1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character feels a supernatural and irresistible hunger for other humans. |
2 | * '''Straight''': After becoming a vampire, Alice gains a thirst for blood. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': If Alice spends more than an hour without drinking blood, she's instantly plagued with VeinOVision and WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Though after becoming a vampire, Alice's cravings for food are replaced with those for blood, the hunger is actually ''less'' than what she felt before she changed. |
6 | ** Alice's cravings are satisfied by drinking blood from any mammal, but she's not so uninhibited as to attack a human. Just never leave Alice alone with your cat or dog. |
7 | * '''Justified''': As a TechnicallyLivingVampire, Alice has to drink blood in order to stay nourished, heal any wounds, and use superhuman powers, otherwise she slowly starves and weakens. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** Alice is plagued with a supernatural ChronicHeroSyndrome, and she has to constantly resist becoming a MartyrWithoutACause. |
10 | ** Alice is a vorarephile and is letting her twisted fantasies run wild. |
11 | ** A human somehow [[PhlebotinumDependence needs to eat monsters in order to survive]]. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': |
13 | ** Alice has a massive lust for blood... because her kink is {{Hemo Erotic}}ism, not anything supernatural. |
14 | ** Alice isn't a vampire; that's just a nasty rumor someone started after seeing her JabbaTableManners. She's merely severely hypoglycemic, eats a lot, and likes her meat barely cooked and bloody. Owing to the rumors going around, expect someone to confuse "steak" for "stake" in conversation. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
16 | ** ...Which is the lie she tells human groupies to trick them into thinking she's human as well, she really ''does'' have a Horror Hunger. |
17 | ** Though this turns out to merely be a convincing excuse for Alice's true medical problems, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent which makes her rather vampiric for all intents and purposes]]. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': After becoming a vampire, Alice develops an unquenchable thirst for blood... ''oranges''. |
19 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
20 | ** Becoming a vampire has made Alice ravenous for blood, except it's actually a hypnotic suggestion by her sire, but once she's {{deprogram}}med it's revealed that her sire put it there to ease Alice's conscience since all vampires ''do'' have a Horror Hunger. |
21 | ** Alice’s dependency on blood is directly proportionate to her physical condition, being a PerpetualMotionMonster when healthy and uninjured, but after she’s injured past a certain point, the hunger comes back until she drains enough blood to properly recover from her injuries. |
22 | * '''Averted''': While vampires can gain sustenance from human blood, there are plenty of {{Vegetarian Vampire}}s who suffer no physical or psychological ill effects. |
23 | * '''Enforced''': It's a {{Horror}} story so having Alice suffer implacable hunger for those she loves [[PlayedForDrama adds drama]]. |
24 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
25 | ** "The biggest problem with siring new vampires in the 21st century is finding converts with self-restraint. Otherwise they'll leave a trail of corpses and then wonder where that stake in their heart came from." |
26 | ** "You have to kill Alice; no matter how {{nice|Girl}} she was as a human, she's not going to be able to resist her thirst for blood. It may be hard, but she'd thank you herself." |
27 | * '''Invoked''': In order to dissuade the VampireVannabe from pestering her to become a vampire, Alice invokes this trope and pretends resisting tearing out her throat is like an addict talking to a line of cocaine. |
28 | * '''Exploited''': |
29 | ** Knowing Alice attacks ambulances, [[VampireHunter Dr. Van Helping]] steals an ambulance and spikes the blood packs with [[VampiresHateGarlic garlic]]. |
30 | ** Alternatively, [[VampireHunter Dr. Van Helping]] recruits Lucy (whose TrademarkFavoriteFood happens to be garlic) as TheBait, knowing that Alice can't stop herself from pouncing on Lucy. |
31 | * '''Defied''': |
32 | ** Alice uses HeroicWillpower to avoid killing or becoming a monster. |
33 | ** Alternately, Alice buy/invents a cloned [[VegetarianVampire blood substitute]] that makes her thirst easy to manage and helps humanity. |
34 | * '''Discussed''': "An 'irresistible thirst for blood?' What do you take me for, an alcoholic? Vampires aren't soccer hooligans, we're wine connoisseurs." |
35 | * '''Conversed''': "So if every vampire has this massive thirst for blood, why would an elder vampire ever sire? The younger ones would just be competition." |
36 | * '''Implied''': Most vampires are remorseless monsters not because vampirism is TheVirus; it's because only by becoming evil can a normal person cope with the insatiable thirst for blood. |
37 | * '''Deconstructed''': A drug-like addiction to blood makes vampires so [[SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness inherently hostile]] and unable to plan that they quickly burn out. They either commit SuicideBySunlight, leave an easy trail for a VampireHunter to follow, or run out of food. Because of this, vampires went extinct centuries ago when human populations were much smaller. |
38 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
39 | ** The hunger comes with a subtle TranshumanTreachery, making the victim ''want'' to drink blood while keeping TheMasquerade intact. |
40 | ** Alternatively, Alice quickly realizes her hunger is basically a drug addiction, so she uses all the existing tools available (self help books, support groups, "substitutes") to mentally strengthen her resistance to the hunger while avoiding killing. |
41 | * '''Played for Laughs''': |
42 | ** Alice is a {{Friendly Neighborhood|Vampire}} VegetarianVampire with an [[GoodAngelBadAngel impish]] EnemyWithin constantly making snide suggestions about who to eat, and to top it off everywhere she goes [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere people are suffering cuts and bleeding profusely]]. |
43 | ** Bob manages to draw Alice out of a crowd by [[SchmuckBait putting a blood bag]] on a [[RodAndReelRepurposed fishhook]]. |
44 | * '''Played for Drama''': [[TragicMonster Alice]] tries her best to be a {{Friendly Neighborhood|Vampire}} VegetarianVampire, but this is no easy task, so she lives in constant fear of losing all self-control and attacking innocent people or even her own loved ones... |
45 | * '''Played for Horror''': ...Eventually, Alice does end up attacking her friends and family in a ravenous fugue; either killing them as a result, [[FateWorseThanDeath or turning them into more bloodthirsty monsters like herself]]. Needless to say, she's burdened by [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the guilt of what she did]] and [[IAmAMonster the self-loathing of what she became]]. |
46 | * '''Played For Symbolism''': Alice's condition causes her literal bloodlust, which makes it look almost identical to sadism. Throw that in with becoming a vampire via injury and how it spreads epidemically as a result, and vampirism becomes disturbingly reminiscent of many real-life examples of ThePowerOfHate. |
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48 | We know you can't resist the hunger... go back to HorrorHunger. |
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