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** Foreshadowed by the HalloweenEpisode of ''SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', from which a quote was used to accompany [[spoiler:Kanaya's "death"]]. ''[[NightmareFuel are you next?]]''

* Lampshaded in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990519 this strip]] from ''SluggyFreelance''; the vampires which [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Muffin the Vampire Baker]] fought were completely different from the Lysinda Circle vampires, which only made things confusing when Sam, a LC vamp, showed up in Hell Mouth.

* ManlyMenDoingManlyThings lampshades the variety of vampires in fiction [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/1291 here]].

* Lampshaded in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990519 this strip]] from ''SluggyFreelance''; the vampires which [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Muffin the Vampire Baker]] fought were completely different from the Lysinda Circle vampires, which only made things confusing when Sam, a LC vamp, showed up in Hell Mouth.

* In {{Pandect}}, a vampire is one name for the soulless creature formed when a human and an Ace conceive a child. They are basically killing machines which can change form and kill with a bite to the throat, but other than that they do not have the stereotypical traits (and weaknesses) of classical vampires. As one character notes, humans gave them the "vampire" name, not Aces.

* ''ThePrincessPlanet''
* In Webcomic/ElGoonishShive, Susan resorts to 'vampire' to describe [[ViewersAreMorons to two people she's with]] a monster she encountered.

* Gore, from ''{{The Life of Riley}}'', was a housemate to the Bobs, and like to watch the game while feeding. Later he TookALevelInBadass, and proceeded to run interference for an infiltration team while carrying paintball cannons so huge humans couldn't wield them, and wound up at the end of the story arc immune to sunlight thanks to the newfound power of his succubi ex-girlfriend. The last time you saw Gore, he was fast, strong, unkillable, and had moved his heart to prevent staking from working. His opponent was curious about where such a young vampire gained a lot of tricks that should have taken him a few thousand years to learn, whereupon Gore revealed his powers were taught to him by [[spoiler:Lilith]]. It's sad that a combination of Real Life and internet douchebaggery took this awesome comic down.

** Actually the drugs don't sustain the vampires. They help surpress a vampire's hunger. [[http://vampirates.comicgenesis.com/pages/095.html See]] [[http://vampirates.comicgenesis.com/pages/217.html here]].
* ''GeistPanic'' has a vampire being a pathetic misfit. It seems vampirism is [[http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=58 a horribly debilitating blood disease.]]

** [[spoiler: Recent strips show that she's started a web site to dispel myths on vampire bats. Two of them, the ones on mirrors and garlic-were started because they affected sonar-which, as she pointed out, affected regular bats as well.]]
* [[Webcomic/LastBlood]] [[http://lastblood.keenspot.com/main/2007/03/30/page-36-principal-howard/ explains that there are many myths about vampires - some true and some false]]. Most notable was that he was being reflected in the principal's glasses, and that he was just outside in the sun for a spell. However, their main difference is that a blood-starved vampire turns into an infectious zombie, leading into OurZombiesAreDifferent.
* Vampires in ALoonaticsTale are numerous and varied-many unique species actually run in family lines. Not all of them can "turn" their victims, but those that do typically transform them not into vampires like themselves, but into a vanilla religion-and-garlic-averse vampire (with the exception of the aquatic mermaid vampire, which turns it's victims into a seadweller like itself). There are also catacomb vampires, which come about when a black cat jumps over a grave and are bloated corpses which are otherwise indistinguishable from their original living selves, and blood bag vampires, which ''should'' become catacomb vampires, but decomposition has set in too far when the cat comes along, forcing them to spend the first 13 years of their vampiric lives reconstituting into catacomb vampires.
* ScandinaviaAndTheWorld focuses on the personifications of national stereotypes. WordOfGod states: "Romanians have two stereotypes; vampires, and thieving gypsies. Therefore, Romania is a vampire who would rather steal your wallet than your blood. Yes, I'm aware this makes me a horrible person."

* EerieCuties: [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20090713.html Most of them drink blood. One eats chocolate.]]

* {{The Kingfisher}} includes the concept of vampire families with different powers. In {{The Kingfisher}} each family is founded by a progenitor. This is a person who became a vampire naturally upon dying, which seems to happen mainly to insane criminals, persecuted and executed by a community. When a progenitor turns someone into a vampire, that victim gains some of the powers and quirks associated with the progenitor, though is considerably less powerful.
* {{Shifters}} is a {{Webcomic}} with Vampires heavily integrated into the plot.

--> For quite awhile now, people withchromatically challenged wardrobes have enjoyed emulating the noble mosquito, leech and hagfish.
* In MoonCrest24, Vampires are apparently a subdivision of demons rather than their own race. Also notable for not having the standard weakness to the sun, and actually wanting to be in its light.

* From ''ThePrincessPlanet'', [[http://www.transmission-x.com/_princess_planet/?p=342 this]].

* The vampires in ''OrangeMarmalade'' have been living in society (legally, everybody "knows" about them - racism is involved) and are watered down versions of the typical vampire, due to only drinking pig blood. They can go out in sunlight, they do have fangs (though these get filed down by most vampires), they have extra-fast healing abilities, they're sensitive to the cold and they aren't able to eat any food except pig (meaning Ma-ri has to throw her lunch up everyday at school).

* Lampshaded in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990519 this strip]] from ''SluggyFreelance''; the vampires which [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Muffin the Vampire Baker]] fought were completely different from the Lysinda Circle vampires, which only made things confusing when Sam, a LC vamp, showed up in Hell Mouth.
** The strip later introduced the Vrykolakas Circle vampires, which are substantially different from the Lysinda Circle. Lysinda vampires can't enter houses without being invited, but Vrykolakas vampires can. A person drained to death by a Vrykolakas vampire becomes a new one and retains no independent will or shred of humanity, whereas Lysinda vampires can only be made via a special ritual, and they keep their individuality and can even betray their superiors if they choose. A Vrykolakas vampire can be turned to dust if staked through the heart, whereas a Lysinda vampire just shrivels up and stops moving, but immediately comes back to life if the stake is pulled out.
** Riff, being Jewish, can [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030402 burn vampires with his Star of David]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Helix, Sam Starfall's robotic sidekick, tries to make an [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00520.htm assessment]], following which freaks out, tries to get Sam's attention about what troubles him, but Sam is less afraid of their sentient wolf being a vampire than this panic waking her up in a bad mood, quickly sets him straight and uses [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm biometry]] demonstrating that she's, obviously, quite alive.
--> '''Helix:''' If I were a scientist out to prove {{global warming}} was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.
--> '''Sam:''' Now, now. Let's not make this decision as if our funding depended on it.

* ''AxeCop'' has the unique "sun vampires" (which can fly to the sun), including a hideously deformed, batlike "half-vampire man, half-vampire baby"...as well as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "vampire wizard ninja brothers from the moon."]]
* {{The Kingfisher}} includes the concept of vampire families with different powers. In {{The Kingfisher}} each family is founded by a progenitor. This is a person who became a vampire naturally upon dying, which seems to happen mainly to insane criminals, persecuted and executed by a community. When a progenitor turns someone into a vampire, that victim gains some of the powers and quirks associated with the progenitor, though is considerably less powerful.

* From ''The Princess Planet'', [[http://www.transmission-x.com/_princess_planet/?p=342 this]].

* ''WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' had an [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20080803 issue on vampires]]:

* In ElGoonishShive, Susan resorts to 'vampire' to describe [[ViewersAreMorons to two people she's with]] a monster she encountered.

* ''{{Irritability}}'' parodied the concept with [[http://icomix.com/maze/comicpage/browse.php?index=119 Scary Larry]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Helix, Sam Starfall's robotic sidekick, tries to make an [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00520.htm assessment]], [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00521.htm freaks]] out, tries to get Sam's attention about what troubles [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00522.htm him]], makes an [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00523.htm assumption]], but is set [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00524.htm straight]] by [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00525.htm Sam]]about the [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm misinformation]] that was gathered.
--> '''Helix:''' If I were a scientist out to prove GlobalWarming was man-made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter."

* {{The Kingfisher}} includes the concept of vampire families with different powers. In {{The Kingfisher}} each family is founded by a progenitor. This is a person who became a vampire naturally upon dying, which seems to happen mainly to insane criminals, persecuted and executed by a community. When a progenitor turns someone into a vampire, that victim gains some of the powers and quirks associated with the progenitor, though is considerably less powerful.

* ''Possibly'' Mr. Raven, the SternTeacher from ElGoonishShive.
** As it turns out, [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-06-13 despite the rather pronounced canines,]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-06-18 he's actually an elf.]]
** There was also supposed to be the vampire bat/bird/[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot etc.]] chimera, Vlad[[spoiler:ia]], but these days the only source of blood that won't make Grace irredeemably angry is stock cattle.
*** Besides, [[WordOfGod Dan said]] he originally designed the character of Vlad to have a real bloodlust but he abandoned that character trait and it was dismissed as Vlad lying to invoke fear in the researchers who raised him because he confused it with respect.
** And, ''cringing'', Susan resorts to 'vampire' to describe a monster she encountered [[ViewersAreMorons to two people she's with]]. 'No, not really, but it was a monster that used to be human, hypnotized young women and sucked blood out of their necks. It doesn't matter what I say. You two are going to hear "vampire".' The accompanying comments say no, it's not a 'real' vampire.

* {{TheKingfisher}} includes the concept of vampire families with different powers. In {{TheKingfisher}} each family is founded by a progenitor. This is a person who became a vampire naturally upon dying, which seems to happen mainly to insane criminals, persecuted and executed by a community. When a progenitor turns someone into a vampire, that victim gains some of the powers and quirks associated with the progenitor, though is considerably less powerful.

* ''AxeCop'' has the unique "sun vampires" (which can fly to the sun), including a hideously deformed, batlike "half-vampire man, half-vampire baby"...as well as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "vampire wizard ninja brothers from the moon."]]

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* ''[[EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'' took the modern {{Goth}}-Vampire trope to its (patho)logical extreme -- Vilbert Von Vampire is an angst-ridden teen Goth who writes aching poetry and enjoys live-action role-playing. He appeared to show no weakness to the sun, and the group's attempts to violently murder him with knives (as per their usual idiom) were foiled when it was shown that he had a resistance to such weapons -- leading the group to drive an entire ''armoire'' through his heart. Of course, this only served to anger his Father, the fiend of Earth, Lich. (His mother appeared to be a fairly normal human woman -- well, normal for the 8-Bit universe, anyway.)

* In ''LastRes0rt'', vampires are a subset of the Dead Inside/Djinn-si, a catch-all term for creatures who have altered their souls after birth, and are even sometimes referred to as "Life Djinn". Unlike other types of Dead Inside, vampires must be deliberately transformed, and are often thought of as unable to travel in space and limited strictly to the human species. Of course, both of these stereotypes are proven blatantly false by [[spoiler:an alien marsuipal being transformed into a vampire]].

* ''BrockOfTheUndead'' mostly chronicles the title character sensation of vampirism after being turned. Vampires in this one can float without bat wings, gain pointy ears when showcasing their monsterous side, sometimes stuck in socks since they tend to WallCrawl and shoes leave footprints, partially transform parts of their body into bat form and can be nice or evil depending on the master.

** Jossed by [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2009-11-03 a NP comic]], in which he denies having ever been a vampire, or having seduced a drunk girl and stolen her money. [[ItMakesSenseInContext He has however eaten the occasional sandwich.]]