Line #16 Main/VampireTropes


1	Tropes about those (usually undead) people that suck your blood.
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3	Also see BloodyTropes, UndeadIndex, and WerebeastTropes.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	[[index]]
7	[[foldercontrol]]
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9	[[folder:General/miscellaneous tropes]]
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11	'''Main trope:'''
12	* OurVampiresAreDifferent
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14	'''Media index:'''
15	* VampireFiction
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17	'''JustForFun:'''
18	* SoYouWantTo.WriteAVampireNovel
19	* JustForFun/ThingsIWillDoIfIAmEverTheVampire
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21	* ActuallyNotAVampire: Someone who appears to be a vampire actually isn't a vampire.
22	* CreepyCemetery: A haunted graveyard infested with vampires, and maybe other kinds of undead monsters as well.
23	* FightDracula: The story's premise is about the hero fighting [[{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]] himself.
24	* FlourishCapeInFrontOfFace: {{Classical Movie Vampire}}s grab the hem of their capes and use their cape-holding arm to cover the lower portions of their faces.
25	* FurAgainstFang: [[FantasticRacism Hostility]] between vampires and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] (or [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebeasts]] in general).
26	* HissBeforeFleeing: Vampires hiss and then run away when they are confronted.
27	* ImmortalityImmorality: Vampires can live eternally as long as they consume human blood, and they often don't care how many innocent people they have to kill and eat (or infect and turn) in order to indefinitely extend their lifespans.
28	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Many vampires hold this belief, which is also [[ImmortalitySeeker the main reason why]] some mortals [[VampireVannabe wish to become vampires]].
29	* PivotalWakeup: A vampire rises at a 90-degree angle when waking up.
30	* TheRenfield: A vampire's loyal human henchman, often serving their master with shameless submissiveness.
31	* UndeathAlwaysEnds: When even undead vampires can still die.
32	* VampireDance: Vampires are good at dancing.
33	* VampireDetectiveSeries: A story about a vampire who investigates crimes.
34	* VampireEpisode: A show has an episode devoted to the characters encountering vampires.
35	* VampireHunter: [[HunterOfMonsters Someone who slays vampires]].
36	* VampiresAreRich: Vampires are portrayed as being wealthy (especially if compared to [[WorkingClassWerewolves poorer werewolves]]). Bonus points if they're also [[BlueBlood feudal nobility]], symbolizing [[AristocratsAreEvil the upper classes' parasitic relationship with the lower classes]].
37	* VampiresAreSexGods: Vampires are stereotyped as being very sexually attractive and seductive.
38	* VampiresOwnNightClubs: A vampire runs a night club.
39	* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Vampires are depicted as sleeping in coffins, to emphasize that they're undead corpses.
40	* VampireVords: Vampires pronounce W's as V's, usually with a stereotypical Eastern European accent.
41	* VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle: Someone has a vampire and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] competing for their affection.
42	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Innocent vampires who aren't even hurting anyone]] are murdered out of FantasticRacism.
43	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[TragicMonster Self-hating vampires]] often find that eternal life/undeath actually sucks worse than being mortal.
44	* YourVampiresSuck: Vampires are unimpressed with how they are depicted in fiction.
45	[[/folder]]
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47	[[folder:Types of vampires]]
48	* '''OurVampiresAreDifferent''': As you'll find reading through this index, vampires tend to be depicted very differently depending on what story you're looking at, and their abilities, appearances, behaviors, and overall nature are not always the same. The only thing consistent between (almost) all vampires is that they're predatory beings who feed on ''something'' from people.
49	* ChineseVampire: An undead being from Myth/ChineseMythology called the ''jiang shi'', depicted as a hopping vampire/zombie that feeds on [[LifeEnergy chi]].
50	* {{Chupacabra}}: A monster from Latin American UrbanLegends, believed to suck the blood of livestock animals, especially goats.
51	* DaywalkingVampire: Contrary to [[WeakenedByTheLight most depictions]], some vampires may actually be immune to sunlight.
52	* {{Dhampyr}}: A vampire's [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] offspring.
53	* DemonicVampires: Vampires are often depicted as unholy demonic beings, hence why holy sacred stuff like crucifixes are effective at deterring them.
54	* FeralVampires: Savage, bestial vampires who behave more like stereotypical zombies rather than the more intelligent and sophisticated kind of undead monsters.
55	* NonHumanUndead: If humans and vampires coexist in a fantasy setting with plenty of other non-human races/species, then it's quite likely that some vampires were never born as humans to begin with.
56	* RaisingTheSteaks: Non-human animals can also be turned into vampires.
57	* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: Even though vampires are typically described as being "living dead", they often don't look very corpse-like, and can probably pass for being fully alive in all but a few ways. And then in some stories, they're not even undead at all (see below).
58	* TechnicallyLivingVampire: There are occasionally some types of vampires who are ''not'' undead and are actually fully living beings, being more like a race of {{transhuman}} {{mutants}}, a HumanSubspecies, or even another different species which was never human to begin with.
59	* VampireVarietyPack: A work contains multiple different types of vampires or quasi-vampiric creatures.
60	* VampiricWerewolf: A HybridMonster that is both a hematophage and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthrope]].
61	[[/folder]]
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63	[[folder:Specific vampire characters]]
64	* {{Alucard}}: {{Dracula}} spelled backwards, used as either the name of his son or as a SdrawkcabAlias by the man himself.
65	* BloodCountess: Sometimes a female vampire who is always evil and dirty rich, and uses blood, sometimes not just to drink.
66	* CouncilOfVampires: A gathering of elite vampires who make important decisions for their community.
67	* {{Dracula}}: The titular vampire from Creator/BramStoker's novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', who has appeared in [[{{DerivativeWorks/Dracula}} many different adaptations]] and [[{{Crossover}} other works of fiction]] due to being a PublicDomainCharacter.
68	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: A vampire who isn't evil and just wants to live peacefully among regular people. Usually also a VegetarianVampire.
69	* LesbianVampire: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Gay female bloodsucker]].
70	* MonsterProgenitor: The very first, original vampire who made all others.
71	* ReligiousVampire: A vampire who practices a traditional religion. As it turns out, not all of them will necessarily fear a Christian cross.
72	* RomanticVampireBoy: A male love interest who is a vampire.
73	* VampireDoctor: A vampire who works in a profession which their own dietary needs and compulsions make extremely difficult and unexpected.
74	* VampireLolitaArchetype: Vampires that take the form of short and young-looking girls with ElegantGothicLolita clothing.
75	* VampireMonarch: The leader of a large group of vampires.
76	* VampiresHarem: A male vampire has a group of lady vampires who he sleeps with.
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79	[[folder:Feeding habits and ethics]]
80	* BloodBath: A vampire bathes in blood instead of orally consuming it.
81	* {{Bloodlust}}: Needless to say, they get very excited from spilling and feeding on blood.
82	* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Vampires break into bedrooms to attack women.
83	* HemoErotic: Sexual foreplay involving vampires feeding on blood.
84	* HorrorHunger: A person starts to feel intense cravings for blood after being turned into a vampire. How well they're able to resist these urges can vary.
85	* KissOfTheVampire: Someone gets bitten by a vampire and ''enjoys'' it.
86	* LifeDrinker: A vampiric being who maintains their immortality by consuming some vital force from their victims other than blood (typically some sort of mystical LifeEnergy).
87	* LiteralManeater: [[VampiresAreSexGods Sexually attractive vampires]] (of either gender) will often exploit their beauty and seduction skills to lure oblivious human prey to their doom.
88	* NoZombieCannibals: Vampires usually don't feed on another vampire's blood, though depending on the story, [[MonstrousCannibalism there may be some exceptions to this rule]].
89	* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: The classes of vampires that range from [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire benevolent]] to [[AlwaysChaoticEvil malevolent]].
90	* SpikedBlood: A vampire gets high if they feed on the blood of a drug user.
91	* VampireBitesSuck: Having your neck pierced with fangs and your blood drained gets downright ugly.
92	* VampireHickey: Vampire victims are left with a pair of neat puncture marks from the bite.
93	* VampiricDraining: Sucking blood or draining life in a vampiric fashion.
94	* VegetarianVampire: A FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire abstains from feeding on human blood, or at least avoids drinking blood using methods that require killing or turning people.
95	* VoluntaryVampireVictim: Someone willingly lets a vampire feed on them.
96	* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: A vampire tries to live among humans while resisting [[HorrorHunger the urge to feed on their blood]].
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99	[[folder:Becoming a vampire (or reversing vampirism)]]
100	* FullyEmbracedFiend: Someone turned into a vampire decides to embrace their transformation rather than fight it.
101	* IHateYouVampireDad: Someone turned by a vampire despises the vampire who bit them for turning them into a vampire.
102	* ILoveYouVampireSon: A vampire turned someone into one of their own out of love.
103	* StagesOfMonsterGrief: The five stages of grief as applied to when the misfortune is being turned into a vampire.
104	* StakingTheLovedOne: Someone's loved one becomes a vampire, and the one not turned has no choice but to kill the one who's been vampirized.
105	* TragicMonster: Heroic and/or sympathetic vampires usually aren't very fond of their conditions.
106	* TranshumanTreachery: Someone who has been recently turned into a vampire betrays their human brethren, especially if it's because vampires are AlwaysChaoticEvil.
107	* TurningBackHuman: A common goal for people who've been involuntarily vampirized and don't want to stay this way.
108	* VampireProcreationLimit: An explanation is given for how vampires don't outnumber the human population if they can turn humans into vampires as well as reproduce like most living beings do.
109	* VampireRefugee: Someone turned by a vampire decides to find and kill the vampire that bit them to [[NoOntologicalInertia reverse the transformation]].
110	* VampireVannabe: A normal human who wants to become a vampire. They will often beg or even [[TheRenfield suck up]] to the nearest vampire in hopes of getting bitten.
111	* ViralTransformation: Being bitten by a vampire turns you into a vampire.
112	* TheVirus: Vampirism can be spread like an infectious disease, and physically transforms humans into vampires.
113	* VirusVictimSymptoms: Someone recently infected with vampirism starts to show some suspicious changes.
114	* ZombieApocalypse: This can happen if vampirism spreads until most people around the world have been killed and/or turned, leaving uninfected humans as a small minority in a world that's (literally) out for their blood.
115	* ZombieInfectee: Someone tries to hide the fact that they were bitten by a vampire. This is unlikely to end well.
116	* ZombifyTheLiving: Living people are directly turned into (undead) vampires without having them die and rise from their graves first.
117	[[/folder]]
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119	[[folder:Physical appearance and telltale traits]]
120	* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Their nails may be sharp enough to be weaponized.
121	* BatPeople: Vampires may be portrayed as being bat-like humanoid creatures, or at least have [[VoluntaryShapeshifting the ability to change themselves into bats]].
122	* CastsNoShadow: Vampires may sometimes lack shadows. May be related to them also [[MissingReflection not appearing in mirrors]] (see below).
123	* ClassicalMovieVampire: Vampires have widow's peaks and wear [[SharpDressedMan nice suits]] with [[BadassCape capes]]. Typically a {{homage}} to Creator/BelaLugosi's portrayal of the Count in ''Film/Dracula1931''.
124	* CuteLittleFangs: Vampires with a pair of small fangs to make them look more adorable than frightening.
125	* FangsAreEvil: Vampires almost always have sharp, pointy teeth (usually at least their upper canines) for drawing out blood.
126	* FangThpeak: A speech impediment caused by having fangs.
127	* FemmeFatalons: Vampires sometimes have long, claw-like fingernails.
128	* FrozenFashionSense: Vampires don't update their wardrobe with the passage of time.
129	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: Vampires with glowing eyes to underscore their undead state.
130	* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Vampires often possess beauty far beyond average human standards, which is helped by [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looking eternally young]].
131	* LooksLikeOrlok: But not all vampires are pretty or sexy. Some of them more resemble Count Orlok from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' (i.e., being bald, having pointy ears, ghoulish eyes, beastly fangs, along with other hideously inhuman features).
132	* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Noticing that someone lacks a reflection can give away that they are really a vampire.
133	* MissingReflection: Vampires often do not reflect any image in mirrors. Sometimes extends to not appearing in photos, films or videos as well.
134	* PointyEars: Vampires commonly have elfin ears.
135	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It's quite common for older vampires to look far younger than they really are.
136	* TaintedVeins: Black veins are a common symptom of vampirism.
137	* UndeadBarefooter: Vampires who either don't have or don't wear shoes.
138	* UndeathlyPallor: Vampires usually have very pale greyish-white skin, to emphasize their undead state (and/or their [[WeakenedByTheLight aversion to sunlight]]).
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141	[[folder:Common powers and abilities]]
142	* TheAgeless: Vampires who will never die of old age but can still be killed through other means.
143	* {{Animorphism}}: Vampires commonly turn into bats (or other nocturnal animals, such as wolves).
144	* BarrageOfBats: Due to their dark powers and afilliation to darkness, vampires are able to control swarms of bats, and even conjure them.
145	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Vampires are often able to exert partial or complete control over people they've turned into vampires, brainwashing them into obedient SlaveMooks who [[TranshumanTreachery lack their own free will or human personalities]].
146	* CrossMeltingAura: Some vampires are powerful and evil enough to repel or destroy [[HolyBurnsEvil holy weapons]].
147	* HealingFactor: Vampires are often capable of rapidly regenerating from most injuries, aside from those caused by their specific weaknesses.
148	* HealItWithBlood: Healing by consuming, absorbing, or transfusing blood.
149	* HypnoticEyes: Vampires may hypnotize uninfected humans by looking into their eyes, putting them into a trance which makes them suggestible to following commands. Very convenient for biting them without resistance or turning them into [[TheRenfield completely human slaves]].
150	* {{Immortality}}: Vampires are commonly portrayed as being able to live forever, unless someone exploits one of the vampire's weaknesses to kill them.
151	* InnateNightVision: Vampires can often see well in darkness due to being nocturnal predators.
152	* LongLived: If vampires aren't outright immortal, then they're usually this, with finite lifespans that last for centuries (or millennia), while aging much more slowly than normal humans do.
153	* TheNoseKnows: Their keen sense of smell is very useful for finding the scent of blood.
154	* OneToMillionToOne: Transforming into a swarm of animals then reforming from that swarm.
155	* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood can fuel a vampire's powers in addition to keeping them nourished.
156	* StrongerWithAge: The older the vampire, the stronger they are.
157	* SuperHearing: Vampires can often detect sounds from farther distances.
158	* SuperSenses: Vampires often have superior senses of hearing, sight, and smell for detecting their prey.
159	* SuperSmoke: Vampires can sometimes turn into smoke or mist.
160	* SuperSpeed: Vampires tend to be much faster than normal people.
161	* SuperStrength: Vampires can often easily overpower an ordinary man in a fistfight.
162	* SuperToughness: Vampires are usually much more durable and resilient to physical harm than normal people, often at least being ImmuneToBullets if not outright NighInvulnerable. Fortunately, they also usually have more than one AchillesHeel, KryptoniteFactor, or WeaksauceWeakness (see the last folder below).
163	* VeinOVision: Vampires may be able to [[XRayVision see into humans' circulatory systems]].
164	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Vampires are often able to transform their bodies at will.
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167	[[folder:Common weaknesses and vulnerabilities]]
168	* AttackOnTheHeart: Even for the most NighInvulnerable types of vampires, their heart is usually the [[AchillesHeel weakest and most vulnerable area]].
169	* BeatItByCompulsion: Vampires are defeated or delayed by manipulating their inability to move on without doing something specific (such as counting certain objects).
170	* BurnTheUndead: When in doubt, [[KillItWithFire fire is very effective at destroying]] vampires or kinds of living dead. [[WeakenedByTheLight Even sunlight]] (see below) can cause them to suddenly burst into flames.
171	* CannotCrossRunningWater: Vampires can't move across bodies of running water.
172	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: If you want to defend against a vampire by using a holy book/object/symbol, then you better have genuine faith and sincerely pray to your god. Sometimes inverted, with the ''vampire's'' own religious beliefs being used against them.
173	* HolyBurnsEvil: Sacred religious objects can harm or repel vampires, usually because of their demonic nature.
174	* HolyWater: Water that has been divinely blessed will burn their flesh like a corrosive acid.
175	* ImprovisedCross: You can fend off a vampire just by forming a Christian cross with two sticks.
176	* MustBeInvited: Vampires may not be able to enter your home unless you invite them inside.
177	* OffWithHisHead: Decapitation at the neck may be an effective way to kill them too.
178	* SilverBullet: This weakness is more commonly associated with werewolves, but in some stories you can harm vampires by attacking them with weapons made from silver.
179	* SuicideBySunlight: A vampire takes their own life by deliberately exposing themselves to sunlight.
180	* VampiresHateGarlic: Vampires are repulsed by the smell and taste of garlic, and it can be used to keep them away from you. If you trick them into eating garlic, it will likely poison them.
181	* WeakenedByTheLight: [[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunlight]] tends to be harmful to (most) vampires. It often causes them to be [[KillItWithFire instantly incinerated]] into [[ReducedToDust ashes]]; or at least just gives them painful yet non-lethal sunburns, or merely weakens their powers at best.
182	* WoodenStake: Stabbing or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] vampires through their heart with a sharp, pointy wooden stick is the classic method for killing them.
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