document_title: List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction

question_text: what is it called when a vampire hypnotizes you in vampire diaries

text: Appearance[edit]

text:
Setting
Skin Colour
Fangs
Reflection
Film
Shadow
Attractiveness/other
When Dead

European folklore
Ruddy or dark[6]
Yes[7]
Varies[8]
?
Varies[8]
Varies; historically, bloated corpses were mistaken for vampires
?

North American folklore
Varies
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Varies[9]
?

"The Vampyre" (1819)
?
No
?
?
?
Young, seductive, sexual and alluring
?

Varney the Vampire (1845)
"White and bloodless"[10]
Yes[10]
?
?
?
Hideous, but has hypnotizing eyes[10]
?

Carmilla (1871)
Rich and brilliant
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Unearthly beauty
?

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)
Dracula: pale, female vampires red
Yes
No[11]
?
No[12]
Dracula: Varies
Female Vampires: Beautiful to the point of hypnotic
Dust, except for newborn vampires, who become corpses

Nosferatu (1922)
Pale or dark
Shark/Rodent-like teeth
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hideous[9]/ Hairless, and gargoyle/rat-like
Smoke and dust

Dark Shadows (1966)
Ordinary
Retractable
No
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Blade (film series)
Vampire: Pale/ordinary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Varies
Dust

Reapers: Pale and mottled
Yes (Leech-like inner mouth)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hideous
Dust

Count Chocula (1971)
Tanned
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Cartoon person
Chocolate cereal dust

Sesame Street (1972)
Lavender
Yes
No[13]
?
Yes
Muppet
?

Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
Pale
Yes
No
?
No
Ordinary, they have a predatory look compared to normal humans
?

Blade (1973)
Ordinary/Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary, but often somewhat above average
?

Ultraviolet (1998)
Ordinary/Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Ordinary but often somewhat above average
?

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (1979)
Pale, smooth, marble-like, gets whiter with age
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
All are beautiful. The transformation enhances their beauty. The older and stronger they get, the less human they look but still remain beautiful.
Dust

Bunnicula (1979)
Furry
Yes
No
?
Yes
Adorable to all, intimately only with other rabbits
?

The Hunger (1981)
Pale
No
Yes
?
Yes
Alluring
?

Count Duckula (1983)
Green
Sometimes
No
?
No
Cartoon duck
?

Vampire Hunter D (1983)
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes (No in original novels. Dhampir shadow is faint)
Possess a strange unearthly beauty
?

Necroscope (1986)
Pale
Yes
Yes shows true self
?
Yes
Can make themselves beautiful or hideous
?

The Lost Boys (1987)
Full vampires: Ordinary, a little pale
Retractable
No
?
Yes
Ordinary. Become quite ugly when about to attack and fangs appear.
?

Half-vampire (pre-turning): Ordinary
Gradually gain
No
?
No
As in life
?

The Little Vampire (TV series, 1986)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Alluring
?

The Vampire Diaries (Novel and television series)
Ordinary
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Alluring. Typically beautiful (true vampire face is shown while feeding, by force of will or thinking about blood; blood vessels under and around the eyes swell and protrude from the face, the eyes become bloodshot until the sclera becomes dark red, fangs grow and extend)
Gray corpse with swelled superficial veins protruding from the entire body (TV series); regular corpse (most vampires in books); dust (very old vampires in books)

World of Darkness (1992)
Varies
Retractable
Yes - Lasombra, however, don't have them
Yes for those with a reflection, No in other cases
Yes
Varies by bloodline, individual, and discipline. Most notably, Nosferatus are hideously deformed, while Toreadors are beautiful.
Dust

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) (1992)
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Ordinary
Dust

Forever Knight (1992)
Pale[14]
Retractable[14]
Yes[15]
?
Yes[14]
Ordinary
?

Discworld (1992)
Pale
Yes
No
?
?
Alluring
Dust, can be revived with blood

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter (1993)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary, but some bloodlines seem to get more attractive with age, some less, and many vampires are attractive as this was the reason they were sired
?

Preacher (1995)
Pale
No
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary (except eyes)
?

Legacy of Kain (1996)
Varies
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ancient vampires were alluring while human turned vampire evolutions became more grotesque.
?

Night World (1996)
Pale
Retractable
Yes
Yes
Yes
Alluring; in anticipation of feeding, a vampire's eyes grow silver in color and reflective (in the case of a vampire with yellow eyes, the combination of yellow with the silvery hue will render their eyes golden in appearance), their lips redden as blood rushes to them, and their canine teeth will further lengthen, usually to the level of their lower lip, though a vampire can retract these fangs at will, or when put off of feeding.
Corpse

Hellsing (1997) (2006–12)
Ordinary
Yes
No
?
Yes
Alluring, some Vampires like Alucard can have maw of sharp teeth
Burn in blue flames or turn to dust

Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series (1997)
Ordinary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Can appear as normal humans; however, when feeding or angry, they reveal their true vampire visage where their eyes turn yellow, their eyebrows are gone and they grow fangs and pointed teeth. Extremely old vampires are unable to take a human face.
Turn to dust, including clothing

Night Watch (1998)
Ordinary
Retractable
Yes, even if the vampire himself turns invisible
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
Catch on fire, then turn to dust

Den of Shadows
Pale
Yes
Faint reflection that disappears with age
?
Yes
Beautiful
?

The Little Vampire (film, 2000)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Alluring
?

The Saga of Darren Shan (2000)
Ordinary or pale; purple for vampaneze subrace
No
Yes
Cannot be recorded on film (vampire) or are blurry on film (half-vampire)
Yes
Ordinary, but vampaneze subrace become swollen and discolored from overfeeding
?

30 Days of Night (2002)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Steve Niles mentioned that they have an alien-like appearance. They are also described as being gruesome yet attractive.
?

Let the Right One In (2002)
Pale
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary, but appearance will deteriorate if deprived of blood. The appearance can also morph, and vaguely implied to be able to sprout wings.
?

Moon Child (2003)
Ordinary
?
?
?
Yes
Ordinary, but some are above average
?

Underworld (2003)
Pale
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary (irises can turn blue or gold, depending on the vampire)
?

Chibi Vampire/Karin (2003)
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Van Helsing (2004)
Pale
Retractable
No
?
Yes
Above average when in human form, but they turn into a winged bat/demon-like creature, which is possibly their true appearance.
Bones

Supernatural (2005)
Ordinary
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
Corpse

Batman & Dracula
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Grotesque, humanoid gargoyle
?

Twilight (2005)
Pale, harder than diamonds, sparkles in sunlight
No, their teeth are sharp and serrated and coated in venom, but not pointed
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usually alluring, inhumanly beautiful
Corpses can attempt to reconstruct themselves, unless burnt to ash.

Frostbiten (2006)
Pale
Fangs grow longer when attacking people
No
?
Yes
Ordinary, but the "pill-vampires" turn monstrous when attacking people, while the supervampire shapeshifts into a demonic creature to hunt. The original vampires look human all the time. All the vampires have orange eyes that turn red when their bloodlust is awakened. The vampires also have exposed veins.
?

Young Dracula (2006)
Pale
Retractable
Lost after age of 16
Implied that only digital cameras work[16]
Yes
Varies
Dust

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Ordinary
Varies
Yes
?
Yes
Varies
?

Vampire Academy (2007)
Pale
Yes
For the Moroi, yes.
For the Strigoi, no.
?
Yes
Moroi are beautiful and Strigoi are beautiful too, but have red-ringed iris around their pupils
?

House of Night (2007)
Blue Vampyres: Pale with sapphire markings
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Alluring
?

Red Vampyres: Pale with red markings
Yes
Yes
?
?
Depends: red fledglings are described as gross, but once they choose to be good and become an adult they can be alluring
?

Blindsight (2007)
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tall, with a "predatory appearance"; baseline humans possess an instinctive panic response to them.
?

True Blood (2008)
Pale
Retractable
Yes[17]
Yes
Yes
Ordinary, but humans can develop more attraction to them by drinking their blood, and also with the power to "Glamour" ordinary humans into enticement
Black dust or bloody pulp

Being Human (BBC) (2008)
Ordinary
Retractable
No
Do not appear on film or video
Yes
Ordinary (entire eyes can turn pitch black, usually while fangs are extended)
Body and clothing turn to dust/ash

Being Human (Syfy)
Ordinary
Retractable
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ordinary (entire eyes can turn pitch black, usually while fangs are extended)
Body and clothing turn to dust/ash

Moonlight (2008)
Ordinary
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary, but many are above average
?

The Parasol Protectorate (2009)
Pale
Yes
?
?
?
Ordinary
?

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010) novel and film
Pale/White/Grey
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Very Beautiful. Eyes turn partially or completely black when the vampire is enraged/ In the film, the skin can turn grey and mottled, the nails, teeth and jaws becomes animalistic and the eyes can turn partially or completely black (while the vampire can also become more pale or chalk white with reddish, bloodshot eyes).
?

Daybreakers (2010)
Ordinary
Yes
No
?
?
Normal, but with pallid skin and yellow eyes. However, if deprived of blood they become deformed, their ears grow, they lose their hair, grow claws and wings and become bat-like creatures called "Subsiders".
?

American Vampire (2010)
Old World bloodline: pale
Yes
?
?
?
Slightly distorted
?

American bloodline: as when alive
Yes
Distorted
?
?
Usually normal, but severely distorted and animalistic when enraged
?

The Dresden Files
White court: ordinary
No
Yes
?
Yes
Extremely attractive
?

Red court: ordinary when human
Yes
?
?
?
Slimy and batlike, but with an attractive human "costume"
?

Black court: corpse-like
No
No
?
?
Corpselike
?

The Sims
Varies, depending on original race
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Normal
Dust

Touhou
Pale
Yes
Unknown, probably yes
Yes
Unknown, probably yes
Normal, but with red or yellow eyes and wings
?

Fright Night (1985, 2011)
Ordinary/Pale
Yes
No
?
?
Somewhat attractive. Demonic/goblin/gargoyle-like when enraged or in pain
Catch on fire/burn to embers

Marvel Comics
Pale/grey/white
Yes
No
?
?
Varies from ordinary to demonic/goblin/gargoyle-like
?

We Are the Night (2010)
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Transformation turns them into the peak of their beauty
?

Blood: The Last Vampire
Gray, except for Saya who is ordinary
Except for Saya
Yes
Yes
Yes
Saya is ordinary, the other Chiropterans are monstrous, but can look like normal humans.
?

Blood+
Ordinary, except fail chiropterans that have gray skin
Only fail chiropterans and Chevaliers when they shape shift
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ordinary, except for fail chiropterans that are monstrous
?

Trinity Blood
Methuselahs: varies
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Beautiful
?

Crusniks: pale, except Lilith
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Varies
?

DC Comics
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Varies
?

Sanctuary
Ordinary
Full Vampires: Yes
Half-Vampires: No, teeth become serrated during transformation.
Yes
?
Yes
Varies
?

Rosario + Vampire
Ordinary
Yes
Yes[18]
Yes[19]
Yes
Beautiful, unless they absorb other monsters, in which case they became monstrous[20]
Corpse

Charmed
Ordinary
Yes
?
?
Yes
Ordinary
Catch on fire

Wizards of Waverly Place
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Beautiful
?

Gantz
Ordinary
No
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Adventure Time
Blue-gray
Yes
No
?
Yes
Described as "sexy", mostly Marceline.
Suffer from horrific pimple-like bumps and burn to dust.

Vampire Knight
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Beautiful, except for the Level E Vampires, which resemble weak and disheveled humans
Sand/dust for all but the Purebloods who turn to glass and shatter into particles

Castlevania series
Pale/Grey
Yes
In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, they do not have reflection.
?
Yes
The Elder Vampires are beautiful, while the Vampire Warriors are bat-like creatures because they don't know how to shapeshift.
?

Split
Pale
Yes
If a vampire were to look into a mirror, their soul would be imprisoned in it. Breaking the mirror causes the vampire's soul to "break", killing the vampire.
?
Yes
Beautiful
?

Tsukihime
True Ancestors: ordinary
No
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Dead Apostles: pale
Yes
Yes
?
?
Ordinary, but their bodies are in constant degeneration.
?

Stargate
White, green or blue
No
Yes
?
Yes
Hideous
?

Hollows
Living Low Blood: ordinary
No
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Living High Blood: pale
Yes
?
?
?
Beautiful
?

Undead: pale
Yes
?
?
?
Beautiful
?

Black Blood Brothers
Vampires are ordinary, but the Kowloon Children are pale.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Vampires are ordinary, but Kowloon Children have a feral and monstrous appearance.
Dust

Stephen King
Type One: yellow
Yes
No
?
Yes
Extremely deformed
?

Type Two: pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Beautiful
?

Type Threes: ordinary
Yes
?
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Vampirella
Ordinary
Yes
?
?
Yes
Inhumanly beautiful
?

The Elder Scrolls
Pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Feral-looking versions of humans; however, they can look more human if they drink human blood. Vampire Lords can assume a bat-like appearance.
Corpse, but gradually crumbles to dust

My Babysitter's a Vampire
Full vampires: ordinary
Retractable
No
No
?
Ordinary, but when angry, or about to fight someone their fangs grow, and their eyes either glow a yellowish color or a dark blueish purple color.
?

Fledgling: ordinary
Yes
Faded, or murky
No
?
As in life
?

The Librarian
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
Old vampires are ordinary in appearance, but new ones are hideous.
?

David Wellington
Pale
Yes
?
?
?
Hideous
?

Darkstalkers
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
His true form is demonic, but he can change into human form.
?

The Historian
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
Varies, but new vampires look like sick people
?

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Ordinary
Retractable
?
?
Yes
Very attractive
?

Montgatari series
Vampire: pale
Yes
No, although the more powerful ones like Kiss-Shot can generate their own reflections
?
No
Varies, but are generally beautiful.
Corpse, although their remains would turn into ashes after a certain period of time

Jiangshi: Like rotting corpses
?
?
?
?
Look like corpses during the Rigor mortis phase
?

Saga of the Noble Dead
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
Kind of beautiful
?

Doctor Who
Great Vampires: grey
Yes
?
?
Yes
Bat-like creatures
?

Vampires: pale
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Dance in the Vampire Bund
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
Different monstrous form, but they can look human
?

BloodRayne
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
They come in all shapes and sizes
?

Vamp
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

Vamps
Pale
Yes
No
?
Yes
Ordinary
?

The Strain
Pale
No
In silver-backed mirrors their image is blurred and distorted
?
Yes
Horrible
?

Blood Alone
Pale
Yes
No
?
?
Beautiful
?

Anno Dracula series
Pale
Yes
No
?
?
Varies depending on the bloodline
?

Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Ordinary
Yes
No
?
Yes
Varies
?

Vampireology
Pale, becomes paler the longer a vampire goes without feeding
Yes
Reflection becomes less opaque the longer a vampire goes without feeding.
?
Yes
Belial: three horns on their heads
Ba'al: short and goblinlike
Moloch: bull-like head, hooves and claws
?

Blood Moon
Pale
Yes
Yes, but their eyes reflect black instead of red
Yes, but their eyes are depicted as black instead of red
Yes
Ordinary but often somewhat above average
?

Shadowspawn series
Normal
Serrated teeth, but no fangs
?
?
?
Beautiful; yellow eyes when night-walking
Corpse; if post-corporeal, nothing

Shadowrun
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ordinary, although the Nosferatu strain are generally bald and kind of ugly
Corpse

AdventureQuest
Same as in previous life
Yes
?
?
?
Same as in previous life
?

Vampire in Brooklyn
Normal
Retractable
No
?
Yes
Likely greater as happened with Julius Jones at the end
?

The Shadowhunter Chronicles (The Mortal Instruments)
Pale
Retractable
Yes
?
Yes
Beautiful/emaciated (true appearance has protruding veins and yellow eyes in film)
?

Penny Dreadful
Pale
Shark-like teeth
?
?
Yes
Master vampires are hideous, hairless, and have blood-red eyes but infected vampires are ordinary with blood-red eyes.
?

Kate Daniels novels
? (Frequently wearing purple sunblock)
Yes
?
?
?
Emaciated, increasingly inhuman with age, eventually quadrupedal
?

From Dusk till Dawn
Pale, with scales or flaked skin
Yes
?
?
Yes
Not only manifest in a human form, but monstrous with reptilian, bat or rat characteristics
Turns to desert-like dust

Monster High
Pale
Yes
No
There's an app that does get them to show up on film.
Yes
Beautiful, but have pointy, elf-like ears
?

inFamous: Festival of Blood
Pale
Yes
?
?
Yes
Bloody Mary is beautiful, but her true form and her underlings are monstrous with bat/rat like traits; Firstborns can take on a human appearance
Dust

Kitty Norville novels
?
Yes
Normally present, but they can alter this
Normally present, but they can alter this
?
As in life
Decay rapidly, as if the body had been rotting since it became a vampire; older vampires become dust. Clothing/immediate surroundings also affected. Sun-exposed vampires become ash.

American Horror Story: Hotel
Ordinary/pale
No
?
?
Yes
Ordinary but often somewhat above average
Corpse

Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Alluring
Dust

Vampire Cheerleaders
Pale
Retractable
Yes
Yes
Yes
Beautiful, although their eyes turn blood-red when about to feed or when angry
?

Innistrad
Pale
Yes; fangs extend an extra quarter inch when biting
Yes; silver reflects their original mortal self, ignoring their true vampiric appearance and their glamour
?
Yes
Ordinary; their sclera are black and the irises gold, silver, or other colors; their skin is cool to the touch; their hair is often black but can also be deep purple, dark magenta, burgundy, or even dark blue-green; vampires also tend to have long and slightly curved fingernails
?

Blood Lad
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ordinary, but with razor sharp teeth
Corpse

Shiki
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Varies
Burned corpse

Warhammer
Pale
Yes
No, although some do retain their reflections
?
No, although some do retain their shadows
Varies; the Lahmians and Von Carsteins are attractive unless they give in to their bloodthirst, eventually devolving into a vargulf; the Blood Dragons are disheveled; the Strigoi and Necrachs are both horrifying
Corpse

Seraph of the End
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
As in previous life, although their eyes turn blood-red and their ears become pointed once they consume human blood for the first time and become a full vampire
Dust

Interviews with Monster Girls
Pale
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ordinary
?

The Witcher
Varies greatly by subspecies, from normal to pale to dark gray
Yes
No
?
No
Varies by subspecies, from monstrous and bat-like to human-like; some can appear entirely human
Corpse

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Pale
Yes
No
No
Yes
Varies; human vampires resemble stereotypical Gothic vampires (long hair, angular faces, etc.)
Dust

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Setting
Stake
Sunlight
Decapitation
Drowning
Fire
Silver
Garlic
Holy Symbols
Running Water
Invitation
Arithmomania
Other

European Folklore
Fatal; ash,[21] hawthorn,[22] or oak[23] is preferred
Nocturnal
Fatal[24]
Yes, but they will revive once removed
Fatal
Some
Yes[25]
Yes
Yes, but they will revive once removed[26]
No[26]
Yes[27]
Various regional herbal weaknesses such as plants/woods of the hawthorn family, aspen, oak, ash, maple, dogrose, wild rose, holly, juniper, millet, linden, mayflower, roses, lemon, rowan, and wolfsbane

North American folklore
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
?

"The Vampyre"
Fatal
Healed by moonlight
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?

Byzantium
?
Nocturnal
Fatal
No
Fatal
?
?
No
No
Yes
No
?

Daybreakers
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
A failed human blood substitute caused the vampire who was injected with it to convulse and explode.

Young Dracula
Fatal
Fatal
?
?
Fatal
No
Burns their skin
Avoided, effect is unclear
Yes
Yes
Often
Destroying a Blood Mirror turns the entirety of the clan into humans and kills the old vampires.

Varney the Vampire
?
Healed by moonlight
?
?
Commits suicide in Mount Vesuvius[10]
?
?
No
No
?
?
?

Carmilla
Fatal
Only weakened during daylight hours
Fatal
No
?
?
?
Aversion to holy relics/charms
?
Yes
?
?

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Fatal; white oak preferred
Only weakened during daylight hours, though not at midday (at which time of day he becomes stronger)
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Dracula has the mind of a child and is very obsessive; his own psychic powers can be used to hunt him.

Night World
Fatal, but only if made of wood
No, but it greatly weakens their powers
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
Spells and the telepathic attacks of other vampires can cause them harm; a prolonged abstinence from blood can lead to asphyxiation and possibly death.

Nosferatu
Fatal
Fatal[28]
?
No
?
?
?
Yes
Yes
No
?
?

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
No
Fatal, although elder vampires have a much greater tolerance[29]
Fatal, but they can be revived if the head and body are brought back together before bleeding out.
No
Fatal, although elder vampires have a much greater tolerance
No
No
No
No
No
No[note 1]
Blood from an already-dead creature induces temporary deathlike state.

Count Chocula
?
No
?
?
?
?
?
?
No
No
No
Gets soggy in milk

Sesame Street
?
Enjoys sunlight, sleeps at night
?
?
?
No
?
?
No
?
Yes
?

Batman & Dracula
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
?

Van Helsing
Dracula: no
No
Yes
?
No
No
No
Not fatal
?
?
?
Werewolf bite

Others: Fatal. Must be wood or silver
Yes
Yes
?
No
?
?
Fatal.
?
?
?
?

Twilight
No
It causes them to sparkle
It paralyzes them, but it isn't fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

Dungeons & Dragons
Fatal, but will recover if the stake is removed
Fatal, will survive very short exposure
Fatal
No
?
Yes
Keeps them at bay
Keeps them at bay
Fatal, will survive short exposure
Yes
No
?

Blade
Vampires: Fatal[17]
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal [17]
Yes[17]
Yes[17]
No
No
No
No
They also can be killed by EDTA and the Daystar virus.

Reapers: Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Their bodies start to consume themselves if they are unable to feed for a couple of hours.

Untraviolet
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
Keeps them at bay
Psychosomatic
No
No
No
Charcoal

30 Days of Night (2002)
No
Fatal, although when blood touches their ashes they will regenerate
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

Bunnicula
?
Nocturnal[clarification needed]
?
?
?
?
Yes
?
?
?
?
?

The Hunger
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?

Count Duckula
Fatal
Fatal (although the incarnation featured in the series is immune to sunlight)
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
?
?

Vampire Hunter D
Fatal
Yes
Fatal, but only if the head and body are not joined back together within ten minutes
Immobilizes
?
No
Yes
Yes
Immobilizes
No
No
Iron weapons can bypass their healing and resurrection powers and if a wound caused by an iron weapon is left untreated, it can begin to fester and rot.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Only if made of silver
Exposure to daylight weakens them, but after a few years they begin to develop a resistance towards it, although their eyes will still react the same.
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
If a weapon made of silver were to deal a wound that would be fatal for a human, then it will slay the vampire.

The Lost Boys
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
?
Fatal through the heart
No
Holy water is fatal in large quantities.
?
Invitation makes vampire immune to weaknesses and vampire characteristics
No
?

The Little Vampire
Fatal
Fatal
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
?

The Vampire Diaries
Novels: Yes
Fatal. A special ring protects them.
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Boosts mental resistance if the user truly believes it works
Yes. It's worse for stronger vampires.
Yes
No
Heart extraction. Prolonged period without feeding.

TV series, Originals: only a stake made of white wood or its ashes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
When an Original dies, all vampires in their blood line also die.

TV series, others: Fatal
Fatal. Daylight ring protects them
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Heart extraction. Werewolf bite; Vervain and some magical objects weaken them.

House of Night
Blue Vampyres: Fatal
No
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
?
If they don`t pass the Change when they are fledglings, sometimes they die.

Red Vampyres: Fatal
Fatal
?
?
Fatal
?
?
?
No
Yes
?
If they don`t pass the Change when they are fledglings, sometimes they die.

Buffy
Fatal, but only if made of wood. Older vampires require larger amounts of wood.[30]
Fatal Special ring protects them[30]
Fatal[30]
No[31]
Fatal
No
Shown as a prop on-screen, but never utilized
Yes[31][30]
No
Yes[31]
No
Some poisons and drugs can affect them.

Discworld[note 2]
Fatal
Fatal[note 3]
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Yes
Yes[note 4]
Yes[note 5]
Yes[note 4]
Yes
No
Scattering their dust, post mortem, prevents them from being revived.

True Blood
Fatal, but only if made of wood
Fatal; younger vampires can survive short exposure, older vampires have lower tolerances; Fae/Fairy blood can eliminate weakness to sun for a short period.
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
No (mild irritant)
No[17]
No
Only in private residences owned by humans
No
Hepatitis D and Maenad Blood can weaken them.

Let the Right One In
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
Fatal, if invite remains absent for long enough
Implied
Blood with cancer hurts them, but it is still nutritious.

Preacher
No
Fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

Vampire Academy
?
Makes them feel uncomfortable
Yes
?
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Anything that would kill a human

Strigoi: Fatal if silver and charmed with air, fire, earth and water magics. Turns the Strigoi into a Moroi if silver and charmed with spirit.
Burns them, but isn't fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
?

American Vampire
Old World bloodline: Fatal
Fatal; ameliorable with protective measures
Fatal
Immobilizes
Fatal
Yes
?
No
Immobilizes
No
No
?

American bloodline: Fatal, but only gold stakes
No; possible dependency on moonlight – torpid and vulnerable during new moon
Fatal
No
Fatal
Gold
No
No
No
No
No
?

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Fatal
Generally fatal; some vampires are immune
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
Yes
Any religious iconography if wielded by a true believer
No
Yes
No
?

Hellsing
Fatal, except for Alucard
Non-fatal, but they find it extremely unpleasant
Fatal, except for Alucard
No
Fatal, except for Alucard
Blessed silver only weakens Alucard, but will kill other vampires.[32]
Yes
It weakens them, but is non-fatal.
Yes
No
No
?

The Saga of Darren Shan
Fatal
Highly susceptible to sunburns, eventually fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
No
No
Superstitious[note 6]
No
?
The blood of snakes, rats, and cats are poisonous to them.

World of Darkness
Immobilizes
Fatal; certain disciplines can make them resistant or immune
Usually fatal
No
Fatal; certain disciplines can make them resistant or immune
Immune unless with flaw
Immune unless with flaw
Immune unless with flaw or when wielded by someone with true faith
Immune unless with flaw
Immune unless with flaw
Only if with flaw
?

Being Human (BBC)
Yes (only way to permanently kill a vampire)
No (more sensitive to sunlight and prefer to avoid it)
Yes (can be resurrected)
No
Yes (can be resurrected)
?
Yes (causes fangs to appear, watery eyes, and sneezing)
Yes(Doesn't work on old and powerful ones.)
No
Yes (old vampires are excluded)
No
Werewolf blood can kill them.

Being Human (Syfy)
Yes
No (more sensitive to sunlight and prefer to avoid it)
Yes
?
?
No
Yes (causes fangs to appear, watery eyes, and sneezing)
No
No
Yes
No
Werewolf blood mutates them, consuming the juniper plant immobilize them and a mysterious new flu strain kill them.

Lord Erebus
?
No
No
No
Yes
?
?
?
?
Yes
?
?

Supernatural
No
No, although it does weaken them and cause a measure of pain and discomfort
Fatal
No
?
Only in the anime series
No
No
No
No
No
Dead man's blood can paralyze them and a scent blocking mixture can render their sense of smell useless; the Colt, angelic touch, vampire irradiation gun, anti-vampire device, and Vamp-Tonite can kill them; angels, leviathans, and primordial entities can overpower and kill them with ease.

Moonlight
Causes paralysis
Exposure makes them progressively weaker and causes severe sunstroke
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes, it is toxic and can eventually kill if left in too long.
No
No
No
No
No
?

The Parasol Protectorate
Fatal
Fatal
?
?
?
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
?
Hive tethered to a specific location shortly after the queen is turned, unless she swarms; the touch of a soulless or metanatural turns them human temporarily.

Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain
Death-like state until removed
Fatal to weaker vampires
Fatal, but Vorador was resurrected after his execution
Fatal to all except Rahabim vampires
Fatal to most if not all
No
No
Vulnerable to Hylden glyphs and Moebius's staff
Fatal to most, but Vampires in Blood Omen can "buy" a resistance to some forms of water, such as rain or snow
No
No
The Nexus Stone could send Kain in a coma for centuries; and sonic waves and the Moebius's Staff weaken vampires.

Night Watch
?
Feels unpleasant
?
No
?
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Alcohol causes severe burns on contact, much like Holy Water in other settings.

Underworld
Fatal
Fatal, although they can become immune if they absorb blood with the Corvinus Strain
Fatal
Fatal, although they can become immune if they absorb blood with the Corvinus Strain
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Severe enough injuries or loss of blood can kill them.

Chibi Vampire/Karin
Fatal
Burns, death if exposed too long
Likely
Likely
Likely
No
Only aggravates highly developed olfactory nerves
No
No
No
No
?

Necroscope
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
?
Starvation, suffocation, great levels of violence, leprosy or the Black Death also kill them.

Moon Child
?
Fatal
?
?
?
?
?
?
No
?
?
?

Forever Knight
Fatal; older vampires have higher tolerances[33]
Fatal[14]
Yes[33]
?
Fatal; older vampires have higher tolerances[33]
No[34]
Yes[35]
Can develop a tolerance[35]
No[36]
No
?
?

John Carpenter's Vampires
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
?
?
?
No
Wielder has to possess faith
No
No
No
?

Dark Shadows (1966)
Yes
Fatal (except under the treatments of Dr. Julia Hoffman)
?
?
?
Yes
?
Keeps them at bay
?
No
No
?

Frostbiten (2006)
Fatal, although the supervampire had to be killed through a combination of several vampire weaknesses
Implied; the supervampire was killed by strong light after being staked
?
?
?
?
Yes
Yes
?
?
?
?

Dresden Files: White Court
As for humans
No
As for humans
As for humans
As for humans
No
No
No
No
No
No
The opposite of the emotion that they feed on

Dresden Files: Black Court
Yes
No (weakened during daylight hours)
Yes
?
Yes
?
Yes
Affected by the faith of the user, not the inherent properties of the object; any holy symbol will work
Yes
Yes
?
It is mentioned that they have the weaknesses as described in Bram Stoker's novel.

Dresden Files: Red Court
?
Yes
?
?
Fatal
Yes
?
They are less affected than the Black Court
?
?
?
Cutting their stomach open drains the blood they've eaten; this weakens them.

The Sims
?
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

Touhou
?
Exposure makes them progressively weaker, although a parasol seems to be enough protection.
?
No
?
Yes
Remilia hates it, but it is not stated if other vampires share this weakness
No
Yes; even rain is a problem
No
No
Broken holly branches, sardine heads, and roasted soybeans[37]

Fright Night
Fatal, but only through the heart
Fatal
?
?
Can't think clearly
No
?
Burns skin
?
Yes
?
?

Marvel Comics
Fatal
Fatal, except for pseudo-vampires
Fatal
No
No
Yes, except for pseudo-vampires
Yes, except for pseudo-vampires
Yes, except for pseudo-vampires
No
Yes
No
The Bloodgem and the Montesi Formula incantation can kill them.

We Are the Night (2010)
?
Fatal
?
No
?
?
No
?
No
?
?
?

Blindsight (2007)
Fatal
No, but light-shy and tends toward nocturnal activity
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
No
No intrinsic aversion to religion in general, but "crucifix glitch" caused problems with crosses
No
Cannot approach any construction with right angles while eyes are open due to "crucifix glitch"; legend may have arisen from this condition
Possibly - altered brain structure provides omnisavantic pattern-matching and analytical skills
Neurological "crucifix glitch" causes lethal seizures when perpendicular lines fill more than 30 degrees of visual field; seizures can be prevented by "anti-Euclidean drugs".

Blood: The Last Vampire
No
No
Yes
?
Yes
No
No
Distresses them
No
No
No
They can die if they lose a sufficiently large amount of blood.

Blood+
No
Only the Schiffs
Yes
?
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
The blood of one Queen can kill anything that her sister has created.

Trinity Blood
Methuselahs: Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Yes
Fatal
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
The destruction of the heart, brain, cervical vertebrae, and brain stem is fatal for them; they have to eat normal food alongside blood or they die.

Crusniks: No
No
?
?
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Crusniks can only be killed by draining away all of their crusnik nano-machines.

Rosario + Vampire
Yes
No[38]
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes[note 7]
Yes
Yes
No
No
?

Charmed
Fatal, except for queens
Yes
Yes
No
Fatal
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
The Power of Three and demonic powers can kill them. Kill the Queen and the whole clan dies.

DC Comics
Yes
But it greatly weakens their powers
Except for Cain
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Killing a vampire kills their entire clan if done during the first 48 hours of the creation of a new vampire.

Sanctuary
No
No
?
?
Yes
?
No
No
No
No
No
?

Wizards of Waverly Place
?
Yes
?
?
?
?
Yes
?
No
No
No
Pumpkin smell is repulsive to them, werewolf scratch take away their powers, and vampires powers are useless against plastic.

Gantz
?
They can take a special medicine that toughens their skin, allowing them to walk around in the daylight.
Fatal
?
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

Adventure Time
Fatal
Direct sunlight only; a simple parasol is enough to render the sun's light merely irritating
?
?
?
?
Yes
?
?
No[note 8]
No
Powerless against ghosts

Vampire Knight
Fatal
Only cause burns and not actually harm them
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Only anti-vampire weapons can kill a Pureblood.

Castlevania series
Fatal
Exposure to the sun's light weakens them and will destroy weakened vampires.
Fatal
No
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes; exposure burns their flesh like acid.
No
No
?

Split
Yes
No
Yes
Weakens them
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Weakens them
No
Yes
Sea salt and spells hurt them, and a broken heart due to love kill them.

Tsukihime
True Ancestors: No
No
Only if they are not powerful enough to regenerate
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Powerful magic and conceptual weapons can kill them, also dismemberment if they are not powerful enough to regenerate.

Dead Apostles: Fatal
Fatal; powerful Dead Apostles can withstand it
Fatal
Yes
Fatal
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Normal and magical weapons can kill them, and killing their creator also kills them; their thirst for blood will grow as they age.

Stargate
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
The Hoffan Drug can kill the Wraiths and if they are malnourished, more normal ways of killing can be effective.

Hollows series
Living vampires (Low and High Blood): Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
?
No
They can die in any normal way.

Undead: Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
?
?
No
The blood of an Undead is deadly to another Undead.

Black Blood Brothers
Except for Jiro and Cassa
Except for the old blood
Yes
Except for the old blood
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Except for the old blood
Only to enter the Special Zone
No
?

Stephen King
Type One: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
They are afraid of white eyes painted on black dogs.

Type Two: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Roses hurt them.

Type Three: Yes
No
Yes
?
Yes
No
No
?
?
?
No
Normal weapons can kill them.

Vampirella
Fatal
No
Yes
?
Yes
No
Contradictory information
No
No
?
No
?

The Elder Scrolls
Fatal
Gradually kills them, except for the vampires of Skyrim who are only weakened; some gain greater resistance after feeding
Fatal
Fatal, except for Argonian vampires
Fatal
Yes, except for the ancient vampires of the Illiac Bay
One special case, but not most vampires
Holy places, but only for the vampires of the Illiac Bay
No
No
No
Vulnerable to Dawnguard weapons, the Dawnbreaker sword, fire magic, and certain Restoration spells; the strain encountered in Arena could only be killed by magic, otherwise they were only subdued

My Babysitter's a Vampire
Fatal
Non-fatal, but very irritable
?
?
No
No
Non-fatal, but very irritable
Can't come close to them
?
Yes
No
Magical daggers, UV light sabers, spells can be harmful and the lucifractor can kill them

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Hamon (a martial art that produces UV rays)

The Librarian
Only stakes made of Aspen wood
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
?
No
No
Drinking blood from a human with a blood disease gives the vampire that disease.

David Wellington
Only if they don't have blood to regenerate
They "die" when daylight rises, but relieve again every night
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
They get weak when they regurgitate blood.

Darkstalkers
No
He can create an aura to protect him
?
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
?

The Historian
Fatal
Fatal
No
?
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
No
No
?

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
?
No
?
?
?
?
?
?
No
?
?
Exsanguination (maybe)

Monogatari
Fatal
Fatal
No
No, but it's implied that becoming a vampire erases the knowledge on how to swim.
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Supposedly
?
?

Saga of the Noble Dead
No
Fatal
It paralyzes them, but it isn't fatal
No
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
The loss of their blood, the attacks of a Majay-hi and magical weapons weakens them.

Doctor Who
Great Vampires: Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Destroying their hearts

Vampires: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Age rapidly to the point of death when their creator is destroyed

Dance in the Vampire Bund
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
?
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
No
Severe damage to their bodies is fatal.

BloodRayne series
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
Yes
Yes
Fatal
No
No
The poison of a dhampir is deadly for them.

Vamps
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
?
Yes
?
?
Yes
No
No
No
?

The Strain
Only if is made of silver
Yes
Yes
?
?
Yes
No
No
Unless is invited/assisted by a human
No
No
Ultraviolet light and nuclear energy are fatal.

Blood Alone
Yes
Yes
?
?
?
?
?
?
Yes
No
?
?

Anno Dracula series
Fatal
Elder vampires have a greater tolerance
Fatal
Only some bloodlines
Fatal
Yes
Only if the vampire believes is a weakness
Only if the vampire believes is a weakness
Only some bloodlines
Only some bloodlines
No
Sick or a dead person's blood can hurt them.

Hotel Transylvania
Yes
Harmful, but not immediately fatal
?
?
Yes
?
Discomforting, possibly harmful
?
No
No
No
?

Vampireology
Immobilizes
No
Only to Ba'als
Do not need to breathe
Only to Molochs
Yes
Yes
Not the holy symbol itself, but the faith of the person holding it
No
No
Yes
Vampires can only be permanently killed by the sword of Michael.

Blood Moon
Fatal if made of silver
Exposure causes dehydration, sunburn, and eventually death
Fatal
Yes
Fatal
Fatal
No
No
No
No
No
Werewolf venom/saliva burns like silver.

Shadowspawn series
As for humans
No
As for humans
As for humans
As for humans
Not inherently harmful, but disrupts magic
No
No
No
No
No
If killed in the right way, they can become post-corporeal permanent night-walkers.

Night-walking: not sure
Yes
Probably
?
?
?
Yes
Probably not
Probably not
No
Probably not
If a living Shadowspawn is killed in their night-walking form, the body becomes comatose and eventually dies.

Shadowrun
Fatal, but only if fashioned from wood, although the Nosferatu are immune
Yes; While in sunlight, vampires suffer a penalty to all actions, physically weakened, slowed by half, and if exposed for too long, they begin to suffer bodily damage.
Fatal; severe brain or spinal injuries are also sufficient enough to kill them
Oxygen deprivation induces a coma-like state until their body is reintroduced to an oxygenated environment
Fatal
?
?
?
No, although a vampire’s body is less buoyant then a human body thus rendering them poor swimmers compared to humans
No
No
If a vampire is cut off from breathable air, they will eventually fall into a coma until exposed to good air again; vampires become sick to their stomachs within an hour of eating human food or drink and are especially sickened by alcoholic drinks.

AdventureQuest
No
Yes
As for humans
As for humans
Yes
No
?
No
No
No
No
?

Vampire in Brooklyn
Yes
Exact effect unknown, but is avoided
?
?
?
?
No
Yes
?
?
?
?

The Shadowhunter Chronicles (The Mortal Instruments)
Vampires: Yes
Angel blood can eliminate weakness.
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Depending on the believes of the vampire
No
No
No
Seraph Blades or bleeding them dry can kill them.

Daylighter: Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Depending on the believes of the vampire
No
No
No
Seraph Blades can kill them.

Penny Dreadful
Yes
?
Yes
?
?
?
?
It bothers them
?
No
?
Hurting the brain or killing the vampire master is fatal for the infected vampires.

Kate Daniels novels
?
Can be blocked with thick sunblock
Fatal
?
?
?
?
No
No
No
No
Can be killed by gross physical trauma, such as gunfire

Den of Shadows
If isn’t powerful enough to regenerate
?
If isn’t powerful enough to regenerate
No
Fatal
No
No
?
No
?
No
Magic is harmful for them.

From Dusk till Dawn series
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Culebra venom incapacitates them.

Monster High
?
Yes
?
?
?
?
Yes
?
?
Yes
?
?

inFamous: Festival of Blood
Fatal
Fatal, although they can survive a few moments of exposure
?
Only Cole
Fatal
Yes
?
The Barbed Cross can instantly kill weaker vampires if struck
No
Yes
?
Bloody Mary can only be harmed/killed by The Barbed Cross.

Kitty Norville novels
Yes
Yes
?
?
?
?
?
Holy water
?
Yes
?
?

American Horror Story: Hotel
Yes
Only weakened during daylight hours
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
They can be killed with firearms, due to hemorrhages and bleeding or after severe physical trauma; not feeding on blood causes their bodies to decay and their minds to become feral.

Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
Fatal
Fatal within moments of exposure, except for day walkers and those able to bend light
?
?
Fatal
?
Irritates their sensitive sense of smell
Holy water burns them and a cross induces a "bad feeling"
Yes; they cannot swim in running water
No
No
Ama-vampires are immune to a "Vampire's Kiss" and if a servant vampire drinks their blood they will be freed of their master.

Vampire Cheerleaders
Fatal
Exposure can cause an agonizing sunburn, but they can adapt
?
No
Yes
?
Yes
No
?
Yes
?
?

Innistrad
Fatal
No
Fatal
No
Fatal
Unsettles them and reflects their true mortal self
No
Only when the symbol has been properly blessed or is wielded by the faithful
Only if the moon is reflected in the water
No
No
Any weapon can harm or kill them, although wood is especially effective against them.

Blood Lad
No
No
?
?
?
Yes
?
No
No
No
No
Heart extraction is fatal.

Shiki
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes
?
Yes
?
Yes
?
Starvation will kill them and extreme physical trauma can incapacitate them.

Warhammer
Fatal, but only if it is fashioned from a special wood such as, ash, hawthorn, or rosewood
Yes; direct sunlight halves their power and injuries them per minute of exposure, regardless of the toughness of their physical body; some vampires’ wills are so strong that they can over-come this weakness
Fatal
No
Fatal
Yes, however some may be weak to the dwarven metal Gromril or the elven metal Ithilmar
Only in some bloodlines or individual, however some may be repelled by rarer herbs like Daemons-root or Witchbane
Mortals who present holy icons can sometimes repel them, although some vampires are so cognizant of their freedom from the spiritual realm, that they fear no Gods or Daemons
Yes, although for the purpose of this weakness, the water must be at least a yard across, a foot deep, and have a current; vampires can overcome this weakness through sheer force of will
Only some vampires
Only some vampires
Vampires can possess other weaknesses that vary from vampire to vampire such as, the herbs Daemonsroot and/or Witchbane, sawdust, embalming fluid, the dwarven metal Gromril or the elven metal Ithilmar or even the blood of an innocent victim (rare), powerful magic and divine power can harm or kill them.

Seraph of the End
No, although ripping their heart out does convert them into a demon if not returned to the vampire
Exposure to UV light will produce a toxin in their blood, however they can wear protective gear to neutralize this effect
It will paralyze them, but it isn’t fatal
No
?
?
No
No
No
No
No
Destroying their heads entirely will kill them (a single bullet is not sufficient); cursed gear and enchanted gear can limit their healing or outright kill them.

Interviews with Monster Girls
Fatal
Non-fatal, although exposure to strong sunlight feels very unpleasant for them
?
?
?
?
No
No
No
?
No
?

The Witcher
Lower Vampires: Some, but not all breeds
No; most breeds of vampires have long since adapted to the sun’s light
Fatal
No
Fatal
Fatal
Only in the games, not the books
No
No
No
No
Vulnerable to an alchemical oil applied to weapons

Higher Vampires: No
No
No; they will eventually regenerate
No
No; magical flames can injure them, but they will eventually regenerate
No; they will eventually regenerate
Only in the games, not the books
No
No
No
No
Can only be permanently killed by the bite of another higher vampire

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Fatal
Fatal
Fatal
?
?
?
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?

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Jump up ^ Although Lestat mentions that he develops a fondness for counting, it is not a true weakness.
Jump up ^ Discworld vampires are immortal; even fatal weaknesses only reduce them to ash. A drop of blood can restore them to full health if it comes in contact with the ashes
Jump up ^ Cultural aversion to sunlight. Sufficiently bright light can also turn them to ash
^ Jump up to: a b Cultural aversion
Jump up ^ Cultural aversion to all religious symbols
Jump up ^ Vampires believe that dying in running water prevents the soul from entering the afterlife.
Jump up ^ In Rosario + Vampire Capu2 episode 8, Moka is repelled by Tsukune's body odor when he eats garlic. However, it is not addressed as a vulnerability in the manga series.
Jump up ^ Marceline is seen entering people's houses uninvited but seems to have prior, largely unknown claims to extensive amounts of property across the Land of Ooo. In the Stakes miniseries, it is revealed that she possessed the power of a healing vampire, The Moon, allowing her to be unaffected by traditional vampire killing rituals.

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text: It is common in fiction for vampires to gain additional, uncommon powers as they age. Certain vampires may have abilities that are unique to them or a small group of others. These have been noted as 'Gifted'.

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Setting
Immortal
Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Senses
Enhanced Speed
Unnatural Healing
Flight
Shapeshifting/Absorption
Psychic Powers
Psychokinesis
Pyrokinesis
Other

European Folklore
Implied
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some
Yes
Some
Some poltergeist-like activity
No
Various other powers based upon region such as control over nocturnal animals or the ability to spread plagues

North American folklore
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some
Nocturnal animals and mist
Yes
No
No
?

Daybreakers
Yes
No
Enhanced senses of smell
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
If they abstain from blood for too long they mutate into Subsiders.

Varney the Vampire
Yes
Yes
?
?
Regenerates in moonlight[10]
?
?
Yes
?
No
?

Carmilla (1871)
Implied
Yes, grip can paralyze limbs temporarily
?
Yes
Powers are enhanced in moonlight
?
Monstrous cat
?
?
?
Becomes incorporeal at will (vanishes, goes through solid barriers/doors)

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Limited; Dracula still possessed a scar where Harker had struck him with a shovel months ago
Yes
Wolf, bat (also giant bat), dust, fog - possibly dog as well. Can also impersonate Jonathan Harker. Can impersonate a coachman and a doorman (though it is not known if he only used darkness to disguise himself or a little magic as well in addition to that darkness)
Yes, the hunters track Dracula through his telepathic link with Mina.
Improbable, as he would then have carried his boxes on his own (though he might still have been too weak to use that hypothetical magical power)
Plausible, since he started a massive fire and the characters who were not present when he did it simply had to guess he may have used a match, but they cannot prove anything
Control of nocturnal animals, wolves and rats mentioned specifically. At least one vampire (if not all) is able to shrink to fit under a door. Hypothetical array of other powers (due to former magical scholarship - undocumented, and very briefly mentioned by Dr. Van Helsing); lizard-like climbing abilities

Nosferatu
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?
Wolf
?
Yes
No
Rats and plague follow the vampire.

Van Helsing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, but it resembles teleporting
Yes
In winged creature form
Winged bat/demon-like creature
?
No
No
Vampires can walk on walls and ceilings.

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Extremely old vampires
No
Most
Very old vampires
Very old vampires
Most are able to walk on walls and ceilings. Children of the Millennia can cause blood vessels to rupture. All vampires have enhanced memories.

Twilight saga
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gifted
No
Gifted
Gifted vampires can have a variety of different abilities.

Buffy
Yes[31]
Yes[31][30]
Yes[31]
Yes
Yes[31][30]
No[power 1]
Only Dracula
Gifted
No
No
?

Blade
Yes
Yes
Yes; vampires can also see in ultraviolet
Yes
Yes; also, Frost/La Magra merger regenerates lost limbs instantly (see "other")
No
Only Dracula and La Magra, the latter can shed his skin, turning into a ball of fire to methodically stalk his prey (gained from the Ligaroo tribe).
Only La Magra, which can control minds, matter and the elements (gained from the Faustinas tribe).
No
No
Deacon Frost, when merged with La Magra was impervious to silver, is able to day-walk due to Blade's blood, and can instantly turn any human in his path into vampires.[power 2]

Ultraviolet
Yes
Yes
Enhanced sense of smell
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

30 Days of Night (2002)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
?

Discworld
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Can be resurrected from ashes
As a bat or as a "human"
Yes
Yes
No
No
Overcome inherent weaknesses with psychological conditioning

Batman & Dracula
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
?

Vampire Academy
Only the Strigoi
Yes
Yes
Only the Strigoi
Spirit users can heal.
No
Yes
Some, not all.
No
Vampires that are fire users.
All Moroi have an extra power: water, earth, air and sometimes spirit.

True Blood
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Only if they had the power before they turned.
Can "glamour" humans, erase memories and bend their will
Gifted
No
Standard: Eidetic memory, voice imitation, maker abilities (calling, commanding, empathetic link, and releasing); Unique Powers: advanced vampiric abilities, advanced progeny calling, astral projection, blood abilities, advanced glamour, haemokinesis, intangibility, invisibility, precognition, self-control, species detection, telekinesis, teleportation, and immunity to stakes, fire, silver, and invitations; vampire blood can heal humans and has numerous drug-like qualities.

The Little Vampire
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Can climb any surface and may hang from the ceiling to sleep

The Vampire Diaries
Novels: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
They can control the elements, animals and the weather.

Television series: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only in the first episode; retconned soon after
No
Vampires can compel humans. Originals can compel vampires, vampire/werewolf hybrids and humans.
No
No
Dream manipulation; vampire blood heals humans; can "turn off humanity"

Count Chocula
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
?
Yes
Bat
No
Able to levitate marshmallows
Electrokinesis
Turns into milk chocolate, 15 vitamins and minerals

Count Duckula
?
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
?
No
No
Teleportation

Vampire Hunter D
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Some can turn into mist.
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Various other powers that vary greatly between individual members of the Nobility.

Sesame Street
Yes
No
?
No
?
No
No
Hypnosis, now discontinued
?
Can generate thunder by counting
Preternatural counting abilities

Let the Right One In
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Limited
Sending memories through kiss
No
No
Are able to walk on walls

Young Dracula
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
They have other abilities, like weather manipulation, among others.

Preacher
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Limited
Yes
No
Some
Ability to walk on walls and ceilings, briefly read the minds of those they drink from, other unspecified abilities

American Vampire
Old World bloodline: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Gifted bloodlines
Gifted bloodlines
No
No
?

American bloodline: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

Hellsing
Yes
Yes
Long range vision
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Powerful vampires can pass through walls, shadow and blood manipulation, can summon the souls of those he has previously consumed.

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, but wounds from silver heal slowly. Holy water inhibits healing.
Gifted
Rare
Telepathy is stronger after biting, can enthrall with eyes
Gifted
Gifted
Call animals, drain power from sired vampires, rot without damage (dependent on bloodline)

World of Darkness[power 3]
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Vast number of potential Disciplines; consumption of a vampire's blood three times causes blood bonding, an imposed state of intense love.

Being Human (BBC)
Yes
Yes
Enhanced sense of smell
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gifted
No
No
?

Being Human (Syfy)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
?

The Saga of Darren Shan
Extended life
Yes
Yes
Yes
Saliva has healing powers
No
No
Among higher ranking full vampires and briefly during transformation into a vampire; not exclusive to vampires
Only illusion of telekinesis
No
Exhales gas that causes unconsciousness in humans, Runs at high speeds outside normal space

Moonlight
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Can be developed with age
No
No
?

The Parasol Protectorate
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain
Yes
Yes
Enhanced sense of smell
Yes
Yes
Ancient Vampires were able to fly, Kain can levitate, and Raziel can glide
Wolf, bat swarm, and mist
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Corruptions caused some clans to gain abilities others did not. Some powers are also granted by the Reaver or by consuming the blood or the soul of some characters.

Night Watch
Yes[power 4]
Yes
Yes[power 4]
?
Yes[power 4]
Gifted
Gifted (giant bat)
Yes[power 4]
Yes[power 4]
Yes[power 4]
Ability to lure prey to the vampire

Underworld
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only Markus in his winged creature form
Only hybrids
Through drinking their blood
No
No
Selene and her daughter can perceive through each other psychically and can cling to surfaces.

Chibi Vampire/Karin
Extended life, potentially beyond 1000 years
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some
No
Memory erasure and hypnotic barriers
No
No
Adult vampires and some children can control bats. Spring of Psyche vampires cannot control bats or erase minds, but produce blood rather than sucking blood.

Night World
Lamias: They are immortal if they want to
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Only Maya Hearth-Woman
Yes
No
No
Maya can perform magic.

Made Vampire: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
?

Dungeons & Dragons
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
By shape shifting
Bat, wolf, cloud of smoke
Yes
No
No
They can walk on walls and ceilings, are resistant to the cold and electricity and any magic associated with either, and command over nocturnal animals.

Forever Knight
Yes[14]
Yes[14]
Heat/night vision[39]
Yes[14]
Yes[34]
Yes[14]
No
Ability to persuade through mesmerism[14]
No
No

Necroscope
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Some
Yes
Yes
No
No
Killglance, necromancy, and precognition

Moon Child
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?
No
No
No
No
?

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Hazy mist-like form
No
No
No
Can make themselves invisible

The Lost Boys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
?

Dark Shadows (1966)
Yes
Yes
?
Either this or teleportation
Yes
Yes
Bat
Hypnosis
Yes
No
Time travel, necromancy, possibly teleportation

House of Night
Blue Vampyres: Yes
Stronger than humans, but not unnaturally so
Yes
Faster than humans, but not unnaturally so
Depends on vampire affinity
No
No
No
Depends on vampire affinity
Depends on vampire affinity
Most are specially talented or have an affinity for one thing or skill.

Red Vampyres: Yes
?
Yes
Faster than humans, but not unnaturally so
Depends on affinity
No
No
Yes
Depends on affinity
Depends on affinity
Most are specially talented or have an affinity for one thing or skill.

Frostbiten (2006)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Vampires can scale walls and roofs with no support at all and talk to dogs

Dresden Files: White Court
Very long-lived, but may not be truly unaging
Only when boosted
?
Only when boosted
Only when boosted
No
No
Induce and harvest emotions
?
?
Normally about human in power, but can boost to superhuman using harvested emotional energy

Dresden Files: Black Court
Either immortal, or very long-lived
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
?
Can create thralls and "renfields" (insane, violent, permanent thralls)
?
?
Can control or alter animals and are capable of learning and using magic

Dresden Files: Red Court
Either immortal, or very long-lived
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Can change from human-looking to natural bat-like form by removing outer skin
Potent narcotic, euphoric, addictive saliva
?
?
?

The Sims
In The Sims 2, but not The Sims 3 where they only had an extremely long life cycle (might die from external causes)
Yes
No
Yes
No
In bat form
Bat
Some
No
No
Powers vary by entry in franchise

Touhou
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Implied they can recover from anything as long as the head is undamaged
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Remilia Scarlet: fate manipulation; Flandre Scarlet: destruction of anything; magic

Fright Night
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
By shape-shifting into a bat
Bat, wolf, mist
?
?
?
Stick to ceilings

Marvel Comics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Some vampires can control the weather and some animals; pseudo-vampires don't have these powers.

We Are the Night (2010)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Walk on walls.

Blood: The Last Vampire
Extended life
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Except for Saya
Except for Saya
No
No
No
?

Blood+
Only Queens and Chevaliers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only Chevaliers when they shape shift
Only Queens and Chevaliers
No
No
No
?

Trinity Blood
Methuselahs: Extended life
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only a certain type called Fairies
No
No
No
Gifted
Methuselah also possess varying individual abilities, like the forming of a blades that come out of their arms, claws, or even prehensile hair; some Methuselah have displayed an ability to control some elemental powers such as fire and ice.

Crusniks: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
All Crusniks have a variety of different abilities.

Supernatural
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Only the Alpha vampire
No
No
?

DC Comics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only Andrew Bennett
No
Andrew Bennett can do magic

Sanctuary
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
They have the ability to understand another person's identity and native language by tasting their blood.

Rosario + Vampire
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some, when shapeshift into bat
Gifted
Yes
No
No
?

Charmed
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
In bat form
Yes
Yes
No
No
They are immune to witches' powers and can hang or cling to ceilings.

Wizards of Waverly Place
Yes
Yes
Smell
Yes
Yes
By turning her arms into wings
Yes
No
No
No
Sleep control

Gantz
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Are able to spawn weapons from their bodies

Blindsight (2007)
No, but can hibernate for decades to avoid overhunting its food supply
Yes; due to increased ATP production
Yes; due to tapetum lucidum and tetrachromatic vision
Yes; due to thicker axons increasing nerve impulse transmission speed
No
No
No
No
No
No
Altered brain structure provides omnisavantic pattern-matching and analytical skills.

Adventure Time
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Can drain the color red from objects instead of feeding on blood, become invisible, and animate corpses

Vampire Knight
Only the Purebloods, the other levels are long lived
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted
Gifted vampires can have a variety of different abilities

Castlevania series
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only the vampires in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Yes
Some can manipulate electricity, black magic, summon bats and Dracula can resurrect every 100 years.

Split
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Some can possess people.

Tsukihime
True Ancestors: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
?
?
Some can manipulate reality and move from one place to another by recreating their body.

Dead Apostles: Imperfect Immortality
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Gifted; by absorbing mystical beasts
Gifted
No
No
Gifted Dead Apostles can summon familiars and become invisible; mages that became Dead Apostles through magical means, can still perform magic afterwards; when injured The Curse of Restoration turns their time backwards to a point in which they were unharmed.

Stargate
Yes
Yes
Night and thermal vision
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Wraiths can take or give life-force

Hollows series
Living Vampires (Low and High Blood): No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Living High Blood vampires are empath and pull an aura.

Undead: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
?

Black Blood Brothers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted bloodlines
Rare; Only the Warlock bloodline (the only known members of this bloodline are Cassandra Jill Warlock and Cain Warlock
Yes
Gifted; vampires of broken bloodlines are unlikely to master this ability
Only Zelman Clock’s bloodline of which he is the only survivor
Vampires can possess a variety of other powers based on bloodline or individual; The Dark Princess of the North can manipulate the weather.

Stephen King
Type One: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Possibly; Barlow could cause an entire house to shake in the movie.
No
Can control magical bugs

Type Two: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
?

Type Three: ?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
No
No
?

Vampirella
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Vampirella can manipulate shadows and blood, and induces sexual arousal.

The Elder Scrolls
Yes
Yes, except for the vampires of the Sanguinare vampiris strain
Sight
Yes, except for the vampires of the Sanguinare vampiris
Yes
Gifted
Only Vampire Lords
Most vampire clans, but not all
Only Vampire Lords
Only the vampires of Arena
Various unique powers based on clan, such as invisibility, silencing mages, reanimating corpses, poisonous claws, summoning gargoyles, enhanced magic and skills, and numerous resistances

My Babysitter's a Vampire
Vampires: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Gifted
No
?

Fledgling: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Only by inserting a bit of own flesh into victim's head
No
No
Dio Brando can shoot blood from his eyes at high speeds and freeze a person's blood by touching them.

The Librarian series
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
In dust
No
No
No
Dreams manipulation

David Wellington
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

Darkstalkers
Yes
Yes
?
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
He can manipulate his cape, create protective auras and temporarily change the gender of male opponents

The Historian
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
In animal form
Yes
No
No
No
?

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Possibly, or very long life. Do not age, and can change their apparent age to their liking
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Saitohimea has a lot of magic

Monogatari series
Yes, but resurrections require energy and can only be done by vampires that had lived long enough
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
Ones that had lived long enough can grow wings at will
Yes, although it's implied that not all vampires possess this ability
?
?
?
Can drain the energy of others and generate matter; can change the length of their hair; can do very long jumps; if given massive enough energy source, Kiss-Shot can summon a temporary time portal.

Saga of the Noble Dead
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Some vampires can control animals and all vampires have to obey the orders of the one who turned them.

Doctor Who
Great Vampires: Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
?

Vampires: Extended life
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some
Some
Yes
Some
No
?

Dance in the Vampire Bund
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only if they have wings in their true form
Some vampires can assume their true form
Some
No
No
Gifted vampires can have a variety of different abilities.

BloodRayne
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted; in bat/raven form
Gifted; Zerenski could turn into a flock of bats and Rayne gained the ability to become a raven.
Gifted; Rayne's ghostly double can enter and control others
No
No
Gifted vampires and dhampir, like Kagan or Rayne, can have a variety of extra abilities others may not have.

Vamps
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Gifted vampires can have a variety of different abilities

The Strain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
They can transfer their consciousness from one human host to another.

Blood Alone
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
The elders have different special abilities.

Anno Dracula series
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted bloodlines
Gifted bloodlines
Gifted bloodlines
Gifted bloodlines
Gifted bloodlines
Powers vary outside of their physical capabilities based upon their bloodline.

Hotel Transylvania
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mostly in bat form
Bat; standard form can grow claws
Powerful hypnosis; can control beasts or men, rewrite memories; requires eye contact
Yes
No
Can walk on walls and ceilings in defiance of gravity; able to induce lasting paralysis in beasts or men.

Vampireology
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
in animal form
Yes
Yes
No
No
?

Blood Moon
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Can swap locations with their Bat familiars, making it appear as if they turned into the animal

Shadowspawn series
Very long-lived, can become theoretically immortal post-corporeal night-walkers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only in some forms
Only when night-walking; can become anything or anyone they have the DNA of
Manipulation of chance, telepathy, possession of bodies emptied by a nightwalker's death
Yes
Yes
All of their powers derive from extreme manipulation of chance.

Shadowrun (vampires and nosferatu)
Yes; they do not age and can live for centuries or even millennia
Yes, although they are not physically strong to a supernatural degree
Yes (also possesses thermographic vision)
Yes, although they are not fast to a supernatural degree
Yes
Gifted
Yes; all vampires are able to change into a misty form and vampire magic users may be able to use magic to assume animal forms.
Only the Nosferatu strain possess this as a natural ability and even then, it is limited; they can also invoke extreme fear in others.
Gifted
Gifted
Immunity to poisons, toxins, and diseases and they are capable of using magic and the transformation may unlock latent magical potential.

AdventureQuest
?
Yes
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No

Vampire in Brooklyn
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wolf, bat, fog, and can shapeshift into other humans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Can cast spells of illusion, can possibly turn invisible or teleport

The Shadowhunter Chronicles (The Mortal Instruments)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Can control certain mortals

Penny Dreadful
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
No
No
Only master vampires
No
No
?

Kate Daniels novels
Immortal, or at least capable of reaching great ages
Yes
?
Yes
?
No
No
No, but they can relay communication from necromancer pilot.
No
No
Extraordinarily good climbers; non-sapient, telepathically piloted by a necromancer (bloodthirsty mindless monsters, otherwise)

Den of Shadows
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
As a winged animal
Some
Some
?
?
They can teleport and some have special abilities.

From Dusk till Dawn series
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only those who have wings
Yes
Yes
No
No
They are able to walk on walls and ceilings.

Monster High
Yes
?
?
?
?
In bat form
In a bat
?
?
?
Can control bats

inFamous: Festival of Blood
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Swarm of bats
Yes
Only Bloody Mary
No
All of Bloody Mary's vampires must obey her; Firstborns can disguise themselves as humans.

Kitty Norville novels
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
?
?
Can hypnotically control to some extent, if you meet their eyes
?
?
Older vampires are more powerful.

American Horror Story: Hotel
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Implied
No
No
?

Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
Yes
Gifted
Gifted
They can telepathically communicate with and control those they have bitten or turned; each vampire possesses their own special ability from the start of their birth/creation; can mimic the special abilities of other vampires, though not perfectly, by sucking their blood and/or eating their flesh.

Vampire Cheerleaders
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Can "Glamour" humans, erase memories, and bend their will
No
No
Can enthrall humans through unexplained means

Innistrad
Yes
Yes; they are twice as strong as a human and can enhance it further with magic
Gifted
Gifted; they can enhance their speed with magic
Gifted; Sangromancy magic can transfer consumed blood into health
Gifted; Falkenrath Elders are more likely to master this power
Gifted; the Voldaren Elders can more easily master magic that makes it possible to assume various animal forms and the Stromkirk Elders can dissolve their bodies into a cloud of mist.
Gifted; the Markov Elders possess a special affinity for psychic magic.
Gifted; the Markov Elders possess a special affinity for psychic magic.
Gifted; the Markov Elders possess a special affinity for psychic magic.
Vampires are magic users and are able to develop new powers through magickal study and may learn a vampiric form of glamer (quasi-illusion magic) that enables them to alter what nearby humans think they're perceiving when they look at the vampire and they can emanate a two-foot-wide aura of silence at will.

Blood Lad
Possibly immortal or just long lived
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gifted
No
Gifted
?
?
Vampires are naturally able to use magic

Shiki
Yes
No, but they are stronger than most humans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Can manipulate the body, mind, and soul of their victims by consuming their blood
No
No
They can command animals as well, not just humans.

Warhammer
Yes; since vampires possess no true soul they are able to be resurrected quite easily compared to humans
Yes, although this power is best represented among the Strigoi and the Blood Dragons
Enhanced sense of smell
Gifted; Lahmians are well-known for their quick and brutal attacks.
Gifted; vampires are able to utilize their blood or dark magick in order to knit their wounds far more quickly than a mortal.
Gifted; can be achieved through magick or by shape-shifting
Gifted vampires can assume the form of a large bat, a swarm of bats, ravens, flies, beetles, or cockroaches, a wolf, or a supernatural cloud of mist, although most of these powers are more common/represented in certain bloodlines.
Gifted; best represented among the Lahmians, although all are capable of transfixing their prey
Gifted
Gifted
Vampires are a diverse race of beings whose powers vary greatly based upon bloodline and their own individuality.

Seraph of the End
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
?
?
?
Vampire made weapons can "drink" vampire blood and become stronger.

Interviews with Monster Girls
?
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
Yes
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
?
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
No, although this might just be because Hikari is still young
?

The Witcher
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Some, including all higher vampires
Some, including all higher vampires
Some, including all higher vampires
No
No
Invisibility, retractable claws, higher vampires can control weaker vampires.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Smoke, Bat, Dog
?
?
?
?

text:
Jump up ^ In the film, vampires could levitate.
Jump up ^ This is disputed, since Dr. Karen Jenson was in the same area where La Magra and Blade's battle took place and was not instantly turned, though it's probable that La Magra needs to concentrate his powers in order to actually turn humans).
Jump up ^ Most vampiric powers in the World of Darkness are the result of Disciplines, which must be learned. Thus, while all the powers on this list are available to any vampire, immortality and unnatural healing are the only two they're all guaranteed to have
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Magical ability not limited to vampires

text: Reproduction and feeding[edit]

text:
Setting
Fertile
Reproduce via bite
Reproduce via transfusion
Reproduce via consumption of vampire blood after bite
Inhabited by demons
Diet
Effects on victims
Other/notes

European Folklore
Yes
Upon death
No
Some
Yes[40]
?
?
?

Varney the Vampire
?
Yes
?
?
No
?
?
?

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Not stated by author but theories exist that he has a family[reproduction 1]
No
Yes
Yes
No
Human blood
?
?

Nosferatu
?
Yes
?
?
No
?
?
?

Van Helsing
Baby vampires are born dead and must be reanimated.
Yes
?
?
No
Human blood
?
?

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes, although their actions are not controlled by the spirit inhabiting them.
May feed on animal blood, but it is less nutritious
?
?

Twilight series
Male vampires can reproduce with female humans.
Yes
No
No
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

Buffy
No[31]
No[31]
Yes[31]
Yes[31]
Yes[31]
Can consume human or animal blood
Affects the pleasure centers of the brain
?

Blade
Vampires: Yes
Yes
Yes
?
No
Human blood
?
Extremely rarely, something goes horribly wrong in the transition from human to vampire, resulting in a "Revenant", a malformed zombie-like creature. These "mistakes" are unpredictable, not understood. Some Pure-Bloods are born with an anomaly where a vampire became a ghoulish being without any regenerative capability.

Reapers: ?
Yes
No
No
No
Human and vampire blood
Inject a neurotoxin to paralyze their victims
?

Ultraviolet
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
?
?
?

30 Days of Night (2002)
No
Yes
Yes
?
No
Human blood
?
Scratches

Discworld
Yes
If desired
?
?
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

True Blood
No
No
Shown when Eric turns the Governor's Daughter in Season 6X04
The human being turned must be buried alive in the ground afterward.
No
Can consume human, animal, or artificial blood
?
?

The Little Vampire
No
The victim becomes a mindless vampire
No
Yes
No
?
?
?

The Vampire Diaries (Novel and television series)
No
No
If killed while vampire blood is still in the system
?
No
Novels: Human or animal blood; in the television series: human, animal and vampire blood; food gives them little nutrients.
?
Magic ritual

Count Chocula
?
?
?
?
No
?
?
?

Sesame Street
?
?
?
?
Inhabited by a human hand
?
?
?

Vampire Academy
Moroi: Yes
No
No
No
No
Human blood and food, but only blood gives them the nutrients they need
Induces emotional and physical euphoria

Strigoi: No
No
No
Yes
No
Human, dhampir or Moroi blood
Induces emotional and physical euphoria
If Moroi purposefully kills another person while feeding turns into a Strigoi.

House of Night
?
No
No
No
No
Human and blood
Pleasurable for both human and vampyre, and may lead to a strong bond, called "Imprinting"
Some teenagers are changed into vampyres when adolescent hormones trigger a strand of DNA. If they pass the Change, they become blue vampyres, otherwise if they die they can be somehow resurrected and become Red Vampyres.

Hellsing
?
Provided the other is a virgin of the opposite sex; otherwise creates ghouls
?
?
No
Human blood and flesh
?
FREAKs (artificial vampires) are created by chips implanted in their bodies.

Young Dracula
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Let the Right One In
?
Yes
Yes
?
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

Count Duckula
?
No
Yes
?
No
?
?
?

Vampire Hunter D
Yes
Usually creates servants
?
?
?
?
?
?

Night World
Lamias: Yes
No
Turn the human into a made vampire; however if the human doesn't survive, becomes a ghoul
No
No
Human blood or food
?
?

Made Vampires: No
No
If the human doesn't survive, becomes a ghoul
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Batman & Dracula
No
Yes
No
No
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

Preacher
?
Yes
?
?
No
Human and animal blood, can drink any beverages that human can
?
?

American Vampire
Old World bloodline: No
No
Yes
?
No
Human blood
?
?

American bloodline: Yes, but it creates humans with vampire characteristics, not new vampires
No
No
Yes
?
Human blood
Injects a venom that has a paralyzing effect on people
?

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Only young male vampires can reproduce with a human mother, and may cause extreme birth defects.
Yes
?
?
No
Human and lycanthrope blood feeds them; they can also drink animal blood but is not a sufficient diet.
?
?

World of Darkness
Only "thin bloods", those of the 15th (and sometimes 14th) Generation removed from Caine; the offspring are natural ghouls, not vampires
No
No
The victim must be drained to the point of death, otherwise it just creates a ghoul, a semi-immortal human
All vampires must contend with "the Beast", an Id-like entity
Can consume human or animal blood, need at least 1 point (~400 ml) /day; some can eat food
Victims usually entranced
Consumption of vampire blood without draining makes a human effectively immortal, and gives them some powers, but does not make them a vampire. The effect wears off in about a month without subsequent doses.

The Saga of Darren Shan
No, with exclusion of Destiny's "children"
No
Through cuts on fingers
No
No
Vampires: Few drops of human blood and human food; they can even drink alcoholic beverages. Vampaneze: all of the human blood
?
?

Moonlight
No
No
No
The human must be near death.
No
?
?
?

The Parasol Protectorate
?
Only females can create new vampires, and only if the recipient has enough soul; it doesn't happen with every feeding, see notes
No
Sort of; see note
No
?
?
Making a new vampire involves simultaneously feeding (with feeder fangs) and injecting blood into the new vampire (with maker fangs); it doesn't always work.

Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain
No, due to Hylden curse
No. Kain is able to bite (even kill) his enemies without infecting them.
Ancients infected humans with blood as did Human Hybrids besides Kain. The vampires of Kain's empire were never documented.
?
No
Human blood
?
Kain himself was created using the Heart of Darkness and Necromancy. Because of this, Kain had to create through a form of Necromancy, "breathing" his soul into a corpse, animating it and calling its soul back from the underworld. The soul was then itself vampiric, infected by Kain's.

Night Watch
A vampire can have one single human child
More or less complicated procedure, implied that the victim has to agree, but might be unnecessary
No
?
No
Human blood, food is tasteless
?
?

Underworld
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

Chibi Vampire/Karin
Only full vampires. Half-human variants are sterile.
No
No
No
No
Young vampires and human-vampire hybrids can consume human food. Loss of taste for human food occurs in normal vampires at puberty; food begins to taste like sand. Following puberty, vampires and hybrids develop different "tastes" for different (usually negative) traits/emotions in humans.
Temporary removal of trait/emotion in bitten human
Human-vampire hybrids do not need to feed as often, but feeding causes the hybrid to be temporarily affected by all the weaknesses of full vampires.

Being Human (BBC)
No
No
No
Yes
No
Human blood from a live human and food
?
?

Being Human (Syfy)
No
?
Yes
Yes
No
Human blood from a live human (preserved or blood that isn't fresh from a human body will make a vampire weaker)
?
?

Dungeons & Dragons
Yes
Yes
No
?
No
?
?
?

Forever Knight
Vampires are sterile, and can cause the death of mortals if intercourse is attempted.[41]
If desired[42]
?
?
No
?
?
?

Necroscope
Males can have one egg son; females can produce a multitude of eggs in a mass birth
If desired
Yes
?
No
Blood and human flesh, but other creatures and human food too during parties
?
Inhaling or absorbing the cloud of spores from the "mushrooms" or by absorbing a leech's egg

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
No in the books, yes in the film
No
No
Yes
No
?
?
?

The Lost Boys
?
Yes
?
Blood is given before death to create a half-vampire.
No
?
?
?

Moon Child
?
?
?
?
No
?
?
?

Dark Shadows (1966)
Yes
Yes
?
?
?
Human and animal blood
?
Witch's curse and there is a debate about that the vampiric energy of Barnabas was transferred, curing Barnabas & bringing Adam to life.

Frostbiten (2006)
?
Yes
Yes
Yes
It's likely but not proven that the virus creating the vampires is of demonic nature as it would explain the clearly supernatural aspects the vampires.
Human or animal blood
?
?

Dresden Files: White Court
Born basically human, become vampire after first feeding (can become fully human instead), can have a fully human parent
No
No
No
Probably
Feed off of emotions, also need ordinary human food
Victims are sexually aroused, or terrified, depending on what emotion the vampire feeds off of; feeding can be highly addictive, long-term feeding can form a slight psychic bond between vampire and victim.
?

Dresden Files: Red Court
?
?
?
Yes, with complications
Yes
?
Has an addictive effect on victims
Multi-stage process; potential vampire is infected, and gains some powers, then becomes a vampire after first feeding

The Sims
Yes
Yes
?
?
No
Human blood or plasma fruit and derived products
Induces slight discomfort
Depends on the entry in the franchise

Touhou
?
Contradicting information[reproduction 2]
?
?
Vampires are considered a kind of devil, but are not possessed[43]
?
?
?

Fright Night
?
Yes, if desired (only in original films)
?
?
?
Human blood
?
?

Marvel Comics
No
Yes
No
No
?
Human blood; blood from animals or other vampires gives them little nutrients.
?
?

We Are the Night (2010)
No
Yes
?
No
No
?
?
?

Blindsight (2007)
Yes
Potentially by lateral gene transmission
No
No
No
Humans
?
Can also be created by applying retroviral gene therapy to baseline humans

Blood: The Last Vampire
?
No
With scientific assistance
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Blood+
Only Queens and Chevaliers
No
Only Queens blood
No
No
Queens: Human or their Chevaliers blood; food gives them nutrients, but diminishes their powers, chiropterans: human blood, but chevaliers may be able to live with food.
?
?

Trinity Blood
Methuselahs: Yes
No
No
No
No
Human blood and food
?
?

Crusniks: ?
No
No
No
No
Vampire blood and food
?
?

Supernatural
No
No
Yes
No
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

DC Comics
No
Yes
No
No
?
Human and animal blood
?
?

Sanctuary
Yes
No
Only in humans with vampire genes and in normal humans after electricity is used to revive them
No
No
Human blood, but there is a special serum that can replace it
?
?

Rosario + Vampire
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Human blood and food
Transfusion may turn humans into ghouls instead of vampires
First Ancestor vampires can only be made by transfusing the blood of a First Ancestor vampire.

Charmed
No
Yes
No
No
?
Human blood
?
?

Wizards of Waverly Place
Yes
No
No
No
No
Human blood and food
?
?

Gantz
?
?
?
?
No
Human blood and food
?
?

Adventure Time
?
Yes
?
?
No, however Marceline is of demonic descent
Consume the color red
Becomes white
?

Vampire Knight
Only the Pureblood
Turn humans into vampires level D and E
If a level E drinks the blood of the Pureblood that created them, the level E becomes a level C.
No
No
Human blood and blood tablets
?
?

Castlevania series
Yes
Only in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
Yes
No
No
?
?
Vampirism can also be brought by curses or the use of the Ebony Stone

Split
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood or "Doll-Bar"
?
?

Tsukihime
True Ancestors: Yes
Turn humans into Dead Apostles
No
No
No
Human blood, however, it is just a psychological impulse.
?
The Earth and other True Ancestors can create more.

Dead Apostles: No
No
Yes
No
No
Human blood
?
Magecraft

Stargate
Yes
No
No
No
No
Life force from living beings, but only human gives them the nutrients they need
Victim ages artificially
Humans with Wraiths DNA can be turned into Wraiths by science.

Hollows series
Low Blood: ?
No
No
No
No
Human blood or food, both of them gives them nutrients
?
?

High Blood: Yes
No
No
No
No
Human blood or food, both of them gives them nutrients
?
If they die, they automatically become undead vampires.

Undead: ?
Turns humans into living low blood vampires
If a low blood drinks undead blood after their death, they become undead vampires.
No
No
Human blood
Their saliva contains drugs that make the pain of a vampire's bite feel like pleasure and can also sensitize their victims so that only that vampire can affect the victim.
?

Stephen King
Type One: No
Turn humans in types two
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Type Two: No
Turn humans in types three
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Type Three: ?
No
No
No
No
Human blood or food
Their bites contain an enzyme that causes temporary memory loss and disorientation in their victims.
?

Black Blood Brothers
No
Only the Kowloon Children
Vampires and Kowloon Children
No
No
Human blood and food
The bite of a vampire feels like pleasure to a human, but a Kowloon Child’s bite is painful and will turn the victim, even other vampires.
?

Vampirella
?
Yes
?
?
No
Human blood
?
?

The Elder Scrolls
Vampires: Yes
In select circumstances
No
No
No
Human blood, sometimes animal blood
?
Transmitted as a disease by magic or physical contact with a vampire

Vampire Lords: ?
In select circumstances
No
No
No
Human blood
?
Can also be created through a ritual to Molag Bal

My Babysitter's a Vampire
?
They become half-vampires
No
No
No
Can consume human or animal blood
?
To become full-vampires, they have to drink human blood within 28 days of turning or they will die.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Suck human blood through fingers
?
?

The Librarian
No
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

David Wellington
No
No
No
No
No
Human blood
?
To transfer the curse one must accept the vampire's invitation to undeath, and then kill one's self to be reborn.

Darkstalkers
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

The Historian
No
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Possibly, since they used to have a world of their own.
No
?
?
?
Anything that humans can consume
?
?

Monogatari
Implied
If desired
?
?
No
Human blood and the blood of other "Oddities"; can also eat human foods and beverages
Might inherit the will or desire of the vampire
?

Saga of the Noble Dead
Yes
?
?
?
?
Human blood, but some consume life essence
?
?

Doctor Who
Great Vampires: Yes
Turn humans into vampires
No
No
No
Blood from any living being
?
?

Vampires: No
Yes
No
No
No
Only human blood gives them the nutrients they need.
?
?

Dance in the Vampire Bund
Yes
Yes
No
No
?
Human blood and a blood substitute
?
?

BloodRayne series
Yes
?
?
?
No
Human blood
?
?

Vamps
No
Yes
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

The Strain
Only with humans and creates damphir
No
No
No
No
Human blood
?
Direct contact by a worm through a wound or orifice or using a stinger in their tongue to infect humans with the worm

Blood Alone
No
No
No
Yes
No
Human blood
?
?

Anno Dracula series
No
Yes
No
No
No
Human and animal blood
?
?

Hotel Transylvania
Yes
?
?
?
?
Artificial blood substitute; human blood edible but unhealthy
?
?

Vampireology
No
No
No
Yes
No
Only human blood may sustain them, though the Hunter somehow learned how to subsist on animal blood.
?
?

Blood Moon
Yes
True vampires can, but a puppet's bite is simply fatal.
?
?
No
Human blood
If the victim is too old for transformation, the venom will burn and cause a painful death.
?

Shadowspawn series
Yes
No
No
No
No
Eat normal human food, only really need blood to power abilities
Feeding is addictive for victims.
It may be possible to make a human into a Shadowspawn through genetic manipulation, but the technology isn't presently available.

Shadowrun
?
Only if the victim is drained of all their essence and even then, only humans become vampires/nosferatu, although elves will become nosferatu if infected with its strain and some metahumans have been reported expressing these outcomes of HMHVV
No
No
No
Human blood
?
?

AdventureQuest
Presumably
No
No
No
No
Blood, although they can eat human food, but to little effect
Leaves them more vulnerable to vampire curse, makes them woozy
?

Vampire in Brooklyn
Yes
?
?
?
No
Human blood, can drink wine
?
?

The Shadowhunter Chronicles (The Mortal Instruments)
No
No
No
Yes, with complications, see "other"
No
Most can consume human or animal blood, but they can learn to eat human food to keep up appearances.
Their saliva contains venom that make the pain of a vampire's bite feel like pleasure and increase humans health for a short while
For a human to be turned into a vampire, one must drink vampire blood, be bitten by other vampires, die, buried and then be reborn and brought back from the dead, then fed blood.

Penny Dreadful
No
Yes
No
?
?
Human blood
?
?

Kate Daniels novels
Unknown, but they are unlikely to try
Likely, as with any virus
Likely, as with any virus
Likely, as with any virus
No
Human or animal blood, possibly other things
?
Intentional infection

Den of Shadows
No
No
If the blood is given seconds before death. If isn’t do it right, the human became bloodbonded, not a vampire
If isn’t do it right, the human became bloodbonded, not a vampire
No
Human blood
?
?

From Dusk till Dawn series
No
Yes
No
?
No
Human blood
Hallucinations, fever and sickness
?

Monster High
?
Yes
?
?
No
Human blood or iron supplements
?
?

Kitty Norville novels
?
Only if the vampire drains the victim
?
?
?
Human blood, a few mouthfuls a night is usually sufficient
?
It takes several days for a new vampire to awaken.

American Horror Story: Hotel
Human males can impregnate female vampires; the babies are horribly deformed.
No
Yes
?
No
Human blood, they can eat food but don't need it
?
?

Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
Yes
If desired
?
?
No
Human blood
Enslaves the human to the vampire
?

Vampire Cheerleaders
?
If desired
?
?
No
Human blood, although they can eat human food as well
Pleasure
Vampire urine is stated to be oddly-colored

Innistrad
Plausible; vampire children are present, although they could just be children that were turned into vampires.
Yes, they can cut their own cheek or tongue during or prior to the bite in order to infect their victim’s blood with their own
A newly sired vampire’s first "meal" must be the blood of their sire or they will perish by the next full moon.
A newly sired vampire’s first meal must be the blood of their sire or they will perish by the next full moon.
No
Human blood; their first "meal" must be the blood of their sire or they will perish by the next full moon.
Plagues the victim with disturbing and erotic dreams
?

Blood Lad
Yes
No
?
?
They are considered a type of demon, but are not possessed
Anything a human or demon can eat
?
?

Warhammer
No
No
Yes
?
No
Blood, although if they drink a dragon’s blood they will “defeat” their bloodthirst, never needing to drink again
?
?

Seraph of the End
No
No
Yes
No
No, although vampires will become demons under certain circumstances
Human blood
?
Vampires will become demons if they starve or if their hearts are ripped out and not returned to their chests in time.

Interviews with Monster Girls
?
?
?
?
No
Blood, but they can survive off of human food if they desire instead
Varies
It appears that vampires can be born of human parents due to some sort of genetic mutation prior to birth.

The Witcher
Yes
Only in the games; such a thing is not possible in the books
No
No
No
Human blood
?
Higher vampires can survive without blood, though drinking it strengthens and inebriates them.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
?
?
?
Yes
?
Human blood, gorilla blood (implied)
?
Gorillas can also be vampires.

text:
Jump up ^ Dracula and two of the three vampire sisters have "high aquiline noses, like the Count's" which some people believe hints that Dracula and these two are related. A scene between them also reveals that Dracula is capable of love and that they know it. These pieces of information may or may not show that Dracula is fertile and that he has transformed his own daughters into vampire by incestuous means. However, the author does not give any more information on that subject, so this remains only a theory.
Jump up ^ In the profile from The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, it is stated that Remilia's victims usually stay alive, which prevents her from increasing the numbers of her kind. In Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, humans sucked dry by a vampire are said to turn into zombies.

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Setting
Progenitor
Source
Dracula
Supernatural Creatures
Non-Vampire Lovers
Rest in Coffins
Vampire Society or Organizations
Known to Human Society
Terms and nicknames

Carmilla
?
?
No
No
Yes
Yes
?
Hidden
?

Bram Stoker's Dracula
?
?
Title character

Werewolves (implied)
Witches (mentioned)

Yes
Yes
Dracula and Brides. Also, gypsies are loyal to the count.
Yes, villagers are aware (to some extent, at least) of the count's nefarious nature and try to protect Harker (by partly warning him and offering a religious object).
?

Young Dracula
?
Bite
Father of title character

Werewolves
Zombies
Ghosts

Yes
Yes
All vampires are subjects of the "Grand High Vampire" and Vampire Council.
?
?

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Akasha
Demonic hybridization with humans
No

Psychics
Witches
Taltos
Werebeasts/Werewolves (possibly; they are mentioned to exist in one novel, but these may have only been rumors)
Mummies
Spirits
Ghosts
Angels
Demons
God

Yes
Yes
They are mostly anarchic, but eventually the First Brood act as kings and queens.
Hidden, Lestat tried to out them
?

Twilight
?
Believed to evolve alongside humans
No

Werewolves
Shapeshifters
Human/Vampire Hybrids

Yes
They never sleep
The Volturis create and enforce all their laws
Hidden
?

Van Helsing
The Devil (Dracula)
Dracula's bite (brides, other vampires)
Main villain

Werewolves
Frankenstein's Monster
Warlocks (mentioned)
Demons (The Devil exists)
Angels (Said to exist)
God (The Christian God)

Yes
Dracula is shown sleeping in a coffin
Dracula, Dracula's brides, other vampires, Dr. Frankenstein, Igor, Velkan Valerious (as a werewolf)
The village in Transylvania knows of the vampires' existence and flee in terror when they see one.
?

Hellsing
?
?
Title character

Werewolves
Catboy
Ghouls
Hellhound (hound of the baskervilles)
Demons (1997 anime)
Baobhan Sith (1997 anime)

Yes
Yes
They serves different organizations, like the Hellsing Organization
Hidden
?

Nosferatu
?
?
Count Orlok (Dracula appears in the remake)

Werewolves

No
Yes
Count Orlok only, but in the remake, Harker becomes a vampire after Van Helsing kills Dracula (Orlok)
?
?

The Hunger
?
Evolved humans whose blood acts as virus in normal humans
No
?
Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

Buffy
Maloker
Demonic hybridization with humans
Yes[30]
Many
Yes
Only Dracula
Usually live in packs
The majority of humans remained unaware or in denial of the existence of vampires until Season Eight, when the existence of vampires became public knowledge.
?

Blade
Vampires: Dracula/Dagon/Drake
Supernatural virus
Yes

Werewolves
Revenants

Some
No
Vampire society is broken up into houses and the combination of this houses form the Vampire Nation.
Hidden
?

Reapers: Jared Nomak
Genetic sequencing of vampire DNA
Yes
?
No
No
They follow Nomak.
Extinct
?

Night World
Maya Hearth-Woman
Spell
No

Werewolves
Witches
Ghouls
Shapeshifters

Yes
No
Patriarchal
Hidden
?

Ultraviolet
?
Virus
No
No
Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

30 Days of Night (2002)
Vincente and his lover Lilith claimed that they were the parents of all other vampires.
Being described as some kind of virus
?
No
In some cases
?
?
Know with humans then became hidden
?

Discworld
?
?
No

Werewolves
Witches
Zombies
Igors
Numerous others

Yes
Some
Several organizations, most prominently the Vampire League of Temperance
Yes
?

True Blood
Lilith (possibly)
?
In the books

Maenads
Shapeshifters
Witches
Weres
Fairies
Demons (books)

Yes
They can choose to rest in coffins or beds
They have a hierarchy with The Authority at the top, magisters in the middle, kings and queens in third place and sheriffs at the bottom.
Out since invention of Trublood
Fangs

The Little Vampire
?
A comet of soul which fell to the earth hundreds of years ago
No
No
Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

The Vampire Diaries
Novels: The Old Ones
?
No

Werewolves
Kitsune
Phantoms
Angels
Malach
Witches

Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Television series: The Originals
A ritual spell cast by a Witch
?

Werewolves
Vampire/Werewolf Hybrid
Ghosts
Doppelgänger
Heretics (Vampire and Witch)
Witches

Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Count Chocula
?
?
Brief cameo

Werewolves - Fruit Brute

Children as part of this complete breakfast
?
?
?
?

Sesame Street
?
?
Is a comical reimagining

Mr. Snuffleupagus

No
?
?
Out
?

Count Duckula
?
?
Yes

Werewolves

No
?
?
Hidden
?

Vampire Hunter D
?
?
Most honored member of Nobility; D's father
Many
Yes
?
Highly advanced society, now in steady decline
?
?

Let the Right One In
?
?
No
No
Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

House of Night
Nyx (possibly)
?
No

Gods
Deity
Raven Mocker
Tsi Sgili
Angels

Yes
Only red vampyres
Matriarchal
Hidden
?

Batman & Dracula
?
?
Yes
Werecat
Yes
Yes
They follow some kind of master, either vampire or human.
Hidden
?

Preacher
?
?
?

Angels
Demons
Genesis

Yes
?
?
Hidden, only three shown
?

American Vampire
Old World bloodline: ?
?
Yes
Humans with vampire characteristics
Yes
No
They usually follow a vampire leader.
Hidden
?

American bloodline: Skinner Sweet
Evolution of the European vampires
Yes
?
Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
?
?
Using the name Dracula has been banned.

Wereanimals
Ghouls
Zombies
Naga
Fey
Mer-people

Yes
?
?
Out
?

Being Human (BBC)
Two brothers
Deal with the devil
No

Werewolves
Zombies
Ghosts
Succubi
Demons (implied)

Yes
No
Under the ruling of the Old Ones
Hidden, but some wish to out themselves and enslave humans
?

Being Human (Syfy)
?
?
No

Werewolves
Zombies
Ghosts
Witches

Yes
No
Under the ruling of the Mother and The Dutch
Hidden
?

The Saga of Darren Shan
?
Vampires believe they are descended from wolves; most vampire powers were added to the race by Des Tiny after their genesis.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Divided into Vampire and Vampanese races/cultures
Hidden to most humans
?

Moonlight
?
?
No
Yes
?
?
?
Hidden
?

World of Darkness
Caine
Divine curse
Member of the Tzimisce clan
Many
Yes
Yes
Divided into clans and sects, depending on setting
Hidden
Kindred, leeches

Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain
Ancient vampyres
The blood curse
No
Many
Yes
They never sleep.
At first, they follow a vampire council and later a vampire king.
They start being one of the dominant species of the planet, later become hunted to near extinction and when they come back they rule the world.
?

Night Watch
?
?
Probably existed in the universe, but not plot-relevant

Werewolves
Others

Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

Underworld
Markus Corvinus
Virus
No

Werewolves
Lycans
Immortals
Hybrids

Yes
Only the vampire elders while another vampire elder rules
Ruled by Vampire Elders and a Council
They were hidden during the first three films, but their existence became public in Underworld: Awakening.
?

Chibi Vampire/Karin
?
Vampires are a species of the Homo genus, separate from Homo sapiens, but capable of producing sterile hybrid children with humans.
Brief cameo of Bram Stoker's book

God (implied to be Christian God)
Ghosts and souls

Yes
?
Clans/families control various territories with treaties and all-clan-meetings once a year.
Hidden within Japan
?

Vampire Academy
?
?
No

Damphir
Witches
Alchemist

Yes
No
Monarchy
Hidden
?

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Elizabeth Báthory
Demonic hybridization with humans
No
?
Yes
?
?
Hidden but wants to take over the world
?

The Lost Boys
?
?
No
Hellhounds
None shown
?
Gang run by sire
Hidden
?

Dungeons & Dragons
By individual campaign or setting; Strahd von Zarovich in Ravenloft
Negative Material Plane
No
Many
Yes
?
?
By campaign/setting
?

Forever Knight
?
?
No
No
Yes[44][41]
?
?
Hidden
?

The Parasol Protectorate
?
Implied to be virus or similar, only works on those with excess soul
?

Werewolves
Ghosts
Soulless
Metanaturals
Other shifters

Yes
?
Most vampires are in hives, led by a single queen, the only female.
Out in Britain and help in the government, hidden (but known) in many other countries
?

Necroscope series
Shaitan
Vampiric leech
No

Werewolves
Necroscopes

No
?
Divided on two different "factions", with lords and ladies on top
?
?

Moon Child
?
?
No
No
Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

Daybreakers
A vampire bat
Virus
No
No
?
No
?
Out, run society
?

Dark Shadows
?
Witch's Curse; vampire bat
No

Witches
Wizards
Satanic warlocks
Demons
Ghosts
Werewolves
Naga
Frankensteinian Hominids
The Phoenix

Yes
Yes
Yes
?
?

Frostbiten
Maria is the progenitor of the Swedish vampires, but there are older ones.
Believed to be a virus but implied to be supernatural
No
?
No
Yes
The vampire horde made up of Sebastian, John and the other teens, Annika and Maria.
The films ends with the vampires taking over the entire Norrland.
?

The Dresden Files
?
?
Mentioned to still be alive

Wizards
Werewolves (several types)
Fae (many types)
Angels
Demons
Dragons
Ghosts

Definitely for White Court, probable for Red Court, unknown for Black and Jade
?
Formal vampire courts: White, Red, Black, and Jade
No
Succubi (White Court only)

The Sims
?
?
No

Ghosts
Aliens
Werewolves
Zombies
Wizards and Witches
Bigfoot
Djinns
Fairies
PlantSims
Mermaids
Mummies

Yes
Possible to be made
Yes
?
?

Touhou series
?
?
Remilia claims to be a descendant, although she is not.

Youkai
Kami
Witches
Fairies
Ghosts

?
Yes
?
There is no secret about the mythological creatures who live in Gensokyo; Gensokyo itself is isolated from "our" world, though.
?

Marvel Comics
Varnae
Spell from the Darkhold
Yes
Many
Yes
?
Divided on Vampire Sects
Hidden
?

Fright Night
?
?
No
Familiars/Ghouls
Yes
Yes
Jerry Dandrige controlled all the vampires he created.
Hidden
?

We Are the Night
?
?
No
?
Yes
No
Louise coven. There are possibly others around the world.
?
?

Blindsight (2007)
Homo sapiens vampiris coevolved with baseline humans as predator; speciation occurred around 400000–500000 years BP.
X chromosome mutation
No
No
Likely, but not documented
No
Solitary
Originally solitary predators, became extinct due to "crucifix glitch" and proliferation of perpendicular lines due to human technology. Species fully recreated in the late 21st century and eventually reestablished position as apex predator on a virtual reality-befuddled humanity.
?

Blood: The Last Vampire
?
The original Chiropterans evolve alongside humans, while the actual are human/chiropteran hybridization.
No
No
Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Blood+
?
Believed to evolve alongside humans
No
No
Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Trinity Blood
Methuselahs: ?
Injection of the Bacillus nanomachines in human bodies
No
No
Yes
No
The Methuselahs have their capital in Byzantium.
Yes
?

Crusniks: All four Crusniks were created around the same time
Installation of the Crusnik nanomachines in the bodies of four test tube babies
No
No
Yes
No
They have gained a high position of power, as commanders during the Human-Methuselah war and as leaders after the war.
No
?

Supernatural
The Alpha Vampire
The power of Eve
No
Many
Yes
No
Organized into nests
No
?

DC Comics
Cain
Divine curse
?
Many
Yes
No
Ruled by a vampire king or queen
No
?

Sanctuary
?
Evolve alongside humans
No
Many
Yes
?
Monarchy
Used to rule the world until humans rose up against their oppressors and hunted them to extinction
Homo vampiris

Rosario + Vampire
Dracula
?
Alucard[45]
Many
Yes
No
Families are headed by a First Ancestor.
Hidden
?

Charmed
?
?
No
Many
Yes
No
Ruled by queens
No
?

Wizards of Waverly Place
?
?
No
Many
Yes
Yes
?
Hidden
?

Gantz
?
They are the result of numerous nanomachines within the human body.
No
Aliens
Yes
No
They are members of some criminal organization.
Hidden
?

Adventure Time
?
?
?
Many
Yes
?
Marceline is "The Vampire Queen" as she was in the grand meeting of Ooo royalty.
Yes
?

Vampire Knight
Ancestors
Pureblood descended from the Ancestors
No
Vampire Hunters
Yes
Sometimes
A Senate was established to govern them.
Hidden
?

Castlevania series
Carmilla in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
In Lord of Shadow, Carmilla was half good and half evil; after her death, her evil half stay on earth as the first vampire.
Yes
Many
Yes
Yes
Ruled by Dracula
?
?

Split
?
?
No

Vampire/humans hybrids (Splits)
Demons

Yes
No
Organized by a Vampire Council, a council of vampires with the authority to judge and define laws, which has to obey the Blood Chosen's rules
Hidden
?

Tsukihime
True Ancestors: Crimson Moon Brunestud
Created by the Earth as a defense mechanism against humans, but were born with a flaw: thirst for blood
There are two versions of him: one based on Vlad II, and the other on Count Dracula.

Aristoteles
Familiars
Demons
Humunculus
Phantasmal Species
Spirits
Mages

Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Dead Apostles
Created to act as counter-measures in the case of a True Ancestor being overwhelmed by his or her thirst for blood
No
?
Yes
No
The Twenty Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles act as a form of ruling body.
Hidden
?

Stargate
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Human/Iratus bug hybridization
No

Aliens
Robots

Yes
They hibernate on hibernation pods.
Hive society
Their existence is public in the Pegasus Galaxy, but on Earth only few humans know they exist.
Wraith

Hollows series
?
Virus
No

Inderlanders
Ghosts and spirits
Gods and goddesses
Weres

Yes
No
Organized in camarillas with a vampire master at the top
Out since the Turn
?

Black Blood Brothers
?
?
?
None shown
Yes
They can choose to rest in coffins or in beds
Only in the special zone where they are divided into houses; Kowloon Children have their own hierarchy as well
Hidden to most humans
?

Stephen King
?
Descended from the Prim
No
Many
Yes
Yes
Types one usually control the other types.
Hidden
?

Vampirella
Lillith
Children between Lillith and demons
Yes
Many
Yes
?
?
Hidden
?

The Elder Scrolls
Molag Bal
Magical ritual, disease
No
Many
Yes
Yes
Divided in various clans and factions
Yes
?

My Babysitter's a Vampire
?
?
No

Witches
Weres
Ghosts

Yes
No
The Vampire Council
Hidden
?

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Pillar Men
Stone Mask
No

Pillar Men (beings that prey on vampires)
Stand users
Ghosts
Aliens (Possibly)

Yes
Yes
?
No
?

The Librarian
Judas Iscariot
Divine Curse
Yes
Many
Yes
No
Dracula wants to control all of them.
Hidden
?

David Wellington
?
?
No
Undead
Yes
Yes
They follow a vampire elder.
But believed to be extinct
?

Darkstalkers
?
?
No
Many
Yes
?
He is the king of all his servants.
Yes
?

The Historian
Vlad Ţepeş
Magical ritual (possibly)
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
Dracula control all of them.
Hidden
?

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
?
Their own world
No

Demons
Elves (manga)

Yes
No
Not anymore, since Saitohimea is the last surviving vampire
Only to certain organizations (the Church, the military, etc.)
?

Monogatari
Possibly none, since "Oddities" like vampires were born of human belief
Human beliefs and emotions; bites
?
Many
Yes
Some, mostly the "old-fashioned" ones
Some own a private castle and live with their minions.
Mostly hidden, shrouded in rumours or only known to a handful of individuals
?

Saga of the Noble Dead
?
?
No
Many
Yes
No
Covens
Hidden
?

Doctor Who
Great Vampires: ?
Evolved in their home planet
Yes
Aliens
Yes
No
?
No
?

Vampires: Great vampires
Great vampire bite
Yes
Aliens
Yes
No
They live in covens.
No
?

Dance in the Vampire Bund
?
Evolved humans
No
Werewolves
Yes
?
Monarchy
Yes
?

BloodRayne series
?
?
No

Dhampir
Daemites
Maraisreq
Diseased
Mutates
Demons

Yes
No
Ruled by some superior vampire
Hidden
?

Vamp
?
?
No
No
Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Vamps
?
?
No
No
Yes
No
Covens
Hidden
?

The Strain
The Ancient Ones
From the body of an archangel that was cut into seven parts
No
?

Archangels (mentioned only)
Damphir

Yes
?
Each strain follows the Ancient that created it.
Out since The Night Eternal
?

Blood Alone
?
?
There are elements based on Dracula, like characters and terms.

Renfields
Witches

Yes
No
Ruled by vampire elders
Hidden
?

Anno Dracula
?
?
Yes
Many
Yes
Yes
Divided in bloodlines
Out
?

Hotel Transylvania
?
?
One of main characters

Werewolves
Zombies
Ghosts
Familiar spirits

Yes
Yes
Dracula and his family; his castle is also a haven for other supernatural creatures.
Hidden
?

Vampireology
Belial, Ba'al and Moloch
Bloodthirst
No

Werewolves
Ghouls
Zombies
Angels
God
Dragons
Griffins (if considered canonical with the rest of the Ology series, many more)

Yes
No
?
Hidden
?

Blood Moon
?
Virus/evolution
No

Werewolves
Witches (mentioned)

Yes
No
Territorial covens
Yes
?

Shadowspawn series
?
Genetics
Mention was made of Stoker being "useful", implying that Dracula is fictional.
halfbreeds
Yes
No
Yes
Hidden
Shadowspawn, Homo nocturnis; most mythological monsters (eg oni, loup-garou)

Shadowrun
Unknown, possibly none considering it is a virus
Human Meta-Human Vampire Virus, a magical retrovirus with multiple strains (one of which turns humans into werewolves)
?
Many
Yes
No
?
Out since the return of magic to the Earth
?

AdventureQuest
Possibly Safiria
Curse
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
?

The Shadowhunter Chronicles (The Mortal Instruments)
Vlad III and members of his court
Hecate powers
Yes

Shadowhunters or Nephilim
Warlocks (term used for both sexes)
Werewolves
Endarkened
Ghosts
Fay
Forsaken
Angels
Demons
God
Fay/Nephilim hybrids

Yes
No
Loosely organized geographically into covens
Hidden
?

Penny Dreadful
Fallen Angel
Divine curse
Yes
Many
Yes
No
Packs
Hidden
?

Kate Daniels novels
?
Virus
?
Many, including shifters, necromancers, and mages
Nonsapient, they would probably eat anyone that tried.
No
No intrinsic society, but the necromancers who control them, the People, are highly organized.
Yes
Homo sapiens immortuus

Den of Shadows
Siete
Nyeusi blood
No
Many
Yes
No
Divided in five linajes
Hidden
?

From Dusk till Dawn series
Believed to descend from the Aztec snake god
?
No
?
?
?
?
Hidden
?

Monster High
?
?
Yes
Many
Yes
Yes
?
Hidden
?

Kitty Norville novels
?
Lucifer
?

Lycanthropes
Human magic users
Demons
Ghosts
others

?
?
Most cities have Masters.
Recently revealed
Homo sapiens sanguinis

American Horror Story: Hotel
?
Supernatural virus
No

Ghosts
Demons
Witches
Voodoo Zombies

Yes
They can choose to rest in coffins or beds.
?
Hidden
?

Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase
"Vampire Road"
The consumption of God's flesh and blood by "Vampire Road"
?
Various types of Yōkai and Ama-Vampires
Yes
No
Some sort of unexplained hierarchy
Hidden
?

Vampire Cheerleaders
?
?
?
Many
Yes
No
Cheerleader coven and possibly many others
Hidden
?

Innistrad
Edgar Markov
Magic ritual performed by the Markov progenitor, Edgar Markov and eleven others; involved the demon Shilgengar and the consumption of an angel’s blood
No
Many
Yes
Some
Divided into four main bloodlines (Innistrad vampires)
Yes
?

Blood Lad
?
Demon World
?
Many
Yes
?
Ruled over by the Demon King
Hidden
?

Warhammer
Lahmia
Elixir of Immortality
No
Many
?
?
Divided into six main bloodlines
?
?

Seraph of the End
The "First Progenitor"
Curse
?
Demons
?
Yes
Divided into various factions
Yes
?

Interviews with Monster Girls
?
Vampires, like most demi-humans, are described as being humans with supernatural characteristics and limitations.
?
Many
Possibly
No
?
Out
?

The Witcher
Separate species from humans, native to another world
The Conjunction of Spheres
No
Many
Yes
No
Ruled by elders
Yes
?

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
?
Yes
?

Lycanthropes
Human magic users
Demons
Ghosts
Headless Horsemen
Lobster People

Yes
Vampires run the Red Cross.
Hidden
?
Ape-ula (Gorilla Vampire)