Basic Trope: Characters (usually supernatural) reminiscent of Count Orlok from Nosferatu.
- Straight: Vorlak the Vampire is tall, bald, with pointy ears, protruding incisors and long fingers and nails.
- Exaggerated: Vorlak doesn't just look like Orlok, he resembles him down to the last wrinkle. He may even call himself Orlok (and then add: not that Orlok, other one).
- Downplayed: Vorlak has protruding incisors and long fingernails. Other than that, he's indistinguishable from a living man with a terrible fashion sense.
- Justified:
- Vampirism is caused by The Virus. Orlok features are symptoms of infection.
- Vampires Age Without Youth. The older a vampire is, the more Orlok-like it looks.
- Vorlak is an Orlok impersonator.
- Vorlak is Orlok, who has adopted a new identity.
- Inverted:
- Chuck the Vampire is a pretty, sparkling, teenage-looking sex god.
- Vorlak looked like Orlok before he was vampirized, then turned into a Classical Movie Vampire.
- Subverted: Vorlak uses an Orlok latex mask to hide his true face.
- Double Subverted: Which also Looks Like Orlok's.
- Parodied: Vorlak is a carbon copy of Orlok, down to being in black and white, silent and "talking" by showing intertitles he hides in Hammerspace. But he constantly reminds he is not imitating Orlok.
- Zig Zagged: Vorlak does look like Orlok, but he wears fake pointy ears on his real ones. Flash forward a century, his ears start to become pointy.
- Averted: Vorlak doesn't resemble Orlok.
- Enforced: The author wanted to homage Nosferatu.
- Lampshaded: "F. W. Murnau called: He wants his vampire back."
- Invoked: The human Vorlak, an ordinary man shunned by his peers, begins a ritual to turn himself into a monstrous vampire to strike fear into their hearts.
- Exploited: Vorlak attends a contest of Orlok-lookalikes. He loses.
- Defied: Partway through the aforementioned ritual, Vorlak finds out that some of them respect him for the man he already is, and he tries to stop it from finishing.
- Discussed: "This guy looks pretty familiar to me... I've seen ones like him before. Maybe he's a vampire?"
- Conversed: "Look, this is most definitely not a vampire".
- Implied: Vorlak is never seen directly, but the shadow hand shot from Nosferatu is homaged.
- Deconstructed: Vorlak is a depressive individual that curses his exceptional ugliness for his lonely existence. What's the chance of there being even another Orlok-duplicate vampire out there, after all?
- Reconstructed: Pretty high actually. After centuries of isolation, Vorlak happens upon Karlova by chance, an Orlok-lookalike vampiress who reveals to Vorlak that he is part of an entire race of vampires that Looks Like Orlok and he had no idea about.
- Played For Laughs: Oblivious to his own ugliness, Vorlak fancies himself a vampire sex god and is a hopeless suitor to Sangria the Vampiress (who doesn't swing that way, either).
- Played For Drama: Vorlak, unable to see himself in mirrors and photographs, has a Villainous BSoD when he finally has a chance to see what he has become in digital film, leading him to ponder on his lost humanity.
Who are you saying Looks Like Orlok here? Me!? Get the hell out!
