History OurVampiresAreDifferent / WebComics

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' where members of different religious groups are depicted as Vampires.

** Riff, being Jewish, can [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030402 burn vampires with his Star of David]].

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' hasn't gone into any detail regarding vampire abilities, but the vampire ''society'' is certainly different. On the one hand, Sebastian's coven secretly runs The Red Cross, while behind the scenes they're Creator/{{Anne Rice}}-style goth vampires cranked UpToEleven. As for Dracula, he's pretty much identical to Bela Lugosi's version of the Count, only living on a Moon Base. With a [[DeathRay Moon Laser]].
** One has to wonder if the writer of ''Comicbook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'' read ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', because Marvel's Dracula also has a moon base.
** A recent storyline has started exploring which of the traditional vampire traits are true and which are just unverifiable superstitions. Notably, they establish the existence of non-human vampires, including vampire gorillas.

* ''Webcomic/{{Irritability}}'' parodied the concept with [[http://maze.icomix.com/comicpage/b.php?i=119 Scary Larry]].
* There are three different types of vampire in ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'', each stemming more or less independently from a single "parent" (Lilith, Dracula and Kern), none of which are quite the same as the legends.

* ''Webcomic/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.]]

* Liz from ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}''. In addition to the usual (blood-sucking, weakness to sunlight, LivingShadow and SuperSmoke powers) she has RubberMan powers, the ability to hover, and LaserGuidedAmnesia-inducing breath.
** Also, [[http://blip.rampagenetwork.com/15/ she is not afraid of crosses. Nope, not even Love Crosses.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] legend describes vampires known as "rainbow drinkers" who enjoy daylight and wear colorful clothes. Trolls themselves usually wear dark clothes and can't stand the sun. The name makes more sense when one considers the fact that trolls have their position in society determined by the [[AlienBlood color of their blood]]. Kanaya Maryam, as one of the exceedingly rare diurnal trolls, spends her days in her home surrounded by the (also diurnal) undead reading ParanormalRomance novels about rainbow drinkers.
--> [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004238 Look at this mess.]] All this blood and sunlight is stirring bright feelings within. You often fantasize about being a true rainbow drinker from your literature. It would be a life of darting between the shadows, of persecution and being misunderstood. And of ROMANCE. You would drink heavily from its multicolored well, and the hemospectrum would be your wine list preceding the great feast of passion.\\
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[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004239 Surely it couldn't hurt. While no one is looking...]]\\
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[[spoiler: [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004240 BLUH]]]]
** Later [[spoiler: Kanaya comes back to life after being killed and effortlessly dispatches the three biggest internal threats to the troll players, killing the one that murdered her]]. Rainbow Drinkers don't [[BishieSparkle spa]][[Literature/{{Twilight}} rkle]], they ''[[PowerGlows glow]]'', and they still have the incredible [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001323 VAMPIRE SPEED]] from ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''.
** Foreshadowed by the HalloweenEpisode of ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', from which a quote was used to accompany [[spoiler:Kanaya's "death"]]. ''are you next?''

* ''Webcomic/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 monstrous 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.

* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/395/comic_archive (see here)]], there are "elites", a sub-race of vampires who are unkillable in any of the conventional ways (or unconventional).

* ''Webcomic/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."]]

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' hasn't gone into any detail regarding vampire abilities, but the vampire ''society'' is certainly different. On the one hand, Sebastian's coven secretly runs The Red Cross, while behind the scenes they're Creator/{{Anne Rice}}-style goth vampires cranked UpToEleven. As for Dracula, he's pretty much identical to Bela Lugosi's version of the Count, only living on a Moon Base. With a [[DeathRay Moon Laser]].
** One has to wonder if the writer of ''Comicbook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'' read ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', because Marvel's Dracula also has a moon base.
** A recent storyline has started exploring which of the traditional vampire traits are true and which are just unverifiable superstitions. Notably, they establish the existence of non-human vampires, including vampire gorillas.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Helix, Sam Starfall's robotic sidekick, tries to make an [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00520.htm assessment of Florence]], freaks out, and 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. He quickly sets Helix straight and uses [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm biometry]] to demonstrate 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.

* The vampires in the BoysLove webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Arcana}}'' differ in the fact that if they drink Harpy blood they will die. Also, it seems that when changed into a vampire, the victim will acquire some of its attackers traits. In Vincent's case, [[spoiler: he ends up ultimately raping and doing physical harm to his human lover]]. Finally, some of the vampires seem to harbor feelings of guilt and self-hate over their conditions (beliving they're monsters/unworthy of love). Other then that, the vampires in this story host the traditional traits (sunlight intolerance, bloodlust, etc.)
* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' 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) are foiled when it is shown that he has a resistance to such weapons--leading the group to drive an entire ''armoire'' through his heart. Of course, this only serves to anger his Father, the fiend of Earth, Lich. (His mother appears to be a fairly normal human woman--well, normal for the ''8-Bit'' universe, anyway.)

* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/395/comic_archive (see here)]], there are "elites", a sub-race of vampires who are unkillable in any of the conventional ways (or unconventional).
* Tristram's species in ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}''. Green skinned, among other things. On his planet there were two species--his vampire-like species, and a more human-like species that were treated like livestock, with the males used as beasts of burden and the females used to drink blood from. Tristram was part of a group that rebelled against the idea of drinking blood from the other race and committed the serious taboo of feeding upon wild animals, but at one point he was locked in a room with a girl and purposefully starved by his fellow vampires until he couldn't help but feed.
* The title character of ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'' is attacked by vampiric ''squash''. Now that really is "different". Strangely enough, they were based on an actual legend from the Balkans, which claims that if vegetables are left in the ground too long they turn vampiric.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Daniel}}'', the titular character is the one and only vampire of the story. [[WordofGod Word of God]] says he is a mix of more classic and mythological vampires with some new concepts. A couple of examples are he drinks blood to feel life rather than to satisfy hunger, and he also has an extreme fear of his own reflection.

* Transylvito in ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is the kingdom of vampires, though they're generally just called Transylvitans when the matter comes up. They're noted for their distinctive appearances, including red eyes, gray skin, pointed ears and fangs. They all have a life drain special involving drinking the blood that Erfworlders barely seem to have in the first place and usually appear to have the flight special. Finally, despite being modeled after the mafia and looking a little "trashy" as Parson puts it, they could still be considered 'good guys' rather than monsters. [[spoiler:Jillian and Vinny even have what amounts to a {{dhampyr}} son, though Erfworlders don't really have sexual reproduction.]]

* Transylvito in ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is the kingdom of vampires, though they're generally just called Transylvitans when the matter comes up. They're noted for their distinctive appearances, including red eyes, gray skin, pointed ears and fangs. They all have a life drain special involving drinking the blood that Erfworlders barely seem to have in the first place and usually appear to have the flight special/ Finally, despite being modeled after the mafia and looking a little "trashy" as Parson puts it, they could still be considered 'good guys' rather than monsters. [[spoiler:Jillian and Vinny even have what amounts to a {{dhampyr}} son, though Erfworlders don't really have sexual reproduction.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' introduces [[spoiler: Malack, a LizardFolk--or rather SnakePeople--vampire. He's been around for over 200 years, surpassing Xykon as "oldest character who isn't an actual god." He bites Durkon and uses a spell of his own making to accelerate the transformation, turning Durkon into his thrall. When Nale kills Malack shortly thereafter, Durkon is freed and rejoins the good guys--[[GrandTheftMe albeit not fully in control of himself]].]]\\\
In fact, the vampires in the setting hold a dark secret, one rarely or never revealed to anyone that isn't one: [[spoiler:the vampire character is in fact an entirely separate entity of the original, a servant of a dark god possessing the body and [[AndIMustScream trapping the soul of the original inhabitant there for an eternity]]. Durkon himself is no exception, of course, but there is little he can do about it.]]

* Vampire bats in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', despite being living creatures like everyone else, are analogous to vampires in folklore: they are stigmatized, many of the vampire beliefs get dumped on them (such as the ones about garlic, shapeshifting, and mirrors), and are considered the ultimate scourge on society. [[spoiler: This is why Desdemona Fuscus, Fenton's mom, kept it a secret: she didn't want her son to be shunned by society because he was half-vampire bat. This is also why she tried to speed up his wedding to Lindesfarne: as a geneticist student, she had the potential to find out he was and Desdemona was afraid she'd call off the wedding if she knew.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Thunderstruck}}'' actually ignores ''Rule 3'': its vampires need blood (particularly when they have just been created), they spread like a virus, and they have all the traditional weaknesses. However, they are not BadAss, but pathetic, weak, coweled creatures that cannot cope with the modern world.

* ''Webcomic/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.

** Susan [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1096 resorts to "vampire"]] to describe to two people she's with a monster she encountered. Other than the traits she describes, the monster didn't have any other vampiric qualities, instead being vulnerable to magic weaponry. It did have fangs: a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1100 mouth full of shark teeth]].

** The vampire comes up again when Nanase, who also encountered it, describes vampires as [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2125 "not like in books."]] TheRant discusses how all modern vampire fiction feels the need to differentiate its vampires from everyone else's vampires.

** The author has [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2149 finally decided]] to just use the word "vampire" to describe these creatures, because the previous term (aberration) was a little unwieldy and everyone was calling them vampires anyway. He is also consciously avoiding using the trope of a "conflicted, good inside" vampire: all the creatures in the comic have been human-eating monsters, who ''revel'' in their status.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'',

** The author has finally decided to just use the word "vampire" to describe these creatures, because the previous term (aberration) was a little unwieldy and everyone was calling them vampires anyway. He is also consciously avoiding using the trope of a "conflicted, good inside" vampire: all the creatures in the comic have been human-eating monsters, who ''revel'' in their status.

** Susan [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1096 resorts to "vampire"]] to describe [[ViewersAreMorons to two people she's with]] a monster she encountered. Other than the traits she describes, the monster didn't have any other vampiric qualities, instead being vulnerable to magic weaponry. It did have fangs: a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1100 mouth full of shark teeth]].

* ''Webcomic/EternalNight'''s Heverics. These guys used to live alongside humans peacefully until rumors and lies spread about and the Heverics were banished, even killed! The survivors then created a portal to a new realm to live in peace. Then the Heverics began to oppose each other to the point of becoming separate sides; the Red Vampires who despise humanity and want to end the threat, and the Green Vampires who still have hope that they can find a way to be at peace with the humans once more.
* "Webcomic/IronGate" Miss. Addison Constance Loveworth is the only vampire so far seen in the series, she is far faster and stronger than any mortal, she also has a complex relationship with blessed objects being both inspired and fearful of them.
* In ''Webcomic/RasputinCatamite'', Dima Satan belongs to the upir sub-species of vampire which is completely immune sunlight. He doesn't attack victims strictly for purposes of feeding. His rampages usually take place while he's in an altered mental state and the main motivation seems to be the sheer joy of killing. Fish temporarily slows down his blood lust. Breasts act as the equivalent of Kryptonite.
* ''Webcomic/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."]]
* In ''{{Webcomic/Skins}}'', Rabbit is a Smoke and unlike traditional vampires, he can walk in sunlight and he feeds on the breath of the dying, not blood. Blood is just an aphrodisiac to Smokes - they drink it during sex. Smokes can also turn to smoke (duh!)
* 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.

* There are three different types of vampire in ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'', each stemming more or less independently from a single 'parent' (Lilith, Dracula and Kern), none of which are quite the same as the legends.
* ''Triquetra Cats'' has three unrelated species grouped under the "vampire", each with different characteristics and weaknesses. One is basically a blood-drinking animal.

* In ''Webcomic/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 capable of concealing their "[[BlackEyesOfEvil condition]]", 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]].
** They also can recover from stakes (or bullets) to the heart, transform into zombie-like creatures when stressed, and often have some form of PsychicPowers (such as telepathy or reversing time).
* The vampires in the BoysLove webcomic ''Arcana'' differ in the fact that if they drink Harpy blood they will die. Also, it seems that when changed into a vampire, the victim will acquire some of its attackers traits. In Vincent's case, [[spoiler: he ends up ultimately raping and doing physical harm to his human lover]]. Finally, some of the vampires seem to harbor feelings of guilt and self-hate over their conditions (beliving they're monsters/unworthy of love). Other then that, the vampires in this story host the traditional traits (sunlight intolerance, bloodlust, etc.)
* ''[[Webcomic/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 ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1096 resorts to 'vampire']] to describe [[ViewersAreMorons to two people she's with]] a monster she encountered. Other than the below traits, the monster didn't have any other vampiric qualities, instead being vulnerable to magic weaponry. It did have fangs: a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1100 mouth full of shark teeth.]]
-->'''Susan:''' 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".
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' hasn't gone into any detail regarding vampire abilities, but the vampire ''society'' is certainly different. On the one hand, Sebastian's coven secretly runs The Red Cross, while behind the scenes they're {{Anne Rice}}-style goth vampires cranked UpToEleven. As for Dracula, he's pretty much identical to Bela Lugosi's version of the Count, only living on a Moon Base. With a [[DeathRay Moon Laser]].

** A recent storyline has started exploring which of the traditional vampire traits are true and which are just unverifiable superstitions. Notably, they establish the existence of non-human vampires, ,including vampire gorillas.
* Gore, from ''The Life of Riley'', was a housemate to the Bobs, and liked 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 we 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 tricks that should have taken him a few thousand years to learn, whereupon Gore revealed his powers were taught to him by [[spoiler:Lilith]].

* ''Geist Panic'' 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.]]
* The vampires of ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' are ''very'' different from most depictions of vampires. 1) They appear to be living beings, not a species of TheUndead. 2) Sunlight doesn't bother them. 3) Their bites turn people into ''[[FurAgainstFang werewolves]]'', not more vampires. 4) Their hearts and lungs are found inside their heads, making a stake through the chest ineffective (their chests contain 17 appendixes). 5) They're ''very'' socially awkward and the traditional vampire stories come from the [[http://samandfuzzy.com/1669 wide variety of mental illnesses and delusions they suffer from]]. Edwin, the most fleshed-out vampire and a member of the supporting cast, suffers from "Chronic Tragic Gothic Romanticism" (the most common illness) and believes StalkingIsLove.
** Despite being MadeOfIron, they also don't appear to be particularly stronger than scrawny humans making it quite easy to detain them.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' introduces [[spoiler: Malack, a LizardFolk - or rather SnakePeople - vampire. He's been around for over 200 years, surpassing Xykon as "oldest character who isn't an actual god". He bites Durkon and uses a spell of his own making to accelerate the transformation, turning Durkon into his thrall. When Nale kills Malack shortly thereafter, Durkon is freed and rejoins the good guys - [[GrandTheftMe albeit not fully in control of himself]].]]
** In fact, the vampires in the setting hold a dark secret, one rarely or never revealed to anyone that isn't one: [[spoiler:the vampire character is in fact an entirely separate entity of the original, a servant of a dark god possessing the body and [[AndIMustScream trapping the soul of the original inhabitant there for an eternity.]] Durkon himself is no exception, of course, but there is little he can do about it.]]

** Lampshaded in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990519 this strip]] from ''Webcomic/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.

* Lampshaded in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990519 this strip]] from ''Webcomic/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.
** 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.

* ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'' 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.

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

* 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.