'''Basic Trope''': A vampire story is written in which one or more vampires snark at the way in which they are portrayed in other fiction.
* '''Straight''': The Vampire Chuck reads ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and finds the portrayal of vampires to be humorous, though somewhat offensive. The powers Dracula is presented as having are all wrong, and he acts nothing like a REAL vampire.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Chuck goes on a killing spree, murdering vampire authors whose portrayals of the undead he doesn’t like.
** Chuck takes the matter to one or more human rights tribunals ([[MST3KMantra never mind that]] [[ExactWords he's not]] [[FridgeLogic technically human himself]]) and vampire fiction gets labelled as hate speech.
* '''Downplayed''': Chuck reacts with mild amusement to vampire fiction, and the occasion doesn't get much mention.
* '''Justified''':
** ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' was based on Chuck’s life, and was intentionally written to smear him.
** The author was a vampire trying to spread disinformation.
* '''Inverted''':
** Chuck loves vampire fiction, realistic or not.
** Chuck writes a vampire novel of his own.
** Chuck is deeply disturbed or impressed by just how accurate the author’s portrayal was.
** Chuck, a human, snarks at how laughably off the mark vampires are about [[HumansThroughAlienEyes humans]] in their fiction.
** Chuck is jealous of fictional vampires: "I wish I could turn into a bat. That would be sweet."
* '''Subverted''': Chuck snarks at the portrayals in ''Dracula'', but later it turns out he was bluffing and Creator/BramStoker actually got a lot of it right.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** It turns out Chuck was reading an obscure pre-publication version of the book, where the vampire stuff is very different from what ended up in the book. The previous version was "too whimsical" and hard to believe.
** The vampire novel that Chuck wrote was a deliberate attempt to write a realistic vampire novel.
* '''Parodied''':
** [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Vampires do nothing all day except sit around and complain about vampire fiction.]]
** Vampires are immune to crosses … but [[SuckinessIsPainful they all writhe in pain]] whenever the heroes pull out a copy of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
** Chuck pulls out a LongList of what vampires don't do, featuring pretty much every vampire ability and weakness from fiction ever on the list. Somebody then asks [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what vampires]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion can]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion do]], at which point Chuck can't think of a good answer.
** Chuck's personal favorite book is about a twelve-foot ChickMagnet vampire with reflective skin and heat vision, but it's okay since [[HypocriticalHumor another vampire wrote it]] rather than a human. Hey, vampires have their WishFulfillment needs too.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Chuck reads a wide variety of vampire fiction, and expresses all of the opinions above, and more.
* '''Averted''': Chuck doesn’t read vampire fiction, or has no strong opinions on it.
* '''Enforced''':
** Chuck's rant is a deliberate TakeThat from the writers at an upcoming {{dueling work|s}} featuring more traditional vampires.
** The creator of the work wants to establish how OurVampiresAreDifferent.
* '''Lampshaded''':
** “Before we do battle, I suppose I’m obligated to tell you that crosses and garlic are all a bunch of bunk.”
** “Why do all the vampires in fiction seem to hate each other so much?”
* '''Invoked''': Chuck’s sire, as part of his training, MAKES him read ''Dracula'', and practice his witty snarks.
* '''Exploited''': Chuck’s hatred of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' is what alerts the HeroAntagonist to his vampiric nature.
* '''Defied''':
** “I will not waste my valuable time analyzing the merits of fiction with you!”
** Unrealistic vampires in fiction are no weirder to Chuck than stories about humans with {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s and other oddities are to humans.
* '''Discussed''':
-->'''Bob''': Fair warning, Alice: when I take you to meet Chuck, whatever you do, [[BerserkButton don't bring up]] Creator/AnneRice.
* '''Conversed''': Vampires, ironically, spend a great deal of time bashing vampire fiction for portraying them as obsessively hating vampire fiction.
* '''Implied''': Chuck makes an offhand remark about [[Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries never]] [[Series/TrueBlood going to]] UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
* '''Deconstructed''': All the other vampires quickly become annoyed at Chuck’s constant bitching about bad vampire fiction.
* '''Reconstructed''': Chuck is a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, and his snarking at the way his own kind is portrayed endears humans to him.
* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': Chuck's creator, Heidi, has porphyria, a rare medical condition that has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria#Vampires_and_werewolves proposed]] as a basis for vampire legends. [[FreudianExcuse When she was a child, she read a story]] in which a character with porphyria was depicted as a CompleteMonster. As a consequence, Heidi vowed to write at least one work of vampire fiction wherein vampires, with whom she has something in common, get to make {{Take That}}s about how they're depicted. (She doesn't use her actual ailment because "[[RuleOfSexy it's not sexy.]]")
* '''Played for Laughs''': Chuck is followed around by an annoying TagalongKid who keeps asking him if vampire tropes are real.
-->'''Kid''': Are you allergic to garlic?
-->'''Chuck''': ''No.''
-->'''Kid''': Can you turn into a bat?
-->'''Chuck''': ''No.''
-->'''Kid''': Are you unable to cross running water?
-->'''Chuck''': ''No.''
-->'''Kid''': If someone stakes you in the heart, do you die?
-->'''Chuck''': ''Geez, kid, wouldn't '''you'''?''
* '''Played for Drama''': Vampires in Chuck's world are fairly harmless and prefer to drink the blood of cattle, but because of vampire fiction, humans reject them as evil and often murder them.
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