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TheBlackKnight

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
Anyway, Malkavians are better. :)
the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

Let's draw our swords in unity and charge forward! Our immortal nemesis, it who never stops, needs to be slain!
 
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aBlackKnight said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Anyway, Malkavians are better. :)
the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

Let's draw our swords in unity and charge forward! Our immortal nemesis, it who never stops, needs to be slain!
First, I need to feed Mr Pringle. He gets so uptight at times that he wants to SCREAM. But I'm sure that he won't scream if you stay exactly where you are. That's right isn't it, Mr Pringle.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
*twitch* Saying that is like asking a roleplayer if D&D is anything like the cartoon.
here I was thinking i am the only one in the world who remembered that piece of crap.

As for vamps, how come nobody's mentioned Angel or Spike yet?
 

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TheNecroswanson said:
Werewolves are better! *Runs away giggling*
QFT!

Please god no. Not more twilight related stuff.
*puts head into gas oven*
Can't we all just pretend it's not real, just a bad dream or something!
 

Cyberius

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Personally I've always liked the vampires in the Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan. They were strong, drank blood, so on so forth. But they never interfered with humans. idk i loved those books
 

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how come in Blade (and possibly a few other vampire films) silver is deadly to vampires? i always thought that was werewolves (that silver was deadly to, not that vampires were deadly to werewolves), or is it both?
 

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PureChaos said:
how come in Blade (and possibly a few other vampire films) silver is deadly to vampires? i always thought that was werewolves (that silver was deadly to, not that vampires were deadly to werewolves), or is it both?
Traditionally silver was considered a "pure" metal, so it repelled ALL denizens of the night. Same with mirrors. But they weren't allergic to it or some nonsense. It just reminded them they were monsters and spooked them off.

Why silver should be any purer than gold I don't know, except that it might have been easier for your average terrified Slavic peasant to get a hold of something silver than something gold. And a lot of our modern monster stuff comes out of their region of the world for whatever reasons, so their loopiness remains in tact.
 

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tomdavi said:
Anyobody ever read Bram Sotker's Dracula? His ideas and version of vampires are completely different from the ones portrayed in most of the more modern stylised vampire books, and yet Drac. is seen as being the archetypal vampire. He was in fact seen as being a reptilian creature (bats etc never get a real mention to the best of my knowledge), who had the capacity for extreme violence.
What? There's bats at the window all the time feeding on Lucy, the Count flies off towards London at one point (though whether that's in Bat form or not escapes me at the moment). He matches almost exactly most modern views of vampires (before anyone points out that crucifixes don't work, note that Hellsings crucifix - the real hellsing not the crappy one with Frankensteins Monster - was silver so it's entirely possible that a crucifix is a problem)
tomdavi said:
He also struggled to disguise his desires for blood.
By holding Harker at his house for a full month before feeding? I'm wondering if you didn't just watch the movie - a lot of these things sound like that. Anyway I don't mean to rag.

tomdavi said:
Going back, before even that to the origins of western vampire myths and most of the time the only "restrictions/ drawbacks" on them, was that they struggled to enter holy buildings, couldn't enter buildings without permission (something now often edited) and, in light they were simply reduced to not being as tough or powerful and having at best sensitive light skin. (btw I'm not some kind of vampire nut, I had to do a project on them in school for english once).
Dracula can't enter buildings without permission, and stays in the night quite often (though again it escapes me whether he can step into the light or not). The fact that you did it for English once probably indicates why your memory is vague. myself, I recently picked up the Leslie & Klinger edition of Stoker's fable, which is an excellent read for all the annotations and notes made.

Edit: Yes dracula is one of my favourites, though I'm a big fan of Lestat and whatsisface in Interview
 

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My favourite vampires by far are the ones in Palladium's 'Beyond The Supernatural' table-top RPG. Simply put, they are controlled by a being from another dimension and survive everything short of sunlight, a stake through the heart or disintergration.
 

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mydogisblue said:
I haven't seen a whole lot of vampire movies, nor do I know much about Anne Rice's vampires.

But, I can tell you that 30 Days of Night was absolutely AWESOME
I would agree with the 30 Days of Night props.

I waited a long time to see vampires portrayed as actual monsters, not lame goth jerks who hang out in clubs. I know I'm hateful, but I was ruined by reading the Nosferatu legends.
 

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ManBarrel said:
I waited a long time to see vampires portrayed as actual monsters, not lame goth jerks who hang out in clubs. I know I'm hateful, but I was ruined by reading the Nosferatu legends.
this isnt enough for you?
just wait to the end of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjMS-eMw1cg&feature=related
 

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broadband said:
ManBarrel said:
I waited a long time to see vampires portrayed as actual monsters, not lame goth jerks who hang out in clubs. I know I'm hateful, but I was ruined by reading the Nosferatu legends.
this isnt enough for you?
just wait to the end of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjMS-eMw1cg&feature=related
Truth be known, I haven't watched much anime, and that was mighty entertaining.

Well played sir
 

PirateKing

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I don't really know much about Anne Rice vampires. I do know that when Twilight was written the author didn't research any vampire mythology.
My favorite vampire franchise is Hellsing though. I like how vampires are presented in that. Plus, if you go by Bram Stoker, these vampires are much more classical. Even to the point that Integra says "consult Bram Stoker". They can go out in sunlight and you can kill them with a sword through the heart. Plus I like it when magic is combined with science. Like Millenium's artificial vampires.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
jim_doki said:
if we're talking White Wolf, I have to go with Gangrel. not for any reason, he was just one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid
*twitch* Saying that is like asking a roleplayer if D&D is anything like the cartoon.

Anyway, Malkavians are better. :)
Nosferatu, fo sho (although I really have to agree with Mr. Necroswanson when it comes down to it)
 

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broadband said:
lukemdizzle said:
no more vampires, there frickin everywhere I look
sorry pal but is the popular thing these days, like halo and after that, hating halo.
hay I don't ride band wagons, I stick to what I like regardless of its popularity and I've always thought vampires were kind of stupid even before they were popular. Im more into villains with some ideological reasoning other than "must suck blood"