History Main / VampiresAreRich

* ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive'' has Adam and Eve who both are filthy rich. While Adam at least seems to be a underground musician which ''may'' earn him some money, Eve is just spending her days lounging around reading with a box full of money and credit cards in her home.

See also VampiresOwnNightClubs. If they eat both flesh ''and'' blood, they’re also HighClassCannibals. Contrast WorkingClassWerewolves.

** Apparently when he was the evil vampire Angelus, if he wanted something he'd just kill the owner and take it, a pattern of behavior that doesn't encourage a creature of the night to [[IncrediblyLamePun put aside for a sunny day]]. This applies to most vampires in fact. When they need food, they kill someone; and when they want new clothes, they either take clothes from their victims or steal them from a store. Due to their aversion to sunlight, they typically either live underground or in crypts. As such, they have no real need for money. Darla and Angelus at one point talked about staying in high-end hotels and ordering room service (and eating the people who brought them food), and presumably they'd just leave without paying. With no need for money or any way for the law to prosecute them for theft, why bother?

See also VampiresOwnNightClubs. Contrast WorkingClassWerewolves.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Subverted with Astarion. He carries himself and dresses like an aristocrat, even claiming to be a magistrate, but his [[InterfaceSpoiler character background is Charlatan]]. Once the party knows he's a vampire, he quickly reveals that he is the slave of a more powerful vampire. His fancy clothes and elegant bearing is just a veneer to [[HoneyTrap victims for his master]]; none of it is his.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires Arcueid Brunestud]] can rent out entire floors of hotels and apartment complexes despite having no obvious source of income. Subverted though, she just hypnotizes the staff into giving her the space. [[spoiler:Her real income source comes from being an elemental who can create gold from thin air. A fanboy of hers in the Mage's Association (probably Gransurg Blackmore) also gives her extra fairy gold, which Merem Solomon then sells via the Church and gives Arc the loot. Presumably Arcueid does this in small enough amounts that there's no risk of crashing the gold market.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The progenitor of vampirism, and well-known MagnificentBastard, Strahd von Zarovich is the last "living" member of his noble family. He lives in a gigantic spooky castle, rules over his own [[PocketDimension demiplane]] and has his face printed on Barovia's coins.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The progenitor of vampirism, and well-known MagnificentBastard, Strahd von Zarovich is the last "living" member of his noble family. He murdered his younger brother because he had grown obsessed with his fiancée, and was killed by the townsfolk of Ravenloft in turn. This left him cursed, rising again as the first, and most powerful of vampires.

** Vampire couple Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt both have sizeable incomes. This allows them to enjoy a very comfortable, opulent lifestyle in New Orleans, and they're part of the city's high society. Louis owns his family's mansion (his household is served by at least one maid, a butler, and presumably a cook), and Lestat's magnificent townhouse has many rooms and a large courtyard. While getting to know her new vampire dads, Claudia observes that "Uncle Les and Daddy Lou were rich. They had nice clothes and a nice auto carriage." (This scene takes place in 1917, when only the wealthy can afford to own cars.) She later writes in her journal that "you wouldn't believe how time flies when there's people to eat and money to spend," and summarizes her vampiric existence as "Kill, spend, kill, spend."

** Vampire couple Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt both have sizeable incomes. This allows them to enjoy a very comfortable, opulent lifestyle in New Orleans, and they're part of the city's high society. Louis owns his family's mansion (his household is served by at least one maid, a butler, and presumably a cook), and Lestat's magnificent townhouse has many rooms and a large courtyard. While getting to know her new vampire dads, Claudia observes that "Uncle Les and Daddy Lou were rich. They had nice clothes and a nice auto carriage." (This scene takes place in 1917, when only the wealthy could afford to own cars.) She later writes in her journal that "you wouldn't believe how time flies when there's people to eat and money to spend," and summarizes her vampiric existence as "Kill, spend, kill, spend."

** Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt both have sizeable incomes. This allows them to enjoy a very comfortable, opulent lifestyle in New Orleans, and they're part of the city's high society. Louis owns his family's mansion (his household is served by at least one maid, a butler, and presumably a cook), and Lestat's magnificent townhouse has many rooms and a large courtyard.
** Louis and Armand reside in a spacious penthouse apartment in Dubai (it's located in "the most desired real estate in the country") with human servants, and one of the artistic masterpieces hanging on the walls is Creator/RembrandtVanRijn's ''The Storm on the Sea of Galilee'', a stolen painting worth around $100 million. Daniel Molloy observes that it costs a fortune to maintain such a high level of privacy.

* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'': The members of Kraven's vampire clan live in a gigantic mansion, throw extravagant balls and wear gorgeous costumes.

* ''Series/{{Hearbeat}}: Seon Woo-hyeol is a long living vampire who is shown to have been fairly wealthy already in medieval times. In the 1920s he owned a trendy night club and a mansion and had enough money set aside to maintain his assets during his 100 year old sleep. However, his vampire sidekicks are not good with money and lost almost all of his savings over the years through bad investments in get-rich-quick schemes. When Seon Woo-hyeol wakes up in 1923, the only thing he really owns is the clothes on his back. His sidekicks are working blue collar jobs in order to earn enough money to buy human blood on the black market. This is contrasted by the antagonist vampire who spent the years investing in real estate and is now a billionaire.

** Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac both have sizeable incomes. This allows them to enjoy a very comfortable, opulent lifestyle in New Orleans, and they're part of the city's high society. Louis owns his family's mansion (his household is served by at least one maid, a butler, and presumably a cook), and Lestat's magnificent townhouse has many rooms and a large courtyard.

** Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac both have sizeable incomes. This allows them to enjoy a very comfortable, opulent lifestyle in New Orleans, and they're part of the city's high society. Louis owns his family's mansion (his household is served by at least one maid, a butler, and presumably a cook), and Lestat's magnificent townhouse has a large courtyard.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': The Cullen family own their own island off the [[ArtisticLicenseGeography west coast of Brazil]], and can apparently afford to purchase or build any number of honeymoon cottages, luxury cars, and gemstones. One of the vampires explicitly mentions that it's due to Alice's ability to read the future and the relevant impact it has on the stock market. Before Bella ever meets Edward, the first thing she notices is the incredibly expensive cars that they drive parked in the school parking lot.

* In ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' the Tepes vampire clan ''paid off the entire national debt of Japan'' as part of the deal that got the Bund, a politically autonomous refuge for vampires, set up, and they still have enough funds to operate the place, complete with a private army for security. Admittedly, the Tepes happen to be the royal family, and no all vampires are so affluent. It also took Mina a ''long'' time to lay the groundwork.

In most vampire fiction, vampires tend to be filthy rich or at least comfortably loaded. It's presumed that over the years they've managed to save/squirrel away money so that they can have a comfortable lifestyle, plenty of security so nobody comes in and stakes them in their sleep, and a fabulous wardrobe. Some certainly look like the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob, others may be NonIdleRich and manage to be financially enterprising. Generally [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that the vamp is hundreds of years old, and thus has had plenty of time to accrue his wealth (and invest it via TheSlowPath version of a CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit). Being technically dead also saves several bills, as there's no need to buy food, water, health insurance, you get the idea.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'': In the Night Life expansion vampires are introduced, with vampires [=NPCs=] that fit this trope (since they are obvious parodies of Dracula, even being counts) adding them to your household can give around 50 thousand simoleons. RichIdiotWithNoDayJob might fit them as well since vampires have problems with the Sun.

* Averted with ''Literature/FredTheVampireAccountant'', at least with the titular protagonist. Fred is a mild-mannered CPA, who just continues doing what he knows after being embraced. Partly justified, as he was only bitten a year before the start of the novel. His sire thought Fred's reserved ways hid a deep resentment for the world, so he embrahim, hoping that Fred unleashed his pent-up rage on the unsuspecting city, turning it into a bloodbath. He was rather disappointed with Fred after coming back.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Vampires belong to a faction called the Vampire Counts, which often are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Subverted in that vampires usually belong to one of five major bloodlines, of which only two (the Lahmia and the Von Carstein bloodlines) tend to take on the trappings of actual aristocracy. The Blood Dragon bloodline tends to create vampires exclusively from the knightly classes, but are also driven {{Blood Knight}}s and therefore favour spending as much time as possible on the road in search of their next WorthyOpponent. The Necrachs tend to own expansive wizard lairs, but because they all LooksLikeOrlok they live far away from civilization and whatever riches they have they can't flaunt nor enjoy. Finally, the Strigoi are FeralVampires and tend to live in graveyards and mausoleums, averting the trope entirely.