History Main / FullyEmbracedFiend

* Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei:

Vampire and werewolves, the sort of monster [[ViralTransformation you can be turned into]], are the typical target. If they are slightly evil they might be a TokenEvilTeammate. Contrast with TranshumanTreachery where a character in the fight against such creatures gives in to the process that turns them into the enemy. Also contrast with ProHumanTranshuman, where a character in the fight against such creatures resists the notion of superiority to humanity. Contrast with MonstersAnonymous, where the emphasis is on blending in with humanity... though the exact ''purpose'' to the blending in may vary.

** The sequel, ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'', has the three Pure tribes. The Predator Kings embrace their nature as wild beasts, despising humanity for "upsetting the natural order" with technology and seeking to tear down civilization and reinstate the law of the Jungle. The Fire-Touched make themselves the high priests of the spirit world, claiming that Spirit should rule over Flesh and seeking to merge the two worlds on their terms. And the Silver Claws see themselves as a MasterRace, believing that werewolves should rule over humanity and they should rule over werewolves.

* This is Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s relationship with ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, who's embraced his violent and feral instincts, whereas Wolverine tries to ResistTheBeast. Both of them get the urge to become TheBerserker, but while Wolverine tries to fight it off and control his power, Sabertooth has embraced his feral side.

* French Canadian comedy "Karmina 2" has Linda, whose husband was made a vampire in the original movie; she's extremely enthusiastic about becoming a vampire before being turned, tricks a friend into biting her because her husband thinks she's too unstable, bites him back to turn herself, and once she's turned [[LargeHam revels in the whole thing]].

However they still will tend to get these fans by the SociopathicHero or MagnificentBastard route with a sort of sociopathy in how they view everybody else, moralistic characters being gutless morons who were afraid to take risks. They probably didn't start out like this, having gone through the StagesOfMonsterGrief before truly accepting their condition.

* Both ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' feature a vampiric society that holds to the idea that you need to keep ''some'' measure of your Humanity, lest you fall to the Beast and become a mindless killer. Needless to say, their foils have other ideas. In ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Masquerade]]'', the Sabbat is a society made up of vampires who believe they are superior to humanity, and have the right to rule over the "kine" as they wish (usually in a bloody and messy fashion). In ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Requiem]]'', it's the covenant of Belial's Brood, who believe that the Beast is superior to paltry Humanity and perform atrocities to get closer to it.

** Being a [[BodyHorror Tzimisce]] and a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat,]] Andre falls into this almost by default. Like many of his clan, he has even purposefully molded himself into a more monstrous form, to better separate himself from what remains of his humanity and fully embrace his inner Beast.

* The [[PathOfInspiration Black Spiral Dancers]] in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. Werewolves are inherently monstrous, but the good ones in the setting strive to be[[NobleDemon noble monsters,]] who [[GoodIsNotSoft use their monstrosity to fight for good against evil.]] Black Spiral Dancers just kind of drop the "noble" part.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us Fenrir Greyback, a cannibalistic werewolf with [[WouldHurtAChild a taste for children]] -- transformed or not. He is the polar opposite of Remus Lupin, who hates being a werewolf and whose biggest flaw by WordOfGod is that he just wants to be liked.

* José in ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}''. While his friend [[TheHero Alex Elder]] absolutely refuses to drink blood, being even disgusted with animal and donated blood, Joe is very content with being a vampire and feeds mostly on bad people like criminals and drug dealers. While cops and innocents are off-limits, he makes anexception when he is extremely hungry.

** Both ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' (vampires) and ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' (werewolves) feature a similar two variations on this trope; an older NobleDemon patriarch who "[[ContractualGenreBlindness plays by the rules]]" -- that is, [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality acts like they do in the traditional stories]] -- and a sadistic, supremacist younger son who enjoys flaunting his power over humans and serves as the villain of the story. Both of these are foils to the {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampire}}s and werewolves we see coexisting [[FantasticRacism more-or-less peacefully]] with humans in Ankh-Morpork, like Otto von Chriek and Sgt. Angua.

* This is Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s relationship with ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, who's embraced his violent and feral instincts.
* [[ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Cletus Kasady]] and ComicBook/MacGargan to [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]].

* The [[PathOfInspiration Black Spiral Dancers]] in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse]]''. Werewolves are inherently monstrous, but the good ones in the setting strive to be noble monsters, who [[GoodIsNotSoft use their monstrousness to fight for good against evil]]. Black Spiral Dancers just kind of drop the "noble" part.

** One of the possible endings for your player character, the [[HumanoidAbomination Demi-Fiend]], in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. At the very beginning of the game, a little boy [[spoiler: (Lucifer)]] forcibly transforms you, giving you the body of a demon while letting you keep the soul of a human. Handy for creating an interesting narrative and not falling over the BishonenLine. At the end of the game, after experiencing everything there is to see AfterTheEnd, you get to decide if you want to want to complete the transformation and make your soul that of a demon's, [[spoiler: becoming Lucifer's [[TheDragon Dragon]] and taking the fight to God himself]].
** An option for the PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor: [[UpdatedRerelease Overclocked]]'' during Naoya's [[PlayableEpilogue 8th Day]]. Having finally awoken his power as the new King Of Bel, the player can now decide to completely abandon their human morality and slaughter everyone opposing them, giving in to their demonic soul and ultimately ending with [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', [[spoiler: Issachar says something to this effect after reading the Black Samurai's [[BrownNote literature]]: "Now that I have [[AwfulTruth seen the light]]... I have [[DemonOfHumanOrigin embraced the demonic]]." Depending on your dialogue choices during the ensuing [[FightingYourFriend battle]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he'll quickly regret it]]... [[MortonsFork not that it'll change the outcome]]]].

** Smiling Jack is a relatively well-balanced version. He unapologetically enjoys blood-drinking and raising hell against anyone who tries to control him; but doesn't hurt people without cause, warns new vampires against losing their humanity, and offers mentorship and friendship without asking anything in return. For a four-hundred-year-old undead ex-pirate anarchist, he's surprisingly well-adjusted.
** "Gorgeous" Gary Golden, [[LooksLikeOrlok a Nosferatu]], will express his disgust at [[TheBeautifulElite a Toreador]] PlayerCharacter this way, suggesting that the Toreador are deluding themselves by trying to cover up their inherent monstrosity with "Paris fashions and pomp" and that, as one of the fallen and the dead, the player character should act like it.
** Pisha is remarkably [[{{Pun}} sanguine]] about the fact that she has to not only drink human blood, but eat human flesh, and will happily engage in a debate on the ethics of anthropophagy and the difference between the people she killed for food and and those you KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The Malkavian player character will dub her "Black Widow", only for her to shake her head and point out that "Mantis" would be far more appropriate. It should be said that Pisha is on her third century of unlife and has had plenty of time to deal with the existential angst, and seems to be operating on some form of BlueAndOrangeMorality, as some vampires do.
** Being a [[BodyHorror Tzimisce]] and a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat]], Andre falls into this almost by default. Like many of his clan, he has even purposefully molded himself into a more monstrous form, to better separate himself from what remains of his humanity and fully embrace his inner Beast.

** [[spoiler:Durkon]] acting like this moments after being turned into a vampire so out of character that it convinces Belkar that he's NotHimself, especially since said character went from forgiving Belkar for not being able to save him to eagerly drinking his blood in minutes. [[spoiler:Belkar is correct; Durkon isn't only a vampire, he's being possessed by a servant of Hel.]]
** Another, unnamed vampire comments on how pleasant this is. While frequently [[spoiler: the soul of the person is trapped inside, horrified by what the vampire is doing and irritates them with their protests, in this case the original person]] was suppressing major evil inclinations in life and is thrilled to be able to express them. The vampire even plans to do some "messed up stuff" [[spoiler: her host had always wanted to do for their mutual enjoyment]].

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Aberrations]] from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. To become an aberration you must be fully willing to kill other sapients to keep yourself alive, and the transformation explicitly destroys any capacity for empathy. The closest thing we ever see to morals or conscience from an aberration is the mention by a [[PuppeteerParasite body-snatcher]] that the man who became it justified the transformation by thinking that he could just snatch one person who deserved it for years at a time.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

** In Season 6 Spike tries to take on this role for Buffy, convinced she CameBackWrong after her death and resurrection. It turns out Buffy's just severely screwed up, and Spike's efforts to get her to embrace TheDarkSide and run off with him [[DestructiveRomance only make things worse]].
* Although they usually only appear for one episode, many of the informants to the ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' crew do this, [[spoiler: especially Ashley, until her death]]. While UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla embraces being a vampire ([[spoiler:until he is turned back]]), he doesn't go around killing people. That's [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Druitt's]] job. Tesla's vices include arrogance, excessive drinking of fine wines, and constant hitting on Helen, but he is rather reserved otherwise.

->''"I'm going to tell you a secret, but I think you already know it. Becoming a vampire doesn't change your personality; that's just a silly lie we tell to the newcomers to help them through their first few kills. ''"No! What's happening to me?! Munch munch."'' Ha... It doesn't change the personality: it ''liberates'' it. A vampire is the only truly free man. All his darkness, all his excesses, they can run amok. He wants a girl? Take twenty. He wants a boy? Go ahead, just give the place a bit of a hose-down after. The world is his. The only limit is his imagination."''

* This ''eventually'' happened to the protagonist of ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl.'' Sandra, after years of fighting against her transformed-into-a-demon nature, finally gives in to the dark side. After causing a great deal of trouble, she is sucked into an alternate dimension where [[spoiler: she is forced to deal with being suddenly human again]]. How this all plays out it is yet to be seen.

** Becoming a vampire makes you lose your soul, which [[OurSoulsAreDifferent in this setting]] seems to be synonymous with one's conscience. As such, they fit this trope as a rule, with a handful of exceptions (namely, vampires who manage to get a soul ''back'' somehow). At one point Angel even admits that he misses the "clarity" of being a soulless monster. [[spoiler:Spike]] has a better time of it--he feels guilty about his past actions, but actually likes being a vampire otherwise.

* This is ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s relationship with ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, who's embraced his violent and feral instincts.
* [[ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Cletus Kasady]] and [[IAmAHumanitarian Mac Gargan]] to [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]].
* José in ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}''. While his friend [[TheHero Alex Elder]] absolutely refuses to drink blood, being even disgusted with animal and donated blood, Joe is very content with being a vampire and feeds mostly on bad people like criminals and drug dealers. While cops and innocents are off-limits, he makes exception when he is extremely hungry.

* In the original ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie, Luke Perry's buddy quickly becomes one of these to the still mortal Perry's character. Once best buds, he tries to convince him to turn too after he passes on being FOOD.

** Both ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' (vampires) and ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'' (werewolves) feature a similar two variations on this trope; an older NobleDemon patriarch who "[[ContractualGenreBlindness plays by the rules]]" -- that is, [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality acts like they do in the traditional stories]] -- and a sadistic, supremacist younger son who enjoys flaunting his power over humans and serves as the villain of the story. Both of these are foils to the {{Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire}}s and werewolves we see coexisting [[FantasticRacism more-or-less peacefully]] with humans in Ankh-Morpork, like Otto von Chriek and Sgt. Angua.

* By the end of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/TurnCoat'', [[spoiler: FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Thomas]] seems to have given up and become one of these. As it turns out, though, this is just an act.
** And in ''Literature/SummerKnight'', Changeling Meryl embraces her Fae half in the final battle, becoming a troll, though she does so to save her friend and dies shortly afterwards.
* Almost all the vampires in the Literature/DenOfShadows series except Christopher and Nissa are completely happy with being vampires.

* Josef Kostan, resident DeadpanSnarker and resulting EnsembleDarkHorse, in ''Series/{{Moonlight}}''.
** Coraline Duvall as well, especially in the flashbacks. Not so much after her return, or so she claims.
* Eric in ''Series/TrueBlood'' who scoffs at Bill's drinking of the eponymous blood substitute and his remaining human tendencies.
** Most vampires in the series bother little with restraint.
* Herrick from ''Series/BeingHumanUK'', who is always trying to get Mitchell to give up forsaking blood and get into a vampire world domination bid.
** Similarly Tully wanted to convince George to embrace "the wolf" and act animalisticly. Particularly disturbing considering the depiction of the werewolf curse was treated on many occasions like an STD being passed on and the turning bite being like a rape. Eventually George got rid of him when he acted violently against his loved ones.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Becoming a vampire makes you lose your soul, which [[OurSoulsAreDifferent in this setting]] seems to be synonymous with one's conscience. As such, they fit this trope as a rule, with a handful of exceptions (namely, vampires who manage to get a soul ''back'' somehow). At one point Angel even admits that he misses the "clarity" of being a soulless monster. [[spoiler:Spike]] has a better time of it--he feels guilty about his past actions, but actually likes being a vampire otherwise.

* Although they usually only appear for one episode, many of the informants to the ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' crew do this, [[spoiler: especially Ashley, until her death]].
** While UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla embraces being a vampire ([[spoiler:until he is turned back]]), he doesn't go around killing people. That's [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Druitt's]] job. Tesla's vices include arrogance, excessive drinking of fine wines, and constant hitting on Helen, but he is rather reserved otherwise.

** It's implied that he doesn't shut them off ''all'' the way, probably so he can enjoy it more. [[spoiler:Then at the end of season one he's apparently turned them back on]].

* Like in the ''Literature/BloodBooks'' novels it's based on, Henry in ''Series/BloodTies'' embraces his vampiric nature. He seduces a girl every night to secretly snack on her while doing other stuff. He does give a speech to [[ActionGirl Vicki]], including "someone has to die" in it. Coincidentally, the victim they are talking about is not dead, as Henry leads her to assume. He turned the girl. At the same time, Henry also has qualities of a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.
** Before cancellation, the show only had five vampires on it: Henry, Christina (Henry's lover/maker), Christina's other fledgling (who [[IHateYouVampireDad hates her]]), the previously-mentioned girl, and a Spanish nun turned by Henry during the Inquisition in return for freeing him (he thought it was a gift).

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': A more morally ambiguous version than usual. [[spoiler:Red]] initially has extreme self-hatred about being TheBigBadWolf, since it caused her to accidentally kill a boyfriend in the past. She learns to accept her wolf side with help from [[spoiler:her mother]], a ProudWarriorRaceGirl, only to discover that she's a FantasticRacist who kills humans on sight. Eventually she learns to find a middle way between this trope and a lifetime of being TheAtoner.

** One of the possible endings for your player character, the [[HumanoidAbomination Demi-Fiend]], in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. At the very beginning of the game, a little boy [[spoiler: (Lucifer)]] forcibly transforms you, giving you the body of a demon while letting you keep the soul of a human. Handy for creating an interesting narrative and not falling over the BishonenLine. At the end of the game, after experiencing everything there is to see AfterTheEnd, you get to decide if you want to want to complete the transformation and make your soul that of a demon's, [[spoiler: becoming Lucifer's {{Dragon}} and taking the fight to God himself]].

** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', [[spoiler: Issachar says something to this effect after reading the Black Samurai's [[BrownNote literature]]: "Now that I have [[AwfulTruth seen the light]]... I have [[DemonOfHumanOrigin embraced the demonic]]." Depending on your dialogue choices during the ensuing [[FightingYourFriend battle]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he'll quickly regret it]]... [[MortonsFork not that it'll change the outcome]].]]

** Pisha is remarkably [[IncrediblyLamePun sanguine]] about the fact that she has to not only drink human blood, but eat human flesh, and will happily engage in a debate on the ethics of anthropophagy and the difference between the people she killed for food and and those you KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The Malkavian player character will dub her "Black Widow", only for her to shake her head and point out that "Mantis" would be far more appropriate. It should be said that Pisha is on her third century of unlife and has had plenty of time to deal with the existential angst, and seems to be operating on some form of BlueAndOrangeMorality, as some vampires do.

* The Shadow Hilt sisters Erze and Seria from ''VideoGame/KingsRaid'' were expected to continue on the family tradition of vampire hunting. Unfortunately, Erze got bitten by a mysterious vampire which lead to the gradual loss of her moral compass. She eventually killed and absorbed the powers of the same high-ranked vampire who transformed her in the first place and killed her own former comrades, then slipped away from her sister. [[AbelAndCain Seria currently seeks to find her and kill her as revenge for the fallen comrades]].

* This ''eventually'' happened to the protagonist of ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl.'' Sandra, after years of fighting against her transformed-into-a-demon nature, finally gives in to the dark side. After causing a great deal of trouble, she is sucked into an alternate dimension where [[spoiler: she is forced to deal with being suddenly human again.]] How this all plays out it is yet to be seen.

** [[spoiler:Durkon]] acting like this moments after being turned into a vampire so out of character that it convinces Belkar that he's NotHimself, especially since said character went from forgiving Belkar for not being able to save him to eagerly drinking his blood in minutes. [[spoiler:Belkar is correct; Durkon isn't only a vampire, he's being possessed by a servant of Hel]].

** Pisha is remarkably [[IncrediblyLamePun sanguine]] about the fact that she has to not only drink human blood, but eat human flesh, and will happily engage in a debate on the ethics on anthropophagy and the difference between the people she killed for food and and those you KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The Malkavian player character will dub her "Black Widow", only for her to shake her head and point out that "Mantis" would be far more appropriate. It should be said that Pisha is on her third century of unlife and has had plenty of time to deal with the existential angst, and seems to be operating on some form of BlueAndOrangeMorality, as some vampires do.

* By the end of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/TurnCoat'', [[spoiler: FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Thomas seems to have given up and]] become one of these.
** And in ''Literature/SummerKnight'', Changeling Meryl embraces her Fae half in the final battle, becoming a troll.

[[folder: Comic Books]]
* Inverted in ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' - Cassidy (a main character who is a vampire) is (outwardly) Well-Adjusted; one flashback issue features him meeting a vampire who read too much Creator/AnneRice. His monstrous nature comes more from his addiction to heroin and his abuse of women.
* This is Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'s relationship with Sabretooth, who's embraced his violent and feral instincts.
** [[ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Cletus Kasady]] and [[IAmAHumanitarian Mac Gargan]] to [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]].
* José in ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}''. While his friend [[TheHero Alex Elder]] absolutely refuses to drink blood, being even disgusted with animal and donated blood, Joe is very content with being a vampire and feeds mostly on bad people like criminals and drug dealers. While cops and innocents are off-limits, he makes exception when he is extremely hungry.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[spoiler:Durkon]] acting like this moments after being turned into a vampire so out of character that it convinces Belkar that he's NotHimself, especially since said character went from forgiving Belkar for not being able to save him to eagerly drinking his blood in minutes. [[spoiler:Belkar is correct; Durkon isn't only a vampire, he's being possessed by a servant of Hel]].