Line #1 PlayingWith/LooksLikeOrlok


1	'''Basic Trope''': Characters (usually supernatural) reminiscent of Count Orlok from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''.
2	* '''Straight''': Vorlak the Vampire is tall, bald, with pointy ears, protruding incisors and long fingers and nails.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Vorlak doesn't just look like Orlok, he resembles him down to the last wrinkle. He may even call himself Orlok (and then add: not ''that'' Orlok, other one).
4	* '''Downplayed''': Vorlak has protruding incisors and long fingernails. Other than that, he's indistinguishable from a living man with a terrible fashion sense.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Vampirism is caused by TheVirus. Orlok features are symptoms of infection.
7	** Vampires AgeWithoutYouth. The older a vampire is, the more Orlok-like it looks.
8	** Vorlak is an Orlok impersonator.
9	** Vorlak ''is'' Orlok, who has adopted a new identity.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** Chuck the Vampire is a pretty, [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga sparkling]], [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld teenage-looking]] [[VampiresAreSexGods sex god]].
12	** Vorlak looked like Orlok before he was vampirized, then turned into a ClassicalMovieVampire.
13	* '''Subverted''': Vorlak uses an Orlok latex mask to hide his true face.
14	* '''Double Subverted''': Which also LooksLikeOrlok's.
15	* '''Parodied''': Vorlak is a carbon copy of Orlok, down to being in black and white, silent and "talking" by showing intertitles he hides in HammerSpace. But he constantly reminds [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial he is not imitating Orlok]].
16	* '''Zig Zagged''': Vorlak does look like Orlok, but he wears fake pointy ears on his real ones. Flash forward a century, his ears start to become pointy.
17	* '''Averted''': Vorlak doesn't resemble Orlok.
18	* '''Enforced''': The author wanted to homage ''Nosferatu''.
19	* '''Lampshaded''': "F. W. Murnau called: He wants his vampire back."
20	* '''Invoked''': The human Vorlak, an ordinary man shunned by his peers, begins a ritual to turn himself into a monstrous vampire to strike fear into their hearts.
21	* '''Exploited''': Vorlak attends a contest of Orlok-lookalikes. [[YourCostumeNeedsWork He loses.]]
22	* '''Defied''': Partway through the aforementioned ritual, Vorlak finds out that some of them respect him for the man he already is, and he tries to stop it from finishing.
23	* '''Discussed''': "This guy looks pretty familiar to me... I've seen ones like him before. Maybe he's a vampire?"
24	* '''Conversed''': "Look, this is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain most definitely not a vampire]]".
25	* '''Implied''': Vorlak is never seen directly, but the shadow hand shot from ''Nosferatu'' is homaged.
26	* '''Deconstructed''': Vorlak is a depressive individual that curses his exceptional ugliness for his lonely existence. What's the chance of there being even another Orlok-duplicate vampire out there, after all?
27	* '''Reconstructed''': Pretty high actually. After centuries of isolation, Vorlak happens upon [[CuteMonsterGirl Karlova]] by chance, an Orlok-lookalike vampiress who reveals to Vorlak that he is part of an entire race of vampires that LooksLikeOrlok and he had no idea about.
28	* '''Played For Laughs''': Oblivious to his own ugliness, Vorlak fancies himself a [[VampiresAreSexGods vampire sex god]] and is a hopeless suitor to Sangria the Vampiress ([[LesbianVampire who doesn't swing that way]], either).
29	* '''Played For Drama''': Vorlak, [[MissingReflection unable to see himself]] in mirrors and photographs, has a VillainousBSOD when he finally has a chance to see what he has become in digital film, leading him to ponder on his lost humanity.
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32	Who are you saying LooksLikeOrlok here? Me!? Get the hell out!
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