Basic Trope: A vampire is depicted as practicing a traditional religion.
- Straight: Bob is a devout Christian despite being a vampire and considered an unholy being.
- Exaggerated:
- There are not only vampire Christians of different denominations (like Catholicism, Oriental Orthodoxy and Protestantism), but also Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, etc, and different denominations of said groups also depict vampires as their members.
- There's demographic survey data suggesting vampires are substantially more religious than the living.
- Downplayed:
- Bob genuinely believes in a higher power, but doesn't subscribe to any religion.
- Bob follows a fictional heterodox sect of a real-world faith, inspired by and tying into the vampire lore of his work.
- Justified:
- Questions about life, death, and mortality are more relevant and pressing for vampires than the living, giving them more reason to be devout.
- In terms of broad demographic trends, people were more historically religious than they are now. As people from earlier eras, vampires are products of their times.
- Bob was already religious before being turned into an vampire.
- Mass wine is the blood of Christ, and because His body is endless, it can sustain Bob without hurting anyone.
- Inverted:
- The Crystal Dragon Jesus figure is a vampire.
- Alternatively, Bob practices a Religion of Evil instead.
- Subverted:
- Bob follows an Path of Inspiration death cult that only teaches how to prey on humans and doesn't believe in any true deity.
- Bob is a creepy, pale Christian guy with a vaguely Eastern European accent who likes to drink red liquids... but he's Actually Not a Vampire.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob finds out the truth about the cult and converts to an actual religion.
- Bob's behavior is because he's part of vampire social circles, and he eventually gets bitten.
- Parodied: Bob is portrayed as an Religious Stereotype of whatever religion he may follow.
- Zig Zagged: Bob isn't religious, but he has seen evidence of holy artifacts, has been Pals with Jesus among other things and worked besides a Church Militant. So he is probably a Nay-Theist.
- Averted: Bob is a traditional vampire with an allergy to religion, holy objects, and sanctified places.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants to create an unique spin on vampirism.
- A Christian studio wants to cash in on the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire trend, so they make the vampire a devout Christian to keep it within their morality.
- Lampshaded: "It's not always that we see vampire holymen."
- Invoked: Bob becomes a vampire and, despite folk wisdom telling him he's damned just for being a vampire, and how much it harms him to do so, seeks out religious counsel to save his soul and possibly find a cure for his condition. He lives religiously despite how uncomfortable it is for him to do so now, refusing to give up for any reason.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob is an atheist vampire.
- Discussed: "So if Bob's a vampire, why did I see him in the choir this morning?"
- Conversed: "A holy vampire? Haven't seen one in media in a while."
- Implied: Bob is seen wearing a cross himself, but no comments are made beyond that.
- Deconstructed:
- Being religious, even if it's in whatever faith is deemed true in the story, doesn't always give Bob relief from his vampiric urges, and he struggles daily with his religion clashing with his fleshly desires more than most people might.
- Despite wanting to be a good Christian, Bob is still subject to Holy Burns Evil.
- Reconstructed:
- ...but even so, he manages to find a way through it all and just takes it one day at a time, never letting the difficulty get him down.
- Bob's faith eventually negates his weakness to crosses and holy water.
- The fact that Christian symbols cause pain to Bob just makes his faith all that more meaningful. He becomes a media darling and ends up sainted after his eventual death.
- Played For Drama: Vampire Bob proudly professes and practices Christianity, but other Christians don't believe him and even try to kick him out of their group, making his daily life difficult as he struggles to attend church, give back to his community, and even have a job and/or family like everyone else. Even worse if Bob was turned into a vampire; He's shunned just because he had the misfortune of meeting one and living to tell the tale.
