Tropescilloscope: Our Vampires Are Different

The original vampire myths couldn't keep the details straight, either. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Due to the Dead The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mugging the Monster Artistic License – Law Hypocrite The Casanova Bring My Brown Pants The Dog Bites Back Agony of the Feet Laughing Mad The Musical Evil Plan Fat Bastard Bowdlerise Important Haircut Bloodier and Gorier Bunny-Ears Lawyer Large Ham Awesome, but Impractical Improbable Aiming Skills Parental Incest French Films Cloudcuckoolander The Hero Dies Logo Joke Australian Movies My Greatest Failure Decoy Protagonist Trailers Always Spoil Fainting Bavarian Fire Drill The Starscream Kick the Son of a Bitch Stalker with a Crush Cat Fight Dark and Troubled Past As the Good Book Says... Get Out! Groin Attack Sports Stories Five-Man Band Does This Remind You of Anything? Evil Is Hammy Evil Is Petty One Steve Limit The Sociopath Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Moment Killer Obstructive Bureaucrat Ax-Crazy Unusually Uninteresting Sight More Dakka Artistic License – Gun Safety Establishing Character Moment Worthy Opponent Batman Gambit My God, What Have I Done? Villain Ball Hair-Trigger Temper Visual Pun Adaptation Distillation Karmic Death Spiritual Successor Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Monumental Damage Damsel in Distress Those Two Guys Beauty Is Never Tarnished War Is Hell Chekhov's Gun Good Is Not Nice Christmas Movies Index Red Herring Badass Grandpa Not So Stoic Fanservice Extra Easily Forgiven Big Applesauce Romantic False Lead Unspoken Plan Guarantee Would Hurt a Child Make It Look Like an Accident Camp Gay Names to Run Away from Really Fast Insane Troll Logic Fire-Forged Friends Whole Plot Reference Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fingore Jerkass Has a Point Last-Name Basis Exactly What It Says on the Tin Foregone Conclusion Death by Sex The Bad Guy Wins A.I. Is a Crapshoot Vitriolic Best Buds Nice Hat Instant Death Bullet Poor Communication Kills No Name Given Evil vs. Evil The Chick Catapult Nightmare Only in It for the Money Reality Ensues Pretty in Mink Drugs Are Bad Hate Sink Insistent Terminology Ass Shove It Will Never Catch On Morality Pet Obfuscating Stupidity Dying Moment of Awesome Smug Snake Shirtless Scene It Can Think Anti-Villain Put on a Bus Disguised in Drag The Alcoholic Auto Erotica Bittersweet Ending I Did What I Had to Do Covers Always Lie Canadian Movies Slasher Movie Stock Footage Broken Bird Bad Boss Artistic License – Physics Break the Cutie Gorn Super Strength Not Quite Dead Works Set in World War II Martial Arts Movie Famous Last Words Implacable Man Fish out of Water Non-Indicative Name Green-Eyed Monster Here We Go Again! Manly Tears Mooks Big Fancy House The Voiceless Star-Crossed Lovers Character Development Shower Scene Meaningful Echo Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Paper-Thin Disguise Lighter and Softer Same Language Dub Small Name, Big Ego Adaptational Heroism Accidental Misnaming Guns Akimbo Pay Evil unto Evil Knight Templar Yandere Pragmatic Villainy Failed a Spot Check Reality Has No Subtitles Dies Wide Open Word of God Coming-of-Age Story Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ship Tease Brother–Sister Incest Refuge in Audacity You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! From Bad to Worse Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Call-Forward Leaning on the Fourth Wall Eureka Moment I'm a Humanitarian The '80s Token Minority Body Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed Russian Films Dramatic Gun Cock Intergenerational Friendship Interrupted Suicide Babies Ever After Film Series Hidden Depths Epic Fail "Awesome McCool" Name Badass Longcoat Demonic Possession Sci-Fi Horror Wham Line Historical Villain Upgrade Silence Is Golden Determinator Ripped from the Headlines Plot Hole Advertised Extra Diabolus ex Machina Shoot the Shaggy Dog Chekhov's Skill Big Bad The End... Or Is It? Becoming the Mask Made of Explodium Deconstruction Hollywood Law Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Peek-a-Boo Corpse Those Wacky Nazis Curse Cut Short No Ending Artistic License – History Men Are the Expendable Gender Belligerent Sexual Tension The Big Guy Evil-Detecting Dog Half the Man He Used to Be For the Evulz Age Lift Ms. Fanservice Stylistic Suck Kill It with Fire Lampshade Hanging Vacation Films Back from the Dead Bury Your Gays Rule of Symbolism Faking the Dead Novelization Foil The Ace And I Must Scream Early Installment Weirdness Storming the Castle Red Shirt Bond One-Liner Daylight Horror Those Two Bad Guys Corpsing Department of Redundancy Department Stealth Pun A Minor Kidroduction Betty and Veronica Cat Scare Loads and Loads of Characters Genre Shift All for Nothing Jitter Cam Never Found the Body Creative Closing Credits Shout-Out What the Hell, Hero? Chiaroscuro Sacrificial Lion Henpecked Husband Older Than They Look Our Zombies Are Different Darker and Edgier Documentary Bolivian Army Ending Dramatic Irony The Cameo Chase Scene Offscreen Moment of Awesome Insult Backfire Humans Are Bastards Annoying Younger Sibling Corrupt Corporate Executive Amusing Injuries Camera Abuse Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Scenery Gorn Suspiciously Similar Substitute Neck Snap No-Sell Villain with Good Publicity Our Vampires Are Different Beware the Nice Ones Heroes Want Redheads Artistic License – Biology Calling the Old Man Out Offscreen Teleportation Your Cheating Heart Gone Horribly Right Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Cool Old Guy Mr. Fanservice Ghost Fiction Parental Substitute Film Noir Index Gilligan Cut The Brute A God Am I Stealth Hi/Bye Didn't Think This Through Superhero Dogged Nice Guy Evil Sounds Deep Killed Mid-Sentence Deliberately Monochrome Irony Re-Cut Despair Event Horizon Kids Are Cruel Posthumous Character Blood Knight Let's Get Dangerous! Gainax Ending Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane MacGuffin Jump Scare Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Reasonable Authority Figure Animal Motifs Serial Killer Aluminum Christmas Trees The Ditz Every Car Is a Pinto Casting Gag Scare Chord Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Mole Armor-Piercing Question Creator Cameo Bullying a Dragon Gory Discretion Shot Psycho for Hire Dwindling Party Artistic License – Military Bad "Bad Acting" Sassy Black Woman Rape as Drama Dull Surprise Alliterative Name Mexican Standoff Anti-Hero Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Breaking the Fourth Wall Soundtrack Dissonance Be Careful What You Wish For After the End Drowning My Sorrows Missing Mom Bald of Evil Actually Pretty Funny Deadpan Snarker She's Got Legs Zombie Stories Big Brother Instinct Properly Paranoid Horror Films All Just a Dream Malevolent Masked Men Even Evil Has Standards Translation Convention Deus ex Machina Break the Haughty Animal Title Index Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Un-Reveal Gender Flip Running Gag Japanese Films Arch-Enemy Adaptational Villainy Attempted Rape Pyrrhic Victory Sole Survivor The Cavalry Man on Fire What Happened to the Mouse? Pragmatic Adaptation Adaptational Attractiveness Not What It Looks Like Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Villain Protagonist Fourth Date Marriage Dropped a Bridge on Him Dissonant Serenity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Not So Above It All Grey and Gray Morality Male Frontal Nudity Scenery Porn Cassandra Truth Blackmail Historical In-Joke Villain Opening Scene All Men Are Perverts Card-Carrying Villain Affectionate Parody Cool Guns Disproportionate Retribution Disney Death Well-Intentioned Extremist Dirty Coward Bottomless Magazines Bloody Hilarious Love at First Sight Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Daddy's Girl Beta Couple Honor Before Reason Once More, with Clarity! Pretty Little Headshots Rated M for Manly Sadistic Choice Everyone Has Standards Bi the Way Show Within a Show British Films Noodle Incident Rewatch Bonus Riddle for the Ages Title Drop Crucified Hero Shot Military and Warfare Films Car Fu Ambiguous Disorder Hollywood Darkness Bar Brawl Very Loosely Based on a True Story Faux Affably Evil Market-Based Title Homage Handicapped Badass Call-Back You Have Failed Me I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Psychopathic Manchild Credits Gag Flipping the Bird Extremely Short Timespan Eye Scream The Chessmaster Meaningful Name The Vamp And Starring Disappeared Dad Punch-Clock Villain Ironic Echo Retired Badass Politically Incorrect Villain The '90s Sexy Discretion Shot Rule of Three Curb-Stomp Battle Earn Your Happy Ending All There in the Manual Gold Digger Hooker with a Heart of Gold Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Overprotective Dad Loophole Abuse Did Not Get the Girl Destination Defenestration It's All About Me Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Only Sane Man Totally Radical Cool Shades Artistic License – Geography An Axe to Grind Ungrateful Bastard He Knows Too Much Romantic Comedy Cool Car Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Darkest Hour Vampire Fiction Frame-Up Comically Missing the Point Affably Evil Real Life Karma Houdini Arc Words Madness Mantra Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Wounded Gazelle Gambit Country Matters Papa Wolf Broken Pedestal Action Prologue Retirony Foreshadowing Manipulative Bastard A Father to His Men Serious Business Hong Kong Films "Shaggy Dog" Story Ominous Latin Chanting Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Facial Horror The Place Fatal Flaw Take That! Recycled IN SPACE! The Stoic Fanservice Fiery Redhead Wretched Hive 20 Minutes into the Future Crazy-Prepared Mystery and Detective Films The Alleged Car Unusual Euphemism Line-of-Sight Name Fantasy Films Shut Up, Hannibal! Manic Pixie Dream Girl Horror Comedy Made of Iron Action Girl In the Back Too Dumb to Live Adults Are Useless For Want of a Nail Catch-Phrase Sir Swears-a-Lot Intrepid Reporter Developing Doomed Characters Author Avatar Historical-Domain Character Unreliable Narrator Eagleland Contrived Coincidence Married to the Job Big Damn Heroes Product Placement Only a Flesh Wound Off-into-the-Distance Ending Early-Bird Cameo Kick the Dog Hoist by His Own Petard Framing Device Dirty Old Man Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Friend to All Children Male Gaze I Have Your Wife Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Police Brutality The Dragon Punny Name Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Meaningful Background Event Mundane Made Awesome Spiteful Spit No OSHA Compliance Badass Boast Fan Disservice Tap on the Head Taking the Bullet Italian Films Drill Sergeant Nasty The Stinger Hero Antagonist I Need a Freaking Drink Eyepatch of Power Video Credits World of Ham Wrong Genre Savvy An Arm and a Leg I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Captain Ersatz folderlabel Funny Background Event Bare Your Midriff Motor Mouth Undying Loyalty Asshole Victim Disney Villain Death Hero of Another Story Outrun the Fireball Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cain and Abel Face Death with Dignity Random Events Plot An Aesop Femme Fatale Big Eater Domestic Abuse Alpha Bitch Silent Movie Playing Gertrude Rule of Cool Evil Counterpart Real Life Writes the Plot Sanity Slippage Heel Realization Red Oni, Blue Oni Bait-and-Switch Tempting Fate Broken Aesop Death by Adaptation Brainless Beauty Manchild Revenge Continuity Nod Happily Married Together in Death Room Full of Crazy Award-Bait Song Sequel Escalation Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Film of the Book Guile Hero timeperiod All Girls Want Bad Boys Slasher Smile The Load Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Never My Fault Really Gets Around The Atoner Eldritch Abomination Anachronism Stew Villain Song "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Race Against the Clock Knife Nut Arranged Marriage Obviously Evil Mama Bear Heroic Sacrifice Toplessness from the Back Funny Foreigner The Oner Heel–Face Turn Jerk Jock Animated Credits Opening Cool Old Lady Oh, Crap! Air-Vent Passageway May–December Romance Mistaken for Gay Woman in White Major Injury Underreaction Vomit Indiscretion Shot Badass in a Nice Suit Fate Worse than Death Deal with the Devil Mr. Exposition Jerk with a Heart of Gold Say My Name Death Glare Depraved Bisexual Death of a Child Stuff Blowing Up Brick Joke Overly Long Gag A Date with Rosie Palms Off with His Head! Match Cut Bond Villain Stupidity No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Beard of Evil Informed Ability True Companions The Smurfette Principle Double Entendre Spared by the Adaptation Crapsack World Apocalypse How Dressing as the Enemy Action Genre Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The X of Y Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Reckless Gun Usage Red Right Hand Tagline Bloodless Carnage Getting Crap Past the Radar Brutal Honesty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing In Medias Res Creepy Child Ambiguous Ending Maybe Ever After Immune to Bullets Police are Useless Rousing Speech Freeze-Frame Bonus The Lost Lenore Red Eyes, Take Warning Retcon N-Word Privileges Straight Gay Science Fiction Films Biopic The Stoner Abusive Parents Truth in Television Mood Whiplash Slap-Slap-Kiss Cruel and Unusual Death Hope Spot Slashed Throat Author Appeal Final Girl She Cleans Up Nicely Combat Pragmatist Victoria's Secret Compartment Black Comedy Your Head A-Splode Canon Foreigner This Is Gonna Suck No Antagonist BFG Jerkass The '70s Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pet the Dog Black and Gray Morality Shell-Shocked Veteran As Long as It Sounds Foreign One-Man Army Distracted by the Sexy The Reveal Berserk Button Race Lift Improbable Weapon User Psychological Thriller Defiant to the End Twist Ending Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The '60s Nothing Is Scarier What You Are in the Dark Dutch Angle The Lancer Music Stories Only One Name Mind Screw Parental Neglect Blood from the Mouth Big-Bad Ensemble Left the Background Music On Alas, Poor Villain Narrator Bilingual Bonus Rasputinian Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Aside Glance Spanner in the Works Accidental Murder Lock and Load Montage Does Not Like Shoes Actor Allusion Bound and Gagged From Nobody to Nightmare Downer Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Badass Bookworm Self-Deprecation Plucky Comic Relief Fake Shemp Exact Words You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Vomit Discretion Shot Big "NO!" Film Noir Deliberate Values Dissonance Even Evil Has Loved Ones Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Wicked Cultured Gratuitous English Conspicuous CG Shown Their Work La Résistance Hell Is That Noise Nice Guy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Demoted to Extra It's Personal Humiliation Conga The Faceless The Mafia Face–Heel Turn Closed Circle Central Theme Authority Equals Asskicking Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Quiet One Children Are Innocent The Smart Guy Fantastic Racism All There in the Script Sequel Hook Adorkable Mercy Kill Bland-Name Product Idiot Ball The Remake Adaptation Dye-Job Redshirt Army Naïve Newcomer Smoking Is Cool Took a Level in Jerkass Public Domain Feature Films Anachronic Order Grievous Bottley Harm Parental Abandonment Not Using the "Z" Word Scary Black Man Abhorrent Admirer Death by Irony Not So Different Celebrity Paradox Unwitting Instigator of Doom Determinator aka: The Determinator Adaptation Expansion Cowboy Cop Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wham Shot Meet Cute Pimped-Out Dress Big Bad Duumvirate As Himself The Power of Love Defrosting Ice Queen The Great Depression Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Freudian Excuse Captain Obvious Index of Film Westerns Sinister Minister Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Empathic Environment Thriller Skewed Priorities Adaptational Badass Naked People Are Funny Rich Bitch Hypocritical Humor Almost Kiss Kill 'em All Ascended Extra Love Triangle Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Laser-Guided Karma "Well Done, Son!" Guy Suddenly SHOUTING! Only Known by Their Nickname Needs Wiki Magic Love Stepford Smiler Adapted Out Villainous Breakdown One-Word Title Dark Reprise Have a Gay Old Time Expy Woman Scorned Dark Action Girl Evil Laugh Neck Lift Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Death Seeker Adult Fear Precision F-Strike Fatal Family Photo Mad Scientist Badass Normal Drives Like Crazy Took a Level in Badass Book-Ends German Films Imagine Spot How We Got Here Soft Glass Anyone Can Die Adaptation Name Change Extreme Doormat Rule of Funny Dumb Blonde Taking You with Me The Hero Sealed Evil in a Can Never Trust a Trailer Anguished Declaration of Love Historical Hero Upgrade Double-Meaning Title The '50s And the Adventure Continues Shipper on Deck Antagonist Title '80s Hair Training Montage Redemption Equals Death You Killed My Father Leave the Camera Running Genre Throwback Ambiguously Gay Protagonist Title Epic Movie Heroic BSoD B-Movie Dramedy Black Dude Dies First Light Is Not Good Throwing Your Sword Always Works Setting Update Costume Porn Spell My Name with an "S" Four-Temperament Ensemble Up to Eleven Take a Third Option As You Know Amoral Attorney Cluster F-Bomb Dark Is Not Evil Better to Die than Be Killed Reality Is Unrealistic Based on a True Story Crazy Jealous Guy My Beloved Smother Heterosexual Life-Partners Greater-Scope Villain Chewing the Scenery The Ghost In Name Only Butt-Monkey He Who Fights Monsters Boom, Headshot! Improvised Weapon Tranquil Fury Driven to Suicide Suspiciously Specific Denial There Is No Kill Like Overkill Kubrick Stare The Bully Blatant Lies Would Hit a Girl Black Comedy Rape "The Reason You Suck" Speech Composite Character Mythology Gag Dual Wielding The Dreaded Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Brit Television Movie Index Expository Hairstyle Change NO INDOOR VOICE Enemy Mine Mighty Whitey Black Best Friend Leitmotif Fun with Acronyms Unresolved Sexual Tension Dirty Cop Action Survivor Genre Savvy Flashback Chekhov's Gunman Time Skip