Famous vampires
Count Dracula
- Signature look: Black tuxedo with cape, slicked back hair, evil grin
- Motivations: Bloodlust
- Powers: Hypnotism, ability to turn into a bat
- Vulnerabilities: Sunlight, wolfbane, wooden stakes, crosses
- Typical prey: Young women
- Typical hunting grounds: Eastern Europe, London
- Portrayed by: Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman, Frank Langella, Louis Jourdan, Christopher Lee
Count Graf Orlock
- Signature look: Living corpse with pointed ears, elongated fingernails and long rodent like incisors. Completely unattractive and repulsive.
- Vulnerabilities: Sunlight, crucifixes
- Typical prey: Humans
- Portrayed by: Max Schreck (Nosferatu) And Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu The Vampyre And Nosferatu In Venice)
- Related works: Shadow of the Vampire
Count Chocula
- Signature look: Cracked out
- Motivations: To drink your chocolate milk.
- Powers: Deliciousness, sugar high
- Vulnerabilities: Spoiled milk, sogginess
- Typical prey: Nine year old boys and adults with a sweet tooth
- Typical hunting grounds: Piggly Wiggly, Acme, Giant
- Pop culture appearances: In your cereal cabinet and in every commercial break during Sesame Street; also on The Simpsons.
- Related works: Frankenberry, Booberry
Edward Cullen
- Signature look: Dead sexy
- Motivations: The love of his life- Bella Swan
- Powers: Mind Reading, enhanced strength, speed, and reflexes
- Vulnerabilities: Discovery from local humans, werewolf shape-shifters with teeth that can bite through his marble skin
- Typical prey: Animals - not humans
- Typical hunting grounds: Olympic Mountains
- Pop culture appearances: Twilight Series - Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn
Jean Claude
- Signature look: Sexy 17th-18th century
- Motivations: Security for those he considers himself to be responsible for.
- Powers: Hypnosis, ability to allure with his voice alone, the ardeur (ability to induce a sexual frenzy and feed off the energy released), able to call wolves and werewolves to his aid, flight, and a telekinetic-style ability to cut from a distance with his powers.
- Vulnerabilities: Silver, sunlight, Holy objects and threats to those under his protection.
- Typical prey: Since meeting Anita, prey usually consists of his pom-de-sange Jason.
- Typical hunting grounds: St. Louis
- Pop culture appearances: Anita Blake; Vampire Hunter Novels. By Laurell K. Hamilton
- Portrayed by: Stuart Townsend
Angel
- Signature look: Tall dark & handsome
- Motivations: To rescue the innocent, making up for his dark past in hopes of redemption.
- Powers: Enhanced strength
- Vulnerabilities: He retains his soul only so long as he suffers and feels remorse. One moment of "pure happiness" (which is generally sex w/a person he loves) will reverse the curse and turn him back into Angelus.
- Typical prey: No longer preys on humans
- Typical hunting grounds: None
- Pop culture appearances: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
- Portrayed by: David Boreanaz
Mick St. John
- Signature look: Wears mostly neutral colors, preferably long, expensive, black coats.
- Motivations: Help people to make up for what he did in his troubled past.
- Powers: Heightened smell and hearing senses. Super human strength and speed. Fast reflexes and healing ability. Charm, lots and lots of it.
- Vulnerabilities: Silver (poisonous), sunlight (not fatal in limited exposure), wooden stakes (paralyzed only) and fire, his previous love of his life and sire Coraline. His current love Beth Turner.
- Typical prey: Human A+ blood
- Typical hunting grounds: Hospital Morgue (buys blood)
- Pop culture appearances: Moonlight
- Portrayed by: Alex O'Loughlin
Count Von Count
- Signature look: purple
- Motivations: to count as much as possible
- Powers: teaching people to count followed by his world renowned laughter
- Vulnerabilities: odd numbers and fractions
- Typical hunting grounds: muppet territory
- Typical prey: kids
- Pop culture appearances: muppet movies and tv
- Related works: the muppet gang
- Portrayed by: himself
The Vampire Lestat
- Signature look: Charismatic and handsome, tall and blonde
- Motivations: Bloodlust, starting a war, finding the origins of his past
- Powers: Telepathy, mind control, flight, strength
- Vulnerabilities: Beautiful people, tragic hero types
- Typical prey: Prefers "evil-doers" though he would have you believe he kills indiscriminately
- Typical hunting grounds: The French Quarter New Orleans, France
- Pop culture appearances: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Lestat the Musical
- Portrayed by: Tom Cruise, Stuart Townsend
- Related works: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, Blood & Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Merrick
David
- Signature look: 80's punk/goth, Black leather, red eyes, great hair, rebellious snarl
- Motivations: Blood, sex, rock n' roll
- Powers: Flying, super-human strength
- Vulnerabilities: Sunlight, antlers
- Typical prey: pretty teenagers
- Typical hunting grounds: Boardwalk, beaches
- Pop culture appearances: The Lost Boys
- Portrayed by: Kiefer Sutherland
Vlad Tepes Draculea
- Signature look: Ominous
- Motivations: Destroying the Ottoman Empire, Punishing criminals and enemies by impaling them on his front lawn.
- Powers: Royalty, Money, Military Prowess
- Vulnerabilities: Loved by some, hated by some. His leadership position was constantly threatened by rival factions.
- Typical prey: Ottomans and Criminals
- Typical hunting grounds: Wallachia, Romania
- Pop culture appearances: Every reference to "Dracula," since he was the man the original Bram Stoker myth was based upon.
- Portrayed by: Gary Oldman
- Related works: Bram Stoker's Dracula, and any rendition thereof.
Count Duckula
- Signature look: Short and duck-like
- Motivations: Fame
- Powers: teleportation, can not appear in mirrors, can move around in daylight
- Typical prey: Juicy carrots, broccoli sandwiches
- Typical hunting grounds: the lokal store
- Portrayed by: himself
Source: True Blood Wiki
