List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction

The following tables compare traits given to vampires in folklore and fiction. Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire's profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century, with Varney the Vampire and Count Dracula both bearing protruding teeth, and Murnau's Nosferatu the first vampire to be killed by daylight.
Although Bram Stoker's novel is the best known vampire fiction of the 19th century, it is the aristocratic figure of Lord Ruthven who is thought to have inspired the elegant and suave creature of stage and film. Lord Ruthven and Varney were able to be healed by moonlight, although no account of this is known in traditional folklore.
The cloak appeared in stage productions of the 1920s, with a high collar introduced by playwright Hamilton Deane to help Dracula "vanish" on stage. Recent vampire fiction set in the present typically has the vampires dressed either like everyday humans, or in hyper-stylish but contemporary attire.

Appearance

Reflection, film and shadow refer to how the vampires appear in reflections, on film and if they cast shadows.

Setting	Skin Color	Fangs	Reflection	Film	Shadow	Attractiveness/other	When Dead
European folklore	Ruddy or dark		Varies		Varies	Varies; historically, bloated corpses were mistaken for vampires
North American folklore	Varies					Varies
"The Vampyre"						Young, seductive, sexual and alluring
Varney the Vampire	"White and bloodless"					Hideous, but has hypnotizing eyes
Carmilla	Rich and brilliant					Unearthly beauty
Bram Stoker's Dracula	Dracula: pale, female vampires red					Dracula: Varies between elderly/gray-haired and handsome/black-haired depending on blood consumption Female Vampires: Beautiful to the point of hypnotic	Dust, except for newborn vampires, who become corpses
Nosferatu	Pale					Hideous/ Hairless, and gargoyle/rat-like	Smoke and dust
Black Sunday	Pale					Asa Vajda: Young, seductive, sexual and alluring despite prominent puncture wounds on face Igor Javutich: Imposing, with prominent puncture wounds on face Dr. Kruvajan: Ordinary
Dark Shadows	Ordinary, Has a yearning to destroy except some characters					Ordinary	Corpse
Vampirella	Ordinary					Inhumanly beautiful
Count Chocula	Tanned					Cartoon person	Chocolate cereal dust
Marvel Comics	Pale/grey/white					Varies from ordinary to demonic/goblin/gargoyle-like
Blade	Ordinary/Pale					Ordinary, but often somewhat above average
Blade	Vampire: Pale/ordinary					Varies	Dust
Blade	Reapers: Pale and mottled					Hideous	Dust
Sesame Street	Lavender					Muppet
Dungeons & Dragons	Pale					As they were in life, although their features are often hardened and feral, with the predatory look of wolves	Corpse
Stephen King	Type One: yellow					Extremely deformed
Stephen King	Type Two: pale					Beautiful
Stephen King	Type Threes: ordinary					Ordinary
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles	Pale, smooth, marble-like, gets whiter with age					All are beautiful. The transformation enhances their beauty. The older and stronger they get, the less human they look but still remain beautiful.	Dust
The Little Vampire	Pale					Alluring
Bunnicula	Furry					Adorable to all, intimately only with other rabbits
Doctor Who	Great Vampires: grey					Bat-like creatures
Doctor Who	Vampires: pale					Fish/Insect like
The Hunger	Pale					Alluring
DC Comics	Pale					Varies
Fevre Dream	Pale					Alluring and beautiful	Corpse
Count Duckula	Green					Cartoon duck	The theme song prominently shows a previous incarnation of Count Duckula turning to salt and dissolving in sunlight. However, the incarnation depicted in the show is frequently in sunlight to no ill effects, possibly due to his servant accidentally using ketchup instead of blood in the reincarnation ritual that resulted in the main character of the TV series. It is unknown what happens if he is staked through the heart.
Vampire Hunter D	Pale					Possess a strange unearthly beauty
Fright Night	Ordinary/Pale					Somewhat attractive. Demonic/goblin/gargoyle-like when enraged or in pain	Catch on fire/burn to embers
Necroscope	Pale		shows true self			Can make themselves beautiful or hideous
Vamp	Pale					Ordinary
Castlevania series	Pale/Grey		In *', they do not have reflection. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, vampiric characters do not appear on stages with mirrors in them.*			The Elder Vampires are beautiful, while the Vampire Warriors are bat-like creatures because they don't know how to shapeshift.
GURPS	Pallor, except after eating human blood					Unspecified; listed characteristics represent the default, others can be taken
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Ordinary	Varies				Varies	Ash/Dust
The Lost Boys	Full vampires: Ordinary, a little pale					Ordinary. Become quite ugly when about to attack and fangs appear.	Varies
The Lost Boys	Half-vampire : Ordinary					As in life
Shadowrun	Pale					Ordinary, although the Nosferatu strain are generally bald and kind of ugly	Corpse
The Witcher	Varies greatly by subspecies, from normal to pale to dark gray					Varies by subspecies, from monstrous and bat-like to human-like; some can appear entirely human	Corpse
The Vampire Diaries	Ordinary			Novels:Unknown, TV Series: Yes		Alluring. Typically beautiful	Gray corpse with swelled superficial veins protruding from the entire body ; regular corpse ; dust
World of Darkness	Varies					Varies by bloodline, individual, and discipline. Most notably, Nosferatus are hideously deformed, while Toreadors are beautiful.	Dust
Blood Ties, based on the Blood Books	Ordinary					Ordinary
Batman & Dracula	Pale					Grotesque, humanoid gargoyle
Forever Knight	Pale					Ordinary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Pale					Ordinary	Dust
Anno Dracula series	Pale					Varies depending on the bloodline
Magic: The Gathering	Pale					Ordinary; their sclera are black and the irises gold, silver, or other colors; their skin is cool to the touch; their hair is often black but can also be deep purple, dark magenta, burgundy, or even dark blue-green; vampires also tend to have long and slightly curved fingernails
Ravnica	Pale					Varies; some are attractive, while others are ordinary, unsettling, or horrifying
'	Pale					Ordinary, but some bloodlines seem to get more attractive with age, some less, and many vampires are attractive as this was the reason they were sired
The Elder Scrolls	Pale					Feral-looking versions of humans; however, they can look more human if they drink human blood. Vampire Lords can assume a bat-like appearance.	Corpse, but gradually crumbles to dust
Darkstalkers	Pale					His true form is demonic, but he can change into human form.
Preacher	Pale					Ordinary
Vampire in Brooklyn	Normal					Likely greater as happened with Julius Jones at the end
From Dusk till Dawn	Pale, with scales or flaked skin					Not only manifest in a human form, but monstrous with reptilian, bat or rat characteristics	Turns to desert-like dust
Discworld	Pale					Alluring	Dust, can be revived with blood
Warhammer	Pale					Varies; individuals of the Lahmian and Von Carstein bloodlines are attractive unless they give in to their bloodthirst, eventually devolving into a varghulf; the Blood Dragons are disheveled; the Strigoi and Necrachs are both horrifying	Corpse
Legacy of Kain	Varies, but changes as vampire ages	, extend when feeding				Ancient vampires were alluring, while human turned vampire evolutions became more grotesque over the centuries.	Impalement: body remains in stasis unless the soul is consumed by the Wheel of Fate in the Spectral Realm. Younger vampires burned, submerged, or decapitated: body dissolves regardless of what happens to their souls.
Night World	Pale					Alluring; in anticipation of feeding, a vampire's eyes grow silver in color and reflective, their lips redden as blood rushes to them, and their canine teeth will further lengthen, usually to the level of their lower lip, though a vampire can retract these fangs at will, or when put off of feeding.	Corpse
Buffyverse	Ordinary					Can appear as normal humans; however, when feeding or angry, they reveal their true vampire visage where their eyes turn yellow, their eyebrows are gone and they grow fangs and pointed teeth. Extremely old vampires are unable to take a human face.	Most turn to dust, including clothing. An exception is The Master, an ancient vampire who left behind a skeleton which could be used to revive him through a certain ritual.
Hellsing	Ordinary					Alluring, the older the vampire the more powerful the allure	Burn in blue flames if belonging to Millennium or otherwise turn to dust
Touhou Project	Pale		Unknown, probably yes		Unknown, probably yes	Cute, beautiful and attractive, with red or yellow eyes and wings
Shiki	Pale					Varies	Burned corpse
Ultraviolet	Ordinary/Pale					Ordinary but often somewhat above average
Night Watch	Ordinary		, even if the vampire himself turns invisible			Ordinary
John Carpenter's Vampires	Pale					Ordinary	Catch on fire, then turn to dust
Den of Shadows	Pale					Beautiful
The Saga of Darren Shan	Ordinary or pale; purple for vampaneze subrace					Ordinary, but vampaneze subrace become swollen and discolored from overfeeding
The Dresden Files	White court: ordinary					Extremely attractive
The Dresden Files	Red court: ordinary when human					Slimy and batlike, but with an attractive human "costume"
The Dresden Files	Black court: corpse-like					Corpselike
'	Pale					Alluring	Dust
'	Gray, except for Saya who is ordinary					Saya is ordinary, the other Chiropterans are monstrous, but can look like normal humans.
Tsukihime	True Ancestors: ordinary					Ordinary
Tsukihime	Dead Apostles: pale					Ordinary, but their bodies are in constant degeneration.
Trinity Blood	Methuselahs: varies					Beautiful
Trinity Blood	Crusniks: pale, except Lilith					Varies
The Southern Vampire Mysteries ; True Blood	Pale					Ordinary, but humans can develop more attraction to them by drinking their blood, and also with the power to "Glamour" ordinary humans into enticement.	Bloody pulp, or in rare cases of very old vampires, disappearing into flame and smoke upon meeting the sun.
Blood Moon	Pale					Ordinary but often somewhat above average
Young Dracula	Pale			Implied that only digital cameras work		Varies	Dust
30 Days of Night	Pale					Steve Niles mentioned that they have an alien-like appearance. They are also described as being gruesome yet attractive.
Charmed	Ordinary					Ordinary	Catch on fire
BloodRayne	Pale					They come in all shapes and sizes
AdventureQuest	Same as in previous life					Same as in previous life
Saga of the Noble Dead	Pale					Kind of beautiful
Moon Child	Ordinary					Ordinary, but some are above average
Underworld	Pale					Ordinary	Corpse
Chibi Vampire/Karin	Pale					Ordinary
The Sims	Varies, depending on original race					Normal	Dust
Let the Right One In	Pale					Ordinary, but appearance will deteriorate if deprived of blood. The appearance can also morph, and vaguely implied to be able to sprout wings.
Hollows	Living Low Blood: ordinary					Ordinary
Hollows	Living High Blood: pale					Beautiful
Hollows	Undead: pale					Beautiful
Black Blood Brothers	Vampires are ordinary, but the Kowloon Children are pale.					Vampires are ordinary, but Kowloon Children have a feral and monstrous appearance.	Dust
Van Helsing	Pale					Above average when in human form, but they turn into a winged bat/demon-like creature, which is possibly their true appearance.	Bones
Rosario + Vampire	Ordinary					Beautiful, unless they absorb other monsters, in which case they became monstrous	Corpse
Gantz	Ordinary					Ordinary
Stargate	White, green or blue					Hideous
Vampire Knight	Pale					Beautiful, except for the Level E Vampires, which resemble weak and disheveled humans	Sand/dust for all but the Purebloods who turn to glass and shatter into particles
The Librarian	Pale					Old vampires are ordinary in appearance, but new ones are hideous.
Blood Alone	Pale					Beautiful
The Historian	Pale					Varies, but new vampires look like sick people
Monogatari series	Vampire: pale					Varies, but are generally beautiful.	Corpse, although their remains would turn into ashes after a certain period of time
Monogatari series	Jiangshi: Like rotting corpses					Look like corpses during the Rigor mortis phase
Twilight	Pale, harder than diamonds, sparkles in sunlight	, their teeth are sharp and serrated and coated in venom, but not pointed				Usually alluring, inhumanly beautiful	Corpses can attempt to reconstruct themselves, unless burnt to ash.
Blood+	Ordinary, except fail chiropterans that have gray skin					Ordinary, except for fail chiropterans that are monstrous
Kitty Norville novels						As in life	Decay rapidly, as if the body had been rotting since it became a vampire; older vampires become dust. Clothing/immediate surroundings also affected. Sun-exposed vampires become ash.
Dance in the Vampire Bund	Pale					Different monstrous form, but they can look human
David Wellington	Pale					Hideous
Supernatural	Ordinary					Ordinary	Corpse
Frostbiten	Pale					Ordinary, but the "pill-vampires" turn monstrous when attacking people, while the supervampire shapeshifts into a demonic creature to hunt. The original vampires look human all the time. All the vampires have orange eyes that turn red when their bloodlust is awakened. The vampires also have exposed veins.
Dwarf Fortress	Ordinary					Beautiful	Corpse
Blindsight	Pale					Tall, with a "predatory appearance"; baseline humans possess an instinctive panic response to them.
Kate Daniels novels						Emaciated, increasingly inhuman with age, eventually quadrupedal
Sanctuary	Ordinary					Varies
The Shadowhunter Chronicles	Pale					Beautiful/emaciated
Vampire Academy	Pale					Moroi are beautiful and Strigoi are beautiful too, but have red-ringed iris around their pupils
House of Night	Blue Vampyres: Pale with sapphire markings					Alluring
House of Night	Red Vampyres: Pale with red markings					Depends: red fledglings are described as gross, but once they choose to be good and become an adult they can be alluring
Moonlight	Ordinary					Ordinary, but many are above average
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja	Pale					Varies; human vampires resemble stereotypical Gothic vampires	Dust
Being Human	Ordinary					Ordinary	Body and clothing turn to dust/ash
Being Human	Ordinary					Ordinary	Body and clothing turn to dust/ash
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi	Ordinary					Very attractive
Demigod	pale grey					hairless; pointed ears
MS Paint Adventures, including Homestuck	Bioluminescent					Varies. Also called "Rainbow drinkers", since Troll blood comes in 12/13 shades.
Split	Pale					Beautiful
The Strain	Pale					Horrible
Wizards of Waverly Place	Pale					Beautiful
Blood Lad	Pale					Ordinary, but with razor sharp teeth	Corpse
The Parasol Protectorate	Pale					Ordinary
Daybreakers	Ordinary					Normal, but with pallid skin and yellow eyes. However, if deprived of blood they become deformed, their ears grow, they lose their hair, grow claws and wings and become bat-like creatures called "Subsiders".
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter novel and film	Pale/White/Grey					Very Beautiful. Eyes turn partially or completely black when the vampire is enraged/ In the film, the skin can turn grey and mottled, the nails, teeth and jaws becomes animalistic and the eyes can turn partially or completely black.
American Vampire	Old World bloodline: pale					Slightly distorted
American Vampire	American bloodline: as when alive					Usually normal, but severely distorted and animalistic when enraged
Shadowspawn series	Normal					Beautiful; yellow eyes when night-walking	Corpse; if post-corporeal, nothing
'	Pale, becomes paler the longer a vampire goes without feeding					Belial: three horns on their heads Ba'al: short and goblinlike Moloch: bull-like head, hooves and claws
Adventure Time	Blue-gray					Described as "sexy", mostly Marceline.	Suffer from horrific pimple-like bumps and burn to dust.
Monster High	Pale					Beautiful, but have pointy, elf-like ears
We Are the Night	Pale					Transformation turns them into the peak of their beauty
My Babysitter's a Vampire	Full vampires: ordinary					Ordinary, but when angry, or about to fight someone their fangs grow, and their eyes either glow a yellowish color or a dark blueish purple color.
My Babysitter's a Vampire	Fledgling: ordinary					As in life
Vampire Cheerleaders	Pale					Beautiful, although their eyes turn blood-red when about to feed or when angry
'	Pale					Bloody Mary is beautiful, but her true form and her underlings are monstrous with bat/rat like traits; Firstborns can take on a human appearance	Dust
Seraph of the End	Pale					As in previous life, although their eyes turn blood-red and their ears become pointed once they consume human blood for the first time and become a full vampire	Dust
Hotel Transylvania	Ordinary					Varies
Vamps	Pale					Ordinary
Byzantium						retractable thumb claw
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown	Pale perfect skin, after excessive feeding face turns puffy and pink					"More beautiful than living". Beauty increases with age. Eyes are bright red.	When burned by sun turn into heap of black smoke and steam. Steak through the heart leaves behind a body.
Penny Dreadful	Pale					Master vampires are hideous, hairless, and have blood-red eyes but infected vampires are ordinary with blood-red eyes.
What We Do in the Shadows	Pale white					Ordinary; keep same appearance when from they were human	Charred corpse, if killed by sunlight
The Laundry Files	Pale					Highly attractive	Corpse
Interviews with Monster Girls	Pale					Ordinary
Midnight Occult Civil Servants	human					releases pheromones to make people attracted or faint	turns to fine ash
Carry On	Normal, pale grey when malnourished					As they were in life	Pile of blood and ashes
	Ordinary/pale					Ordinary but often somewhat above average	Corpse
Vampirina	Blue					Normal	N/A / Children's show

Weaknesses

A "Yes" indicates a weakness to something, with fatal weaknesses being marked as such. Entries which are marked as "No" are not seen as weaknesses. "?" indicates a lack of information on whether this is a weakness or not; other indicates weaknesses that do not fit in one of the other categories.

Setting

Stake

Sunlight

Decapitation

Drowning

Fire

Silver

Garlic

Holy Symbols

Running Water

Invitation

Arithmomania

Other

European folklore

Various regional herbal weaknesses such as plants/woods of the hawthorn family, aspen, oak, ash, maple, dogrose, wild rose, holly, juniper, millet, linden, mayflower, roses, lemon, rowan, and wolfsbane.

North American folklore

"The Vampyre"

Varney the Vampire

Carmilla

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Dracula has the mind of a child and is very obsessive; his own psychic powers can be used to hunt him.

Nosferatu

Black Sunday

Dark Shadows

Vampirella

Contradictory information

Count Chocula

Marvel Comics

Blade

Their bodies start to consume themselves if they are unable to feed for a couple of hours.

Sesame Street

Dungeons & Dragons

Stephen King

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

Blood from an already-dead creature induces temporary deathlike state.

The Little Vampire

Bunnicula

Nocturnal

Doctor Who

Destroying their hearts

Doctor Who

Age rapidly to the point of death when their creator is destroyed

The Hunger

DC Comics

Fevre Dream

Count Duckula

Vampire Hunter D

Iron weapons can bypass their healing and resurrection powers and if a wound caused by an iron weapon is left untreated, it can begin to fester and rot.

Fright Night

Necroscope

Starvation, suffocation, great levels of violence, leprosy or the Black Death also kill them.

Castlevania series

GURPS

Many other specific weaknesses can be taken

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Hamon

The Lost Boys

Shadowrun

If a vampire is cut off from breathable air, they will eventually fall into a coma until exposed to good air again

The Witcher

The Vampire Diaries

Magic from a powerful-enough witch, werewolf bite, white oak ash dagger and vervain can all weaken them ; white oak in the form of a bullet is fatal; Their sireline can broken by magic, therefore their sires can try to kill them without the threat of dying themselves; Advanced Werewolf venom, if not cured, can be fatal; The Cure turns them back into a human.

The Vampire Diaries

Heart extraction and werewolf bite are fatal. Long period without feeding, vervain and some magic/magical objects weaken them. When an Original dies, all vampires in their sireline also die. The Cure turns them back into a mortal, and causes their bodies to age to their true years of existence when The Cure is drained from them, making them unable to become vampires again.

World of Darkness

Blood Ties

Forever Knight

Anno Dracula series

Sick or a dead person's blood can hurt them.

Ravnica

The Elder Scrolls

Vulnerable to Dawnguard weapons, the Dawnbreaker sword, and certain Restoration spells; the strain encountered in Arena could only be killed by magic, otherwise they were only subdued

Darkstalkers

Preacher

Vampire in Brooklyn

From Dusk till Dawn series

Discworld

Scattering their dust, post mortem, prevents them from being revived.

Warhammer

Vampires can possess other weaknesses that vary from vampire to vampire such as, the herbs Daemonsroot and/or Witchbane, sawdust, embalming fluid, the dwarven metal Gromril or the elven metal Ithilmar or even the blood of an innocent victim, powerful magic and divine power can harm or kill them.

Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain

The Nexus Stone could send Kain in a coma for centuries; and sonic waves and the Moebius's Staff weaken vampires.

Night World

Buffyverse

The gem of Amara only existed for two different episodes and then was destroyed by Angel so that it didn't end up in the wrong hands.

Hellsing

Touhou Project

Broken holly branches, sardine heads, and roasted soybeans

Shiki

Starvation will kill them and extreme physical trauma can incapacitate them.

Ultraviolet

Charcoal

Night Watch

Alcohol causes severe burns on contact, much like Holy Water in other settings.

John Carpenter's Vampires

Den of Shadows

The Saga of Darren Shan

The blood of snakes, rats, and cats are poisonous to them.

Dresden Files

Physical contact with someone who last had sex with someone they love

Dresden Files

It is mentioned that they have the weaknesses as described in Bram Stoker's novel.

Dresden Files

Cutting their stomach open drains the blood they've eaten; this weakens them.

Ama-vampires are immune to a "Vampire's Kiss" and if a servant vampire drinks their blood they will be freed of their master.

Tsukihime

Trinity Blood

The destruction of the heart, brain, cervical vertebrae, and brain stem is fatal for them; they have to eat normal food alongside blood or they die.

Trinity Blood

Crusniks can only be killed by draining away all of their crusnik nano-machines.

True Blood

Blood Moon

Werewolf venom/saliva burns like silver.

Young Dracula

Destroying a Blood Mirror turns the entirety of the clan into humans and kills the old vampires.

30 Days of Night

Charmed

BloodRayne series

The poison of a dhampir is deadly for them.

AdventureQuest

Saga of the Noble Dead

The loss of their blood, the attacks of a Majay-hi and magical weapons weakens them.

Moon Child

Underworld

Severe enough injuries or loss of blood can kill them.

Chibi Vampire/Karin

The Sims

Let the Right One In

Blood with cancer hurts them, but it is still nutritious.

Hollows series

Black Blood Brothers

Van Helsing

A werewolf's bite is the only thing lethal to Dracula and it is likely fatal to all other vampires; the death of Dracula seemed to kill all other vampires or at least his children

Rosario + Vampire

Gantz

Stargate

Vampire Knight

The Librarian

Blood Alone

Twilight

The Historian

Monogatari

Blood+

Kitty Norville novels

Dance in the Vampire Bund

Severe damage to their bodies is fatal.

David Wellington

They get weak when they regurgitate blood.

Supernatural

Dwarf Fortress

Blindsight

Neurological "crucifix glitch" causes lethal seizures when perpendicular lines fill more than 30 degrees of visual field; seizures can be prevented by "anti-Euclidean drugs".

Kate Daniels novels

Can be killed by gross physical trauma, such as gunfire

Sanctuary

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Seraph Blades or bleeding them dry can kill them.

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Seraph Blades can kill them.

Vampire Academy

House of Night

If they don't pass the Change when they are fledglings, sometimes they die.

House of Night

If they don't pass the Change when they are fledglings, sometimes they die.

Moonlight

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Being Human

Being human others

Being Human

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi

Exsanguination

Demigod

Homestuck

Split

The Strain

Ultraviolet light and nuclear energy are fatal.

Wizards of Waverly Place

Blood Lad

Heart extraction is fatal.

The Parasol Protectorate

Hive tethered to a specific location shortly after the queen is turned, unless she swarms; the touch of a soulless or metanatural turns them human temporarily.

Daybreakers

A failed human blood substitute caused the vampire who was injected with it to convulse and explode.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

American Vampire

Shadowspawn series

If killed in the right way, they can become post-corporeal permanent night-walkers.

Shadowspawn series

If a living Shadowspawn is killed in their night-walking form, the body becomes comatose and eventually dies.

Vampires can only be permanently killed by the sword of Michael.

Adventure Time

Powerless against ghosts

Monster High

We Are the Night

My Babysitter's a Vampire

Magical daggers, UV light sabers, spells can be harmful and the lucifractor can kill them

Vampire Cheerleaders

Bloody Mary can only be harmed/killed by The Barbed Cross.

Seraph of the End

Destroying their heads entirely will kill them ; cursed gear and enchanted gear can limit their healing or outright kill them. Ripping their heart out converts them to a demon if not returned to the vampire.

Hotel Transylvania

Vamps

Byzantium

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Hawthorn, wild roses, effectiveness of holy symbols is unclear.

Penny Dreadful

Hurting the brain or killing the vampire master is fatal for the infected vampires.

What We Do in the Shadows

The Laundry Files

By so-called V-symbiots that require destiny-entanglement with a victim through consumption of their blood

Interviews with Monster Girls

Midnight Occult Civil Servants

Carry On

They can be killed with firearms, due to hemorrhages and bleeding or after severe physical trauma; not feeding on blood causes their bodies to decay and their minds to become feral.

Vampirina

Vampires seem to be scared of the color pink and cute stuffed animals.

Innistrad

Any weapon can harm or kill them, although wood is especially effective against them.

Shiki

Starvation will kill them and extreme physical trauma can incapacitate them.

Frostbiten

Supernatural powers

It is common in fiction for vampires to gain additional, uncommon powers as they age. Certain vampires may have abilities that are unique to them or a small group of others. These have been noted as 'Gifted'.

Setting	Immortal	Enhanced Strength	Enhanced Senses	Enhanced Speed	Unnatural Healing	Flight	Shapeshifting/Absorption	Psychic Powers	Psychokinesis	Pyrokinesis	Other
European folklore
North American folklore
Varney the Vampire
Carmilla
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Nosferatu
Black Sunday
Dark Shadows			Possibly tell if people are lying?
Vampirella
Count Chocula
Marvel Comics
Blade											Deacon Frost, when merged with La Magra was impervious to silver, is able to day-walk due to Blade's blood, and can instantly turn any human in his path into vampires.
Sesame Street
Dungeons & Dragons
Stephen King									Possibly; Barlow could cause an entire house to shake in the movie.
Stephen King
Stephen King
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
The Little Vampire
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
DC Comics
Fevre Dream
Count Duckula
Vampire Hunter D
Fright Night
Necroscope
Castlevania series
GURPS
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
The Lost Boys
Shadowrun
The Witcher
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries
World of Darkness
Blood Ties
'
Forever Knight
Anno Dracula series
Ravnica
Ravnica											— Victims who fail to defend against a mind drinker's psychic attack will suffer psychic damage and the mind drinker will be able to discern their surface emotions and thoughts — Mind drinker vampires are innately able to cast a paralysis spell
'
The Elder Scrolls
Darkstalkers
Preacher
Vampire in Brooklyn
From Dusk till Dawn series
Discworld
Warhammer
Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain
Night World
Night World
Buffyverse
Hellsing
Touhou Project
Shiki
Ultraviolet
Night Watch
Den of Shadows
The Saga of Darren Shan								; not exclusive to vampires
Dresden Files
Dresden Files
Dresden Files
'
'
Tsukihime
Tsukihime
Trinity Blood
Trinity Blood
True Blood
Blood Moon
Young Dracula
30 Days of Night
Charmed
BloodRayne
AdventureQuest
Saga of the Noble Dead
Moon Child
Underworld
Chibi Vampire/Karin
The Sims											Powers vary by entry in franchise
Let the Right One In
Hollows series
Hollows series
Black Blood Brothers
Van Helsing
Rosario + Vampire
Gantz
Stargate
Vampire Knight
The Librarian series
Blood Alone
The Historian
Monogatari series
Twilight saga
Blood+
Kitty Norville novels
Dance in the Vampire Bund
David Wellington
Supernatural
Frostbiten
Dwarf Fortress
Blindsight
Kate Daniels novels
Sanctuary
The Shadowhunter Chronicles
Vampire Academy
House of Night
House of Night
Moonlight
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Being Human
Being Human
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Demigod
Homestuck
Split
The Strain
Wizards of Waverly Place
Blood Lad
The Parasol Protectorate
Daybreakers
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
American Vampire
American Vampire
Shadowspawn series
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Adventure Time
Monster High
We Are the Night
My Babysitter's a Vampire
My Babysitter's a Vampire
Vampire Cheerleaders
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Seraph of the End
Hotel Transylvania
Vamps
Byzantium
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Penny Dreadful
The Laundry Files
Interviews with Monster Girls

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