History Main / VampireVannabe

Can work as a deconstruction of the exponential population growth that would result from the more traditional "[[TheVirus 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.

* After [[VegetarianVampire Mitchell]] tells the vampires in ''BeingHuman'' to [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere go clean]], one of them finds a chatroom full of these and argues that they shouldn't count, since they want to be bitten.

* In ''ForeverKnight'', why does every other woman who discovers that Nick is a vampire throw herself into his arms and demand to be turned?

** The short story "It's My Birthday, Too" deals with a somewhat unpopular member of a ''[[VampireTheMasquerade 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 [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Black Court]], and already looks dessicated despite only being a vampire for a few months. [[AxCrazy Not that she cares...]]

* There's a guy in the ''{{Thirty Days Of Night}}'' comic (and movie) who paves the way for the vampires by stealing and destroying the towns means of communication in exchange for being turned. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness They don't.]]

* In ''{{Twilight}}'' the Volturi have a human secretary who is under the impression that they'll be turned. Really they're going to be snack food after a few months. Bella also wants to become a vampire. But let's face it, Meyer's vampires are basically sparkly, ridiculously overpowered, cold, immortal people. What was the downside again? A bloodlust that you can learn to control with enough training? Wow, that's really off-putting.

[[EvilIsCool Vampires are cool]]. [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Vampires are powerful]]. VampiresAreSexGods. Wait. . . What?

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 [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to actually be rewarded]] depends on the vamp, however.

Can be justified, if the work's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent interpretation of vampires]] are CursedWithAwesome, gaining great powers and few if any weaknesses. This can lead to MoralDissonance if the wannabe is [[InformedWrongness portrayed as a foolish coward]] regardless of this - perhaps because being a vampire is [[AlwaysChaoticEvil just inherently evil]]. Or possibly because the VampireWannabe leaves him-/herself wide open to PretenderDiss, whether from actual vamps or their enemies.

Polar opposite of IHateYouVampireDad, although that can be the end result if the gig [[BeingEvilSucks isn't all it was]] [[LonelyAtTheTop cracked up to be]]. Often {{Goth}}s, at least in their minds, and always LesCollaborateurs. Compare TheRenfield, TranshumanTreachery. Contrast SuperLoser, when being a vampire is no guarantee of coolness.

* Not necessarily vampires, but groups of Homunculi in ''BusouRenkin'' 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.

* HeroesOfMightAndMagic 4 had captain Enric, who betrays his village and frames a random barbarian warlord with it's 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 [[LawfulNeutral being the way he is]], stops Enric and brutally executes him as an example to anyone who harms his living subjects.

* HeroesOfMightAndMagic 4 had captain Enric, who betrays his village and frames a random barbarian warlord with it's 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 [[Lawful Neutral being the way he is]], stops Enric and brutally executes him as an example to anyone who harms his living subjects.

* ''[[TheElderScrolls Morrowind]]'' featured an optional quest only for players who had become vampires. It featured a mother hoping you could talk some sense into her son, who wanted desperately to be turned. If you tried to fight him, you'd kill him easily. The only way to complete the quest was to let him wail on you for a while until he decided vampires were weak and overrated.

* In GeorgeRRMartin's ''FevreDream'', this is how the leader of the evil vampires motivates his competent (but not too bright) human servant

* There is a Jhonen Vasquez story where a Goth boy who wants to be a vampire for real finally meets an undead guy willing to grant his wish. The results... [[LooksLikeOrlok aren't pretty]].

* The KittyNorville series has several callers who want to be turned into vampires, werewolves, etc. Kitty's advice is always that it is [[BeCarefulWantYouWishFor a one-way trip to a life that's not as romantic as it sounds]]. Don't do it.

* As this troper types, this very page includes advertising for ''First Bite'', described as "a personalized vampire romance novel ... where ''you'' are the star!" Oh joy unto the ages.

* "Wannabe Vampire" is a monster in ''{{Munchkin}}.'' Clerics can scare him off by saying "Ooga booga."

* 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.

** The vampire claims that beauty would come with time and patience, which was a downright lie, as the condition only got worse.