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{{quote|''There are as many types of vampire as there are disease; some are virulent and deadly, and some just make you walk funny and avoid fruit.''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]'''
Subtrope of [[Our Monsters Are Different]]. This one deals with everyone's favorite [[The Undead|undead]] bloodsuckers.
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* [[Achilles' Heel
** Wooden stake through the heart. In most modern depictions, this is fatal; in the original folklore, it merely stops the vampire from leaving his coffin. In most of the older stories, one had to use a hammer or a grave digger's shovel to drive the stake in, which meant that vampire stakings mainly happened during the day when the vampire was asleep, but recently, it's become [[Made of Plasticine|oddly easy]] to do by hand. Remember, the ribs are there to prevent just such an occurrence. In some cases a special specimen of wood is needed for the stake to be effective, commonly Hawthorn, and occasionally it needs to be blessed or enchanted, but not all vampires are this picky about what goes through their chests.
** [[Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain|Decapitation]] - and as a bonus point, this one isn't exactly exclusive to vampires; it conveniently works on almost any supernatural creature, and humans too. Then again, so does a stake through the heart...
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