Our Vampires Are Different/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' is rather... complicated about vampires.

** 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.

* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' features a variation on the standard vampire tropes, although since Tsubasa is essentially a multiverse AU it is not clear whether this particular vampire definition applies to the whole CLAMP multiverse or just the unknown world the vampires in question originated from. So far, the established rules are that vampires can be both "pure blood", presumably by birth, or "turned", by drinking the blood of a vampire. Kamui and Subaru are pure blooded and Kamui is responsible for turning {{spoiler|Fay}}. Vampires are explicitly stated not to be vulnerable to sun or holy water and while they are long-lived and have incredible healing capacity, they are not outright immortal. (This is also basic rule of the CLAMP-verse, everything no matter how powerful dies eventually.) Vampirism comes with a couple nifty side effects like enhanced speed and strength, nails that can turn into massive claws, and [[Eyes of Gold|golden, slit-pupiled eyes like a cat's]]. There is also an interesting twist on the need to drink another's blood, at least for turned vampires, as when the turning is performed, {{spoiler|the old vampire's blood can be mixed with the blood of a human who will become the new vampire's sole host. Kurogane agrees to become Fay's host in order to save his life}}. The only on-screen feeding seen so far has NOT gone for the usual jugular-biting, but rather from an intentional wound in the wrist. The [[Ho Yay|relationship]] between the particular vampire and host may have had something to do with it... (not that it's stopped the fans from imagining the "possibilities")

* Bisco Hatori's manga ''[[Millennium Snow]]'' features vampires similar to the ones in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'': they are not hurt by sunlight or crosses, and are not really immortal, living for about a thousand years. ''Millennium Snow'''s vampires do not strictly have to drink blood to survive, although doing without requires them to eat a lot of food to keep up their energy. When one of these vampires drinks the blood of a human, it forms a bond between them which extends the human's lifespan to match the vampire's, and that human becomes the vampire's sole source of blood. These vampires are also able to fly, and drinking some of their blood can heal a human, although [[It Only Works Once]].