List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction

The following tables compare traits given to vampires in folklore and fiction. Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire's profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century, with Varney the Vampire and Count Dracula both bearing protruding teeth, and Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) the first vampire to be killed by daylight.

Although Bram Stoker's novel is the best known vampire fiction of the 19th century, it is the aristocratic figure of Lord Ruthven who is thought to have inspired the elegant and suave creature of stage and film.

The cloak appeared in stage productions of the 1920s, with a high collar introduced by playwright Hamilton Deane to help Dracula 'vanish' on stage. Lord Ruthven and Varney were able to be healed by moonlight, although no account of this is known in traditional folklore.

Appearance

Setting	Skin Colour	Fangs	Reflection	Film	Shadow	Attractiveness	When Dead
European folklore	Ruddy or dark	Yes	Varies		Varies	Varies; historically, bloated corpses were mistaken for vampires
North American folklore	Pale	Yes	No		Yes	Varies
The Vampyre (1819)		No				Young, seductive, sexual and alluring
Varney the Vampire (1845)	"White and bloodless"	Yes				Hideous, but has hypnotizing eyes
Carmilla (1871)	Pale	Yes	Yes		Yes	Unearthly beauty
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)	Pale	Yes	No		No	Dracula: Varies Female Vampires: Beautiful to the point of hypnotic	Dust, except for newborn vampires, who become corpses
Nosferatu (1922)	Pale	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hideous	Dust
Dark Shadows (1966)	Ordinary	Retractable	No		Yes	Ordinary
Blade	Vampire: Pale/ordinary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Varies	Dust
	Reapers: Pale	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Hideous	Dust
Count Chocula (1971)	Tanned	Yes	Yes		Yes	Cartoon person	Chocolate cereal dust
Sesame Street (1972)	Lavender	Yes	No		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 (TV serial) (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.
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
Young Dracula (2007)	Pale	Retractable	Lost after age of 16	Implied that only digital cameras work	Yes	Varies	Dust
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 Little Vampire (film, 2000)	Pale	Yes	Yes		Yes	Alluring
The Vampire Diaries (Novel and television series)	Ordinary	Retractable	Yes		Yes	typically beautiful (true vampire face is shown while feeding or thinking about blood; blood vessels under the eyes swell and turn red, eyes turn red, fangs grow)	Gray corpse with swelled superficial veins (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	Retractable	Yes		Yes	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)	Ordinary	Retractable	Yes		Yes	Alluring
Hellsing (1997)	Ordinary	Yes	No		Yes	Alluring	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 brow extends 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 Saga of Darren Shan (2000)	Ordinary; 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. 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
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
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	Alluring, inhumanly beautiful	Corpses attempt to reconstruct themselves, unless burned to ash
Frostbiten (2006)	Pale	Yes, grows even bigger 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.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Ordinary	Varies	Yes		Yes	Varies
Vampire Academy (2007)	Pale	Yes	Moroi yes, 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		Unknown	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	Tall, with a "predatory appearance"; baseline humans possess an instinctive panic response to them
True Blood (2008)	Pale	Retractable	Yes	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
Being Human (Syfy)	Pale	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Ordinary	Dust
Moonlight (2008)	Ordinary	Retractable	Yes		Yes	Ordinary, but many are above average
The Parasol Protectorate (2009)	Pale	Yes	?		?	Ordinary
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010)	Pale	Retractable	Yes		Yes	Very Beautiful. When enraged its eyes turn black.
Daybreakers (2010)	Ordinary	Yes	No		Unknown	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
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
Touhou	Pale	Yes	Unknown, probably yes	Yes	Unknown, probably yes	Normal, but with red eyes and wings.
Fright Night (1985, 2011)	Pale	Yes	No		Unknown	Somewhat attractive. Demonic when enraged or in pain	Catch on fire
Marvel Comics	Pale	Yes	No		?	Varies
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	Yes	Yes	Beautiful, unless they absorb other monsters, in which case they became monstrous.	Corpse
Charmed	Ordinary	Yes	?		Yes	Ordinary	Catch on fire
Wizards of Waverly Place	Pale	Yes	No		Yes	Beautiful
Gantz	Ordinary	No	Yes		Yes	Ordinary
Goosebumps (Welcome To Dead House)	Pale	No	?		?	Ordinary, but the color of their eyes can change when they are angry or sad.
Adventure Time	Blue-gray	Yes	No		Yes	Described as "Sexy".
Vampire Knight	Pale	Yes	Yes		Yes	Beautiful, except for the Level E, which look like weak and sick humans.
Castlevania series	Pale	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 (series)	Living Low Blood: Ordinary	No	Yes		Yes	Ordinary
	Living High Blood: Pale	Yes	?		?	Beautiful
	Undead: Pale	Yes	?		?	Beautiful
Black Blood Brothers	Vampires ordinary, but Kowloon Children are pale	Yes	?		Yes	Vampires ordinary, but Kowloon Children have feral appearance
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		?	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		?	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
Monogatari Series	Pale	Yes	No		No	Beautiful
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
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	Normal	?	?		?	Beautiful
Shadowrun	Vampires: Pale	Yes	?	?	?	They look like sick people
	Nosferatu: Pale	Yes	?	?	?	Kind of ugly	Dust
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	Yes	Yes		Yes	Beautiful	Dust
Penny Dreadful	Pale	Yes	?	?	Yes	Master vampires are hideous, but infected vampires are ordinary
Kate Daniels novels	? (frequently wearing purple sunblock)	Yes	?	?	?	Emaciated, increasingly nonhuman with age, eventually quadrupedal	?
From Dusk till Dawn	Pale, with scales or flaked skin	Yes	?	?	Yes	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
inFamous: Festival of Blood	Pale	Yes	?	?	Yes	Blood Mary is beautiful, but her true form and her underlings are monstrous; First Borns can take on a human appearance	Dust

Weaknesses

A "Yes" indicates a weakness to something, with fatal weaknesses being marked as such. Entries which are marked as "No" are not seen as weaknesses. "?" indicates a lack of information on whether this is a weakness or not; other indicates weaknesses that do not fit in one of the other categories.

Setting	Stake	Sunlight	Decapitation	Drowning	Fire	Silver	Garlic	Holy Symbols	Running Water	Invitation	Arithmomania	Other
European Folklore	Fatal; ash, hawthorn, or oak preferred	Nocturnal	Fatal	Yes	Fatal	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
North American folklore	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
The Vampyre	Fatal	Healed by moonlight	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Daybreakers	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	No	?	No	No	No	No	No	Sometimes
Young Dracula	Fatal	Fatal	?	?	After time	No	Burns skin	Avoided, effect is unclear	Yes	Yes	Often yes	Destroying a Blood Mirror turns all the vampires of a clan in human and kill the old vampires
Varney the Vampire	?	Healed by moonlight	?	?	Commits suicide in Mount Vesuvius	?	?	No	No	?	?
Carmilla	?	Only weakened during daylight hours	Fatal	?	?	?	?	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 it greatly weakens their powers	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	No	No	No	No	No	No	Prolonged abstinence from blood can lead to asphyxiation and possibly death
Nosferatu	Yes	Fatal	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles	No	Fatal; older vampires have higher tolerances	Paralyzes most, but not fatal	No	Fatal (Stronger vampires have much higher resilience)	No	No	No	No	No	No	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	Fatal	Fatal	No	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	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Yes	Yes	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
Ultraviolet (TV serial)	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	No	Fatal	Yes	Keeps them at bay	Psychosomatic	No	No	No	Charcoal
30 Days of Night (2002)	No	When blood touches their ashes they will regenerate.	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Bunnicula	?	Nocturnal	?	?	?	?	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	Usually fatal	Fatal in direct light	?	Immobilizes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter	Yes	Not fatal. Weak during daylight hours. After a few years they begin to develop a resistance towards it, Other than that their eyes still react the same	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
The Lost Boys	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	?	?	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. Special ring protects them	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Boosts mental resistance if the user truly believes it works	Yes. 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	?
Buffy	Fatal, but only if made of wood. Older vampires require larger amounts of wood.	Fatal Special ring protects them	Fatal	No	Fatal	No	Shown as a prop on-screen, but never utilized	Yes	No	Yes	No	Some poisons and drugs can affect them
Discworld	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
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	No	Yes (Only in private residences owned by humans)	No	Hepatitis D and Maenad Blood can weaken them. Exsanguination is mentioned to be fatal.
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 cáncer hurts them, but it is still nutritious
Preacher	No	Fatal	Fatal	No	Fatal	No	No	No	No	No	No
Vampire Academy	Moroi: ?	Makes them feel uncomfortable	Yes	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	No	Anything that would kill a human
	Strigoi: 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	No	Any religious iconography if wielded by a true believer	No	Yes	?
Hellsing	Yes except for Alucard	Non-fatal, but finds it extremely unpleasant	No	No	No	Blessed silver weakens Alucard, but does not kill him. Fatal for other vampires.	No	It is not fatal, but it weakens them	Except for Alucard	No	No
The Saga of Darren Shan	Fatal	Highly susceptible to sunburns, eventually fatal	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	No	No	No	Superstitious	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	Weakens them but not fatal	Fatal	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Dead man's blood can paralyze them, and the Colt, angelic touch and Vamp-Tonite can kill them
Moonlight	Causes paralysis	It 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	?
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 1 can "buy" a resistance to some forms of water, such as rain or snow	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	?	Alcohol causes severe burns on contact, much like Holy Water in other settings
Underworld	Fatal	They can became immune if they absorb blood with the Corvinus Strain	Fatal	They can became immune if they absorb blood with the Corvinus Strain	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Werewolf bite 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	Fatal	Yes	?	Fatal; older vampires have higher tolerances	No	Yes	Can develop a tolerance	No	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.
Touhou	Yes	Weakened through sun exposure, a parasol seems to be enough protection, though	?	?	?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes, even rain is a problem	No	No	roasted soybeans
Fright Night	Fatal, but only through the heart	Fatal	?	?	Can't think clearly	No	?	Burns skin	?	Yes	?
Marvel Comics	Yes	Yes, except for pseudo-vampires	Yes	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	Possible - 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: Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	They have to eat normal food alongside blood or they die
	Crusniks: ?	No	?	?	?	?	No	No	No	No	No
Rosario + Vampire	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Charmed	Fatal, except for queens	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	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
Goosebumps(Welcome to Dead House)	?	Fatal	?	?	?	?	?	?	No	?	No	The light of a flashlight is also fatal
Adventure Time	Implied	Direct sunlight only. A simple parasol is enough to render the sun's light merely irritating	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	No	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	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	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 kill them
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	No	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	The vampires of 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)
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
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	Yes	Yes	Fatal	Fatal	No	No	No	No	No	Werewolf venom/saliva burns like silver
Shadowspawn	As for humans	No	As for humans	As for humans	As for humans	No	No	No	No	No	No	If killed in the right way, they can become "Shadow form"
	"Shadow form" : not sure	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Shadowrun	Yes, except Nosferatu	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	Oxygen deprivation makes them fall unconscious
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´s bothered them	?	No	?	Hurting the brain or killing the vampire master is fatal for the infected vampires
Nosflutteratu	Fatal	Exposure to sunlight weakens them but, it is not fatal	Fatal	No	Fatal	?	Yes	?	Unlikely	?	Unlikely	Water that has been enchanted to store the heat of sunlight is fatal
Kate Daniels novels	?	Can be blocked with thick sunblock	As for humans	?	?	?	?	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	Fatal	Fatal	Fatal	No	?	No	No	No	No	No	No	Culebra venom incapacitate them
Monster High	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	Yes	?

Supernatural powers

• 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'.

Setting	Immortal	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Senses	Enhanced Speed	Unnatural Healing	Flight	Shapeshifting/Absorption	Psychic Powers	Telekinesis	Pyrokinesis	Other
European Folklore	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Some	Yes	No	Some poltergeist-like activity	No	?
North American folklore	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Some	Nocturnal animals, fog	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	?	?	Yes	?	No	?
Bram Stoker's Dracula	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	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)	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	?	?	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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Only Dracula	Gifted	No	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, able to day-walk due to Blade's blood, and can instantly turn any human in his path into vampires.
Ultraviolet (TV serial)	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	No	No	Can feel the emotions of whoever has drank blood from them, such as if they are in danger. They can also feel when their "maker" is in trouble, and a maker can feel the same thing for their progeny (vampire children). Vampire blood can heal humans, and has drug-like effects.
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 milk chocolatey, 15 vitamins and minerals
Count Duckula	?	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	?	No	No	Teleportation
Vampire Hunter D	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Some can turn into mist	Yes	No	No	Varies greatly by individual 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	?	No	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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Vast number of potential Disciplines. Also, consumption of a vampire's blood 3 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	Mostly smell	Yes	Yes	Ancient Vampires were able to fly, Kain can levitate, Raziel can glide	Wolf, bat swarm, 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	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Gifted	Gifted, giant bat	Yes	Yes	Yes	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. 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	Can walk on walls and ceilings
Forever Knight	Yes	Yes	Heat/night vision	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Ability to persuade through mesmerism	No	No	No
Necroscope	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Some	Yes	Yes	No	No	Killglance, Necromancy, Precognition
Moon Child	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	No	No	?
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	But can glide	No	Some	No	No	No
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 strong	Yes	Fast, 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	No, but long-lived	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; at least one is a powerful magic user
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	?	?
Touhou	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Implied they can recover from anything as long as the head is undamaged	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Remilia: Fate manipulation; magic and object destruction.
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 forming of a blades that comes out of the arms, claws or even prehensile hair. Some Methuselah have displayed an ability to control some elemental powers such as fire and ice
	Crusniks: Extended life/Immortal if 100% released	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	No	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	No
Goosebumps (Welcome to Dead House)	implied, they do not age	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	No	?	?	?	They are able to go through walls
Adventure Time	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Can drain the color red from objects instead of feeding on blood Ability to become invisible Ability to animate corpses
Vampire Knight	Only the Pureblood, 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	No	No	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: Extended life	Yes	Yes	Yes	Their bodies turn their time backwards to a point in which they were unharmed	No	By absorbing mystical beasts	Gifted	No	No	Gifted Dead Apostles can summon familiars and become invisible. Mages that become Dead Apostles through magic, can still perform it afterwards
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	No	Only Cassandra Jill Warlock	Yes	Yes	Only Zelman Clock	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, blood and induce sexual arousal
The Elder Scrolls	Yes	Yes, except for the vampires of Skyrim	Sight	Yes, except for the vampires of Skyrim	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	No	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	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	No	No	No	Yes	Saitohimea has a lot of magic
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	Extended Life	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	If they have wings in their true form	Yes	Some	No	No	Gifted vampires can have a variety of different abilities
BloodRayne series	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	Gifted bloodlines can have a variety of different abilities
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	Very long-lived, "shadow form" is immortal or nearly so	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Only in some forms	Yes	Manipulation of chance	Yes	Yes	Most or all of their powers derive from manipulation of chance
Shadowrun (vampires and nosferatu)	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	In animal form	Gifted	Yes	?	?	Some of them can do magic
AdventureQuest	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Vampire in Brooklyn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wolf, bat, fog, 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
Nosflutteratu	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	They can shapeshift into a bat (they can't do this during the day)	Yes	?	?
Kate Daniels novels	Immortal, or at least capable of reaching great ages	Yes	?	Yes	?	No	No	Can relay communication from necromancer pilot	No	No	Extraordinarily good climbers; non-sapient, telepathically piloted by a necromancer (bloodthirsty mindlesss 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	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Those who has 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

Reproduction and feeding

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	No	Yes
Varney the Vampire	?	Yes	?	?	No
Bram Stoker's Dracula	Not stated by author but theories exist that he has a family	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	Male vampires can reproduce with female humans	Yes	No	No	No	Human and animal blood
Buffy	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	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 (TV serial)	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	No	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		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, 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	Except for "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	No	No	Possibly	No	Human blood from a live human
Dungeons & Dragons	Yes	Yes	No	?	No
Forever Knight	Vampires are sterile, and can cause the death of mortals if intercourse is attempted	If desired	?	?	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	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	?
Dresden Files: White Court	Born basically human, become vampire after first feeding (can become fully human instead)	No	No	No	Probably	Feed off of emotions	Victims are sexually aroused, or terrified, depending on what emotion the vampire feeds off of
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
Touhou	?	Contradicting information	?	?	Vampires are considered a kind of devil, but are not possessed
Fright Night	?	Yes, if desired	?	?	?	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			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 human into ghoul instead of vampire	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
Goosebumps (Welcome to Dead House)	?	Yes	No	?	No
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	No	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
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
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 infects 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	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	Vampires: ?	Only humans, and sometimes some metahumans	No	No	No	Human blood
	Nosferatu: ?	Only humans and elves	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 venoms 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	No	Yes	No	?	No	Human blood	Hallucinations, fever and sickness
Monster High	?	Yes	?	?	No	Human blood or iron supplements

Setting characteristics

Setting	Progenitor	Source	Dracula	Supernatural Creatures	Non-Vampire Lovers	Rest in Coffins	Vampire Society or Organizations	Known to Human Society
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, Dracula's brides, other vampires, Dr. Frankenstein, Igor, Velkan Valerious (as a werewolf)
Hellsing	?	?	Title character	Werewolves Catboy Ghouls Ghosts Hellhound Demons (anime) Baobhan Sith (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	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 (TV serial)	?	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	(possibly) Lilith	?	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
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 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 (possible)	?	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 3 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
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	?	Vampire's 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	?		Hidden
The Parasol Protectorate	?	Implied to be virus or similar, only works on those with excess soul	?	Werewolves Ghosts Soulless Metanaturals	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	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
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
Touhou	?	?	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. Possible 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, not documented	?		Originally solitary predators, went extinct due to "crucifix glitch" and proliferation of perpendicular lines due to human technology. Species fully recreated in 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
Rosario + Vampire	Dracula	?	Alucard	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
Goosebumps (Welcome To Dead House)	?	Chemical accident	No	No	No	They don't sleep	Like a club with a Watcher	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	In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Carmilla	In Lord of Shadows, 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	Ancients	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
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	?	?	No	No	Yes	No	Divided into Vampires and Kowloon Children cultures	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.)
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
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 series			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	?	Genetics	Mention was made of Stoker being "useful", implying that Dracula is fictional	halfbreeds	Yes	No	Yes	Hidden
Shadowrun	?	Magical virus	No	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	There are elements based on Dracula; and a character that maybe Dracula	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
Den of Shadows	Siete	Nyeusi blood	No	Many	Yes	No	Divided in five linajes	Hidden
From Dusk till Dawn	Believed to descend from the Aztec snake god	?	No		?	?	?	Hidden
Monster High	?	?	Yes	Many	Yes	Yes	?	Hidden

See also

• Vampire literature
• Vampire films