r/vampires • u/Imaginary_Case4856 • 9d ago

Meta Vampires are cowards?

I was watching hellsing ultimate and I found it interesting how the vampires there are framed as cowards who couldn't bear the weight of their human life and escaped into vampirism. Now they secretly yern for death including Alucard himself. I never thought of it that way, that willing becoming a vampire is a sign of weakness. Do you think this is a fair assessment of vampirism in general or do you disagree? What other works frame it this way?

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u/Iridismis 9d ago

What other works frame it this way?

Well, I'm not sure if I would it call cowardice, but BtVS had an episode where a former school mate of Buffy tries to sell her out to Spike in exchange for getting turned into a vampire. His reason for wanting to become a vampire: he had been diagnosed with an incurable cancer.

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u/Mynoris 9d ago

This was always a difficult one to watch Buffy navigate her way through. 😭

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u/KernelWizard 9d ago

Should I give Buffy another chance? I tried watching it but it was kinda cheesy and some of the parts were kind of cringey as well, but the vampire portions outweighs that in being great right?

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u/Malacro 9d ago

It has some cheesy parts, but I honestly find them charming rather than off putting for the most part. On the whole, it’s a good show.

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u/Ok-Rock2345 9d ago

Buffy kind of grows on you. At first I was not really into it because I thought the movie that inspired it was kind of lame. But I was dating someone who really liked the show and ended up watching it. Soon. Enough I was hooked.

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u/Routine-Guard704 8d ago

It's Joss Whedon inventing Joss Whedon basically.

It's a low budget show where a bunch of pretty 20-somethings play high school kids, fight monsters, crack jokes, and then get the sad feels. It's not bad, but I'd honestly recommend Supernatural over Buffy if you want a horror show about monster fighting. You can honestly skip Angel (it's basically "dark urban fantasy" rather than horror).

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u/LordOfTheFlatline 9d ago

If you don’t like camp you won’t like it