Quotes / Missing Reflection

"You're using a Perception Filter. It doesn't change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank — hence no reflection."

— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Vampires of Venice"

"You may know a Lasombra by his lack of a reflection. I know not the reason for this curious trait, though one ancient tale of their kind says that their Shadow King cast his out so no one could see him approaching from behind. This seems very much in character for the Lasombra. From eight centuries of experience, I may tell you, do not permit a Lasombra at your back: he probably has a sharpened stake ready."

— Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Followers Of Set

"Mirrors betray us. When we came through, we murdered those whose bodies had bound us, and there was no one among our tormented comrades left behind in our place, no one forced to mimic us from beyond the glass as we had mimicked you. There was nothing in the tain made to take our shapes: we were invisible in the mirror, we had no reflections. When you saw that, you screamed, and called us things. We are the patchogues: that is our name. But you called us vampires."

— The Tain

"That was when he heard the sound. It was a sound he had head at least a thousand times before, a sound that was commonplace in any American man's life... but now it filled him with a dread and a creeping terror beyond all his experience or belief.
It was the sound of a man voiding into a urinal.
But although he could see all three of the bathroom's urinals in the vomit-splattered mirror, he could see no-one at any of them.
Dees thought: Vampires don't cast reflec-"

— The Night Flyer

Alex: Mr. Mayor, if you wanna see the real vampire, look in the mirror!
Mayor: I can't! I'm a vampire!

— Charlie's Angels III: The Legend of Charlie's Gold, Futurama