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| 9 | ->'''Renfield:''' I need lives. I need lives for the master!\ |
| 10 | '''Jack Seward:''' What? What master?\ |
| 11 | '''Renfield:''' The master will come, and he has promised to make me immortal! |
| 12 | -->-- ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [[EvilIsCool Vampires are Cool]]. VampiresAreRich, and [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Powerful]], and [[VampiresAreSexGods Sex Gods]]. Vampires can -- potentially, at least -- [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld live for centuries]]. Who wouldn't [[MisaimedFandom want]] to be a vampire? |
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| 16 | Vampires are surrounded by humans who, while they haven't been bitten, do their masters' bidding ''[[WorkingForABodyUpgrade in the hope that they will be]]''. Sometimes they're under some sort of mind control, but often they're just willing vampire groupies. How likely their loyalty is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to actually be rewarded]] depends on the vamp, however -- they might be exploiting this trope as a not-so-SecretTestOfCharacter in order to keep the bloodline pure. |
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| 18 | The wannabe's desire can be justified, if the work's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent version of vampires]] are CursedWithAwesome, gaining great powers and few if any weaknesses. This can lead to dissonance if the wannabe is [[InformedWrongness portrayed as a foolish coward]] regardless of this -- perhaps because being a vampire is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil just inherently evil]]. Or possibly because the Vampire Vannabe leaves him-/herself wide open to a PretenderDiss, whether from actual vamps or their enemies. |
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| 20 | Can work as a deconstruction of the exponential population growth that would result from the more common "[[TheVirus everyone bitten becomes a vampire]]" model -- in this case, the familiars may be [[PeopleFarms feedstock]] as well, with conversion requiring some more complicated ritual the vampire can choose to initiate. |
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| 22 | This trope can apply to characters who already have vampire elements, but want to become a real vampire, which can happen to a {{Dhampyr}}. However, just pretending to be one or dressing up as one does not count. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Polar opposite of IHateYouVampireDad, although that can be the end result if the gig [[BeingEvilSucks isn't all it was]] [[LonelyAtTheTop cracked up to be]]. These characters are often {{Goth}}s, at least in their minds, and always LesCollaborateurs, usually WorkingForABodyUpgrade. A subtrope of ShamSupernatural. Compare TheRenfield, TranshumanTreachery. Contrast SuperLoser, when being a vampire is no guarantee of coolness, and EmergencyTransformation, when the person might or might not want to become a vampire or other monster, but basically has no alternative. If they are seeking to be bitten by a vamp, they are a VoluntaryVampireVictim. |
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| 26 | ---- |
| 27 | !!Examples: |
| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 31 | * In ''Literature/VampireHunterD'', one of Count Lee's minions is in it for the goal of becoming a vampire himself one day. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'': |
| 33 | ** The story revolves around Kou Yamori, an [[TheInsomniac insomniac]] middle-schooler dissatisfied with his life, [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Kou can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquaintances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires]]. At one point, said acquaintances offer to allow Kou to choose one of them to turn him into a vampire instead so that they won't have to kill him, but he prefers to stick with Nazuna. |
| 34 | ** Akiyama asks Seri to turn him into her offspring [[TakeAThirdOption so that they can stay as friends and she won't have to kill him]]. |
| 35 | ** After falling in love with [[spoiler:Haru Nanakusa]] and learning that she was a vampire, Kabura asked her to turn her into one so that she could escape her life as a human, [[DespairEventHorizon which she saw as utterly miserable]]. |
| 36 | ** Midori's offspring, [=LoveGreen=], asked her to turn him into a vampire the ''second'' she told him she was one, much to her slight amusement. |
| 37 | ** Ten years ago, Kyouko Mejiro allowed Nazuna to bite her in the hopes of becoming a vampire herself. Because she apparently didn't love Nazuna hard enough, however, it didn't work. |
| 38 | ** After learning that [[spoiler:Kiku]], the girl he's been seeing for weeks, is a vampire, [[spoiler:Mahiru]] decides to compete with Yamori to see which of the two can get turned into a vampire first. After [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBitch he's manipulated]] by [[TheCorrupter Kiku]] into [[ClingyJealousGirl severing all ties with friends and family]]]], however, [[spoiler:Mahiru]] decides that he doesn't particularly care about becoming a vampire anymore [[DestructiveRomance as long as he can be with]] [[spoiler:[[DestructiveRomance Kiku]]]]. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': |
| 40 | ** Several members of the British army and government betray their home country in the hopes of getting turned. The ones that do get turned are easily destroyed by the Hellsing Organization or indeed [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves by Rip van Winkle.]] |
| 41 | ** The [[{{Ghostapo}} Nazi army]] also has collaborators in the Brazilian police force, elderly German officers who are angry about the Major's stalling at turning them into vampires, and possibly the thugs who are dumb enough to attack Alexander Anderson with guns (the latter could also have been actual, if very weak vampires though). All of them soon learn that this isn't the series to be in if you're any kind of a wannabe. |
| 42 | * Not necessarily vampires, but groups of Homunculi in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' are often assisted by humans called familiars, who [[TheQuisling help the homunculi when possible in the hopes of becoming humanoid homunculi themselves]]. [[YouHaveFailedMe Failure results in being eaten]]. There's also the fact that, if they refuse to become familiars, then their would-be recruiter would probably have eaten them on the spot. Not really much of a choice, there. |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', Straizo was originally a heroic Ripple user who fought side by side with Jonathan Joestar against Dio in Part I. In Part II decades later, time is starting to catch up with him even though the Ripple slows down aging. He betrays Speedwagon and kills his men so he can use a Stone Mask to become a vampire. Straizo confesses that he was awestruck by Dio's eternal youth and beauty and wanted the same for himself. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'': A man who witnesses Miyu in action demands she make him a vampire too, gushing about how amazing her powers are. Miyu calmly but firmly refuses, calling him out for just wanting power so he can abuse it, then turns to leave. He chases after her into the fog... [[spoiler:and falls to his death when he ends up running right off the building.]] |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 48 | * In the graphic novel ''ComicBook/LifeSucks'', Dave and his friend Jerome, who are actually vampires, have a good laugh at a Goth guy who goes around in a black cape using a fake Transylvanian accent. More seriously, Dave's crush Rosa wants to be a vampire, based on her fantasy of vampires being rich, cultured and sexy. |
| 49 | * There is a Creator/JhonenVasquez story where a Goth boy who wants to be a vampire for real finally meets an undead guy willing to grant his wish. The results... [[LooksLikeOrlok aren't pretty]]. The vampire claims that beauty would come with time and patience, which was a downright lie, as the condition only got worse. Though it manages to play it straight ''and'' subvert it- while Eric (the victim) is one hideous vampire, the one who did the turning was plenty attractive. |
| 50 | * Les Enfants du Sang in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. Weird goths who act as groupies to the Lestat parody Ecarius (who ''is'' a vampire, but tries to act like a ClassicalMovieVampire when OurVampiresAreDifferent is very much in effect). [[spoiler:He leads them on with the promise of eventual vampirism... and once he gets bored with one of them, he kills and eats them. Cassidy, who's not at all nice himself, is disgusted by this and leaves Ecarius nailed to a church roof just before dawn.]] |
| 51 | * The vampiric ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain called the Monk has a minion named Dala who, in her modern incarnation, is a {{Goth}} human who wants to become a vampire. In earlier incarnations she was a vampire herself. |
| 52 | * The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' story ''Murder Messiah'' had a normal human serial killer who wanted to become a slasher. He assumed the best way to try to figure out how was by getting Cassie's attention. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': In "Nightfall" Dr. Mid-Nite is trying to track down a serial killer who seems to be a vampire and goes to a nightclub which caters to people playing at being vampires. He does actually find the killer there and the killer turns out to be a sick metahuman who'd convinced himself he was a vampire. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999'' #622, Peter has to retrieve a vial of his blood that ended up at a nightclub for partiers that try to imitate vampires by drinking the blood of celebrities. Much to his bewilderment, the club-goers are dressed like the cast of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ("Is that ... ''glitter''?") rather than the goths he was expecting. |
| 55 | [[/folder]] |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 58 | * The vampire AU is its own genre in many fandoms. |
| 59 | * The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fan story ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' turns Harry himself into one. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 63 | * All the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' films feature ScannableMan versions of these, known as "familiars"; they have the glyph of the vampire who owns them tattooed somewhere on their body. Some of them serve because they believe that it will protect them from being bled dry. Doesn't always work. |
| 64 | ** In the first film, [[BigBad Frost]] is dismissed as a Vampire Vannabe by the Elders ''despite him being an actual vampire''. According to them, since he was once human and turned into a vampire, unlike them who were [[OurVampiresAreDifferent born vampires]], he does not qualify as a "true" vampire. Rather than wilt under this, he murders the head Elder and then uses the rest as sacrifices to become a Vampire God. That'll teach them! |
| 65 | * ''[[Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan The Vampire's Assistant]]''. In a twist it's the best friend who wants to be the vampire, not the protagonist. |
| 66 | * Dracula's groupies in various Film/HammerHorror flicks. |
| 67 | * The Stranger from ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'', who paves the way for the vampires by stealing and destroying the town's means of communication in exchange for being turned. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness They don't.]] Notably averted in the sequel. After their resident Vampire Wannabe [[spoiler: mercilessly snaps a victim's neck, they actually turn him into a vampire and send him after the good guys.]] |
| 68 | * The main character in the ''Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays'' segment "Love Bites". |
| 69 | * ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. Goth girl Lydia Deetz wants to die and become a ghost like the Maitlands. |
| 70 | * The "vampire" in ''Film/Transylvania65000'' turns out to be a once-ugly woman who began dressing like one to get attention, and continued to do so even after plastic surgery made her gorgeous. |
| 71 | * The premise of the George A. Romero film ''Film/{{Martin|1977}}''. The trope is played with, however, because Martin's "vampirism" is a sexual fetish as well as a form of DomesticAbuse. Vampirism is never treated as supernatural, unlike a lot of other movies. [[spoiler:Martin's older-looking cousin has convinced him he's a vampire, and kills him at the end.]] |
| 72 | * This is taken to a creepy extreme in ''Film/VampiresKiss'', as the protagonist's insanity causes him to think that he's becoming a vampire, something he seems eager to embrace. |
| 73 | * In the film of ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'', Jesse is obsessed with vampires, ignoring her occult organization's pleas to simply observe them. She pursues Lestat to the point of being a borderline StalkerWithACrush. This is later explained when it's revealed that her distant ancestors were actually vampires and cared for her since her birth. |
| 74 | * ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': Many vampires have “familiars”; vampire wannabes who serve as TheRenfield in exchange for being turned. The long-suffering Jackie is Deacon’s familiar and is starting to get pissed over [[MovingTheGoalposts his lame excuses to not turn her yet]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, she gets so fed up that she quits and convinces Nick to turn her on the way out, much to Deacon’s irritation.]] |
| 75 | * ''Film/BloodRayne'': Kagan and the other powerful vampires have many human soldiers who serve them with the promise of being made vampires themselves in the future. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 79 | * Even ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' itself has one, of a sort, in Renfield (yes, ''[[TheRenfield that]]'' [[TropeNamers Renfield]]) who tries to emulate vampire immortality, [[NauseaFuel but with a rather mistaken and icky method]]. |
| 80 | * In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Darren's friend was like this, to the point of blackmailing a vampire to try to get bitten. (The 'vampire' bit specifically is downplayed; he had no interest in vampires before knowing they were real, and being a vampire would have been low on his list of things to become had he actually written said list. He did want to be a natural and unrestrained predator upon humanity since early childhood, though.) |
| 81 | * ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' has humans who willingly help the Strigoi in hopes of being turned. |
| 82 | * ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': |
| 83 | ** At the end of ''Interview with the Vampire'', the journalist actually asks to be 'turned', which pisses Louis off to no end, since [[MisaimedFandom the entire POINT of him recounting his life-story was to show how being a vampire had made his 'life' a living (undead?) hell.]] (The journalist ends up getting his wish in ''Queen of the Damned''.) |
| 84 | ** Daniel Molloy (the journalist) actually spends a decent chunk of ''Queen of the Damned'' as Armand's [[HoYay companion]], constantly begging to be turned. Armand only does it to save Daniel from alcoholism. Daniel ends up losing his mind later, this time under Marius's wing. |
| 85 | ** On the flipside is David Talbot, an old man in charge of an organization that studies the supernatural. Lestat constantly offers to turn him, only for David to refuse on the grounds that he is too old. When David gets a new, younger, body (''Tale of the Body Thief''), Lestat turns him by force ForTheEvulz. |
| 86 | * Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 87 | ** Arthur and Doreen Winkings in ''Literature/ReaperMan''. Middle-class citizens of Ankh-Morpork, he is, very technically, a real vampire (who [[IJustWantToBeNormal Just Wants To Be Normal]]), while she desperately pretends to be a "traditional" vampire, complete with {{Uberwald}} accent, on the grounds that married couples should share things like that. Unfortunately, vampire brides being pale, thin, and aristocratic does not go well with being short, fat and painfully middle-class. |
| 88 | ** ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' features a sort-of inversion, with teenage {{Uberwald}}ian vampires giving themselves [[DefectorFromDecadence deliberately mundane names]] and playing at being {{Muggles}}. |
| 89 | *** The Black Ribboners are a further development of the same idea from a much less pretentious angle. Being a traditional Vampire in most of Discworld society (i.e., outside of Uberwald) is not a secure or happy way to live, so the Black Ribboners are (or at least ''act'' like) Human Vannabes, at least in the sense of desperately wanting to fit in. Part of this is that they rely on AddictionDisplacement to put their focus on something else while [[VegetarianVampire getting their nourishment from animal blood]], and acting like traditional vampires is a good way to fall off the wagon. |
| 90 | ** Marginal notations in the vampires' edition of the [[AllThereInTheManual Discworld Diary]] suggest that one member of Ankh-Morpork's [[VegetarianVampire League of Temperance]] is actually a human who ''looks'' like a vampire and enjoys hanging around with them. Even the other League members are fooled. |
| 91 | * ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': |
| 92 | ** Bella wants to become a vampire. One of the ongoing conflicts of the first half of the series stems from the fact that Edward, who regards being a vampire as a curse, really doesn't want this to happen. |
| 93 | ** The Volturi's human secretary Gianna is also this, working for them in the hope that they'll decide to turn her, but knowing she may simply end up as a snack instead. Unfortunately for her, [[KilledOffscreen it ends up being the latter]]. It's made clear that the Volturi never had any intention of turning her, and were simply keeping her around until she was [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer useful to them]]. |
| 94 | * In Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/FevreDream'', this is how Damon Julian, the leader of the evil vampires, motivates his competent (but not too bright) human servant. However, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent in this setting]], it isn't even possible for humans to be made into vampires. Apparently, Damon likes to string his servants along with the promise of eventually being turned as a reward for their service, then when they're too old to be useful, he abandons them and doesn't even have the decency to end their wretched lives. A good vampire encounters one such former servant and realizes the old man has been murdering and eating people in a hopeless attempt at prolonging his life. |
| 95 | * ''Literature/LonelyWerewolfGirl'' has a werewolf wannabe in the form of BigBad Sarapen's spy, Madrigal. Since Sarapen is operating straight out of the super-villain's playbook and werewolves are born not bit in this setting, you can probably guess [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness how this went]]. |
| 96 | * Red Court vampires in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' tend to attract groupies like this. Some of them mistakenly believe they can become immortal[[note]]Only Red Court nobility is allowed to turn humans, and while a vampire will retain all the memories of the original, they're a completely different, demonic entity with a different personality[[/note]]; others are just [[FantasticDrug addicted to the vamps']] [[KissOfTheVampire narcotic saliva]]. |
| 97 | ** The short story "It's My Birthday, Too" deals with a somewhat unpopular member of a ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire]]''-type {{LARP}} becoming a vampire and seeking revenge on the group that spurned her. In something of a twist, she's turned by the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Black Court]], and already looks desiccated despite only being a vampire for a few months. [[AxCrazy Not that she cares...]] |
| 98 | *** When Harry finds his brother Thomas (who, incidentally, actually ''is'' a vampire) participating in the aforementioned LARP, he has a bit of a freakout and asks Thomas how he can encourage this acting when he (Thomas) knows just how dangerous vampires are. Thomas points out that the whole reason the vampire-wizard war was being fought was so that the [=LARP=]ers wouldn't ever have to face real vampires and find out what the real thing is like. |
| 99 | * The ''Literature/KittyNorville'' series has several callers who want to be turned into vampires, werewolves, etc. Kitty's advice is always that it is [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a one-way trip to a life that's not as romantic as it sounds]]. Don't do it. She also gets a caller who's an actual vampire that's stuck working the graveyard shift at a convenience store and wants to tell the wannabes how "glamorous" being a vampire really is. |
| 100 | * In Creator/PoppyZBrite's ''Lost Souls'', Christian runs into some of these, of course with Poppy Z's vamps being a totally different species, he just tells them he will and then eats them. |
| 101 | * In the novel ''Twelve'', [[spoiler: one of the vampire wannabes 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. |
| 102 | * In the TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} / TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}} novel ''Worlds Without End'', an immortal elf recalls being confronted by a mortal who'd figured out her secret and demanded she make him immortal as well. [[spoiler: She stages a fake "conversion ritual" in which she cusses him out viciously in long-dead languages, then causes him to die of a brain aneurysm.]] |
| 103 | * In the first of Creator/NeilGaiman's short stories "Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot," the Fool spends night after night waiting in a graveyard in hopes of being turned into a vampire because of the [[ImmortalitySeeker promise of eternal life]]. But when he finally explains his motivation to a real vampire, it laughs at him for thinking being [[TheUndead undead]] is anything like being alive. |
| 104 | * Raven from (the appropriately named) ''Literature/VampireKisses''. To put it bluntly, she has a fetish for them. Her boyfriend (an actual vampire) constantly reassures her that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor she has the better]] [[HumansAreSpecial end of the deal]], though. |
| 105 | * Literature/TheColdestGirlInColdtown has vampires restricted to {{Fantastic Ghetto}}es ("Coldtowns"), along with humans who sneak in in the hopes of being turned. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'': Almost all drones serve their vampire lord or lady in hopes of someday being turned. Clavigers serve the same role for werewolves. Generally the supernaturals are being honest about the whole thing, with the instances of conversion low because even carefully selecting candidates leaves them with a rather low chance of surviving the change which only slightly improves over time and exposure. While these people are usually also picked for their usefulness as servants, their masters also tend to care enough for them to not casually risk the remainder of their potentially promising human lives. |
| 107 | * A strange, tragic example in the Creator/RichardMatheson story "Drink My Red Blood!" (read it [[http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/drink-my-red-blood-by-richard-matheson.html here]]): a young boy with mental issues becomes obsessed with the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' to the point that he believes a vampire bat at the local zoo is a transformed vampire. He ends up freeing the bat from the zoo, taking it someplace quiet, and ''cutting his own throat'' as an offering to "The Count". [[spoiler: [[AmbiguousEnding Was he right about "The Count" or was it a dying hallucination?]]]] |
| 108 | * An outtake at the back of ''Literature/FancyApartments'' invokes this trope... oddly. A goth accuses a vampire of being a vampire wannabe and sarcastically suggets he throws [[Literature/{{Twilight}} sparkles]] on himself. [[MakesSenseInContext This makes sense in context]]. |
| 109 | * Creator/FPaulWilson's short story "Midnight Mass" has the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Vichy]], who are this, though some may also be TheRenfield. |
| 110 | * ''[[Literature/TheDarkProfitSaga Son of a Liche]]'' has a teenage girl enlist with Detarr Ur'Mayan's undead horde seeking to become a vampire. Unfortunately she accidentally looks the wraith handling paperwork in the eye and ends up less corporeal than she wished. |
| 111 | * ''Literature/TeamHuman'' is an AffectionateParody of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga,'' about a girl named Mel who wants to stop her best friend from becoming a vampire. Mel then winds up in a relationship with Kit, who was [[RaisedByTheSupernatural raised by vampires]] and also wants to "transition" [[FantasticLegalWeirdness when he's old enough]]. Neither are the brooding Goths typical of this trope, though we do see that "vamposeurs" like that also exist. |
| 112 | * ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In book 1, Joe and Captain Bob discover that Devin Chavarria's boyfriend "Slice" owns a book, ''The Legend of the Vampire'', that's essentially a guide for people like this -- it's all about vampire worship, how to become one and similar things. He apparently wants to be one himself, having even filed his teeth down to points. |
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| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 117 | * After [[VegetarianVampire Mitchell]] tells the vampires in ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' to [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere go clean]], one of them finds a chatroom full of these and argues that they shouldn't count, since they want to be bitten. |
| 118 | ** In the fourth series episode "The Graveyard Shift", Vampire Vannabe Michaela makes Hal's first day out in the modern human world very uncomfortable by telling him about her fantasies of blood and slaughter so she can seem dark and interesting. |
| 119 | * ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': |
| 120 | ** The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me]]" features a group of vampire wannabes who think that they were going to be turned. Spike and his crew are actually just going to eat them, though they're willing to turn the one who set this up: an old friend of Buffy [[spoiler:who's SecretlyDying]]. |
| 121 | ** Also, in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E17Eternity Eternity]]", an actress wants to become a vampire for the eternal youth. After getting a glimpse of soulless Angel and finding what being a vampire was really about, she ran off and never returned. |
| 122 | ** A non-canon ''Angel'' comic book has this plot, with a group of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s trying to use a VERY unwilling Angel and a hired Gypsy to turn rich idiots into ensouled vampires. It works about as well as you would expect. |
| 123 | ** A big part of Simone's plan is to become a vampire with Slayer powers to kill Buffy. |
| 124 | * One of the clients in ''Series/TheCollector'' made a DealWithTheDevil to become a vampire. She didn't realize at the time, but vampires were completely fictional before she got her wish. |
| 125 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has featured this twice; once with a group of vampire wannabes who were teeth-gratingly oblivious to the reality that one of their friends had died ("Suckers"), and once with both vampire ''and'' werewolf wannabes, who naturally enough had [[FurAgainstFang an escalating rivalry]] going on over their preferred form of [[SeriousBusiness fantasy dress-up]] ("Blood Moon"). |
| 126 | * Twice in ''Dracula The Series''. First in "The Vampire Solution", when Gustav goes to save his friend Arthur Bauer only to find out [[spoiler: he planned to be captured]] and another time in "Bats In The Attic" [[spoiler: Subverted in the fact that Lawrence Lei already is a vampire]]. |
| 127 | * The villain of the ''Series/FearItself'' episode "Something with Bite" was a man copycatting werewolves in the hope of attracting the attention of a real one who could turn him. |
| 128 | * In ''Series/ForeverKnight'', why does every other woman who discovers that Nick is a vampire throw herself into his arms and demand to be turned? As Nick is trying to find out how to make himself normal again, he's not happy. |
| 129 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In 1973, a 20-year-old Daniel Molloy was apparently high on drugs when he asked Louis de Pointe du Lac to turn him into a vampire, and Louis [[DisproportionateRetribution almost killed him for doing so because he believed the brash young reporter was being "disrespectful."]] |
| 130 | * In an episode of ''Series/Sanctuary2007'', a group of college dropouts get turned into vampires, and then quickly fall headlong into this trope, trying to turn their friends into groupies. The resident True Vampire tries to convince them that it's not everything the stories (or even his own papers on the subject) say, yet. Tesla's plan is to make them into vamps over several decades. Presumably, by that point they're a little wiser. He doesn't anticipate one of them crashing his car and dying, which triggers a premature change. He then proceeds to kill all his friends who attended the same rehab clinic (a front for Tesla's research), turning them as well. They then attempt to bite a friend of theirs only for him to bleed out on the floor. Biting doesn't work. Then again, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent they're not true vampires, and neither is Tesla]]. All true vamps were killed centuries ago. |
| 131 | * One human slave of the [[PuppeteerParasite Goa'uld]] in ''Series/StargateSG1'' is shown to be well aware that he's not serving gods, just technologically advanced and powerful aliens, but he serves them dutifully nonetheless in the hopes of one day becoming a host. |
| 132 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 133 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E05LiveFreeOrTwiHard Live Free or Twi-Hard]]", the alpha vampire goes on a mass recruiting drive by having his minions target and turn young women interested in being Bella to their Edward (or ''vice versa''). Unfortunately for them, the vampires of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent much less sparkly.]] |
| 134 | ** The MOTW in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E05MonsterMovie Monster Movie]]" is a shapeshifter who chooses to look and act like an archetypical vampire -- or sometimes a werewolf or mummy -- because he's a fan of (see title.) As a shapeshifter he's hated and despised, but the movie monsters are sexy and powerful. |
| 135 | * [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Fangbangers"]] in ''Series/TrueBlood'' and ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' fit this to a T. On the other hand, the main character Sookie is a subversion as she has repeatedly said she doesn't want to be a vampire, she just [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou likes them because she can't hear their thoughts]]. Actually, most fangbangers apparently have no desire of being turned themselves. They just like to have vampiric sex partners. |
| 136 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Ivan Povin agreed to become a vampire shortly after arriving in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] because he knew that it would be difficult to survive the harsh conditions otherwise. Although he is initially disgusted by the vampires and fears that they intend to feed on him, KGB Colonel Ilyanov later agrees to be made a vampire himself. Valentina Orlova convinces him that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union is to create further vampires and [[InternalReformist take it down from the inside]]. |
| 137 | * ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Guillermo's main reason for remaining as Nandor's familiar for so long is because he desperately wants to be turned into one himself. Unfortunately for him, Nandor is reluctant to do so, and has been putting it off for 12 years. [[spoiler:In season 3 it is revealed that Nandor views vampirism as a curse, and that he cares too much about Guillermo to put him through that.]] |
| 138 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]" has a vampire wannabe who is ''also'' a vampire, only a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent different]] one: everyone in the town has glowing green eyes and drinks blood, but he also wears fake fangs and follows other vampire movie cliches. The other vampires regard him as something of an embarrassment, as he just draws attention to them and [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires they just want to live quietly]]. |
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| 141 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 142 | * Indie musician Scott Wicken had a song called "He Wants to Be a Vampire." "Sleeps all day, hates the beach... goes to the club to show off his [[PunctuatedforEmphasis ''Gothic! Dance! Moves!'']] |
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| 145 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 146 | * Professor Stokes, a villain introduced in a 2020 arc in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', is a vampire lore expert who uses a shoulder-mounted blood extraction machine to target three sisters so that he and not they will inherit a substantial amount of money. The story kicks off with him successfully killing one of them. |
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| 149 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 150 | * "Wannabe Vampire" is a monster in ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}.'' Clerics can scare him off by saying "Ooga booga." |
| 151 | * A sort of Meta example happens in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem.'' This trope is played straight(ish) with a lot of Ghouls and the blood addicted, but there is a [[PrestigeClass vampire bloodline]], The Players, who want to be the stereotypical "cool" vampires. Y'see, the game has five vampire clans; the sexy ones are the Daeva, and the shadowy ones are the Mekhet. The Players are what happened when a Mekhet wanted ''really badly'' to be like the Daeva. The result? They gained some of their special powers, but not their actual "cool". Every time a Player fails an action using a power, those who witnessed it see him as the poser he is and are ''immune to further uses of that power.'' |
| 152 | ** Ironically, other vampires are at the least wary of them, if not outright ''scared'' -- because with the way vampires work, something that weak ''has'' to have some nasty surprises in store... right? |
| 153 | * Lahmian vampires in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' are a sect of [[TheVamp Vamps]] so alluring they can control men's minds. Their army list includes mortal human characters fighting for their favour. |
| 154 | ** This is the reason why mortal necromancers are included in the Vampire Counts faction, as the vast majority of them seek out a vampire as a patron in the hope they'll get turned into a vampire if prove to be valuable. Defied by Heinrich Kemmler, who in the lore is noted to have nothing but scorn for those who try to cheat death by becoming less than human. |
| 155 | * ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Cthulhu Companion'', adventure "The Rescue". Jocko wants to become a werewolf like Rafe Pelton. Pelton has lied to him, telling him he can gain the power of transformation by performing ludicrous and humiliating "meditative rites". |
| 156 | * In the spoof of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' 4th Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventure "Dusk", [[spoiler: one of the characters is a fake vampire. The {{Player Character}}s will probably kill him, thinking he's a threat, or wonder why Turn Undead doesn't work on him.]] There are also vampire fangirls. |
| 157 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' demonstrates this trope with the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=243229 Chosen of Markov]]. |
| 158 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': |
| 159 | ** Played for tragedy with the Vorlog monster, a human who was being transformed into a vampire's companion -- a uniquely powerful vampire spawn created to be MindlinkMates with their sire, hence their original nicknames of "Brides and Grooms" -- only for the vampire to be slain before the transformation was complete. The result is a deranged {{dhampyr}}-like creature that tries to be a vampire, but can't, and desperately seeks out companions to try and [[ReplacementGoldfish fill the void]] missing from its slain creator. And because it's insane with an impossibly idealized image of its creator, its "surrogates" inevitably end up being killed when it decides they're not good enough. |
| 160 | ** The stirgoi of 5th Edition are either humanoids who were experimented on, or stirges -- ugly, blood-drinking pests -- who drained blood from a well-fed vampire and were transformed into an intelligent humanoid being. At any rate, they're hideous monsters with vampire-ish behavior but none of the charm. Some stirgoi seek a cure for their condition, but others embrace it, and these "would-be bloodsucker aristocrats create stirge courts amid scabrous husk-decorated villas and drain the life from any who balk at their grotesque gentility." |
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| 163 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has a side quest you can only receive if you are a vampire. A mother recruits you to convince her vampire fanboy son not to be turned. It's impossible to talk him out of it and if you try to fight him straight up, you'll kill him easily. The only way to complete the quest is to fight him and ''lose'', letting him wail on you for a while until he decides that vampires are weak and overrated. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic 4'' had Captain Enric, who betrays his village and frames a random barbarian warlord with its destruction, when the necromancer Gauldoth promises to turn him into a vampire. Later while scavenging the remains of a village under Gauldoth's jurisdiction that was destroyed in a demon raid, Vampire Enric attacks a survivor for her blood, because it's what vampires do. Gauldoth [[LawfulNeutral being the way he is]], stops Enric and brutally executes him as an example to anyone who harms his living subjects. |
| 166 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', Sims with the Knowledge aspiration sometimes desire to become a vampire, werewolf or witch. Other Sims usually fear becoming anything supernatural. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': |
| 168 | ** In ''Blood Omen 2'', it was implied that there was a bishop who was working for the vampires in exchange for a promise of immortality. They seemed neither inclined nor able to grant it to him. |
| 169 | ** In ''Soul Reaver'', among the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen massive amount of cut content]] was a side-story involving Raziel finding the spiritual leader of the last human sanctuary who used mind control feed her followers to vampires in the hopes of being turned. Raziel would have killed her and learned Mind Control from her soul. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has a street gang working for the Sabbat in hopes of becoming Sabbat vampires via "shovelheading" (a very unpleasant form of turning into a vampire, which few of them would survive). They are used as the muscle in the Sabbat's weapon smuggling operation and are all killed by the protagonist. |
| 171 | * A minor implied example of the "willing blood donor" variant in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'', normally a vampire biting anyone will turn them hostile immediately even if they are a loyal ally but if they're fully aligned then they'll actually allow you to drink up to about a quarter of their health without complaint. |
| 172 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there is a side quest revolving around a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Worgen]] Wannabe. Tess Greymane, daughter of King Greymane, asks her Worgen father to give her the Worgen curse. She wants to understand the plight, struggle, and strength of her people as most Gilneans were turned into Worgen. Her father adamantly refuses, of course. She is given a simulation of the curse thanks to a Night Elf druid, the Wild God Goldrinn, and the power of the Emerald Dream. [[spoiler:Reinacting the Battle for Gilneas in the form of a Worgen, Tess gets a taste of the rage but finds it ultimately changed nothing against the Forsaken invaders. Tess leaves the experience learning that she doesn't need to be cursed to understand her people, they are ''still'' her people.]] |
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| 175 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 176 | * This is Wilhelm Ehrenburg's entire shtick from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae''. Being born an albino, he shuns the light an wishes to become a creature of the night as the vampires he admires. And in this universe where IRejectYourReality is taken to the most literal extreme, he is fully able to create a realm of the [[BadMoonRising Blood Moon]] where he becomes as close to a true vampire as possible for as long as it remains active. |
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| 179 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 180 | * Parodied in [[http://wondermark.com/241/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' strip. |
| 181 | * '' Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': |
| 182 | ** Cal Warden's army of fangirls, who attack Spinnerette. |
| 183 | ** The Werewolf of London, Ontario has fanboys of his own, though he finds the concept rather less amusing. |
| 184 | * ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'' has at least one vampire wannabe, who misses her big chance and does not become a significant character: Arsonella Jones. |
| 185 | * Played for irony in ''Webcomic/SchwarzKreuz'', where the Vampire Vannabe is named [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Harker]]. |
| 186 | * Hector Marlowe from ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'', whose brother Victor is a ''vampire hunter''. |
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| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 190 | * During the WebVideo/OutsideXbox playthrough of the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' demo, Jane Douglas repeatedly expressed interest in being adopted into the Dimitrescu household. Until the arrival of Lady Alcina, whom she merely wanted to have [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer step on her]]. |
| 191 | * The entire shtick of ''Webvideo/VampireReviews'' is that (InUniverse) Elisa is a pretentious, unemployed {{Goth}} who either believes she is a vampire or aspires to be. |
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| 194 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 195 | * Played hilariously in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Ungroundable" when a group of kids pretended to be vampires because it was the "in thing", much to the annoyance of the local goth kids who everyone kept confusing for the "vampires", and Butters wants to join them. Of course, they weren't really vampires but Butters ''actually thinks they are''. Additionally, the Goths attempt to get rid of the Vampire kids by threatening to stake their leader. |
| 196 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had a man aiding Inque because he was obsessed with her, and wanted to be like her. When the time came to reward him, she only administered half the treatment, leaving him a humanoid BlobMonster. |
| 197 | * WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead once decided that emulating ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' vampires or werewolves would be a good way to meet girls, so they went searching for one or the other to bite them. They succeeded in getting bitten, but by a grimy deranged human bum whose teeth gave them nasty infections. |
| 198 | * The ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' HalloweenEpisode "[=CatDogula=]" had Eddie the Squirrel, keeping consistent with [[TheTeamWannabe desperately wanting to join the Greasers]], begging the vampirized Greasers to bite him so he can become a Greaser vampire. As usual, the Greasers ignore him. |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episode 110 revolves around Stumpy wanting to become a vampire. When Quack Quack ends up becoming a vampire, he follows him around being his slave and begging him to bite him so he could also become a vampire. [[spoiler: He succeeds in the end, but [[TooDumbToLive he steps into the sun seconds later and is reduced to a pile of ash.]]]] |
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