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    Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner

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    Image of joetato joetato
    10/30/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    No Count Orlock????? Shame!!!!! These guys suck. (Mwaahahahahaha!)
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    While I'm happy Bunnicula gets a spot, I wish Vampire Hunter D had one as well. #movies
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    Image of stchoo stchoo
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    The thumbnail of this graphic on the mainpage looks like a very complicated abbacus. #movies
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    Bunnicula? I think I love you. Though to be fair, Bunnicula did have fangs. Meaning Edward Cullen is only better than a vampire rabbit by half a blood drop. Suck it, sparkle vamp. As it were.
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    Image of mhubbard mhubbard
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    This chart is a great idea. Every vampire movie or TV series has to have a scene near the start where someone explains that A, B and C are true, but X, Y and Z are "just Hollywood bullshit". In future a new vampire can just hold up the chart and point to where he fits in.

    A few suggestions for categories: Killed by silver ("That is for Verevolves" to quote George Hamilton); Retractable/hideable fangs; Super speed/jumping (sort of like half-drop flying I suppose); and finally "has a blonde human girlfriend with a tragic past".
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    Find another reason to hate Twilight! Didn't know they dont have fangs. #vampires
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    Image of PearlAntiphates PearlAntiphates
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    Since when does the Sesame Street Count have "Religious Anxiety"?

    "Three! Three in One! One in Three!"
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    Awesome. But who was the old bald guy with the glasses? Anyone know? He was in a lot of shots which made me think he was supposed to be a famous vamp... #vampires
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    Image of LoganAdams LoganAdams
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    Where's the Count BLAH! from Greg the BLAH! Bunny? BLAH! #vampires
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    10/28/09

    @LoganAdams:
    That was my first thought, blah #vampires
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    Image of John Hazard John Hazard
    10/28/09

    @LoganAdams: I never thought that, and I LOVED Count Blah. Sad.

    To YouTube! #vampires
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    Julius Seizure - Canuck promoted this comment John Hazard was starred John Hazard was unstarred
    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    10/28/09

    @John Hazard: I adored him BLAH. In fact, the first version of a user manual I authored for customer had a chapter co-written by him BLAH! The joke wasn't so funny when 3 of the 5 people who were supposed to read and comment didn't notice. BLAH! #vampires
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    Image of Davio Davio
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    "Sparkle!"

    Goddamn you Twilight! #vampires
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    Image of Gothamite88 Gothamite88
    10/28/09

    @Davio: Hey Dracula just became low power in sunlight, and before vampires were thought to be most powerful in midday because they cast no shadow. #vampires
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    10/28/09

    @Gothamite88: Well that still doesn't excuse Twilight!

    Thought seriously, I had no idea about that. I thought Vampires were classicly darkness inclined. #vampires
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    I love College Humor. This one is brilliant, wish it was longer. #vampires
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    10/28/09

    @LittleDragon: I second that. #vampires
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/28/09

    @Roklimber: Ditto. #vampires
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/28/09

    In reply to Vampires Can't Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner
    is there an international 'count things like the count' day yet?

    there really should be.
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    Edited by tetracycloide at 10/28/09 9:45 AM tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    10/28/09

    @tetracycloide:
    Two! Two posts in support of this! #vampires
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/28/09

    @tetracycloide: How many days are there? None. No days! Yah-ha-ha-ha-ha! #vampires
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    10/28/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: There should be three days! Three DAYS! #vampires
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/28/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: four! four posts in support of this. Ha Ha Ha.
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    Edited by LittleDragon at 10/28/09 10:11 AM LittleDragon was starred LittleDragon was unstarred
    Image of Godmars Godmars
    10/28/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: Five! Five posts in support of this!

    Aha-ha-ha-ha... #vampires
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    Image of LiC LiC
    10/28/09

    @Godmars: Six! Hahahaha. Six posts in support of this! #vampires
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    Image of 1000thghost 1000thghost
    10/28/09

    @Godmars: Six! Six wonderful posts supporting this.
    Aha-ah-ha-ha #vampires
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/28/09

    @1000thghost: Now there are Eight!, Eight amazing posts supporting this wonderful idea! AH ah ah aha ah! (lightning)

    May I suggest either January 23rd or December 3rd.

    Oh, and the video's not working #vampires
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    Image of t3knomanser t3knomanser
    10/28/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Nine, nine posts in favor of this!

    And Lizardo, I count one, one genius who identified the proper date. #vampires
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/28/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: those would be good for a national day. for an international day 12 February would make more sense i think. #vampires
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/28/09

    @tetracycloide: I think you mean 12 March. #vampires
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    So many complaints, is anyone out there happy? This chart is bad ass and Julia kicked ass making it. First off we didn't include Bill and Blade with human blood, like I said before, because they don't SURVIVE off human blood. We can't include all of the traits because it's hard enough proving all these traits in separate mythology. We also can't include ALL vampires of else this list would be 2,000 vampires long. I for one am super proud of this list and stand by it. It's a great conversation starter and I'm still waiting to see if people can prove that Bram Stokers Dracula flies on his own with out any shape shifting aid. #movies
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    10/28/09

    @Meredith Woerner: Actually that 2,000 vampires remark is very intriguing. Just how many are there?

    Has their number gone up in line with that of the human population?
    Doubled since the sixties ?
    Tripled since WW2?
    X what, since Vlad the Impaler's time?

    Did the number start to rise geometrically at some point?
    If so, when?

    Someone tell us please! How long have we got? #movies
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/28/09

    @SJ_Edwards: well you also have to take into consideration all the folk lore vampires too, zombie-esque creatures that haunted Eastern Europe...but I think vampires increase via popularity Dracula, Barabus, Buffy, Twilight these all encouraged more copy cats etc. etc. But they've always been around. #movies
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    Image of collex collex
    10/28/09

    @Meredith Woerner: Of course there will be complaints. "It's great" doesn't make for an interesting comment or doesn't provoke interesting discussion, doesn't it?

    We're not trying to say you chart is bad because you forgot something her and there or because we don,t agree with some of your placement. We're just pointing these things out because it's fun! It's what feedback are for. You sure seem very offended by it, thus I'm sorry if anything I might have said might have offended you. I didn't mean it that way. #movies
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment collex was starred collex was unstarred
    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/28/09

    @collex: sorry I just know how much hard work Julia put into this and I'm sally sensitive about people's hard work. Just sounds like a chorus of naysayers when we went to great pains to include a variety of popular vampires. #movies
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    Image of k4man k4man
    10/28/09

    @SJ_Edwards: That's when I'm thankful for someone like Zelanzy and his "Dayblood" story.

    Good and Evil maybe the bulllies on the block, but as John Glover more or less said in "Brimstone," Mother Nature's the real bitch. #movies
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    10/28/09

    @Meredith Woerner:
    As you say, there are a huge number of folk lore vampires, and you're right, they are almost exclusively zombie-esque. Slow. Lumpen.

    I guess that's one of the main things about modern 'popular' vampires, they have their roots in the tradition of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (aka Dracula) and the blood soaked Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
    They're more cinematic.
    Fast not slow. Urban not rural.
    Aristocratic not peasant. Rich not poor.
    Lifestyle not existence. Classy not squalid. Sexy not criminal.

    I hadn't thought about it before, but that's the subtext of why Megan Fox had to eat, not drink, in Jennifer's Body. Trailer trash. Beautiful, but still trash. A vamp not a vampire. No wonder it wasn't 'popular'.

    See. I learnt something from the chart. Thanks. #movies
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/28/09

    @Meredith Woerner: You're absolutely right: this is fantastic. Which makes me think: You know, io9 ought to have a store where we can buy prints of some of your crazy charts and stuff. #movies
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    Image of braak braak
    10/30/09

    @Meredith Woerner: I complimented. #movies
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    Nice chart!
    I'm hoping, I never need to use the handy pocket sized laminated version in a hurry......... #movies
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    10/28/09

    @SJ_Edwards: Agreed! (and i've already got it hanging on my cube wall....in case my coworkers decide to go corporate and really turn into blood-sucking creatures of the night) #movies
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    Image of Jeff Anthony Jeff Anthony
    10/28/09

    In reply to Top 50 Vampires: The Ultimate Score Sheet
    Gotta challenge you on Lestat and the "Religious Anxiety" question--did you forget that he wanted to be a priest originally? Or that after becoming a vampire he went to Notre Dame and demanded to know why God had let him become a monster? Or that even as a vampire he wore a cross?

    On the other hand, I award you several million points for the inclusion on Bunnicula. Vampire rabbits FTW! #movies
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Jeff Anthony was starred Jeff Anthony was unstarred
    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/28/09

    @Jeff Anthony: he still doesn't get burnt when holding a cross. #movies
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