History Main / VampiresAreSexGods

%%%%* [[BigBad Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' is enamored by both her human fans and her own vampire knights. [[spoiler:Riku doesn't think so, but Diva didn't let that stop her.]]
%%%* Ruka Souen of ''Manga/VampireKnight'' and many other vampires.
%%%* D in ''Literature/VampireHunterD''.
%%%%* Miyu of ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu''.

%%%%* ''Literature/TrinityBlood'': Abel, Cain, Seth, Astaroth, Ion's friend, Ion's grandma, Shera, Gyulia, etc.
* Played around with in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' by Evangeline. The [[MagicalLand Magic World]] knows her as an evil, sexy vampire with an adult body to die for, etc. etc... which is just an [[OlderAlterEgo oft-used illusion]] of hers to hide that she has the body of a [[NotGrowingUpSucks 10-year old brat]]. [[ZigZaggingTrope Yet she still manages to be memetically sexy anyway.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Dio Brando is so good EvenTheGuysWantHim, and he's got four sons from four different mothers.
* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', vampires are exceedingly {{bishonen}}. Then again, it's Creator/{{CLAMP}}; deranged hobos are probably bishie there.
* Both deBloodeaus, father and son, in ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami''. But it's mostly played for laughs.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' invokes this when the Ouran boys dress for Halloween. It was part of their host club's theme.
* The titular character of ''Manga/{{Karin}}''. Once it's found out that [[spoiler:Karin is the chosen vessel of life that is capable of repopulating the vampire race, she is abducted by other vampires for this very reason]].
%%%* Muraki in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''
* In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', the vampire [[{{mons}} Digimon]] Myotismon manages to blend into human society perfectly enough to become a PrettyBoy CorruptCorporateExecutive who easily manages to invite female Internet influencers to his EvilTowerOfOminousness and turn them into his thralls with little to no resistance on their part.
* Seraphim and Sarasvasti from ''Literature/IsThisAZombie''. Especially Sera -- she just stepped on to the stage and was instantly ranked number 7.

* ''Manga/MidnightSecretary'' takes this one step further. Rather than just being inherently appealing, it is stated that vampires actually prefer to have sex with their prey before they feed, since arousal improves the taste of blood (in a blatant denial of [[HoYay HoYay/LesYay]], vampires in this universe can't feed on humans of the same sex). This is a major plot point, since it is part of what fuels the ensuing romance between the male and female leads.
* ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' is probably famous for this trope. More than for its actual storyline, Diabolik Lovers is known for being very obscene. Why would you bite the heroine in her neck when you can suck blood from her inner thighs? Not only do we get a ton of sadistic vampires, multiple of them seem to be sexual deviants as well.
* ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'': Vampire nobles, and even regular vampires, tend to be sexy {{Bishonen}} or Bishoujo with plenty of mention of their looks. Of the male vampires, Crowley, Ferid, and Mika are MrFanservice and Crowley and Mika fall into EvenTheGuysWantHim as well.
* Carmilla from the 2018 anime iteration of ''Manga/GegegeNoKitaro'' is a well-endowed vampire with a deep voice and a penchant for young girls, including Neko Musume, she also likes to take blood baths.
* ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'' explains why vampires are the most palatable of the undead to bed: They preserve their mortal beauty (and often improve on it due to certain vampiric traits), pair it with long-lived experience/skill, and do not have the coldness, the stench of death, or the lack of skin and flesh other undead have to deal with. The Count Call Girlula keeps some undead, including his faithful vampire bride Soufu, in a harem that is allowed to operate as the brothel Necrowife during his downtime sleeping in a coffin; as he spends long years resting, he cannot keep mortal women in his harem as they would get bored.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged''. As she's being cornered by Anderson, Seras briefly considers seducing him to try an get away. She quickly crushes the idea upon remembering that she isn't [[PedophilePriest "an eight year old boy".]]

* ''Series/YoungDracula'': The only unattractive vampires that have been seen are Dracula's parents-in-law the Westenras.

* ''Series/YoungDracula'': The only unattractive vampires that have been seen are the Westenras.

** The number of hot vampires grows with the appearances of [[CuteMonsterGirl Jessica]], [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Godrick]], [[{{Yandere}} Lorena]], [[StalkerWithACrush Franklin]], and [[CampGay Talbot]].

* Seraphim and Sarasvasti from ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''. Especially Sera--she just stepped on to the stage and was instantly ranked number 7.

* ''Film/FreaksOfNature'': Petra is very attractive, and so is her sire Milan, who is TallDarkAndHandsome as befitting a parody of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]]. Lorelei also qualifies after being turned into a vampire (helps that she's played by Creator/VanessaHudgens), even remarking that her boobs grew in size.

* Vampires from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' never get tired, never have to eat, never have to go to the bathroom, and (apparently) lack a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex) refractory period,]] since they never stop. That doesn't mean they can't [[{{Dhampyr}} get people]] [[ButICantBePregnant pregnant]], of course… But only the men. [[DoubleStandard Female vampires]] [[ImmortalProcreationClause can't ever get pregnant.]]

%%%%* ''Manga/TrinityBlood'': Abel, Cain, Seth, Astaroth, Ion's friend, Ion's grandma, Shera, Gyulia, etc.

** The original ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' made Creator/BelaLugosi a sex symbol.

** [[Film/{{Dracula 1979}} The 1979 film]] with Creator/FrankLangella was really the first attempt to ''deliberately'' present Dracula as a romantic and attractive figure. When the film was being made it was mentioned that Dracula being attractive was to make him more terrifying in a way; it effectively hides the monster underneath and at the time was quite novel, to mislead the audience.

* Miriam and John Blaylock from ''Film/TheHunger''.
* Selene and Erika of ''Film/{{Underworld}}''. Selene doesn't actually have ''that'' many partners, being part of an OfficialCouple with Michael Corvin, but her SpyCatsuit is still [[BestKnownForTheFanservice her most well-known trait to casual viewers]].

* Subverted in ''Series/ForeverKnight''. It's not like Nick Knight isn't attractive to women, but for vampires the [[HemoErotic excitement is in the blood-drinking.]] Even if he just wanted to have sex, there's [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere always the risk that he'd vamp out and kill them]]. The popular version of this trope is lampshaded when a woman on a talk show claims her boyfriend is a vampire ([[TheMasquerade he's not]]) and the sex is great. A psychiatrist on the show then says such relationships are based on fantasy and abuse, while the sex is actually non-existent. Both Natalie (who has ShipTease with Nick) and Tracy (who has ShipTease with Vachon) are listening to the show, and this strikes an uncomfortable chord.

* Parodied in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Vampires of Venice", where they're ActuallyNotAVampire and not remotely sexy, with a bunch of [[StarfishAliens fish aliens]] using {{Perception Filter}}s to disguise themselves as attractive humans, except for [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily their teeth]]. In the next season the Doctor refers to them somewhat mockingly as "sexy fish vampires".

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': AgentScully repeats many times in "Bad Blood" that she doesn't believe in vampires, yet she admits they're supposed to be extremely charming and seductive creatures. She was completely dazzled by Sheriff Hartwell who happened to be a real vampire.

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* Parodied in ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'': vampire girls wear strapless purple dresses and are very buxom... but are also [[BigBeautifulWoman quite on the plump side]] of things, with their breasts being downright GagBoobs. They even have a risque attack in which they grab Cooper and drag him in their coffin, which then closes and rocks as Cooper's health diminishes and little hearts emerge from the coffin.

-->'''Torg:''' ''Wow!'' When you become a vampire, men become broad shouldered and muscle-bound and women become tall and thin! You ever think of selling this on QVC?\\

* The Toreadore clan of ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' (and its other associated media) are the embodiment of this trope (see Tabletop Games). In-game, you can utilize seduction as a tool to get blood from humans and as a form of persuasion during quests. It ''can'' be used by most playable clans in the game with the right allocation of your exp points, but will come easiest for Toreadore players.

* In ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'' Graf von Krolock is a seductive and mysterious vampire lord (also getting played by a variety of handsome musical actors certainly helps). Von Krolock's son Herbert is (usually) a sexy beast too. As is Magda. (And quite a few other vampires, in a rotting, creepy way.

The question of how vampires can be sexually active despite being clinically ''dead'' ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent in most settings]])[[note]]erection is achieved in humans by inflating the penis with blood, and bloodflow plays no small role in the function of the woman's genitals as well, which has bad implications for someone with no pulse[[/note]], and what it says about [[ILoveTheDead the people attracted to them anyway]], tends to be {{hand wave}}d or played for {{squick}}y laughs. Other Undead (except possibly death knights, if they--like this sort of vampire--fall into the pale, looks-almost-alive variety) such as Zombies usually tended not to get this treatment as they are almost always [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman less human-looking]] and more obviously dead. However, this trend seems to be changing: other types of undead beings, like [[AttractiveZombie zombies]] and [[SeductiveMummy mummies]], are nowadays increasingly being portrayed as humanlike and physically attractive. It's rare in a FurAgainstFang scenario, or VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle, for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] to get the same treatment, as [[KissOfTheVampire sipping from your vein]] is easier to make sexy than [[SavageWolves being mauled and eaten]], but some go ahead anyway to [[YouSexyBeast portray that bestial power as alluring]].

%%%%* [[BigBad Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' is enamored by both her human fans and her own vampire knights. [[spoiler: Riku doesn't think so, but Diva didn't let that stop her.]]

* Moka of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' looks the [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/wsl-viz/manga/thumbs/thumb-322-rsv_1_web.jpg part]], but is TheDitz and [[SubvertedTrope about as "sensual" and "vampish" as a cardboard box]]. [[http://s3.amazonaws.com/wsl-viz/manga/thumbs/thumb-307-rsv_3_web.jpg Inner Moka, on the other hand,]] [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/showphoto?id=4300678973 is very much more sensual and vampish than a cardboard box.]]

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The vampires of the ''Innistrad'' block, rather than being true undead, are ageless immortals who happen to share some vampiric traits like bloodthirst and aversion to sunlight. This fools [[https://scryfall.com/card/dka/55/chosen-of-markov-markovs-servant some humans]], who eagerly wish to become vampires themselves. Vampires outside of Innistrad avert this, being undead abominations and [[https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/275/sengir-vampire looking the part]].
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_Vamp Vampire Vamp]] certainly plays up the image of, well, TheVamp. Her effect, which equips an opposing monster to herself, suggests she's a FemmeFatale who enchants and seduces the opposing monster with her looks. In face, the Konami article [[https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=6208 PRIO Preview: A Vampiric Revamp]], this is also supported by describing its effect as "mesmerizing any opposing monster".

* In ''Comicbook/TheUnwritten'', after [[spoiler: Richie Savoy]] gets turned into a vampire, he apparently has lots of sex with gothy vampire groupies. (Helped along by the fact that he's outed himself as a vampire in a bestselling book.)

* Vampires from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' never get tired, never have to eat, never have to go to the bathroom, and (apparently) lack a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex) refractory period]], since they never stop. That doesn't mean they can't [[{{Dhampyr}} get people]] [[ButICantBePregnant pregnant]], of course… But only the men. [[DoubleStandard Female vampires]] [[ImmortalProcreationClause can't ever get pregnant.]]

** The female vampires play this trope dead straight, however - the male protagonists are shown to be irresistibly attracted to Dracula's brides [[spoiler: and to Lucy's vampire incarnation]]. Van Helsing even struggles to destroy them, only succeeding when Mina's cries for help awaken him from his trance.

** Generally speaking, most of the Vampires in the game ([=PCs=] included) are pretty good-looking. The only real exception to this is the [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]], the [[DraconicHumanoid Tzimisce]], the Sabbat-aligned Gangrel mooks (likely due to their very low humanity), and whatever [=LaCroix's=] [[TheDragon Sheriff]] is supposed to be. [[spoiler: Even the flesh-eating vampire you can find running amuck in an abandoned hospital is eerily beautiful.]]

* Being the SecretKeeper of the ''WebComic/VampireCheerleaders'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20161228194813/http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net:80/strips-vc/half-time_6 has its advantages]].

*** Of course, [[spoiler: Kanaya]] became a rainbow drinker around the same time as when she kicked a MonsterClown in [[GroinAttack the crotch]], punched Vriska so hard she [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom reeled backwards]], and [[spoiler: [[ChainsawGood chainsawed]] her murderer [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]]]]. Knowing [[ByronicHero Vriska]], [[InLoveWithYourCarnage it's understandable]].
* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'': One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent many different mental illnesses that plague vampires]] is outbreaks of hypersexual behaviour, commonly referred to as '[[TheVamp Vamp]] Vamps'. This causes the vampire to become comically oversexualized and become a LivingAphrodisiac ([[IncompatibleOrientation though it can't override someone's orientation]]). Vampires with this disorder [[https://www.samandfuzzy.com/1685 are treated somewhat like alcoholics or someone with a drug problem by the vampire community]], as they go out of control, seduce and bite someone, and then wake up the next evening not remembering what they did last night.

* [[BigBad Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' is this. [[spoiler: [[FanDisservice Just]] [[MoralEventHorizon ask]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Riku]].]]
* Ruka Souen of ''Manga/VampireKnight'' and many other vampires.
* D in ''Literature/VampireHunterD''.
* Miyu of ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu''.

* A gazillion characters from ''Manga/TrinityBlood'': Abel, Cain, Seth, Astaroth, Ion's friend, Ion's grandma, Shera, Gyulia, etc.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' invokes this when the Ouran boys dress for Halloween.

* Muraki in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' appears to be an energy vampire.

* Nadine Carody of ''Vampyros Lesbos''.

* The title character of ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'', along with being the {{Trope Maker|s}} for LesbianVampire.
* Clarimonde from ''Literature/TheDeadLeman''.

** Many of the Magpyr clan in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''.

* Essie from ''Series/VampireHigh''.

* Henry Fitzroy from ''Series/BloodTies2007''.

This goes back pretty far, since vampirism has long been a metaphor for sexual activity, sexual predators, and/or sexual transmitted diseases in legends. The very term [[TheVamp "vamp"]] is an evolution of this metaphor. Vampires' need for blood makes them animalistic predators; therefore, their sexual needs are more basic and rougher, which can be a {{Fetish}} for [[HemoErotic some people]], hence the expression "necking". The other part of the Trope goes to the Victorian ideals of womanhood: pale, frail, and bloodless, which was the effect of [[VictorianNovelDisease tuberculosis, aka "consumption"]], on women, which is part of where the vampire myth originated. Certainly, a lot of vampires have RavenHairIvorySkin.

* The vamps in the comic adaptations of the ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' novels are ''very'' pretty, as befits [[HornyDevils the bloodline]].

* An entire bloodline of vampires are this in ''Literature/AnitaBlake: Vampire Hunter'', due to the powers making them HornyDevils, up to the point that they are (in-story) the inspiration for succubus and incubus myths. It's implied, though, that everyone except the [[BeautyEqualsGoodness "good guys"]] aren't above just grabbing some random person and draining them dry every night. Apparently, "hiding kills from the authorities" is a bloodline power of every line but Belle Morte's.

** A near literal example with the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent White Court]] [[HornyDevils House of Raith]], [[EmotionEater who feed off of lust]]. Poor Thomas can't even hold a job slinging burgers, because the women on staff keep trying to molest him in the break room!

** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' features the Daeva, spiritual heirs to the Toreador who are often called [[HornyDevils "Succubi"]] by other vampires for obvious reasons. (Indeed, Toreador are still in the game, but as a [[PrestigeClass Bloodline]] of the Daeva.) This is basically the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent "vampire archetype"]] that their clan is meant to embody, and so they carry on the tradition of powers that can make everyone in the room fall in love with them. Their splat has stories of them being descended from Inanna/Ishtar, a sex goddess of conflict, so, at the very least, they're children of a sex goddess. Even their weakness furthers the standard of the trope; in 1e, Daeva suffer from having to indulge their Vices at every opportunity or take a hit to their will (most often {{Lust}} or [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]], but a Daeva with Wrath as their Vice is... something to run away from), whilst in 2e, Daeva are prone to becoming obsessed with someone that they feed on more than once. As their [[KarmaMeter Humanity]] wanes, their affectations become increasingly artificial, their beauty more and more plasticine and mechancial - they devolve into sex objects rather than people.

* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Demitri Maximoff resides in an [[BigFancyCastle elegant]] ([[HauntedCastle albeit otherworldly]]) [[BigFancyCastle castle]] and has an outrageously huge harem of female servants to do his bidding. In the ''Night Warriors''/''Vampire Hunter'' [[AnimeOfTheGame OVA]], he manages to eventually sway '''''[[HornyDevils Morrigan]]''''' with his charm.

* The "sex god" archetype was played to the hilt by [[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}} (yes, ''that'' [[CharacterDevelopment Edge]]), who were hot blond studs who also just happened to be vampires. Though Edge later said that he and Wrestling/{{Christian}} were "[[VampireWannabe pseudo vampires]]".

** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' features the Daeva, spiritual heirs to the Toreador who are often called [[HornyDevils "Succubi"]] by other vampires for obvious reasons. This is basically the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent "vampire archetype"]] that their clan is meant to embody, and so they carry on the tradition of powers that can make everyone in the room fall in love with them. Their splat has stories of them being descended from Inanna/Ishtar, a sex goddess of conflict, so, at the very least, they're children of a sex goddess. Even their weakness furthers the standard of the trope; in 1e, Daeva suffer from having to indulge their Vices at every opportunity or take a hit to their will (most often {{Lust}} or [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]], but a Daeva with Wrath as their Vice is... something to run away from), whilst in 2e, Daeva are prone to becoming obsessed with someone that they feed on more than once. As their [[KarmaMeter Humanity]] wanes, their affectations become increasingly artificial, their beauty more and more plasticine and mechancial - they devolve into sex objects rather than people.

* D in ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD''.

* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'' has a trio of beautiful female vampires. Their newest initiate Lena is not pretty when she was a human but becomes very attractive after feeding on human blood for the first time.

The question of how vampires can be sexually active despite being clinically ''dead'' ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent in most settings]])[[note]]erection is achieeved in humans by inflating the penis with blood, and bloodflow plays no small role in the function of the woman's gentials as well, which has bad implications for someone with no pulse[[/note]], and what it says about [[ILoveTheDead the people attracted to them anyway]], tends to be {{hand wave}}d or played for {{squick}}y laughs. Other Undead (except possibly death knights, if they--like this sort of vampire--fall into the pale, looks-almost-alive variety) such as Zombies usually tended not to get this treatment as they are almost always [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman less human-looking]] and more obviously dead. However, this trend seems to be changing: other types of undead beings, like [[AttractiveZombie zombies]] and [[SeductiveMummy mummies]], are nowadays increasingly being portrayed as humanlike and physically attractive. It's rare in a FurAgainstFang scenario, or VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle, for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] to get the same treatment, as [[KissOfTheVampire sipping from your vein]] is easier to make sexy than [[SavageWolves being mauled and eaten]], but some go ahead anyway to [[YouSexyBeast portray that bestial power as alluring]].

* Subverted in ''Series/ForeverKnight''. It's not like Nick Knight isn't attractive to women, but for vampires the [[HemoErotic excitement is in the blood-drinking.]] Even if he just wanted to have sex, there's [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere always the risk that he'd vamp out and kill them]]. The popular version of this trope is lampshaded when a woman on a talk show claims this about her vampire lover (he turns out to be mortal). A psychiatrist on the show then says such relationships are based on fantasy and abuse, while the sex is actually non-existent. Both Natalie (who has ShipTease with Nick) and Tracy (who has ShipTease with Vachon) are listening to the show, and this strikes an uncomfortable chord.

* Subverted in ''Series/ForeverKnight''. It's not like Nick Knight isn't attractive to women, but for vampires the [[HemoErotic excitement is in the blood-drinking.]] Even if he just wanted to have sex, there's [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere always the risk that he'd vamp out and kill them]]. The popular version of this trope is lampshaded in "My Boyfriend Is A Vampire" when a woman on a talk show claims this about her vampire lover (he turns out to be mortal). A psychiatrist on the show then says such relationships are based on fantasy and the sex is actually non-existant. Both Natalie (who has ShipTease with Nick) and Tracy (who has ShipTease with Vachon) are listening to the show, and this strikes an uncomfortable chord.

* Nick Knight and Janette du Charme of ''Series/ForeverKnight''. Subverted though as they can't actually have sex as vampires.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'': vampire girls wear strapless purple dresses and are very buxom... but are also [[BigBeautifulWoman quite on the plump side]] of things, with their breasts being downright GagBoobs. They even have a risque attack in which they grab Cooper and drag him in their coffin, which then closes and rocks as Cooper's health diminishes and little hearts emerges from the coffin.

* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'': One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent many different mental illnesses that plague vampires]] is outbreaks of hypersexual behaviour, commonly referred to as '[[TheVamp Vamp]] Vamps'. This causes the vampire to become comically oversexualized and become a LivingAphrodisiac ([[SorryImGay though it can't override someone's orientation]]). Vampires with this disorder [[https://www.samandfuzzy.com/1685 are treated somewhat like alcoholics or someone with a drug problem by the vampire community]], as they go out of control, seduce and bite someone, and then wake up the next evening not remembering what they did last night.