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* An episode of ''[[Mighty Max]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdacSL2pUcQ&feature=PlayList&p=069EFB3D6AC4502B&index=63 "Fly By Night"], took Our Vampires Are Different to its natural extreme by featuring a female vampire, Countess Musca, who ignored almost all of these vampire tropes (aside from the obvious blood-drinking). To top it all off, instead of a bat, she turned into a giant ''horsefly''.
* In ''[[Count Duckula]]'', a vampire who has been killed can be brought back by a once-a-century secret ritual. In the most recent ritual, tomato ketchup was accidentally used instead of blood, resulting in the title character becoming a ''vegetarian''. And he's a duck, which is pretty different all on its own.
* In ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf|Scooby Doo and The Reluctant Werewolf]]'', the [[Big Bad]] is a vampire named Count Dracula. However, he is comically inept at his goal of making Shaggy lose the Monster Car Road race. He did find a way to counter the sun weakness, by wearing ''sunscreen''.
** Likewise with his partner (wife?) Vanna-pira. Unlike the green skinned Dracula, you could mistake her for human. Its only her yellow eyes and grown out nails that peg her as a vampire.
** Not to mention his teenage daughter Sybella, from ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School|Scooby Doo and The Ghoul School]]'', who has purple skin (and hair) instead of pale white, and seems to be immune to sunlight. She's simply [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"fang-tastic"]]!
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' has a robotic vampire called NOS-4-A2 who drains the energy of robots and other machinery as opposed to drinking blood. He also has mind control abilities over said machinery. In combination with radiation from a certain moon, it also can turn humans into feral mechanical "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|wire-]][[Our Werewolves Are Different|wolves]]".
* In an episode of ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'', a vampiric tomato was ''going'' to suck blood from someone's neck until the local censor said that sucking blood wasn't "nice" enough, and suggested that he try kissing instead. He does, but that turns her into a vampire anyway, and starts a race of vampires who are obsessed with smooching their victims instead of drinking their blood. Also, the transformation comes with a costume change.
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* On ''[[Adventure Time]],'' [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Marceline the Vampire Queen]] was half-human-half-demon before she was bitten, meaning she is now half-vampire-half-demon. While she sustains herself with blood, she actually only needs to eat the color red (which she can suck out of anything, leaving it gray). This does '''''not''''' necessarily make her a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]], however---she seems to like the title characters, but once mad, she [[One-Winged Angel|transforms into a horrific bat-monster]] and tries to kill you really fast. She is known to have the traditional vulnerability to sunlight, but not as much as most vampires (she can survive it for a while at least if she uses a parasol, sunglasses, and a wide-brimmed hat) and has many odd powers, including telekinesis, the ability to command undead, and the ability to light candles by waving her hand.
** Her dad, on the other hand... well, maybe he ''used'' to be a vampire. He's a soul-swallowing [[Eldritch Abomination]] whose real head is in his throat, and can grow out when he gets more powerful. And it looks ''nothing like a bat''.
* In the [[Halloween Episode]] of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]|the original ''DuckTales'']], "Ducky Horror Picture Show", Scrooge unknowingly allows a bunch of monsters into his new community center, and his home, one of which being a Vampire. It is discovered when Hewey, Dewey, and Louie bring him apples, that he eats those and does not bite people or animals. They keep his teeth shiny, you know.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' features the villain Count Spankulot who, well, [[Spank the Cutie|spanks children]]. Doing so without his gloves will transform the victim into a spanking vampire himself. Sunlight doesn't bother him, but he still has the traditional weakness to garlic.
* ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]'' has a version of Dracula who drains blood from people and makes them into "Lost Ones" who are minion vampires but can be turned back to human by scientific means. It's stated that he can kill people by draining their blood but it never happens, this being a cartoon where [[Nobody Can Die]]. Minion vampires always look like pale monstrous creatures, but Dracula himself can look human when he feeds enough.
** It should be noted that among his minions is a vampire Joker, and this continuity's version of the Joker is a feral gorilla-like prop comic, build like the original Beast and with lime green dredsdreads. He robs a blood bank—which consists of a dramatically-lit warehouse lined with eighty-foot shelves of glass jars of blood. The Batman captures him and uses him as the experimental rat as he tries to cure vampirism.
** Ironic as it seems, in an episode of the ''[[Superfriends]]'' called "Invasion of the Vampires", the vampires didn't bite, but [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|shot laser beams from their eyes]] to make vampires in numberous amounts! How did the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder escape from joining them? They had visited a cave filled with '''normal''' bats by accident searching '''for''' the vampires!
** The Superfriends also faced Vampiress, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWJVa7Uvfk Voodoo Vampire.]
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** [[Kill It with Fire|"Zack, get the diesel fuel."]]
* In ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]'', the biggest difference vampires have from the traditional ones is that they can reproduce much like humans can. Mavis (Dracula's daughter) was born a vampire, and bore a child via her human husband Jonathan.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''; in the episode "Bats!" after one of Twilight's spells backfired, turning Fluttershy into "Flutterbat" (as rarityRarity calls her), a strange pony-bat hybrid, that is compared to a pony-vampire. Since these are, in fact, fruit bats, Fluttershy is ravenous for apples rather than blood. Other than that, she doesn't seem to have any other traditional vampire traits and is cured - all though her [[Cute Little Fangs]] at the end suggest the cure didn't take...
** Well, maybe, maybe not; she turned into Flutterbat again in "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?" but this was case of all the Mane Cast sharing [[Your Worst Nightmare|Their Worst Nightmare]], and she changed on her own to fight the villain.
 
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