Favorite Vampyr in Media

As I have been watching a lot of Dark Shadows recently, this question came to the forefront of my mind.

Crash course on the origin of the term vampyr. Originally, there was no distinction between vampires and zombies -- in the modern sense of the word. In early Slavic mythology, authentic vampires did not have fangs, nor did they drink blood. They were by no means intelligent or attractive. Ugly, rotting, bloated, red-faced; they killed and they ate (flesh, guts, skin and all) any creature unlucky enough to cross their paths.

Then Bram Stoker's Dracula made his debut, and Anne Rice's vampires followed suite. The genre was forever changed. Vampires became tragic, elegant, sensitive, characters who sucked from their prey's neck with fangs and possessed an actual conscious. The first example of a sympathetic vampire figure in fiction however goes to Varney the Vampire, the 1845-47 serial that influenced Stoker's Dracula.

Prime examples of this archetype exemplified in media:

Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows)​

Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)​

Countess Zaleska (Dracula's Daughter)​

Louis de Pointe du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)​

You get the point.​

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Got a favorite bloodsucker(s)?​

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Lestat from Interview with the Vampire.



And if Nanomachine freaks count,

 

Robert Pattinson.

 

Random vampire : "My name is Lestat !"
Buffy, dusting him away : "You' re the fifth that I kill."

I really liked Lestat in the books (Tom Cruise did a great job with it in the movie but the sequel was a huge letdown), but I like Angel and Spike more.

Also, the vampire episode in the X-Files (Bad Blood, season 5) is my favorite X-Files episode.

 

I don't like that spelling.

 

For shame. Utilizing obsolete spellings makes me feel fancy.

 

I have almost no experience with vampires. Of all the ones I've seen I guess I would pick Krory from D. Gray Man. Not because I like that character that much, but because it's really either that or any of the ones from Twilight. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, whatever aren't anything I'm fascinated with or care about. at all.

 

did u say something​

 

Iuda from the Danilov Quintet book series

Spoiler

Best part of the books, honestly. Vampires in this series are great, best use of original vampire lore i've seen. Second book is better than the first, third is on par. Iuda ramps up his game each book, still need to read the fourth whenever I have the time. Reading Dracula next year for my course, I'll give you my verdict on him another time

 

Maybe if you did actually fancy things you wouldn't have to rely on such a petty and insubstantial crutch, dawg.

 

I actually got it, so you shouldn't have given it away. But I bet you didn't intend the other half of it.

 

I feel like you'll give people the wrong impression of our relationship if you keep asking me for such things.

 

There you go again.

 

*knock, knock, knock*

"So that's why they call him Vamp."
"What? No, it's because he's bisexual."

 

Mine is the ancient mariner from The Rime of the Ancient Marriner.