Line #2 Comicbook/IVampire


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4	Andrew Bennett is a Vampire desperately in love with his fellow vampire, Mary. Unfortunately, the two have some rather different worldviews. Where Andrew sees humans as people to live in harmony with, Mary sees them as nothing more than food. She styles herself "Mary, Queen of Blood" and begins to build an army of vampires, intent on subjugating the human race and putting vampires in their proper place as rulers of the Earth.
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6	And so Andrew, along with a handful of allies, must stop her.
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8	Part of the ComicBook/New52, ''I, Vampire'' is actually a reboot of a story DC ran in the '80s, as part of ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery''. The characters all [[Really700YearsOld appear]] younger and [[HotterAndSexier better-looking]] in the new version, and whereas the original was intended as a miniseries, the reboot was an ongoing book. After 20 issues, including a #0 issue, the series was cancelled, though Andrew Bennett made some guest appearances in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' afterwards. The book was written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and illustrated by Creator/AndreaSorrentino.
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11	!!''I, Vampire'' provides examples of:
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13	* AndShowItToYou: [[spoiler:How Andrew murders John Troughton in Issue 17.]]
14	* BatFamilyCrossover: ComicBook/{{Batman}} and the members of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' all get involved with stopping Mary's army.
15	* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:After Andrew changes all the world's vampires into humans and becomes a kind of super-vampire, Mary becomes human again as well. For a while, she misses having the powers it came with, but a bloody encounter with a guy who tries to mug her proves to herself that she is far from helpless]].
16	* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: John]]
17	* DarkIsNotEvil: Played straight with Andrew and pretty much inverted for Mary and her followers.
18	* DespairEventHorizon: Mary when [[spoiler: she gets cured of her vampirism. She snaps out of it almost immediately.]]
19	* DoNotGoGentle: While conquering the earth with an army of vampires may sound workable, this is the ''[[WorldOfBadass DC Universe]]'', and Mary acknowledges that she expects the earth's many superheroes to defeat her army. She views going out in a final bloody conflict as preferable to their current slow slide into irrelevance.
20	* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:ComicBook/JohnConstantine becomes this for the last few issues, to the heroes.]]
21	* EvilRedhead: Mary, Queen of Blood
22	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Andrew Bennet and Tig, who he bites shortly after absorbing all of the vampires]]
23	* FateWorseThanDeath: Ultimately, [[spoiler:Cain is trapped in the House of Mystery forever]].
24	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Andrew Bennett.
25	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Mary]]
26	* ILoveYouVampireSon: Bennett turned Mary out of love. Unfortunately, the change caused her to become cruel and sadistic. She still returns Bennett's feelings, but she sees him as weak, while he sees her as a monster.
27	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:John is killed in Issue 17. He doesn't come back.]]
28	* MonsterProgenitor: [[spoiler:Cain]]
29	* MustBeInvited: A classic vampire weakness. [[spoiler:One Andrew does away with once he becomes the new MonsterLord after absorbing all of the vampire souls.]]
30	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tig, the young vampire hunter, thinks she's found a way to stop Mary [[spoiler: by killing Bennett. Unfortunately, this results in Cain, the first vampire, awakening from his slumber]]
31	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Sunlight doesn't harm them, but instead simply weakens them. They have a number of shape-shifting abilities, and many of their powers get more powerful as they get older. They are also much harder to kill as they age, and killing a sire within the first three days of a vampire being turned will cure that vampire.
32	* PointedEars: The vampires all have these.
33	* StarCrossedLovers: Played with. Bennett and Mary are lovers on opposing sides, but they are also the ''leaders'' of their respective sides and see their causes as more important than their love.
34	* StraightGay: [[spoiler: John]]
35	* {{Stripperific}}: Mary is the most noticeable example, but Andrew and Cain use to walk shirtless, too. And Tig, when [[spoiler: Lilith possessed her body]].
36	* VampireHunter: Tig, whose parents were killed by vampires. She's not very knowledgeable of them, however. John Troughton, Bennett's friend, is a straighter example. Then there's the Order of the Van Helsings, an ancient society dedicated to slaying vampires. Bennett himself becomes an example when he starts fighting against Mary's army.
37	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Fittingly, the Order of the Van Helsings, who aren't above causing a ZombieApocalypse of vampire-hating {{Mummy}} undead if it will kill more vampires. [[spoiler:Their leader even admits they plan to be CapeBusters once they finish off vampires.]]
38	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Vampires can turn into a number of things-- from wolves, to mist, to bats. They are also capable of partial transformations.
39	* WhamEpisode:
40	** Issue 12 [[spoiler:ends with Andrew curing vampirism by absorbing the dark magic over all of the vampires. Unfortunately, this means he's absorbed all of its evil; he then turns Tig into a vampire]].
41	** Issue 17 [[spoiler:Tig beheads Mary, while Cain has started reviving Lilith]].

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