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* The Proxies of ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' might qualify as an example of this. They have at least one traditional vampire weakness {{spoiler|namely, they are supposed to die if they come into contact with UV light}}, and some of them, particularly Ergo Proxy himself and Kazkis Proxy look a lot like the Crusnick forms in ''[[Trinity Blood]]''. This resemblance might be deliberate, as like the Krusnicks, Proxies are on the order of [[Physical God]] and evoke [[Our Angels Are Different]].

* ''[[Gunnm|Battle Angel Alita: Last Order's]]'' vampires have a lot of notable differences from the mythical standard. First, they're more literal representations of [[The Virus]]; their condition is due to genetic modification from a factor called the V-Virus, which transforms them via an excruciatingly painful experience called Altered Shock. (They consider "vampire" to be an insult, and [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|prefer the term]] "Cognate".) Less than one percent of individuals bitten by infected hosts survive this process, and those that do often commit suicide out of inability to cope with the increased carnivorous urge colloquially termed the "thirst for blood". Cognates don't have any particular aversion to sunlight, holy symbols, or garlic (though individual tastes and cultural stigma, as usual, do vary), and they do show a reflection. However, they also lack many of the more fantastical abilities of mythical vampires. They are not truly immortal (aging is halted, however), as their mechanism for fending off physical injury and aging (unlimited cell division) makes them highly susceptible to another means of death: cancer. Their regenerative capabilities can also be overridden with enough damage (decapitation and striking vital points are handy). The shapeshifting and hypnotic powers are also lacking, though individual Cognates that are very long-lived can sometimes undergo second "Altered Shocks", which tend to grant them unique and powerful abilities such as the ability to read minds by detecting neural pulse flow or the like.

** For starters, the most powerful ones are created by Mayan artifacts called the Stone Masks. While they have fangs, they feed through their ''fingers''. They are not adversely affected by water, but direct exposure to sunlight means instant disintegration and permanent death for them. They don't need to drain blood constantly, but doing so keeps them young and, if the person they drain was particularly powerful, it makes them exponentially stronger. Those killed by Stone Mask vampires rise again as undead, but are much weaker and are usually called "zombies"; this variety has a simple personality based on their most outstanding personality trait and, unlike Stone Mask vampires, cannot heal wounds. Stone Mask vampires ''can'', however, create other Stone Mask vampires by giving a human their blood (as Dio did to Vanilla Ice). The only method short of sunlight or [[Battle Aura|the Ripple]] that slays a vampire, Stone Mask or zombie, is grievous head trauma; decapitation merely leads to a living, severed head that can then attach to and take over any handy body, {{spoiler|as Dio did to Jonathan Joestar's corpse}}. While it was never 100% explained why blunt head trauma was deadly to the vampires, it is most likely due to the fact that the vampires in JoJo were originally humans that had specific points in the brain exposed to a severe acupuncture, which awakened what was supposedly a human's "true potential". That being said, getting punched in the head really hard may damage one of the activated brain points. Their powers are also outside the norm, including (but not limited to) the ability to shoot high-pressure liquid <s>metal</s> blood from their eyes, blood freezing, and the ability to walk on walls and ceilings.

** And that's not even counting the Pillar Men vampires, which created the Stone Masks because their favorite food are ''those'' vampires. Needless to say, nothing short of top-tier Ripples can can kill them, and even ''that'' takes an eternity to work. Sunlight only turns them to stone for as long as they're exposed, and even if you were to grind up the remains into dust, Ripple is still needed to finish the job. They feed by absorbing anything they touch (typically vampires and humans), and can shapeshift their bodies around to utilize their bones and veins for weaponry or to fit into tiny drainpipes and stretch their body parts. Also, they have horns on their heads, and the number of horns denotes their potential power levels. Oddly enough, vampires and zombies are portrayed as [[Always Chaotic Evil]], but their more superior and deadly creators the pillar men were mostly [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|honorable warriors]].