Vampire Bites Suck: Difference between revisions

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The vampires who aren't quite so humane or human-friendly, though, don't much care for whether their prey enjoys it. They likely won't survive the experience to care, as these vampires don't bother with table manners, let alone leaving two dainty, easily covered puncture wounds. They go for the jugular, and if the rest of the neck goes with it, c'est la mort.

The [[Gory Discretion Shot]] is seldom used with a [[Horror Hunger|violently hungry]] vampire, so the viewer is treated to seeing the [[High Pressure Blood]] fountaining everywhere, and the police or intrepid [[You Meddling Kids|meddling kids]] are treated to the messy aftermath. Where this can get ''really'' torturous is if the vampire is into [[Hemo Erotic|Hemo Eroticism]], because then they'll ''draw out'' the feeding process.

The [[Gory Discretion Shot]] is seldom used with a [[Horror Hunger|violently hungry]] vampire, so the viewer is treated to seeing the [[High-Pressure Blood]] fountaining everywhere, and the police or intrepid [[You Meddling Kids|meddling kids]] are treated to the messy aftermath. Where this can get ''really'' torturous is if the vampire is into [[Hemo Erotic|Hemo Eroticism]], because then they'll ''draw out'' the feeding process.

See [[Our Vampires Are Different]], and [[Kiss of the Vampire]] for the flipside of this trope.

== [[Anime]] and Manga ==

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*** If you count the anime, he did feed on a human once. {{spoiler|Integra told him to [[Killed to Uphold The Masquerade|dispose of a reporter who knew too much]] and this was his solution}}. Plus, keep in mind he's the one who turned Seras...

** When he did turn the reporter, he took his time and the death itself seemed very sensual. The interesting part was that the reporter had blond hair, dark skin, and blue eyes, similar to Integra Hellsing, his master; also, his eyes were on her the entire time. One may infer that it may have been an indirect way of saying [[Ship Tease|"This could be you" ]].

* ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' is horrific when it comes to this; its vampires feed through their ''hands''. In the first series, one feeds using his ''hair''. It comes across like the vines from ''[[The Ruins]]''.

* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' is horrific when it comes to this; its vampires feed through their ''hands''. In the first series, one feeds using his ''hair''. It comes across like the vines from ''[[The Ruins]]''.

* Happened once to the titular [[Dark Magical Girl]] in the ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'' OAV. {{spoiler|The first human she bit after her powers came to the surface, one of her classmates at school, died.}} In a subversion, {{spoiler|Miyu didn't brutalize the poor girl, only biting her and sucking off almost all of her blood off-screen (we only see her passed out on the ground), and we learn about her also off-screen death a bit later.}}

* ''[[Gantz]]'' has this trope in spades, to the point where we see a metal tub being filled with blood after a vampire cut a few womens' heads off. They don't care how they get the blood - they just want it.

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*** Bat shaped shadow in the night sky? Unusual? This is ''Gotham'' we're talking about...

* Mina Murray from ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' wears a red scarf to hide the scars from her attack by Dracula. Alan Moore [[Our Vampires Are Different|decided that vampires would feed like vampire]] ''[[Our Vampires Are Different|bats]];'' i.e. grind the skin into hamburger with nasty serrated teeth, and lap up what comes out. So, Mina's scars are not the "pair of discreet puncture wounds" of legend, but massive and disfiguring. [[The Film of the Book]] goes with the traditional bite look, the way the ''book'' had it.

* Vampires in ''[[Preacher]]'' rip out the side of their victim's neck. The perils of not having fangs...

* Vampires in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' rip out the side of their victim's neck. The perils of not having fangs...

* The vampires in the [[Gorn|guro]] comic ''Elizabeth Bathory'' by "Raulo" are extremely violent, often partly eating their victims after drinking the blood or even mutilating each other just for fun and letting their [[Healing Factor]] take care of the aftermath.

* The traditional bitemarks are [[Lampshaded]] in Joann Sfar's ''Vampire Loves''- protagonist Ferdinand bites his [[Heavy Sleeper|sleeping victims]] with one fang, so that they think it's a mosquito bite.

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* John Carpenter's ''Vampires'' features vampires who don't suck blood so much as tear a hole in your carotid and lap at the fountain.

* While most of the vampire attacks in ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers (Film)|The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'' are on the jugular, at a certain point a man is brought in with vampire bites ''all over his body'', and hardly any blood left.

* In ''[[Near Dark]]'' the vampires, like Cassidy in ''[[Preacher]]'', usually tear the neck open - Severen is shown to be the vampire equivalent of a messy eater - but it's not the only way to feed. Diamondback also cuts a woman's throat and drains the blood into a beer glass, proving that the vampires aren't fussy about how they get blood, as long as they get it.

* In ''[[Near Dark]]'' the vampires, like Cassidy in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', usually tear the neck open - Severen is shown to be the vampire equivalent of a messy eater - but it's not the only way to feed. Diamondback also cuts a woman's throat and drains the blood into a beer glass, proving that the vampires aren't fussy about how they get blood, as long as they get it.

* In the Dracula-display segmfiancé's'Waxwork'', the vampires not only drink the fiance's blood, they {{spoiler|butcher his leg ''while he's still alive'', then share the raw meat with his bride as "steak tartar"}}.

* The female vampires in ''[[Count Yorga]]'' are like this, biting their victims anywhere to drain their blood, leaving bite marks all over the body. Oddly though the title character, Yorga, when feeding on his female victims is nowhere near as messy, just leaving pinpricks on their necks.

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* Due to the [[Media Watchdogs]], the 90's ''Animated [[Spider-Man]]'' series couldn't have its adaptation of [[Morbius]] the [[Our Vampires Are Different|Living Vampire]] (a genetic researcher transformed into a vampire-like being through a failed experiment- in this case, being bitten by a vampire bat that drank some of Spider-man's blood Morbius was irradiating to examine how it was created) drink blood by biting necks, the way the comic version did. So, to get around this, they gave him a set of five [[Body Horror|sucking, rasping]] lamprey-like mouth/orifices in each [[Squick|hand]]. These usually were depicted as leaving bloody holes wherever Morbius had touched a victim to feed- and he tended to feed by clasping both hands onto a human's ''face''.

** Also he was always [[Never Say Die|draining "plasma"]], not blood.

** The writers must be [[Shout Out|fans of the above]] ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''.

** The writers must be [[Shout Out|fans of the above]] ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''.