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* Seraphim and Sarasvasti from ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]''. Especially Sera - she just stepped on to the stage and was instantly ranked number 7.
* ''[[Vassalord]]'' lives and breathes this trope, being a [[Ho Yay]]-drenched manga about a pair of extremely sexy male vampires who spend a lot of their pagetime having [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|not-quite-sex-but-it-sure-does-look-it]] with each other.
* In the episode of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' where Camula first appears, many of the male students comment on her beauty, one of the female students remarking "she'd better stay away from ''my'' boyfriend!". However, none of the main cast share this opinion, especially when her sadistic nature is openly displayed.
 
* ''[[Interspecies Reviewers]]'' subverts this, as only one vampire succu-girl - Soufu - has appeared; only the owner of the brothel where she works is allowed to have her, and he is a vampire himself. He does give her a respectable review score of 8, though.
 
== Comic Books ==
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* Played straight with Ragamuffin, who is drawn as a very attractive [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] male by most ''[[Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl]]'' fans. In the original comics, this is not quite clear as all the characters are caricatures, although the titular Lenore is mentioned to be extremely cute, in spite of her quite [[Grotesque Cute|grotesque, morbid]] traits. This implies that both Lenore and Ragamuffin would be beautiful if they were realistically portrayed.
* Vampires in ''[[Life Sucks]]'' aren't necessarily any better-looking than humans, but with the ability to [[Charm Person|cloud the minds of others]] comes the potential to force others to fall in love with them. The protagonist describes it as glorified date rape.
 
 
== Fan Works ==
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** [[Squick|Now mark the next full moon on your calendar.]]
 
== Film ==
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The original ''[[Dracula]]'' made [[Bela Lugosi]] a sex symbol.
** [[Christopher Lee]] didn't do too badly with the character either.
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** Who could forget [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24czSl30EmA Dracula's brides] and their...''interesting'' use of the furniture.
* Dracula and his three vampire brides in [[Dracula 2000]]. One of the brides, Solina, lampshades this trope by drawing a connection between vampires and lovers.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast| Santanico Pandemonium]] in ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]''; she is a ''vampire stripper'', which is how she and her pack lure prey to their doom.
 
 
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'': Alexander Sterling.
** Alternatively, his cousin Claude. You know, the one that hits on all the girls, single or not.
* Many of the Magpyr clan in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''.:
** Many of the Magpyr clan in ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]''.
** Also, to quote Otto in ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', "[[Vampire Vords|Vell, let's just say, zey don't]]''[[Vampire Vords|alvays]]''[[Vampire Vords|scream]]."
** This is [[Theory of Narrative Causality|pretty much a rule on the Disc]]. In ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]'', it is commented that female vampires look stunning in just about anything, and that, unlike males, they can't reform their clothing when changing back to their human form, 'probably due to all that underwired nightdress business.'
** Subverted for laughs in ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'' with a pair of overweight, middle-aged, Morporkian vampires who'd certainly ''like'' to be sexy and elegant.
*** And the Countess isn't even a vampire proper - she's just pretending because her husband inherited vampirism with the title, well past the point where biting the missus was likely to happen.
** Lady Margalotta is described as attractive, but resembling "a woman of a certain age".
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* ''[[Necroscope]]'' goes interesting directions with this trope. Its vampires have [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|impressive shapeshifting capabilities]], which, though [[Body Horror|unpleasant to look at]], can [[Exotic Equipment|greatly enhance sex]]. Then, [[Vagina Dentata|when it's]] [[Out with a Bang|time to]] [[Squick|feed]]...
* [[Vampire Hunter D]]. Full stop. [[Even the Guys Want Him]]. He pretty much has a lust aura. Other Nobles as well, to a lesser extent.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[Sanctuary]]'': Helen Magnus has yet to be convinced of this. [[Evil Is Sexy|The fanbase]], on the other hand, has embraced Nikola Tesla - he with the constant plans for world domination - with ''quite'' a passion.
 
== Music ==
* Strongly suggested in the video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo "Total Eclipse of the Heart"] by [[Bonnie Tyler]]. In fact, that may be the true point of the song. Composer Jim Steinman claimed he originally wrote it for a musical version of ''[[Nosferatu]'' that was never completed, and later included it his 1997 musical ''[[Dance of the Vampires]]''. When one listens to the lyrics, it does indeed seem possible that the protagonist is a lovelorn woman staring into darkness and waiting for a vampire lover to come and take her...
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' has the Toreador, Anne Rice-style vampires who stick close to humanity (especially its artists). It helps that they have powers that make them the center of attention.
** ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' features the Daeva, spiritual heirs to the Toreador who are often called "[[Horny Devils|Succubi]]" by other vampires for obvious reasons. They carry on the tradition of powers that can make everyone in the room fall in love with them, and the new weakness of having to indulge their Vices at every opportunity or take a hit to their will (most often [[Lust]] or [[Villainous Glutton|Gluttony]], but a Daeva with Wrath as their Vice is...something to run away from).
*** The Daeva may be ''actual'' sex gods. Their splat has stories of them being descended from Inanna/Ishtar, a sex goddess of conflict, so, at the very least, they're children of a sex goddess.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** The third- party ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' sourcebook ''The Book of Erotic Fantasy'' has a section on inter-creature-type sex, with a passage on a wizard who, over the course of his relationship with the vampire Duskgleam, discovered that having sex with a vampire is like having sex with "ice covered in thick velvet".
** [[Fridge Logic|Is that...]][[Groin Attack|supposed to be a good thing...?]]
*** [[Fetish Fuel|Yes.]]
** In mainstream ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', Kanchelsis, the god of Blood, Debauchery, Magic, and Vampirism [[Split Personality|has two aspects]], one of which is literally titled the Rake. This aspect is pretty much the embodiment of this Trope.<ref>The other is called the Beast, which personifies a vampire's predatory nature and savagery.</ref>
** In the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting, vampyres (who are similar to vampires, but are living - not undead - predators) often weaponize this Trope intentionally, dressing as harlots in order to attract prey.
* The Lahmia bloodline of vampires in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' consists entirely of gorgeous [[Femme Fatale]]s. This stands them in marked contrast to the Necrarch and Strigoi bloodlines, who appear to be withered corpses and feral corpse-men, respectively. The Von Carstein and Blood Dragon lineages can go either way.
** It would be more accurate to say that the Blood Dragons go either way, as while the Von Carsteins don't quite have the same reputation as the Lahmians, they are still intensely charismatic aristocrats and more or less unanimously attractive. While the Blood Dragons still consist of a high proportion of aristocrats, and some of them act like they're in a courtly romance novel, the majority live in the woods or other out of the way places, training constantly and murdering anyone that they think might give a good fight, which is hardly conducive to attracting women.
** They are typically described in the novels as much more attractive than their miniatures, all of whom have their [[Game Face]] on.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has a whole "Vampire" archetype, and some might fit.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'', Geralt encounters a brothel of vampires. Possibly the savviest of their kind, they drink the blood of their clients as payment, enabling them to feed without killing, which lets them avoid being the feared and hated monsters most vampires are viewed as.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vampire_Lady Vampire Lady], of course. Even more so in [https://yugioh-arcv.fandom.com/wiki/File:Vampire_Lady.png the anime shot].
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vampire_Vamp Vampire Vamp] even more. While the TCG version made her clothes less risque, they did nothing to conceal the bed and her beckoning gesture - it seems obvious [[The Vamp| what her intentions are]]. The [https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=6208 TCG Newsletter] even confirms that her effect - Equipping an opposing monster to her card - is an interpretation of a vampire mesmerizing and seducing a victim.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vampire_Fascinator Vampire Fascinator] too, although her Japanese concept art and Effect suggest many of her seduced victims are other vampires.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Nitara from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' ''Deadly Alliance''.
* Lampshaded in ''Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines''. When you try to seduce the guy selling blood in the hospital, he says, "I don't do dead chicks."
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* Dracula in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series has tons of sex appeal, whether he's drawn in his mid 20s or early 40s. [[The Vamp|Carmilla]] says as much in ''Judgment'', and she's the [[Lesbian Vampire]] [[Trope Codifier]]!
** [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080227202204/castlevania/images/2/27/Alucard_002.jpg Apparently, it's hereditary.]
*** {{spoiler|Interestingly, even human incantations of either Dracula or Alucard share the same aspects. The few instances we see of Dracula as human or reincarnated as human doesn't seem to lack in sex appeal, and even Alucard as Genya had the description of being "very cold but inhumanly attractive".}}
*** {{spoiler|And Soma, the latest incarnation of the Dark Lord, is pretty easy on the eyes too...}}
* In ''[[Sam and Max|The Tomb of Sammun-Max]]'', Nefertiti the mole girl finds Jurgen irresistible. Admittedly, even ''before'' he becomes a vampire, but even moreso after that. Jurgen lampshades this.
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* ''[[Darkstalkers]]'': Demitri Maximoff. Dude resides in an [[Big Fancy Castle|elegant]] ([[Haunted Castle|albeit otherworldly]]) [[Big Fancy Castle|castle]] and has an outrageously huge harem of female servants to do his bidding. Hell, in the ''Night Warriors''/''Vampire Hunter'' [[Anime of the Game|OVA]], he even manages to eventually sway '''''[[Horny Devils|Mo]][[Femme Fatale|rr]][[Hello, Nurse!|ig]][[Ms. Fanservice|an]]''''' with his charm.
* A variation in ''[[The Witcher]]''. For the most part, vampires are generic monsters to kill, but there's one particularly intelligent vampire who is the madam of a high-class brothel. (And, like so many other women in the game, [[Ethical Slut|Geralt]] can sleep with her.)
* Lady Dimitrescu from ''[[Resident Evil: Village]]'' is considered a vampire by fans ''because'' she is seen as a sex goddess. Lore-wise, she is a Cadou-infected human like the other members of the cult and thus not a vampire like the other (less attractive) members of the cult, at least not by traditional definitions.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
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* [[Vamp You]] is a vampire porn site. Enough said.
* Obligatory ''[[Cracked.com]]'' example: [http://www.cracked.com/video_18261_why-everyone-wants-to-have-sex-with-vampires.html "Why Everyone Wants to Have Sex with Vampires."]
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* From ''[[Inside Job]]'', {{spoiler|[[Keanu Reeves]] is (much like many other A-list male actors) a vampire whose unholy feeding keeps him eternally young. Tamiko (the protagonist's mother, who is dating him) cannot stop talking about his romantic personality and sexual prowess. Although unlike most names on this list (and other such vampires), his love for Tamiko is genuine.}}
 
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