History OurVampiresAreDifferent / LiveActionTv

** The episode "Bad Blood" had Mulder and Scully investigate a series of vampire-like tourist killings in a small town. They went to investigate, and it turns out the ''entire town'' was vampires. They were able to go out in daylight, and even eat normal food. They did, however, retain their folkloric compulsion to count items scattered before them, which saved a drugged Mulder's life when he threw a bag of sunflower seeds at the one malicious vampire instead of grabbing his gun. He then blacks out, and comes to just after the vampire has finished counting and is about to bite him. Mulder is trapped in a trailer while the entire town surrounds it, and wakes up the next morning in their rental car, with the entire town gone. Scully, meanwhile, had a very informative chat with the local sheriff -- right before he drugged her, while explaining that the vampire that had gone after Mulder and other victims "just isn't who we are any more. Still, though he is a moron, he is one of ours".
** Another episode, "3" (not starring Scully; she missed that episode) featured three vampires and a vampire wannabe. These vampires always killed their food, and were extremely vulnerable to sunlight. Exactly how you turn someone into a vampire isn't clear (the usual blood sharing is presumably required), the final step requires them to kill someone who truly believes that vampires exist. More interestingly, they cannot be permanently killed by any non-vampires, though this is their only real superpower aside from being a little stronger and tougher than normal humans.
*** This same episode has one of the vampires claim that he can't be seen in mirrors; an uncharacteristically skeptical Mulder surreptitiously holds up a metal lighter while turning away and sees said vampire's reflection. While it's never explained, it's possible this means that the whole "no reflection" thing strictly applies to proper mirrors, not other reflective surfaces.

* ''Series/TheStrain'' has somewhat traditional vampires (burned by sunlight, vulnerable to silver, etc.), except that the vampirism is spread by virus-carrying worms. The vampires also have long, tongue-like "stingers," and appear on video and in reflections (although their images seem to vibrate in silver mirrors). The show hasn't yet addressed the effects of crosses or garlic.

** They can also be killed by regular bullets, just like humans (i.e., no wooden stakes, the bullets don't have to be silver, they don't have to hit the heart or brain or any place in particular). Even Dracula could be killed this way, although he had super-human strength and speed that allowed him to dodge the bullets.

* ''Series/FirstKill'': While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, reproduce naturally, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, [[VampireInvitation requiring an invitation to enter a private home]], and being burned by pure silver (though not killed). They alsp have [[SuperStrength greater strenght]] and [[SuperSenses more enhanced senses]] than humans.

* ''Series/FirstKill'': While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, reproduce naturally, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, requiring an invitation to enter a private home, and being burned by pure silver.

** Another episode, 3 (not starring Scully; she missed that episode) starred three vampires and a vampire wannabe. These vampires always killed their food, and were extremely vulnerable to sunlight. Exactly how you turn someone into a vampire isn't clear (the usual blood sharing is presumably required), the final step requires them to kill someone who truly believe that vampires exist. More interestingly, they cannot be permanently killed by any non-vampires, though this is their only real super power aside from being a little stronger and tougher than normal humans.
*** This same episode has one of the vampires claim that he can't be seen in mirrors; An uncharacteristically skeptical Mulder surreptitiously holds up a metal lighter while turning away and sees said vampire's reflection. While it's never explained, it's possible this means that the whole "no reflection" thing strictly applies to proper mirrors, not other reflective surfaces.

* The vamps in ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'' have most of the strengths and weaknesses of the standard vamps but can go out in sunlight, although they wear sunglasses. They can't change shape but can fly, can be destroyed by holy water (the VampireHunter 's sidearm of choice being a Super Soaker filled with it), and can live on animal blood or in extreme circumstances normal food.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay "State of Decay"]] has traditional vampires... [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]], on a PlanetOfHats version of {{Uberwald}}. The Great Vampire, however, is a giant bat-monster, the last of a race wiped out by the Time Lords. In this episode, while Romana tells a soon-to-die ally that vampires can only be killed by a wooden stake, the Fourth Doctor offs the Great Vampire [[spoiler:with a dart-shaped shuttlecraft, like the bowships the Time Lords used on the Great Vampires long ago]]. How he managed to hit the heart is probably one for [[ImprobableAimingSkills another trope]]. Oh, yeah — [[NoOntologicalInertia when the Great Vampire dies, all the vampires created by it go to dust as well]]. Gotta love efficiency.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Man Trap", there was a "salt vampire" (a FanNickname for what was officially called "the M-113 Creature") that could look like its victim's ideal love/sex object. This allowed it to find victims when straight salt wasn't available.

* In ''Series/BloodTies'', vampires have some of the traditional weaknesses but none of the others.

* ''{{Series/Ultraviolet}}'' has "leeches" (vampires) who are susceptible to ultraviolet rays (found in sunlight), do not show up on any electrical or photographic audiovisual equipment (they can't even use telephones without an electronic speech synthesiser), and are injured by carbon-based bullets. They also violently burn to ash when killed by any means, with enough energy discharged to cause serious damage to anything too close, but if another vampire spills blood on their remains they can regenerate, which is why the vampire hunters must gather up the ashes and keep them locked away. They appear to have super healing, but damage done by sunlight never heals. However, they are visually identical to humans, and don't even have fangs.

** The episode "Monster Movie" has the Winchesters fight {{Dracula}}, who is a ClassicalMovieVampire and completely different from any other vampires on the show. [[spoiler: Because he's not a vampire, he's a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] ''pretending'' to be Dracula, as well as several other movie monsters, like Film/TheWolfman1941.]]

* ''Series/MidnightMass'': The "Angel" that causes the whole plot is a Nosferatu-esque, hairless and winged monster, with an ambiguous and possibly animal level of intelligence; it only speaks when it's repeating a human, and might not even understand what it's saying. If a human drinks its blood, they won't become a vampire right off but the blood begins to change their body on a molecular level, [[HealingFactor healing injuries]] and [[FountainOfYouth restoring youth]], and the more they drink of it, the more vulnerable they become to sunlight, which attacks the vampiric cells in the body. Crucially, the human needs to die with a certain amount of the vampire's blood in their system in order to fully become a vampire, after which they develop the standard bloodlust and eyes that reflect light, like cats. If the person stops taking the blood and suffers no accidents, Sarah Gunning theorizes that the blood will eventually pass from their system and they'd be in no further danger of transforming. And if the source of the blood dies, [[NoOntologicalInertia then the blood's power disappears]] — in the final episode, when the "Angel" apparently perishes via sunlight offscreen, Leeza (who was previously cured of a broken spine via the "communion wine") says that she can no longer feel her legs.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]] features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires. In Venice.]] [[spoiler:These days, you can usually expect a bit more creativity than "exactly like that thing, but from space." Are they bat aliens who need a nutrient in your blood and can't take sunlight because Earth's is yellow/too close/etc.? Try, they're actually stinkin' alien ''fish'' who use a PerceptionFilter instead of holograms or suits or such. Because a perception filter is less "disguise" and more "strong suggestion to your brain to not notice something," you get the "no reflection" thing because your brain doesn't know what to fill in the blanks with when it comes to the side you're not seeing, and the fangs are the alien's natural teeth showing through when its survival instincts kick in and lead to animalistic hissing and tooth-baring.]]

** They're known to have a great weakness: a virus that makes a human not only immune to Wraith feeding, it also kills the offending Wraith. Plus, although they have a hive-like hierarchical society ruled by queens with nearly mindless (and faceless) male warrior drones at the bottom and intelligent males in the middle, they are quite willing to kill each other or resort to cannibalism if there's not enough food for all of them (as in the case of the show). Warriors are produced parthenogenetically by queens, while intelligent males and females are presumably born the more traditional way. In a sharp difference to vampires from most other fiction, Wraiths can actually reverse the feeding process and transfer their own life force into someone else to heal them and restore their youth. They never do this lightly and reserve it for their closest worshippers and comrades only. Another weakness is revealed later: Wraith children are omnivores and can sustain themselves on any kind of normal food but once they reach puberty, their digestive tract reverts to a dormant state. Hence the need for vampirism, which becomes a problem for a Wraith girl raised by a human adoptive father. In the final season, a modified version of the Wraith-to-human retrovirus is available to leave the subject as a Wraith but removes their feeding orifice, reactivating their digestive tract instead.

* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' has introduces the Atavus (again) in its final season. Unlike the other 2 times they introduced them, these Atavus look very similar to humans (but with slight animalistic characteristics) and do not possess the Shaqarava - an organ possessed by several species (and [[HalfHumanHybrid Liam Kincaid]]) that allows energy to be channeled through the palms. They have extendable glowing claws that, apparently, rip into the victim's soul and drain the life force. This is their main method of feeding. Projectile weapons have no effect on the Atavus due to their HealingFactor and semi-EnergyBeing nature. Energy weapons work fairly well, though, although you're unlikely to get a OneHitKill, except with the {{Hand Cannon}}s introduced in the series finale. The Atavus cannot turn a human into one of them. However, they can use their stasis pods to turn a human into a human/Atavus hybrid. They can (and need to) feed as the Atavus but look human. They are also loyal to their masters. Being aliens, the Atavus are not repelled by any vampire wards. It's also mentioned that the Atavus don't need to feed on living beings on their homeworld.

** The vampirism is mostly scientific, related to an alteration in DNA or RNA, and at least one drug can reverse it, but it creates an addiction to the drug then. It's also possible to become human through a process involving a bond with a human, and a severe emotional trauma.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has a race of beings known as the Wraith. The Wraith were once insects who [[HollywoodEvolution evolved to a human-like state]], but still retain their most basic instincts, which is to feed off of beings by sucking the life force (literally) out of your body with their hands, to rejuvenate their own life. Doing so renders them biologically immortal, some having been around for many thousands of years. It is unknown whether a Wraith can starve to death although there is an instance where one went delirious and spoke in haikus. Feeding causes the target to age rapidly until they die; even partially fed victims die most of the time due to the levels of trauma involved. In fact, the human body would shut down far too fast for their liking, were it not for the special enzyme transferred into the victim that makes them somewhat more resistant to it. Said enzyme is produced by a set of glands in their forearms and can be used as a highly addictive [[PsychoSerum combat drug]] for humans.
** It is said that Wraiths have a HealingFactor dependent on when they fed last. A well-fed Wraith can knock humans across walls and swallow up to forty bullets before dying - as Sheppard puts it, "I can see you just fed which means your regenerative powers are at their highest... but I seriously doubt you can grow a new head". However, their physiology is similar enough to humans that Wraith weapons designed to stun humans work on their owners as well. Additionally, a retrovirus can suppress the insect DNA, transforming the Wraith in question into a regular human with amnesia (temporarily unless a viral inhibitor dose is also used regularly).
** They're known to have a great weakness: a virus that makes a human not only immune to Wraith feeding, it also kills the offending Wraith. Plus, although they have a hive-like hierarchical society, they are quite willing to kill each other or resort to cannibalism if there's not enough food for all of them (as in the case of the show). In a sharp difference to vampires from other fiction, Wraiths can actually reverse the feeding process and transfer their own life force into someone else to heal them and restore their youth. They never do this lightly and reserve it for their closest worshippers and comrades only. Another weakness is revealed later: Wraith children are omnivores and can sustain themselves on any kinds of normal food but once they reach puberty, their digestive tract reverts to a dormant state. Hence the need for vampirism. In the final season, a modified version of the Wraith-to-human retrovirus is available to leave the subject as a Wraith but removes their feeding orifice, reactivating their digestive tract instead.

** A report by Owen on the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' website lists various specimens being kept in stasis in the Torchwood Hub's vaults, including "the so-called Invincible Vampire, who reconstitutes himself when dusted."

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric "The Curse of Fenric"]], "Haemovores" can be repelled by a focus of belief. A Soviet soldier is therefore able to ward them off with a red star, while the Doctor can summon enough belief without a focus, by thinking of his companions. The doubting priest, on the other hand, has some trouble.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]], the blood-sucking Plasmavore (not the same kind of vampire) is impervious to sunlight, looks completely human, shows up on scanners as whatever species it most recently drank from, and drinks blood from human necks ''with a plastic bendy straw''.

*** A report by Owen on the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' website lists various specimens being kept in stasis in the Torchwood Hub's vaults, including "the so-called Invincible Vampire, who reconstitutes himself when dusted."

*** A report by Owen on the ''Series/Torchwood'' website lists various specimens being kept in stasis in the Torchwood Hub's vaults, including "the so-called Invincible Vampire, who reconstitutes himself when dusted."

*** In the Fourth Doctor Adventures story "White Ghosts", we meet [[spoiler:humans who have genetically spliced themselves with bats in order to survive on a dark, low-oxygen planet — side effects include vulnerability to light and a taste for blood...]]

* ''Series/DoubleTheFist'' gives us pale, naked humans who use their capes to glide, as well as the basic fangs and sunlight allergy. They are also invisible on camera, and have fangs on their penises, according to the DVD commentary. The CrazyAwesome character of Mephisto was originally intended to be a vampire, but actor and special effects man Doug Bayne missed that brainstorming session. That this gone through, their vampires would have also had aids and their own cult.

** One episode had Mulder and Scully investigate a series of vampire-like tourist killings in a small town. They went to investigate, and it turns out the ''entire town'' was vampires. They were able to go out in daylight, and even eat normal food. They also had OCD, which saved a drugged Mulder's life when he threw a bag of sunflower seeds at the one malicious vampire instead of grabbing his gun. He then blacks out, and comes to just after the vampire has finished and is about to bite him. Mulder is trapped in a trailer while the entire town surrounds it, and wakes up the next morning in their rental car, with the entire town gone. Scully, meanwhile, had a very informative chat with the local sheriff -- right before he drugged her, while explaining that the vampire that had gone after Mulder and other victims "just isn't who we are any more. Still, though he is a moron, he is one of ours".

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** In season 10, due to the new Seed of Wonder all newly sired vampires display powers different from both "common" vampires and zompires. They can shapeshift into wolves, panthers, bats and mist, they are immune to sunlight, and they are much harder to stake.

** One episode had Mulder and Scully investigate a series of vampire-like tourist killings in a small town. They went to investigate, and it turns out the ''entire town'' was vampires. They were able to go out in daylight, and even eat normal food. They also had OCD, which saved a drugged Mulder's life when he threw a bag of sunflower seeds at the one malicious vampire instead of grabbing his gun. He then blacks out, and comes to just after the vampire has finished and is about to bite him. Mulder is trapped in a trailer while the entire town surrounds it, and wakes up the next morning in their rental car, with the entire town gone. Scully, meanwhile, had a very informative chat with the local sheriff - right before he drugged her, while explaining that the vampire that had gone after Mulder and other victims "just isn't who we are any more. Still, though he is a moron, he is one of ours".

* Vampires in ''{{Series/Preacher}}'' can eat, drink and sleep, aren't affected by holy objects, garlic or stakes. Their fangs are retractable and only ever come out when they feed (as opposed to in the comics where vampires don't have fangs at all). They need blood to heal, but it seems they don't necessarily need human blood. Vampires can acquire super strength, flying and the ability to shapeshift, but [[spoiler:only if they turn lots of other people]].