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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6915890" data-attributes="member: 6683613">D&D may make a sharp distinction between undead and outsiders, but the vampire tradition is much older than D&D. In many mythoi (including B:tVS), vampires literally are demons. Even when the identity is not so explicit, the connection is clear: as a rule, if something recoils from religious iconography and is burned by holy water, it's not on the cosmological up-and-up. And their role in the story is that of definitive pure evil. There is nothing sympathetic or redeeming about Dracula. That's what makes him scary.Any character is boring when reduced to a single sentence. "He's evil because he's sad because his wife died" isn't exactly riveting reading either. It's the execution that maintains the audience's interest. There are pure evil characters who capture the imagination and attain iconic status, and there are conflicted anti-hero characters who are flatly written and immediately forgettable. Every single damn adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since the 1938 movie has tried to give the Wicked Witch of the West some tragic backstory or other, but none of them has even come close to dethroning the Margaret Hamilton incarnation in the popular consciousness. And the same goes for Dracula. There may be some competition between Bram Stoker's literary original and Bela Lugosi's take on the character for the title of Most Iconic Vampire, but it definitely doesn't go to Gary Oldman or Luke Evans.I've got a degree in this thing you're telling me doesn't exist.Just sayin'.</blockquote>

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