History Main / VampireVords

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* Mined ''ad nauseam'' for “jokes” in the “comedy” ''Mama Dracula''. Steel yourself for the concept that the term “wirgin” is as screamingly funny as the filmmakers seemed to think.

* In the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade 1.0'', the Tzimisce were often characterized with this accent, probably to play up the Dracula connection.
** In later versions, this is a flaw and strongly implied to be a mental illness.
** Many of them actually do hail from Eastern Europe, at least.

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*** A later book suggests that Otto exaggerates his native accent deliberately in public; if he acts like a music-hall vampire he's seen as a joke rather than a bloodsucking monster, and people relax around him, which is important in his job.

*** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' Vimes remarked that he wanted to tell Doreen that she can use Ws, ''honestly'' - just borrow them from the guy who overemphasis his Ws (a real vampire trying too hard not to look like one), and added that her fake fangs rattle when she talks. Showing that the accent (or least Doreen's) is considered highly annoying.
*** This is at least partly because Doreen has come to the conclusion that, as vampires, she and Arthur must logically be nobles, and therefore she stands for a number of things that Vimes find offensive, so his patience with her is probably already limited at best.
** It should be noted that there are many non-vampire Uberwald natives (Sgt. Angua, Moist von Lipwig, and a large number of dwarfs, among others) who do not speak with the same dialect.
*** [[TheIgor Igors]] also speak quite differently, in a messy lisp; they also appear to be able to dispense with this if they wish to, and occasionally forget to lisp when distracted.
*** Sally is a vampire that doesn't talk like Doreen or John Most-Definitively-Not-A-Vampire Smith, showing that the Vord usage is probably selective.
*** So is Maledict from ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', though whether Mal is speaking Morporkian is a good question (and difficult to answer). An awful lot of puns don't work if you assume [[TranslationConvention everyone's speaking Borogravian]] for most of the book, but why wouldn't they be?
*** ''None'' of the vampires in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' used this accent (not even Bela, the old count). The inscription on the organ, however, reads "Hlisten to zee children of der night! Vot vonderful mhusick dey make!"
*** While Moist von Lipwig does not have the accent, he explains to Mr. Pump, his golem parole officer, that the W in his name is properly pronounced like a V. At which point Mr. Pump starts speaking in that accent in an attempt to correct itself.
** Lady Margolotta, in ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', speaks this way to Vimes, but not to anyone else, suggesting that she does it deliberately.
*** She doesn't have the accent in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when she visits Ankh-Morpork, but does have it in ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', at home in Uberwald.
** Wwwwhile, conversely, there are also reformed vampires wwwwho ''overemphasise'' their doubleyous, under the impression they're "fitting in".
*** In fact, Vimes thinks that "it shouldn't be possible to roll your doubleyous, but he did it anyway." He's not just overemphasizing them, he is in fact ''pronouncing them multiple times''. Probably just to prove he can. ("He," in this case, is the above-mentioned John "[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Most Definitely Not A Vampire]]" Smith.)

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** And his CaptainErsatz in ''Series/GregTheBunny'', Count Blah.
*** Blah!

* Although he's not a vampire, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Pavel Chekov]] gets a lot of this. During a guest appearance on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
--> '''Fry:''' Say "nuclear wessels!"
--> '''Walter Koenig:''' No.
** [[FridgeLogic Why is it that Pavel Chekhov can only say the letter "v" correctly when it's in his name?]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' relies heavily on this trope.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', where an actor states that the accent comes from the fake fangs he wears when portraying a vampire on a show.
* Draculaura in the ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'' TV series has this accent.
* Boobarella from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a blatant [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]] pastiche.
* The vampires from the ''Scary Godmother'' franchise, although Ruby's is more of a Russian accent. However, Orson has an American accent.
* Dingbat, a vampire dog from the latter portion of ''The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show''.

* Anytime a vampire similar to Dracula is featured in a cartoon, hence the TropeNamer.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The Viper is coming! [[spoiler: (The Vindow Viper.)]]
** Also used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** The three-part GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', "The Rebirth", had the Decepticon Mindwipe (who turned into a [[BatOutOfHell bat]]) talk like a stereotypical vampire.
** The ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' episode "Along Came a Spider" had Bumblebee [[BriefAccentImitation briefly]] uses this accent while dressed as Dracula.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count]] [[ComedicSpanking Spankulot]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has this. In "Operation L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N." it's shown that anyone he turns into a spank-happy vampire will also aquire this accent.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire speaks like this (even though in the source material he's Greek).

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', where Dracula's voice is instead modeled after [[Series/SanfordAndSon Fred Sanford]].

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* Riff Raff and Magenta both talk like this at the end of [[Theatre/TheRockyHorrorShow Rocky Horror Show Live]]'' after they confront Frank and stop pretending to be human.

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* Dracula in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''. Strangely, he's the ''only'' monster who has a non-American accent. Even the Egyptian mummy talks like... well, Music/CeeLoGreen (his voice actor). Dracula's daughter Mavis sounds like a typical American teenager (give or take 100 years). However, Dracula is adamant that he has ''never'' said "bleh, bleh, bleh" and is annoyed when people who pretend to be vampires do it.
* Mater in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' briefly dons a vampire truck disguise. Upon noticing it, he says "I vant to zyphon your gas".

All of vhich ics to szay zat zare are an auful lot of vampires avound who vont to "[[BloodLust sohk yu blaohd]]". Also they tend to say "BLAH!" a lot; often two or three utterances at a time.

* ''The Rhesus Chart'' by Creator/CharlesStross. A couple of recently-turned vampires attempt to hypnotize a hematologist into giving them blood. They discover that hospitals [[RealityEnsues don't keep large supplies of blood on hand]] due to the difficulties of storage, just ordering it on a case by case basis. Eventually one of them loses patience and tells her to stick a syringe in her arm. "I am a vampire and I ''vant'' to suck your ''blood!''"

*** A later book suggests that Otto exaggerates his native accent deliberately in public; if he acts like a music-hall vampire he's seen as a joke rather than a bloodsucking monster.

In other words, whenever vampires speak, they will inevitably have an [[{{Uberwald}} Eastern European or Slavic]] accent. In the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' the character of Count Dracula is said to be a Szekely, a Hungarian-speaking ethnic group still found in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}. (This is one of the many characteristics that makes Stoker's character Dracula different from the historical UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler -- Tepes -- who was ethnically Vlach and spoke Romanian as his native language). Creator/BelaLugosi, who played the best-known screen Dracula in the [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} 1931 film]], was also a native Hungarian speaker. Also, due to the prominence of Jewish actors in Hollywood, sometimes it can also sound suspiciously like Yiddish - which, although a Germanic language, has been significantly influenced by Slavic languages, especially in terms of pronunciation/accent (at least for the Eastern Yiddish dialect group with Galitsianer, i.e Ukrainian, Yiddish and Litvak, i.e. Lithuanian, Yiddish).

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Note that in the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} original book]], Count Dracula was said to speak SurprisinglyGoodEnglish. (In fact, when his guest comments on it, he explains that his pride would never allow him to settle for merely being another [[FunnyForeigner foreigner with a funny accent]] once he visits Britain.)

In other words, whenever vampires speak, they will inevitably have an [[{{Uberwald}} Eastern European or Slavic]] accent. In the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' the character of Count Dracula is said to be a Szekely, a Hungarian-speaking ethnic group still found in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}. (This is one of the many characteristics that makes Stoker's character Dracula different from the historical Vlad the Impaler -- Tepes --, who was ethnically Vlach and spoke Romanian as his native language). Creator/BelaLugosi, who played the best-known screen Dracula in the [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} 1931 film]], was also a native Hungarian speaker. Also, due to the prominence of Jewish actors in Hollywood, sometimes it can also sound suspiciously like Yiddish - which, although a Germanic language, has been significantly influenced by Slavic languages, especially in terms of pronunciation/accent (at least for the Eastern Yiddish dialect group with Galitsianer, i.e Ukrainian, Yiddish and Litvak, i.e. Lithuanian, Yiddish).

* Creator/BelaLugosi in ''Film/Dracula1931'' effectively ''[[TropeMaker made]]'' this trope. His thick Hungarian accent contrasted with the Dracula character from [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]], who spoke comparatively better English.

* Creator/BelaLugosi in ''Film/Dracula1931'' effectively ''made'' this trope. His thick Hungarian accent contrasted with the Dracula character from [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]], who spoke comparatively better English.

* In an [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer]] advert, Count Dracula has a VELCOME mat outside the door to his castle.

* Almost all of the vampires in ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' speak like this, but not all of them, as Nick retains his thick New Zealand accent after he gets bitten.

* In an Energizer advert, Count Dracula has a VELCOME mat outside the door to his castle.

A case of SmallReferencePools with regards to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], and a DeadHorseTrope.

* A joke/meme involving a different kind of accent but the same concept has the words "I lost my khakis" and shows some pants, and below that says "what is means in [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Boston]] and shows some car keys.

* A joke/meme involving a different kind of accent but the same concept has the words "I lost my khakis" and shows some pants, and below that says "what is means in [[''UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents'' Boston]] and shows some car keys.