Sandbox / Your Vampires Suck Wick Check

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• Cannot Cross Running Water: The New World version, Vampire: The Requiem, at one point mentions how screwed vampires would be in the modern age if that were true, as every First World city has rivers worth of water flowing under every street and house. Our Vampires Are Different?

• Characters.The Camp Half Blood Series Forces Of Gaia: Kelli's speech says it all. Our Vampires Are Different
  "That silly legend was based on us, you fool. We are empousai, servants of Hecate."

• Literature.Fool Moon: Bob makes fun of movie werewolves. While the setting's werewolves take almost every form you can think of, none of them are "contagious", and Bob has to repeatedly remind Harry that "Hollywood stole that from vampires." The majority of modern werewolf tropes originate with the Loup-Garou. Character makes fun of how werewolves are depicted in fiction.

• Literature.The Tome Of Bill: Towards Anne Rice and Twilight. Take Thats towards The Twilight Saga and The Vampire Chronicles.

• Recap.Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 2 E 7 Lie To Me: Angel grouses at moderate length about the kids' misapprehensions about vampires, including how they dress...only to have one of the groupies push past him wearing his exact outfit. Vampire In-Universe annoyed over common beliefs about vampires.

• VideoGame.The Wayhaven Chronicles: Unit Bravo’s opinion on how vampires are depicted in modern media. There’s an entire discussion on this in Book One. Character In-Universe dislikes how vampires are depicted in fiction.

• Webcomic.Hanna Is Not A Boys Name: Four-Temperament Ensemble: Hanna and Veser are sanguine, Doc and Casimiro are choleric, Conrad, Finas and Lee are melancholic and Zombie and Toni are phlegmatic. Contextless pothole in "Conrad".

• TheTwilightZone1985.Tropes A To H: Daywalking Vampire: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Benedictson can spend as much time in the sunlight as any human. He tells Toby Michaels that, contrary to how they are depicted in monster movies, vampires are immune to the effects of The Sun. Our Vampires Are Different

• Literature.Diana Tregarde: In Children of the Night, vampire Andre dismisses several traditional limitations as "silliness," in particular the inability to cross running water, which he ascribes to a misunderstanding of their tendency to set territorial boundaries. He tells Diana that it could just as easily be said that they do not cross mountain ranges or major highways, since they define their territories by major landmarks. Our Vampires Are Different

• Literature.Lonely Werewolf Girl: Caustic Critic / Your Werewolves Bite: Kalix reviewing a werewolf comic book for class: Character dislikes how werewolves are depicted in fiction.
  "The artist has no idea what a werewolf looks like and should be forbidden to draw anything ever again, and also sent to prison. The editor of this comic is obviously mentally defective for letting such rubbish go into print. The story is the most stupid story ever written, and the heroine, Arabella Wolf, is the most annoying person ever. She should be punched in the face. Also, it's not true that werewolves eat children. Very few children have ever been eaten by werewolves. Maybe one or two, but it's not a big problem. The comic should be withdrawn from sale before it poisons people's minds."

• Film.The Troll Hunter: Hans explicitly mentions the Norwegian stories about trolls collected by Asbjornsen and Moe (the Norwegian equivalents to The Brothers Grimm) as being mostly fairy tales with wildly inaccurate information. Wrong Genre Savvy

• Fanfic.In Short Supply: OC: Many, most notably Zim and Purple's children, as well as Count Gwaednerth, Ms. Airy and Miss Fhtagn. Contextless pothole in "Count Gwaednerth".

• Characters.Discworld Villains: The Magpyrs practice this In-Universe toward their fellow vampires. Low-context, but seems to be Fantastic Racism?

• Kryptonite Factor: Over the centuries vampires have managed to accumulate a truly impressive list of traditional kryptonite factors (rivaled only by that of squishy humans), to the point that most writers have to Nerf or outright ignore several of them to make vampires pose any sort of threat. Chained sinkhole with Our Vampires Are Different, and it doesn't seem to be much different in this context.

• Characters.Touhou Koumakyou The Embodiment Of Scarlet Devil: Remilia actually likes cross imagery, and can't fathom why she should be weak to them. Her spell card "Red: The Nightless Castle" appears as a towering crimson cross. She also seems to be perfectly fine with holy water. One of her win quotes in the fighting games is to ask Reisen to make her some holy water dumplings. Our Vampires Are Different

• Funny.Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: During the first few minutes of the series, Alucard kills Edward Cullen. Also doubles as an Awesome Moment. Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.
  Edward Cullen: (answers the door) Who is it?
  Alucard: Oh, you know... (shoots Edward Cullen thirty-seven times) A real fucking vampire!

• Literature.Falcon Quinn: Ms. Redflint does not think highly of vampires, and considers them walking superiority/inferiority complexes. What with the angst and the "twilight brooding" and all. Fantastic Racism mixed with a The Twilight Saga Take That!.

• OurVampiresAreDifferent.Marvel Universe: A sample of some others: Nosferatu's ilk are like Dracula but look ugly when using the full extent of their power. Adze, found primarily in Guyana, ignore pain to the point they keep going even as they burn away. Charniputra mostly fly above the Himalayas with their great wings, spending almost all non feeding time in the sky. Charniputra also have a tough hide that's hard to damage without the weaknesses. Yuki Onna, the snow vampires of Nippon, spend their time as clouds of razor sharp ice, turning into a humanoid form to feed. Tryks drink other vampires and have none of the weaknesses, they also have retractable claws and spikes. The spikes inject venom that stops vampires from fading away after dying and the drained corpse becomes Tryk larva, which find human hosts to leech off of until adulthood. Queen Tryks have wings and can fly. Aqueos are more like fish people, spending most of their time in the ocean depths where the sun can't get them. Runaways has vampires that specifically don't work like vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The only weakness they carry is sunlight and aliens that taste like rainbows. Our Vampires Are Different (though possible also Wrong Genre Savvy; it says they "specifically don't work like vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; don't know if said comparison is made In-Universe or not).

• Recap.The Nostalgia Critic Editorial 1: Critic notes that while there are many different interpretations of vampires and their legends, many people have the problem with Edward's "sparkle". The Twilight Saga hate.'

• Roleplay.CDT Dream II: Comes up when Alex states that she isn't drastically affected by sunlight. Wrong Genre Savvy?
  Alex: I'm not like one of those Hollywood vampires who go up like a torch in sunlight.

• Series.The Vampire Diaries: A Take That! to Twilight was uttered in Episode 4, where Damon was reading Caroline's Twilight book. He does profess an admiration for Anne Rice in the same conversation. Wrong Genre Savvy, with a Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.
  Caroline: How come you don't sparkle?
  Damon: Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.

• TabletopGame.Old World Of Darkness: Literally nothing but the trope name.

• VideoGame.Lollipop Chainsaw: Take That!: Upon finding a bunch of jock zombies on treadmills, Nick and Juliet trade quips about how running zombies are stupid... which happens after fighting zombies that run, jump, fly, and can turn profanities into lasers. This is a joke at James Gunn's own expense, since he wrote the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, which popularized the fast, running zombie. Our Zombies Are Different?

• Webcomic.Down The Street: Suggested inner confrontation between Dracula’s vampiric concept, the Vampire Chronicles’ one and Twilight’s one. Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.

• WesternAnimation.Hotel Transylvania: Dracula doesn't like how a certain in-flight movie represents vampires. Vampire In-Universe dislikes how vampires are represented in fiction, with a Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.
  Dracula: This is how we are represented? Unbelievable.

• YMMV.Guilty Gear: Memetic Badass: Slayer. This is the guy who regularly takes characters like Sol to the cleaners while extensively holding back to be a good sport. Even then is he capable of feats like punching you halfway to the Andromeda Galaxy. None of this accounts for the fact that he has none of the weaknesses vampires are traditionally known for. Really, Slayer's badassery isn't so much memetic as it is canon. Our Vampires Are Different

• Quotes.Rasputinian Death: Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.

"I've imagined killing you a thousand different ways, but this... this is better than any of them. Edward... thank you!"

— Vlad Tepes to Edward Cullins after the latter was burned up from the inside by dragon blood, dismembered by falling through a window and an amateur chainsaw juggling competition (with one chainsaw going right up his ass) and dissolving in a pool of holy water, but before Vlad stabbed him in the head and pissed on his skull, Fafnir The Dragon

• NightmareFuel.Beavis And Butthead: In "Werewolves of Highland", Beavis and Butt-Head set out to become undead so they can score with women (after watching Twilight and seeing how the girls fawn over Edward and Jacob). How do these two "brain surgeons" do it? They become sickly sore-covered STD victims after being bitten by an infected beggar they believed to be a werewolf. What's more, said beggar has been arrested for biting others in the past. Referencing the Twilight, seemingly in the context of a Take That!.

• Literature.The Extinction Parade: Vampire In-Universe makes fun of fictional depictions of vampires, with a Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.
  • The narrator gets off some jabs at Dracula when discussing how some vampires in the West literally call their human servants "Renfield". Also, when she describes human love as "an apologetic perfume for the stench of human lust", one of the images used is of Twilight.
  • With the zombies, meanwhile, several vampires mock the idea that slow, clumsy, stupid shamblers could ever destroy human civilization. Much like in World War Z, it's the weaknesses of humanity, not anything innate to the zombies themselves, that allow the zombie plague to grow to truly apocalyptic proportions; before, they'd managed to put down zombie outbreaks with ease.

• Manga.Karin: There's a montage of Winner setting numerous vampire traps based on traditional vampire lore, accompanied by an explanation from Karin about how useless and silly they are. Wrong Genre Savvy
  • Karin's parents point out with horror that anyone would die from having their hearts staked.

• Recap.Legends Of Tomorrow S 3 E 5 Return Of The Mack: Shout-Out: Nate would prefer to be attacked by a sparkly vampire like Kristen Stewart. Mick derisively retorts that vampires don't sparkle. Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.

• SoYouWantTo.Write A Vampire Novel: How does your vampire feel about the depictions of other vampires in movies and literature? It's usually easy to make an amusing scene where he lambasts them for being painfully inaccurate, but this has now become so common it might actually be a good idea to try subverting it, by having the Vampire be a fan of vampire literature, for all its inaccuracies. If you really want to throw this trope out the window, have him be a writer of vampire fiction.

• Website.YTMND: Eric the Vampire. ZCE.

• Vampires Sleep in Coffins: Defied in the Buffyverse. Vampire dislikes how vampires are represented in fiction.
  Angel: Vampires don't sleep in coffins. It's a misconception made popular by hack writers and ignorant media. In fact, you know, we can and do move around during the day! As long as we avoid direct sunlight! GOT IT?!
  • Though this borders on Hypocritical Humor, as both Angel and Spike spend large portions of the series living in crypts.

• Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!: Present in Un Epic in underground reservoir levels, as a life-sucking item that stacks up in your inventory until you kill them manually. The game doesn't mention them, apart from constantly visually decreasing HP, leading to some characters' deaths. Later replaced with vampire bats. Just a pothole; Our Vampires Are Different?

• Awesome.Betsy The Vampire Queen: Betsy's glorious Your Vampires Suck speech to Nostro and his court of wannabes. It pretty much calls them out for every vampire trope imaginable. Vampires dislikes other vampires.

• ComicBook.Santa Versus Dracula: Dracula brings up that he can touch holy objects, he simply avoids doing so because he detests what they represent. Our Vampires Are Different

• Creator.Dropout: Our Vampires Are Different: "Vampire Reunion" shows in a very humorous manner the inherent problems this trope makes with creating any sort of Intercontinuity Crossover with more than one series that includes a vampire. Among the vampires featured are Count Dracula (who naturally is the leader because he's been around longest), Edward Cullen, Bill, Count Von Count, Blacula, Angel, and Count Chocula. Even the assorted vampire hunters waiting to strike in the next room (Buffy, Blade, and Van Helsing) can't agree on what methods they should use to kill the vampires. It also carries shades of Your Vampires Suck, since Dracula calls Edward out on the fact that he doesn't have fangs, and Edward in turn states that at least he doesn't look like Angel, who has a monstrous true form. Vampries dislikes other vampires, but given that this is a Crossover, might be more in-line with "vampire dislikes how vampires are represented in fiction"?.

• Film.Fright Night 2011: Ed takes great offense when Charley accuses him of reading The Twilight Saga. Take That! towards The Twilight Saga.

• HarryPotter.Tropes S To Y: A mild case of this. The one vampire encountered in the books seems none too frightening, though Goblet of Fire alludes to the Ministry seeing them as a sufficiently serious problem to be worth employing vampire hunters. J.K. Rowling does poke fun of a vampire who hypnotizes its victims with a boring Doorstopper of a book. It's also mentioned in Philosopher's Stone that Quirrell was supposed to have cracked after meeting real vampires (and a hag) when he decided to get hands-on experience with dark creatures instead of merely reading about them; seeing as his stuttering, scared-of-his-own-shadow persona was all an act and what actually happened was him encountering and being corrupted by Voldemort, this story isn't conclusive, but it does suggest at least some wizards believe vampires to be truly dangerous, or else no one would have accepted this as an explanation for Quirrell's behaviour. Our Vampires Are Different, with a minor Take That! towards The Vampire Chronicles.

• Literature.The Twilight Saga: This series has been on both the giving and receiving end of this trope (receiving more often than not, though). Referencing both this trope apparently happening in the series and towards it, albeit with little context.

• PlayingWith.Vampires Hate Garlic: Conversed: "The vampires in this are weak to vegetables? I thought they were supposed to be all scary and dangerous!" Making fun of hypothetical fictional vampires.

• Toys.Monster In My Pocket: In "The Big Scream", Carrie Raven attempts to scare Vampire off by showing him garlic. Vampire responds by eating the garlic and remarking "Don't believe everything you read!" Wrong Genre Savvy

• VideoGame.Sixteen Ways To Kill A Vampire At Mcdonalds: Vampires are susceptible to pretty much every existing weakness in ancient and pop culture, and some of them are pretty absurd. Our Vampires Are Different