors, Mandrakk was, in the end, killed by having a stake driven through (what presumably was) his heart. Admittedly it was a stake composed of the joint energy of most of the Green Lantern Corps, but the principle remains. Mandrakk also had trouble coming near Franchise/{{Superman}} because of the stored sunlight in his body, so he's weak to sunlight too.

* In a ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' story in ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'', the Thunder God answers the distressed prayers of a colony of Vikings settled on an island off the coast of what will be the New World. However, he's too late, and they're all vampires. Some attack him on sight, and instantly turn to dust. Their master, {{Dracula}}'s Atlantean predecessor as Vampire Lord, Varnae, however, is almost invulnerable to him, since the gods of {{Atlantis}} that he worshipped are long gone, leading to a savage brawl that only ends when Thor uses Mjolnir to open a portal to the sun - and even then, Varnae merely makes a TacticalWithdrawal, mildly remarking that he'd almost forgotten what pain felt like. In a Marvel Conan story set millennia earlier, a sorcerer manages to turn Varnae away with incantations spoken in the names of gods of his time. Additionally, it's worth noting that while Dracula generally looks either like his classic evening dress wearing Bela Lugosi type depiction, albeit sometimes with yellow eyes and pointed ears, or a bit more bestial but still human-ish, with red armour, long white hair and clear and obvious fangs, Varnae looks utterly animalistic, like a stereotypical beast-man, despite his loquacious dialogue.
* The biggest DarkSecret of [[ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage Ravencroft, home of the criminally insane]], was that in 1945 there was an experiment done in a secret underground lab beneath the asylum. Dracula and Baron Blood had a deal with the American government where they would join the Allies along with the vampires they command and in return the government would develop a cure for their weakness to daylight. Homeless people were kidnapped and experimented on with a mix of vampire blood and varying strange concotions. The result were monstrosities that looked nothing alike and were freaks out of B&W horror comics, so they were locked down while Dracula rescinded the deal. There were monsters with slug bodies, blob monsters, things with tentacles, some had too many eyes etc. They were still vampires, albeit extremely weak ones and survived into the 21st century occasionally feeding on unlucky inmates as they learned the duct system of the asylum. They would eventually be wiped out when they broke out in full force and faced a counterattack from ComicBook/MistyKnight, ComicBook/ThePunisher and the supervillains who were the new Ravencroft administration.

* In the first storyline of the ''ComicBook/JackStaff'' comics, tabloid reporter Becky Burdock (known in her paper as "Becky Burdock, Girl Reporter", much to her distaste) is killed and transformed by an evil vampire. However, it turns out that she doesn't ''have'' to drink blood to survive, and has no trouble standing in sunlight. She's more concerned by the vampire hunter who's now fallen in love with her and the demonic hounds who want her to join their evil army. Worse, her newspaper has given her the even tackier title of "Becky Burdock, ''Vampire'' Reporter"...
* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has the Anzati, essentially a race of psychic vampires, featured prominently in the comics about AntiHero Quinlan Vos, whose parents they killed. Anzati live for millennia, have no pulse, can regenerate from a lot of grievous injuries. They feed by mesmerizing they preys, before inserting the proboscises extending from their cheeks into the nostrils of the victims, and drinking their "soup". That is, their brains, and their imprint in TheForce. Weirdly enough, they're also the resident {{ninja}}s.

* Aside from being [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred years old]] the vampire in ''Theo's Occult Curiosities'' displays none of the traits usually associated with vampires: He is unaffected by sunlight (he spent 150 years living in the jungles of South America) doesn't seem to be able to transform himself into a Bat, etc. He does drink blood, but that is more because of a warped sense of duty, he is a devout Christian who believes that God has chosen him to purify the souls of sinners by drinking their blood, than out of necessity.
* The Vampires in [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]]'s "First Bite" are not only capable of getting pregnant (and impregnating others), but also lose their fangs once converted to Christianity. This one does make sense, from point of view of mainstream theology and conventional mythology. Vampirism is either a curse from God, a punishment for sin, or it's a dark blessing from Satan. Sincerely accepting Christ into one's heart would indeed be more than enough to gain absolution of one's sins, and obviously Satan would have to withdraw his blessing from someone who truly and sincerely loved God. This ''might'' be the first and only time Chick [[ShownTheirWork did his homework]].

* In the horror series, ''ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight'' Vampires, instead of just two neat, little fangs for canines, have entire mouthfuls of pointed teeth, like sharks. Their bite transforms a victim into one of them unless the victim is immediately killed. They have superhuman strength sufficient to rip humans apart like phone books. They are also some of the most hostile vampires ever put to any medium, while still retaining a measure of individuality. Turning into a vampire in this series generally seems to entail degenerating into a [[TranshumanTreachery dick]].
** As for their weaknesses, vampires in this series seem to vary based on the author. They seem superhumanly tough, capable of taking such serious injuries as being impaled, shot in the face or even having grenades going off on their person. As one vampire character puts it, 'It'll all grow back, except the head'. The only thing that seems to consistently hurt the vampires in this series is sunlight, though this is balanced by the fact that it seems to take very, very little sunlight to reduce a vamp to ashes.
* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Robo and [[HypercompetentSidekick Jenkins]] sometimes fight off invasions from the "Vampire Dimension". Robo explains:
-->"They're not ''literally'' vampires. Sunlight, garlic, crosses, none of that applies. But we call them vampires because they're ageless super strong monsters that feed on the blood of the living."
* ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' has a 420 year old vampire named Ragamuffin, who instead of sucking blood, kills and eats people to survive. That is, until, [[spoiler: he happens to kill the wrong person at the wrong time, and is turned into a doll for the majority of the comic]].
* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': Vampires are the ruling class of the world of Résurrection. As per usual they're aristocratic, pale (mostly), beautiful (sometimes), proud, vulnerable to silver and just plain evil. As per unusual, they're often addicted to a drug called the Black Opium to help them forget their past sins, and they're not immortal but are as susceptible to regression as anyone else in Resurrection; only receiving Dracula's [[FountainOfYouth Dark Kiss]] makes you immune to [[MerlinSickness rejuvenation]], and that's pretty hard to come by. Rebirth as a vampire in Resurrection is reserved only for the very worst of the worst among humans including (but not limited to) Attila the Hun, Robespierre, Elizabeth Bathory, Nero, various Nazis and of course Vlad Tepes himself. [[spoiler:Oddly enough, Hitler didn't make the list, instead kept on ice as a superweapon by Dracula against the Lemures, many of which were Holocaust victims]].
* In ''Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula'', vampires are much more bat-oriented. Forming bat wings on parts of their body (from the back, under their arms, from their hands, etc) and also have a weird swirling mist about them. Their skin can be damaged but feeding will fix it instantly. It also takes fate on both sides for religious symbols to work since when confronting Lucy and Dracula's brides. Only Lucy wasn't affected since she states the brides were from a more religious time. Also when heavily damaged rather than blood, a green mist flows from their body and why burst into green flames when fully killed.

* ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' discussed this trope in the June 2, 2013 (Sunday) strip. Dracula visits the local bar and the others discuss the differences in vampires. Dracula then confesses that's why he doesn't get out much.

* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** Durham Red of ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' is immune to diseases and toxins and doesn't age. She has long fangs and uses them to drink blood from people and animals, which she needs to survive. Red's condition is never treated as supernatural, and it isn't. Rather, it is a form of mutation caused by strontium-90 fallout, which happened to cause a condition similar to folkloristic vampirism in her particular case.
** ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'':
*** Subverted; the vampires play almost every single vampire trope straight. They drink blood, are hurt by sunlight so they only appear during the night, they sleep in coffins, they don't have reflections, they can turn into both bats and wolves (as well as mist), they're vulnerable to crosses and garlic, they can't cross water, and can be killed by decapitation, fire, silver bullets, and a stake to the heart. About the only one missing is the vampire invitation.
*** DoubleSubversion in later stories, which reveal that Constanta himself is the only "pure" vampire, having made a DealWithTheDevil with a coven of witches to transform him as he was close to death; everyone else [[MonsterProgenitor turned by Constanta]] are his acolytes, possessing a slightly less potent version of his power set. There is also a different vampire subspecies who are more closely related to bats than Constanta and his ilk and are enemies of the regular vampires.

* ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'': Vampires are the offspring of the Red Death, who's basically the GodOfEvil. Vampires were once the dominant species on Earth, but as [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve mankind found other gods to worship]] the Red Death and vampires lost their power until they eventually went dormant. That is, until the carnage of World War I reawakened them.
* ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'': Various kinds of vampires appear, from human hybrids bred by the Nazis in the Second World War to bestial ghouls of Mexican folklore. The European vampires fit the ClassicalMovieVampire mould, but they have been in hiding for centuries, waiting for the day when [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent humans forget how to fight them]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'', they are never actually called the [[NotUsingTheZWord v-word]], but its pretty obvious what they are supposed to be. They can levitate, hypnotize their victims, are long-lived, super-strong, immune to all human diseases and are extremely hard to kill. Having said that, only a handful of them have these abilities since the vast majority of their race elected to establish the {{Masquerade}} to control humanity and mingle among them in hopes of gradually replacing it (and by the time the series takes place, they are pretty close). This came at the cost of losing much of their powers to the point they can age and die like humans through conventional damage or normal diseases like leukemia. They are distinguishable from normal humans and the renegade vampires due to a cyst from behind their right ears, which is apparently the source of their newfound vulnerability. Despite this, they are very much AlwaysChaoticEvil, even Drago and Camilla who care for and love each other are still very cruel, and when [[spoiler:Vicky and Aznar's]] vampire natures are awakened, they become cold and unfeeling towards others (and they are arguably the ''nicest of the bunch'').
* ''ComicBook/TheMaskedMarvel'': These are purple, skeletal monsters borne of black magic, who can only be killed by silver bullets or staking.

** Pre-Crisis, Superman fends off Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster, but what truly terrifies them is ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger, which is well founded since all he has to do when he shows up is banish them with a wave of his cape.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Final Crisis}}'', the secondary Big Bad (after ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}) was Mandrakk, a rogue, twisted Monitor who fed on the Bleed (aka ''ultramenstruum'') - which is, technically speaking, the life blood of the ''Multiverse itself''. Mandrakk had once been the good and wise Dax Novu until he had been corrupted and overwhelmed by vampiric hunger. It was further revealed that all the Monitors - meta-beings from a sort of sentient super-universe in which the entire Multiverse was a mere ''lesion'' - were vampiric in this way - either by feeding on Bleed, or, in a more metaphorical way, by 'leeching' on the stories of the universes they watched. One female Monitor, Zilla Valla, was seen physically feeding on Overman, a Superman from a universe where the Nazis had won World War II. In spite of the insane scale of the Monitors, Mandrakk was, in the end, killed by having a stake driven through (what presumably was) his heart. Admittedly it was a stake composed of the joint energy of most of the Green Lantern Corps, but the principle remains. Mandrakk also had trouble coming near Franchise/{{Superman}} because of the stored sunlight in his body, so he's weak to sunlight too.

* ComicBook/AtomicRobo and [[HypercompetentSidekick Jenkins]] sometimes fight off invasions from the "Vampire Dimension." Robo explains:
--> "They're not ''literally'' vampires. Sunlight, garlic, crosses, none of that applies. But we call them vampires because they're ageless super strong monsters that feed on the blood of the living."
* Roman Dirge's comic ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' has a 420 year old vampire named Ragamuffin, who instead of sucking blood, kills and eats people to survive. That is, until, [[spoiler: he happens to kill the wrong person at the wrong time, and is turned into a doll for the majority of the comic]].
* Vampires in ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' are the ruling class of the world of Résurrection. As per usual they're aristocratic, pale (mostly), beautiful (sometimes), proud, vulnerable to silver and just plain evil. As per unusual, they're often addicted to a drug called the Black Opium to help them forget their past sins, and they're not immortal but are as susceptible to regression as anyone else in Resurrection; only receiving Dracula's [[FountainOfYouth Dark Kiss]] makes you immune to [[MerlinSickness rejuvenation]], and that's pretty hard to come by. Rebirth as a vampire in Resurrection is reserved only for the very worst of the worst among humans including (but not limited to) Attila the Hun, Robespierre, Elizabeth Bathory, Nero, various Nazis and of course Vlad Tepes himself. [[spoiler:Oddly enough, Hitler didn't make the list, instead kept on ice as a superweapon by Dracula against the Lemures, many of which were Holocaust victims]].

* ''[[ComicBook/WarlordOfMars Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris]]'' has the Vathek, an alien race from the planet Saturn that [[HumanAliens resemble humans very closely]] with [[UndeathlyPallor pale skin]], [[FangsAreEvil sharp fangs]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. Despite looking like classic vampires, their condition is caused by a plague that turned them into blood-thirsty monsters and they use the Palidor, another Saturnian race that is immune to their plague, as blood farms. The Vathek are sensitive to sunlight, so they cover their planet with dust that filters it, are capable of forging a mind link with another person by drinking their blood and its implied they can convert others into Vathek, though its never explicitly shown. One Vathek in love with Dejah Thoris, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe a Red Martian]], offers to turn her into his vampire bride by drinking her blood and giving some of his own, but ultimately refuses.
* Vampires in ''Literature/{{Baltimore}}'' are the offspring of the Red Death, who's basically the GodOfEvil. Vampires were once the dominant species on Earth, but as [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve mankind found other gods to worship]] the Red Death and vampires lost their power until they eventually went dormant. That is, until the carnage of World War I reawakened them.
* Various kinds of vampires appear in ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'', from human hybrids bred by the Nazis in the Second World War to bestial ghouls of Mexican folklore. The European vampires fit the ClassicalMovieVampire mould, but they have been in hiding for centuries, waiting for the day when [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent humans forget how to fight them]].

* In ''Comicbook/IVampire'', sunlight doesn't harm vampires, but instead simply weakens them. They have a number of shape-shifting abilities, and many of their powers get more powerful as they get older. They are also much harder to kill as they age, and killing a sire within the first three days of a vampire being turned will cure that vampire.

** Pre-Crisis, Superman fends off Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster, but what truly terrifies them is the ComicBook/PhantomStranger, which is well founded since all he has to do when he shows up is banish them with a wave of his cape.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Tujiro is an Asian vampire who has a largely different set of rules from the traditional European type. For one thing, he seems to change only into a cat, being hit with water is highly painful and fire are a concern. However, sunlight is no impediment for him, which he uses to maximum effect to give the Christine Spar Grendel the scare of her life when she wakes up in the middle of the morning and finds the vampire waiting right at her bed just to taunt her.

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has a large variety of vampire types, from Dracula himself to those based on the patterns of insects to "pseudo-vampires" created by science. (See [[http://www.marvunapp.com/list/appvampi.htm here]] for a full list.) Dracula and other traditional, magical vampires beginning with the Atlantean Varnae (ShoutOut to Literature/VarneyTheVampire), originate from a BlackMagic spell cast from the Darkhold, a magical tome written by the demonic Elder God Chthon. Great strength, speed and healing as long as they get blood are kind of universal. Dracula's line has most of the powers he had in the novel. They can control wolves, rats and bats as well as transform into mist, more powerful ones can manipulate the weather. Sunlight weakens almost all types, destroying most on contact. Wood can disrupt their healing and they also are very weak to silver and garlic. A believing Jew can use the Star of David to ward off a vampire just as well as a Christian using a cross can. Conversely, a cross won't work for an atheist or a Jew. If you're an atheist, it might be a good idea to keep some garlic or one of those little Darwin fishes handy.
** A sample of some others: Nosferatu's ilk are like Dracula but look ugly when using the full extent of their power. Adze, found primarily in Guyana, ignore pain to the point they keep going even as they ''burn away''. Charniputra mostly fly above the Himalayas with their great wings, spending almost all non feeding time in the sky. Charniputra also have a tough hide that's hard to damage without the weaknesses. Yuki Onna, the snow vampires of Nippon, spend their time as clouds of razor sharp ice, turning into a humanoid form to feed. Tryks drink other vampires and have none of the weaknesses, they also have retractable claws and spikes. The spikes inject venom that stops vampires from fading away after dying and the drained corpse becomes Tryk larva, which find human hosts to leech off of until adulthood. Queen Tryks have wings and can fly. Aqueos are more like fish people, spending most of their time in the ocean depths where the sun can't get them. ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has vampires that [[ShoutOut specifically don't work like]] vampires in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The only weakness they carry is sunlight and [[EnergyBeings aliens that]] [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows taste like rainbows]].
** Some variations are limited to individual characters:
*** ComicBook/{{Blade}}'s {{dhampire}} birth made him immune to being turned by every type in the sample but he was eventually bitten by Michael Morbius, a science-created vampire instead of a supernatural one, and his [[RePower powers have changed some]]. Spitfire's vampire turn was mostly rejected and the few traits she has are suppressed, they come out [[GameFace when she's angry]].
*** ComicBook/{{Morbius}}'s skin is deathly pale, he needs to drink human blood to survive, he is superhumanly strong and heals fast, but his similarities to the standard vampire begin and end there. Typically, Morbius doesn't even consider himself a vampire so much as a man with an unfortunate condition.
*** Hunger was formerly HYDRA agent Crown, another ComicBook/SpiderMan villain, but not nearly as memorable. He was also a "scientifically created" vampire who was not undead.

* The DC/Vertigo comic, ''Bite Club'', has vampires as an ethnic group. While they drink blood they can use laboratory made substitutes, They are only little sensitive to the sun but they can be killed relatively easily, also some are color-blind. There are many ways to become a vampire, If you are bitten by vampire bats, then you become an Alpha, Betas are the sons of alphas or other Betas, and you can also make more vampires by biting humans.
* ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' provides another DC/Vertigo example with the vampires of Rosewood. Formed from a vampire colony which had been mostly destroyed when the town was flooded, the survivors (sleeping in sealed freezer units) adapted and became ''aquatic vampires''. John Constantine explains that the vampire virus is anaerobic; running water is aerated and damages vampires, but they can tolerate stagnant water -- and being underwater shields them from direct sunlight. They were even [[HollywoodEvolution becoming fish-like]].
* In a ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' story in ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'', the Thunder God answers the distressed prayers of a colony of Vikings settled on an island off the coast of what will be the New World. However, he's too late, and they're all vampires. Some attack him on sight, and instantly turn to dust. Their master, {{Dracula}}'s Atlantean predecessor as Vampire Lord, Varnae, however, is almost invulnerable to him, since the gods of {{Atlantis}} that he worshipped are long gone, leading to a savage brawl that only ends when Thor uses Mjolnir to open a portal to the sun - and even then, Varnae merely makes a TacticalWithdrawal, mildly remarking that he'd almost forgotten what pain felt like. In a Marvel Conan story set millennia earlier, a sorcerer manages to turn Varnae away with incantations spoken in the names of gods of his time.
** Additionally, it's worth noting that while Dracula generally looks either like his classic evening dress wearing Bela Lugosi type depiction, albeit sometimes with yellow eyes and pointed ears, or a bit more bestial but still human-ish, with red armour, long white hair and clear and obvious fangs, Varnae looks utterly animalistic, like a stereotypical beast-man, despite his loquacious dialogue.

* In DC's ''ComicBook/{{Final Crisis}}'', the secondary Big Bad (after Darkseid) was Mandrakk, a rogue, twisted Monitor who fed on the Bleed (aka ''ultramenstruum'') - which is, technically speaking, the life blood of the ''Multiverse itself''. Mandrakk had once been the good and wise Dax Novu until he had been corrupted and overwhelmed by vampiric hunger. It was further revealed that all the Monitors - meta-beings from a sort of sentient super-universe in which the entire Multiverse was a mere ''lesion'' - were vampiric in this way - either by feeding on Bleed, or, in a more metaphorical way, by 'leeching' on the stories of the universes they watched. One female Monitor, Zilla Valla, was seen physically feeding on Overman, a Superman from a universe where the Nazis had won World War II. In spite of the insane scale of the Monitors, Mandrakk was, in the end, killed by having a stake driven through (what presumably was) his heart. Admittedly it was a stake composed of the joint energy of most of the Green Lantern Corps, but the principle remains.
** Mandrakk also had trouble coming near {{Superman}} because of the stored sunlight in his body, so he's weak to sunlight too.

* This trope is central to DC/Vertigo's ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' in several ways.
** First, vampires from different regions of the world or different backgrounds can look, behave, and have powers that are wildly different. Some will be almost indistinguishable from humans, some are incredibly monstrous creatures that look like they could be aliens in a sci-fi movie.
** The dominant group of vampires from the 18th century on are old European nobility with the traditional weaknesses (sunlight, wood, running water). However, when Skinner Sweet, a WildWest outlaw and the titular American vampire, gets turned inadvertently he turns out to be the first in a new breed. Notably, he (and later, his progeny) can [[DaywalkingVampire walk around in daylight just fine]], has a GameFace with massive claws and fangs, (which can tear people and other vamps apart like they're MadeOfPlasticine) and the elder vampires are at a complete loss as to how to kill him. It doesn't help that he was AxeCrazy even before he was turned, and was buried for several decades before being freed, which didn't do much to improve his disposition. It turns out that the new breed [[spoiler: are powerless and vulnerable during the new moon. And gold is a weakness as well.]]
** In the second arc we also meet vampires who transform into large bat like creatures.
** The Vassals (the resident vampire hunters) admit that there is no such thing as a 'vampire', just a bunch of different blood-drinking monsters with just enough similarities to be grouped together.
* Roman Dirge's comic ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' has a 420 year old vampire named Ragamuffin, who instead of sucking blood, kills and eats people to survive. That is, until, [[spoiler: he happens to kill the wrong person at the wrong time, and is turned into a doll for the majority of the comic.]]
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has [[spoiler:[[ReligiousVampire The Confessor]]]], a vampire super-hero. He's also [[spoiler:a former priest, and wears a large cross on his costume. The pain helps him resist his bloodlust.]]
* DC Comics again; their 'regular' vampires are the classic kind, hiding from the sun, eating the innocent, etc. They have 'remote' control over their victims. However, these guys have learned. Running water is very scary, yes, but smelling like a hobo is scarier.
* Another from DC: Sgt. Vincent Velcro of the ''Creature Commandos'' is a vampire, but an artificial/simulated vampire. This means that while he lacks the supernatural weaknesses of a true vampire, he also lacks many of their more fantastic powers and is much easier to kill (though he ''can'' turn into a bat and back).

* In ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}}'' #14, Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} (Stephanie Brown) teams up with Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} to take on 24 hard-light hologram Draculas.

*** DoubleSubverted in later stories, which reveal that Constanta himself is the only "pure" vampire, having made a DealWithTheDevil with a coven of witches to transform him as he was close to death; everyone else [[MonsterProgenitor turned by Constanta]] are his acolytes, possessing a slightly less potent version of his power set. There is also a different vampire subspecies who are more closely related to bats than Constanta and his ilk and are enemies of the regular vampires.
* ComicBook/{{Vampirella}} is a vampire, since she is the daughter of Lilith and needs blood to survive and has many of the typical vampiric powers, including superhuman physical abilities, shapeshifting into a bat, immortality, and a mesmeric stare. She is not prone to the race's traditional weaknesses, such as daylight, holy water, garlic, or crosses. [[DependingOnTheWriter Alternatively, she's a Human Alien from the planet Drakulon where blood is like water.]] Becomes a plot point in "Death's Dark Angel" where, being a Drakulonian rather than an Earth vampire, [[spoiler:Vampirella's bite doesn't infect Wade with vampirism but rather kills him.]] We later learn in "... And be a Bride of Chaos" that [[spoiler:the influence of Chaos is the reason why Dracula's brand of vampirism is different from the original Drakulonian.]]

* Various kinds of vampires appear in ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'', from human hybirds bred by the Nazis in the Second World War to bestial ghouls of Mexican folklore. The European vampires fit the ClassicalMovieVampire mould, but they have been in hiding for centuries, waiting for the day when [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent humans forget how to fight them]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'', they are never actually called the [[NotUsingTheZWord v-word]], but its pretty obvious what they are supposed to be. They can levitate, hypnotize their victims, are long-lived, super-strong, immune to all human diseases and are extremely hard to kill. Having said that, only a handful of them have these abilities since the vast majority of their race elected to establish TheMasquerade to control humanity and mingle among them in hopes of gradually replacing it (and by the time the series takes place, they are pretty close). This came at the cost of losing much of their powers to the point they can age and die like humans through conventional damage or normal diseases like leukemia. They are distinguishable from normal humans and the renegade vampires due to a cyst from behind their right ears, which is apparently the source of their newfound vulnerability. Despite this, they are very much AlwaysChaoticEvil, even Drago and Camilla who care for and love each other are still very cruel, and when [[spoiler:Vicky and Aznar's]] vampire natures are awakened, they become cold and unfeeling towards others (and they are arguably the ''nicest of the bunch'').

** Subverted; the vampires play almost every single vampire trope straight. They drink blood, are hurt by sunlight so they only appear during the night, they sleep in coffins, they don't have reflections, they can turn into both bats and wolves (as well as mist), they're vulnerable to crosses and garlic, they can't cross water, and can be killed by decapitation, fire, silver bullets, and a stake to the heart. About the only one missing is the vampire invitation. ** DoubleSubverted in later stories, which reveal that Constanta himself is the only "pure" vampire, having made a DealWithTheDevil with a coven of witches to transform him as he was close to death; everyone else [[MonsterProgenitor turned by Constanta]] are his acolytes, possessing a slightly less potent version of his power set. There is also a different vampire subspecies who are more closely related to bats than Constanta and his ilk and are enemies of the regular vampires.