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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Everybody wants to be a bat... Vampires are Cool. Vampires Are Rich, and Powerful. Vampires Are Sex Gods. Who wouldn't want to be a vampire? Vampires are surrounded by humans who, while they haven't been bitten, do their masters' bidding in the hope that they will be. Sometimes they're under some sort of mind control, but often they're just willing vampire groupies. How likely their loyalty is to actually be rewarded depends on the vamp, however - they might be exploiting this trope as a not-so-Secret Test of Character in order to keep the bloodline pure. The wannabe's desire can be justified, if the work's version of vampires are Cursed with Awesome, gaining great powers and few if any weaknesses. This can lead to Moral Dissonance if the wannabe is portrayed as a foolish coward regardless of this - perhaps because being a vampire is just inherently evil. Or possibly because the Vampire Wannabe leaves him-/herself wide open to a Pretender Diss, whether from actual vamps or their enemies. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Can work as a deconstruction of the exponential population growth that would result from the more common "everyone bitten becomes a vampire" model - in this case, the familiars may be 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 isn't all it was cracked up to be. These characters are often Goths, at least in their minds, and always Les Collaborateurs, usually Working for a Body Upgrade. Compare The Renfield, Transhuman Treachery. Contrast Super Loser, when being a vampire is no guarantee of coolness, and Emergency Transformation, when the person might or might not want to become a vampire or other monster but basically has no alternative. If they are seeking to be bitten by a vamp, they are a Voluntary Vampire Victim. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Examples: |
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"Wannabe Vampire" is a monster in Munchkin. Clerics can scare him off by saying "Ooga booga." | |
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The entire shtick of Vampire Reviews is that (In-Universe) Elisa is a pretentious, unemployed Goth who either believes she is a vampire or aspires to be. | |
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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. | |
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Lonely Werewolf Girl has a werewolf wannabe in the form of Big Bad Sarapen's spy, Madrigal. Since Sarapen is operating straight out of the super-villain's playbook and werewolves are born not bit in this setting, you can probably guess how this went. | |
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The Parasol Protectorate: Almost all drones serve their vampire lord or lady in hopes of someday being turned. Clavigers serve the same role for werewolves. | |
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This is taken to a creepy extreme in Vampire's Kiss, as the protagonist's insanity causes him to think that he's becoming a vampire, something he seems eager to embrace. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head once decided that emulating Twilight vampires or werewolves would be a good way to meet girls, so they went searching for one or the other to bite them. They succeeded in getting bitten, but by a grimy deranged human bum whose teeth gave them nasty infections. | |
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Dracula's groupies in various Hammer Horror flicks. | |
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Red Court vampires in The Dresden Files tend to attract groupies like this. Some of them mistakenly believe they can become immortalnote 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; others are just addicted to the vamps' narcotic saliva. The short story "It's My Birthday, Too" deals with a somewhat unpopular member of a Vampire-type LARP becoming a vampire and seeking revenge on the group that spurned her. In something of a twist, she's turned by the Black Court, and already looks desiccated despite only being a vampire for a few months. Not that she cares... When Harry finds his brother Thomas (who, incidentally, actually is a vampire) participating in the aforementioned LARP, he has a bit of a freakout and asks Thomas how he can encourage this acting when he (Thomas) knows just how dangerous vampires are. Thomas points out that the whole reason the vampire-wizard war was being fought was so that the LARPers wouldn't ever have to face real vampires and find out what the real thing is like. |
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Supernatural In the 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 are much less sparkly. The MOTW in "Monster Movie" is a shapeshifter who chooses to look and act like an archetypical vampire - or sometimes a werewolf or mummy - because he's a fan of (see title.) |
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The chance to become a vampire is offered as a reward for achieving a certain rank in the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion. | |
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Hector Marlowe from Charby the Vampirate, whose brother Victor is a vampire hunter. | |
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In Forever Knight, why does every other woman who discovers that Nick is a vampire throw herself into his arms and demand to be turned? | |
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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 to figure out how was by getting Cassie's attention. | |
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Vampire Academy has humans who willingly help the Strigoi in hopes of being turned. | |
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Even Dracula itself has one, of a sort, in Renfield (yes, that Renfield) who tries to emulate vampire immortality, but with a rather mistaken and icky method. | |
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Likewise in Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion. | |
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In Jojos Bizarre Adventure, Straizo was originally a heroic Ripple user who fought side by side with Jonathan Joestar against Dio in Part I. In Part II decades later, time is starting to catch up with him even though the Ripple slows down aging. He betrays Speedwagon and kills his men so he can use a Stone Mask to become a vampire. Straizo confesses that he was awestruck by Dio's eternal youth and beauty and wanted the same for himself. | |
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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. | |
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An episode of The X-Files, "Bad Blood", had a vampire wannabe who was also a vampire, only a different one: Everyone in the town had glowing green eyes and drank blood, but he also wore fake fangs. | |
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An episode of Batman Beyond had a man aiding Inque because he was obsessed with her, and wanted to be like her. When the time came to reward him, she only administered half the treatment, leaving him a humanoid Blob Monster. | |
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Not necessarily vampires, but groups of Homunculi in Busou Renkin are often assisted by humans called familiars, who help the homunculi when possible in the hopes of becoming humanoid homunculi themselves. Failure results in being eaten. There's also the fact that, if they refuse to become familiars, then their would-be recruiter would probably have eaten them on the spot. Not really much of a choice, there. |
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The Harry Potter fan story My Immortal turns Harry himself into one. | |
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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. | |
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In Vampire Hunter D, one of Count Lee's minions is in it for the goal of becoming a vampire himself one day. | |
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In The Sims 2, Sims with the Knowledge aspiration sometimes desire to become a vampire, werewolf or witch. Other Sims usually fear becoming anything supernatural. | |
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The short story "It's My Birthday, Too" deals with a somewhat unpopular member of a Vampire-type LARP becoming a vampire and seeking revenge on the group that spurned her. In something of a twist, she's turned by the Black Court, and already looks desiccated despite only being a vampire for a few months. Not that she cares... When Harry finds his brother Thomas (who, incidentally, actually is a vampire) participating in the aforementioned LARP, he has a bit of a freakout and asks Thomas how he can encourage this acting when he (Thomas) knows just how dangerous vampires are. Thomas points out that the whole reason the vampire-wizard war was being fought was so that the LARPers wouldn't ever have to face real vampires and find out what the real thing is like. |
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One human slave of the goa'uld in Stargate SG-1 is shown to be well aware that he's not serving gods, just technologically advanced and powerful aliens, but he serves them dutifully nonetheless in the hopes of one day becoming a host. | |
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Call of Cthulhu 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". | |
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Beetlejuice. Goth girl Lydia Deetz wants to die and become a ghost like the Maitlands. | |
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Les Enfants du Sang in Preacher. Weird goths who act as groupies to the Lestat parody Ecarius. He leads them on with the promise of eventual vampirism... and once he gets bored with one of them, he kills and eats them. Cassidy, who's not at all nice himself, is disgusted by this and leaves Ecarius nailed to a church roof just before dawn. | |
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This is Wilhelm Ehrenburg's entire shtick from Dies Irae. Being born an albino, he shuns the light an wishes to become a creature of the night as the vampires he admires. And in this universe where I Reject Your Reality is taken to the most literal extreme, he is fully able to create a realm of the Blood Moon where he becomes as close to a true vampire as possible for as long as it remains active. | |
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In The Sanguine Chronicles Marko rants about how these people are like "Bug Chasers"note individuals who deliberately engage in sex of hope of contracting and then spreading sexually transmitted diseases, up to and including HIV, out of perversion and self-harming desires when discussing Aconite, a goth in his class, with his therapist. When Marko refuses to turn Aconite after she figures out his secret she checks out a visiting rock band that turns out to be composed of vampires looking for "recruits", and then they infect her with lycanthropy instead, she does not take it well. | |
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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. | |
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The Kitty Norville series has several callers who want to be turned into vampires, werewolves, etc. Kitty's advice is always that it is a one-way trip to a life that's not as romantic as it sounds. Don't do it. She also gets a caller who's an actual vampire that's stuck working the graveyard shift at a convenience store and wants to tell the wannabes how "glamorous" being a vampire really is. | |
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The premise of the George A. Romero film Martin. The trope is played with, however, because Martin's "vampirism" is a sexual fetish as well as a form of Domestic Abuse. Vampirism is never treated as supernatural, unlike a lot of other movies. Martin's older looking cousin is convinced him he's a vampire, and kills him at the end. | |
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The Vampire Chronicles: At the end of Interview with the Vampire, the journalist actually asks to be 'turned', which pisses Louis off to no end, since the entire POINT of him recounting his life-story was to show how being a vampire had made his 'life' a living (undead?) hell. (The journalist ends up getting his wish in Queen of the Damned.) Daniel Molloy (the journalist) actually spends a decent chunk of Queen of the Damned as Armand's 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. |
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Heroes of Might and Magic 4 had Captain Enric, who betrays his village and frames a random barbarian warlord with its 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 being the way he is, stops Enric and brutally executes him as an example to anyone who harms his living subjects. | |
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A Spider-Man storyline involved a vial of his blood ending up at a nightclub for these people. Much to his bewilderment the clubgoers dressed like the cast of Twilight ("Is that ... glitter?") rather than the goths he was expecting. | |
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The Kingfisher has at least one vampire wannabe, who misses her big chance and does not become a significant character: Arsonella Jones. | |
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The Elder Scrolls Morrowind has a side quest you can only receive if you are a vampire. A mother recruits you to convince her vampire fanboy son not to be turned. It's impossible to talk him out of it and if you try to fight him straight up, you'll kill him easily. The only way to complete the quest is to fight him and lose, letting him wail on you for a while until he decides that vampires are weak and overrated. The chance to become a vampire is offered as a reward for achieving a certain rank in the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion. Likewise in Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion. |
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Cal Warden's army of fangirls, who attack Spinnerette. The Werewolf of London, Ontario has fanboys of his own, though he finds the concept rather less amusing. |
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In the film of Queen of the Damned, Jesse is obsessed with vampires, ignoring her occult organization's pleas to simply observe them. She pursues Lestat to the point of being a borderline Stalker with a Crush. This is later explained when it's revealed that her distant ancestors were actually vampires and cared for her since her birth. | |
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Magic: The Gathering demonstrates this trope with the card Chosen of Markov. | |
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Robin in Young Dracula. | |
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Raven from (the appropriately named) Vampire Kisses. To put it bluntly, she has a fetish for them. Her boyfriend (an actual vampire) constantly reassures her that she has the better end of the deal, though. | |
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Ravenloft plays this for tragedy with the Vorlog monster, a human who was being transformed into a vampire's companionnote uniquely powerful vampire spawn created to be Mindlink Mates with their sire, hence their original nicknames of "Brides and Grooms" only for the vampire to be slain before the transformation was complete. The result is a deranged dhampyr-like creature that tries to be a vampire, but can't, and desperately seeks out companions to try and fill the void missing from its slain creator. And because it's insane with an impossibly idealized image of its creator, its "surrogates" inevitably end up being killed when it decides they're not good enough. | |
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Legacy of Kain In Blood Omen 2, it was implied that there was a bishop who was working for the vampires in exchange for a promise of immortality. They seemed neither inclined nor able to grant it to him. In Soul Reaver, among the massive amount of cut content was a side-story involving Raziel finding the spiritual leader of the last human sanctuary who used mind control feed her followers to vampires in the hopes of being turned. Raziel would have killed her and learned Mind Control from her soul. |
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Morrowind has a side quest you can only receive if you are a vampire. A mother recruits you to convince her vampire fanboy son not to be turned. It's impossible to talk him out of it and if you try to fight him straight up, you'll kill him easily. The only way to complete the quest is to fight him and lose, letting him wail on you for a while until he decides that vampires are weak and overrated. | |
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The Stranger from 30 Days of Night, who paves the way for the vampires by stealing and destroying the town's means of communication in exchange for being turned. They don't. Notably averted in the sequel. After their resident Vampire Wannabe mercilessly snaps a victim's neck, they actually turn him into a vampire and send him after the good guys. | |
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One of the clients in The Collector made a Deal with the Devil to become a vampire. She didn't realize at the time, but vampires were completely fictional before she got her wish. | |
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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. 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. | |
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Lahmian vampires in Warhammer are a sect of Vamps so alluring they can control men's minds. Their army list includes mortal human characters fighting for their favour. | |
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In the spoof of Twilight 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons adventure "Dusk", one of the characters is a fake vampire. The Player Characters will probably kill him, thinking he's a threat, or wonder why Turn Undead doesn't work on him. There are also vampire fangirls. | |
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CSI has featured this twice; once with a group of Vampire Wannabes who were teeth-gratingly oblivious to the reality that one of their friends had died ("Suckers"), and once with both Vampire and Werewolf wannabes, who naturally enough had an escalating rivalry going on over their preferred form of fantasy dress-up ("Blood Moon"). | |
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All the Blade Trilogy 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. | |
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Played hilariously in the South Park episode "The Ungroundable" when a group of kids pretended to be vampires because it was the 'in thing', much to the annoyance of the local goth kids who everyone kept confusing for the 'vampires', and Butters wants to join them. Of course, they weren't really vampires but Butters actually thinks they are. Additionally, the Goths attempted to get rid of the Vampire kids by threatening to stake their leader. |
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An episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a group of vampire wannabes who thought they were going to be turned. 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). Said episode establishes that vampirism in Buffy is more like Demonic Possession and there is no way you can literally "become" a vampire since the real you will simply die, but the wannabes don't know this and the one who is dying, when he learns of this, doesn't care since he'll be dead either way. | |
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Played for irony in Schwarz Kreuz, where the Vampire Vannabe is named Harker. | |
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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. Biting doesn't work. Then again, they're not true vampires, and neither is Tesla. All true vamps were killed centuries ago. |
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Buffyverse: An episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a group of vampire wannabes who thought they were going to be turned. 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). Said episode establishes that vampirism in Buffy is more like Demonic Possession and there is no way you can literally "become" a vampire since the real you will simply die, but the wannabes don't know this and the one who is dying, when he learns of this, doesn't care since he'll be dead either way. 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 has this plot, with a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives trying to use a VERY unwilling Angel and a hired Gypsy to turn rich idiots into ensouled vampires. It works about as well as you would expect. A big part of Simone's plan is to become a vampire with Slayer powers to kill Buffy. |
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In The Saga of Darren Shan, Darren's friend was like this, to the point of blackmailing a vampire to try to get bitten. | |
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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 by Rip van Winkle. The Nazi army also has collaborators in the Brazilian police force, elderly German officers who are angry about the Major's stalling at turning them into vampires, and possibly the thugs who are dumb enough to attack Alexander Anderson with guns (the latter could also have been actual, if very weak vampires though). All of them soon learn that this isn't the series to be in if you're any kind of a wannabe. |
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines has a street gang working for the Sabbat in hopes of becoming Sabbat vampires via "shovelheading" (a very unpleasant form of turning into a vampire, which few of them would survive). They are used as the muscle in the Sabbat's weapon smuggling operation and are all killed by the protagonist. | |
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An outtake at the back of Fancy Apartments invokes this trope... oddly. A goth accuses a vampire of being a vampire wannabe and sarcastically suggets he throws sparkles on himself. This makes sense in context. | |
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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 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? |
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