Board 8 > Why are vampires so much more popular in fiction than werewolves?

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Is it just because they're sexier? Because it feels like there must be another, better reason.
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You can do more with them.
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Werewolves are tied strongly to the full moon and the transformation around such time. Vampires only have to worry about it being night, and even then sometimes not depending on lore. Their transformations, while less of a spectacle, often invite more drama given how easily they can otherwise mingle.

They also have a clear named persona in Dracula. With werewolves it always just seems to be some random person.

Undoubtedly my random musings barely scratch the surface, but these are the first few things that came to mind. There's probably some cultural aspects of them being popular because they are popular going on too, as when one vampire story fades, another rises to take its place, and werewolves just don't have that momentum going for them.
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They both suck
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At least they're not zombies.
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Raka_Putra posted...

At least they're not zombies.

I don't like zombies either but I enjoy them as like one fragment of a vaster world. Husks in Mass Effect, wights in Game of Thrones/ASOIAF, that sort of thing. Never, ever, ever do I want them as the constant central premise, though. Actual zombie fiction doesn't really do much for me unless it's heavily invested in its characters and uses them as a mere tool toward that end, like The Last of Us. The gore shock itself isn't my thing.
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one of them is a sexy immortal

the other one turns into a dog
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people always prefer almost-humans over furries

Jeff Zero posted...

They both suck

i am not so sure about that
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I thought that, of the cast of Penny Dreadful, it was Victor Frankenstein who rocked the most. And he was neither the vampire nor the werewolf.
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I think to really know the answer, we need to ask people who like to fuck dogs if they prefer vampires or werewolves
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Biting fetish?
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Vampires are usually associated with charismatic nobles, dangerous but seductive, with a bit of the suffering bad boy trope in that their hunger for blood is usually something that they can't control, only fight. At the same time, it allows the person who has the crush to serve a something of the "understanding, compassionate lover" by willingly providing blood so that the vampire doesn't have to take it unwillingly.

It's a mix between a "bad boy I can't redeem" and "a bad boy I can save" deal. It depends on which flavor you're thirsty for, I guess.

Also some people just might be into blood play.

(It also doesn't hurt that vampires are often very sexual creatures despite being, uh, undead, in a way that you normally don't see even in the most other liberal media out there.)

As for werewolves, despite some werewolf legends actually being about vampires, they're often associated with a lower/working class or an outcast, they're often thought to become mindless beasts during a full moon, they have a surprisingly wide range of designs (from outright feral wolves to "guy obviously wearing a lowgrade fursuit"), and they're less seductive and more, uh... forceful, when they're interested in things other than food. Also, transforming into a werewolf often looks painful.

That being said, werewolves are very popular among furries, for being a more monstrous take on the anthropomorphic wolf. To the point where the same artist could draw an anthro wolf and a werewolf and they'd be visually very different. It doesn't hurt that a lot of werewolves do, in fact, have the best attributes of a male human's body (female werewolves are rarer despite the obvious symbolic synergy of the full moon) and a lot of furries happen to be bisexual or gay dudes (or bisexual or straight ladies - can't forget them either.)

As for why so many growing and grown women thirsted for Edward Cullen, uh... you got me there.
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That trend seems to have changed recently. Final Fantasy XII has werewolves, but no vampires.
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Brayze_II posted...

I think to really know the answer, we need to ask people who like to fuck dogs if they prefer vampires or werewolves

actually we need to ask people who fuck bats

Because, thanks to Vlad Tepes and his heroic defence of his homeland, the former are loosely (and that term is, of course, used loosely) based on reality.
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Because werewolves are animals.

Vampires still look quasi-human most of the time.
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it's much cooler to have a nice little puncture mark on your neck rather than being torn to shreds and eaten
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In addition to things already mentioned, Vampires are way more fleshed out in terms of their strengths, powers, and weaknesses than Werewolves who are basically just dogmen with enhanced physical attributes who are weak to silver.

It's like comparing Superman to The Incredible Hulk.
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