Basic Trope: Vampires that act like zombies or animals rather than aristocrats.
- Straight: Robert the vampire lives in the wild rather than living in a castle and seducing passersby.
- Exaggerated: Robert the vampire doesn't wear clothes, screeches incoherently, and barely looks human.
- Downplayed: Robert the vampire wears dingy clothes and can briefly pass for a drunk human.
- Justified: Poor people are easy targets for vampires, and many of them don't get invited to join the aristocracy after being turned.
- Inverted: Alice the werewolf lives in a fancy castle and seducing passersby rather than living in the wild.
- Subverted: The viewer first sees Robert the vampire in a graveyard, chasing a victim while screeching inhumanly...but it turns out that this is only because he hasn't been able to feed in a while. Once he's out of starvation mode, he can easily pass for a suave human.
- Double Subverted: Robert tries this for a little while but decides that he doesn't like this approach and goes back to his animalistic roots.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There are no vampires in the story.
- Vampires Are Rich is in full effect.
- Enforced: Originally, the author wrote Robert as a humanlike predator, but the executives insisted he become more animal-like because the suave, aristocratic vampire is played out.
- Invoked: Robert's sire, Alice, deprives him of blood when she turns him to destroy his intelligence.
- Exploited: Charles, the vampire slayer, takes advantage of Robert's brainlessness to lure him into a trap.
- Defied: Going feral after becoming a vampire is common, but Alice does everything she can to make sure Robert retains his "humanity" and she succeeds.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: A feral vampire is more like a feral cat than a fearsome beast.
- Played For Drama: Robert the vampire slayer is bitten by a vampire. His brother Charles has to watch him lose not only his morality, but also his mind to the transformation.
- Implied: Lady Evenlyn enjoys vampire stories and asks Charles what it was like to be in a vampire's castle.Charles: The vampires I've encountered weren't even the "cottage" type.
Raaagh! Back to Feral Vampires.
