History YMMV / TheyThirst

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother in his youth and is obsessed with finding her (despite having killed her himself long ago in a fit of rage) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "deceivers" and "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DesecratingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent. [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet Even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], Roach is determined to join one of the other vampire cells Vulcan had outside of California, become a vampire himself and wipe out humanity, and his last action before a well-deserved death is an attempt to rape and murder Gayle.]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Headmaster]] is the true power behind the vampire prince Conrad Vulkan and his dreams of conquest. A mysterious, ancient being who might well be [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]], the Headmaster educated Vulkan after centuries and teaches him dark sorcery with artifacts to make his conquest easier, [[TheManBehindTheMan masterminding the downfall of most of Los Angelas]] to the vampires. Advising Vulkan and using him as needed, even as a "favored son", the Headmaster grows frustrated with Vulkan's immaturity and eventually departs when Vulkan denounces him, informing him that the kingdom he holds is solely because of the Headmaster and that Vulkan can only keep it if he is able. [[spoiler:He isn't.]]
* NamesTheSame: ''The Tattler'', the name of the tabloid newspaper, is the same as in Thomas Harris' ''Literature/RedDragon''. Likely a coincidence, as both novels were published in 1981.

* MagnificentBastard: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Headmaster]] is the true power behind the vampire prince Conrad Vulkan and his dreams of conquest. A mysterious, ancient being who might well be [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]], the Headmaster educated Vulkan after centuries and teaches him dark sorcery with artifacts to make his conquest easier, [[TheManBehindTheMan masterminding the downfall of most of Los Angelas]] to the vampires. Advising Vulkan and using him as needed, even as a "favored son", the Headmaster grows frustrated with Vulkan's immaturity and eventually departs when Vulkan denounces him, informing him that the kingdom he holds is solely because of the Headmaster and that Vulkan can only keep it if he is able. [[spoilers:He isn't.]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Headmaster]] is the true power behind the vampire prince Conrad Vulkan and his dreams of conquest. A mysterious, ancient being who might well be [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]], the Headmaster educated Vulkan after centuries and teaches him dark sorcery with artifacts to make his conquest easier, [[TheManBehindTheMan masterminding the downfall of most of Los Angelas]] to the vampires. Advising Vulkan and using him as needed, even as a "favored son", the Headmaster grows frustrated with Vulkan's immaturity and eventually departs when Vulkan denounces him, informing him that the kingdom he holds is solely because of the Headmaster and that Vulkan can only keep it if he is able.

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother and is obsessed with finding her (despite having killed her himself long ago in a fit of rage) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "deceivers" and "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DesecratingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent. [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet Even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], Roach is determined to join one of the other vampire cells Vulcan had outside of California, become a vampire himself and wipe out humanity, and his last action before a well-deserved death is an attempt to rape and murder Gayle.]]

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother and is obsessed with finding her (despite having killed her himself long ago in a fit of rage) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "deceivers" and "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DesecratingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent. [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet Even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], Roach determined to join one of the backup vampire cells planted years before by Vulkan and overtake humanity, and his last action before a well-deserved death is an attempt to rape and murder Gayle.]]

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother and is obsessed with finding her (despite having killed her himself long ago in a fit of rage) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "deceivers" and "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DesecratingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent. [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet Even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], is determined to join one of the fringe vampire cells planted by Vulkan years before and overtake humanity, and comes close to raping and killing Gayle at the very end.]]

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother and is obsessed with finding his her (vehemently denying the fact that he killed her years ago) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DesecratingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent, and [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], is determined to see vampires overtake humanity, and comes close to raping and killing Gayle at the very end.]]

** [[TheRenfield Roach]] is a serial rapist and murderer who had an incestuous relationship with his mother (who he later murdered in a fit of rage as a teen) and is obsessed with finding his mother (vehemently denying that he killed her) and brutalizing girls and women he feels are "unclean". He enters the story having raped and murdered several prostitutes, after which [[DefilingTheDead he stuffed their mouths and throats with cockroaches from his personal collection]], and once he is rescued from the LAPD by Prince Vulkan, he gleefully swears fealty to him and acts as his mortal agent, and [[spoiler:[[DragonTheirFeet even after surviving Vulkan's fall and the cleansing of LA]], is determined to see vampires overtake humanity, and comes close to killing Gayle at the very end.]]

** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.

* CompleteMonster: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a SpoiledBrat who [[PsychopathicManchild has never grown up]] and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.

* CompleteMonster: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a spoiled brat who has never grown up and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.

* CompleteMonster: In this vampire novel by Creator/RobertRMcCammon, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a spoiled brat who has never grown up and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.

* NamesTheSame: The Tattler, the name of the tabloid newspaper, is the same as in Thomas Harris' Red Dragon. Likely a coincidence, as both novels were published in 1981.

* Name'stheSame: The Tattler, the name of the tabloid newspaper, is the same as in Thomas Harris' Red Dragon. Likely a coincidence, as both novels were published in 1981.

* CompleteMonster: In this vampire novel by Creator/RobertRMcCammon, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Prince Conrad Vulkan]] is a vampire who is eternally seventeen and has a giant chip on his shoulder. Arriving in the US, Vulkan turns and corrupts people and sends them to turn and corrupt others. For his meals, Vulkan uses a mentally disturbed serial killer named Roach to commit murder and also bring him living vicitms. When his vampire hordes are numerous enough, Vulkan has them sweep through entire buildings, killing and turning until Vulkan has an army six hundred thousand strong, with the old and infirm simply being "discarded." Caring nothing for his servants, Vulkan brutally murders one after he decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the man is too old to be of any further use to him]]. Utterly lacking in morality or restraint, Vulkan is described as a "Black as sin Franchise/PeterPan": a spoiled brat who has never grown up and wishes to make America his perfect, eternal kingdom with humans extinct or kept as cattle in order to feed his ego.