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Vampires are lame as hell (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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If a story, game, show, or movie contains vampires, I am immediately bored and will suspect the creator of being uncreative. Vampires are not cool. They have never been cool. The are the most overdone "monsters" in any form of media. And they are almost always the same; people with the mannerisms from 1800's England or France and the dress sense of a 2005 Hot Topic. Why not ancient Babylon? Why not South American vampires? Why are their personalities always the fucking same? Why are they always so fucking formal? Why always the 1800's; this one bugs me the most because the media often claims that Vampires are thousands of years old, so supposedly they kept up with the times until the 1800's and then just stopped. It's because writers who use them are lazy and uncreative.

"Oh it's a metaphor for the duality of man and how there are secretly monsters living among-" shut the fuck up. Use a different metaphor if it's that important to your story. But it never is. That's never important to the story because they are always just so fucking lame. Always the same powers. Always the same weaknesses. They have been done to hell and back.

Use. A different. Monster.

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I disagree.
Vampire is an interesting monster but very popular. Which makes it in a specific fiction easily classic and boring or badly written.

There is examples of well written classic vampire story. The most famous being Dracula from Bram Stocker which is not only interesting as the first of a kind but hold as a very good story.
There is examples of interesting twist on the classic vampire which are nice as any good remake is. For example, the energy vampires in What We Do in the Shadows.

That being said, you don't need to enjoy any of it. Tastes are subjective.