We need a web videos folder showing James Rolfe's You Know What's Bullshit?!? video on vampires, and their ridiculous weaknesses.
It seems like more than 20% of the examples on this page are really Our Vampires Are Different, possibly as many as 50% depending in your approach to the trope. If a vampire makes fun of the notion of vampires being allergic to garlic (for example) does that really count? Shouldn't it have to be one work specifically making fun of another work for playing the garlic thing straight?
Removed several bits of excessively biased flame bait here. All related to examples that bash Twilight, including the page pic. Said bait was from somebody being ridiculously defensive about the series. User was pikmintaro according to edit history.
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Bashing a story involving vampires is exactly what this trope is about. And Twilight "vampires" are significantly different from many other depictions of vampires. But the bashing should be by another work, not by a troper.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
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- "Bela Lugosi's dead, and so am I. But what's left of Bela is rotting in a pine coffin somewhere, while I have the opportunity to sit here on the balcony, enjoy my drink, and look at you. Correct me if I am presumptuous, but I suspect I have the better end of the deal."— Opening to Vampire The Masquerade sourcebook
Bela Lugosi is not a vampire he was an actor. It sounds to me he's referring to the actor himself being dead, not Dracula, though I have no context on this. Now that I think about it I don't know what the hell he's going on about, why bring up someone who isn't even... I'm gonna take a break.
Support stupid freshness, yo.
"despite the symbol actually representing fire"
i'm curious as to the source of this claim, as i have yet to find anything about it. the closest i was able to find in my search was speculation about it being used to represent the four elements.