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** More on Alucard: as noted above, he is practically immortal and has regenerative abilities beyond almost any other character in fiction. He also has superhuman senses, superhuman strength, incredible accuracy with any weapon, intangibility, super speed, invisibility, the ability to defy gravity, the ability to manipulate shadows (literal and figurative) into physical form, weather control, teleportation, telekinesis, mind control, mind reading, summoning an army consisting of souls whose blood he has sucked, gaining a person's knowledge and memories through blood sucking, hibernation, and the ability to sense superhuman activity. None of the other [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] in the series show these traits, implying that it might have to be something you gather over time after leveling up; no one has drunk more levels than he. This might be a case of [[Power Copying]]. The demon dogs are a result of Alucard having drunk the blood of the Hounds of Baskerville.

** It's easier to say that the more powerful Hellsing vampires are less like the traditional concept and more like [[Humanoid Abomination|Humanoid Abominations]], with Alucard himself ending into outright [[Eldritch Abomination]] territory.

** The source of all the various types of chiropterans are the chiropteran queens, of which there are apparently only two at a time, always born as twins. Each queen's blood is lethal to her sister and to any chiropterans created from her sister's blood. The queens need blood to live (transfusions work fine, although drinking it makes them more powerful) and are basically immortal, but that's about where their resemblance to classical vampires ends; they have none of the usual vulnerabilities, and aside from the opposite queen's blood, the only thing that might ''possibly'' be sufficient to kill them would be complete exsanguination or decapitation. Maybe. They also alternate between a few years of activity and thirty years of hibernation wrapped in a cocoon.

** The queens can create "chevaliers" by feeding a human some of their blood; the chevaliers, even more than the queens, are supernaturally strong, fast, and resilient, with the ability to shapeshift in various ways, most notably into monstrous batlike forms or into the forms of people whose blood they have drunk.

** Vampires are capable of having children. They can donate their blood to a human, giving them a temporary [[Healing Factor]] and super strength and speed. However, the human risks turning into a ghoul, a mindless, souless berserker that cannot be restored except with powerful magic. If the human is restored, their strength, speed, and other attributes will be on par or even greater than a vampire, and they are not affected by the water weakness. Vampires can also shapeshift, but most consider it a lost art due to vanity.

** Nothing said blood isn't required, just that Moka hasn't bitten anyone before. The neck bite isn't the only way to get blood.

* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' has vampires called Methuselah, the result of humans being infected by a extra terrestrial bacterium; they are living creatures, look almost totally human and at puberty develop a weakness to sunlight. They are able to breed with each other. They are naturally faster, stronger and more resilient then humans, although some humans can match them in combat with enough training. Biting humans results in the death of the victim.

** Then there are the Krushnik, the results of test tube babies being infected with nanomachines. They feed off the blood of the Mesthuselah (they are to vampires as vampires are to humans), have no known weakness, and at full power are basically unstoppable death machines. There are thankfully only 4 of them.

* [[Method Acting]], Yurika Todo from [[Aikatsu!]] merely plays the role of a vampire. According to her vampires drink blood, but are also capable of sustaining themselves on rose tea, red wine, and tomato juice. They are rebelled by silver. Sunlight harms them if they are exposed to it for more then three seconds (clothing will not protect them from this), but it not necessarily fatal. Furthermore, they can be outside during the day as long as they stay in the shade, but they will be temporarily weakened.