History Main / VampireHunter

* [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes III]] in ''Comicbook/{{Impaler}}'', who, in this setting, was never turned into a vampire himself. Instead, when vampires attacked Wallachia, he used magic to become an immortal vampire slayer.

* * ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': The Silversaints of the Ordo Argent are sworn to hunt creatures of darkness across the Empire, with vampires constituting their primary and most common quarry, though they are also mentioned to have hunted [[WickedWitch witches]], [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], [[FairFolk faekin]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent duskdancers]].

* Jefferson Twilight from the ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' is a [[CripplingOverspecialization specialized]] example. He only hunts Film/{{Blacula}}s, i.e. vampires with a dark skin tone.

* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' (by Creator/CharlesStross): Deconstructed in ''The Rhesus Chart''. Anyone willing to track down and kill vampires must by definition be insane -- given that vampires are essentially serial killers with SuperStrength, MindControl and are (usually) powerful sorcerers. As vampire numbers must be kept low to maintain TheMasquerade, the more cunning and long-lived vampires utilize these psychotics to kill off their rivals. The vampire hunter in the book is a woman with a '[[RomanticVampireBoy fang fetish]]' who assassinates vampires by seducing them, breaking their neck, [[ComingAndGoing having sex with their paralyzed body]], then [[AndIMustScream leaving them next to an open window so they'll be burnt up come dawn]]. And you thought [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike and Buffy]] got up to some twisted shit.

* The night teams in ''Literature/NightWatcher'' are a secret/informal government/municipal initiative for just this. Arguably subverted in that they generally work with the [[TheMasquerade vampire conspiracy]] against the more feral vampires and mostly aim for population control; though the ones actually seen in the book (two cops, later joined by [[spoiler:a journalist, a psychic werewolf, and a vampire that has overcome his craving for blood]] and helped by TheMafiya) seem to be keen on making this a DoubleSubversion.

* A minor character from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is Dame Aedith, a vampire huntress tagging along with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure. Tragically, despite all the weirdness of the setting, there doesn't seem to be any vampires for her to hunt. But if any ever show up, she's ready!

* Carlisle Cullen of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' was one of these before becoming a vampire himself.

* In ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire2013'', Charlotte is the latest in a long of vampire hunters, descended from a human born of a vampire. However, her mother died before she could pass on the secret to Charlotte.

* Himegami of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' (also known as Deep Blood) [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious smells delicious to vampires]], but her blood kills them when they try to feed. In a standard subversion, she hates the killing, and wants to never use her power in that way again. In a not so standard subversion, no one is quite sure if the people she is attracting and killing are actually vampires. It's never confirmed one way or another.

* Abel Nightroad of ''Manga/TrinityBlood'' is not quite of the HunterOfHisOwnKind type, but is similar. He isn't actually a vampire, but a member of a vampiric race of vampire hunters (who drink vampire blood like the vampires feed on humans), Crusniks, [[spoiler:which is exactly three individuals strong with one more long dead]].

* Vincent from ''Literature/MissPrince''. Also doubles as a lawyer, because he needs money and being a vampire hunter is hard these days, folks.

* Deconstructed in ''Literature/TheRhesusChart'' by Creator/CharlesStross. Anyone willing to track down and kill vampires must by definition be insane -- given that vampires are essentially serial killers with SuperStrength, MindControl and are (usually) powerful sorcerers. As vampire numbers must be kept low to maintain TheMasquerade, the more cunning and long-lived vampires utilize these psychotics to kill off their rivals. The vampire hunter in the book is a woman with a '[[RomanticVampireBoy fang fetish]]' who assassinates vampires by seducing them, breaking their neck, [[ComingAndGoing having sex with their paralyzed body]], then [[AndIMustScream leaving them next to an open window so they'll be burnt up come dawn]]. And you thought [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike and Buffy]] got up to some twisted shit.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' features the Mosquito Collectors, who aren't particularly skilled until [[spoiler:Guillermo]] joins them, and saves them on their first real hunt.