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'''Dracula:''' ''Nuh-uh -- Dracula don't suck.''<br />

'''Grim:''' ''You're a vampire! Vampires suck... blood!''<br />

 

Vampires need blood to survive. Some can survive on the [[Vegetarian Vampire|blood of lesser creatures]] -- rats, cats, dogs, etc. But their beverage of preference and choice is almost always human blood.

** Actually, Alucard doesn't feed on humans. He just kills, often in absurdly brutal ways. It's implied that he feeds using blood packs.

*** He can just flat out absorb blood that's anywhere nearby, if so inclined- {{spoiler|in the manga, he calls ''rivers'' of spilt blood to him through the streets of London, then a war zone; and in the anime, he revives himself using the blood spilt in the tower of London}}. But feeding or no, he'll make a mess of you because it's ''fun''.

** 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" ]].

* 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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** Then again, one of Batman's villains is Man-Bat, a giant bat.

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

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Lost Boys]]'', David's crew descends on [[Make-Out Point]] to tear the roofs off cars and tear open the skulls of their victims.

* In the movie ''[[Innocent Blood]]'', the vampire rips the victim's throat out like an animal, which is kind of a subversion because otherwise she's a cute, sexy [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]].

* The vampires in the ''[[Blade]]'' movies are all savage and vicious.

* The vampires in ''Daybreakers'' are particularly violent, especially when starved. At one point a swarm of them rip a man's head off just to spill more claret.

* ''[[I Am Legend]]'' has creatures purported to be violent and messy, but we never really get a good look at their feeding habits.

* 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.

* 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"}}.

* In ''[[Let the Right One In]]'' Eli has to snap the necks of her victims, drop them out of windows or otherwise end their suffering. Up until then they're still struggling around and twitching in agony. In fact, the process is so distressing to all concerned that she prefers to have her [[The Renfield|"Dad"]] drain her victims for her.

** Indeed, the one victim that is bitten but not killed, ends up starting to turn into a vampire themself before they decide to commit suicide by sunlight (which drives their friend to seek vengeance against the little monster that attacked them).

* Played with in [[George Romero]]'s ''Martin'' (1977), where the "vampire" is a demented young man. He doesn't bite his victims-- just slashes their arms open with razor blades.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Vampires in the ''[[Laura Caxton]]'' series have a mouthfull of shark-like teeth sharp enough to bite through kevlar like it was butter. They use them for that, too.

* Nancy A. Collins' ''Sonja Blue'' series is full of vampires who are uncaring of the state in which they leave their victims.

** Don't forget the excruciating pain if they don't kill you as the venom spreads.

* Vampires in Kim Harrison's ''[[The Hollows]]'' series leave scars on the necks of their victims.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The vampiric {{spoiler|Lotte Lipp}} on ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' leaves huge, gruesome puncture marks.

* In ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' a full set of tooth marks is left on the victim, and when people are bitten there's the occasional sound like flesh being ''chewed''. Though they can use their [[Mind Control|compulsion]] to make people ignore the pain, or at least forget about it afterward.

* ''Deadliest Warrior'' used a ''freakin' alligator'' as the basis for a vampire's bite in "Vampires vs. Zombies". When the resulting pressure reading was placed into a pneumatic jaw, the "vampire fangs" bit through a "zombie skull", and ''reached the center of the brain''. By comparison, very few non-gunpowder weapons tested on the show have been able to penetrate that deeply into the skull. {{spoiler|The bite ultimately counted for less than 5 percent of the vampire's kills; based on the data, the vampires simply chose to strike the zombies down instead of biting them.}}

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The Giovanni clan, on the other hand, have a bite that not only does more damage than your regular bite, it ''really freaking hurts''. Fortunately, the Giovanni are a well-connected clan of few moral compunctions, so there's always a steady stream of not-quite-willing food... Or corpses, who are in no position to feel anything from it. Given that the clan is renown for their necromantic abilities and zombies have no need of blood anyway, the latter is basically killing two birds with one stone for them.

** A vampire with the four-point Flaw of 'Grip of the Damned' gives the victims of his feeding absolutely no pleasure whatsoever -- only terror and pain. The vampire is forced to grapple with their struggling victim for as long as he wishes to take their blood, which tends to pose a problem for those with a high [[Karma Meter|Humanity]].

** In addition, there is the Nagaraja bloodline, whose members need to eat the flesh (major organs, mainly) as well as the blood of their victims, and a Flaw called 'Conspicuous Consumption' -- a delusion that causes the same effect to other vampires. Needless to say, "The Kiss" is not an option to these vampires unless they want to put down their victim painlessly by blood drain first.

** The Noctuku, a Nosferatu bloodline that has the irrestistable urge to devour the flesh of their prey. Of course, they can't ''digest'' it, which makes their dinners rather... unpleasant. For bonus points, they actually revel in this, and prefer hunting other vampires to anything else.

** Then there's the Qedeshah, another [[Prestige Class|bloodline]]: not only does their bite hurt, but any attempts to Embrace men end in screaming, painful agony.

** The Norvegi bloodline, whose inherited flaw is that they lack fangs. That means that they have to use something sharp, and it hurts precisely as much as some bastard slitting your wrist with a knife then latching onto it and trying to suck your blood out does. Which is to say, a lot. On the other hand, their special power, [[Body Horror|Bloodworking]], does mean that they can turn their hands into organic bone-knives which drain your blood when you're stabbed. Still hurts like hell, though.

** While they still experience the pleasurable intoxication that most vampire bites cause, victims of the Eupraxus bloodline have a problem when it comes to being fed from - the vampire cannot lick the wound to close it. This often leads to the unfortunate situation of a human haemorrhaging to death while still moaning pleasureably, at least until the intoxication wears off. And because their bitemarks don't heal, being embraced by one of these vampires leads to an eternity of wearing scarves or roll neck jumpers just to cover the holes in your throat.

* The ''Monster Manuscript'' was a booklet giving D&D stats and painting instructions from some Grenadier miniatures from the early '80s. One of the listed monsters is a "velanmorg", an elven vampire that messily plays out this trope, ripping victims' throats out and greedily guzzling the fountaining blood. Their claws hold the struggling prey securely as it bleeds out.

* ''[[Tabletop Game]][[Rifts]]'' Vampires have a "Killing Bite" that's powerful enough to penetrate armor. Wild Vampires don't bite any other way.

* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', assuming the vampire doesn't just eat you, the bite is actually pretty mild. Unfortunately, the vampire will also put a little of its ''own'' blood back into you, which is horribly painful as well as making it feel like you have mud in your veins, whatever that means.

** You can get a good approximation by completely covering yourself in, preferably cold, mud. You become sluggish due to cold and the weight of the mud. You entire body becomes harder to move as the mud hardens and dries. But then again, this is just mud. You can brush it off. Not when it's inside you, though.

* Rayne's full body, arm-and-thigh-locking embrace appears to stun her victims with pleasure in ''[[Blood Rayne]]''. But if the Kiss is ever broken, Mooks can go right back to attacking without a lingering pause.

* [[Legacy of Kain|Kain]] has shown a preference for [[Neck Lift|hoisting victims into the air with one hand]] and then gruesomely chowing down on their jugular-- with crunching noises-- when he isn't telekinetically vacuuming their blood from afar.

* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' also nods to vampire bats in the episode "Fear And Loathing In Endsville", as quoted above.

* 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''.

 

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