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*** D also got rather upset when Left Hand teased him about Mier Link and Charlotte producing more dhampires.

* ''Bloody Kiss'': Kuroboshi from chapter 6.

** In the live-action Hollywood movie adaptation, Saya is a dhampir born of the ancient (and apparently East Asian) vampire queen and a Japanese warlord/vampire-hunter, who she tricked into marrying and later murdered.

* ''[[The Record of a Fallen Vampire]]'': This series actually uses the word dhampire. They frequently become vampire hunters and are less magically powerful than vampires, but lack vampire weaknesses.

* The manga version of ''[[Karin]]'' features a Yuriya, a Dhampyr of the human mother variety. She's fine in the sun and she can work the series' [[Applied Phlebotinum|bats]] and their [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|powers.]] She's a major player in the second half of the series. It is worth noting that [[Our Vampires Are Different]] in the respect that they are a separate living species with their own culture and history and politics and all; the Dhampyr are all sterile. Everything else seems to hold {{spoiler|except for the main vampire}}.

** Technically, Kanon is also one, although with the events surrounding her existence, she might as well be human.

* The anime ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' has a classification to the vampire that depends of their purity, so every vampire in the series except the purebloods and the e-level vampire (humans turned into vampires by a bite) are dhampyrs.

 

* ''[[Blade]]'': The main character Blade is Dhampyr. Later writers [[Canon Immigrant|changed the definition]] of what the word means in the Marvel Universe to make him closer to the movie character.

* In the graphic novel ''Dhampire Stillborn'', the protagonist Nancy Collins is a [[Dhampyr]].

 

 

== Fan Works ==

 

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Blade]]'': The title character's mother was turned into a vampire when she was pregnant with Blade, causing him to develop into a vampire/human hybrid. He is immune to all the vampiric weaknesses, but still ages. He has super strength. His tag line is ''All the strengths, none of the weaknesses'', despite that fact he doesn't ''have'' all the strengths, and is constantly fighting his blood addiction.

* ''[[Dracula 2000]]'': A [[Dhampyr]] is born to a human that has used the blood of a Dracula to increase his life span and another human.

* ''[[Vampire in Brooklyn]]'': Rita is a [[Dhampyr]] born of a human mother and a vampire father that displays none of the abilities of a vampire.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'': Wataru, the eponymous Rider, is born to a human male and a [[Our Vampires Are Different|Fangire]] mother and fights against the Fangire.

** Ironically, the mother's job was to kill Fangires that fell in love with humans, presumably to prevent a [[Dhampyr]].

== Literature ==

* In the short story ''15 Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot'' by [[Neil Gaiman]], the Lovers Card segment features an implied dhampir birth, from a vampire mother and a human father.

* ''Lost Souls'': The character named Nothing is a technically a [[Dhampyr]] (vampire father, human mother). Somewhat recursive as the story implies that a [[Dhampyr]] is really just a juvenile vampire.

* ''Midnight's Daughter'': Dorina Basarab is a [[Dhampyr]], and as a result is prone to blacking out and going on murderous rampages.

* ''The Pine Deep Trilogy'': Mike Sweeney is the off spring of a human woman and an undead werewolf.

* ''Slayer'': Alek Knight is a vampire hunter, [[Anti-Hero]], as well as being [[Dhampyr]].

** They're not all just brief mentions. There is Nahuel, {{spoiler|who ends up being a major factor in stopping the Big Bad}}

* ''[[Vampire Academy]]'': Rose Hathaway is a [[Dhampyr]] and dedicated to protects her friend Lissa, a [[Our Vampires Are Different|Moroi]] princess, from the Strigoi.

** They also lack the extra abilites of a full vampire, such as flitting, sleeping breath and healing saliva, and age one fifth as slow as a normal human as opposed to one tenth as slow like a full vampire.

* ''[[Blindsight]]'' vampires (which are an extinct hominid species, rather than standard undead types) are stated to have been able to reproduce with humans, and given that the extinct species was brought back from dormant genes in humans it's pretty safe to assume a fair number of early humans must have had children with them. This actually seems rather surprising given that Blindsight vampires were [http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm very creepy creatures]; among other things they were visibly inhuman, nocturnal, sociopathic loners and spent most of their time hibernating in a mummy-like state to conserve their food supply (not to mention the fact that they ''ate people''). It's pretty hard to imagine many humans ever wanting to have a relationship with something like that; one suspects most of the human partners were [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|less than willing]].

* In the Brazilian André Vianco's books from the ''Os Sete'' chronology (there are two different universes with different vampires), half-vampires, with all dhampyr abilities compared to usual vampires and great but not deadly discomfort at sunlight, come from a human who drank vampire blood but still didn't steal blood, and when he does he will slowly go the way to vampire, increasing both powers and weaknesses, until his heart stops beating. Apparently also, if the stolen blood (not the one from the transformation) is from a vampire with (more) supernatural abilities, like Lobo's vampire werewolf transformation or Inverno's freeze powers, the new vampire also gets them.

* Sonja Blue, from Nancy A. Collins' ''Midnight Blue'' series, is an extremely rare [[Half-Human Hybrid]] vampire, which means she has many vampire strengths and lacks most of their weaknesses. However, she also has a raging case of [[Split Personality]] and [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], so it kinda evens out.

* Malachi, one of the central characters in the second and third books in the ''Red Moon Rising'' series by Billie Sue Mosiman.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different|The protagonist]] of "The Lost Art Of Twilight" by [[Thomas Ligotti]], {{spoiler|born from his mother's staked corpse}}, is his own, very special subset of this trope. Unlike most fictional Dhampyr, however, he has very few actual powers, aside from the ability to paint bizarre abstract canvases [[Brown Note|that are literally nauseating to look at]]. {{spoiler|He's also quite curious about his father's side of the family, and so invites them to visit . This being Ligotti, [[Downer Ending|this doesn't]] go well for him. [[A Fate Worse Than Death|At all.]]}}

* Daniel Alfonz, in ''[[Family Bites]]'' by Lisa Williams. The son of a human father and a vampire mother (who subesquently married a male vampire at her family's insistence), Daniel can't fly (not that well-brought up vampires in this universe ever do), can be seen in mirrors unless he concentrates, and has slightly less powerful senses than his relatives. He also has no craving for blood, and is actually rather squeamish about it, but has to drink some once every few weeks.

* Shori in [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''[[Fledgling]]'' was designed so she could walk in daylight. She was spliced with human DNA. She also is half-black, causing more problems.

** 4th Edition introduces the [[Dhampyr]] races; they're broken into a series of feats instead of being a separate race ''per se''.

** Averted by the 1st Edition half-''strength'' vampire, which was simply a vampire-victim that had arisen as a less-powerful undead controlled by its sire. Also by the pseudo-vampire, which was a living creature with a vampire's appearance, hit dice, and slam attack, but none of its powers or undead traits.

** And apart from being capable of going out in the sunlight, they're pathetic. Every generation, the vampire blood thins out a little bit- double the generation, half the blood, and vampires capable of making dhampyr are pretty wimpy already. A dhampyr is double the generation of the (usually) father- which means they've got almost no vamp blood at all. They're also one of the signs of the apocalypse- the "Time of Thin Blood" is one of the main parts.

**** White Wolf, in later editions, made a habit of doing this with a lot of the Special Snowflake character types that had popped up in earlier editions. Take the classic Abomination, for instance. Half-Vampire, Half-Werewolf, all kick-ass? Not quite. It has all the weaknesses of both races, loses almost all werewolf powers, is despised by Vampires who won't teach it Vampire powers...oh, and is immediately inflicted with a permanent supernatural suicidal depression. They got a little less subtle as time went on, to the point where trying to turn a Kitsune were-fox into a vampire causes the Kitsune to explode in a pillar of flame killing both itself and the vampire.

** In the Asian setting ''[[Kindred of the East]]'', a Kuei-Jin (Asian vampire) breeding with a human can produce a Dhampyr. They have minimal access to vampiric disciplines, but their main power is their supernatural luck, the spiritual side-effect of the unlikelihood of their birth. This also justifies why the mother is usually human: Kuei-Jin are fertile only if they spend a certain kind of chi when they wake up. If a vampire mother ever ran out of that kind in the course of nine months, she will miscarry, while a vampire father need only spend that type on the night of conception. Ironically, both parents can be vampires. This is very rare, however.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Blood Rayne]]'': Rayne is born to a human woman raped by the vampire king Kagan. She also has quite a number of [[Dhampyr]] brothers and sisters that she must slay. She seems to be just as strong as full-blooded vampires, or very nearly so, and shares the exact same weaknesses as them(sunlight, water) but instead of instantly killing her, she's able to survive them for brief periods.

* ''[[Castlevania]]'': Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, also known as ''[[Sdrawkcab Name|Alucard]]'', is the son of [[Dracula]] and a human woman named Lisa. He is apparently immortal like his father, but has notable weakness to water (which can be overcome by a [[Fan Nickname|holy snorkel]]), and can only transform with magical relics and a good amount of effort.

* ''[[Oblivion]]'': The character {{spoiler|Agronak gro-Malog AKA [[Red Baron|The Grey Prince]]}} is found out to have been fathered by a vampire.

* ''[[Nocturne]]'': Svetlana Lupescu from the first act of this PC game.

* ''[[Vampire Night]]'': You control one of two vampire hunters that are both [[Dhampyr]].

* [[Scribblenauts]]: One of the [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|many]] summonable creatures and is one of the few things that scares vampires.

* ''[[League of Legends]]'': Evelynn the Widowmaker, the blue-skinned stealth assassin. Her background is a mystery although it's theorized she was cursed with "a mild form of fantastic vampirism" rather than born with it. She's savage, vicious and a heartless assassin who thoroughly enjoys her job and [[Stripperiffic|dresses like a bondage queen]].