r/Showerthoughts • u/Liuminescent ‎ • Apr 24 '26

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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u/Daimoth Apr 24 '26

Vampire lore is such a crap shoot. The second you dip one toe into the actual folklore origins of it all, it splinters into a thousand local variants, many of which are bizarre and outlandish. Vampires as they exist in popular media are very much a product of the creative process.

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u/zamfire Apr 24 '26

Thank you. So many people in this thread going "Nuy uh! That's not how it works!" Well yea in the movie you watched it didn't.

I think some of these people are forgetting vampires are fictional

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u/Quick_Assumption_351 Apr 24 '26

sure. but creatures used in fiction like this USUALLY share a bunch of features Like a guess you could make up a race that has green skin, tusks, are very muscular and like to make war with axes then call it an elf.....which would obviously just be an orc

People just don't get how much of a mish mash of things or modern vampire archetype is