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Shows in which at least oneA vampire character (or any representative of an assumed-monstrous breed) is shown to truly, really be a good person at heart. Really.

Traditionally, vampires [[Horror Hunger|had to kill others]] to [[Immortality Immorality|maintain their own extended lifespan]], a supernatural [[Power At a Price|Conservation of Energy]] law. Even victims who survived were permanently harmed. Vampires might be charismatic monsters, but they were [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]], and likely to be [[Sealed Evil in a Can]].

Television and film have lagged behind books a bit, with nice vampires exceptional rather than common. The vampires in the ''[[Blade]]'' movies would seem capable of living just on stored blood, but since they seem to be [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzsche Wannabes]]s, they enjoy killing humans as a [[Transhuman Treachery|demonstration of superiority.]]

Compare to [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]. [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|'''FNVs]]''' who actively fight for good are [[Monster Adventurers]]. See also [[Vegetarian Vampire]], [[Reluctant Monster]], [[Monster Roommate]], [[Monsters Anonymous]] and [[Vampire Refugee]]. These vampires are often on the friendliest end of the [[Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness]].

** Except when he tries to give kids DIABETES through chocolate based cereal products! [[Sting (music)||Dun-dun-DUUUUNNN!]]

* Seras Victoria from ''[[Hellsing]]'' starts out as and pretty much stays a good guy. Given the large number of [[Anti-Hero|antiheroes]] on this show, this is quite impressive. As a [[Reluctant Monster]], she refuses to drink blood; when she finally gives in and sucks her crush's blood {{spoiler|in response to his dying wish}}, she is recognized by the other characters as being a true monster. She does retain her perky and somewhat subservient disposition, despite impressive battle-lust. Additionally, in the anime series, she assumes the [[Vampire Detective]] role on several occasions.

** Her Master, Alucard, ''functions'' as a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]], but only because Integra's [[Kid with the Leash|got him on a leash]].

*** Well, somewhat friendly. Just don't get on his bad side or insult Integra, there's a reason Alucard has hundreds of thousands of dead souls at his disposal.

* [[Blood Plus+]] has the Schiff, who aren't ''technically' vampires but have vampire problems (sunlight is lethal, need to regular drink blood). They're still nice people and ultimately [[Heel Face Turn]]. The heroine and her servant match the trope perfectly.

* ''[[Karin]]'' has an entire ''family'' of [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]], the most obvious example of which is the [[media:karin_cute_friendly_vampirekarin cute friendly vampire.jpg|title character]]. They're so friendly, in fact, that being bitten by one is actually '''good''' for your health! Specifically, each vampire has a preferred "taste" of human that they're attracted to. When they suck blood, they suck this preferred trait out temporarily. This is good for everyone when the trait is bad -- forbad—for example, Karin's brother is attracted to ''stress'', his "victims" are drained of all their tension and left relaxed and happy (he targets stressed out women because afterwards, they tend to be... ''appreciative''). This is bad when the trait is good. For example, {{spoiler|Karin's grandmother is attracted to '''love''', her victims are drained of any feelings of love and caring, becoming hateful wretches.}}

* One of the scenarios in ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan|Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2]]'' involves helping Gorou Ookami (which translates as "fifth son of the wolf", [[Meaningful Name|appropriately enough]]), a [[Wolf Man]] who transforms when he sees something that so much as ''looks'' like the full moon, control his transformation while on a date with a human girl. When he reveals his true nature to the girl at the end of the stage, if you've done well enough, she decides [[Beast and Beauty|she likes him that way]].

* Moka Akashiya in ''[[Rosario to+ Vampire]]'' isn't just friendly, she's [[Magical Girlfriend|head-over-heels in love]] with the series' [[Ordinary High School Student]]. Also, she usually drinks canned tomato juice rather than blood (except if it's Tsukune's blood, which she sucks a bit every morning). Her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is less friendly... but honestly, [[Noble Demon|not by as much as you'd think.]]

* [[X-Men|Jubilee]], of all people, has becomebecame this recentlyfor a while, having been converted by a vampire suicide bomber. When she smilessmiled, she does have some incredibly cute fangs. It didn't last though, she was eventually made human again by the Dark Phoenix.

== [[FanficFan Works]] ==

* [[Undead Child|Eli]] in [[Let the Right One In]] fits this trope. Eli does [[Horror Hunger|feed on people]], but is only driven to it by hunger, rather than a desire to hurt anyone. She's -literally- Oskar's neighbour when they first meet and she's the supposedly the only real friend he's ever had. She shows genuine affection for him, gives him advice on how to deal with the bullies who torment him, and {{spoiler|saves his life at the end when the bullies are trying to drown him in the swimming pool.}} Is it any wonder that {{spoiler|Oskar chooses to leave town at the end of the film and [[Fourth Date Marriage|start a new life with Eli]]?}}

* The [[Discworld]] has the Black Ribbon Society, a group of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|vampires who sign a pledge not to drink human blood and who hold regular meetings for mutual reinforcement]]. Some vampires continue to drink some blood, but only from uncooked meat or other "stand-ins"; however, in order to prevent themselves from relapsing, the Black Ribboners must often focus single-mindedly on some other hobby or activity.

** In ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', Maladict {{spoiler|or should we say Maladicta}} is addicted to coffee. When he runs out of coffee everyone becomes very, very nervous.

** In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Otto Chriek devotes himself entirely to researching light and color and becomes the ''Ankh-Morpork Times'''s "iconographer."). He deliberately cultivates a stereotypical yet humorous vampiric appearance in order not to be taken seriously -- andseriously—and thus, not feared. {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Until he gets to de Worde's father, of course.]]}}

** Acknowledged, subverted, and averted in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''. The Magpyr Family don't go on rampages of terror or paint the town red. They are (with one minor exception) [[Affably Evil|polite and civilised]], with only the slight drawback of overusing their mental powers to take over places (but still doing it peacefully...ish). They also set up communities where villages "willingly" donate blood to Vampires whenever they want it. Subverted with the character of the Old Count Magpyr, who was very much of the old school of vampiring; living in an ominous mountainside castle etc. This was actually a clever move in the long run because the Count realised that the fastest way to avoid being killed permanently was by giving people a fighting chance in order to level the playing field. This takes the form of deliberately leaving holy water in his own castle, having lots of ornaments which can be bent into religious symbols and big wide windows for letting the sunshine in. This method worked much better, so much so that the Old Count was actually respected and liked by the locals despite technically being a stereotypical monster vampire.

* ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'': They live peaceably (for the most part) as the [[Token Minority]] within human society and conventions, [[Our Vampires Are Different|and don't need human blood to survive]].

* ''[[Kitty Norville]]'' suggests that her various listeners aim for this on her Midnight Hour radio show. In practice, it's been a mixed bunch: Rick, Alette, and the Washington D.C. shapeshifters are nice, if slightly isolationist, folk who just happen to be afflicted with a common chronic disease and immortality. Kitty {{spoiler|and Ben}} are pretty much the same way, although more aggressive in dealing with Unfriendly Neighborhood Vampires. The neighborhood part seems to be attached to the friendly one, as vampires or werewolves that don't have some normal civilized life to focus on end up [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]].

* Subversion : The various creatures of the night in ''[[Mercy Thompson]]'' have aimed an entire public relations branch toward looking like [[Our Elves Are Better|Friendly Neighborhood Faeries]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Friendly Neighborhood Werewolves]], with [[Our Vampires Are Different|Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]] waiting around the corner for their own chance. Since we're talking groups that include [[I'm a Humanitarian|child-eating]] versions of [[The Fair Folk]], [[Gaia's Vengeance|lupine monsters with giant claws and major anger management issues]], and [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] killers who at best [[Shoot the Dog]] and at worst cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]], respectively, the public relations team has a lot of work cut out in front of them.

** He is however pretty much a huge exception to the rule as the Black Court are straight up [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]], the Red Court are likewise horrific monsters that put on a veneer of civilization and only the White Court has even the option of being anything other than monstrous. Lampshaded in a [[Friendly Enemy]] conversation Harry has with the [[Punch Clock Villain]] Binder, in which Binder points out that people who think that Vampires have the same motivations and needs as a human hasn't ever watched one disembowel another as bizarre sexual foreplay.

* In [[Amelia Atwater Rhodes]]' ''Nyeusigrube'' has SingleEarth, a peaceful coalition of vampires, shapeshifters, witches, etc. Vampires in this group tend to feed only on animals or willing human donors.

* ''[[Good Omens]]'' has Crowley (a Friendly Neighborhood Demon) and Aziraphale (a Friendly Neighborhood Angel, [[Our Angels Are Different|which are rarer than you would think]]) and a Friendly Neighborhood {{spoiler|[[Anti Christ]]}} who work to prevent Armageddon.

* Edward Cullen from Stephenie Meyer's ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', who battles for the heart of Bella Swan against the other friendly minority Jacob Black, a [[Wolf Man|werewolf]]. At least he's a Surly Neighborhood Vampire-- theVampire—the rest of his 'family' fit this trope pretty well too, like Carlisle, vampire doctor and upstanding member of the community, and his wife and their 'kids'.

** This is one of the few things about Vampires she doesn't do too bad a job with. Aside from the Cullens, Vampires are shown to be [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s. Even among the Cullens, some of them still struggle to varying degrees with the hunger. In fact, that struggle is a major plot point.

* In the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' books, vampires do not need to kill their victims, so they can be good or evil. Bones especially fits this trope, since he hunts down other vampires who murder, rape and use humans.

* In [[Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter]], the titular hero is trained in his vocation by ethical-bloodsucker Henry Sturges, who makes a point of only feeding on bad people, or those so old or ill they're about to die anyway. Furthermore, Henry ''certainly'' doesn't favor the evil vampires' plan to conquer America with the aid of their slave-holding Confederate allies.

*** Considering that the episode in question aired about 4 years before [[TV Tropes]] launched and was originally based on Buffy canon, it would follow that it was in fact the trope namer if the line in question was uttered.

* The entire premise of ''[[My Babysitter's a Vampire]]''.

** It's also perfectly possible for vampires in both games (well, only the younger vampires in ''Requiem'' for the most part) to get their required sustenance by feeding on animals. While it's more humane, individuals animals don't carry much, it doesn't taste quite as good, and you'll be looked at funny because the two dominant vampire religious bodies say that you're a divine predator meant to cull the human herd.

*** In ''Requiem'', it should be noted that as Blood Potency goes up, your diet becomes more restricted -- animalsrestricted—animals quickly fall out as an option, and eventually '''humans''' do too. That said, the Ordo Dracul's Coils of the Dragon can eliminate this. Also, rules-wise you are not required to gain Blood Potency as you age, though it does give you certain advantages like being able to use more blood to power your powers, and Blood Potency can be dropped by entering torpor.

*** However, you can end up doing horrible things during Frenzy whether you want to or not. Also, it's specifically mentioned that some vampires take it upon themselves to break others of excessive humanity, considering holding yourself to a high standard a naive impediment. Therefore in some ways ''Masquerade'' can still actually be more forgiving -- althoughforgiving—although frenzy is still an issue, you can feed on anything no matter how powerful you are, and other vampires are less likely to attempt to sabotage and manipulate you into monstrous behavior for the hell of it.

* In ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', the Blood Angels chapter are among the noblest of the [[Space Marine|Space Marines]]s, inheriting their Primarch Sanguinius's kind hearted soul. However, there is a serious possibility that in battle, they will experience a flaw in their gene-seed where they relive Sanguinius's death at the hands of his brother Horus, causing them to become raving maniacs and develop vampiric tendencies.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Oblivion]]'''s vampires are generally [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|chaotic evil]] in the fashion of bandits and goblins, but {{spoiler|Janus Hassildor, Count of Skingrad,}} just makes sure to never go out in the sunlight - otherwise, he's a benevolent, if slightly ill-tempered ruler, and actually saves your dumbass avatar's life on a few occasions. Also, if you yourself become afflicted and decide the cure quest is too annoying to bother with, it's not necessarily your cue to join the Dark Brotherhood: simply (non-fatally!) suck the blood of a homeless person every few days, or just carefully time your excursions to avoid sunlight, and you too may enjoy [[Cursed with Awesome|a whole host of nifty spells and skill-boosts]].

** As an interesting footnote, the successful resolution of the quest can involve either getting the Family regular blood donations from the people of Arefu in exchange for (A) otherwise leaving them alone or (B) offering an exchange of protection services for occasional donations, changing the Family's association with Arefu from parasitic to symbiotic, which actually makes them even more of an example of the [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] trope.

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' the slums of Westside are home to Mean Sonofabitch, a Friendly Neighborhood Super Mutant who keeps the residents safe from the [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|Fiends]].

* Rachel Alucard from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' prefers [[Little Miss Snarker|snarking]] and [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|tea]] to blood-draining. {{spoiler|In fact, she's only had one victim, and even he didn't die.}}

* The friendly part's debatable, but [[Blood RayneBloodRayne]] is basically a vampire who kills Nazis.

* The ''[[King's Quest II]]'' remake subverts the hell out of {{spoiler|having to kill the vampire in the original game by having said vampire turn out to be your ally}} once Graham is able to prove that {{spoiler|he's helped out Caldaur's wife and granddaughter and does a [[Fetch Quest]]}}.

* Keith Valentine and his brother Joachim from ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' and ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'' respectively. Both join Yuri and company to save the world, and while Keith mainly did so out of boredom, he was nonetheless friendly to the village neighboring the Valentine family castle. Joachim takes the whole friendly thing another several steps further by donning a butterfly mask and becoming a [[Mask Power|superhero]]. Really.

* Conrad in ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' is something like this: he doesn't kill people, but not because he's trying to be all good and humanitarian. Actually, he's just so neurotic that the thought of putting his mouth on a stranger's neck makes him ill.

* In ''[[Life Sketch]]'', vampires are so commonplace that it came as a huge shock when one of them started attacking humans. {{spoiler|And even then, it wasn't a real vampire.}} They even serve blood in restaurants like the O.K. Cafe, where [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike,]] [[Twilight (novel)|Edward]] and [[A Witch's Tale|Loue]] frequently hang out.

** In that setting, ordinary run-of-the-mill vampires don't seem to have much problems fitting into society, and so tend to be this; it's when you get to [[Our Vampires Are Different|the variant types]] that you get problems, though we've seen two friendly cases so far: there's Ryu, one of the main heroines' boyfriend and a vamp'''y'''re who's been prevented by judicious applications of phlebotinum from losing his mind and becoming an animalistic predator as a result of his contamination, and Kazumi, a [[Miko]] who, although she was turned into a "Hand of the Dragon" vampire ([[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] on account of their vampirism being mixed with demon/oni blood), who [[Face Heel Turn|switched to the good guys' side as soon as she could]] because even decades of being a monster enslaved to other monsters wasn't enough to put a dent in her inner [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] (as a bonus, it's thanks to her magic powers and knowledge that Ryu above managed to remain human in mind and spirit). If non-vampires count, we can also add Vyolet the [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-demon]], who, despite [[Black Eyes of Evil]] (well, more like deep purple) and regular access to an [[Amplifier Artifact]] that boosts the user's demonic essence exponentially, is still just a nice teenage girl personality-wise.

* Derek, from ''[http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com [TRU-Life Adventures]]'' is a bit grumpy, but still makes for a fine worker on the toy store's overnight shift.

* Nina Delacroix in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''; she was born in Easter, and thus needs chocolate instead of blood... and she even feels bad about "killing" a chocolate bunny. The rest of her family drinks blood, but they generally don't killtake it too seriously. The rule seems to be "no harm - no foul". Biting was said to be a part of vampire courtship, apparently because it's [[Kiss of the peopleVampire|pleasant]] they(to feedthose who don't faint) and [[Mindlink Mates|involves mental contact]] (though usually fleeting). With other willing "donors" it's less intimate, and treated much like drinking, even when [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/sweetest%20blood talking to others who know about the vampire]{{Dead link}}. Feeding on random human prey is handled with some care, but matter-of-factly.

** Subverted to an extent, when it's revealed quite a few vampires in the past were VERY evil, and they aren't 'nice'.

* Scarlet Blutt from ''[[Pleasure Bon Bon]]'' combines this with [[Ethical Slut]].

* Secret from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]''. She's a cute, sweet, demure [[Broken Bird]]... [[Death Knight]].

* Various vampires from ''[[The Kingfisher]]'' see themselves as moral, with varying degrees of truth. The youngest remaining vampires - Jack, Darren, and Tristan - are essentially human, unless in a blood frenzy. Vitus is the preachiest nice-guy character in the comic.

* Initially very much averted in ''[[All Roses Have Thorns]]'', but as time goes on, by the 19th century the vampires ''have'' to start providing helpful services and incentive to the townsfolk in order to prevent them from being killed in their sleep.