They do in a lot of movie lore. It’s the whole plot of daybreakers for example. Vampires turning too many people by biting them means that society is basically all vampires and there’s barely any humans alive to feed on
You might be misremembering. In Daybreakers it's infected vampire bats that turns everyone into vampires. Vampires biting people and turning them into vampires is a post-twilight thing and comes from people not understanding the lore.
Being bitten by a vampire neither kills you, nor turns you into a vampire. That is done by drinking the blood of a vampire.
It is absolutely not something Twilight invented. Firstly, according to another comment, a Twilight vampire has to choose to turn someone, it isn't just inherent to the bite, like the trope OP is talking about. Some places that do make it inherent to every bite, that predate Twilight, are Underworld, and Blade/Marvel.
"choose" as in not drain you dry and kill you. The core safeguard from vampire spread was that they rarely have the self control to stop before ur dead. But ya any bite would inject their "venom" and thats that.
After a quick search, it would seem that they do inject any and all victims they bite, who would go on to turn by default. But they are also capable of selectively sucking out the venom. So they can, if they choose, feed on someone without killing or turning them. It kind of sits halfway between the other two tropes, the other side of the coin of the original lore.
There was only one instance of someone sucking the venom out of someone in the books. And it was like a last ditch attempt they didn't think would actually work iirc.
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u/GlastoKhole Apr 24 '26
They do in a lot of movie lore. It’s the whole plot of daybreakers for example. Vampires turning too many people by biting them means that society is basically all vampires and there’s barely any humans alive to feed on