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| 8 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel'' features vampires (the first hint was Music/LadyGaga's character being named [[BloodBath Elizabeth, aka The Countess]], plus all the references to [[HorrorHunger addiction]]), though [[NotUsingTheZWord the word itself is never used]]; instead, they're known as the "afflicted". To [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/26/american-horror-story-hotel-vampires-ryan-murphy quote]] WordOfGod: |
| 9 | -->'''Creator/RyanMurphy:''' I prefer the term '[[ViralTransformation ancient blood virus]]'. It's not vampires. It's really a form of hemophilia in a way. There's no capes or fangs." |
| 10 | ** The afflicted are ageless, and one becomes 'afflicted' by drinking their blood; Elizabeth describes the transformation process to [[spoiler:Alex Lowe]] as feeling like one is dying. Sunlight does not kill them, but they are irritated and weakened by it. They are superhuman, and have advanced healing, speed, and strength, but they are vulnerable to the same things that would kill a human; as one vampire explains to a new sire, vampires don't live forever by being stupid. They subsist on blood, but notably, they don't have fangs, instead accessing blood by either slicing their victims' necks the old-fashioned way (Elizabeth has [[FemmeFatalons a blade on her fingertip]] she uses for that purpose) or by draining it with a needle and syringe. Filtering blood through a dialysis machine also apparently enriches it. As seen with [[spoiler:Valentino and Natacha]], they can technically survive decades without blood; they just get ''really'' hungry and weak, to the point where they're basically in hibernation. |
| 11 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryDoubleFeature'': Those who take [[FantasticDrug The Muse]] develop a strong craving for blood and flesh, preferably human, as well as an apparent inability to consume anything else. They do have a full set of sharp teeth, though these are an artificial modification done by Lark, one of their own. Which type of vampire archetype one falls into depends on whether they have artistic talent or not -- whereas accomplished artists like Austin or Belle present themselves as [[WickedCultured sophisticated eccentrics]], anyone else turns into a Pale One, a feral creature [[LooksLikeOrlok with the classic look of a silent movie vampire]]. |
| 12 | * Vampires in ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' apparently don't need blood to survive, since Count Fangula can survive many months without consuming a drop of blood and only treats it as a delicacy. However, vampires seem to be required to suck blood as some sort of job. Failing to reach a certain quota will result in punishment administered by one of the higher vampires. Also, vampires seem to be immune to the effects of daylight, as Fangula and Vlad are seen walking outside while only wearing sunglasses as protection against the sun. |
| 13 | * In ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', vampires need to eat, sleep and use the restroom in spite of being dead and having no heartbeat. They don't need to drink blood, but do experience intense cravings for it akin to an incurable drug addiction. They have to drink quite a lot of it to stave off their cravings, virtually assuring that they kill their victims. Blood that is not fresh gives them almost no relief. Their eyes go completely black when they're angered or feeding. Vampires are attached to their creator and are able to locate them from a distance. Sunlight causes them no ill effects, but they seem to have a mild dislike for it. A stake through the heart kills them. People wielding signs of faith can ward them off, such as the Christian cross, the Star of David for [[InformedJudaism lapsed Jew]] George (and Josh in the American remake), and recitations from the Bible; Vampires can overcome this problem for a short while after feeding. They need an invitation to enter homes, although the "Old Ones" have found out ways around this, and cannot be seen in recordings or reflections in silver-backed mirrors. Their reflections can, however, be seen in windows and on the chassis of cars. They can sense werewolves instinctively and see ghosts without effort. They are stronger and faster than humans, but not immensely so. They turn into dust when killed. |
| 14 | ** There are minor changes in the [[Series/BeingHumanUS SyFy Channel remake]]. The physical need seems to be a larger component and they heal by drinking blood. Whether holy symbols affect them has not been addressed but Aidan was able to enter a church. |
| 15 | *** It has been established that articles of faith work if the person wielding them consider the vampire a threat. For instance, Aidan keeps watch over Josh's Star of David when Josh transforms, and it causes him no harm. Later in the series, Josh is able to repel some antagonistic vampires with the symbol. The reason given for it not harming Aidan is their close friendship and Josh not considering him a threat. |
| 16 | *** Garlic doesn't harm them but does force their GameFace on. Werewolf blood cause them to regurgitate all the blood out of their body, which turns out to be the unexpected cure for a disease that's ravaging the vampire community. However this permanently causes all their future sires to be exceptionally ravenous and exceptionally powerful; they're also monstrous in appearance until they can drink enough blood to glamour an attractive appearance. |
| 17 | * ''Series/BlakesSeven'' had black-clad, emotionless super-troopers called Mutoids who nevertheless could get upset if one called them vampires. Oh, and they sometimes fed by sucking the blood out of humans. |
| 18 | * In ''Series/BloodTies2007'', vampires have some of the traditional weaknesses but none of the others. |
| 19 | ** Sunlight burns (all vampires instinctively know when dawn is near) |
| 20 | ** Blood is necessary (although killing isn't) |
| 21 | ** Turning is done via the drink/give blood method |
| 22 | ** A vampire can be killed with a stake to the heart (or by ''punching'' through the heart with a fist) |
| 23 | ** Religious symbols are useless ([[ReligiousVampire Henry wears a crucifix]]). |
| 24 | ** Vampires are fast and strong. They can also hypnotize, although this, for some reason, fails to work on Vicki (possibly, due to her poor eyesight). |
| 25 | ** All vampires are extremely territorial. It's almost impossible for two vampires to be in the same city without killing each other (unless the city is very big, then two or more vampires may divide it amongs themselves). This biological mechanism keeps the vampire population low. The territoriality only develops after about 6 months, allowing the newly-turned vampire to learn from his or her maker before being forced to leave. A human family is used to keep track of vampire habitats in order to avoid unnecessary rivalries, passing down the information from father to son and being called by a vampire who wants to move. |
| 26 | ** The only known way of incapacitating a vampire appears to be the Iluminación del Sol, a Chinese-made device (named by a Spanish Inquisitor) that incapacitates a vampire when pressed into his or her chest. |
| 27 | ** At least one human was able to figure out how to keep himself alive for centuries through the use of vampire blood. |
| 28 | ** Interestingly, one episode shows that even a vampire is not immune to [[TakenForGranite Medusa's gaze]]. |
| 29 | * ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''. The episode "Space Vampire" has a creature called a Vorvon. It has the abilities of HypnoticEyes, ShapeShifting (to a floating red ball of light), VampiricDraining (of LifeEnergy), {{Invisibility}} to electronic viewing and turning the humans it killed into zombies. It can be fended off by a "power lock" instead of a crucifix and is WeakenedByTheLight of the sun. |
| 30 | * ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': |
| 31 | ** The show's vampires are described as a type of demon (just one of many) possessing a corpse; this is actually consonant with many Eastern European vampire legends, 'vampir' deriving from 'upir', a variety of psychopomp that evidently sometimes can't resist the temptation presented by a now-vacant body. They are said to lack souls, explaining their amoral behavior. They have [[GameFace "demonic" faces]] that only appear just before they feed or during a fight, or any other time [[RuleOfCool the writers want them to look more intimidating]] -- [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Whedon explained in interviews that he was unnerved by the thought of a teenage girl murdering normal looking people on network television, so the "vamp face" was created to allow for guilt-free slaying.]] Vampires have many of the usual traits otherwise, including sensitivity to sunlight (although very much the direct-sunlight-only variety; put them in any kind of shadow and they're quite cozy), crosses, holy water, and the stake-through-the-heart kill. [[NoBodyLeftBehind When killed, however, they turn to dust instantly]] -- a conscious decision by the producers, since they didn't want to devote time in every episode of a teenage-oriented show to "Well, let's clean up all the '''dead bodies'''." |
| 32 | ** Buffyverse vampires are ''insanely'' allergic to wood. Some vampire legends required that a stake of ash wood severed from the tree by a bolt of lightning be driven through the heart, and that was just to keep the vampire in place. Buffyverse vampires however "dust" when stabbed in the heart with a pencil or chopstick, and crossbows are a common weapon despite their modern-day impracticality. You still have to hit the heart, though -- Angel's taken wooden stakes in the neck, the arm, the shoulder, and in one case in the chest but ''just'' missing the heart, and was only mildly discomfited. The rib cage also seems to [[MadeOfPlasticine cave in immediately against wood]], as vampires have been staked with relatively blunt wood objects, such as a snapped-off spatula handle or tree branch, and without much force behind the blow (Xander accidentally staking Jesse, in fact just any non-augmented human staking a vampire basically implies their ribs can't handle any damage from wood - at one point it's stated outright that wood goes through vampire flesh like a hot knife through butter). It does have to be wood and only wood, though. If anything else pierces their heart, they're discomfited, but still alive. [[ImmortalityHurts Well, alive in an undead kind of way.]] Buffy seems to have a preternatural talent for hitting the heart, but that seems par for the course for her, one such talent among many. |
| 33 | ** Besides the influence of a CharacterShield (Angel and Spike have both had some close brushes with heart stakage) vamps apparently build up some wood resistance over the years: Kakistos easily survived a common stake, and the Master, another particularly ancient vampire, died from being impaled on a thick broken table leg through the heart, being tossed down two stories from the roof into said table leg. |
| 34 | ** In the ''[=BtVS=]'' fifth-season opener "Buffy vs. Dracula", Dracula has some of the traditional vampire traits that other Buffyverse vampires don't, including shape-shifting and mesmerism. These "special powers" are dismissed by Spike as "Nothin' but showy gypsy stuff." In the Season 8 comic "Wolves at the Gate", Dracula elaborates that he went to great lengths to gain his special powers, but in Season 10 revealed the spells he used to gain his powers are mere window dressing intended to strengthen his power of will. Dracula is also more focused on romance than just finding food, liking to make a connection with his victims before he feeds on them. He also displays an immunity to being staked. When stabbed, he'll disintegrate like a normal vamp, but he can regenerate at will. |
| 35 | ** Drusilla, in "Becoming, Part 1", used a mesmerism-like power on Kendra, enabling Drusilla to kill her. Since only three vampires in the entire Buffyverse seem to have the ability of mesmerism (the Master, Dracula, and Drusilla, who was psychic before being vamped), it's possible that this is not a vampire ability at all, and instead is an unrelated magical or mystical ability. And Dracula's mesmerism apparently is different in some undefined way from the Master's and Drusilla, because after Buffy's first death she was immune to the Master's mental powers and later to Drusilla's, but still vulnerable to Dracula's. |
| 36 | *** In the canonical ''Comicbook/AngelAndFaith'' comics, it's elaborated that mesmerism is an inherent ability of vampires but few of them bother to develop it. |
| 37 | ** One classic power is anti-lampshaded in the pilot, specifically to distinguish from [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Movie]]: |
| 38 | --->'''Buffy:''' I looked around, but soon as they got clear of the graveyard, they could have just, voom!\ |
| 39 | '''Xander:''' They can fly?\ |
| 40 | '''Buffy:''' They can drive. |
| 41 | ** Vampires also seem to age by becoming more and more inhuman, and stronger as they do. It is unknown how old the Master is, but he has mutated to the point where his skin is wrinkled, his fingernails are claws, and has the general features of a bat. He is also faster than any other vampire and it took a broken table to kill him. [[spoiler: Of course, it didn't take. In the Buffy Season 8 comics, he's alive and well again.]] Even then, he didn't fully turn to dust, just his flesh did, and the next episode was resolved by smashing his bones into dust with a sledgehammer to prevent any resurrection. Another ancient vampire, Kakistos, had cloven hands and feet, and was large enough that a standard stake didn't reach his heart. Though he still turned to complete dust when a pole was shoved through his heart. Then, there are the completely monstrous Über-Vamps of the Turok-Han. |
| 42 | *** It seems as though the demon inside manifests more and more clearly as time goes by. This is explored by implication (rather than explicitly said) during the series 2 finale arc when Angel and his team end up in Pylea. Pylea shows an in-universe case of vampires being different in different dimensions. In Pylea, vampires can walk around in the sun and reflect. However, when they transform, they don't simply have a shadow of their beast on their face as is the case in the show's normal dimension: the demon fully manifests and what's revealed is pure monster. However, the traits normal vampires reveal and which become increasingly visible in older vampires such as the Master are clearly visible, such as the dramatic eye ridges and sharply pointed ears. If the Pylea experience is anything to go by then if a vampire in the normal world manages to become old enough even horns/spines will start manifesting eventually. |
| 43 | *** The show was rather inconsistent about how long this takes - according to AllThereInTheManual the Master was turned at some point in the fifteenth century, and is seen in "Darla" to have been fully mutated already when he turned Darla in the seventeenth century. This raises some question about why neither Darla nor Angel (turned in the eighteenth century) show any sign of mutation at the end of the twentieth. |
| 44 | ** After seeing old newspaper shots of Angel, Cordelia remarks "It isn't that vampires don't photograph, they just don't photograph WELL." |
| 45 | ** One episode of ''Angel'' featured the "Prince of Lies", a ShoutOut CaptainErsatz of Count Orlok from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. He seemed senile and frail for a vamp, but he eventually flipped out and put up quite a fight. |
| 46 | ** ''Angel'' also showed vamps and their sires can sense each other in their dreams. |
| 47 | ** HealingFactor: Vampires heal from injuries quickly and can regenerate lost body parts. As long as the body part in question isn't the head; decapitation dusts a vampire just as quick as a stake through the heart. |
| 48 | ** [[RemovedAchillesHeel Removing a vampire's heart]] makes it temporarily invincible but [[YourDaysAreNumbered instant death after the time limit expires]]. Needless to say, few vampires utilize this. It is possible to extend or even eliminate the time limit entirely by replacing the heart by one made of silver. |
| 49 | ** One point that causes a small degree of confusion in-series is the rule about [[MustBeInvited vampires needing an invitation to enter a home]]: once they're invited the first time, they're ''always'' "welcome". And welcome signs count. |
| 50 | ** In Season 9, vampires sired end up different to even "normal" Buffyverse vampires. Without the Seed of Wonder allowing demons to posses a sired body, vampires turn out mindless and feral. The Scoobies call them zompires (zombie/vampires). |
| 51 | ** In Season 10, due to the new Seed of Wonder all newly sired vampires display powers different from both "common" vampires and zompires. They can shapeshift into wolves, panthers, bats and mist, they are immune to sunlight, and they are much harder to stake. |
| 52 | * ''Series/Charmed1998''[='=]s Paige was partially turned into a vamp. They have a hierarchy similar to bees. In order to save Paige before she finished transforming, her sisters killed the vampire queen, freeing Paige and causing every other vampire in that clan to die instantly. They have the standard vampire weaknesses and their eyes are extremely sensitive to light making them wear sunglasses in bright places. |
| 53 | * In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "[[Recap/CSIS1E21JusticeIsServed Justice is Served]]", a nutritionist with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria Porphyria]] liquifies human organs and drinks them to get the enzymes she needs. Interestingly, porphyria is often cited as a possible influence for the creation of vampire myths, as the symptoms of some forms of it can mimic vampire traits; extreme pallor and sensitivity to light, receding gums which make the teeth appear longer, mental disturbances such as paranoia and hallucinations, etc. However, since vamps being harmed by sunlight is a recent invention, this speculation is questioned just as often. |
| 54 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' meanwhile, had a group of otherwise regular humans who belonged to a [[ReligiousVampire vampire church/religion group]]. Blood exchange was from consensual donors, and when someone is initiated into the group, they get a scar carved on the arm. It's based on a group that exists in RealLife. |
| 55 | * Vampires in ''Series/DarkShadows'' have retractable fangs that only appear when they're about to feed. The curse that causes people to become vampires is a powerful form of black magic that also causes its victims to do unspeakable evil as a compulsion; it can be resisted, but not all the time as it eats at the psyche. During the day, they die whether in sunlight or not, but rise again at night. Despite being undead, they appear to be otherwise normal humans most of the time. Their powers include hypnotic stares, incredible strength, regeneration, and immortality unless their bodies are excessively damaged. They can also shapeshift and teleport. |
| 56 | * ''Series/ADiscoveryOfWitches'': They look indistinguishable from humans ordinarily, are unaffected by sunlight, don't age, and turn others by giving them some of their blood. |
| 57 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 58 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay "State of Decay"]] has traditional vampires... [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]], on a PlanetOfHats version of {{Uberwald}}. The Great Vampire, however, is a giant bat-monster, the last of a race wiped out by the Time Lords. In this episode, while Romana tells a soon-to-die ally that vampires can only be killed by a wooden stake, the Fourth Doctor offs the Great Vampire [[spoiler:with a dart-shaped shuttlecraft, like the bowships the Time Lords used on the Great Vampires long ago]]. How he managed to hit the heart is probably one for [[ImprobableAimingSkills another trope]]. Oh, yeah — [[NoOntologicalInertia when the Great Vampire dies, all the vampires created by it go to dust as well]]. Gotta love efficiency. |
| 59 | *** The ExpandedUniverse explains the Vampire taint entered the Universe by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero primitive experiments in time travel]] by the JustForFun/{{Time Lord}}s, and the Great Vampires are equated with [[EldritchAbomination infinitely horrific beings]] called the Yssgaroth. An interesting tidbit is that ''Literature/FactionParadox'', a ''Doctor Who'' spinoff, makes it quite clear virtually '''''anything''''' can be infected with Yssgaroth taint. Up to and [[OhCrap including]] [[LivingShip timeships]]. |
| 60 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric "The Curse of Fenric"]], "Haemovores" (mutant descendants of humanity from a polluted potential future) can be repelled by a focus of belief. A Soviet soldier is therefore able to ward them off with a red star, while the Doctor can summon enough belief without a focus, by thinking of his companions. The doubting priest, on the other hand, has some trouble. |
| 61 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]], the blood-sucking alien Plasmavore (not the same kind of vampire) is impervious to sunlight, looks completely human, shows up on scanners as whatever species it most recently drank from, and drinks blood from human necks ''with a plastic bendy straw''. |
| 62 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]] features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires. In Venice.]] [[spoiler:These days, you can usually expect a bit more creativity than "exactly like that thing, but from space." Are they bat aliens who need a nutrient in your blood and can't take sunlight because Earth's is yellow/too close/etc.? Try, they're actually stinkin' alien ''fish'' who use a PerceptionFilter instead of holograms or suits or such. Because a perception filter is less "disguise" and more "strong suggestion to your brain to not notice something," you get the "no reflection" thing because your brain doesn't know what to fill in the blanks with when it comes to the side you're not seeing, and the fangs are the alien's natural teeth showing through when the viewer's survival instincts kick in.]] |
| 63 | ** In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', one account claims the Vampires were originally a peaceful species that only fed on unintelligent beasts they bred. However they were attacked by Rassilon, who took their power of regeneration for the Time Lords. The vampire Provost Tepesh is played by Creator/ColinBaker. |
| 64 | *** The ''Time Lord Victorious'' multimedia event establishes that the Great Vampires made a deal with the Kotturuh (a race who handed out every other species's fixed lifespan during the Dark Times) to keep their immortality so long as they fed on others. |
| 65 | *** In the ''Fourth Doctor Adventures'' story "White Ghosts", we meet [[spoiler:humans who have genetically spliced themselves with bats in order to survive on a dark, low-oxygen planet — side effects include vulnerability to light and a taste for blood...]] |
| 66 | ** A report by Owen on the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' website lists various specimens being kept in stasis in the Torchwood Hub's vaults, including "the so-called Invincible Vampire, who reconstitutes himself when [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer dusted]]." And a talking bear from Snowden. |
| 67 | * ''Series/DoubleTheFist'' gives us pale, naked humans who use their capes to glide, as well as the basic fangs and sunlight allergy. They are also invisible on camera, and have fangs on their penises, according to the DVD commentary. The CrazyIsCool character of Mephisto was originally intended to be a vampire, but actor and special effects man Doug Bayne missed that brainstorming session. That this gone through, their vampires would have also had aids and their own cult. |
| 68 | * In ''Series/Dracula2020'', most vampires are animalistic, decaying undead that don't last long. Dracula is the main exception, having survived for 400 years and able to keep a human appearance. It mostly boils down to him carefully selecting his victims and feeding on not just their blood, but also their knowledge. As he says, "You are what you eat", implying Dracula's ImAHumanitarian nature is actually what ''saved'' him from that fate, where those who fight against their nature suffer physically and those who tried to become [[VegetarianVampire Vegetarian Vampires]] picked up animalistic characteristics and became monsters anyway. Dracula has some of the classic weaknesses, like being weakened by sunlight, repelled by holy objects or being unable to enter a house without an invitation, but nobody knows exactly why these things work, and it is frequently lampshaded that it makes no sense. Eventually, Zoe Van Helsing figures out that these weaknesses all relate to Dracula's fear of death, and they work [[YourMindMakesItReal because he himself so firmly believes it works]]. |
| 69 | * ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' introduces the Atavus (again) in its final season. Unlike the other 2 times they introduced them, these Atavus look very similar to humans (but with slightly bestial features) and do not possess the Shaqarava - an organ possessed by several species (and [[HalfHumanHybrid Liam Kincaid]]) that allows energy to be channeled through the palms. They have extendable glowing claws that rip into the victim's body and drain the life force. This is their main method of feeding. Projectile weapons have no effect on the Atavus due to their HealingFactor and semi-EnergyBeing nature. Energy weapons work fairly well, though, although you're unlikely to get a OneHitKill, except with the {{Hand Cannon}}s introduced in the series finale. The Atavus cannot turn a human fully into one of them, however, they use their stasis pods to turn humans into human/Atavus hybrids. The hybrids can (and need to) feed like the Atavus do, but look human. They are also loyal to their masters. Being aliens, the Atavus are not repelled by any traditional vampire wards. It's also mentioned that the Atavus don't need to feed on living beings on their homeworld. |
| 70 | ** It's implied that these Atavus don't have the Shaqarava because they came to Earth before the Taelon/Jaridian split on their homeworld and the introduction of the Shaqarava by the Kimera. The other 2 times we see the Atavus, they may be the Taelon-specific variant after the Kimera "adjustments" but before the introduction of the [[HiveMind Commonality]]. It's implied that there's some sort of natural energy field on the Atavus homeworld that keeps them fed. |
| 71 | * ''Series/FirstKill'': While it's implied that made vampires are akin to more traditional examples, the show mostly deals with legacy vampires. They are direct descendants of Lilith bonding with the serpent of Eden, now known as the Queen Serpent. As such they can pass easily for human, reproduce naturally, have reflections, can eat human food, and are immune to both sunlight and stakes (though the latter can incapacitate them for a moment). Their only weaknesses are their need for blood, [[VampireInvitation requiring an invitation to enter a private home]], and being burned by pure silver (though not killed). They also have [[SuperStrength greater strength]] and [[SuperSenses more enhanced senses]] than humans. |
| 72 | * ''Series/ForeverKnight'': The show's vampires are rather traditional in many ways. |
| 73 | ** They are vulnerable to fire, sunlight, garlic, stakes and crosses (and other holy objects... the Egyptian sun disk affected Divia the same way as a cross would have). |
| 74 | ** They can fly and have a sort of infrared heat vision when vamped out. |
| 75 | ** They get yellow eyes when vamped out. |
| 76 | ** Usually they don't show up in mirrors, but Nick does due to his humanity (and budget constraints). He also has something of a tolerance where holy objects are concerned, though not for long. |
| 77 | ** Turning, or 'bringing across' requires the usual mutual blood exchange. And a newborn vamp that eats something other than human gets fixated on that species, and they're called a carouche. |
| 78 | ** The vampirism is mostly scientific, related to an alteration in DNA or RNA, and at least one drug can reverse it, but it creates an addiction to the drug then. It's also possible to become human through a process involving a bond with a human and a severe emotional trauma. |
| 79 | ** They share a mindlink with sires, siblings and children that lets them sense their presence. |
| 80 | ** They can survive as an essence if there's evil energy around and revive, like Divia did. |
| 81 | ** Oh, and apparently, drinking animal blood will feed them, but it leaves them a bit weaker than their human-drinking counterparts. |
| 82 | ** They have a strict code of masquerade maintenance as well. |
| 83 | * In ''Series/FromDuskTillDawn'' the vampires are different even from the ones in [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn the movie]]: |
| 84 | ** They are called Culebras, the Spanish word for snake, which they resemble closely instead of bats. They have fangs that fold into their palates instead of retracting into their gums and inject venom. They also have snake-like scales and skin when transformed. |
| 85 | ** They are unaffected by crosses. |
| 86 | ** Bullets can hurt and incapacitate them but they can only be killed by destroying their hearts, at which point their bodies [[NoBodyLeftBehind turn to dust]]. |
| 87 | ** They can walk in the sunlight without much trouble if they have fed recently, but eventually it starts to burn them. |
| 88 | ** After draining their victims they can absorb their memories and [[FaceStealer shapeshift into their form]]. It’s implied they do this by [[YourSoulIsMine feeding on the person’s soul]] as well as their blood. |
| 89 | ** They can consciously decide not to inject their venom when they bite someone, allowing them to feed on that person without turning them. |
| 90 | ** They also enjoy eating [[ImAHumanitarian human flesh and organs]], in addition to the blood. |
| 91 | ** [[http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/07/robert-rodriguez-interview-dusk-till-dawn/ According to]] WordOfGod, [[spoiler:the creatures are in fact not really vampires, but something very similar and more ancient. In Season 3, they are revealed to be minor demons originated from the Mayan underworld of Xibalba.]] |
| 92 | * ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' has Murcielagos, if as is stated in-univere Wesens inspired the different creatures of folklore, then Murcielagos looks a lot like the classic Film/{{Nosferatu}} and could also be the inspiration for the turning-into-bat part of the myth, in a similar way how the Blutbad was the inspiration for the werewolf myth. |
| 93 | * ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and its spin-off ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' have [[VampireVarietyPack two distinct examples in the same setting]]: |
| 94 | ** The Bacchae are the servants of Bacchus, the evil god of debauchery. They are shown to be always female since Bacchus prefers to [[CorruptTheCutie take the purest girls and corrupt them into their twisted monsters]], have the power to shapeshift into wolves and can only be killed with dryad bones. If a Bacchae drinks from her master's blood, then the transformation will be irreversible and they are doomed to never pass on to the afterlife after their deaths. |
| 95 | ** The Strigoi are traditional vampires, though during UsefulNotes/AncientGreece. Unlike the Bacchae, they have no ties with the gods and can be kiled with normal wooden stakes. Though they don't appear to shapeshift, they can levitate and their master vampire [[{{Dracula}} Vlad]] is capable of turning into mist and teleport. They are particularly vulnerable to hemlock and are weakened greatly if they ingest blood laced with hemlock. |
| 96 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The show's vampires follow some of the baseline rules, but not all of them. |
| 97 | ** A WoodenStake [[AttackOnTheHeart through the heart]] won't kill a vampire. |
| 98 | ** [[SilverHasMysticPowers Silver]], [[HolyBurnsEvil religious objects/sites]] and [[VampiresHateGarlic garlic/onions]] are harmless to them. |
| 99 | ** They can move freely because MustBeInvited, CannotCrossRunningWater and AtTheCrossroads don't apply. |
| 100 | ** Vampires have reflections, they cast shadows, and their photos can be taken (e.g. in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", Tom Anderson keeps a photograph of the vampires Louis de Pointe and Lestat de Lioncourt in his desk drawer). |
| 101 | ** Although undead, their heart still beats (a vampire's heart rate will even match that of their beloved's), and they still draw breath (according to Claudia in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill episode 7]], Louis and Lestat's breathing become synchronized after spending an hour alone together). |
| 102 | ** Unlike Creator/AnneRice's [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles vampires]], the TV incarnations can eat human food even though they don't like the taste. The latter can also physically have sex, while the former cannot. |
| 103 | * ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' has the Fangires (a portmanteau of Fang and Vampire), stained-glass based creatures (resembling different animals and monsters) that can masquerade as humans and suck the "life energy" of their victims out through "phantom" fangs that appear above their heads, turning the victims transparent, as a result. They're also the strongest and most prolific of the 13 Demon Races in the show's setting, having dealt with most of the others one way or another (nearly wiping out the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfen]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merman]], and {{Franken|steinsMonster}} races [[AllThereInTheManual and actually having wiped out the Goblins centuries ago]]). |
| 104 | ** It should be noted most of the Demon Races drain life energy from their victims (Wolfen rip the life force out of their body and drain it out through touch), but the Fangire are the only ones explicitly based off vampires. |
| 105 | * ''Koishite'' Akuma (The Loving Demon) is a Japanese vampire drama similar to Twilight: the new boy in town is a budding vampire who falls in love with a human at school and struggles with his urges to guzzle blood and sleep in coffins. |
| 106 | * ''Series/LetTheRightOneIn'': [[WeakenedByTheLight Sunlight burns them]], they have extreme [[SuperStrength strength]], [[SuperSpeed speed]], [[VampireInvitation must be invited to enter someone's home]] and freeze at the age they were when turned (as tween vampire Eleanor shows). |
| 107 | * ''Series/{{Lexx}}'': Vlad is a Divine Executioner that landed on Transylavania and served as origin for all vampire myths on Earth. She is practically indestructible, has superhuman strength, speed, can fly using bat-like wings, preserves her youth by drinking protoblood and can turn individuals into her thralls by biting them. Its unknown if this is a common trait among Divine Executioners as Vlad is the only one ever seen in the series, but one of the main protagonists Kai (a Divine Assassin, a rank below the Executioner) also vaguely resembles a vampire, being undead/immortal. |
| 108 | * ''Series/LostTapes'' has two vampiric [[DoingInTheWizard animal monsters]] as antagonists in the first two seasons. The first are featured in the episode "Cave Demons" as nearly man-sized semi-vampiric [[BatOutOfHell predatory bats]] with impressive wingspreads that are implied to be the basis for sightings of the olitiau cryptid. The second was out and out called a vampire and is a horrible brutally animalistic, but living, ape-like creature with a vaguely bat-like face that feeds on blood from any humans and small animals it can catch. The episode also portrays its lair as something akin to a raccoon's or a pack rats, as it lives in the basement of a [[HauntedHouse old home]]. And while incredibly strong and fast, it ultimately possesses the traditional weakness of being instantly killed via a WoodenStake to the heart (as demonstrated by the father of the family it tries to hunt when he picks up a sharpened fragment of a wooden door that the creature tried to bust through to reach him and his family and uses it as an ImprovisedWeapon when he gets desperate enough to try to fight back). The 3rd season introduces a third vampire species, the Strigoi, which is an explicitly supernatural humanoid creature, capable of invisibility, shape-shifting, and other supernatural powers. |
| 109 | * ''Series/TheLWord'' introduces the character of Uta Refson (Nosferatu backwards) a BDSM gothic-looking lesbian who Alice thinks is a vampire. Of course, as it's a realistic series, the exact nature of her vampirism is left for the audience to figure out. For example, Alice thinks Uta doesn't have a reflection but it's just because of a mistake. On the other hand, Uta does seems to have superhuman strength. |
| 110 | * In ''Series/TheMiddleman'', vampires can tell all about a victim from one sip of blood, including their motivations and thoughts. And they can only be killed by a stake of purest Carpathian wood. And sometimes their souls can get trapped in evil puppets. |
| 111 | * ''Series/MidnightMass2021'': The "Angel" that causes the whole plot is a Nosferatu-esque, hairless and winged monster, with an ambiguous and possibly animal level of intelligence; it only speaks when it's repeating a human, and might not even understand what it's saying. If a human drinks its blood, they won't become a vampire right off but the blood begins to change their body on a molecular level, [[HealingFactor healing injuries]] and [[FountainOfYouth restoring youth]], and the more they drink of it, the more vulnerable they become to sunlight, which attacks the vampiric cells in the body. Crucially, the human needs to die with a certain amount of the vampire's blood in their system in order to fully become a vampire, after which they develop the standard bloodlust and eyes that reflect light, like cats. If the person stops taking the blood and suffers no accidents, Sarah Gunning theorizes that the blood will eventually pass from their system and they'd be in no further danger of transforming. And if the source of the blood dies, [[NoOntologicalInertia then the blood's power disappears]] — in the final episode, when the "Angel" apparently perishes via sunlight offscreen, Leeza (who was previously cured of a broken spine via the "communion wine") says that she can no longer feel her legs. |
| 112 | * In the ''Series/{{Monsters}}'' episode "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites", a couple of teenage boys investigate the local barbershop, noticing that the barbers have been around for a very long time without aging and that customers sneak in carrying large bottles of blood. One of them is convinced that the barbers are vampires, while his friend (the narrator who is recounting this tale from his youth to a barber) thinks he's nuts. It turns out that the barbers aren't vampires, but they are in league with one. The barbers explain to the narrator that vampires used to be the stereotypical monsters seen in classic horror films, but over the centuries they have become giant near-immobile ''leeches''. The barbers of the world are the vampires' caretakers -- they and their customers give large quantities of their own blood to the vampires in exchange for small quantities of the vampires' blood which allows humans to live for a very long time (hence why the barbers don't seem to age). The barbers try to convince the narrator and his friend to join them by letting them taste their master's blood. In the present day, it's shown that the two accepted the offer. |
| 113 | * Vampires in ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' can go about during the day provided they keep mostly covered up. |
| 114 | ** They have a drink/drinkback siring process, and a special "[[GameFace vampire face]]" as in BTVS. |
| 115 | ** They must rest in a cold place, typically a freezer or an ice bath. |
| 116 | ** They can be photographed digitally, but not with any silver emulsion, nor do they reflect in silver mirrors (modern aluminum mirrors haven't been brought up). |
| 117 | ** They also have a strict code of ethics aimed at preserving the {{Masquerade}} and enforced by hot vampire chicks, but [[{{Fanservice}} that's another trope entirely]]. |
| 118 | ** There are a couple more differences between this show's mythos and traditional vampire stories. Garlic has no effect on vampires. Silver is toxic, but not immediately fatal. It will kill a vampire given sufficient time or amount. A stake through the heart paralyzes them, but remove the stake and they get better. Fire and decapitation still work, though. |
| 119 | ** Fire was used during the Reign of Terror in France to weed out and eliminate vampires, as fire would instantly turn any part of the body coming in contact with it to ash, while a human would only get a nasty blister and charred skin. This explains the most common ways to execute people during that time: burning at the stake and the guillotine. It is revealed that the entire French royal family was made up of vampires. Those of that line can also resist fire. Lance was shown to be immune to it, and Coraline survived being in a room on fire. |
| 120 | ** While there is no permanent cure for vampirism, a rare compound was developed during the Reign of Terror that temporarily suppresses the vampires' true nature. For all intents and purposes, they become human. They have no fear of sunlight, fire, or silver, can eat normal food, do not need to cool down during the day, etc. However, they also lose their superhuman abilities, such as strength, speed, and smell. A vampire who has temporarily become human can be re-turned by another vampire. |
| 121 | * 60s family sitcom ''Series/TheMunsters'' has friendly vampires. The Dracula part of the family is made of vampires and werewolves. Lily Munster, the family's matriarch and her father Sam Dracula a.k.a. Grandpa are vampires. Marilyn presumably is a vampire too as she is the daughter and granddaughter of vampires (though she is a "deform" vampire and therefore looks like a perfectly normal human girl for her family's dismay). Eddie, Lily's son, is a werewolf but has some vampiric behaviors. Vampires in this universe have no problem with sunlight, seem to be immortal but can grow old with time and don't need human blood to survive though, they do like it. The Grandpa in particular can also turn into bat and wolf. |
| 122 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Bloodlust", students of a girl boarding school have gone to meet a mysterious man in a nearby cemetery and have woken up in a crypt with puncture wounds on their necks and having lost blood. This happens at the time of the publication of ''Dracula'' and George Crabtree thinks a vampire is involved. As it turns out, the Headmistress was hidding a haemophiliac son and using a physician and the girls' fascination with the Dracula story to drug them and transfuse their blood to her son. |
| 123 | * The vamps in ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'' have most of the strengths and weaknesses of the standard vamps but can go out in sunlight, although they wear sunglasses. They can't change shape but can fly, can be destroyed by holy water (the VampireHunter's sidearm of choice being a Super Soaker filled with it), and can live on animal blood or in extreme circumstances normal food. |
| 124 | * ''Series/OctoberFaction'': They don't seem to be undead and lack the typical weaknesses and powers of vampires. They keep the typical fangs, but instead of being longer canines they're retractable and protrude forward from their mouths. They are created from normal humans though. |
| 125 | * ''Series/TheOrville'' has a race called the Krill, the resident bad guy race of the first season. They have pale skin and vampiric features, are hypersensitive to light to the point that ultraviolet rays can burn them alive, they have a violent and murderous culture that sees all other races as soulless and free to be killed at leisure, and culturally they follow a ReligionOfEvil built around blood sacrifices and worship of an OmnicidalManiac deity called Avis, and are basically space vampires. |
| 126 | * Vampires in ''Series/PennyDreadful'' are very similar to the classic Victorian vampire, as the series is based on the original literature of the period. Vampires are shown to be dwellers of dark places, act a lot like animals and can't pass as normal humans as they look too pale and sick, except for their leader, Dracula, who apparently is Lucifer's brother. |
| 127 | ** They can also be killed by regular bullets, just like humans (i.e., no wooden stakes, the bullets don't have to be silver, they don't have to hit the heart or brain or any place in particular). Even Dracula could be killed this way, although he had super-human strength and speed that allowed him to dodge the bullets. They are also unaffected by sunlight and Dracula, just like his literary counterpart, can also walk during the day with no issue whatsoever and die if the original vampire of their line is killed. |
| 128 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 129 | ** Count Nocturne from ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' is a vampire MonsterOfTheWeek who was transformed from a [[SpaceX lunar bat]]. He manages to bite Carlos, starting to turn the teen into a vampire as well. The other Rangers are able to subdue their friend and Alpha administers a temporary antidote that breaks Carlos free. It starts to wear off during the fight, but Carlos is able to resist long enough to blow the Count up with the Rescue Turbo Megazord. This breaks the spell. |
| 130 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce,'' Necrolai is the queen of vampires. Being the queen makes her and those directly sired by her immune to the usual weaknesses. She herself gets true immortality as a perk: no matter how thoroughly you destroy her and no matter what AppliedPhlebotinum you use to do it, she'll re-form. However, [[spoiler: a little while after her HeelFaceTurn, she transformed into a human after using her stored LifeEnergy to bring those who'd died during the GrandFinale battle back to life, apparently losing her powers. It would seem that role has fallen to her daughter Leelee [[SignificantAnagram Pimvare]] now, since the Book of Prophecy says she will become the new queen.]] When it comes to turning others into vampires, any vampire can do that, it seems, but they will have the weaknesses - there was a rush to take down the vampire MonsterOfTheWeek (whose monster form is actually based on a venus flytrap) before dawn, lest all the newly created vampire minions get nuked. |
| 131 | ** The original ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' footage had her counterpart Vancuria, who serves as a spy for the villains and is fairly similar to Necrolai in most ways. Unlike Necrolai though, she was also able to transform into two mischievous girls dressed as {{Elegant Gothic Lolita}}s named Nai and Mea. |
| 132 | ** ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Simian-looking comic relief villain Totbat is a vampire. He doesn't need blood, given that he's never drank it even once, but he wants to. Sunlight has no ill effect on him or anything, and the fact that he's a vampire only comes up one time. In fact, it was such a minor aspect that it was dropped from his ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' counterpart Baboo (who was an alien instead). |
| 133 | ** On that note, Baboo was originally explicitly meant to be a vampire and was portrayed (but never stated) to be such in the first pilot. In this version, he went by the name Mongo and was less simple-minded than later portrayed. While explicitly an alien, it's loosely suggested that he's an alien vampire even in his final portrayal. |
| 134 | * Vampires in ''{{Series/Preacher|2016}}'' can eat, drink and sleep, aren't affected by holy objects, garlic or stakes. Their fangs are retractable and only ever come out when they feed (as opposed to in the comics where vampires don't have fangs at all). They need blood to heal, but it seems they don't necessarily need human blood. Vampires can acquire super strength, flying and the ability to shapeshift, but [[spoiler:only if they turn lots of other people]]. |
| 135 | * ''Series/QuantumLeap'' also has a vampire episode. Sam enters the body of the vampire, though he's skeptical about the existence of vampires and he thinks is only a man with a vampire fetish. Al, on the other hand, is convinced that is real. As in other examples, the series ends with the classic is not a vampire... [[OrWasItADream or is it?]] |
| 136 | * ''Series/ReginaldTheVampire'' is set in a world where vampires are beautiful, fit and vain. Reginald is none of these things and the comedy stems from this. |
| 137 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' features a vampire who follows the Bela Lugosi mold to a T, though he's also a professional actor, so he may be hamming it up on purpose. He's repulsed by garlic and mirrors, and immune to witch-magic. Sabrina kills him by driving a ''steak'' through his heart. A porterhouse steak. Magic in the Sabrinaverse is largely based on wordplay. |
| 138 | * ''Series/Sanctuary2007'': |
| 139 | ** Vampires once ruled the world due to being better than humans in pretty much every way (getting thrown off a skyscraper fails to faze one). Eventually the other species rose up and wiped them out but their genes lived on in a few families. Nikola Tesla accidentally turned himself into one when he injected the last remaining vampire blood into himself. They have spikes that come out of their fingers, hugely dilated eyes and ignore sunlight. |
| 140 | ** These vampires cannot be staked. In his first appearance, Tesla was impaled against a cave wall and was mildly annoyed (ruined a good suit). He was then impaled by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Druitt]]'s hand and was thought to have been killed until revealed to have survived. Explosions, especially of the nuclear kind, work well, though. |
| 141 | ** Amusingly, Tesla is prone to ranting about the various misconceptions that the media holds about vampires, claiming the fact that his kind are believed to be allergic to garlic and able to transform into bats at will is "beyond insulting." He also states that holy water does nothing more than leave a bad taste in a vampire's mouth, and claims that many vampiric weaknesses are simply propaganda spread by the church. |
| 142 | ** There's also more to turning a human into a vampire than a simple bite. Tesla worked for decades trying to figure out how to make more like him without the source blood. |
| 143 | *** He ends up injecting a bunch of spoiled rich kids with a virus that will slowly, over decades, turn them into vampires (although without Tesla's electric powers). Then one of them has a car accident, causing the virus to ''instantly'' turn him. He proceeds to kill his friends, who have also undergone the "drug rehab treatment". They accidentally, kill another guy when they assume that biting will work, but then one of them, a pre-med, quickly figures out Tesla's method and copies it. |
| 144 | *** Naturally, Tesla has a device that can be activated with his electric powers and turn a vampire back into a human. Bad news is, one of the teens uses the device to turn ''Tesla'' back into a human, although his electric power turns into a magnetic one. Later, after finding frozen bodies of actual vampires, Tesla injects himself with the blood of a vampire queen and is re-turned. |
| 145 | * On an early 1990s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' episode hosted by James Woods, Woods played a vampire who, before biting a potential female victim's neck, screens them for AIDS by asking questions about their past sexual partners and even takes the blood to a lab to get it checked. [[spoiler: By the time all that is finished and he's ready to feed on her, the sun rises and kills him.]] |
| 146 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': Tragically few details are given about the specific vampiric nature of Count von Count, but he is known to have the obsessive-compulsive bit (as his name suggests, he loves counting things, even to the exclusion of going after victims) and is suggested to have control of the weather (as DramaticThunder can always be heard whenever he laughs). Uniquely, he also has purple skin, although whether this is a result of vampirism, puppet-ism, or the combination of the two is unknown. He has been seen in the sun, although, again, his lack of actual skin brings into question whether other vampires of his world are similarly immune or if it is a puppet advantage. |
| 147 | * Since KryptoniteIsEverywhere in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', it makes perfect sense that a girl named [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] [[ShoutOut Sanders]] in a vampire sorority was bitten by a mutated bat from a cave with [[GreenRocks meteor-rock]] infected stalactites. She is vaporized by Lana, who gained heat vision after biting Clark. There is also a cure for this. |
| 148 | * ''Series/SoWeird'': Fiona's family nearly falls victim to a group of vampires. None of the traditional vampire wards work -- she tries crosses, holy water, and garlic. What ''does'' work is an angel necklace given to her brother by his girlfriend. Later, Fiona speculates that it worked because the pendant was a symbol of love. |
| 149 | * ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has a race of beings known as the Wraith. The Wraith were once insects who [[HollywoodEvolution evolved to a human-like state]] by absorbing human DNA from their prey, but still retain their most basic instincts, which is to feed off of beings by sucking the life force (literally) out of your body with their hands, to rejuvenate their own life. Doing so renders them biologically immortal, some having been around for many thousands of years. It is unknown whether a Wraith can starve to death although there is an instance where one went delirious and spoke in haikus. Feeding causes the target to age rapidly until they die; even partially fed victims die most of the time due to the levels of trauma involved. In fact, the human body would shut down far too fast for their liking were it not for the special enzyme transferred into the victim that makes them somewhat more resistant to it. Said enzyme is produced by a set of glands in their forearms and can be used as a highly addictive [[PsychoSerum combat drug]] for humans. |
| 150 | ** It is said that Wraiths have a HealingFactor dependent on when they fed last. A well-fed Wraith can knock humans across walls and swallow up to forty bullets before dying - as Sheppard puts it, "I can see you just fed, which means your regenerative powers are at their highest... but I seriously doubt you can grow a new head". However, their physiology is similar enough to humans that Wraith weapons designed to stun humans work on their owners as well. Additionally, a retrovirus can suppress the insect DNA, transforming the Wraith in question into a regular human with amnesia (temporarily unless a viral inhibitor dose is also used regularly). |
| 151 | ** The Wraith also have telepathic powers, which they normally use to communicate amongst themselves across long distances but the stronger-willed among them can employ to force humans to do things via CompellingVoice, or even GrandTheftMe in the case of Teyla (who has a small amount of Wraith DNA making her sensitive to the presence of Wraith minds, and has also managed to turn that around and GrandTheftMe a Wraith queen). |
| 152 | ** They're known to have a great weakness: a virus that makes a human not only immune to Wraith feeding, it also kills the offending Wraith. Plus, although they have a hive-like hierarchical society ruled by queens with nearly mindless (and faceless) male warrior drones at the bottom and intelligent males in the middle, they are quite willing to kill each other or resort to cannibalism if there's not enough food for all of them (as in the case of the show). Warriors are produced parthenogenetically by queens, while intelligent males and females are presumably born the more traditional way. In a sharp difference to vampires from most other fiction, Wraiths can actually reverse the feeding process and transfer their own life force into someone else to heal them and restore their youth. They never do this lightly and reserve it for their closest worshippers and comrades only. Another weakness is revealed later: Wraith children are omnivores and can sustain themselves on any kind of normal food but once they reach puberty, their digestive tract reverts to a dormant state. Hence the need for vampirism, which becomes a problem for a Wraith girl named Ellia raised by a human adoptive father. In the final season, a modified version of the Wraith-to-human retrovirus is available to leave the subject as a Wraith but removes their feeding orifice, reactivating their digestive tract instead. |
| 153 | *** One episode shows a high-ranking Wraith regularly visiting a human world for a fine dinner with (presumably) wine. While it provides no nourishment to him, he is shown enjoying the sensation. This implies that the digestive tract is working but doesn't provide the required nutrients. |
| 154 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", there's a "salt vampire" (officially called "the M-113 Creature") that can look like its victim's ideal love/sex object. This allows it to find victims when straight salt isn't available. |
| 155 | * ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' has somewhat traditional vampires (burned by sunlight, vulnerable to silver, etc.), except that the vampirism is spread by virus-carrying worms. The vampires also have long, tongue-like "stingers," and appear on video and in reflections (although their images seem to vibrate in silver mirrors). The show hasn't yet addressed the effects of crosses or garlic. Vampirism also completely morphs their body, turning their skin grey, causing all the hair on their body to fall out and their noses and genitals to fall off. |
| 156 | * ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'''s vampires were intended to lack several traits of vampires seen in other media, so they tend to be, well, different, aside from being [[TheUndead undead]] and feeding on blood. They have normal human teeth and a retractable second set of pointed teeth used to bite people. Strong weakness to sunlight? The worst they get is a bad sunburn and the first time vampires are seen in the series, one of them is actually seen outside in the day with no problems caused by doing so. Killed by stakes? Nope. Repelled by crosses? Nope. In fact, one of them wore a cross around her neck! In addition, dead men's blood is poisonous to them, so they're required to drink blood fresh from living prey. Humans are turned into vampires if they ingest the blood of a vampire or it comes into contact with an open wound. |
| 157 | ** The episode "Monster Movie" has the Winchesters fight {{Dracula}}, who is a ClassicalMovieVampire and completely different from any other vampires on the show. [[spoiler: Because he's not a vampire, he's a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] fan of classical cinema ''pretending'' to be Dracula, as well as several other movie monsters, like Film/TheWolfman1941.]] |
| 158 | ** The episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS09E13ThePurge "The Purge"]] has Sam and Dean encounter a pishtaco, a fat-sucking vampire from Peru. However, she claims to be a FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire, simply using her fat sucking abilities to help people lose weight. [[spoiler: She is, but her ''brother'' is the killer]]. |
| 159 | ** The episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E11AdventuresInBabysitting "Adventures in Babysitting"]] introduces the vetala, another vampire-like monster whose victims are often mistaken for vampire ones during the similar bite marks and loss of blood. Unlike true vampires, vetala are capable of paralzying their victims with a special venom so they can feed slowly over several days, and can only be killed with silver. |
| 160 | ** The episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS11E04Baby "Baby"]] introduces the Nachzehrer. They drink blood and can change humans into their own kind like vampires, but also feed on the flesh of the dead like [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]]. Unlike true vampires, however, decapitaion doesn't kill them [[spoiler: unless you place a copper coin into their mouths. And killing the pack's alpha with turn the rest back into humans]]. |
| 161 | * In ''Series/TrueBlood'', the invention of synthetic blood by a Japanese scientist (ostensibly for transfusions in humans) has allowed vampires to "come out of the coffin" to the mainstream public. All they have to do is drink [=TruBlood=] (now sold as a soft drink in most restaurants) and can "mainstream" more or less successfully, though a human notes "Imagine you suddenly can't eat any of your favorite foods, and have to spend the rest of your life drinking [=SlimFast=]." There are references throughout the series to a Vampire Rights movement, along with a Vampire Rights Amendment (VRA) working its way through Congress. Much of the conflict of the show deals with people's well-intentioned desire to treat vampires like normal people, but begrudging acceptance that they are still instinctive predators, and thus have to be evaluated on an individual basis. Vampire traits: |
| 162 | ** They are immune to crosses, holy water, can travel freely, don't need to sleep in coffins, and can be seen by cameras and mirrors. Garlic, while not lethal, is very irritating to them. Bill Compton explains that most of those vampiric rumors were actually invented ''by'' vampires themselves in order to trick potential victims into lowering their guard or use them as a proof of their humanity if they were forced to prove it. Vamps are still allergic to the sun, and their weakness to it actually ''increases'' with age. They have to sleep somewhere during the day, preferably underground, though Bill sleeps under old floorboards in his closet. Silver burns their skin and completely paralyzes them. In the first episode, Bill is essentially chained to the floor by a silver necklace draped across his wrists and neck. |
| 163 | ** They have some of the natural powers usually attributed to vampires like controlling human minds by [[HypnoticEyes looking at someone's eyes intensely]] or an impressive HealingFactor. |
| 164 | ** Staking and decapitation has definite death potential for a vampire. However, in contrast with most modern vampire stories where a staked vamp either turns to dust or simply drops dead, True Blood vampires ''explode'' in a fountain of blood and viscera when staked, leaving behind a disgusting, corn syrupy mess that's an absolute ''bitch'' to clean up. |
| 165 | ** Another major plot point of the series is the effect of vampire blood on humans. When drunk by a human who has been drained by the same vampire, the human in question will eventually become one too. However, when drunk by a human after suffering serious injuries, vampire blood has healing properties, and can rescue humans that have suffered severe (non-vampire-related) blood loss. Finally, when taken by humans as a narcotic (also known as V or V-juice), vampire blood has hallucinatory effects and leads to a greatly increased libido. However, Jason takes too much of the stuff and suffers a vicious case of priapism. Don't know what that is? Good. |
| 166 | ** The vampires also need a formally worded invitation before they can enter a human residence, and said invitation can be rescinded at any time, whereupon the vampire gets picked up and physically hurled from the house by an invisible forcefield. |
| 167 | *** [[LoopholeAbuse However, nothing prevents a vampire from forcing a human to invite him or her in]]. In one episode, Bill hypnotizes Jessica's sister into inviting him in when her father refuses invitation. It's unclear if one denizen of the residence can rescind an invitation given by another. In another episode, Eric physically threatens Sookie (who is on her porch) and demands to be allowed in her home. However, this is only because he hears a noise inside and believes someone wants to hurt her. He's right; there's a werewolf hiding inside. |
| 168 | ** The bonds that makers have with their progenies differ from person to person. Bill and Jessica's bond takes on the appearance of a father-daughter relationship. Lorena Krasiki and Russell Edgington create progeny to prolong romantic and sexual relationships, and have spousal relationships with their progenies (Bill and Talbot). |
| 169 | *** On that note, most vampires do not take becoming a maker lightly. Eric produces only two progeny in a millennium (Pam and Willa). Nan Flanagan never reproduced, as she was far too ambitious with her career, and was not willing to take on the responsibility of being a maker. Bill also had no plans to become a maker, but as an alternative sentencing for killing Longshadow, turned Jessica and became a committed surrogate dad to her. Pam is a notable exception; she created two progenies — both of whom she had no feelings for at the time — for rather shallow reasons. Her first stint as a maker, with Colin, was entirely out of curiosity; she abandoned her progeny within months. Her second progeny, Tara, was created in exchange for the chance to reconcile with her own maker Eric. Rosalyn Harris created 204 progeny in 211 years, so it is all but impossible for her to have had deep, personal relationships with all or even most of them. |
| 170 | ** Drinking fairy blood gives a vampire ''temporary'' immunity to sunlight and it can have similar effects on vampires as V does to humans. |
| 171 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': |
| 172 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E15 Monsters!]]", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson explains to Toby Michaels that most of what he has learned about [[YourVampiresSuck vampires from the monster movies that he loves so much is incorrect]]. Becoming a vampire is more like contracting a disease than dying and returning as TheUndead. It also doesn't mean that an infected person is granted eternal life and stops aging altogether. Mr. Benedictson became a vampire at 11 years old and appears to be in his early 80s in 1986, 147 years after he was infected. He is not evil but simply a kind old man who has returned to his native Mill Valley to die. Vampires are also [[DaywalkingVampire immune to sunlight]], garlic and the cross. Most significantly, there is something in a vampire's biology that activates a recessive gene in ordinary humans when in close proximity, causing them to mutate into monsters who destroy vampires. It acts as a genetic defense mechanism. |
| 173 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E21 Red Snow]]", the vampires living in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] have fangs, [[VampiresSleepInCoffins sleep in coffins]] and [[WeakenedByTheLight are killed by sunlight]]. However, they are not evil. In exchange for protection during the summer months, they protect the townspeople from any possible source of danger. Aside from thieves and murderers, they never feed on humans. These vampires also [[DirtyCommunists despise the Soviet Union]] for all the suffering that it has caused the Russian people. |
| 174 | * A total of three ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' have featured vampire-based monsters. |
| 175 | ** The aptly-named Draculas from ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' is a monstrous bat-like alien from the planet [[MeaningfulName Carmilla]] who possesses corpses to hide amongst humans and from daylight, while feeding off life energy at night (he even manages to drain some of Ultraman Jack's Colour Timer energy). Jack even destroys Draculas by turning his [[SwissArmyWeapon Ultra Bracelet]] into a stake and impaling him! |
| 176 | ** Batton from ''Series/UltramanLeo'' is a giant alien space bat who takes the form of a woman in daytime, but at night turns into a bat-headed humanoid with massive fangs to feed on human blood. |
| 177 | ** Kyuranos from ''Series/UltramanTiga'' isn't an alien like the other two, but a gigantic bat monster from South America that turns humans into more typical vampires to induct them into its cult. Unfortunately for Japan, it decides to expand its worship to Tokyo after turns a Japanese reporter into one of its worshipers. Also, to counteract the daylight problem, Kyuranos can create a cloud of darkness to blot out the Sun. |
| 178 | ** While not vampires in the same sense as the other three, many other Ultra monsters display vampire-like traits (sucking blood, impersonating humans, and mind control), such as [[Series/{{Ultraman}} Keronia]] (a man-eating plant-man from the Amazon), [[Series/UltraSeven Darii]] (an alien parasite that makes it hosts like vampires), [[Series/UltramanTaro Basara]] (a bloodsucking mass of flowers controlled by the spirit of a dead little girl), [[Series/UltramanEighty Gimyra]] (a dinosaur-like kaiju that turns humans into monsters by draining their blood), [[Series/UltramanEighty Okorin]], [[Series/UltramanTiga Magnia]], [[Series/UltramanDyna Maricula]] (all walking clusters of parasites that can control humans), [[Series/UltramanCosmos Giragas]] (an alien pair with BizarreSexualDimorphism as the female is a sentient pair of wings and the male is a humanoid brute), and [[Series/UltramanNexus Nosferu]] (a rat-like monster that can resurrect the dead as puppets and regenerate FromASingleCell). |
| 179 | * ''Series/Ultraviolet1998'' has "leeches" (vampires) who are susceptible to ultraviolet rays (found in sunlight), do not show up on any electrical or photographic audiovisual equipment (they can't even use telephones without an electronic speech synthesiser), and are injured by carbon-based bullets. They also violently burn to ash when killed by any means, with enough energy discharged to cause serious damage to anything too close, but if another vampire spills blood on their remains they can regenerate, which is why the vampire hunters must gather up the ashes and keep them locked away. They appear to have super healing, but damage done by sunlight never heals. However, they are visually identical to humans, and don't even have fangs. |
| 180 | * The lore of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' takes some major turns from other vampire tales. |
| 181 | ** Vampires can subsist off animal blood, but are stronger, have better senses, and have more abilities when they regularly consume human blood. They're supernaturally fast and strong, and only get stronger with age. They also have greatly [[SuperSenses enhanced senses of hearing and smell]] and the ability to [[HypnoticEyes compel people]]. Vampires can even [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase memories]] if they've been drinking enough human blood. When affected with bloodlust, they [[GameFace grow fangs, prominent veins appear around their eyes, their irises turn black, and their sclera turns red.]]. To top this off, they can turn their feelings and emotions on and off as they please, which lets them be as moral as is convenient. |
| 182 | ** As for weaknesses, crosses, silver, and holy water aren't a problem, but any kind of wood implement causes pain. [[KryptoniteFactor Although garlic doesn't affect them, vampires have a weakness to the plant vervain]], but they can build up an immunity if exposed to small amounts over a long period of time. When humans wear or ingest vervain, they can't be compelled or have their memories erased. Vervain is also toxic to vampires; contact causes pain, and ingesting or having it injected causes pain and paralysis. Drinking the blood of someone who's recently consumed vervain has the same effects of consuming vervain itself. They must also be [[MustBeInvited invited at least once into dwellings with living inhabitants before they can enter, but killing the inhabitants also works]]. While they're still vulnerable to direct sunlight, indirect sunlight doesn't do them any harm and a few vampires even have special rings that allow them to walk during the day. The rings need to be enchanted by witches, and the original creator can remove the ring's conferred sunlight immunity at any time they choose. [[FurAgainstFang Werewolves are the natural enemies of vampires]], and their bites are horribly lethal. |
| 183 | ** To turn someone into a vampire, they must first drink vampire blood and then die, but they're not out of the woods just yet. After death they will be in a stage called "transition" which lasts about a day before the person in question either dies or chooses to drink human blood and thus completes the "transition", becoming a full vampire. On top of this, drinking vampire blood causes humans to gain a temporary sort of HealingFactor. The reverse is true for vampires, who ordinarily have a HealingFactor (they can even regenerate their eyes), but heal even faster after consuming human blood. |
| 184 | ** They cannot have children. |
| 185 | ** They have a weakness towards decapitation and fire. ((The early episodes implied that Damon could control animals such as a crow, but that has been mostly dropped.) |
| 186 | ** They have reflections and appear on camera and don't appear abnormally pale. The oldest (and thus strongest) vampires are capable of surviving even fatal weaknesses like wooden stakes, and can compel or hypnotize other vampires. |
| 187 | * In the Korean sitcom ''Series/VampireIdol'' (뱀파이어 아이돌), the crown prince of planet Vampiritus and his [[UndyingLoyalty three trusty body guards]] come to Seoul to see a [[KoreanPopMusic K-pop]] concert because there's NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture, and end up [[AlienAmongUs stranded on Earth]]. This alien species has many of the standard vampire traits -- glowing eyes, fangs, immortality, nigh invulnerability, and special powers (the three body guards have respectively, super intelligence, super hearing, and super strength and reflexes) -- but have [[SpaceElves adapted beyond the need to drink blood]]. The renowned founder of their society led them to enlightenment ala [[Franchise/StarTrek Surak of Vulcan]], and now they have all but suppressed their barbaric cravings for blood and subsist on synthetic blood substitutes. Being aliens, these vampires are not undead but born that way, and their bite cannot turn humans into vampires. The show loves to poke fun at modern vampire tropes: |
| 188 | ** The standard fashion on Vampiritus is over-the-top cheesy goth, black leather and guyliner galore. |
| 189 | ** Vampires as inhumanly sexy and gorgeous is hilariously played with. The stocky, average looking crown prince is [[InformedAttractiveness considered a paragon of beauty]] by the standards of his home planet, whereas his three [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette tall, pale, and handsome]] guards have been [[IAmNotPretty considered ungainly and hideous their whole lives]] but are [[DeliberateValuesDissonance suddenly considered flower boys]] upon their arrival on earth. |
| 190 | ** The four stranded vamps stay with their contact on earth, an older vampire that has been living there for 2000 years. He is married to a human woman, but the natural consequences of an immortal being marrying a human are dryly highlighted as he is forced to pretend his much older looking wife is actually his mother in public and [[DeadSparks escape her fawning attempts to attract him]] in private. |
| 191 | ** One of the chores they are given is to peel garlic. |
| 192 | ** They sleep not inside a coffin, but a [[AnOddPlaceToSleep piano]]. Yep. |
| 193 | * The vampire in ''Series/TheVampyrASoapOpera'' has a special condition for remaining a vampire: he must kill three women in three nights, or he is doomed to hell. This idea comes from John Polidori's "Literature/TheVampyre" and its theatrical adaptations, especially the opera ''Theatre/DerVampyr'' upon which the miniseries is based. Additionally in ''Der Vampyr'' (and originally from ''The Vampyre''), vampires can be injured by normal weapons, but heal when they lay in the moonlight. |
| 194 | * ''Series/VanHelsing2016'': A single bite can turn a regular human into a vampire within seconds. There are roughly two main types: ferals, which are more like zombies than vampires, and feeders, which are more intelligent. It's implied that a feeder might become feral if it isn't able to feed soon enough. They do have a HealingFactor but can be killed by conventional weapons. Vanessa also encounters a more bestial vampire in the sewers that apparently feeds on its own kin as well as humans, though it's not clear if this is an actual sub-type. |
| 195 | * An episode of ''Series/WeirdScience'' had Gary and Wyatt ask Lisa to make them into vampires for the sex appeal. (Lisa ends up turning herself as well.) After doing so, they discover that there really are vampires in the world. All of the traditional traits seem to apply. However, there is one major difference between these vampires and Gary, Wyatt, and Lisa: Gary and Wyatt are turned off by the bloodlust and ask Lisa to replace it with something else. Thus, they become vampires with ''Yoo-Hoo'' lust. |
| 196 | * In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' vampires are extremely fast, are repelled by both garlic and pumpkins (Why people created jack o' lanterns) can go out in the day if they avoid direct sunlight and sleep in coffins. They can turn into bats or just make their arms into batwings so they can fly. |
| 197 | * ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' has a particularly unusual variant in that, physically, their vampires are downright feeble -- easily killed by regular humans, and showing no sign of superior strength or speed. On the other hand their glamour powers are so effective that a single touch can completely enthrall a human, to the point that within a day the entire town is standing around talking about how awesome it is that they're going to be murdered by these creatures. They're also immune to sunlight and can generate a purple fog which quickly fills up a room, enabling easy ambushes of their victims. |
| 198 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': |
| 199 | ** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E07Three 3]]" features three vampires and a vampire wannabe. These vampires always kill their food and are extremely vulnerable to sunlight. Exactly how you turn someone into a vampire isn't clear (the usual blood sharing is presumably required), but the final step requires them to kill someone who truly believes that vampires exist. More interestingly, they cannot be permanently killed by any non-vampires, though this is their only real superpower aside from being a little stronger and tougher than normal humans. This same episode has one of the vampires claim that he can't be seen in mirrors; an uncharacteristically skeptical Mulder surreptitiously holds up a metal lighter while turning away and sees said vampire's reflection. While it's never explained, it's possible this means that the whole "no reflection" thing strictly applies to proper mirrors, not other reflective surfaces. |
| 200 | ** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]" has Mulder and Scully investigate a series of vampire-like tourist killings in a small town. It turns out that the ''entire town'' consists of vampires. They're able to go out in daylight and even eat normal food. They do, however, retain their folkloric compulsion to count items scattered before them, which saves a drugged Mulder's life when he throws a bag of sunflower seeds at the one malicious vampire instead of grabbing his gun. He then blacks out and comes to just after the vampire has finished counting and is about to bite him. Mulder is trapped in a trailer while the entire town surrounds it and wakes up the next morning in their rental car, with the entire town gone. Scully, meanwhile, has a very informative chat with the local sheriff -- right before he drugs her, while explaining that the vampire who has gone after Mulder and other victims "just isn't who we are any more. Still, though he is a moron, he is one of ours". |
| 201 | * Vampires from ''Series/YoungDracula'' have most of the stereotypical abilities and weaknesses, except for the ability to throw fireballs. There's also no mention of them being affected by holy symbols, garlic and garlic juice being used instead, presumably to avoid [[MoralGuardians offending anyone]]. They can also be born mostly human until they're exposed to their SuperpoweredEvilSide. Not being able to travel over water was brought up in one episode as a minor plot point. |
| 202 | * ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' episode "Transylvania, January 1918", Indy meets Dracula (well, Vlad Tepes re-incarnated). |
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