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-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Discworld/TheTruth''

** Early in the plot of ''Discworld/TheTruth'', William de Worde meets Otto Chriek, the vampire who will become his iconographer, leading to the exchange quoted above.

** ''Discworld/ReaperMan'' introduces Arthur and Doreen Winkings, also known as Count and Countess Notfaroutoe, who were mere middle-aged merchants before Arthur received a certain "inheritance" from a "deceased" relative in Uberwald. Oddly, although she has never been turned by him, ''Doreen'' is the one who affects a thick Uberwald accent in conversation, most likely due to her class consciousness.
*** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'' Vimes remarked that he wanted to tell Doreen that she can use Ws, ''honestly'' - just borrow them from the guy who overemphasis his Ws (a real vampire trying too hard not to look like one), and added that her fake fangs rattle when she talks. Showing that the accent (or least Doreen's) is considered highly annoying.

*** So is Maledict from ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', though whether Mal is speaking Morporkian is a good question (and difficult to answer). An awful lot of puns don't work if you assume [[TranslationConvention everyone's speaking Borogravian]] for most of the book, but why wouldn't they be?
*** ''None'' of the vampires in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' used this accent (not even Bela, the old count). The inscription on the organ, however, reads "Hlisten to zee children of der night! Vot vonderful mhusick dey make!"

** Lady Margolotta, in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', speaks this way to Vimes, but not to anyone else, suggesting that she does it deliberately.
*** She doesn't have the accent in ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', when she visits Ankh-Morpork, but does have it in ''Discworld/RaisingSteam'', at home in Uberwald.

* One version of ''Hellsing'' gave Alucard a rather sexy Romanian accent in the English dub.

* [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Bumblebee]] [[BriefAccentImitation briefly]] uses this accent in the episode "Along Came a Spider" while dressed as Dracula.

* In the three-episode final season of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', Mindwipe (who turned into a [[BatOutOfHell bat]]) talked like this.

* "Dracula" by ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'' opens with a very Legosi-sounding "Resht ees good for ze blaad".

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Count]] [[ComedicSpanking Spankulot]] from ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has this. In "Operation L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N." it's shown that anyone he turns into a spank-happy vampire will also aquire this accent.

* The ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF169-The_Other_Girls.jpg here]].

*** Igors also speak quite differently, in a messy lisp; they also appear to be able to dispense with this if they wish to, and occasionally forget to lisp when distracted.

* ''{{DarthWiki/TheGingerverse}}'' has the Vasile siblings (Daria and Bram). They speak with heavy accents that sound like this. It makes sense since they are from Romania.

* Mametchi from ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' averts this and FangThpeak.

In the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' the character of Count Dracula is said to be a Szekely, a Hungarian-speaking ethnic group still found in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}. (This is one of the many characteristics that makes Stoker's character Dracula different from the historical Vlad the Impaler -- Tepes --, who was ethnically Vlach and spoke Romanian as his native language). Creator/BelaLugosi, who played the best-known screen Dracula in the [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} 1931 film]], was also a native Hungarian speaker. The stereotyped vampire accent is therefore based mostly on the Hungarian accent, but often just shades off into an [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent unidentifiable]] [[{{Uberwald}} Eastern European]] accent. Perhaps due to the prominence of Jewish actors in Hollywood, sometimes it can also sound suspiciously like Yiddish - which, although a Germanic language, has been significantly influenced by Slavic languages, especially in terms of pronunciation/accent (at least for the Eastern Yiddish dialect group with Galitsianer, i.e Ukrainian, Yiddish and Litvak, i.e. Lithuanian, Yiddish).

* Count Chocula, spokesvampire for the Monster Cereals.

** He's not a vampire, but Viktor Krum, who is Bulgarian, speaks this way:

All of vhich ics to szay zat zare are an auful lot of vampires avound who vont to "[[BloodLust sohk yu blaohd]]".

* Averted in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. The only vampire to use this accent is Andrei, an old-world Tzimisce. The guy who drives the cab (there appears to be only a single cab driver in the entirety of LA for some reason) does it too. [[spoiler:Who later turns out to be a vampire, and possibly Caine on top of it.]]

* Averted in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games, where Dracula has ''never'' spoken with a Bela Lugosi accent. (Interestingly enough, once Ayami Kojima established the franchise's character design style, Dracula's entire ''appearance'' began to hew more closely to Bram Stoker's original description.)

* In ''The WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome'''s song "Emo Vampire", the "old-fashioned" vampire sings in this accent.

* The ''Webcomic/PerryBibleFellowship'' [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF169-The_Other_Girls.jpg here]].

* In the three-episode final season of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', Mindwipe (who turned into a bat) talked like this.

* Theo from ''Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs'' tries to talk like this as much as possible, but he occasionally [[OohMeAccentsSlipping forgets to keep it up]].