History Main / VampireVannabe

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' revolves around Kou Yamori, an [[TheInsomniac insomniac]] middle-schooler dissatisfied with his life, [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Kou can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquaintances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires]]. At one point, said acquaintances offer to allow Kou to choose one of them to turn him into a vampire instead so that they won't have to kill him, but he prefers to stick with Nazuna.

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' revolves around Kou Yamori, an [[TheInsomniac insomniac]] middle-schooler dissatisfied with his life, [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Kou can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquiantances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires]]. At one point, said acquaintances offer to allow Kou to choose one of them to turn him into a vampire instead so that they won't have to kill him, but he prefers to stick with Nazuna.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

* ''Literature/TeamHuman'' is an AffectionateParody of ''Literature/{{Twilight}},'' about a girl named Mel who wants to stop her best friend from becoming a vampire. Mel then winds up in a relationship with Kit, who was [[RaisedByTheSupernatural raised by vampires]] and also wants to "transition" [[FantasticLegalWeirdness when he's old enough]]. Neither are the brooding Goths typical of this trope, though we do see that "vamposeurs" like that also exist.

* One human slave of the Goa'uld in ''Series/StargateSG1'' is shown to be well aware that he's not serving gods, just technologically advanced and powerful aliens, but he serves them dutifully nonetheless in the hopes of one day becoming a host.

* [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Fangbangers"]] in ''Series/TrueBlood'' and ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' fit this to a T. On the other hand, the main character Sookie is a subversion as she has repeatedly said she doesn't want to be a vampire, she just [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou likes them because she can't hear their thoughts]]. Actually, most fangbangers apparently have no desire of being turned themselves. They just like to have vampiric sex partners.
* In ''Series/ForeverKnight'', why does every other woman who discovers that Nick is a vampire throw herself into his arms and demand to be turned? As Nick is trying to find out how to make himself normal again, he's not happy.

* After [[VegetarianVampire Mitchell]] tells the vampires in ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' 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 the fourth series episode "The Graveyard Shift", Vampire Vannabe Michaela makes Hal's first day out in the modern human world very uncomfortable by telling him about her fantasies of blood and slaughter so she can seem dark and interesting.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* The villain of the ''Series/FearItself'' episode "Something with Bite" was a man copycatting werewolves in the hope of attracting the attention of a real one who could turn him.
* Robin in ''Series/YoungDracula''.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has featured this twice; once with a group of Vampire Wannabes who were teeth-gratingly oblivious to the reality that one of their friends had died ("Suckers"), and once with both Vampire ''and'' Werewolf wannabes, who naturally enough had [[FurAgainstFang an escalating rivalry]] going on over their preferred form of [[SeriousBusiness fantasy dress-up]] ("Blood Moon").
* One human slave of the Goa'uld in ''Series/StargateSG1'' is shown to be well aware that he's not serving gods, just technologically advanced and powerful aliens, but he serves them dutifully nonetheless in the hopes of one day becoming a host.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Ivan Povin agreed to become a vampire shortly after arriving in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] because he knew that it would be difficult to survive the harsh conditions otherwise. Although he is initially disgusted by the vampires and fears that they intend to feed on him, KGB Colonel Ilyanov later agrees to be made a vampire himself. Valentina Orlova convinces him that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union is to create further vampires and [[InternalReformist take it down from the inside]].
* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Guillermo's main reason for remaining as Nandor's familiar for so long is because he desperately wants to be turned into one himself. Unfortunately for him, Nandor is reluctant to do so, and has been putting it off for 12 years. [[spoiler:In season 3 it is revealed that Nandor views vampirism as a curse, and that he cares too much about Guillermo to put him through that.]]

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' revolves around Ko Yamori, a high-school dropout dissatisfied with his life, [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Ko can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquiantances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires.]] At one point, said acquaintances offer to allow Ko to choose one of them to turn him into a vampire instead so that they won't have to kill him, but he prefers to stick with Nazuna.

* A strange, tragic example in the Creator/RichardMatheson story "Drink My Red Blood!" (read it [[http://magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/drink-my-red-blood-by-richard-matheson.html here]]): a young boy with [[AmbiguousDisorder mental issues]] becomes obsessed with the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' to the point that he believes a vampire bat at the local zoo is a transformed vampire. He ends up freeing the bat from the zoo, taking it someplace quiet, and ''cutting his own throat'' as an offering to "The Count". [[spoiler: [[AmbiguousEnding Was he right about "The Count" or was it a dying hallucination?]]]]

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]]. These characters are often {{Goth}}s, at least in their minds, and always LesCollaborateurs, usually WorkingForABodyUpgrade. A subtrope of ShamSupernatural. Compare TheRenfield, TranshumanTreachery. Contrast SuperLoser, when being a vampire is no guarantee of coolness, and EmergencyTransformation, when the person might or might not want to become a vampire or other monster but basically has no alternative. If they are seeking to be bitten by a vamp, they are a VoluntaryVampireVictim.

** An episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' featured a group of vampire wannabes who thought they were going to be turned. Spike and his crew were actually just going to eat them, though they were willing to turn the one who set this up: an old friend of Buffy [[spoiler:who's SecretlyDying]].
** Also, there's an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' ("[[Recap/AngelS01E17Eternity Eternity]]", [=S01E17=]), where an actress wants to become a vampire for the eternal youth. After getting a glimpse of soulless Angel and finding what being a vampire was really about, she ran off and never returned.

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->'''Renfield''': I need lives. I need lives for the master!\\
'''Jack Seward''': What? What master?\\
'''Renfield''': The master will come, and he has promised to make me immortal!
-->--''Film/BramStokersDracula''

* An episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood", had a vampire wannabe who was ''also'' a vampire, only a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent different]] one: Everyone in the town had glowing green eyes and drank blood, but he also wore fake fangs and followed other vampire movie cliches. The other vampires regard him as something of an embarrassment, as he just draws attention to them and [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires they just want to live quietly]].

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' revolves around Ko Yamori, a high-school dropout dissatisfied with his life, [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Ko can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquiantances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires.]]

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' revolves around Ko Yamori [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove trying to fall in love]] with Nazuna Nanakusa, a vampire, as a requirement for her to be able to turn him. There is a catch, however: humans are only able to be turned into vampires until after a year since they are first bitten. If Ko can't make it within a year (having been bitten in the first chapter), Nazuna's vampire acquiantances will [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade kill him for knowing too much about vampires.]]

* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Many vampires have “familiars”; vampire wannabes who serve as TheRenfield in exchange for being turned. The long-suffering Jackie is Deacon’s familiar and is starting to get pissed over [[MovingTheGoalposts his lame excuses to not turn her yet]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, she gets so fed up that she quits and convinces Nick to turn her on the way out, much to Deacon’s irritation.]]

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': Guillermo's main reason for remaining as Nandor's familiar for so long is because he desperately wants to be turned into one himself. Unfortunately for him, Nandor is reluctant to do so, and has been putting it off for 12 years. [[spoiler:In season 3 it is revealed that Nandor views vampirism as a curse, and that he cares too much about Guillermo to put him through that.]]

* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': Many vampires have “familiars”; vampire wannabes who serve as TheRenfield in exchange for being turned. The long-suffering Jackie is Deacon’s familiar and is starting to get pissed over [[MovingTheGoalposts his lame excuses to not turn her yet]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, she gets so fed up that she quits and convinces Nick to turn her on the way out, much to Deacon’s irritation.]]

* In ''Literature/{{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 [[OurVampiresAreDifferent sparkly, super-strong, super-fast, nigh-indestructible immortal hotties with enhanced senses and the occasional bonus power (usually psychic) thrown in for good measure.]] What was the downside again? A bloodlust that you can learn to control with enough training? Wow, that's really off-putting.
** The other downside is [[KillItWithFire being stuffed with lighter fluid and silver nitrate film]] but given how hard it is to even touch their rock-hard skin they are quite confidant about being able to beat "human pop-guns" (the Volturi aren't as confidant, and this is one of the reasons they've told vampires to hide from humans).
* This site has featured advertising for ''First Bite'', described as "a personalized vampire romance novel ... where ''you'' are the star!" Oh joy unto the ages. [[JustForFun/AdOfWin We've got a page for that!]]

* In ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'', one of Count Lee's minions is in it for the goal of becoming a vampire himself one day.

** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E05LiveFreeOrTwiHard Live Free or Twi-Hard]]", the alpha vampire has his minions target and turn young women interested in being Bella to their Edward. Unfortunately for them, the vampires of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent much less sparkly.]]

** The ''Angel'' comic book has this plot, with a group of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s trying to use a VERY unwilling Angel and a hired Gypsy to turn rich idiots into ensouled vampires. It works about as well as you would expect.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'', Sims with the Knowledge aspiration sometimes desire to become a vampire, werewolf or witch. Other Sims usually fear becoming anything supernatural.
* 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.

** An episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' featured a group of vampire wannabes who thought they were going to be turned. [[spoiler:They were really going to be food, as a payment of sorts from the one character who was actually going to be turned (who was dying of cancer). Said episode establishes that vampirism in Buffy [[OurVampiresAreDifferent is more like]] DemonicPossession and there is no way you can literally "become" a vampire since the real you will simply die, but the wannabes don't know this and the one who is dying, when he learns of this, doesn't care since he'll be dead either way.]]

The wannabe's desire can be justified, if the work's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent version 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 Vampire Vannabe leaves him-/herself wide open to a PretenderDiss, whether from actual vamps or their enemies.

* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Darren's friend was like this, to the point of blackmailing a vampire to try to get bitten.

* ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'': Almost all drones serve their vampire lord or lady in hopes of someday being turned. Clavigers serve the same role for werewolves.

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]]. These characters are often {{Goth}}s, at least in their minds, and always LesCollaborateurs, usually WorkingForABodyUpgrade. Compare TheRenfield, TranshumanTreachery. Contrast SuperLoser, when being a vampire is no guarantee of coolness, and EmergencyTransformation, when the person might or might not want to become a vampire or other monster but basically has no alternative. If they are seeking to be bitten by a vamp, they are a VoluntaryVampireVictim.