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** Also averted with Armand in 2022 because he's a DaywalkingVampire thanks to his [[StrongerWithAge advanced age]].

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** Also averted with Armand in 2022 because he's a DaywalkingVampire thanks to his [[StrongerWithAge advanced age]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qY0w0UJl4&t=174s The Season 2 Special Preview]] affirms that he and Louis sleep in a bed.

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** Also averted with Armand because he's a DaywalkingVampire thanks to his [[StrongerWithAge advanced age]].

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** Also averted with Armand in 2022 because he's a DaywalkingVampire thanks to his [[StrongerWithAge advanced age]].age]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1DNtxOO0DI&t=1m11s In the extended Season 2 trailer,]] the ''Théâtre des Vampires'' coven rest in coffins.
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In Young Dracula , the vampires do sleep in coffins during the day and come out at night .
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Red Snow", Titov, the mayor of the small Siberian town which has become a [[TheGulag gulag]], stores the vampires' coffins in the town's disused, boarded up church. They are empty during the winter months when there is no sunlight from October to April but Titov and others protect the vampires during the summer months when the coffins are occupied during the day. In exchange, the vampires protect the townspeople from dangerous criminals and animals.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Red Snow", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E21 Red Snow]]", Titov, the mayor of the small Siberian town which has become a [[TheGulag gulag]], stores the vampires' coffins in the town's disused, boarded up church. They are empty during the winter months when there is no sunlight from October to April April, but Titov and others protect the vampires during the summer months when the coffins are occupied during the day. In exchange, the vampires protect the townspeople from dangerous criminals and animals.
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* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': In Chapter 16, a vampire wants to do this trope:
--> He wondered if he could get a coffin.
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* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': And so do humans sleeping with said vampires if they're in on TheMasquerade.

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* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': And so do humans sleeping with said vampires if they're in on TheMasquerade.the {{Masquerade}}.
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* Creator/AAPessimal suggested that on the Literature/{{Discworld}}, vampires in the Discworld's Scandinavia would be few and far between in a society where funerals are done by settling light to a boat and pushing the blazing coffin out to sea. He suggested this would raise several practical difficulties for a vampire.
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** Averted with Louis in his Dubai penthouse because its shielded windows block sunlight.

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** Averted with Louis in his Dubai penthouse because its shielded windows block sunlight. The following quote is from "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]":
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* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', has the vampire roommates sleeping in coffins, with the 8000 year old vampire [[LooksLikeOrlok Petyr]] sleeping in a stone coffin. One scene has Viago place a picture of a woman he loved years ago inside his coffin, and then the coffin lid shakes violently, implying that Viago is "[[ADateWithRosiePalms busy]]".

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* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', has the vampire roommates sleeping in coffins, with the 8000 year old vampire [[LooksLikeOrlok Petyr]] sleeping in a stone coffin. One scene has Viago place a picture of a woman he loved years ago inside his coffin, and then the coffin lid shakes violently, implying that Viago is "[[ADateWithRosiePalms busy]]"."busy".
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** At the vampire family's townhouse, Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia sleep in coffins during the daytime.
** Averted with Louis in his Dubai penthouse because its shielded windows block sunlight.
--->'''Daniel Molloy''': That's the sun out there. Where's your coffin?\\
'''Louis''': You're standing in it.
** Also averted with Armand because he's a DaywalkingVampire thanks to his [[StrongerWithAge advanced age]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', this is subtly referenced. Priya is a fan of ParanormalRomance novels and tends to act like she's a character in one. When she lies down on Tyler's roof she crosses her arms on her chest and keeps her legs together with her feet pointed straight up exactly as if she was a vampire sleeping in a coffin.
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* Buttercup in ''VideoGame/CuteBite'' sleeps in a coffin by default, but after having spent many years locked in one until she lost her memory, she's not always happy about it. Depending on her personality type, she may demand the right to take naps in an actual bed.
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* ''Series/TrueBlood'' plays with it a little. While many vampires sleep in coffins, an enclosed space will serve the same purposes. Bill sleeps under the floorboards of his old family home during the day.
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* ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}'': The final episode shows Shido and Riho sleeping in a coffin together. Guni then closes the door and puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door for them.
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* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': When half-vampire Alucard uses a save point, it summons forth a coffin around him, invoking this trope.
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* Spoofed in one ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' story which has Master Q spending a night in a haunted castle and meeting it's lord, a stereotypical western-style vampire. After the vampire reveals its intention to suck Master Q's blood, Master Q makes a bolt for it, leading to a slapstick ScoobyDooDoors-style chase culminating in Master Q accidentally stepping into the vampire's bedroom and breaking the coffin by stomping a hole on it's lid. The vampire lord even comments, "You broke my bed!"

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* Spoofed in one ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' story which has Master Q spending a night in a haunted castle and meeting it's lord, a stereotypical western-style vampire. After the vampire reveals its intention to suck Master Q's blood, Master Q makes a bolt for it, leading to a slapstick ScoobyDooDoors-style ScoobyDoobyDoors-style chase culminating in Master Q accidentally stepping into the vampire's bedroom and breaking the coffin by stomping a hole on it's lid. The vampire lord even comments, "You broke my bed!"
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* Done for RuleOfSymbolism in ''Film/Daredevil2003''. The title character isn't a vampire, but he does do his vigilante work at night, and sleeps in a coffin-like sensory deprivation tank ([[BlessedWithSuck so he can get to sleep despite his]] SuperHearing) inside a crypt.
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* Invoked and Subverted in {{Film/The Lost Boys}}. When Sam and the Frog Brothers go vampire hunting, they are startled to find them hanging like bats in a cave. Sam demands to know why when the Frogs told him there would be coffins. Edgar Frog lamely covers by saying "That's what this place is, one big coffin!"

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* Invoked and Subverted in {{Film/The Lost Boys}}.''Film/TheLostBoys''. When Sam and the Frog Brothers go vampire hunting, they are startled to find them hanging like bats in a cave. Sam demands to know why when the Frogs told him there would be coffins. Edgar Frog lamely covers by saying "That's what this place is, one big coffin!"



* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Remilia Scarlet insists that she would never sleep in a coffin, saying they're for dead people. [[BrickJoke Eventually, however]], we're shown her actual bedroom, and it contains an elaborate four-poster bed... with a coffin on it.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Remilia Scarlet insists that she would never sleep in a coffin, saying they're for dead people. [[BrickJoke Eventually, however]], we're shown her actual bedroom, and it contains an elaborate four-poster bed... with a coffin on it.



* That's what Jerome from ''Webcomic/{{Hungry City}}'' is doing at the start of the story... and then he wakes up to a ZombieApocalypse.

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* That's what Jerome from ''Webcomic/{{Hungry City}}'' ''Webcomic/HungryCity'' is doing at the start of the story... and then he wakes up to a ZombieApocalypse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ErnestLeVampire'': Ernest always awoke from his nightmares by [[CatapultNightmare sitting up]] in his coffin, before then closing it and going back to sleep.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ErnestLeVampire'': Ernest always awoke from his nightmares by [[CatapultNightmare sitting up]] in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ernest_the_vampire_wide_eyes.jpg his coffin, coffin]], before then closing it and going back to sleep.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ErnestLeVampire'': Ernest always awoke from his nightmares by [[CatapultNightmare sitting up]] in his coffin, before then closing it and going back to sleep.
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** When a PolicePsychic has a vision of Nick Knight sleeping in a coffin he explains that he doesn't, though most her visions are true. Nick just sleeps in a bed, or the trunk of his car when he's caught away from his home in daylight.

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** When a PolicePsychic has a vision of Nick Knight sleeping in a coffin he explains that he doesn't, though most her visions are true. Nick just sleeps in a bed, bed (and even a sunbed), or the trunk of his car when he's caught away from his home in daylight.

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