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13	->''"Though it is true that I am immortal, I am no vampire. I find the smell of blood too revolting to ever drink it."''
14	-->-- '''Archduke Lester [=DeRosso=]''', ''[[VideoGame/BravelyDefault Bravely Default]]''
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16	What type of character does one or more of the following?:
17	# [[WeakenedByTheLight Avoids sunlight]].
18	# Has SuperStrength.
19	# Has people begin disappearing when they arrive.
20	# [[VampiresHateGarlic Is not a fan of garlic]].
21	# Seems to have a desire for others' blood/life-force.
22	# [[MustBeInvited Always asks for explicit permission to enter]].
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24	If you said [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] you'd be right, [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope except for this trope]].
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26	This trope is for any instance where a character [[RedHerring is set up as a vampire]], and is then revealed ''not'' to be. It can lead to a massive awkward moment for the character that suspects as much, or it may just serve to deepen the mystery if there is a ''real'' vampire on the loose. In the latter case, the suspect may be a VampireVannabe who is in league with the real thing because they really ''want'' to be one, or they might be [[HumanoidAbomination something even more sinister]].
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28	Sometimes, actual vampires may even coexist alongside one or more other kinds of beings that are capable of VampiricDraining -- the typical hallmark of a vampire.
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30	Can also be PlayedForLaughs if a character accuses someone of being a vampire when it's quite clear to the audience that they aren't.
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32	Compare/contrast TotallyNotAWerewolf, in which the suspect is always a supernatural creature, just not the one they were thought to be, and ShamSupernatural, where the person mistaken as supernatural is making it look that way on purpose. Contrast TechnicallyLivingVampire, for when the character is actually a vampire despite being still alive. See also FakeWizardry, MistakenForSuperpowered, MistakenForUndead, and NotAZombie.
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38	* Arystar Krory in ''Manga/DGrayMan''. Because he'd attack the townspeople at night and drain them of their blood, everyone ([[WhatHaveIBecome including Krory himself]]) thought him to be a vampire. He turns out to be [[spoiler: a human with [[AppliedPhlebotinum Innocence]], and he was instinctively attacking [[TheHeartless Akuma]].]]
39	* In ''Manga/GodChild'', the current inhabitants of the Weatherby Castle Darque and Justine. Particularly Justine has a lot of hints, with having a tendency to inherit elongated, sharp canines, and she is also very weak and feels faint when she is subjected to sunlight. There's also Gertrude, who was burned for being suspected of being a vampire, since a lot of people died lately and despite being in her 40s, she looked incredibly young and was thought to have made herself young by drinking the blood of young, pretty women. Turns out the people around Gertrude were dying due to ThePlague and Justine is not actually a vampire... or she is... [[MindScrew maybe]]...
40	* PlayedWith in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' -- despite employing 1,000 vampire Nazis and looking just as young as he did during World War II, [[OmnicidalManiac the Major]] turns out to be [[spoiler:a cyborg]]. He insists this makes him human, and characterizes his quest against [[SociopathicHero Alucard]] as one of man versus monster. [[IronLady Integra]] insists that he's still a loathsome monster (though she may have only meant in the moral sense).
41	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': A young [[spoiler:Jewerly Bonney]] was often bullied by other kids and called a vampire due to having to having a disease that would kill her if exposed to natural light, with one of them even brandishing a cross at her. She proceeds to kick him in the face and point out that ''she lives in a church''.
42	* It is easy to assume that [[spoiler:Seishirou Kirishiki]] in ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' is a vampire but it is not so. [[spoiler:Instead, he is TheTeamNormal among the vampires.]]
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46	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': One issue had Archie terrified that the woman who moved in next door was a vampire as she looked and acted like one, and even moved in with a ''suspiciously coffin-sized wooden crate''. [[spoiler:It turns out to be fully justified on Archie's case: The woman was a [[MethodActing Method Actor]] who played a vampire on {{UsefulNotes/Television}}, and she ultimately pranks him by "turning" Chuck.]]
47	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':Inverted and played straight, as the superhero Confessor actually was a vampire, but kept it a secret, careful never to use his vampiric powers where people could see him, and never doing anything explicitly superhuman or that couldn't be explained by [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower training really hard]]. For the most part, he's able to camouflage this, even to the reader, because he's also a BatmanParody, and nearly all of his vampiric traits (great strength and agility, able to get answers out of people just by glaring at them, only operates at night, has never been successfully photographed, [[StealthHiBye can enter and leave a scene without making a sound]]) just seem like Batman traits at first glance. His secret came out just before he was destroyed, meaning the fact that the Confessor was a vampire is now common knowledge. However, the [[LegacyCharacter identity was assumed]] by his BadassNormal former sidekick, who really isn't a vampire but everyone thinks he is (terrifying the local criminal element, who think he's the original Confessor returned to (un)life but now [[RemovedAchillesHeel immune to crosses, garlic, etc]]).
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
49	** Batman himself is associated with bats, almost never seen in the daytime, seemingly [[StealthHiBye appears]] out of nowhere and vanishes into thin air and is [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower much stronger]] than any normal person. It's been shown that a small number of people, particularly Gotham thugs, believe or suspect that he's a vampire, which isn't totally insane in a universe with aliens, wizards, superheroes, and even a few actual vampires (and is actually true in [[Comicbook/BatmanVampire some]] {{Alternate Universe}}s). Since ComicBook/{{Superman}} has occasionally worn the suit and impersonated him, some people have actually seen "Batman" fly, lift cars and survive hails of bullets, which makes the vampire theory that much more credible.
50	** The villainess Nocturna had an accident which turned her skin white and made her sensitive to light. She also has ShadowWalker and CharmPerson powers. The Comicbook/{{New 52}} version deliberately plays on her similarity to a vampire, at one point using hypnosis to convice Comicbook/{{Batwoman}} that not only is she a LesbianVampire, but that Kate herself has been turned. Averted in ''Comicbook/Outsiders2023'': this version of Nocturna really ''is'' a vampire, with a completely new origin involving being turned by a LooksLikeOrlok figure in what appears to be 18th century Gotham.
51	* ''Creator/ECComics'':
52	** In an old story, the premise of a game show is to guess the job of a special guest. The contestants get steadily more panicky and more creative as they discover that their guest 'works with a red liquid' and it's not soap, or ink, or anything other than what they're thinking about... he's actually a phlebotomist (someone who draws blood). [[spoiler: The contestants are the vampires -- the gameshow is for supernatural creatures, and the contestants typically feast on the guest at the end of the show.]]
53	** This trope was also the twist in the EC story "Sweetie-Pie", where bodies of people last seen in cars that were wrecked turn up drained of blood with twin puncture marks in the throat. Turns out that it's the work of a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]] who prefers his meals exsanguinated.
54	** Also the twist in another story about a graveyard-shift cab driver who reads in the papers that another murder has been committed; the victim bears the familiar neck-marks and drained blood. A doctor quoted and pictured in the article states the murders must be the work of a vampire, and he (the doctor) intends to hunt the bloodsucker down. When a sinister-looking passenger gets into his cab, the driver recognizes the man as the doctor he saw in the paper. After he drops the doctor off, the cabbie gets out and follows him on foot -- only to be ambushed by the doctor, who reveals ''himself'' to be the vampire...[[spoiler: and the cab driver wakes up. It had all been a dream the cabbie had while drifting off. But the same man the cabbie saw in the dream gets into his cab, and asks to be taken to the same destination. Instead the cabbie drives into an alley, where -- you guessed it -- the ''cabbie'' is revealed to be the real vampire, and he dispatches the good doctor. The final line of the story, spoken as the driver is getting into the trunk of his cab filled with graveyard earth: "Imagine! A vampire falling asleep at night -- and dreaming! Ridiculous!"]]
55	** In "Bats In My Belfry" from Tales From the Crypt #24, the main character, faced with the prospect of going deaf, agrees to a strange surgery wherein the auditory system of a bat is grafted onto his own. It works, very well, but he starts getting the strange urge to scream, and sleeping upside down, and begins growing a strange membrane between his arms and his body. It's when he hears his wife and her lover planning to kill him that he discovers he's not just becoming any old bat-person, oh no, he's a ''vampire'' bat! Oh, and he sleeps in a coffin, but only because it's quiet.
56	* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': The serial killer in "Nightfall" has fangs, drinks his victim's blood, only operates at night and claims to be a vampire. When Mid-Nite captures him he proves not to be a vampire after all, but is instead a meta-human suffering from a strange disease and delusions.
57	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the "Cursed Earth" arc, Dredd travels through an area where the locals' blood is being harvested by a mysterious monster that they believe to be a vampire. It turns out to be the last President of the United States, put into suspended animation after his complicity in the Atomic Wars. When the machine ran out of replacement blood, his three robot servants started to collect it from elsewhere as they were programmed to keep him alive at all costs. Dredd remarks that the man was indeed a vampire, just of a different sort.
58	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The Justice League, during their "ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational" period (also known as the ''[[MemeticMutation Bwa-ha-ha]]'' era), ran an arc in which a region of Europe was overrun by "vampires". It's revealed that a mad scientist had infected innocent people with an artificially mutated mind-controlling strain of porphyria, a blood disease that was once hypothesized to have been the origin of the vampire myths.
59	* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse''
60	** A subversion of sorts occurs in one ''Mickey Mouse'' story. Goofy befriends a man who has just moved into an old house in town, and who actually dresses much like the stereotypical Bela Lugosi sort of vampire. The man even admits himself that it is the look he is going for, and that everything else he does, from sleeping in a wooden box to keeping the curtains shut, is just a healthy way of life. Goofy believes it, and wants to try. [[OnlySaneMan Mickey is not so gullible]], and repeatedly tries to prove his claim by throwing about typical anti-vampire stuff such as garlic and running water. In the end, however, all attempts fail, and Goofy becomes increasingly angry with Mickey for messing around. Cue Mickey convincing him to find the man where he sleeps at day and pulling the curtains. Sunlight shines on him... and nothing happens. Mickey admits defeat, and they both leave. As soon as they have, however, the man pulls away the ''fake window'' he had on his wall, with just a normal lamp behind it. [[EvilLaugh He laughs at them in the final frame]], and will [[FridgeHorror presumably go on to act like the vampire he is now that the "hunters" are gone]].
61	** A story with Mickey as a professional PrivateDetective has Mickey encountering a foreign couple [[SdrawkcabName calling themselves Alucard]] who seem to have all vampire traits such as paleness and vulnerability to sunlight and garlic, while people are turning up sick in hospital with marks on their neck. The explanation to all this is that they are the descendants of the original Count Dracula and have caught a rare disease while visiting his castle. Ironically, the story builds an elaborate, even contrived explanation of how the myth of Dracula the vampire came about due to misunderstandings building around the historical and nice Count Dracula, when in the real world {{Dracula}} was an explicitly fictional creation named after a nasty historical figure. Anywho, there's a complicated story about how the original Dracula's wife caught a mysterious illness affecting twin glands in the throat that secrete a serum maintaining youth -- making her prone to shrivel up in sunlight -- and how the count found a cure but his sample of the disease fell in the drain and polluted the local water supply and, since he was already distrusted, he had to sneak into people's bedrooms to administer a cure using twin syringes that he put in his mouth to have both hands free... In the present, the "vampire" behind the attacks is simply a greedy doctor extracting the serum from young people's glands to give to his elderly patients, and the "Alucards" get a happy ending when they accidentally find that stuff used to preserve parchments protects their skin from sunlight ([[ItMakesSenseInContext when Mickey makes some of it come out of the sprinklers to preserve a stolen parchment]]). Can't fault the writer for lack of imagination.
62	* The first part of the ''Muppet Mash'' arc of ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'' revolved around the other Muppets thinking that Gonzo has become a vampire due to returning from a vacation in Transylvania, wearing a suit and a cape, having a noticeably paler complexion, reacting negatively to the Swedish Chef preparing a garlic steak and demonstrating a strong craving for tomato juice, among other things. At the end of the issue, it turns out that Gonzo isn't a vampire and he explains all the supposed signs of his vampirism (e.g.: He was pale because he was wearing sun lotion, the tomato juice craving and aversion to the garlic steak were because he was on a vegetarian diet, etc.).
63	* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in one of the ''Anime/NinjaScroll'' comics. Once Jubei encounters a strange female monster, who wants to drink his blood and can turn into a bat or a wolf. It's obvious for the reader that she's a Western-style vampire, but Jubei doesn't know that and has to learn her weaknesses the hard way (with a little help from people of the village the vampire was preying on).
64	* ''ComicBook/PathfinderDynamiteComics'': Kyra's OriginsEpisode depicts her going out to a ratfolk village on a vampire hunt with Seelah the paladin and some {{Boxed Crook}}s they freed from the local prison as muscle. Unfortunately, they find their preparations of garlic and so forth are all for naught: the blood-drinking creatures attacking the village are chupacabras, not vampires.
65	* ''ComicBook/RicHochet'': Alister Devill is the prime suspect to being a vampire, just like his ancestors Derek and Ferguson. [[spoiler:In the end, it was all a scheme from his cousin, Austin Chapin, to kill him and inherit his vast fortune.]]
66	* ''ComicBook/{{Ruse}}'': One of the stranger storylines involves an {{Uberwald}}-esque town seemingly empty by day but lively by night, and a nearby Gypsy caravan whose women are being kidnapped (and, eventually, Emma). [[spoiler:Generations of inbreeding have induced a mutation causing the townspeople to be invisible in sunlight and extremely photophobic; they're kidnapping girls for outside blood to counter the mutation.]]
67	* One very unfunny stand-alone story in ''ComicBook/{{Trese}}'' was told from the point of view of a young boy who believed his mother's new boyfriend was a vampire, since that was how he interpreted the signs [[spoiler:of the boyfriend molesting the boy's younger sister.]] When Trese investigates, she claims that the guy wasn't a vampire, but something ''worse''.
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71	* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7225350/1/Bloodsucker "Bloodsucker"]] has a rumor spread around Casper High that Danny is a vampire. [[spoiler:He decides to let them believe it rather than leave them to keep guessing until they figure out he's a ghost.]]
72	* If one regards ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' changelings as vampire analogues, then ''Fanfic/TheChangelingOfTheGuard'' has Topaz Showers; a pegasus entomologist who is so into bugs that not only does Shining Armor ''immediately'' leap to the conclusion that she is a changeling infiltrator after the events of his wedding, before Idol Hooves (the ''actual'' changeling infiltrator) corrects him, but she has been mistaken by ''actual changeling infiltrators'' as being one of them. [[NoodleIncident More than once.]] When the young infiltrator nymph Cersus reveals how disguised changelings covertly identify themselves to each other (it plays into their ThemeNaming), it shed a whole new light on some very odd encounters for Topaz... who is then chagrined that she didn't realize what was happening, and thus didn't play along so she could observe/study some "wild" changelings.
73	* ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'': Despite a Servant being able to drink blood for energy, they're different from vampires. Tenkei uses the blood-sucking thing to argue it though.
74	* In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]] fanfic ''FanFic/{{Nosflutteratu}}'', Pinkie Pie assumes that anypony with a name like Twilight Sparkle must be a vampire.
75	* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': Soma hits just about every vampire-associated trope out there; [[HolyBurnsEvil he is hurt by Holy Water and blessed objects]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifter can turn into a bat]], [[SummonMagic summon bats]], has InnateNightVision, VampiricDraining powers and can tell apart people's blood by scent. He is even the reincarnation of {{Dracula}}. However, he is not actually a vampire; he can walk in sunlight and needs food like anyone else. He still occasionally scares the crap out of other people thanks to this motif, and has difficulty convincing strangers that he's a human.
76	* ''Fanfic/RetrogradeMotion'': Upon meeting her for the first time, the younger Jason declares Kate to look like "an awesome vampire". He ''still'' thinks she's a vampire weeks later, because it was [[SiblingRivalry Tim]] that told him that she wasn't.
77	* Following on from the second ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' example below, one of the fics in "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6220663 Ten Alternate Universes: Havelock Vetinari]]" by Paul A includes the observation that if someone as subtle as Vetinari ''was'' a vampire, he wouldn't look so much like one.
78	* In ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'', Superman thanks Batman for a UV light generator designed to keep his sun-light powered abilities from weakening in winter, and suggests he installs them to improve the mood in Gotham, previously mentioned to be in the special [[AlwaysNight Gotham Eternal Darkness Time]] zone, but apparently the citizens of Gotham are so sunlight-deprived UV radiation burns them.
79	-->'''Superman:''' Are you sure everyone in Gotham isn't just a vampire?\
80	'''Batman:''' No, I'm not.
81	* The ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1249765/1/The-Vampire-Boyfriend "The Vampire Boyfriend"]] has Kramer and Newman suspect this about Elaine's new boyfriend due to his not answering the door in the daytime and receiving boxes of soil from Europe. [[spoiler: It turns out he's at work during the daytime and the soil is used for growing orchids. At the end of the story, this trope is then applied to Elaine herself.]]
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85	* In ''Film/TheCrimeDoctorsCourage'', Miguel and Delores Bragga go to considerable lengths to make it appear they are vampires: never appearing in daylight, having no mirrors in their home, and appearing to sleep in coffins. However, this is ultimately revealed to be a publicity stunt engineered by Jeff.
86	* ''[[WebVideo/{{Fred}} Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred]]'': Fred suspects that his neighbor and new music teacher, Mr. Devlin, is secretly a vampire: he's pale, wears lots of black, doesn't like garlic, [[PrefersRawMeat likes his meat extra-rare]], and butchers his own meat as a hobby. Kevin gets to know him and realizes Mr. Devlin is just an eccentric man with interesting hobbies... [[spoiler:until he notices at the end that Mr. Devlin has no reflection in the mirror]].
87	* ''Film/IsleOfTheDead'' was producer Creator/ValLewton's contribution to the vampire genre. It features a group of expatriates quarantined on an island during the 1910s Balkan Wars. One of the locals starts spreading rumors about how a ''vrovrolakas'' (the film's version of ''vrykolakas'', the Greek term for vampire) is responsible for ThePlague. Paranoia sets in.
88	* In ''Film/TheLostBoys'', Sam and the Frog brothers try some vampire-detecting methods on Max when he comes over for supper, and are humiliated when all the tests fail. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out Max ''is'' the leader of the vampires; the tests had merely been rendered ineffectual because he'd been invited into the house by Michael.]]
89	* The early George Romero film ''Film/{{Martin\|1977}}'' follows the activities of a young man who is convinced he is a vampire. It's left ambiguous as to whether or not he really is a vampire, but only Martin and his uncle believe in his vampirism, and there aren't any specific signs of his being supernatural that are explicitly shown.
90	* The main character in ''Film/MyBestFriendIsAVampire'' actually is a vampire; however, throughout the movie, vampire hunters believe it's actually his best friend, Ralph, who is the vampire.
91	* In ''Film/OnceBitten,'' the protagonist Mark develops a taste for raw meat (he'd previously only like ''extremely'' well-done burgers), a pale complexion, and a tendency to avoid sunlight. He even wins a costume contest (as a vampire) while constantly saying, "I'm ''not'' a vampire!" Turns out, he was right, but was on the way to becoming one by being the prey of the vampiress Countess, who periodically had to feed on the blood of virgins to retain her youth and power.
92	* In ''Film/Transylvania65000'', it turns out that a young lady named Odette was only ''acting'' like a vampire (dressing up in a black leotard and a vampire cape) to get attention, because she'd been unattractive prior to her recent nose-job.
93	* ''Film/VampiresKiss'' is about a man who thinks he's turning into a vampire, but he's actually losing his mind.
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97	* When they first meet, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe both mistake the other for being a vampire in ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter''.
98	* In the first novel in ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'', ''The Keep'', [[spoiler:the main antagonist is an Atlantean sorcerer/antichrist, but he pretends to be a Wallachian nationalist vampire in order to persuade an old professor to help him, and fakes a set of weaknesses different from his real ones]].
99	* In the ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' book ''The Vampire Vacation'', the three main kids begin to suspect that a man named "Dr. A. Cula" is, in fact, a vampire. Turns out he's just an actor dressed as a vampire, preparing for his next role.
100	* Early in ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter]]'', five-year-old twins Rob and Will see someone standing in the woods near their riding school who looks like a vampire they saw in a classmate's vampire comic book. Lori checks out their story, convinced they saw someone, and finds footprints and a scrap of red silk the riding instructor missed. It turns out to be[[spoiler: Charlotte [=DuCaral=], a neighbour who wears the cloak, along with zinc oxide sun block and red lipstick, who was in the woods brooding over her lost love, who had promised to elope with her years before but never arrived]].
101	* Used two ways in Tanya Huff's ''[[Literature/BloodBooks Blood Price]]'', neither remotely funny:
102	** Toronto is hit with a series of murders in which all the blood is drained from the victims. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people think it's a vampire (including an ''actual'' vampire, for a while), but it's actually a demon. Not much of an improvement.
103	** A night nurse is accosted by her drunken neighbors, who have gotten caught up in the vampire frenzy and decide that a woman they never see by day ''must'' be a vampire. They impale the poor woman with a sharpened hockey stick... and are horrified when the body doesn't turn to dust at dawn.
104	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' did this in a tie-in novel; the creature was actually a demon masquerading as a vampire and known as the Daywalker.
105	* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', some speculate that the eponymous Count is a vampire, on account of his jail-gained pallor. Obviously, averted in ''Literature/TheVampireCountOfMonteCristo''.
106	* Literature/DirkGently is not a vampire, and as a student was at pains to point out that any rumours to the contrary were nonsense. His mother was not a Transylvanian immigrant and there's nothing weird about the expensive dental work she needs. There are no bats in his family tree whatsoever. He wears a black, flappy coat because he likes it, and is frequently found hanging upside down from an exercise machine because it's good for his back. He has no idea how any of these rumours got started. (Except, of course, that there ''were'' no rumours until he started denying them. This is how you build a Mystique.)
107	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
108	** In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Mister Bent is suspected of being a vampire due to his dark clothing, mysterious past, obsessive counting, staying at Mrs. Cake's boarding house, where supernatural creatures often reside, and always showing up at the bank before light and leaving after dark. [[spoiler: It turns out he was born a ''clown''. He's just very dedicated to his job.]]
109	** ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', regarding Vetinari, whose other vampiric traits include being really pale, communicating with rats, and having an ambiguously romantic relationship with someone who actually ''is'' a vampire:
110	--->Glenda looked at the skinny black figure and said, enunciating carefully, "When you say he does not drink wine, do you mean [[TheTeetotaler he does not]] ''[[TheTeetotaler drink]]'' [[TheTeetotaler wine]], or [[IDoNotDrinkWine he does not drink...]] ''[[IDoNotDrinkWine wine]]''?"
111	* The Creator/MorrisGleitzman short story "Literature/{{Dracila}}" is about a ten-year-old attempting to convince his kid brother that their sister's new boyfriend is not a vampire, despite a surprising amount of evidence cropping up to indicate that he is.
112	* The mysterious Mr [[SignificantAnagram A.R. Claud]] in ''Dracula, Go Home'' by Kin Platt. Of course, if he was seeking to avoid attention, he could have a chosen different alias.
113	* The title character in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' initially thinks of her friend's infection with an immortal needle symbiote as vampire-like, and mocks the one who infected her as an '[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen-wannabe]]'. By the end, she's dropped this idea in favor of treating the needles as an alien corruption that needs to be destroyed.
114	* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series had a short story where kids suspect their new classmate (who is very pale, Eastern European, and dresses all in black) is a vampire. [[spoiler:She's not - ''they'' are vampires, and rapidly turn her into one]].
115	* Played straight and subverted in the original novella ''Literature/IAmLegend''. While the infected people technically could be considered vampires, Neville realises at the end that the reason most of them display the traditional weaknesses is actually psychological. As the virus spread the word "Vampire" started to be thrown around and the trauma of dying and then reviving drove most of those afflicted insane. He then understands why he once observed one Vampire climbing a telegraph pole only to leap to his death... ''he thought he would turn into a bat''.
116	* In the first ''Literature/KateDaniels'' book, a guy she meets and dates briefly is set up to be the MonsterOfTheWeek. He isn't. It's really, really awkward.
117	* The protagonist of ''The Lady of the Shroud'' (by none other than Bram Stoker himself) is woken in the middle of the night by a woman who's dressed in graveclothes, as pale and frozen as a corpse, and can't enter his room until he helps her over the threshold. She visits him on subsequent nights (''only'' at night), and he soon concludes she's a vampire and concocts an elaborate fantasy in his head of how he'll save her and restore her humanity with ThePowerOfLove... only to find out she's a 100% flesh-and-blood human, and while there is an elaborate plot going on that involves faking her own death to thwart the villains' plans, there is nothing supernatural going on. [[WrongGenreSavvy No vampire fantasy for you]], sir, but he does get a great wife out of the deal.
118	* In ''The Legacy of Lehr'' by Creator/KatherineKurtz, there's a killer on the loose who appears to have all the indicators of being a vampire, but it turns out he isn't and it's just a series of coincidences. (That doesn't mean he isn't a dangerous killer, though.)
119	* While regular vampires exist in ''Literature/MarketOfMonsters'', there are also zannies -- humans who feed on pain, who grow weak and sickly the longer go without feeding, and look younger, healthier, and more attractive after feeding, exactly like vampires with blood. At one point, the most prominent zannie in the story goes a long time without eating, and when the villainous character they'd planned to capture for him to feed on gets away, in desperation, he tortures an innocent guard for pain in a scene that mimics every time you've seen a vampire ravenous for blood.
120	* Ann Hodgman's ''Literature/MyBabysitterIsAVampire'': Book #4, ''My Babysitter Flies By Night'', introduces Voldar Constantin, an exchange student from Drazylvonia in Europe. For a while main protagonist Meg Swain thinks he's a vampire, since he looks like one, talks in a strange, formal way, and is far more interested in blood than a normal seventh-grader. It turns out he's just weird and really into scientific stuff, and he becomes one of Meg's best friends and allies, helping her out in both that book and its immediate sequel.
121	* In the short story ''My Bloody French Exchange'' by Anthony Horowitz, a young boy on a foreign exchange with a French family comes to believe their elderly uncle is a vampire. He isn't ... unfortunately, the boy only finds out ''after'' he's killed the poor old man with a wooden stake, and gets sent to a psychiatric institution.
122	* Exploited cleverly in the Creator/RichardMatheson short story "No Such Thing as a Vampire," where one character sets up the man who cuckolded him to look like a vampire, so the superstitious villagers will stake him to death.
123	%%* [[spoiler: Edwart]] in ''Nightlight'', a parody of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
124	* ''Literature/RowleyJeffersonsAwesomeFriendlySpookyStories'': In story 4, ''The Biter'', Lilli really likes to bite things and has sharp teeth. Her doctor says that she's a vampire, and that helps her make friends because vampires are cool. However, Lilli's doctor corrects herself days later that Lilli simply just likes biting things, but her parents treat her like a vampire anyways because she made friends from being a vampire.
125	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' - "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire". Their client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, tells them that his Peruvian second wife has been seen sucking their baby son's neck, and pinprick holes have been found at the site, making him think she's a vampire who was sucking his blood. [[spoiler:It turns out his and his first wife's fifteen-year-old son Jack, who's been left with limited mobility since a childhood accident, is jealous of the baby and has been trying to murder him with poisoned darts - the infant's mother discovered this and was [[SuckOutThePoison sucking the poison out]].]]
126	* In the novel ''Twelve'', [[spoiler: one of the {{Vampire Vannabe}}s isn't a vampire. This is a major surprise to the reader, the main character, and in the sequel, even to other vampires.]] Being able to pretend to be a blood-sucking torture-loving inhuman monster is ''not'' played for laughs.
127	* In Lensey Namioka's ''Literature/VillageOfTheVampireCat'', two ronin try to solve a mystery regarding the Japanese-style vampire. Apparently it's sneaking into girls' rooms at night, killing them with its claws, and also causing fainting spells. And there's a strange mewling sound that crops up now and again, and sometimes people get attacked by invisible claws while in the forest. Turns out it's [[spoiler:a man thought dead, who was killing the beautiful women who robbed his grave... using a hook on a long cord as a weapon. And his mewling voice came from his mutilated throat.]]
128	* ''Literature/WearingTheCape'': Vampire-type [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening breakthroughs]] are technically just delusional breakthroughs with an odd mix of abilities and weaknesses. They only react to traditional vampire weaknesses because they believed, when they first gained their powers, that that was how vampires worked. Ironically, this means that Jackie (who was turned by one of the unspeakably rare master vampires) is one of the only "real" vampires, despite the fact that she finds vampire culture ridiculous on a good day.
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133	* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Jack and his kidnapped wife's mother, Dianna Jessup, went to visit the UN to ask for help getting Avery freed from her captor Kim Jong Un. When they visit the Transylvanian ambassador, he complains about everyone thinking he must be a vampire, since he's Transylvanian, is a night owl, and has a severe garlic allergy (also, his name is pronounced "Chocula", but is [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign obscured with diacritics]]). He doesn't help matters when he makes a hand gesture and yells, "VAMPIRE PUSH!" at Jack and Dianna.
134	** One of Liz's potential adoptions (mentioned, but not seen), is a Romanian boy named Dracul who has very pale skin and a sunlight allergy. As he is a one-off gag, his vampirism is unconfirmed.
135	* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Used for a brief BaitAndSwitch in "The Prodigal". A flashback shows Angel in 1753 coaxing a pretty female servant into the shadows... only for his father to appear and shove him into the sunlight. He doesn't burst into flame because he's not a vampire at this stage; just Liam, a hedonistic layabout who's avoidin the sun becuase he's hung over.
136	* In ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode ''The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors'', the kids believe their new neighbors are vampires. The two adults and kid are only wearing black clothing, never seen during the daytime, everyone in the neighborhood began getting that sickness outbreak after they moved in and they come from a part of Romania that is near Transylvania. The kids also find huge amount of blood packages in their basement. At the end, the kids find the adults during the day. It turns out the adults work in a hospital during the night, only recently their schedule changed and the blood in their basement is due to an overflow of blood in the hospital. [[spoiler:It turns out that the parents are NOT vampires but their son is the vampire and they are the servants to him.]]
137	* In the ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'' episode "Vampire Weekend", Morgan Lockerby, aka "Morlock", is the inspiration for the victim's vampire comics (the victim himself being a ShamSupernatural who is part of a vampire subculture) and a potential suspect. When Castle and the detectives first find him, he starts burning up on contact with sunlight. Lanie, however, diagnoses him as a simple homeless man with porphyria, which causes sensitivity to sunlight.
138	* In the ''Series/CrossingJordan'' episode "Revealed", Nigel suspects Alistair Dark aka Frank Jones of being a vampire and murdering a writer who was investigating him. Dr. Macy proves that Mr. Dark is just a particularly dedicated VampireVannabe and that the writer accidentally killed himself staging a vampire attack as a publicity stunt.
139	* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' featured as its perp a woman who pureed people's livers into blood-rich protein shakes because she suffered from porphyria, a disease which causes photosensitivity, skin irritation, blisters, and excessive hair growth, along with mental changes... and which is believed to be one of the natural inspirations for the vampire myth.
140	* The MonsterOfTheWeek in one episode of ''Series/DarkAngel'' is a transgenic named Marrow designed as a perfect blood donor, who leads a small gang/cult and gives his followers his SuperEmpowering blood, claiming to be some kind of vampire.
141	* In an episode of the short-lived horror anthology ''Series/{{Darkroom}}'' titled "The Bogey Man Will Get You" (from the Creator/RobertBloch story of the same name) a young Helen Hunt believed her big sister's boyfriend was a vampire. He wasn't. [[spoiler:He was actually a werewolf.]]
142	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], the "vampires" are actually alien FishPeople who happen to exhibit a number of vampire-like traits, such as the PerceptionFilter they use to disguise their appearance (which can't hide their fangs because of the human survival instinct) having the side effect of blanking out their reflections, and changing people into more of their kind through a blood transfusion. The Doctor's delivery of the "fish from space" line makes it funny to boot. A later episode has him refer to them as "sexy fish vampires".
143	-->'''The Doctor:''' They're not vampires. Fish from space.
144	** However, actual vampires do exist in the Whoniverse, descended from the gigantic Great Vampires whom the Time Lords fought with bowships.
145	* On an episode of ''Series/FTroop'', Creator/VincentPrice makes an appearance as a spooky immigrant. They think he's a vampire, except of course Captain Parmenter. His reason? "They're not mentioned in the army manual." Of course, he's not a vampire.
146	* In the ''Series/GetSmart'' episode "Weekend Vampire" the eponymous vampire isn't a vampire, he uses a musical blowgun to fire two small [[PoisonedWeapons Poison Darts]] that he aims at his victim's neck. He also has a creepy castle and uses a coffin as a [[strike:bed]] secret stairway to his underground lair, but these are just to scare off the curious.
147	* In an episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'', Gilligan gets bitten by a bat and has a dream that he is a vampire, Ginger is his vampire wife, Mary-Ann is the "ugly old lady" maid, the Professor and Skipper are Inspector Watney and assistant, and the Howells are his type of people (Type A and Type O). Turns out, it was a fruit bat.
148	* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Damnant Quod Non Intellegunt" ("They condemn what they do not understand"). Suffering from the rare blood disease porphyria, Simon Wells decided to embrace his condition by following the vampire lifestyle, including getting fangs implanted by a dentist and drinking animal blood to ease his symptoms. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his elderly neighbour was an immigrant from the countryside of Romania, who was raised on vampire folklore. When his wife was certified dead [[WakingUpInTheMorgue (she wasn't)]] after a snakebite to the throat, he avenged the murder of his wife by killing the vampire. When his wife regains consciousness and is returned home, Harrow is just in time to stop her weeping husband from killing his (he thinks) newly-turned wife.]]
149	* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', one episode features what appears to be a string of vampire attacks in Paris during the Renaisance. The victims in Paris all have missing blood and piercing wounds on their neck. There's even a Van Helsing type character hunting the vampire. He catches him too, [[WrongGenreSavvy only to be shocked when the vampire gets up from being staked.]] Turns out the vampire was an immortal faking vampire attacks so that he could kill his young bride and inherit her money.
150	* Parodied on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' when [[AgentMulder Marshall]] believes that the bartender at [=MacLaren=]'s is a vampire, based on his black clothing and tendency to come out at night.
151	-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Robin]]:''' Hey! That ''does'' describe a vampire! Or, you know, a bartender.
152	* In season 1, episode 4, of ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Jen opens the red door in the basement and finds a rather strange character, who she assumes at first to be a vampire. It turns out he's (probably) just an unlucky goth, however.
153	* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': In "The Legacy of Borbey House", the VictimOfTheWeek is an eccentric who paid cash for a large Victorian house, has no mirrors in the house, and is only ever seen outside in the evening. He is is killed by having a stake driven through his heart. His aversion to sunlight and mirrors turns out to be a case of genetic photophobia, and the killer chose a stake through the heart as a murder method to take advantage of the fact that several locals suspected him of being a vampire. [[spoiler: [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Then the last scene reveals he looked very much like the last Borbey, whose grave is empty...]]]]
154	* Parodied on ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' in the episode "Business School." Jim is attacked by a bat and spends the rest of the episode faking vampire symptoms (garlic aversion, repulsion at Karen's cross, etc.). A dangerous game, knowing [[WrongGenreSavvy Dwight]]. Hilariously, this episode was directed by Creator/JossWhedon.
155	* In the ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'' episode "Teens from a Mall", Frank Lemmer is shown avoiding sunlight and other things, prompting Shelly to think he's a vampire. This culminate with her splashing him with a bucket full of holy water.
156	* The ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "This Episode Sucks" has a black-cloaked killer draining people's' blood, and Shawn and Gus think it's a vampire. It's actually a man with a rare disease who is stealing blood for transfusions since he lost his insurance and has a rare blood type.
157	* ''Series/StElsewhere'' did an episode in which a young man thought he was a vampire. His creepy behavior makes some of the hospital staff wonder about this, but he's eventually diagnosed with porphyria.
158	* An episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' features a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifter]] who impersonates a ClassicalMovieVampire, a [[WolfMan Werewolf]], and a {{Mummy}} because he's a big fan of old horror movies.
159	* ''Series/Ultraviolet1998''. Michael shoots a suspect who's been avoiding the sun — turns out he's a human with a skin condition that means he can't go out in sunlight.
160	* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' used a series of {{Red Herring}}s to trick more observant audience members into thinking that the new history teacher Alaric Saltzman was a vampire - he wore a conspicuous ring, like the sunlight protection rings other vampires wore, and didn't step inside the Gilbert's house. He was actually a vampire ''hunter'', and didn't step inside because he was being polite... while the ring was an entirely different kind of magical artifact.
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164	* In ''Podcast/SoylentScrooge'' Scrooge thinks Christians are vampires and must be staked, preferably with holly. No one he attacks supports this description.
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168	* An episode of ''Radio/HamishAndDougal'' suggested that either the Laird was a vampire, or he was in the thrall of his ancestor Count Cardula, who was a vampire. It turned out there were [[strike: plausible]] explanations for everything. We even heard some of them.
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172	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
173	** 1st Edition ''AD&D'' had a whole set of monsters called "pseudo-undead", which had the physical appearance, hit dice and attacks of undead, but were ''living'' creatures with none of their special abilities. Pseudo-vampires were among the examples of this creature-type, all varieties of which existed mostly to be used by [=DMs=] as "ringers" for the real thing.
174	** A long-ago ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' article about how to keep savvy players guessing suggested that monsters in a ''D&D'' game might spread misinformation about themselves. One example it gave was a pit fiend going by the title of "Vampire Lord", so would-be heroes would load themselves down with useless garlic and stakes.
175	** One of the [[VampireVannabe villains]] of the ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' adventure ''Shadows of the Last War'' [[spoiler:is a changeling who pretends to be a vampire.]] It's a 2nd-level adventure, and vampires are traditionally powerful creatures, so the [=PCs=] will likely panic.
176	** [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werebats]] are bat-based werebeasts with a distinctive preference for blood over flesh, and as such are often mistaken for vampires at first, a confusion they frequently deliberately try to invoke or exploit, since it gives them the edge over their would-be hunter. The {{sourcebook}} "Children of the Night: Werebeasts" for ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' naturally runs with this element; the sample werebat, Vladimir Nobriskov, deliberately plays up to all of the stereotypes of the "vampire disguising itself as a mortal", so as to trick would-be hunters.
177	** Chelicera are {{Giant Spider}}s that drain blood from their victims, then stash the bodies in a different part of their hunting grounds than their lair. This can lead some adventurers to gear up with garlic and holy water, expecting to hunt vampires.
178	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Baobhan Sith are a kind of malevolent, blood-drinking fey with a hypnotic dance, which in second edition are effectively described as being fey who just enjoy acting like vampires, drinking blood and living in gothic, cobweb-strewn castles simply because they adore the aesthetic.
179	* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' actually has a whole book dedicated to this -- ''Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead'', which outlines the various creatures of the night that have vampiric traits but aren't necessarily on the same tier as the Kindred that are the central focus of the line. Such things include [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghuls]], [[ChineseVampire jiang shi]], penanggalan, a parasite that requires blood and eventually overtakes its host (replacing their ''tongue'' in the process), and a machine that rejuvenates humans but gives them a thirst for blood.
180	* ''Literature/VaultOfTheVampire'' sets up this situation with the final battle against Katarina Heydrich. The player will have just dispatched Katarina's brother Reiner -- the actual vampire count of the title -- probably by using collected stakes, garlic, mirrors and the like, and is offered the option to tackle Katarina in the same way. There are very subtle hints as to the truth of the matter if the player meets Katarina earlier on in the adventure, such as her drinking normal wine, but the confusion is sown deliberately.
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184	* Lord Lester [=DeRosso=] from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' is the bearer of the [[{{Irony}} Vamp]][[PowerCopying ire]] [[CharacterClass Asterisk]], Archduke of Eternia & figurehead leader of the [[TheEmpire Duchy of Eternia]]. [[spoiler:He was originally a clergyman of the Crystal Adventists 2400 years before the start of the game, before becoming a cardinal of the [[CrystalDragonJesus Crystal]] [[TheChurch Orthodoxy]]. Due to the machinations of another vindictive cardinal, his entire noble house was slaughtered and his castle besieged with him and his people inside. After making a deal with an unknown entity (presumably him from another timeline), he became immortal. The Orthodoxy labelled him and his family as vampires after not finding his body, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil a rumour he actively fed]], training himself in vampire-like abilities such as hypnotism, turning into a bat or draining the life force of others]].
185	* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Ryker is a reclusive ManOfWealthAndTaste who lives alone in a mansion overlooking an eternally overcast cemetary, attended by undead thralls. Despite this, he's a living elf, albeit one who [[SoulEating drains the souls of the dead]] to [[ImmortalityImmorality prolong his youth]].
186	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'':
187	** PlayedForDrama when three dead beggars with puncture wounds on their throats are found. A vampire hunter comes to town and kills a suspected vampire (he acts like one). [[spoiler: It turns out to be all a lie. The two guys as well as a third man in a different town were partners in treasure hunting. They all had a key to a chest full of treasure (you need all three to open it), which was their retirement fund. One of them decided to accuse the other two of vampirism and thought killing them would be a good idea. If you don't catch up to him when he flees town in a game day, then he escapes, thus failing the mission.]]
188	** There's also the Order of Virtuous Blood quest, where a real vampire, posing as a vampire hunter, frames an innocent poor sap and manipulates you to kill him.
189	* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' has the Sakuma brothers Rei and Ritsu, who both exhibit vampiric traits like an aversion to daylight, superhuman agility (Rei) and a taste for blood (Ritsu). However, it's eventually revealed that while their family is something of a vampiric cult, none of them are actually vampires and they all just happen to have a hereditary medical condition that mimics vampirism.
190	* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has The Family, who drink blood, avoid sunlight, and (despite their dislike of the term) will identify themselves as vampires if asked. However, they aren't actually supernatural in any sense, instead being a group of cannibals whose leader has chosen to convince that they are actually vampires. This serves two purposes: it helps them curb their urge to consume human flesh by pushing them to non-lethally drain human blood instead, as well as binding them together as a group and making them feel like something more than just a bunch of cannibals. Their aversion to sunlight is also purely practical, using the night to hide from the people who would (understandably) attack them for being a cannibalistic cult.
191	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''
192	** Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper, evokes the aesthetics and a handful of tropes surrounding vampires, but isn't one on account of "vampires" not existing Runeterra, either as a monster or even as a word. His supernatural nature comes from him being a "hemomancer" with power over BloodMagic, enabling him [[LifeDrinker to drain life out of people and live for centuries]] (meaning he technically isn't undead) among [[BloodyMurder other, more violent applications]]. He also poses as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste an aristocrat with opulent tastes]], and is the center of a CultOfPersonality of similarly fancy hemomancers, further evoking the idea of a VampireMonarch in everything but name.
193	** Briar, the Restrained Hunger, was another champion that the game's developers teased as a "vampire" champion, but once again, she isn't one within the rules of Runeterra. She has an insatiable hunger for blood and is explicitly based more on the indiscriminately violent FeralVampires of Eastern European folklore, but her lore describes her as [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent some kind of artificial being created from hemomancy]], [[HumanWeapon designed to be an assassin]] but proving [[AxCrazy far too unstable for the job]].
194	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'': Vamp is explicitly shown to have superhuman speed and drinks a soldier's blood in his introductory cutscene. However, Plisskin explains over the radio that the reason he's called Vamp was because he was in a gay relationship. MGS 4 moves even further into this trope when it retcons his superhuman healing abilities, at the very least, are actually the result of nanomachines.
195	* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', Anton is believed to be a vampire by everybody in town--including Anton himself. However, [[spoiler: he is actually an old man and everyone is high on illusion fumes.]]
196	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': Lady Alcina Dimitrescu and her daughters have vampire motifs, being blood-drinking Eastern European aristocrats who live in a sprawling Gothic castle. However, [[spoiler:Alcina Dimitrescu herself falls under this. She's actually a mutant who was granted abnormally long life and certain shapeshifting abilities by Mother Miranda. The only reason she drinks blood is because her mutations interacted badly with her hereditary blood disease, forcing her to cannibalize people and drink their blood in order to stabilize her HealingFactor. Her daughters, meanwhile, are an extreme form of OurVampiresAreDifferent, being [[TheWormThatWalks human-shaped swarms of carnivorous blowflies]].]]
197	* ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfFood'': Lotus Blood Duck is a dish made with blood, as such he's characterized as a BloodKnight general in a perpetual RoaringRampageOfRevenge who has quite the BloodLust. He straight-up compares himself to vampires in his dialogues.
198	* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' Lilia is very vampire-like; he's a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ElegantGothicLolita, belongs to the most gothic dorm and is associated with bats. He's really a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]].
199	* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'''s Dreadlords are pale, Undead-affiliated bat-WingedHumanoids with the ability to heal themselves in melee combat and can send bats to damage enemies, but they handle daylight just fine and are actually a type of demon.
200	* Scythe in ''VideoGame/WildArms4'' likes to drink blood, and has power over space like other Crimson Nobles in that universe, though no aversion to sunlight. [[spoiler: It turns out he simply enjoys drinking blood. The reason why he has powers over space is because his girlfriend Belial, whom he frequently drinks from, is a REAL Crimson Noble, whose powers far surpass Scythe's.]]
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204	* ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' is full of actual vampires, but as the worldbuilding in the series expands, it introduces characters that drink blood, are active at night, and have superhuman strength, but get offended and possibly enraged when they are mistaken for vampires. They belong to the First Blood demon clan, a.k.a. the Founders - a proud and isolationist group who are the progenitors of not only the vampires, but several other demon clans, and possess the powers of all of them combined.
205	* ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': Damien gives off major vampire vibes. In the comics, Robert is convinced he's a vampire when Damien first moves in and is surprised to find out what the main character does in the game — that underneath all the Victorian trappings, Damien is really a human guy with normal interests.
206	-->'''Damian''': I must admit, I'm flattered. For my aesthetic sense to convince you of the supernatural can only be described as a testament to the years of hard work I've spent refining my personal style and sense of self.
207	* The ''{{Franchise/Nasuverse}}'' enjoys playing with this trope, but to sum it up, every "vampire" is a "blood-sucker", but not every "blood-sucker" is a "vampire" (in the strictest sense of the word).
208	** ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', being essentially a vampire novel, plays this straight: after encountering a bunch of actual, honest-to-gods vampires, Shiki begins suspecting that his own little sister Akiha is one, too, especially after witnessing her feeding on Kohaku's blood. It turns out that Akiha is not a vampire [[spoiler:but a demon hybrid who must consume "bodily fluids" (including blood) of a very specific person (Kohaku or her twin Hisui) in order to maintain her sanity]]. The remake adds another case where [[spoiler:Noel ''thinks'' that she is turning into a vampire after being bitten by Vlov Arkhangel, but it turns out that he didn't bite her in a way that would turn her into one, not to mention that she isn't even strong enough to become one in the first place. Unfortunately this gets dropped onto her when she is being turned into one through experiments.]]
209	** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler exists in several forms throughout the franchise, which play with this trope in various ways.
210	*** ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' (a sequel to Tsukihime) mentions that Vlad the Impaler was not a vampire, [[{{Dracula}} despite the legend]].
211	*** This [[CallBack comes up again]] in ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', when an enemy Master has him as a Servant. He's not ''technically'' a vampire, but has vampiric traits anyway because of his legend claims he was one. When a Heroic Spirit gets summoned as a Servant, their abilities are influenced by what modern humans ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve believe]]'' they were like.
212	*** And yet again in ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' he's summoned as a Lancer and [[BerserkButton rather sore]] about the whole vampire reputation, and while he tries to be mature and ignore it, depictions of him in that state end up getting destroyed. His second Noble Phantasm, ''Legend of Dracula'', embraces the vampire image and does devastating damage to his opponents, though he doesn't like using it since he believes it's [[NotHelpingYourCase not helping his case]]. Also of note is that his abilities in this state are much more like "[[Film/Dracula1931 the vampire modeled on him]]" than like any actual Nasuverse vampires.
213	*** And yet ''[[RunningGag again]]'' in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' Vlad can be summoned as a Berserker, and his second Noble Phantasm from ''Apocrypha'' is locked into an active state (though not as [[StoryBreakerPower game-breaking]] here because he lacks the extra power boosts provided by one of his skills and from [[PopularityPower being summoned so near his home city]] in ''Apocrypha''). Being summoned into this state ''intentionally'' is his BerserkButton and he'll gladly kill said Master for it, while in unintentional cases he will generously agree to work together with whoever summoned him.
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217	%%* Channelate comics would like to remind you [[http://www.channelate.com/2010/11/18/vampire/ how to handle a vampire attack]].
218	* There are actual vampires in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', but their bites are rarely viral. However, the humans in the comic's universe do believe in viral vampiricism. So when Layla bites the M.M.A.A.'s corpse ([[spoiler:which wasn't really a corpse, because the sword was magical and harmless]]) the vampire slayer assumes that she has been revived by the vampire. She spends several pages wondering how to come out as a vampire to her parents.
219	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
220	** Raven has been [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2009-10-29 portrayed as a vampire]] only for the next strip to feature him denying that he is one. He has also been [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2011-07-04 shown to be suspected to be a vampire]] by other characters as a joke despite already being known to be an elf.
221	** The French aberration was a creature that hypnotized woman to drink their blood, and looked like a well-dressed man with fangs and red eyes. It's not a vampire, just a member of an extremely varied group of monsters called "aberrations". Despite explaining all of this, [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2010-05-21 Susan still calls it a vampire since Grace and Sarah are going to think it's a vampire no matter what she says]]. The vampire name sticks for other aberrations, none of which have ''any'' vampire traits other than feeding on humans.
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225	* ''Só Levando'': Had a story arc where cats started disappearing. Because it started happening after a man named [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Eduardo]] arrived in town, a fan of the Twilight series assumed Eduardo to be a vampire who sucked blood out of the cats to avoid sucking it from humans. It was then revealed the cats were killed by a shopkeeper who tried to frame a competitor.
226	* The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has a character named Vamp, who is pale as an albino and sensitive to sunlight, with super-strength and the ability to draw some sort of energy from people, especially from Energizers. Vamp also has a lust aura she can throw at people, and she can cast a cloud of darkness about herself. She used to be in [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the monster-themed supervillain team The Children of the Night]]. In [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/9-original-canon/218-ayla-and-the-mad-scientist-chap-12 "Ayla and the Mad Scientist"]], [[MrExposition Phase]] has to explain about the all of the [[VampireVarietyPack half-dozen or so types of vampires]] [[AllMythsAreTrue running around their world at once]], and why she isn't one of any of them, in order to keep THE CRIMSON COMET!!! from trying to stake her.
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230	* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7C_tE8H_A "The Six Monsters You'll Have as Roommates"]] Website/CollegeHumor video. The "vampire" is a metaphor for the HandsomeLech who stays out all night partying and picking up young women (which is why he doesn't like sunlight). It doesn't help that this particular individual is a broody {{Goth}} type who doesn't like to eat garlic knots.
231	* Creator/TomSka's video "Let Me In" has a man with fangs repeatedly ask to come into Tom's house, while denying being a vampire. When Tom gets tricked into letting him in, it turns out he's not a vampire. He's [[spoiler:a Jehovah's Witness]].
232	* Comes up in the ''WebAnimation/PuffinForest'' series covering a run through the ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'' campaign. The BigBad and most of his minions actually ''are'' vampires, but his NumberTwo man Rahadin is a mortal elf. The party didn't realize this (despite it not being a secret) until the Paladin had established a rivalry with him and learned the hard way that none of his anti-undead bonuses apply.
233	-->"He's not supernaturally evil, he's just an asshole!"
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237	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles1965'': "Baby's In Black" had a vampire girl trying to get married to Paul. When Paul's bandmates crash to the rescue, she reveals she's not a real vampire but a singer who wanted to join the Beatles' act. The scientist ("Professor Psycho--inventor of instant wolfbane and dietary witches' brew") who "brought" her to life was actually her manager.
238	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has an episode where several people at school start to believe Skeeter is a vampire.
239	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' episode "Who Do The Voodoo?" had, as its villain of the weak, a caped character named Count Drako and his [[TheRenfield faithful servant]] Winston, who stalked London until our heroes catch them. Despite a lot of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' references and looking like a ClassicalMovieVampire, however, Drako was only ever referred to as an evil wizard.
240	* Dingbat was a vampire dog that really doesn't exhibit vampire traits except talking like Dracula and adding an "L" as the second letter of words starting with "B." It was part of the Creator/RubySpears ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' show in 1980.
241	* PlayedStraight then subverted on ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', in the episode "Sid The Vampire Slayer". Sid spends the whole episode believing Stinky is a vampire and tries to get proof. When he confronts Stinky, he has a perfectly logical explanation for everything and Sid leaves feeling stupid. Cut to later that night, where we see Stinky, talking to a bat and looking suspiciously like '''a vampire!'''
242	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolbus'', the kids suspect Miss Frizzle is a vampire. She's not, of course, but this is probably an InvokedTrope, as she seems to be actively encouraging the assumption as part of this week's lesson about bats.
243	* On ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' a RunningGag is that one of their teachers, Mr. Kyle Drako, certainly ''seems'' like a vampire (he's got [[VampireVords the accent]], never goes out in sunlight without a parasol, etc.), [[AmbiguouslyHuman but it's never confirmed one way or another]]. Some of his strange traits get explanations, but others don't. If he is, [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire he still seems pretty friendly]].
244	-->'''Mr. Murphy:''' Whoa. Was that teacher a vampire?\
245	'''Milo:''' We're looking into it.
246	* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterLovingManiacs'': In the episode "Guess Whos' Coming to Dinner?", Arthur becomes convinced his neighbor Mrs. Anderson is a vampire after seeing her covering up all the mirrors in her home. [[spoiler:She's actually trying to hide her MirrorMonster from him.]]
247	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has an episode where Candace believes she's a vampire after she's bitten by a bat, including suddenly being able to levitate, possessing super strength, and not showing up in a mirror. Turns out all of her abilities were just the result of her brothers' various inventions that day. Subverted at the end when Phineas exposes her to the sun.. and she evaporates into a pile of dust.
248	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}!'': "Grommy the Vampire Slayer" is all about this as Reef becomes convinced that three VIP Eastern European guests are vampires.
249	* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'', Josee starts carrying stakes around when she and Jacques are gunning for the Goths. Jacques, to his credit, realizes that she's acting nuts.
250	** [[BornUnlucky Jay and Mickey]] also scream "VAMPIRES!" when running into them in the Parisian catacombs, but calm down once they recognize them.
251	* Dr. Orpheus on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is easily mistaken for "a dracula", when he's actually a warlock with a flair for the dramatic.
252	** The vampire girls in the "The Silent Partners" episode turn out to be prostitutes to indulge Billy's fantasy from the movie ''Film/BramStokersDracula''. The same episode reveals that The Investors (the eponymous Silent Partners) aren't vampires either, despite being extremely sinster men in dark suits with inhuman powers who offer promises of power and "immortality". What exactly they are is never confirmed, but they're strongly hinted to be something [[HumanoidAbomination much worse than vampires]].
253	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' used this plot in the episode "Blood Sisters", where the family met a man claiming to be an old friend of Marianne's who had several not-so-subtle hints of being a vampire. It eventually turns out that he's not only an impostor of Marianne's friend, but also not a real vampire, just simply a crazy guy who believed himself to be one because he watched too many American horror films and was unable to distinguish reality from fiction.
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