Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "The Sexy Vampire Trope, Explained" video.

  1. One of the best reversals of this is actually John Carpenter's Vampires. Katrina starts out a Prostitute (Or at least a groupie) and actually seduces Jack Crow until she's bitten. Then, she's basically kept around as a radio, to keep tabs on Valac. Okay, there's a scene of near rape in the hotel where she infects Tony, but again. She was a human hooker, and the STI parallel is pretty clear. It actually reads more like the Zombie Bite Dilemma than the Sexy Vampire Trope. It doesn't hurt that she's tied to a bed in a luridly decorated not-tell ho-tel at the time, and Tony is clearly that kinda guy. it's not really "Romantic" (For what it is) until after he starts turning, and then it's more like Vampires in Love than the sexy vampire seducing the hunter with her vampy powers.
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  2. Okay, this is passed down from Dracula. The problem is that after Anne Rice, they started taking away weaknesses, and adding more powers to compensate. There's almost always a loophole in the dead from dawn-till-dusk thing. It wasn't just being burned by the sun. Dracula was dead, stone dead, as a doornail until the sun went back down. Also, he had to smuggle crates of his home soil around, to come back at night. He'd stay dead if he left his homeland overnight, that was part of the Curse. He had difficulty crossing water too. (The mythical Vampire could be thrown off the scent by running through a Crossroads, or scattering beads in your path so they had to stop to pick them up. Salt, Garlic, Van Helsing burned Dracula on the forehead with a Host wafer, and the word "Sacrilege!") The hypnotic gaze that could seduce just about anyone wasn't a Trope, it's Cannon. Also, quit with the Vampire Antichrist. We already have DRACULA. You're not going to out-do Dracula, so stop trying to do Vampire Jesus. That post is taken.
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  3. All that aside, the allure is being Turned. Not only is he (Or she) ancient, worldly, and eternally young, but if you make that step, you can live with them, and love them forever. Of course, it's also the "Why me?" romantic trope. If you think about it, let's say he's lived for 200 years without finding the one that he wants to spend eternity with. Which is why Dracula's Harem was dropped, because you don't want to be the latest addition to a Harem. You want to be The One True Love. That makes you feel special (Or the love interest that special.) Even without mixing mythologies to make her his first love reincarnated, or the one prophesied to redeem his cursed heart.
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  4.  @bronwyn4553  Well, Factually, Dracula didn't Exist. Fictionally, Drscula was dead as a doornail, so when Van Helzing opened the coffin, he could drive a stake through the heart.
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  5.  @bronwyn4553  Read the book. What I said was Factually true. In the universe of the book. Bram Stoker's Dracula, look it up.
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  6.  @bronwyn4553  "Let's nitpick." You found 1 thing, that you thought that you could lecture on, out of all that I had to say. Such a petty little inconsequential point, to score yourself the winner. When this wasn't a "My book is bigger than yours" contest to begin with. So, save it. Or say something about the Modern Vampire Myth. Because that's what this is actually about. Looking at where it came from, how it's evolved, and people like Anne Rice have changed it. Or, keep clinging to your shortest straw, and telling yourself you're the winner. When this isn't a contest, and it never was. Let's just call it what it is, nit-picking. I'm sorry, but I have no interest in joining you in that.
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