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Vein-o-Vision

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Predators develop senses that help them hunt. Sharp sight, delicate hearing, a keen nose... and Vein-O-Vision. Dracula and his ilk, as well as weirder fare, will have among their Super Senses the ability to see all the major and minor blood flows in a human body, often going to near X-Ray Vision levels by seeing their dinner's still beating heart!
This is something of a subconscious power, usually triggered by hunger. Vein-o-vision may be noticeable to onlookers if the character also manifests Animal Eyes or Glowing Eyes, but otherwise the power is inconspicuous. A Vampire Refugee or Friendly Neighborhood Vampire will probably have to use Heroic Resolve to resist sucking on so many delicious veins in plain view. As such, this can cause a Tomato in the Mirror or similar effect on a character once they realize their best friend is now on the dinner menu.
Also in a pinch, makes the stalking vampires' POV sequence all the creepier, showing us just how much of a Happy Meal the hero is to them.
This trope isn't restricted to the supernatural. As the page quote and picture show, it's also possible to make a technological equivalent of this trope for spies and soldiers. Typically it acts as a cross between X-Ray Vision and Infrared Xray Camera, allowing the agent using it to detect both the presence and Weak Points of enemies.
Compare Meat-O-Vision. Contrast Volcanic Veins and Tainted Veins. Subtrope of Bizarre Alien Senses. See also The Dead Have Eyes.

Examples
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Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel, Arkham City give Batman this in the form of "detective vision" built into his cowl. It acts as night/X-Ray Vision and gives him info on how alert/paranoid the Mooks are at any given moment.
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Butcher XIV from Worm has the ability to see veins and arteries (even through walls) as one of her Combo Platter Powers
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Layla from Eerie Cuties approached Chloe about an earlier biting... before finishing her dinner... and remembered that incident. Thus, we got this.
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In Vampire Knight, we see that Yuki, and thus probably all other vampires, can detect blood flows.
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On Helix, a Vector crawling through an overhead air duct looks down at some people through a ceiling vent, and seen a web of green lines - either blood vessels or nerves, it's not clear which - threaded through a potential victim's body.
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One of Jericho's main powers in Dark Watch.
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The mad scientist in the film version of From Beyond, having acquired Horror Hunger after his peek into another dimension, has flashes of Brain-O-Vision, seeing through people's skulls to the gray matter he craves.
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The Chakra lines seen by the Byakugan in Naruto look like this. In addition, the technique itself makes its user's eyes rather ...veiny.
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Here Comes The New Boss: One of Taylor's inherited powers is "bloodsight", seeing blood through obstacles. It's not as detailed an image as regular sight, but it's inconspicuous enough for her to use it freely, it's quite good at spotting concealed enemies, and it works even without light, or with her eyes closed.
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unOrdinary: Isen's "Hunter" ability allows him to see the heart and track the heartbeat of anyone he's activated his power to track.
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Parodied in Animaniacs. A Dracula spoof sneaks up on a sleeping Dot Warner, and finds a dotted line on her neck labeled "Insert Fangs Here".
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Salacia von Humperding in the Discworld novel Thud!:
Actually all of the vampires on the Discworld have this ability. The only living things they CAN'T detect are any of the various species of the Troll family. (Or is it Genus?)
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In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, John's water sense is so acute at short distances that he can sense people around him as constructs of water and know to the drop how much he can take from them without permanently harming them. Undoubtedly he can sense blood flowing in veins.
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 The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic)
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Hungry vampires get this in Moonlight (2007). Mick, a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, does this when trapped in a desert with the only human being around a pregnant girl.
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 Moonlight (2007)
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The Dungeons & Dragons third edition supplement Complete Scoundrel offers the spell "Healer's Vision," which is usable by two classes. Clerics who cast it can heal the target better because injuries become easier to see; Assassins can make use of it because being able to see your target's organs takes the guesswork out of where to stab them.
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 Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)
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In Satellite Reign, the Support's World Scan ability lets you trace data and power lines to their source, letting you know which machines to hack or destroy in order to disable things like cameras or gates.
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Howlers were mentioned as being able to see their enemies' "weak points", such as blood vessels, in Animorphs.
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Baki the Grappler's Hanma Yuujiro can see, or feel, or just perceive the flaws in everyone's body. So he is able to predict diseases and attack the weak points of any living being.
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 Baki the Grappler (Manga)
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Appears for a brief moment in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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 Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Genevieve from the Warhammer novels has this ability.
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This is how vampires see people in in Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.
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Justice Society of America: Dr. Mid-Nite's altered vision—he cannot see on the light spectrum and is legally blind—is generally depicted as him being able to "see" the outline and heat of things,. He uses this to help him in his job as the premier surgeon for the DCU's superhero community as he can "see" what's going on inside his patients' bodies.
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The not at all friendly vampires in Van Helsing have this power.
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In Ben 10: Omniverse, when Ben transforms into Whampire, he sees in vein-o-vision.
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In Jurassic: The Hunted, you can exploit a dinosaur's weak-points by entering Bullet Time, which also reveals their internal organs.
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Shows up in Anita Blake a lot, with a bit of synaesthesia (nothing supernatural is described in pure sensory terms). Anita tends to perceive the veins as leaping out of the skin, begging her to tear their owner's throat out and free them from their prison. (She's not actually a vampire, but...)
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In Vampire Hunter D, Meyer Link gets from time to time when he looks at Charlotte Elbourne, his human lover.
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In The Darkness 2, the major arteries and veins in the chests of fallen enemies glow faintly to Jackie, while their hearts, which can be ripped out and eaten by the titular Darkness inhabiting Jackie, glow brightly.
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In the Dead Space 2 multiplayer, Necromorph players get a variation where they see the nerves of human players, which change color based on the health of said human player.
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Cole MacGrath in InFAMOUS:Festival of Blood can use his vampire sense to see everything in vein-o-vision. This helps him discern hidden vampires from normal humans as the latter apparently don't need a circulatory system.
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Similarly, heart hounds in The Sword of Truth series hone in on the sound of their prey's heartbeat.
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In a non-supernatural variation, the autistic protagonist of The Good Doctor can map out a patient's cardiovascular system in his mind with only a glance.
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In Deer Hunter (Series), noctovisor shows heart and lungs of animals.
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