NSFW/Image Macro: Vampire Vannabe

It's neither of those, but the current pic on Vampire Vannabe has a clear watermark so it's being pulled. Is there a version that doesn't have this, or should we try to find something else?

edited 27th Jun '13 10:13:40 AM by Willbyr

How about this pic of Nicolas Cage from Vampires Kiss? I think the blatantly fake fangs convey he's a human who wants to be a vampire.

Caption suggestion: "Not the vees! Not the vees! AHHHH!!"

edited 27th Jun '13 10:37:10 AM by peasant

OP pic as I found without watermarks:

Cool. I'm not really keen on either pic so far, although neither's bad enough for me to give a solid to.

I like the original picture. I'm not sure it specifically says, "vampire," but I do like how it looks.

Maybe I'm not quite understanding the trope but I don't think the current pic is a clear example of it. There's nothing in the pic that directly shows her wanting to be a vampire or to even directly tie it to vampires. All I see is a girl wearing a scarf. And lots of people wear scarves without wanting to become vampires.

Yeah, I don't really care for the current pic. Not enough to pull, but because it just seems like a girl with a scarf. Knowing it's about vampires, my assumption is that she's bitten and hides it under the wrap.

Upon further reading, I'm guessing that she's "feedstock," but that seems to be a best a secondary part of this trope, and even so isn't illustrated terribly well.

... but it is a nice picture, in any case.

The band is fairly tight around her throat, and it looks to be a thin fabric, which rules out it being a scarf for me.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested on the current picture (the version without watermark, that is).

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Edit: More to the point, even if it did rule out a scarf (which it doesn't), that still doesn't necessarily rule in vampires; which is kinda important to do. Even if she was hiding something (which again, isn't explicitly clear in the pic), it could just be a hickey or the bruises caused by her abusive boyfriend strangling her; the latter actually being the inspiration, imagery and metaphor behind the whole "girl hides vampire bite marks with a scarf" thing.

edited 27th Jun '13 11:18:11 AM by peasant

Yeah, there are plenty of examples of tight scarves.

Part of it is it doesn't seem like it'd be an effective bandage, so even associating her with vampires, I get the feeling that it's hiding the teethmarks, which seems the opposite of what a "Vannabe" would do.

From the page, how about the second two panels of this? Just throwing it out there, I'd probably rather keep the current since this is dull looking, but it is quite funny and illustrative.

I don't really get the current. Not sure about the Cage one either. Seems kind of parodic.

I like the wondermark one, but I think it's probably a tad too reliant on the text. It's not quite visuals add nothing — It wouldn't be quite as clear what's going on if you didn't see her laying down and the guy bending over her, but the text is doing most of the heavy lifting.

I'm starting to warm to the Nicolas Cage one.

My only gripe is that ideally the picture would suggest that vampires do exist... but this person isn't one. But that's a lot of info to fit into one picture.

A bored-looking vampire with a gothy teenager clinging desperately to his leg would be perfect...

Actually, that's an interesting point - do vampires need to exist in order for this trope to apply or does the person only need want to become one?

I would suppose that if the person is mistaken about vampires existing, but still wants to be one, that qualifies. Tropes Are Not Narrow and all that.

Wannabe Vampire◊?

No. It's mostly just the trope name and a bunch of silly text.

HERP DERP

edited 22nd Jul '13 6:13:40 AM by Willbyr

Makes sense.

Done. Ignore my post about setting the clock, I evidently forgot to do that.

I'm not at all convinced by the Wondermark suggestion whatsoever. The text/dialogue does all the work while nothing overtly vampiric happens in the strip itself - which is essentially the same picture again and again but with different dialogue. Change the dialogue and it could look like anything you want.

Case in point, just for funsies:

edited 23rd Jul '13 11:01:00 AM by peasant

Nice. That wouldn't work so well with 27 in the Genre Savvy discussion.

edited 23rd Jul '13 11:22:09 AM by lexicon

I would have suggested a picture of a kid dressed as Mona The Vampire, but then I read the trope description and saw it was specifically about a minion of a vampire, where the minion wants to also be a vampire.

Re-reading the Sookie Stackhouse books recently made me think - does True Blood have any good pics of "fangbangers" that we could use?