Poor Image: Friendly Neighborhood Vampire

The picture on Friendly Neighborhood Vampire is extremely low quality. We either need a better quality one, or something that illustrates the trope better. Only thing that comes to mind off the top of my head would be if we could dig up a good screencap of Marceline from Adventure Time. I looked through The Adventure Time Wiki's gallery and there are a few that might work.

Oh wow, that's horrible...a quality swap would be a good enough fix for now, but some other options wouldn't be bad. The Count from Sesame Street comes to mind immediately.

This may just be coming from a personal annoyance with Monster High, but from the image, I can't even tell that this 'Draculaura''s not supposed to be evil. In fact, she just plain looks evil.

edited 27th Feb '14 11:55:32 AM by BaffleBlend

I can't tell for sure because of the image quality, but she looks like a vampire version of a Cute Monster Girl, which seems like a clear enough indication of this for me.

I don't think she looks necessarily evil, she could easily just have the Perky Goth aesthetic. But anyway, can we agree that the quality is bad enough to yank the image?

Gyahh, the quality! My eyes! Considering how easy this is to replace, I'm fine with yanking it.

Pending an image change, I found a higher-resolution copy of the image and did a quality upgrade.

Old vs. new:

What happened to that cute anime pic of two vampire girls making an omeltte? I thought that one was just adorable and illustratetive.

I still think she looks like a wicked sorceress or something, but the quality's definitely better than the current.

edited 27th Feb '14 4:45:06 PM by BaffleBlend

Checking the archive in Wayback machine. Apparently, it used to be this◊ one... It does look cute, but I see no indication that those girls are supposed to be vampires, so for that one.

As an alternative, maybe [1]◊?

edited 27th Feb '14 5:44:11 PM by theAdeptrogue

Does the smile◊ look friendly enough?

edited 27th Feb '14 6:12:20 PM by tbarrie

I don't think it could look more harmless and vampire-like than The Count from Sesame Street.

11 is perfect. I'd love an ironic quote, something like "Get back to the shadows, foul creature of darkness." Another route would be "I vant to teach you math!"

edited 27th Feb '14 10:27:38 PM by Rethkir

11 is good

11.1 seems like the obvious choice really but check elsewhere because I feel like a very similar pic is in use.

edited 27th Feb '14 11:20:39 PM by treelo

Two ones.

11 is good pending verification of .

Part of Our Vampires Are Different

edited 28th Feb '14 4:48:25 AM by Rethkir

Maybe a different shot of the Count? [1]◊

I'm for The Count. Either picture suggested, or perhaps one from the show where he's interacting with another character?

Having him interacting with the other characters is a good idea. Also, the Count pic on Our Vampires Are Different is part of a collage and isn't the same one as in 11 at all so "duplicate pic" wouldn't be an issue.

edited 28th Feb '14 6:12:02 AM by Willbyr

Unless it's an entirely different pic I'm considering, Image Source was useless.

edited 28th Feb '14 6:17:00 AM by treelo

Considering Our Vampires Are Different is a supertrope with collage of different vampires from various subtropes, I think it's kind of fitting to have the same vampire in the collage as one of the subtropes. It ties them together a little better.

Yeah, using the Count from Sesame Street would be a great example.

For all the pointy teeth, European accent and love of lightning,◊ The Count's friendliness makes him Number One.