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* '''Subverted''': Alice the vampire hunter avoids sunlight, looks longingly at blood, and seems to be unusually strong, but it turns out she's fully human and just weird.

* '''Discussed''': "So you hunt other vampires? [[FridgeLogic How do you avoid hurting yourself when picking up garlic and crosses]]?

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice rants about how much she hates vampires. After a long pause, someone reminds Alice she is a vampire.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is well aware that she will never fit in among humans, and she [[IHateYouVampireDad hates her vampire dad and all other vampires as a result]]. She will be a hunter for the rest of her life, and when there are no more other vampires, she'll kill herself to wipe out vampires forever.

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* '''Straight''': Alice the vampire hunter is also a vampire.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice is more a vigilante in general rather than a vampire hunter specifically, but other vampires are common targets of her wrath

** Alice was born a werewolf, and only starts hunting them after being brought down to normal.

** Alice was driven to despair because of her transformation, and is subject to a truly ugly mix of HorrorHunger, InternalizedCategorism, [[BoomerangBigot Boomerang Bigotry]], and self loathing. she's rejected by vampires and vampire hunter alike, and isn't really accepted by normal humans either. When she find many of the vampires she slew were [[VanHelsingHateCrimes not as vile as she thought they were]], and that [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire there was nothing inherently evil about the transformation,]] she's driven to SuicideBySunlight.

''' Hunter of His Own Kind''': A member of a supernatural species who kills other members of his supernatural species.
* '''Straight''': Vendrick the vampire hunter is also a vampire.

** Vendrick CantStayNormal: every time he’s turned, into a vampire or werewolf or zombie or whatever, he hunts every member of that species down, gets turned back to normal, and then lived his life normally.
* '''Downplayed''': Vendrick is more a vigilante in general rather than a vampire hunter specifically, but other vampires are common targets of his wrath

** Vendrick was a vampire hunter long before becoming a vampire, [[ViralTransformation but in that line of work it’s only a matter of time before you’re bitten.]]
** TakesOneToKillOne

** Vendrick guards and protects other vampires.
** Vendrick was born a werewolf, and only starts hunting them after being brought down to normal.
* '''Subverted''': Vendrick the vampire hunter avoids sunlight, looks longingly at blood, and seems to be unusually strong, but it turns out he’s fully human and just weird.
* '''Double Subverted''': It turns out he was in the early stages of transformation, and is well on his way to becoming a true vampire.

** [[FlockOfWolves EVERY vampire hunter is actually a vampire.]]
** A serial killer considers himself this for humanity.
* '''Zig Zagged''': [[FoodchainOfEvil Vendrick the vampire hunter is not a vampire, but a creature that eats them.]] Then other members of his species turn up, and he decide he should hunt them down as well.
* '''Averted''': Vampires and vampire-hunters don’t mix.
* '''Enforced''': [[PostScriptSeason The writers wrote themselves into a hole when Vendirck was vamprized last season final, and needed a way to simultaneously maintain and defy the status quo. ]]
* '''Lampshaded''': “So I may be projecting my self loathing a bit…”
* '''Invoked''': Vendirck injects himself with vampire ichor, in order to gian the power to defeat his vampric foes.
* '''Exploited''': Vendrick is not openly a vampire hunter, and uses his “ancestry” to gain the trust of fellow vampires before killing them.
* '''Defied''': ApeShallNeverKillApe
* '''Discussed''': “So you hunt other vampires? [[FridgeLogic How do you avoid hurting yourself when picking up garlic and crosses?]]
* '''Conversed''': “A vampire hunting vampires? Never seen that show before.”

** Becoming a vampire slowly turns you AlwaysChaoticEvil. Despite his best attempts to fight it, Vendrick is SlowlySlippingIntoEvil, and in the end he becomes what he hates metaphorically as well as literally.
** Vendrick was driven to despair because of his transformation, and is subject to a truly ugly mix of HorrorHunger, InternalizedCategorism, [[BoomerangBigot Boomerang Bigotry]], and self loathing. He’s rejected by vampires and vampire hunter alike, and isn’t really accepted by normal humans ether. When he find many of the vampires he slew were [[VanHelsingHateCrimes not as vile as he thought they were, ]] and that [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire there was nothing inherently evil about the transformation,]] he’s driven to SuicideBySunlight.

** Becoming a vampire automatically makes you a sociopath; but that doesn’t mean you have to act evil. Vendrick post-transformation abides by a code of MoralSociopathy that’s [[TheFettered absolutely ironclad.]]
** Vendrick was aware of VanHelsingHateCrimes and FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires before his transformation: and took pains to make sure the vampires he hunted were deserving of being killed. Becoming a vampire simply made the killing part much more simple.

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* '''Exploited''': Vendrick is not openly a vampire hunter, and uses his “ancestry” to gain he trust of fellow vampires before killing them.

* '''Exaggerated''': The vast majority of vampire hunters in the setting are vampires themselves.

* '''Justified''': Vendrick was a vampire hunter long before becoming a vampire, [[ViralTransformation but in that line of work it’s only a matter of time before you’re bitten.]]

* '''Inverted''': Vendrick guards and protects other vampires.

* '''Parodied''': [[FlockOfWolves EVERY vampire hunter is actually a vampire.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Becoming a vampire slowly turns you AllwaysChaoticEvil. Despite his best attempts to fight it, Vendrick is SlowlySlippingIntoEvil, and in the end he becomes what he hates metaphorically as well as literally.
** Vendrick was driven to despair because of his transformation, and is subject to a truly ugly mix of HorrorHunger, InternalizedCategorism, [[BoomerangBigot Boomerang Bigotry]], and self loathing. He’s rejected by vampires and vampire hunter alike, and isn’t really accepted by normal humans ether. When he find many of the vampires he slew were [[VanHelsingHateCrimes not as vile as he thought they were, ]] and that [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire there was nothing inherently evil about the transformation,]] he’s driven to SuicideBySunlight.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': Becoming a vampire automatically makes you a sociopath; but that doesn’t mean you have to act evil. Vendrick post-transformation abides by a code of MoralSociopathy that’s [[TheFettered absolutely ironclad.]]

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** Vendrick Can’tStayNormal: every time he’s turned, into a vampire or werewolf or zombie or whatever, he hunts every member of that species down, gets turned back to normal, and then lived his life normally.

** Vendrick was aware of VanHelsingHateCrimes and FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires before his transformation: and took pains to make sure the vampire he hunted were deserving of being killed. Beocmign a vampire simply made the killing part much more simple.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': [[FoodchainOfEvil Vendrick the vampire hunter is not a vampire, but a superior species that eats them.]] then other members of his species turn up, and he decide he should hunt them down as well.

* '''Subverted''': Vendrick the vampire hunter avoids sunlight, looks loningly at blood, and seems to be unusually strong, but it turns out he’s fully human and just weird.