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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Everybody wants to be a bat...''}}
[[Evil Is Cool|Vampires are cool]]. [[Vampires Are Rich]] and [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|powerful]]. [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]]. Who wouldn't [[Misaimed Fandom|want]] to be a vampire?
Vampires are surrounded by humans who, while they haven't been bitten, do their masters' bidding ''[[Working for
The wannabe's desire can be justified, if the work's [[Our Vampires Are Different|version of vampires]] are [[Cursed
Can work as a deconstruction of the exponential population growth that would result from the more traditional "[[The Virus|everyone bitten becomes a vampire]]" model - in this case, the familiars may be [[People Farms|feedstock]] as well, with conversion requiring some more complicated ritual the vampire can choose to initiate.
Polar opposite of [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]], although that can be the end result if the gig [[Being Evil Sucks|isn't all it was]] [[Lonely
{{examples|Examples: }}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'', one of Count Lee's minions is in it for the goal of becoming a vampire himself one day.
* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', several members of the British army and government betray their home country in the hopes of getting turned. The ones that do get turned are easily destroyed by the Hellsing Organization or indeed [[Rewarded
* Not necessarily vampires, but groups of Homunculi in ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' are often assisted by humans called familiars, who [[The Quisling|help the homunculi when possible in the hopes of becoming humanoid homunculi themselves]]. [[You Have Failed Me...|Failure results in being eaten]].
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* In the graphic novel ''[[Life Sucks]]'', Dave and his friend Jerome, who are actually vampires, have a good laugh at a Goth guy who goes around in a black cape using a fake Transylvanian accent. More seriously, Dave's crush Rosa wants to be a vampire, based on her fantasy of vampires being rich, cultured and sexy.
* There is a [[Jhonen Vasquez]] story where a Goth boy who wants to be a vampire for real finally meets an undead guy willing to grant his wish. The results... [[Looks Like Orlok|aren't pretty]].
** The vampire claims that beauty would come with time and patience, which was a downright lie, as the condition only got worse.
*** Though it manages to play it straight ''and'' subvert it- while Eric (the victim) is one hideous vampire, the one who did the turning was plenty attractive.
* Les Enfants du Sang in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''. Weird goths who act as groupies to the Lestat parody Ecarius.
* For a vampire wannabe who has actual powers to back it up, ''[[Chew]]'' has the The Vampire, a criminal who dresses and acts like a vampire so he can scare his enemies. Due to his cibopathy, he's able to get psychic impressions off the things he eats. He prefers to use this to drink blood and gain the knowledge of his victims.
* The vampiric ''[[Batman]]'' villain called the Monk has a minion named Dala who, in her modern incarnation, is a [[Goth]] human who wants to become a vampire. In earlier incarnations she was a vampire herself.
* The ''[[Hack Slash]]'' story ''Murder Messiah'' had a normal human serial killer who wanted to become a slasher. He assumed the best way to try and figure out how was by getting Cassie's attention.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* The vampire AU is its own genre in many fandoms.
* ''[[My Immortal]]''.
== Film ==
* All the ''[[Blade (
▲* All the ''[[Blade (Film)|Blade]]'' films feature [[Scannable Man]] versions of these, known as "familiars"; they have the glyph of the vampire who owns them tattooed somewhere on their body. Some of them serve because they believe that it will protect them from being bled dry. Doesn't always work.
* ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan|The Vampire's Assistant]]''.
* Dracula's groupies in various [[Hammer Horror]] flicks.
* The Stranger from ''[[
* The main character in the ''Tales from the Grave, Volume 2: Happy Holidays'' segment "Love Bites".
* ''[[
* The "vampire" in ''[[Transylvania 6-5000]]'' turns out to be a once-ugly woman who began dressing like one to get attention, and continued to do so even after plastic surgery made her gorgeous.
* The premise of the George A. Romero film ''Martin''.
== Literature ==
* Even ''[[Dracula (
* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'', Darren's friend was like this, to the point of blackmailing a vampire to try and get bitten.
* At the end of ''[[Interview
** Daniel Molloy (the journalist) actually spends a decent chunk of ''Queen of the Damned'' as Armand's [[Ho Yay|companion]], constantly begging to be turned. Armand only does it to save Daniel from alcoholism. Daniel ends up losing his mind later, this time under Marius's wing.
** On the flipside is David Talbot, an old man in charge of an organization that studies the supernatural. Lestat constantly offers to turn him, only for David to refuse on the grounds that he is too old. When David gets a new, younger, body (''Tale of the Body Thief''), Lestat turns him by force [[For the Evulz]].
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels:
** Arthur and Doreen Winkings
** ''[[
** Marginal notations in the vampires' edition of the [[All There in the Manual|Discworld Diary]] suggest that one member of Ankh-Morpork's [[Vegetarian Vampire|League of Temperance]] is actually a human who ''looks'' like a vampire and enjoys hanging around with them. Even the other League members are fooled.
* In ''[[Twilight (
*
* In [[George
▲* In [[George RR Martin]]'s ''[[Fevre Dream]]'', this is how Damon Julian, the leader of the evil vampires, motivates his competent (but not too bright) human servant. However, [[Our Vampires Are Different|in this setting]], it isn't even possible for humans to be made into vampires. Apparently, Damon likes to string his servants along with the promise of eventually being turned as a reward for their service, then when they're too old to be useful, he abandons them and doesn't even have the decency to end their wretched lives. A good vampire encounters one such former servant and realizes the old man has been murdering and eating people in a hopeless attempt at prolonging his life.
* ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' has a werewolf wannabe in the form of [[Big Bad]] Sarapen's spy Madrigal. You can guess [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|how this went]].
* Red Court vampires in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' tend to attract groupies like this. Some of them mistakenly believe they can become immortal;<ref>Only Red Court nobility is allowed to turn humans, and while a vampire will retain all the memories of the original, they're a completely different, demonic entity with a different personality</ref>
** The short story "It's My Birthday, Too" deals with a somewhat unpopular member of a ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade
* The [[Kitty Norville]] series has several callers who want to be turned into vampires, werewolves, etc. Kitty's advice is always that it is [[Be Careful What You Wish For|a one-way trip to a life that's not as romantic as it sounds]]. Don't do it.
* In [[Poppy Z. Brite]]'s ''Lost Souls'', Christian runs into some of these, of course with Poppy Z's vamps being a totally different species, he just tells them he will and then eats them.
* In the novel ''Twelve'', {{spoiler|one of the vampire wannabes isn't a vampire. This is a major surprise to the reader, the main character, and in the sequel, even to other vampires.}} Being able to pretend to be a blood-sucking torture-loving inhuman monster is ''not'' played for laughs.
* In the [[Shadowrun]]/[[Earthdawn]] novel ''Worlds Without End'', an immortal elf recalls being confronted by a mortal who'd figured out her secret and demanded she make him immortal as well. {{spoiler|She stages a fake "conversion ritual" in which she cusses him out viciously in long-dead languages, then causes him to die of a brain aneurysm.}}
* In the first of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short stories "Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot," the Fool spends night after night waiting in a graveyard in hopes of being turned into a vampire because of the [[Immortality Seeker|promise of eternal life]]. But when he finally explains his motivation to a real vampire, it laughs at him for thinking being [[Undead]] is anything like being alive.
* In ''[[The Parasol Protectorate]]'' series of books, both vampires and werewolves have human followers who serve their masters out of their own volition in the hopes of becoming vampires/werewolves themselves. Coincidentally, the ones serving vampires are called "[[The Renfield|Renfields]]" and even behave like more sane, competent versions of their inspiration.
== Live-Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' featured a group of vampire wannabes who thought they were going to be turned. {{spoiler|They were really going to be food, as a payment of sorts from the one character who was actually going to be turned (who was dying of cancer).}}
** Also, there's an episode of ''[[Angel]]'' (Eternity, S01E17), where an actress wants to become a vampire for the eternal youth. After getting a glimpse of soulless Angel and finding what being a vampire was really about, she ran off and never returned.
** The ''Angel'' comic book is currently using this plot, with a group of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"Fangbangers"]] in ''[[True Blood]]'' and ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' fit this to a T. On the other hand, the main character Sookie is a subversion as she has repeatedly said she doesn't want to be a vampire, she just [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|likes them because she can't hear their thoughts]].
** Actually, most fangbangers apparently have no desire of being turned themselves. They just like to have vampiric sex partners.
* In ''[[
* One of the clients in ''[[The Collector (TV series)|The Collector]]'' made a [[Deal
* After [[Vegetarian Vampire|Mitchell]] tells the vampires in ''[[Being Human (
* Twice in ''[[Dracula The Series]]''. First in "The Vampire Solution", when Gustav goes to save his friend Arthur Bauer only to find out {{spoiler|he planned to be captured}} and another time in "Bats In The Attic" {{spoiler|Subverted in the fact that Lawrence Lei already is a vampire}}.
* In an episode of ''[[Sanctuary]]'', a group of college dropouts get turned into vampires, and then quickly fall headlong into this trope, trying to turn their friends into groupies. The resident True Vampire tries to convince them that it's not everything the stories (or even his own papers on the subject) say, yet.
** Tesla's plan is to make them into vamps over several decades. Presumably, by that point they're a little wiser. He doesn't anticipate one of them crashing his car and dying, which triggers a premature change. He then proceeds to kill all his friends who attended the same rehab clinic (a front for Tesla's research), turning them as well. They then attempt to bite a friend of theirs only for him to bleed out on the floor. [[Our Vampires Are Different|Biting doesn't work]]. Then again, they're not true vampires, and neither is Tesla. All true vamps were killed centuries ago.
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Live Free or Twi-Hard", the alpha vampire has his minions target and turn young women interested in being Bella to their Edward. Unfortunately for them, the vampires of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' are [[Our Vampires Are Different|much less sparkly.]]
* The villain of the ''[[Fear Itself]]'' episode "Something with Bite" was a man copycatting werewolves in the hope of attracting the attention of a real one who could turn him.
* Robin in ''[[Young Dracula]]''.
* An episode of [[The X
== Tabletop Games ==
* "Wannabe Vampire" is a monster in ''[[Munchkin (
* A sort of Meta example happens in ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]].'' This trope is played straight(ish) with a lot of Ghouls and the blood addicted, but there is a [[Prestige Class|vampire bloodline]], The Players, who want to be the stereotypical "cool" vampires. Y'see, the game has five vampire clans; the sexy ones are the Daeva, and the shadowy ones are the Mekhet. The Players are what happened when a Mekhet wanted ''really badly'' to be like the Daeva. The result? They gained some of their special powers, but not their actual "cool". Every time a Player fails an action using a power, those who witnessed it see him as the poser he is and are ''immune to further uses of that power.''
** Ironically, other vampires are at the least wary of them, if not outright ''scared'' - because with the way vampires work, something that weak ''has'' to have some nasty surprises in store... right?
* Lahmian vampires in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are a sect of [[The Vamp|Vamps]] so alluring they can control men's minds. Their army list includes mortal human characters fighting for their favour.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Cthulhu Companion'', adventure "The Rescue". Jocko wants to become a werewolf like Rafe Pelton. Pelton has lied to him, telling him he can gain the power of transformation by performing ludicrous and humiliating "meditative rites".
* In the spoof of ''[[Twilight]]'' 4th Edition [[Dungeons
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Morrowind]]'' featured an optional quest only for players who had become vampires. It featured a mother hoping you could talk some sense into her son, who wanted desperately to be turned. If you tried to fight him, you'd kill him easily. The only way to complete the quest was to let him wail on you for a while until he decided vampires were weak and overrated.
** The chance to become a vampire is offered as a reward for achieving a certain rank in the Dark Brotherhood in ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four|Oblivion]]''.
* ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] 4'' had captain Enric, who betrays his village and frames a random barbarian warlord with it's destruction, when the necromancer Gauldoth promises to turn him into a vampire. Later while scavenging the remains of a village under Gauldoth's jurisdiction, that was destroyed in a demon raid, Vampire Enric attacks a survivor for her blood, because it's what vampires do. Gauldoth [[Lawful Neutral|being the way he is]], stops Enric and brutally executes him as an example to anyone who harms his living subjects.
== Web Comics ==
* Parodied in [http://wondermark.com/241/ this] ''[[Wondermark]]'' strip.
* Cal Warden's army of fangirls, who attack [[Spinnerette]].
* ''[[The Kingfisher]]'' has at least one vampire wannabe, who misses her big chance and does not become a significant character: Arsonella Jones.
== Western Animation ==
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