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13	* [[http://io9.com/5391215/top-50-vampires-the-ultimate-score-sheet Consult this handy chart.]]
14	* [[http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm# This video]] showcases information gained from the accidental creation of a "real" vampire through gene therapy. Most of their traditional weaknesses don't even exist (garlic and holy water don't work, sunlight just hurts their eyes). The ones that do act different (right angles like crosses cause them to have fatal seizures because of the way their brains are wired). They also feed primarily on human flesh and only drink blood as a last resort. Oh, and they're now extinct because of the right angle-laden structures our ancestors began to build.
15	* ''WebVideo/AfterlifeSMP'': The Vampire origin (held by Scott on his second life) grants the ability to drink blood from others, a couple FlashStep-based powers, and numerous buffs during the night; however, the player takes extra damage from wooden weapons and burns in sunlight (added after the developers found a way to make it so the game wouldn't be unplayable in this condition; previously, it merely weakened the player).[[note]]Oli technically also held the origin in his seventh life, but it's very glossed over.[[/note]]
16	* The vampires in ''WebVideo/BloodLight'' are pretty much your typical broke-ass urban twentysomethings. Or at least they look twentysomething. Some don't even have fangs.
17	* ''WebVideo/{{Carmilla}}'': Vampires such as the titular [[LesbianVampire Carmilla]] are not weakened by sunlight, though the standard staking does apply (the rest of the main cast pulls out garlic at one point, but it's not all that clear whether it actually does anything). They're also seen to be super strong, super fast, and have a variety of other powers such as lighting things on fire and shapeshifting (only into an animal form specific to each vampire). It's also explicitly stated that the powers afforded to a vampire grow as one ages. Some have been shown to have an even wider range of abilities including teleportation, sonic screams, some equivalent of magic, and DemonicPossession. On a physical level, they don't age, but according to a bonus, apparently canon side video, they're fully capable of reproduction (implied by the fact that the video in question confirms that this universe's vampires can get [[NoPeriodsPeriod periods]]).
18	* Vampires in ''Literature/ChaosFighters'' ''do not'' suck human blood because it is ''poisonous'' to them. Their blood, however, is useful to prevent bleeding in small amounts due to blood clotting effect on human bloods.
19	* ''[[Creator/{{Dropout}} CollegeHumor]]'' lampooned this trope in their video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdD0jbsIg8k Vampire Reunion]]". It shows in a very humorous manner the inherent problems this trope makes with creating any sort of IntercontinuityCrossover with more than one series that includes a vampire. Among the vampires featured are [[{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]] (as the leader, naturally), [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], [[Series/TrueBlood Bill]], [[Series/SesameStreet Count Von Count]], Film/{{Blacula}}, Series/{{Angel}}, and [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula]]. Even the assorted {{vampire hunter}}s waiting to strike in the next room (Series/{{Buffy\|TheVampireSlayer}}, Film/{{Blade\|Trilogy}}, and Film/VanHelsing) can't agree on what methods they should use to kill the vampires. It also carries shades of YourVampiresSuck, since Dracula calls Edward out on the fact that he doesn't have fangs, and Edward in turn states that at least he doesn't look like Angel, who has a monstrous true form.
20	* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Daigo gains a superpower that turns him into a vampire in all but name -- his physical abilities are enhanced at night, and only become more powerful when he feeds on blood. When exposed to sunlight, rather than turning to dust, he is put in a lot of pain, and cannot use his vampiric powers.
21	* Eddie Izzard has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLZ70ukBMTY a bit]] (about 0:50 onwards) about vampires, and the tendency of directors to "change the rules".
22	* In ''Literature/EntirelyPresentingYou'', the only thing Alexis has in vein of vampirism is the need to drink blood. Otherwise, she's fine with being in the sun, and still has her reflection.
23	* Quite a few short stories on ''Website/Everything2'', including (but not limited to):
24	** [[http://everything2.com/user/Rivenstaff/writeups/I+will+stitch+your+heart+together+with+filthy+twine+and+sex?author=Rivenstaff I will stitch your heart together with filthy twine and sex]].
25	** [[http://everything2.com/title/Interview+With+The+Vampire#tentative Interview with a vampire]]
26	** [[http://everything2.com/title/Some+vampires+actually+get+pissed+when+you+tell+them+to+Have+A+Nice+Day Some vampires actually get pissed when you tell them to have a nice day.]]
27	* ''Website/TheFederalVampireAndZombieAgency'': Vampires are biological creatures, and vampirism is caused by a virus of the rabies family. As such, vampires are not immortal (though very long-lived), have reflections, can't be killed by stakes in the heart (in fact, they don't use the heart at all), crosses or holy water (but can be drowned), have no problem with silver or garlic, and can't turn into any animal. Only fire, beheading and sunlight kill them. They don't burst into flames by sunlight, it just causes them a serious of seizures that would eventually kill them, and they can only sustain themselves on human blood.
28	* ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForums'': While vampires are rare (owing to them not existing in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games), there are still a few setting-specific examples:
29	** ''[[Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForumsWonderfulBlessing Wonderful Blessing]]'': Generian Vampires are immortal as long as fed blood. While once the terror of Generia, once their wizards figured out how to generate magical blood using a small cantrip, their entire society had a collective case of AndThenWhat, descending into pointless hedonism and fratboy-style stunts. One of the main characters, Keith, is one.
30	** ''Solrise Academy'': Vampires are a subrace of the [[HornedHumanoid Belgor]] in this setting, having smaller horns, but much of the physical traits associated with vampires such as pale skin. However, they are not known to actually drink blood, this being instead a stereotype perpetuated [[FantasticRacism out of general prejudice against the Belgor]], but the name has since stuck.
31	* It's more of a metaphorical lesson on power-hungry humans, but Fred Clark does pose an interesting idea as to why vampires fear crosses in [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2009/09/10/vampires-crosses/ this blog post]].
32	* In ''WebVideo/ForeverSucks'', many of the standard Western vampire tropes apply to main character Izabel and other vampires -- they drink blood (duh), [[WeakenedByTheLight burn up in the sunlight]], are biologically immortal, and appear to have SuperStrength and lightning reflexes, among others. Instead of lying prone in a coffin, however, Izabel sleeps upside-down like a bat, and she and other vampires are capable of telepathic MindControl. Also, it's reasonable to think they're not affected by crosses, given they live smack dab in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, one of the only two overwhelmingly Catholic countries in Asia -- if crosses affected them, they'd have all either died long ago or else fled to literally any other Asian country (except UsefulNotes/TimorLeste, the other overwhelmingly Catholic Asian country). Their irises can also turn red (or at least Izabel's does). Notably, they appear to exhibit more of the abilities and habits of generically Western vampires, instead of being like indigenous-Filipino vampire equivalents, like the ''aswang'' or ''manananggal''.
33	* ''Website/GaiaOnline'':
34	** Vampires do not die in sunlight. They just get really sunburned, really easily. And sometimes catch fire. They do still need blood though, but can subsist on human-style fare (though [[IDoNotDrinkWine they find it unpleasant]]) or [[VegetarianVampire soy-based blood substitutes]]. Also, (as Louie is quick to point out), ''they do not sparkle''. Stop asking.
35	** ''zOMG!'' also has vampires as enemies in Deadman's Shadow, which are unconventional even by ''[[FantasyKitchenSink Gaia Online]]'' standards.
36	* In the world presented in ''Blog/HowToHero'' vampires are weakened by silver and garlic because Draculok, the first vampire was rude at a witch's party and tried to take her silver candelabra (and also he didn't like the garlic dish she made for the meal, she was petty like that).
37	* Eddie from ''Roleplay/TheInsaneQuestOfUnfathomableRandomness'' is an odd case, having nearly all the weaknesses of a traditional vampire and none of their strengths (except when under the influence of his SuperPoweredEvilSide). He can survive on a diet that does not contain any blood (though the smell of it causes him to go into a shark-like feeding frenzy) and can withstand mild doses of sunlight but temporarily disintegrates when exposed to high concentrations of light. Since no other vampires have appeared in the series, it is unknown whether all vampires in his universe share these attributes, though it is implied that he is a weakling by their standards.
38	* ''Blog/LimyaaelsFantasyRants'': Limyaael has a rant on [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/293983.html vampires in fantasy fiction]], which is apparently common breeding grounds for vampiric love interests.
39	* ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'': During the 60s, Romania starts suffering attacks from vampires, which are described as humanoid beings with fanged teeth, pointed ears, and bat-like wings. They're described as being a separate species from humans (with it being specifically mentioned that bitten humans don't "turn"), with an insect-like social structure of hive-like nests ruled over by "queens" which birth all the others. Also, they're unaffected by silver and holy water, but are extremely vulnerable to fire. Nicolae Ceausescu's obsession with eradicating them at the expense of all other political matters eventually leads to his ousting in 1973 in a MilitaryCoup headed by Ion Mihai Pacepa, who wants instead to domesticate and weaponize the vampires.
40	* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'': As Trevor Herbert describes them, vampires in the series are more like humanoid fleas or ticks than the Dracula or Anne Rice standards. They can dislocate their jaws, have extremely long tongues, and visibly distend while consuming blood. Additionally, they do not speak but can make themselves understood through some sort of telepathy or mind control, they are not hurt by sunlight, and their bite does not create more of their kind.
41	* [[http://funnytweeter.com/hello-do-you-have-a-minute-to-talk-about-draculano-wait-draculayesyoure-vampiresyes-we-have-pamphlets-vampires-have-missionarieswhere-else-would-new-vampires-come-from/ This]] (apparently Twitter-original) Micro Flash Fiction:
42	-->''"Hello! Do you have a minute to talk about Dracula?"\
43	"No -- wait, Dracula?"\
44	"Yes!"\
45	"You're vampires?"\
46	"Yes. We have pamphlets."\
47	"Vampires have missionaries?"\
48	"Where else would new vampires come from?"\
49	"I assumed you bit people."\
50	"There are many hurtful stereotypes. [[MustBeInvited May we come in]]?"''
51	* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': The Disassembly Drones are essentially robotic vampires, given they possess limited VoluntaryShapeshifting, bat-like RazorWings, SuperStrength, and an incredible HealingFactor. They are also so vulnerable to overheating that direct sunlight can break them and they need to drink the oil of Worker Drones in order to regulate their temperatures. That last one is implied to be an intentional design flaw [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness meant to make the Disassembly Drones self-destruct once they've disassembled all Worker Drones]] given that not even the frozen planet that the series takes place on can keep their temperatures down.
52	* ''[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3038718/1/Catacombs_of_New_York Night Hunters]]'': The vampires in these books, accumulate resistance to sunlight the longer they live, can live practically eternally, unless killed, have no weaknesses to garlic, or individual religious objects, cannot be killed unless with silver through the heart or beheading, don't evaporate once killed, burn a pint of blood every six hours and can turn into near 9-feet-tall, armored monsters with a split lower jaw.
53	* The "vampires" of ''Website/OrionsArm'' were goths who programmed their genetic tweaks and life-extension [[{{Nanomachines}} bionano]] to include sensitivity to sunlight and a need to drink hu blood. Most polities can easily cure them when discovered.
54	* In ''The Sanguine Chronicles'', by Creator/RHJunior:
55	** Vampires possess a wide variety of PsychicPowers, including illusions, telekinesis, control of small animals, and mind control. They also definitely have a HealingFactor, and may have SuperStrength (unclear whether it's actually strength or just TK).
56	** Sunlight won't kill them, but it does switch off their abilities.
57	** They do in fact reflect in mirrors (the author speculates that the myth that they don't may be the result of a vampiric habit of using illusions (which really don't have reflections) as body doubles).
58	** Decapitation will kill them, but you've still got a body on your hands.
59	** A stake through the heart won't kill them, but it will paralyze them.
60	** Most of the rest of the classic vampiric weaknesses (can't cross running water, must be invited in, repelled by holy symbols), are all various manifestations of OCD. While every vampire has these OCD compulsions, there's no way to tell which ones any given vampire might have. A vampire might be unable to make himself cross thresholds but have no problem with holy symbols or counting things.
61	** They do feed on blood, but don't need to take that much.
62	** Anyone they bite becomes infected with the vampiric disease. However, the vast majority of humans are immune, and shrug off the disease without ever noticing. Of those that are vulnerable, many die of combined disease and blood loss before the transformation finishes. These two factors are the main thing keeping the vampiric population down.
63	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-742 SCP-742]] is a mutagenic retrovirus that transforms humans into vampire-like creatures. They bite their prey with a paralyzing venom, and instead of feeding on blood they drain stem cells from their victims' bone marrow, which allows them to become biologically immortal.
64	* skary.net, the website of Katy Towell brings us the Mockingbird Song, an animated short about a girl named Shawnee Jenkins. Her parents are attacked and bitten at some point. They eventually turn into feral vampires. They degrade to the point where they're basically animals, unable to even speak. Yet Shawnee continues to care for them and clean up the messes they leave behind. They're still her parents after all.
65	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYLUMYZrK4&list=PLMlsxJWSPj4h3zoGa2xavmO3FcF29nCf6 Sheigala: Vampire Business Women]]'' has many examples of this, including;
66	** a deadly aversion to lavender, which will literally blow them up.
67	** eating the flesh of their victims, instead of just sucking blood.
68	** giving explosive birth to their young, who emerge from eggs.
69	* ''Website/TaerelSetting'''s vampires are pretty much living people infected with a virus that turns them into powerful but sun-weak vampires, but without the other traditional weaknesses. They are unable to drown or freeze, but can be killed in many of the same ways a human being can: being shot in the head, being stabbed though the heart, bleeding to death, sickness, et cetera.
70	* ''Literature/UntilMyColorFadesAway'' has vampberries instead of vampires. They can be killed via stake (which is pretty much the only way), do not sleep in coffins, and have skin and eyes that slightly glow. When they cry, their tears are the color of the last [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation mortal]] they drank from, and after drinking directly from a mortal, their eyes will turn red, if they [[TechnicolorEyes aren't already]]. For some reason, they all have a black mark on their throats, shaped somewhat like a V, or some sort of bite mark. There's also a monarchy.
71	* ''WebAnimation/TheVampair'': Getting possessed by dark magic can turn you into one. However, this doesn't turn Missi into a full vampire [[spoiler:since casting the cane away turned her back to normal. There's also the fact that sunlight won't kill her, but it ''does'' hurt like Hell for her. In addition, she doesn't need to sleep in a coffin and seems to still have her reflection]], unlike Duke.
72	* In ''WebVideo/VampireReviews'', the Maven of the Eventime (roommate to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick) reviews anything and everything to do with vampires. She will go into [[ShownTheirWork well-researched and explained]] detail as to how this trope applies to the specific franchise's vampires, what this has to do with the given work's era's more popular style of depicting vampires, and the actual origins. She's a known trooper, and will often explain the earliest known variants of vampire tropes present in the works she reviews. For instance, when she reviews ''Film/Underworld2003'', she explains how it was what popularized the ''vampires versus werewolves trope'', but states that ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' actually did this before them, but that the ''original'' instance of the trope was in ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'', but ''also'' how in the earliest known Eastern European (this is the same area of the world that houses Transylvania) lore, the rivalry was nonexistent, because vampires were originally undead werewolves.
73	* ''Vamp You'' has two examples of this:
74	** A sequence showed what appeared to be a sentient vine that attacked two girls and turned them into vampires.
75	** The lamia of ''Unsealed'' and ''Blood News'' are: living beings that start off by stealing the victim's voice and a piece of their soul which they only return when the bite comes and the blood is taken.
76	* Vlad from ''WebVideo/VladimirAndMrSmith'' is a puppet (and decidedly non-threatening).
77	* In [=Monstermaster13's=] ''Walken Saga'', there are "Walkens" which are quasi-vampiric, feeding on fear as well as blood. They also have a knack for dancing and a taste for [[MemeticMutation more cowbell.]]
78	* Since the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' tends to be an AllMythsAreTrue universe, it is unsurprising that there are several different kinds of vampires, with different weaknesses and strengths, plus a couple mutants who just ''look'' like vampires ought to. The Crimson Comet is very disappointed when she finds out she can't go stake her extremely annoying hallmate Vamp.
79	* There are several {{Creepypasta}}s about vampires.
80	** ''A Touch of Glass'' concerns a vampiric demon who constructs an iguana-like body from broken glass.
81	** In ''A Word of Warning'', vampires are sapient, anthropomorphic vampire bats and are natural rather than supernatural creatures.
82	** In ''My Grandfather Demanded I be Cremated'', the narrator's grandfather finds out that his wife was a Strigoi Voi, and therefore the narrator, who developed cancer, will rise as a Strigoi Mort if he isn't cremated.
83	** In ''I was Trapped in a Basement for Ten Years'', a kidnapped child is fed on by someone who claims to be "better than a vampire" and scratches his throat open with a claw to drink rather than having fangs.

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