History PlayingWith / FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire

* '''Reconstructed''': Knowing that humans expect vampires to be bloodthirsty, Vlad hides his identity and decides to live among humans as an ordinary member of society anyway.

** Vlad restraining his urges has nothing to do with being a good person. He simply doesn't want to become a mindless predator, and is willing to do plenty of other bad things.

* '''Downplayed''': Vlad [[GoodIsNotNice isn't a bad person, but isn't exactly pleasant either]].

* '''Inverted''': VanHelsingHateCrimes

* '''Averted''': Vampirism twists the victim's psychology as much as their mind; whatever morality they had before doesn't survive the transformation.
* '''Enforced''': It's a kids' show, so there can't be violence, but they want to include vampires anyway.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Averted''': Vampires aren't friendly creatures at all.

* '''Exploited''': Instead of having to clean up expired biohazardous blood packs, blood banks can feed the friendly local vampires before any blood pack reaches its expiration date.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** Vlad are bubbly and affectionate and acts like a cheerful little girl.

* '''Straight''': Vampires are rather kind and don't want to harm people.

** Vampires are bubbly and affectionate and act like cheerful little girls.

* '''Downplayed''':
** Vampires, like everyone, can choose to be good or evil.
** The protagonist is a vampire, and s/he [[GoodIsNotNice isn't a bad person, but isn't exactly pleasant either]].

** The vampires seem pretty harmless, but that's just a facade they put up to lure in victims.

** Vladis attempt restraining his urges has nothing to do with being a good person. He simply doesn't want to become a mindless predator, and is willing to do plenty of other bad things.

** But then, they start to [[BecomingTheMask become the mask]] and end up as truly nice people.

** Nobody's quite sure if the vampire's really friendly, or if he's just waiting for the right time to strike.

* '''Defied''': Asked to try being nice for once, a vampire [[HaHaHaNo laughs at the idea, refuses,]] and goes back to killing people.

** The vampires are friendly... Turns out, they got perfectly natural CuteLittleFangs and a known but rare mental disorder giving them a BloodLust, no curse, nothing supernatural.

** They are only coping with the curse by attempting to rationalize it.

** If it weren't for the fact it's 3 AM and Vlad had just told Alice such, you'd never guess that Vlad was a vampire and you'd never know he's struggling with [[HorrorHunger his hunger]], because of how friendly he's being to her.

** Vlad does not particularly feel like chasing down screaming victims, and he ''really'' doesn't want to have a stake shoved through him, so he opts for an honest night's work and getting blood from willing donors. It's hard sometimes, but at least he can still look at himself in the mirror... [[MissingReflection metaphorically, of course]].

* '''Exploited''': Instead of having to clean up expired biohazardous blood packs, blood banks can feed the friendly local vampires before any blood pack reaches it expiration date.

** If it weren't for the fact it's 3 AM and Alice had just told Bob such, you'd never guess that Alice was a vampire and you'd never know she's struggling with [[HorrorHunger her hunger]], because of how friendly she's being to him.

** Vampires have to get blood from one who is friendly to them, and don't need to feed very regularly, so being polite and friendly makes their desires more understandable but also allows them to feed from a willing volunteer.

* '''Parodied''': A vampire tries to clean up his act, and ends up encountering a series of absurdly violent events, which leave him comically failing in his goal.

** Even though the vampire really is nice, society's expectations of vampires leave him feared by humans and scorned by his own kind.
** Even though he's a genuinely nice guy, he's also in constant danger of losing control. If he's a perspective character at all, it makes sure you know exactly what being a vampire entails.
* '''Reconstructed''': Knowing that humans expect vampires to be bloodthirsty, a vampire hides his identity and decides to live among humans as an ordinary member of society anyway.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': Nobody's quite sure if the vampire's really friendly, or if he's just waiting for the right time to strike.

* '''Exploited''': Instead of having to clean up expired biohazardous blood packs, blood banks can feed the vampires before any blood pack reaches it expiration date.
* '''Defied''': Asked to try being nice for once, a vampire laughs at the idea, refuses, and goes back to killing people.

** Vlad does not particularly feel like chasing down screaming victims, and he ''really'' doesn't want to have a stake shoved through him, so he opts for an honest night's work and getting blood from willing donors. It's hard sometimes, but at least he can still look at himself in the mirror... metaphorically, of course.
* '''Exploited''': ???

** They are only coping with they curse by attempting to rationalize it.

** Vlad does not particularly feel like chasing down screaming victims, and he ''really'' doesn't want to have a stake shoved through him, so he opts for an honest night's work and getting blood from willing donors. It's hard sometimes, but at least he can still look at himself in the mirror... at least metaphorically, if not literally.

** Even though he's a genuinely nice guy, he's also in constant danger or losing control. If he's a perspective character at all, it makes sure you know exactly what being a vampire entails.

* '''Exaggerated''': Vampires are bubbly and affectionate and act like cheerful little girls.

* '''Downplayed''': Vampires, like everyone, can choose to be good or evil.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Even though the vampire really is nice, society's expectations of vampires leave him feared by humans and scorned by his own kind.
** Even though he's a genuinely nice guy, he's also in constant danger or losing control. If he's a perspective character at all, it makes sure you know exactly what being a vampire entails.
* '''Reconstructed''': Knowing that humans expect vampires to be bloodthirsty, a vampire hides his identity and decides to live among humans as an ordinary member of society anyway.

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* '''Justified''': Vampirism is a disease that affects otherwise normal people, and it has no logical reason to alter their personalities.

* '''Subverted''': The vampires seem pretty harmless, but that's just a facade they put up to lure in victims.

* '''Double Subverted''': But then, they start to [[BecomingTheMask become the mask]] and end up as truly nice people.

* '''Deconstructed''': Even though the vampire really is nice, society's expectations of vampires leave him feared by humans and scorned by his own kind.

* '''Invoked''': Realizing how mean the rest of his kind are, a vampire decides to be friendly just to be different than the rest.

** The vampires are friendly... Turns out, they got perfectly natural CuteLittleFangs and a known but rare mental disorder giving them a BloodLust, no curse, nothing surnatural.

** They are only coping with they curse by attempting to rationalyse it.

* '''Conversed''': ???