History Main / RomanticVampireBoy

** Subverted in the first episode "Tourist Trapped"; after Dipper points out that Mabel's new boyfriend Norman is more than a bit strange, Mabel hopes that he might be a vampire. When Normal takes her out to the woods and says he has to tell her something, Mabel is secretly excited that he'll reveal he's a vampire...only to turn out that "Norman" is really just several gnomes in a TotemPoleTrench.
** A NoodleIncident in "The Deep End" reveals that Mabel actually got to meet "some cute vampires" when her brother wasn't around.

* Gender-flipped in ''Film/FreaksOfNature'' with Petra, who serves as the love interest for the main hero Dag and has all the reluctant monster baggage associated with this trope. Milan, Petra's sire, is a subverted parody, an expy of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] who's instead portrayed as a HandsomeLech who simply used Petra to drink her blood (analogous to sex, complete with Petra getting [[SlutShaming slut-shamed]] afterwards).

* A more recent incarnation of the archetype is Edward Cullen of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fame: he was 17/18 when he was turned into a vampire in the early 20th century, and spends years re-enrolling in high school. After he meets Bella Swan, he takes an interest in her, even protecting her during the first book (from a hit and run, some assailants and a murderous vampire) and takes her to prom at the end of the first book.

* The ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] this ''beautifully'' with Caelen, who is probably best described as "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]], only in a world where everyone else ''knows'' that stalking people is bad."

* In ''Series/NightAndDay'', elements of Josh Alexander's DemonicPossession story play out like a bananas, prophetic parody of the {{Literature/Twilight}} franchise - invoking vampiric behaviour as an extended metaphor for sex and in particular the loss of innocence, whilst continuing to advance Josh's ongoing romance with Della Wells. Given the show's ambiguous presentation, it's not clear how much of the apparently supernatural content in these scenes is literally happening, or should simply be regarded as symbolic.
* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''
** Deconstructed in "Live Free or Twi Hard" with vampires playing into this trope to lure in easy victims.
** And there's Benny. In addition to his TragicBromance with Dean, his backstory includes falling in love with a human woman (which is what convinced him to become a VegetarianVampire). Unfortunately, by the time he gets out of Purgatory [[spoiler: she's become a vampire herself.]]

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* ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants'' puts a cynical and dark spin in a short story named ''Rue Blood'' when Damen, a handsome vampire from India falls in love with {{ComicBook/Rogue}} believing her to be the reincarnation of his beloved Rue, who died 200 years before. Turns out he is incorrect as [[spoiler:his beloved actually reincarnated as No-Girl, a female telepath reduced to nothing more than a BrainInAJar who also reveals that Damen is an EmptyShell and not really capable of love ever since he became a vampire. This revelation breaks him so much he lets Rogue to [[MercyKill put him out of his misery]]]]. Ouch.

* An important plot point in ''Series/ForeverKnight'' is Nick (a vampire) a Natalie (a human) romantic relationship, even though the show zigzagged with it a lot. A similar plot line was introduced in the third and last season between Nick's new partner Tracy and another good vampire Vachón.

* Literature/{{Dracula}} is ''not'' an example, because Bram Stoker didn't find vampires romantic ''at all''. However, nearly every adaptation or sequel seems to have Drac PromotedToLoveInterest and reinterprets him as a tragic, romantic figure.

* Literature/{{Dracula}} is ''not'' an example, because Bram Stoker didn't find vampires romantic ''at all''. However, nearly every adaptation or sequel seems to have Drac PromotedToLoveInterest.

* Currently the best-known example would be Edward Cullen of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fame.

* Juliet van Heusen from ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' is a romantic vampire girl.
* Stefan and Damon Salvatore from ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. Both are romantic vampire boys or love interests for the heroine of the series, Elena.

* In ''Series/NightAndDay'', elements of Josh Alexander's DemonicPossession story play out like a bananas, prophetic parody of the {{Literature/Twilight}} franchise - invoking vampiric behaviour as an extended metaphor for sex and in particular the loss of innocence, whilst continuing to advance Josh's ongoing romance with Della Wells. Given the show's ambiguous presentation, it's not clear how much of the apparently supernatural content in these scenes is literally happening, or should simply be regarded as symbolic.
* An important plot point in ''Series/ForeverKnight'' is Nick (a vampire) a Natalie (a human) romantic relationship, even though the show zigzagged with it a lot. A similar plot line was introduced in the third and last season between Nick's new partner Tracy and another good vampire Vachón.

* Alex Schwartz in ''Literature/TheNightmareStacks'' is a rather nervous and socially inept example, who treats his vampirism as the career and social-life impeding classified-under-the-Official-Secrets-Act disease it is in the series. Thankfully, mind-controlling glamours are off the table, mostly because Cassie is secretly an elf princess (and as such much better at them than Alex), although moral and ethical constraints, plus a desire not to be stuck with the paperwork at the inevitable subsequent inquiry also play a part.

* Inverted with Akatsuki Kojou from ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood''. He's a handsome, fit, and [[CluelessChickMagnet clueless]] VegetarianVampire, but he's the main character in a HaremGenre series so the various female characters serve as ''his'' love interests.

* Yuuki Anzai of ''Manga/DevilsLine'' is this. He's the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-vampire]] LoveInterest to Tsukasa.

* Akatsuki Kojou is a handsome, fit, and [[CluelessChickMagnet clueless]] VegetarianVampire in ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood'', a HaremGenre series.