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alt title(s): Friendly Neighborhood Vampires; Friendly Neighbourhood Vampires; Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire 
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...she was a bloodsucking fiend, but she was a pleasant girl nonetheless.
—You Suck: A Love Story
Shows in which at least one vampire character (or any representative of an assumed-monstrous breed) is shown to truly, really be a good person at heart. Really.
Traditionally, vampires had to kill others to maintain their own extended lifespan, a supernatural Conservation of Energy law. Even victims who survived were permanently harmed. Vampires might be charismatic monsters, but they were Always Chaotic Evil, and likely to be Sealed Evil In A Can.
Authors moved on to exploring the effects this need to kill had on the vampires themselves and their relationship with humanity, as in the books by Anne Rice, the movies The Hunger and Near Dark, and the Tabletop Games Vampire: The Masquerade. Sometimes one of these vampires would be a Tragic Hero or Reluctant Monster.
Finally, a new wave of authors, such as Kathryn Rusch and Laurel Hamilton, have chosen to portray vampires as a persecuted Token Minority, unusual cultural group, or just Star Crossed Lovers. Since readers were unlikely to have much sympathy for beings who committed murder on a weekly basis, the necessity of killing had to go, as well as the constant urge to chow down on co-stars. In some modern fiction, vampirism is nothing more than a lifestyle choice; since these vampires get extended life, superhuman strength, and still have great sex from just a few drops of blood each night, it's difficult to understand why anyone stays human.
Television and film have lagged behind books a bit, with nice vampires exceptional rather than common. The vampires in the Blade movies would seem capable of living just on stored blood, but since they seem to be Nietzsche Wannabes, they enjoy killing humans as a demonstration of superiority.
Apparently heroic vampires find their way into detective positions with statistically intriguing frequency. There might be something to this, in that they're already part of the Masquerade, and therefore better equipped to handle supernatural villains than the average detective. See Vampire Detective Series for a complete list of examples of this genre.
Compare to My Species Doth Protest Too Much. See also Reluctant Monster, Undeath Always Ends, and Vampire Refugee. These vampires are often on the friendliest end of the Sliding Scale Of Vampire Friendliness.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Seras Victoria from Hellsing starts out as and pretty much stays a good guy. Given the large number of antiheroes on this show, this is quite impressive. As a Reluctant Monster, she refuses to drink blood; when she finally gives in and sucks her crush's blood in response to his dying wish, she is recognized by the other characters as being a true monster. She does retain her perky and somewhat subservient disposition, despite impressive battle-lust. Additionally, in the anime series, she assumes the Vampire Detective role on several occasions.
- Mosquiton from both TV Series and OAV of Master Of Mosquiton. Nice vampire... until he drinks blood, anyway.
- Arcueid Brunestud from Shingetsutan Tsukihime. Good vampire. Also very cute (except when she's hot in a Dark Action Girl kind of way).
- However, it's outright stated that Arc is very much an exception to the rule - most Nasuverse vampires are far from Friendly Neighborhood Vampires, more usual being the utter psycho types.
- There's also Zelretch, Van-Fem (he's non-hostile, anyway), Enhance, Merem (sorta), and Sion. Presumably, Yumizuka would have qualified if they hadn't cut out her path.
- Sacchin does qualify to an extent in the Melty Blood series. In Act Cadenza's arcade mode she tells Nero Chaos to GTFO on behalf of Misaki City, and is shown to be trying to drink blood as infrequently as possible. On the other hand, her end battle quotes occasionally show off a hidden Yandere side...
- Note though that although Arcueid was never evil, she was originally not so friendly. It was only after Shiki "killed" her that she turned all Moe and lovable. This is perhaps why she had no interest in romance until Shiki.
- It's also implied that the other True Ancestors were perfectly decent fellows, if maybe a bit aloof. Oh and they probably killed people who put nature out of balance. But except for that or until becoming a Demon Lord they don't seem to have been really bad.
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell on Mahou Sensei Negima. (She would argue with you.)
- Karin has an entire family of Friendly Neighborhood Vampires, the most obvious example of which is the title character
 ◊. They're so friendly, in fact, that being bitten by one is actually good for your health! Specifically, each vampire has a preferred "taste" of human that they're attracted to. When they suck blood, they suck this preferred trait out temporarily. This is good for everyone when the trait is bad — for example, Karin's brother is attracted to stress, his "victims" are drained of all their tension and left relaxed and happy (he targets stressed out women because afterwards, they tend to be... appreciative). This is bad when the trait is good. For example, Karin's grandmother is attracted to love, her victims are drained of any feelings of love and caring, becoming hateful wretches.
- One of the scenarios in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2 involves helping Gorou Ookami (which translates as "fifth son of the wolf", appropriately enough), a Wolf Man who transforms when he sees something that so much as looks like the full moon, control his transformation while on a date with a human girl. When he reveals his true nature to the girl at the end of the stage, if you've done well enough, she decides she likes him that way.
- Pachira from Magical Pokaan, who's really just looking for a boyfriend and a larger bust. She wants the boyfriend to let her bite him, but only with the best of intentions. Otherwise, her vampirism only shows up when it's plot-important.
- Pachira manages to subsist on tomato juice, and, in fact, donated blood when she sees a cute guy working at the blood donation clinic.
- Moka Akashiya in Rosario To Vampire isn't just friendly, she's head-over-heels in love with the series' Ordinary High School Student. Her Superpowered Evil Side is less friendly... but honestly, not by as much as you'd think.
- Her younger sister Kokoa Shuzen is rather less than friendly, being quite inclined to bash in the head of anyone who annoys her (which isn't difficult to do) with a giant mace. Her older sister Kahlua Shuzen is a mixed bag; she's downright Ax Crazy, yet friendly at the same time. Yeah. "Insane" isn't anywhere near sufficient to describe how messed up Kahlua is.
- In the manga Vampire Knight, all of the Night Class students take special tablets rather than drink blood, but Kuran Kaname is the only one who really fits this trope. Arguably, so does Zero
- Shido from Nightwalker is a vampire detective who happens to be quite friendly although we learn via flashbacks that it was not always so. Also, later in the series Riho, once she is turned into a vampire. After a period of brooding she falls back to her Genki self thus making her the very definition of this trope
- Caerula Sanguis from Battle Angel Alita: Last Order is somewhat friendly. Regardless of her personal disposition towards most people (usually rather aloof, though she's quite capable of being friendly) and her need to kill (about which she has few if any compunctions), she's rather fond of children, and is the guardian of humanity via Melchizedek. Being that Melchizedek is a device that manufactures the future based on the human condition, she watches over humans carefully. If their future would be beyond salvation, it is her duty to destroy Melchizedek and return humanity's future to the reins of chance.
- Gabriel from Tenshi Ni Narumon. He can survive on tomato juice instead of blood, but it's not his first choice.
- Professor Papaya, the English teacher from Trouble Chocolate, is not only a friendly vampire, but downright submissive and frail.
- Miyu from Vampire Princess Miyu is this in the TV series... to an extent. She goes to school, has normal school friends and a pet rabbit (well, a Shinma who looks like a rabbit) and keeps the balance between Shinma and humans... and has to struggle with her own identity issues and her dealings with humans more than once.
- In the original OAV series, while not above pitying humans once or twice, Miyu was more of a Creepy Child.
- Reiri from Princess Resurrection: she only drinks blood from willing donors (usually female classmates), and then only small amounts at a time. She also makes sure no harm comes to her "little lambs".
- There is an entire vampric subculture in Dance In The Vampire Bund that take this trope a step further and pull their own fangs to help stave off their lust for human blood (feeding "normally" feels really good) and are held in contempt by most of their kind as a result. It turns out that one of Princess Mina's first actions in setting up the Bund was to ingather these rejected souls to the underground city and encourage them to adopt one another as families.
- Mina's a borderline case. Playing politics with the surviving clan heads (that are only surviving because they killed all the others) while protecting her own followers makes morally questionable behavior almost mandatory.
Comic Books
- Licorice Dust from Tarot Witch Of The Black Rose. She loves to party with her werecat BFF Boo Cat, and doesn't kill unless that person ''really' deserves it.
- The comic book "Scary Godmother" features a family of friendly vampires, one of whom is the friend of the main character. Most of the monsters in the comic are actually quite friendly, making this an example of Dark Is Not Evil.
- Hannibal King from Marvel Comics was one of the earliest examples of this trope, a vampire private detective. He fed only on the blood of animals or blood taken from donation centers, and never attacked a human. Because of this, when Doctor Strange eventually cast the Montesi Formula spell that destroyed all vampires, King alone was spared; although near destruction, Strange and several of his and King's friends were able to give the detective a full-blood transfusion (much like Mina in the original novel of Dracula). This had the happy result of turning him back into a human.
- This is the whole point of Life Sucks. Although the vampires still feed (violently) on humans, the elder vampires run convenience stores and copy shops, and the main character refuses to feed on humans because he's a pacifist vegetarian.
- Possible subversion in Preacher. Cassidy likes to present himself as a decent guy who just happens to be a vampire. But, as the series goes on, he is shown to be selfish and destructive, hooking the women who love him on heroin and destroying their lives without a second thought. Drinking their blood would probably have been kinder.
- He doesn't do it out of (intentional) cruelty but because he's a weak and selfish character who can't resist temptation. This is what makes Cassidy such a great antagonist - his villainy has nothing to do with his being a vampire.
- I always thought of it as the reverse - he is a vampire metaphorically as well as physically. The people close to him get used up, turned into junkies or bag ladies. He doesn't try to take advantage of other people, it just sort of happens.
- Jeremiah "The Confessor" Parrish, a superhero in Astro City.
Fan Fic
Film
- The animated children's movie The Ketchup Vampires featured...well, vampires who drink ketchup instead of blood.
- Jeremy and Modoc from My Best Friend Is A Vampire, both of whom drink pig's blood bought from the local butcher.
- In Perfect Creature, vampires are members of the clergy and humans go to churches to donate blood. Naturally, the vampire protagonist has to deal with the loner who prefers to think of humans as food instead of a symbiotic partner species.
Literature
- In The Little Vampire, a young, oft-bullied boy becomes friends with a young vampire named Rudolph. The whole thing's rather adorable.
- Jody from Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story and its sequel You Suck. She turns her boyfriend Tommy into a vampire at the end of the first book, and he spends most of the second book trying to cope with it.
- Vampires in the The Saga Of Darren Shan are brave, follow a strict moral code, and don't kill the people they feed on.
- Alexander Sterling, from Vampire Kisses is another vampire boyfriend, who has to protect his girlfriend from vampires of the not-so-friendly type.
- The Discworld has the Black Ribbon Society, a group of vampires who sign a pledge not to drink human blood and who hold regular meetings for mutual reinforcement. Some vampires continue to drink some blood, but only from uncooked meat or other "stand-ins"; however, in order to prevent themselves from relapsing, the Black Ribboners must often focus single-mindedly on some other hobby or activity.
- In Monstrous Regiment, Maledict or should we say Malidicta is addicted to coffee. When he runs out of coffee everyone becomes very, very nervous.
- In The Truth, Otto Chriek devotes himself entirely to researching light and color and becomes the Ankh-Morpork Times's "iconographer."). He deliberately cultivates a stereotypical yet humorous vampiric appearance in order not to be taken seriously — and thus, not feared. Until he gets to de Worde's father, of course.
- Acknowledged, subverted, and averted in Carpe Jugulum. The Magpyr Family don't go on rampages of terror or paint the town red. They are (with one minor exception) polite and civilised, with only the slight drawback of overusing their mental powers to take over places (but still doing it peacefully...ish). They also set up communities where villages "willingly" donate blood to Vampires whenever they want it. Subverted with the character of the Old Count Magpyr, who was very much of the old school of vampiring; living in an ominous mountainside castle etc. This was actually a clever move in the long run because the Count realised that the fastest way to avoid being killed permanently was by giving people a fighting chance in order to level the playing field. This takes the form of deliberately leaving holy water in his own castle, having lots of ornaments which can be bent into religious symbols and big wide windows for letting the sunshine in. This method worked much better, so much so that the Old Count was actually respected and liked by the locals despite technically being a stereotypical monster vampire.
- Tanya Huff's Blood series has vampires who are pretty much just like they were in life, only now they live forever and drink blood. The main vampire character in the series is a romance novelist, for heaven's sake.
- Kitty Norville suggests that her various listeners aim for this on her Midnight Hour radio show. In practice, it's been a mixed bunch: Rick, Alette, and the Washington D.C. shapeshifters are nice, if slightly isolationist, folk who just happen to be afflicted with a common chronic disease and immortality. Kitty and Ben are pretty much the same way, although more aggressive in dealing with Unfriendly Neighborhood Vampires. The neighborhood part seems to be attached to the friendly one, as vampires or werewolves that don't have some normal civilized life to focus on end up Always Chaotic Evil.
- Subversion : The various creatures of the night in Mercy Thompson have aimed an entire public relations branch toward looking like Friendly Neighborhood Faeries and Friendly Neighborhood Werewolves, with Friendly Neighborhood Vampires waiting around the corner for their own chance. Since we're talking groups that include child-eating versions of The Fair Folk, lupine monsters with giant claws and major anger management issues, and Always Chaotic Evil killers who at best Shoot The Dog and at worst cross the Moral Event Horizon, respectively, the public relations team has a lot of work cut out in front of them.
- Stefan is the closest thing there is to a nonevil vampire in the series. He doesn't kill the humans he feeds on, and treats them well. He's a very nice guy, and, among other things, has painted his bus to look like the Mystery Van and is a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Most importantly, he clearly cares about Mercy. However, his care for her and his flock does not extend to all humanity, and he does not hesitate to kill two innocent humans in order to protect Mercy.
- Thomas Raith in The Dresden Files is an empathic vampire who feeds on life-force via touch. Rather than drain people through sex, which would be typical of his kind but is dangerous and addictive to the victims, he currently runs a hair salon and gets his sustenance a little at a time by washing women's hair.
- He is however pretty much a huge exception to the rule as the Black Court are straight up Always Chaotic Evil, the Red Court are likewise horrific monsters that put on a veneer of civilization and only the White Court has even the option of being anything other than monstrous. Lampshaded in a Friendly Enemy conversation Harry has with the Punch Clock Villain Binder, in which Binder points out that people who think that Vampires have the same motivations and needs as a human hasn't ever watched one disembowel another as bizarre sexual foreplay.
- In the Incarnations Of Immortality book Under a Velvet Cloak (eighth and last, deals with Nox), the vampire colony obtains small quantities of blood from local livestock about every week or two. Their major interaction with unconverted humans is for sexual activity.
- In The Vampirates, despite being widely feared by humans, the Vampires are kind, treating their donors gently and seeing them as friends. Lorcan's affection for Grace is particularly sweet.
- In Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Nyeusigrube has SingleEarth, a peaceful coalition of vampires, shapeshifters, witches, etc. Vampires in this group tend to feed only on animals or willing human donors.
- Vampires in the Night Watch books, despite being inherently Dark, generally strive to be good people. Anton's neighbours are a family of vampires, yet he had no idea they were anything other than decent human beings until after he was recruited by the Night Watch; after he gets over the initial shock, their relationship becomes strained, though they remain on good terms. Also, vampires invented blood transfusion technology so they'd have a way to feed without having to kill people; the fact that it saves human lives is just a fortunate side-effect. Unfortunately, they do have to suck blood straight from the neck on occasion, which can cause problems.
- While it's never said outright, Silas seems to fit this trope in The Graveyard Book. It's said several times that he belongs to neither the living nor the dead, and near the end of the book he confesses to having a monstrous past in which he did much worse things than the Jacks have done. In the present he's Bod's fierce protector.
- Good Omens has Crowley (a Friendly Neighborhood Demon) and Aziraphale (a Friendly Neighborhood Angel, which are rarer than you would think) and a Friendly Neighborhood Anti Christ who work to prevent Armageddon.
- Edward Cullen from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, who battles for the heart of Bella Swan against the other friendly minority Jacob Black, a werewolf. At least he's a Surly Neighborhood Vampire— the rest of his 'family' fit this trope pretty well too, like Carlisle, vampire doctor and upstanding member of the community, and his wife, Stepford Smi-- I mean, wonderful mommy, and their 'kids'.
- Harry Potter's Remus Lupin is a Friendly Neighborhood Werewolf, and even takes Wolfsbane potion to prevent his transformations from being accompanied by a murderous rampage. The condition is seen as an unfortunate incurable disease in Potterverse, so that despite his efforts, he is very much a social outcast. Rather than being immortal, he is expected to die young as a result. And does, though not from that.
- Louis in The Vampire Chronicles tries to do this for several years, surviving on rats and chickens. It doesn't last.
Live Action TV
- Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows, one of the earliest (1966) "good" vampires. Actually subjected to Badass Decay this way since he killed a lot of people in his initial appearance and was intended to be a temporary character, but was kept on because he was so popular.
- Nicholas DeBrabant, also known as Nick Knight of Forever Knight, followed in these footsteps as a good vampire. He "repaid humanity for his sins" in many roles since his becoming a vampire during the crusades, all the while seeking to become human again.
- Mick St.John of Moonlight also desired to make up for his vampirism through benevolence.
- The Count from Sesame Street is a very fine example of a friendly neighbourhood vampire. Perhaps too friendly.
- Two! Two friendly! Ah ha ha ha ha! *thunderclap*
- Supernatural had a group of friendly vampires back in season two. The Winchesters seem to have forgotten about them, and currently decapitate any vampire they find.
- To be fair, the vampires they have run across haven't really given them a reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
- to be more than fair, the only vampires they encountered since then were rabid killers.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer took great satisfaction in demolishing this trope: a collection of Muggles who believe that vampires are some romantic minority are shown to be guillible fools - and only escape a gruesome death by the intervention of our heroine. Indeed, Angelus is given his name because he looks so "angelic" to his future victims, including his little sister. Of course, he later is forced to become the friendly neighborhood vampire, but he still has some issues regarding his evilness and bloodlust...
- Angel is the exception that proves the rule. True, he's good, but only due to a ritual that restored his conscience.
- And Spike? Unfortunately Love Redeems as a method of creating Friendly Neighborhood Vampires seems to have been played all too straight in Buffy.
- It could be argued that he was still serving his own creepy, obsessed desires, compounded with the fact he was unable to hurt humans for a while because of the chip in his head. He wasn't honestly redeemed until AFTER he went and got himself re-souled as well.
- The proper term is "re-ENsouled", thank you very much.
- They talk about that issue in one episode in Season Five (under the guise of talking about the Hunchback of Notre Dame after English class). Tara says something like, "But he's not really good. He has no moral compass. The only reason he does good things is to win the love of this woman who could never love him back. That's how you know it can't end well..."
- Angel might even be the Trope Namer, as Lilah refers to Angel as "Our Friendly Neighborhood Vampire" in the season 1 episode "Five By Five."
- Tales From The Crypt story "The Reluctant Vampire" involved a vampire who shied away from directly drinking blood from humans, rather getting it during his night watchman duty at a blood bank.
- Being Human features not only a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, but also a Friendly Neighborhood Werewolf (locking himself away during transformations) and a Friendly Neighborhood Ghost (who only scared people because she was confused about what happened to her).
- This is what Vlad from Young Dracula wants his family to be. While they're never exactly friendly he does manage to stop them from killing their neighbors. There's a casual mention of them going through postmen extremely fast, but it's not clear whether they're actually dying, and the only human explicitly killed by them was Will, who they kept around as a vampire.
- The premise of True Blood is that the invention of artificial blood has allowed vampires to step into society to become these. The transition from being a race of blood-sucking killers to Friendly Neighborhood Vampires does have its difficulties, however, which provides most of the conflict for the show.
- It should be noted, however, that even the most kind-hearted True Blood vampires are, at best, True Neutral, and the majority are utterly Chaotic Evil (or, equally as utterly, Lawful Evil). Bill is the only one who can make any claim to actually being good, though he fails at it and instead comes out a Type III anti-hero.
Tabletop Games
- Unsurprisingly, a number of players in Vampire: The Masquerade will play these, ranging from Red Cross employees (cut out the middleman; bitten humans are going to get transfusions anyway if properly diagnosed) to energetic geeks who play too much DDR (pale? Of course I'm pale. Ahh, curs'd daystar, bane of my existence!). Some storytellers claim this is becoming almost as tired a cliche as the Obviously Evil™ ones or the brooders. These people are wrong, because few things are as giggle-worthy as a room of black-clad vampires playing Mario Kart and asking for one part blood, three parts Mountain Dew. Requiem carries on the tradition - it's easy to imagine a vampire who leaves her Carthian Movement meeting and hits the all-night arcade.
- It's also perfectly possible for vampires in both games (well, only the younger vampires in Requiem for the most part) to get their required sustenance by feeding on animals. While it's more humane, individuals animals don't carry much, it doesn't taste quite as good, and you'll be looked at funny because the two dominant vampire religious bodies say that you're a divine predator meant to cull the human herd.
- And let's be honest here, when all the NPCS are either brooding evil dark monsters, brooding evil dark monsters waiting to happen, brooding kinda-evil dark heroes, or brooding not so evil dark heroes, being a happy and honestly good character is simply a natural reaction. People like to be different when they roleplay. The Dark Heresy Roleplay has a similar problem, and 40K is far, far darker and edgier than V:TM (if that can be believed).
Video Games
- Dracula's rebellious son Alucard (actually half-vampire), from the Castlevania series.
- Forum Community/MMORPG Gaia Online has no less than three NPC Friendly Neighborhood Vampires. Ian and Moria, both of whom were shopkeepers prior to the events of the Vampire Arc (Though Moira was turned on Halloween to save her life) and Louie, who was introduced by the plot. By the end of the Arc, all three of them turn down the opportunity to be cured, and choose to live life as Vampires. Interestingly enough, life as a vampire is not much different that life as a human, as they never seem to drink blood, and have no aversion to sunlight. In fact, the only results of becoming a vampire for either of them appears to be a change of Hair Style and instantly learning kung fu, which makes you wonder why a cure was even developed in the first place.
- Louie was shown drinking blood from a transfusion pack in the Olympics arc, and also in one of those awful animated shorts.
- In the Olympics, it was vegan blood. No, not blood from a vegan. The blood itself was a vegan product.
- As of 2008, Moira is no longer a Vampire.
- Remilia Scarlet, from Touhou, is not exactly "good" per se, being a bit of a Magnificent Bastard on the side of her usual kiddy behaviour. However, it's generally not her style to hurt people that don't mess with her, the blood she drinks is usually served to her by a maid who gets it fully legally at a human village (and even when she sucks it directly she doesn't cause lasting harm because "she's a light eater"), she prefers talking and engaging in verbal sparring with humans anyway, and she cares really deeply for the people under her care, particularly her sister Flandre. And she seems to have developed a peculiar friendship with the main character Reimu.
- Oblivion's vampires are generally chaotic evil in the fashion of bandits and goblins, but Janus Hassildor, Count of Skingrad, just makes sure to never go out in the sunlight - otherwise, he's a benevolent, if slightly ill-tempered ruler, and actually saves your dumbass avatar's life on a few occasions. Also, if you yourself become afflicted and decide the cure quest is too annoying to bother with, it's not necessarily your cue to join the Dark Brotherhood: simply (non-fatally!) suck the blood of a homeless person every few days, or just carefully time your excursions to avoid sunlight, and you too may enjoy a whole host of nifty spells and skill-boosts.
- Unfortunately, Oblivion's vampires are very easily distinguished by their inordinately pale skin, red eyes, and generally scary facial features, all of which actually become more and more pronounced if they go without feeding. Unfortunately, the only way to get the best bonuses from being a vampire is to deliberately go without feeding. The longer you go, the better the bonuses, and the uglier you become. So while you may become a powerful hunter of the night, you are disadvantaged by the fact that no one in their sane mind will want to have a conversation with someone who is so obviously a vampire.
- Typically remedied by a healthy dose of Charm spells.
- There are also vampires sealed in a cave who turn out to be holy warriors of Azura who contracted vampirism while hunting vampires, and sealed themselves in in fear of becoming mindless killers. When the Player finds them, they have in fact become mindless killers, but only because they refused to feed at all, and lost their minds. Azura sends the Player to slay them out of mercy for their sacrifice.
- The Nightlife expansion for The Sims 2 introduces vampires who can add non-vampire Sims to their ranks. These vampire Sims fit the trope as they do not require blood to survive and can continue their lives (so to speak) as normal...except for an incredible intolerance for sunlight.
- A Vampire Story, a comedic point-and-click adventure game, features protagonist Mona, kidnapped, killed and turned into a vampire by Butt Monkey antagonist Shrowdy Von Keifer. She is perhaps the nicest person in the whole game, refuses to accept that's blood she's drinking from wine bottles, and when she finally does bite people, the only effect it has on them is that they're knocked out cold with no memory of the event. Repeated drainings can leave people anaemic, however, though that's still not that bad.
- A sort of mutant cult called the Family appears in Fallout 3; led by a guy named Vance. They are cannibalistic; though they only drink human blood and in otherways act out Vampire myths, kind of like a Hannibal Lector LARP party. However, they are actually fairly benign; Vance serves as something of a grief counselor for a young man you murdered his parents and drank their blood. Meanwhile, it is possible for the player to convince them to not harm other people and simply eat blood packs scavanged from hospitals and medical supplies.
Web Comics
- In Sluggy Freelance, Sam is a parody of these; he attempts to be brooding and angsty, but often switches right back to the sleazy, upbeat guy he was pre-vampirization. One arc had him walking right into a Buffy parody.
- It's worth noting that Sam is NOT a Vegetarian Vampire; though he is generally a good guy and avoids killing people, he has no problem drinking people's blood and when he thought he had killed one of his victims, his reaction was "oh, well".
- A recent page of Triquetra Cats introduced Circe SinClaire, a friendly jovial vampire sorceress, who survives on clone blood, who acts as surrogate mother to a young kitsune.
- Last Resort has Jigsaw Forte, a Cute Bruiser who not only happens to be a vampire, but a furry one at that.
- Derek, from TRU-Life Adventures is a bit grumpy, but still makes for a fine worker on the toy store's overnight shift.
- Pat from Sorcery 101 gets pig's blood from the local butcher shop and is currently searching for a cure so he can become human again. He's not friendly by human standards, but compared to the other vampires we've seen (and especially the other vampire main character)...
- Erfworld; Vinny Doombats is pretty nice a guy, at least by Erfworld standards.
- The rest of Transylvito... not so much.
- The King of Dalv in Chess Piece, who has a demonic appearence has to drink a quart of blood a month to survive, due to a Deal With The Devil he made to save his son. He's a childish, generally laid back man who sleeps in the nude. Hmm...
- The plot of Last Blood revolves around the last human survivors of a Zombie Apocalypse and the vampires who need to keep them alive to avoid starvation.
Western Animation
- The Ruby-Spears cartoon Fangface had a friendly (and very goofy) werewolf, whose transformations seemed more or less psychosomatic (often triggered by pictures of the full moon or sun). This is a Ruby-Spears example of Rule Of Funny, as the supporting cast all seemed to have supplies of durable picture-postcards of the full moon or sun in their back pockets, and relevant images often cropped up in the story whenever the script started to lag.
- The Flintstones lived next door to The Gruesomes, a family of Munsters-inspired monster-like creatures, who were otherwise just as normal as anyone else in that show.
- Count Duckula is very friendly... much to the chagrin of his butler Igor, who wants him to go back to the business of sucking blood and being scary.
- Being resurrected with a ritual where ketchup was substituted for blood, Count Duckula has an easier time being friendly as the world's first vegetarian vampire.
- Interesting in that he WAS evil, but became good after his "death".
- Of course, Professor Von Goosewing is convinced beyond a doubt that Duckula is a murdering fiend and continually tries to destroy him.
- The titular Drak Pack and their mentor, Count Dracula. Not so much the monsters of O.G.R.E., though.
- Sibella Dracula from Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School is just the cutest thing.
- There were two human kids in Camp Mini-Mon (Mini-Monsters), but Dracula's kid hasn't attacked them even once.
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