History Main / VegetarianVampire

** However, Ventrue get no nourishment at all from feeding on rats. This is because their weakness in the tabletop game is that Ventrue can only subsist on one specific type of blood, softened here to "Only humans".

* Nina Delacroix in ''EerieCuties'' doesn't drink blood. She craves for chocolate instead. Presumably because she was born on Easter.
** an interesting cariation, since isn't see wrong drink womeones blood except for some embarassement from the ''victim''

The ''really'' lucky ones can substitute [[ABloodyMess tomatoes.]]

** The fact that they had to kill the cows is something of a WallBanger, because it was made pretty clear the previous season that it took an entire coven of vampires weeks to drain a pair of victims. Why not just drink a little from a different cow every night? How much blood could they really need if it takes them so long to kill humans?

* CountDuckula is a ''literal'' VegetarianVampire, due to a botched reincarnation ritual (Nanny mistook tomato sauce for blood).

** However, Ventrue get no nourishment at all from feeding on rats.

* The Cullens in ''{{Twilight}}'' call themselves "vegetarians" because they feed on animals, not people. [[CaptainObvious Obviously]] it's not the same as RealLife vegetarianism, but they probably know that.

* Chernobog in ''AmericanGods''. He is something of a GodOfEvil in Slavic Mythology, and it's mentioned that he previously worked at a slaughterhouse, killing cattle with a hammer. Given that one scene shows him gaining power by going to a site where serial killers buried their victims, the implication is that he probably could have powered himself by murdering people but chose not to... usually. During his initial appearance, Shadow needed to convince him to join their side of the war, and did so with a game of checkers, with the condition that if Shadow lost, he would get his skull smashed by Chernobog.

* In ''TheDresdenFiles'', Thomas is an energy-based vampire who feeds by inducing sexual desire and then partaking of the emotions. After he nearly kills his girlfriend by [[HungryHungryVampire overfeeding]], Thomas [[spoiler:becomes a hairdresser at a beauty salon and is able to survive by making a lot of women feel a little more sexy about themselves]]. That is, until he [[spoiler:gets tortured by the Skinwalker and returns to soulless debauchery]].

* Brian Lumley's ''Necroscope'' universe features vampires that are everything you'd expect. When [[spoiler: Harry Keogh]] is finally turned, he settles for near-raw steak until his hunger for blood threatens to become insatiable, at which point he [[spoiler: leaves Earth for the vampire world.]] There, among others of his kind, he makes the fatal mistake of [[spoiler: still trying to restrain his vampire nature.]] It doesn't end well for him; he is [[spoiler: crucified, his son is shot dead and his vampire girlfriend is raped repeatedly]], the agony only ending for her when she [[spoiler: coughs up the grenade she was holding in her throat and bites her rapist's head - yes, explosive decapitation works]] and for him when Mikhail Gorbachev [[spoiler: orders a nuclear missile fired through the portal to the Vampire World]].

* Vampires in ''VampireTheMasquerade'' can subsist on animal blood if they wish, but it is not very palatable and only recovers about half as many Blood Points as human blood. Those who feed exclusively from animals are often mocked in Kindred society, and are called "vegetaries" or "farmers" among neonates. In addition, some neonate vampires have been known to engage in "banking" or raiding blood banks, a practice that is frowned upon in Kindred society, not the very least because of the threat to the {{Masquerade}}.
** In ''VampireTheRequiem'' older vampires can't feed on animals. Drinking animal blood just doesn't do anything for them. Even older vampires can't even feed on humans - they need other vampires to feed on. A vampire can reduce his vampiric age by going into hibernation for a longer while (25 years per "blood potency" point - 1 is minimum, 10 is maximum, 3 needs humans, 6 needs vampires). This of course may reduce vampire's power.