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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' the adventure Creatures Of The Nightcycle (a parody of TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade) has the player characters turn into vampires, which results in a number of thematically fitting strengths and weaknesses. One of these is, as the game spells out, that getting a stake through your heart will kill you. It helpfully continues that ''before'' you became a vampclone, a stake through the heart would ''also'' have killed you.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', where staking Lucy makes her [[BloodyHilarious spew out blood like a geyser]]. Repeatedly.
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* Figures in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', naturally, but surprisingly averted at the end: Dracula himself is killed by Quincy's Bowie knife in his heart (and Harker's kukri taking off his head).
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* Figures in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', naturally, but surprisingly averted at the end: Dracula himself is killed by Quincy's Bowie knife in his heart (and Harker's kukri taking off his head). Also [[UnbuiltTrope Unbuilt]]: staking Lucy is difficult and messy, requiring several squirming hammer blows.
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* The weapon of choice on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Kendra had a favourite stake she dubbed [[ICallItVera "Mr. Pointy"]]. Buffy "adopted" Mr Pointy after Kendra was killed. Various {{Improvised Weapon}}s are also used at a pinch, from broken bits of wooden furniture to a magically-levitated pencil.
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* The weapon of choice on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Kendra had a favourite stake she dubbed [[ICallItVera "Mr. Pointy"]]. Buffy "adopted" Mr Mr. Pointy after Kendra was killed. Various {{Improvised Weapon}}s are also used at a pinch, from broken bits of wooden furniture to a magically-levitated pencil.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': in "Dear Diary," Goosewing loads a camera with a wooden stake propelled with gunpowder and poses as a photographer taking Duckula's picture. It winds up blowing up in his face instead. (The idea stemmed from an entry in his great great grandfather's diary where a similar camera was used to unsuccessfully dispose of an earlier Duckula.)
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* ''Film/DeadtimeStories/Volume1'': The doctor drives a wooden stake through the heart of the vampire at the end of "House Call".
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* ''Film/DeadtimeStories/Volume1'': ''Film/DeadtimeStoriesVolume1'': The doctor drives a wooden stake through the heart of the vampire at the end of "House Call".
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* In ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'', driving a wooden stake through the heart of a vampire will paralyze it.
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* ''Film/DeadtimeStories/Volume1'': The doctor drives a wooden stake through the heart of the vampire at the end of "House Call".
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** Same thing in the predecessor game, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.'' Like in ''Requiem'', staking is hard to do unless the vampire is restrained or has already been beaten up. Some blood sorcerers get around this difficulty through a ritual that creates a Stake of Belated Quiescence, where a splinter eventually works its way to the heart and induces torpor.
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* The only certain way to kill a vampire according to the information available to Preacher Dan in ''Film/CurseOfTheUndead''. Drago's father stabbed his son's corpse through the heart with a silver dagger, only to be told afterwards by the village priest that it needed to be a wooden stake. By the time he returned to his son's coffin, the body was gone.
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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' features a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx multiverseid=226880 Wooden Stake]] card, an artifact that kills vampires automatically.
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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' features a [[http://gatherer.[[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx multiverseid=226880 aspx?multiverseid=226880 Wooden Stake]] card, an artifact that kills vampires automatically.
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** Zigzagged in the Balkans, where severing the tendons was just as common as staking.
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* While vampire lore varies hugely from country to country even in the same region, stakes are one of the few consistent weaknesses of Slavic vampires aside from Main/KillItWithFire. Variants about staking include the stake being made of hawthorn in Poland and Slovakia or being made of alpen in Russia. For some Russian vampires, the stake has to be driven in in a single blow, which is damn near impossible due to the ribcage.
** Despite the page snarking about modern vampires being Main/MadeOfPlasticine due to how the stake effortlessly goes through the ribcage, vampires from Bavaria and parts of the Balkans were said to lack a skeleton.
** Despite the page snarking about modern vampires being Main/MadeOfPlasticine due to how the stake effortlessly goes through the ribcage, vampires from Bavaria and parts of the Balkans were said to lack a skeleton.
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* While vampire lore varies hugely from country to country even in the same region, stakes are one of the few consistent weaknesses of Slavic vampires aside from Main/KillItWithFire.KillItWithFire. Variants about staking include the stake being made of hawthorn in Poland and Slovakia or being made of alpen in Russia. For some Russian vampires, the stake has to be driven in in a single blow, which is damn near impossible due to the ribcage.
** Despite the page snarking about modern vampires beingMain/MadeOfPlasticine MadeOfPlasticine due to how the stake effortlessly goes through the ribcage, vampires from Bavaria and parts of the Balkans were said to lack a skeleton.
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* Since [[ChineseVampire Jiangshi]] are harmed and repelled by anything made of peachwood, this would presumbly work on them.
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* Since [[ChineseVampire Jiangshi]] are harmed and repelled by anything made of peachwood, this would presumbly presumably work on them.
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** Variants about staking include the stake being made of hawthorn in Poland and Slovakia or being made of alpen in Russia. For some Russian vampires the stake has to be driven in in a single blow, which is damn near impossible due to the ribcage.
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* Since [[Chinese Vampire Jiangshi]]are harmed and repelled by anything made of peachwood, this would presumbly work on them.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Mulder uses one to kill a vampire in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]", but he turns out to be NotQuiteDead. However in "3" a vampire dies when they get CarFu-ed into a wooden peg board, so maybe it works with different kinds of vampires.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Mulder uses one to kill a vampire in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]", but he turns out to be NotQuiteDead. However in "3" a vampire dies when they get CarFu-ed into a wooden peg board, board. Mulder however points out there are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent many differing legends about vampires]], so maybe it works with different kinds of vampires.appears only some subspecies have this FatalFlaw.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Mulder uses one to kill a vampire in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]". [[spoiler:It doesn't last]]
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* The weapon of choice on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Kendra had a favourite stake she dubbed [[ICallItVera "Mr. Pointy"]]. Buffy "adopted" Mr Pointy after Kendra was killed. Various ImprovishedWeapons are also used at a pinch, from broken bits of wooden furniture to a magically-levitated pencil.
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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': Played with. The space vampires are vulnerable to iron stakes, and they have to be stabbed a few inches below the heart to actually kill them.
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* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', one quest involves using a stake to slay a weakened vampire. Somewhat notable in that the player needs to use a stake hammer to drive it in.
** Another version shows up in the vampyre quests from "The Branches of Darkmeyer" on. In this case, the stakes must be made of blisterwood, a rare tree that vampyres are [[KryptoniteFactor deathly allergic to]]. [[NighInvulnerability Nearly nothing else can even injure them]], but somehow throwing blisterwood stakes (or shooting them from a modified crossbow) works.
** Another version shows up in the vampyre quests from "The Branches of Darkmeyer" on. In this case, the stakes must be made of blisterwood, a rare tree that vampyres are [[KryptoniteFactor deathly allergic to]]. [[NighInvulnerability Nearly nothing else can even injure them]], but somehow throwing blisterwood stakes (or shooting them from a modified crossbow) works.
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** Another version shows up in the vampyre quests from "The Branches ofDarkmeyer" on. In this case, Darkmeyer", where the stakes must be made player gains the ability to make weapons out of blisterwood, a rare tree that vampyres are [[KryptoniteFactor deathly allergic to]]. [[NighInvulnerability Nearly nothing else can even injure them]], but somehow throwing them]] aside from silver weapons which aren't as effective. One of the weapons you can make are blisterwood stakes (or shooting them from that are used as throwing weapons. During the next quest in the series "The Lord of Vampyrium", the player learns how to make even more blisterwood weapons including a modified crossbow) works.crossbow that uses blisterwood stakes as ammo.
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-->-- '''Pearl''', ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
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'''Buffy:''' Well, it's more effective than it sounds.
-->--''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan A New Man]]"
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* Played straight in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', in the "Confessions" arc. A gun that fires wooden stakes is used to kill a vampire.
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* ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix'': The Merovingian's vampires and werewolves derive from a very, very old iteration of the Matrix, and a wooden stake through the heart is said to "disrupt their code."
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* ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'' is informed of this crucial weakness of vampires, only to point out the [[OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap difficulties of getting real wood in her future world]].
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* Belkar from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' gets himself one of these to kill vampirized [[spoiler:Durkon]] after [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1043.html misunderstanding]] what a "stake" referred to.
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-->'''Walsh:''' We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.\\
'''Buffy:''' Well, it's more effective than it sounds.
'''Buffy:''' Well, it's more effective than it sounds.
