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[[File:Vampire werewolf 5128.jpg|frame|This is when you come back on a different day in the Lunar cycle.]]

 

In many ways, the legends of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]] and [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] spring from similar sources, but recently popular fiction has fleshed them out, made them into ''species'', and given them cultural traits.

* While mostly averted in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'', where werewolves are elite bodyguards for the vampiric royal lines, Mina forces her [[Bodyguard Crush]] to fight her in a brutal hand to hand fight at the end of an early arc.

* In ''[[Millennium Snow]]'', Toya (a vampire) and Satsuki (a werewolf) are rivals for Chiyuki (the heroine). They also generally rub each other the wrong way personality-wise.

 

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=== [[Film]] ===

* The 1991 direct-to-video film ''[[The Howling]] IV: The Freaks'' had a werewolf protagonist fighting against a vampire villain.

** Just for fun they also had some carnival freaks in the fray.

 

=== [[Literature]] ===

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' features a group of college-age, amateur monster-hunters known as the "Alphas", who have learned how to turn themselves into enormous wolves. They use their abilities to protect Chicago's university district from various monster threats, including the occasional vampire attack. Later on, in ''Turn Coat'', two of the Alphas fight a White Court vampire straight-up and manage to defeat her with repeated hit-and-run attacks.

 

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** The Dark-Hunters are mostly faux-vamps though. However, the Were-Hunters do have a rather complicated relationship with the more vampiric Daimons. Even though they are related races, Daimons will eat the souls of Weres, and the Weres will kick Daimon butt.

* The ''[[Anita Blake Vampire Hunter|Anita Blake]]'' novels. Generally the vampires in this universe view shapeshifters as animals, or at best moderately useful tools. Jean-Claude is very rare among vampires in that he has alliances with many of the local were-groups. This is so unusual that he says at one point other vampires with an eye toward conquering his territory will think him weaker than he is because they won't view as relevant any weregroups other than his "animal to call". (Animal with which he has magical affinity- in Jean-Claude's case this is wolves and werewolves.) Then again you can't entirely blame them for thinking that, since different were-animal groups usually can't even get along with ''each other'', much less anybody else.

** The antagonism is said to come from the fact that werewolves are jealous of vampires being thought of as suave and sophisticated, while vampires are jealous of werewolves being able to fit more easily into human society (when in human form, obviously).

* The vampires and werecreatures in ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'' don't like each other either. Of course, the vampires consider themselves ''superior'' to ''everybody else'', including humans; and even werewolves look down on all werecreatures who don't turn into wolves.

* In the Horror-tropes dimension Skeeve visited in one of the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' novels, vampires are city folk, and look down on werewolves as country bumpkins (who likewise look down on vampires as shallow yuppies).

* Averted in [[Sanctuary]]. While there are plenty of issues between different species of Abnormals, vampires and werewolves don't seem to have any particular animosity. Tesla's interactions with Henry do manage to have a bit of this, though, but only because Tesla is kinda misanthropic and thinks all non-Vampires (minus Helen) are idiots compared to him.

* Inverted in ''[[Beetleborgs]]'', where Count Fangula and Wolfgang are close friends who have known each other a long time. In fact, Fangula is always the one who translates for Wolfgang, who only speaks wolf-language.

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* Played with in ''[[Free Realms]]''. Both races show up for the Halloween event, and they do have a rivalry with each other (with players encouraged to choose sides)... but this is a family-friendly game, so they settle things with dance-offs.

* ''[[The Sims Social]]'' on [[Facebook]] once advertised a "Werewolves vs Vampires Week".

* A natural result of the AI in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', whose latest release added vampire immigrants and wandering werecreatures. One player found a random peasant in a cage trap, and when the full moon rolled around and he turned into a werepanda he was introduced to one of the resident vampires. [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3013652#msg3013652 They did not get along].

 

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