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* In Part 3 of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', Vanilla Ice, the Sycophantic Servant of Big Bad Dio, does manage to kill off two of the main cast.
* The ''[[Blood Alone]]'' manga actually ''calls'' vampire blood slaves "Renfields."
* The Chevaliers in ''[[Blood
* {{spoiler|Osanai}} from ''[[Paprika]]''.
* Misa Amane and Teru Mikami of ''[[Death Note]]''.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Marvel Universe]]:
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** Magneto likes these kinds of bootlickers. He also had Peeper in the second Brotherhood/Mutant Force and Amphibius in the Savage Land Mutates.
** Also, Nightcrawler encountered an alternate self who served this purpose for Belasco.
** In an [[Earth X|alternate future]], it's determined Nightcrawler -becomes- Belasco. So, um.
*** And in that same alternate future, the Earth's poles shifted, somehow causing Toad and Magneto's powers to be switched. Toad took the opportunity to turn Mags into a slave for his enjoyment as payback for the mountains of abuse he'd suffered at his hand.
** Arcade had a [[Perky Female Minion]] named Miss Locke, who was this to a fault. Arcade eventually killed her and started using an android duplicate instead, claiming she was trying to get "too close" to him emotionally and physically. But then, this is hardly the only proof needed to confirm that [[Ax Crazy|Arcade is out of his gourd.]]
* Mephisto had one of these in his first appearance in ''[[Silver Surfer]]''. Ironically, Mephisto was himself forced to be this to Thanos during the ''[[Infinity Gauntlet]]'' saga.
* Psycho-Pirate is this to the Anti-Monitor in ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''.
* Ever since his first appearance in the 70s, [[Batman|Ras Al Ghul]] had a completely loyal hulking manservant named Ubu, who worshiped the ground he walked on. After a couple of apparent deaths the character was ''still'' around, so it was revealed that there's an entire Ubu ''clan'', and they all serve Ras.
== Film ==
* Probably the most famous portrayal of
* Knock in ''[[Nosferatu]]'' is a [[Captain Ersatz]] of him because they couldn't get the rights.
* ''[[Dracula's Daughter]]'' had Sandor as Renfield to the titular daughter.
* In the Disney film
** Mind you, neither did the Horned King, in any form viewers of the movie would recognize. He was Arawn's warlord, who commanded the Cauldron Born and others and was the field locus of scarybad during ''The Book of Three'' while Arawn was being all [[Orcus on His Throne]]. Did not talk much, if at all.
* Beni from ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]''.
* The ''[[Blade]]'' films similarly gave vampires human minions/spies ("familiars"), branded with vampire tattoos and derisively termed 'suck-puppies' by the protagonist and his mentor.
* The only character to come out of ''[[Manos:
* Peter MacNichol has played two Sycophantic Servants: Janosz in ''[[Ghostbusters]] 2'' as a straight example, and Renfield himself in ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]''.
* Gaston's sidekick, LeFou, in Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' film.
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* In the film ''[[30 Days of Night]]'' a detestable character takes care of a few chores in the opening that pave the way for a group of vampires later, believing that they'll make him a vampire in exchange. Naturally, they [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|kill him]] when they meet up with him later. This isn't the case in the graphic novel as the guy was seemingly in the process of becoming a vampire, and gets killed before the other vampires show up.
* In ''[[Let the Right One In]]'', Eli's 'guardian' seems to love her, despite her usually treating him callously. Depending on your interpretation, young Oskar may have taken over his role by the end of the movie.
** In the book on which the film was based, his motivation was a paedophile's lust for and fascination with an unchanging child; the author of the book, in the course of writing the screenplay, dropped this sub-plot as being one too many and far too
* [[Tom Waits]]'s character in ''[[Bram Stoker's
* Artie Johnson in the [[Dracula]] spoof ''[[Love at First Bite]]''.
* Ephialtes in ''[[300]]''.
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* Hugo the roadie from ''[[Suck]]'' helps Jen (and then, the rest of the band) get rid of the bodies, but keeps whining about getting no respect and doesn't seem to be too bright.
* Farley Claymore, played by [[Tim Curry]], in ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]''.
== Literature ==
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* Scratch and Grounder to Dr Robotnik in ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' (Coconuts is even more devoted to Robotnik, though the latter usually disregards him in favour of the other two).
** Snively ironically started off as one in early ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]'' and [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|its comic book adaption]], before evolving into a [[The Dog Bites Back|vengeful]] [[The Starscream|Starscream]]. The comics also had Crabmeat, who played this trope straight until Snively replaced him.
* In ''[[
* In another ''[[Transformers]]'' example, there's [[Battle Butler|Inferno]] from ''[[Beast Wars]]'', who could probably give Lugnut a run for his money in the obsession department. Perhaps a semi-subversion, as his competence level varies throughout the series (due to being an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Playing with Fire|pyromaniac]] who thinks he's an actual fire ant), but his loyalty never does (as he's also convinced that Megatron is the Queen of the colony).
** Inferno really doesn't have a choice in the matter though due to faulty programming.
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