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cli·ché

1 : A trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2 : A hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : Something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace


What imitative or repetitive vampire expressions have you come across?

Here are some:

Blood rush

Devil's temptress, harlot, or messenger

Dark angel

Hooded demon

blood lust, moon child, sparkly.

there's my 2 cents.

brooding

flashing eyes

hypnotic stare

Imprinting

and those who identify as vampires saying, "Your just afraid of what you don't know."

People who tell everyone they meet that they are a vampire.

hissing

Vampires VS. Werewolves (seriously who decided they hate each other, the earliest reference to this feud is in "Abbot and Costello meet frankenstein")

hypnotic control
fangs
sleeping in coffins

Yeah, never thought it could happen, but fangs are becoming cliche, especially clicking fangs (as in Trueblood).

how about..

"No, that's not accurate about vampires, thats just hollywood."

no reflection (never got how that would work seriously how would the mirror know whats behind you???)

bloodslut lol

dabbler: how about.. "No, that's not accurate about vampires, thats just hollywood."


I don't know as I would ever wish to characterize as cliched anything that honestly questions and challenges Hollywood portrayals.

Frankly, is not such an intellectually curious attitude sadly lacking in society? I know it sure is here.

I was going for the ever stated default of those who have nothing to bring to the table, yet denounce everything as trite, when all along they offer nothing of suibstance for their interpretation of vampire.

Ahhh... okay, got it. Yes, in that I agree wholeheartedly.

The only caveat I would add to that is that Hollywood, like any other fiction factory or author, does the exact same thing as do some here in portraying Vampires as they choose to see them... and with little to nothing historical of factual to back it up, of which history and facts they know next to nothing.

And yes... such a deliberately ignorant attitude is, indeed, cliched.


- Upir'

bloodcurdling
blood donor
blood feud
blood-red

the devotion then hate relationship with sires.

i vant to drink your blood

transylvania

count...anybody!

~W~

Deep religious beliefs,
Hiss rather than Grrr,
Fear of water and fire.
Pretty skin, candles and victorian music...grrrr.

Covens
Turning
Coming out of the coffin --- This one makes me laugh

Having to be invited into your home first.

(and a quick google search found this excellent answer on the matter)

"This also explains why it is necessary to invite a vampire into our house
before it can enter. The house ia a metaphor for our subconscious mind. When we invite a vampire into our house, we are symbolically invoking it into our personal subconscious, where it is then free to feed upon our spiritual vitality. This is why the vampire visits us during night, when we are asleep and dreaming, and most vulnerable to entities in the subconscious mind."

perhaps the invitation to come in is just good manners?
lol
~W~

Death Dealer
Dark chyld

These are the ones I've heard.

Damagedviolins, Thanks for posting that; the best explanation for Invitation only that I've seen.

How about "their unblinking stare"

I think the whole "Invite issue' is similar to Tinker Bell, they need you to believe in them.. and by inviting them in you believe..

cant see themselves in the mirror
cant have sex
fear crosses and
garlic
live forever

Super human strength
pale skin
fear of daylight (which can kill them)
fear of running water
constantly wear black and/or red clothing

Victorian Vampires (come on they can't all be from that time period)

I believe this pretty much covers all the cliches AND makes fun of it.

* Whumph*.. !..* Sound of me hitting the floor, from FOMSL (falling off my seat laughing.. Damn Ibeholder you get the trophy for this thread.

I'm glad you enjoy it. Unfortunately, i can't take credit for it, I found and kept it hidden away from many journeys I've taken into the underbelly of the beast.

are there more hilarious things youve hidden away

idbeholda...that was truly beautiful. may i steal it?

and why victorian? i like the elegance...thought of doing the hippie vamp thing, but i just feel cheesy. i hate tie dye and the smell of all the pot smoke made me sneeze

LOL

~W~

Vampires are often "romanticized," and are usually described as unfailingly beautiful, darkly seductive, and a lot of times are either just a tormented soul trying to cope with the fact that they "must" kill humans to survive, or an evil bastard who thrills in wiping out as many people as he can, only to be defeated by said tormented soul who then runs off into the...erm...moonset with his human lover.

Pretty
Romantic
Great manners
Seductive
Talented in some way
Ambivalent

@FateUnseen: Nearly 1GB worth of images that are a parody of something, or are tasteless/offensive in some way. You never know when you'll need them.

@LordWolf: Yes you may lol

the sun makes them go poof
they have no children
they all sleep in coffins
they all have white skin
a steak in the heart will kill them

Dracula always having 3 brides
the name Dracula/Alucard

sorry gaulder,

Steak in the heart.. hmm red meat kills vampire?

Stake.. I cannot miss the accidental pun.. no offense meant.

they did that joke in one of the Bunnicula books

So what you're saying is that to avoid every cliche, I should make another account with a name like AlucardDarkSoulTheForsaken

I think the idea that vampires exist at all is the biggest cliche of all.

Well, that was fun, but shortlived. Made the cliche profile, and now it's suspended lmfao. Go angry mods, go!

i wonder if you were to make a book/movie/show/game with ALL the cliches in it. how well would it sell?

lmfao idbeholda!

FateUnseen, well, have you seen the trailer for "Vampires Suck?" That's kind of a movie with all [[many]] of the cliches. But how would you make a vampire sparkly and handsome and bursting to flames and tormented and evil at the same time?

I suppose we could call it "Schizo Vamps From Victorian England" lol

I admit i didn't fully think it out.


its just you look at things like star wars and eregon who took all the fantasy cliches they could think of and threw them all together and they sold well.

ok...lets look at it from a different direction...

can you think of any vampire fiction that doesnt have at least one cliche in it?

if you strip away all the cliches then do you still have a story? hell, you can name any subject and youll get a ton of cliches...
a war movie
a romance
cowboys
GODZILLA
(ok, couldnt resist the last one.....wait...i think i have one!)

GODZILLA...KING OF THE VAMPIRES!
LOL
~W~

And Mothra his bride!

noooooooooooooooo

too cliche!
lol
~W~

I just fell out of my chair laughing guys...lol

I'm glad someone is amused

Hollywood in recent years has had a habit of portraying vampires as a whole

'I've lived for thousandths of years I have watched the ones I love die repeatedly.'

cliche, I however prefer the Noble Predator role myself

I don't think the twilight people (only vampire movies in the last 3-4 years) lived for thousands of years.

Usually, it's just hundreds of years, but that's because of the challenge of immortality. The cliche is the challenge part, not the immortality itself.

I can only think of a handful of vampire movies that had thousand year old vampires, I think one of the blade movies did, one of the Dracula remakes had Dracula turning out to be Judas, I think there was a movie that said that Dracula was Cain, other than that I really cannot think of vampires who are more than like 500 years old.

The one I hate is vampires fear of crosses. There should be no fear of an inatimate object that really can't hurt, let alone kill

Oh, my soul is so darkened and filled with torment. How can I ever go on living as an immortal.

Woe is me.

I think even more silly than the cross thing is the garlic thing.

I guess I wouldn't make a very good vampire, then. I love garlic to death, and onions too. The more, the better.

the one i hate is that vampires have horrible breath...

but if you have a vamp that loves garlic and onions...


LOL
(just kiddin)
~W~

I will have you know that garlic and onions are in their own food group. Along with bacon.

Okay, I'll agree with you that garlic is amazing, and onions are great, but bacon?! REALLY?! Ugh. LOL Dx

garlic is amazing, I get that from the French/Italian part of my background

NO SLAMMING THE BACON! IT MAKES THE BACON LORD VERY ANGRY!!!!

*eats another pound of crispy bacon*

Bacon+heavy cream=death by 40

Ohman I think I just threw up a lil bit in my mouth just THINKING about that much bacon and eating it.....LOL Bacon is good in small doses

so is coffee.

that would be an interesting vampire movie, one with a caffeine addicted vampire.


you notice that there are no fat movie vampires.

I saw a fat vampire in a movie once, but I think it was a spoof LOL

oh yeah and wasn't one of the vampires in Bloodrayne fat

In Blade the "reader Vamp" was a lil porky... like 37 stone...
Sooo true...vamps abuse themselves as they know they can't die easy...whoops did I say that.
Erm, o scrub that, all vampires are sleek like sexy Italian men and dancing Spanish females...
Now here's a thing, they can transform, through exercise, without the normal draw backs...slaps his hand for telling...or so Hollywood says.

I like how its gone from "immortal" to "hard to kill"

I suppose it's a comfort thing...realistically, what would you do if there "were" things that were "immortal" and NOTHING could kill them? Especially if you pissed one off. o.o

I have said it before and I will say it again.

I never wanted to be immortal, just youthful and vibrant until the end...although I would settle for being beautiful now (Fingers crossed)

Fate, you're gorgeous. Look in the mirror, much? ^^

nah I'm not pretty, but soonish we will see

Ish? Lol. Psht you are a beautiful person, I know this without ever needing "proof" or whatever. Do not contradict me, mah word iz law! =]

Here is one, silver is poisonous to them.

Sexually ravenous and irresistible.

loner that craves human attention and affection but draws away from it at the same time.

Seriously?
We get it- they sparkle, and that creative idea annoys people.
Find a better insult or let Twi-fans just enjoy it.

But that is just it... Creative ideas from authors all over the world.
Some are true, others are just ridiculous.
Some are legendary, others are just part of the teen fantasy.
But for many, this is the only kind of vampi/yre they know.

I liked the sparkle idea. Not the simpering teen angst, though.

I agree. but i dont think that you will find one person that likes twilight because they sparkle in the sun.
It was an original idea that recieved alot of negative attitude because of these- the cliches that have been around for centuries.

Hmm, go figure. I not only thought the sparkling was original, but also that they were daylight accessible. Even vampires going to high school was semi-interesting mainly because they weren't cast as Lost Boys. I loved the Lost Boys, but it's been done.

Never quite understood why an immortal would want to repeat high school, but I was willing to go with the flow, except there was no flow.

Liked the reservation, but always wondered why no one objected to the native americans being cast as werewolves.

But I get what you're saying, some peeps expect the cliches and can't handle a variance.

My thinking is that vampire powers may vary.

Vampires can be found on hallowed ground or cementaries
Vampires sleep during the day and feed at night.

i think you may have that backwards there , all the supposed legends i know of they can't enter hallowed grounds

yes i did silly me

vampires can only come out in the night.

... Sparkling...It was an original idea to make vampires more accessible to the intended audience, teenage girls. Negative attention for turning something usually viewed as masculine and violent into something highly considered to be feminine and... pathetic.

Silver is something more associated with the night and likely evolved form a single silver object said to kill vampires. Also likely mythologies between Vampires and werewolves got confused and mixed.

Vampires only coming out at night is a mixture of general human fear of darkness (half up the stairs with no light on at midnight if you don't believe me) and making sure their children are home on time.

Lonely ones
Dark angels
Maker
Victorian vampires
Goth garb
Allergic to garlic
allergic to silver
require blood to live

Hissing...why do they have to hiss? Are they vampires or snakes? Lol!

anything that is essentially the embodiment of the count from sesame st.

I completely agree!

Count Chocula could beat the sesame street count :P