History Literature / TheLittleVampire

* OminousLatinChanting:Subverted, Frederick's incantation at the ceremony sounds evil coming from a top-ranking vampire, but if you [[GenuisBonus studied Latin]]...or used Google Translate, it means [[spoiler: "All together,cry no despair, without day]]". Tony appearently thought it meant [[VampireVords "I vant to suck your blood]]."

* JustWhistle: In the movie, Anna gives Tony a good luck charm (dead mouse), and tells him to whistle if he ever needs her help. He later does so when Rookery [[NightmareFuel shuts him in a coffin]], and Anna, as promised, shows up to let him out.

* NotEvilMisunderstood:[[With the exception of [[TokenEvilTeammate Greg]] the Sackvilles ( 2000 ) prefer cattle. Drinking ''human'' blood is technically ''cannibalism''.

The books have been adapted to theatre, radio dramas, two television series, a live-action movie, and an animated movie.

** In the 2000 movie their powers include:
*** Telekinesis: [[VampireMonarch Freddy]] can shut a door without even looking at it.
*** Super Strength: Rudolph can shove a wardrobe in front of a door. Frederick can lift a person by just two fingers under a chin.
*** Hypnosis
*** Flight
*** Shape-shifting You know, all the powers [[TakeThat film/Twilight a vampire is ''supposed'' to have]].

** In the 200 movie their powers include:

*** Telekinesis: [[VampireMonarch Freddy]] can shut a door without even looking at it.
*** Super Strength: Rudolph can shove a wardrobe in front of a door. Frederick can lift a person by just two fingers under a chin.
*** Hypnosis
*** Flight
*** Shape-shifting You know, all the powers [[TakeThat film/Twilight a vampire is ''supposed'' to have]].

* AgeLift: Slightly, but still. In the books, Anton is 9 and Rüdiger is 10. In the animated movie, they are both 13.

* NotGrowingUpSucks: Rüdiger, Anna and Lumpi will forever be the age they were made vampires. It doesn't seem like they actually agree with the trope namer, though. Desperately wanting to grow up is never an issue, even for Lumpi who became a vampire while in puberty and will ''never'' grow out of this difficult phase. Rüdiger and Anna, in contrast, still seem to be children at heart, despite the fact that they have been vampires for at least 150 years.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes?: Olga is afraid of loud noises.

* JerkAss: Rüdiger can be this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Other times, he can be like this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: One difference between Lumpi and Rüdiger is that Lumpi fits this trope better.

* UndeadChild: Rüdiger, Anna and Lumpi are this.

* BlondesAreEvil: Olga, [[who wants to turn Anton into her slave and takes advantage of Rudiger's feelings for her.]]

The books have been adapted to theatre, radio dramas, two television series and a movie.

''The Little Vampire'' (original: ''Der kleine Vampir'') is a children's fantasy series by German author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg that follows the adventures of young Tony Peasbody and the child vampire Rudolph Sackville-Bagg (Anton Bohnsack and Rüdiger von Schlotterstein in the original, respectively). The first book was published in 1979 and has spawned 19 sequels up to 2008, when the last and likely final one came out.

* RecursiveAdaptation: The movie, already ''very'' loosely based on the books, got its own novelization, written by Sommer-Bodenburg herself.

* HairTriggerTemper: Several of the vampires, though Lumpi is the worst case -- explained in-universe by the fact that he's an eternal teenager and will never grow out of puberty.

* JustWhistle: In the movie, Anna gives Tony a good luck charm (dead mouse), and tells him to whistle if he ever needs her help. He later does so when Rookery [[NightmareFuel shuts him in a coffin]], and Anna, as promised, shows up to let him out.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Rüdiger, Anna and Lumpi will forever be the age they were made vampires. It doesn't seem like they actually agree with the trope namer, though. Desperately wanting to grow up is never an issue, even for Lumpi who became a vampire while in puberty and will ''never'' grow out of this difficult phase. Rüdiger and Anna, in contrast, still seem to be children at heart, despite the fact that they have been vampires for at least 150 years.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires in this story drink human blood, but can survive on animal blood or - if necessary - eggs as well. They are afraid of the sun and it remains uncertain if sun light would kill them, since the psychologist's desensibilisation program is never tested in practice. A spear through the heart would kill these vampires (as well as any living creature) and they don't like garlic. They don't have any superhuman powers, save for the ability to fly, but even this power comes from their vampire capes (made from a special tissue, as Rüdiger said in one book), so Anton can use one too. Throughout the day, the vampires in this story are unable to move and look dead for the curious observer.

* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: ''The Little Vampire'' falls somewhere on the friendly half of the scale, as Rudolph and Anna the Toothless are friends to Tony. Aunt Dorothee from the books, however, is quite the opposite.

* RecusiveAdaptation: The movie, already ''very'' loosely based on the books, got its own novelization, written by Sommer-Bodenburg herself.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Other times, he can be like this. Lumpi also qualifies.

* CompleteMonster: Rookery in the movie is this. He tries to kills Tony twice, first running him over with his truck and then shutting him in a coffin. It seems like he also, unlike many other vampires hunters, hunts vampires for some twisted FantasticRacism feeling he has towards'em.

* CompleteMonster: Rookery in the movie is this. He tries to kills Tony twice, first running him over woth his truck and then shutting him in a coffin. It seems like he also, unlike many other vampires hunters, hunts vampires for some twisted FantasticRacism feeling he has towards'em.

* CompleteMonster: Rookery in the movie is this. He tries to kills Tony twice, first running him over woth his truck and then shutting him in a coffin. It seems like he also, unlike many other vampires hunters, hunts vampires for some
twisted FantasticRacism feeling he has towards'em.

* CompleteMonster: Rookery in the movie is this. He tries to kills Tony twice, first running him over woth his truck and then shutting him in a coffin. It seems like he also, unlike many other vampires hunters, hunts vampires for some twisted
FantasticRacism feeling he has towards'em.

* ToyShip: Tony and Anna. He likes her, and she certainly likes him, but Anna is a 150 years old vampire, and Tony neither wants to become a vampire, nor does he want to get involved in a MayflyDecemberRomance. The Movie solves this problem when [[spoiler: the vampires become human in the end.]]