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* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind 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 ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]''.
** Likewise in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''[='s=] ''Dawnguard'' expansion.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': 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 an episode of ''Series/{{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. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Biting doesn't work]]. Then again, they're not true vampires, and neither is Tesla. All true vamps were killed centuries ago.

[[EvilIsCool Vampires are Cool]]. VampiresAreRich, and [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Powerful]]. VampiresAreSexGods. Who wouldn't [[MisaimedFandom want]] to be a vampire?

* The premise of the George A. Romero film ''Film/{{Martin}}''. The trope is played with, however, because Martin's "vampirism" is a sexual fetish as well as a form of DomesticAbuse. Vampirism is never treated as supernatural, unlike a lot of other movies. [[spoiler: Martin's older looking cousin has convinced him he's a vampire, and kills him at the end.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' plays this for tragedy with the Vorlog monster, a human who was being transformed into a vampire's companion[[note]]uniquely powerful vampire spawn created to be MindlinkMates with their sire, hence their original nicknames of "Brides and Grooms"[[/note]] 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 [[ReplacementGoldfish 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.

* In ''Literature/TheSanguineChronicles'' 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[[/note]] 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", [[spoiler: and then they infect her with lycanthropy instead, she does not take it well.]]

* A ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline involves a vial of his blood ending up at a nightclub for these people. Much to his bewilderment, the club-goers are dressed like the cast of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ("Is that ... ''glitter''?") rather than the goths he was expecting.