History ComicBook / Vampirella

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Becomes a plot point in "Death's Dark Angel" where, being a Drakulonian rather than an Earth vampire, [[spoiler:Vampirella's bite doesn't infect Wade with vampirism but rather kills him.]]

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In "Death's Dark Angel" a corrupt sheriff threatens the Van Helsings with trumped-up charges in order to get them to follow him to Wade's place.

* BackFromTheDead: Completely absent in the Warren times (OK, she was wounded severely more than once). Often enough in the Harris run (up to the point that the last time the creators killed her, afterwards they didn't even bother to [[SarcasmMode properly]] [[HandWave revive her]]). Dynamite yet had no opinion on the matter.

Now her adventures are published by Dynamite Entertainment. [[note]] Dynamite announced #38 (Feb 2014) was "the last Vampirella story". But we all know Vampi, she always comes back.[[/note]]

Now her adventures are published by Dynamite Entertainment. [[note: Dynamite announced #38 (Feb 2014) was "the last Vampirella story". But we all know Vampi, she always comes back.]]

Now her adventures are published by Dynamite Entertainment.

* BackFromTheDead: Completely absent in the Warren times. Often enough in the Harris run (up to the point that the last time the creators killed her, afterwards they didn't even bother to [[SarcasmMode properly]] [[HandWave revive her]]). Dynamite yet had no opinion on the matter.

In her first tale, Vampirella was an inhabitant of the planet Drakulon, which had blood instead of water, which gave rise to a race of Vampiric HumanAliens. After arriving on Earth, Vampi devoted herself to fighting evil of all kinds, as well as falling in love with one Adam Van Helsing.

* FaceHeelTurn: The demoness Astaroth once was a benign fertility goddess of the Demeter kind and somewhere took a wrong moral turn at Albuquerque.
* HeelFaceTurn: Partly. When she [[DemonicPossession possessed]] the character Cryssie Collins, Cryssie kinda possessed her back, to the result that she allied with Vampirella. (Even in this form Astaroth still was a Bad Girl, rest assured...)
* PutOnABus: In the extreme early Warren comics, it was mentioned that Vampirella has a blonde twin named Draculina. She wasn't ever mentioned again (except in a retelling of Vampirellas origin, then under the name Vampyra). Dynamite by accident found the bus parked in a garage on Drakulon and [[TheBusCameBack reintroduced her into the story line.]]

* FailureHero: In her original magazine, Vampirella rarely saved the day. Often she was incapacitated until the end of the issue, only being revived to kill the bad guy. Most of her stories ether featured, the problem resolving itself, a secondary character doing the majority of the work, and in some cases Vampirella was even the problem herself. This is not the case for the later series, where she takes a dominate role.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played strictly for the lulz (Vampirella of all would know, and Pantha is a werefeline, so Vampirella can't mean it seriously) in the issue with the ''Russ Meyer'' hommage "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (yes, the title is identical) where Vampirella remarks to a raging Pantha "It's that time of the month, right?"

* ContinuitySnarl: Three different comic companies didn't make it better. If you haven't noticed yet, you probably were too busy staring at her costume :-)

* TentacleRope: Played [[IncrediblyLamePun dead]] serious in the Warren times - those were horror comics after all, even if not under the restriction of the Comics Code. The only example of [[NaughtyTentacles Naughty Tentacles]] is subverted: A [[EldritchAbomination monster]] is conjured to "handle" the witch Fleur, but due to plot twists, it gets the wrong girl and "handles" the butt-ugly brothel chief. Monster, bitterly complaining: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain "This is...girl?"]] Occasionally present in Harris and Dynamite times too, but you can't look at it innocently any more.
* TranslationWithAnAgenda: A strange thing occured in the first German run of the series. In cases, the translation completely ignored the English text and mangled the plots to comply with the likings of puberty youth with an IQ of 50. The guilty are still at large.

* TentacleRope: Played [[IncrediblyLamePun dead]] serious in the Warren times - those were horror comics after all, even if not under the restriction of the Comics Code. The only example of [[NaughtyTentacles Naughty Tentacles]] is subverted: A [[EldritchAbomination monster]] is conjured to "handle" the witch Fleur, but due to plot twists, it gets the wrong girl and "handles" the butt-ugly brothel chief. Monster, bitterly complaining: [[PoliticalIncorrectVillain "This is...girl?"]] Occasionally present in Harris and Dynamite times too, but you can't look at it innocently any more.

* AWorldwidePunomenon: Big time in the early issues, much less later.

!!Fanboys are guilty of:
* Fanon: [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Bugs me]] why almost all lemons declare Vampirella and Pantha to be a lesbian couple. The trope is not exactly unheard of, but in this case all in-universe data strictly speaks against it: Vampirella has a long-running boyfriend AND a Draculonian husband AND the Mad God Chaos who wanted to have a love child with her (OK, forget that one, it was rather one-sided) AND an Aztec Sun God lover AND the one or other person she sucked dry (always described as a quasi-sexual act), the least of them being female. Pantha once got an offer (OK, more a molestation) from a lesbian and turned it down by changing into a panther and ripping her to shreds. Case closed.