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{{trope}}
A subtrope of [[Half-Human Hybrid]], a
It is more common for the father [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad|to be the vampire]] in this mixed marriage, since it's universally far easier for a male vampire to impregnate a mortal woman than for a female vampire to carry a child to term, due to their dangerous unlifestyles and strict diet. Sometimes avoided altogether by just having a Vampire (male or female) bite and turn a pregnant woman (see ''[[Blade]]'').
Dhampyrs are usually at high risk of being [[Mary Sue
See also [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]] and [[Lineage Comes From the Father]]. Contrast [[Undead Child]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'': "D" is a vampire hunter and the main character. The anime renders the word as "[[Engrish|dunpeal]]" due to [[Recursive Translation|filtering it from English-loanword-from-Albanian to Japanese and back again]].
** At the end of the first movie, it was revealed that {{spoiler|Lamica is also a dhampire.}}
** A third dhampir crops up in the sixth novel ''Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane'': {{spoiler|the Girl they're hired to escort is pregnant with yet another and implied to be D's half sibling to boot!}}
*** {{spoiler|Granny Viper, the Badass person-finder is revealed to be a Dhampir at the end - and her conversation shows that a Dhampir's child with a mortal still has vampiric traits}}
*** D also got rather upset when Left Hand teased him about Mier Link and Charlotte producing more dhampires.
* ''Bloody Kiss'': Kuroboshi from chapter 6.
* ''[[Blood:
** In the live-action Hollywood movie adaptation, Saya is a dhampir born of the ancient (and apparently East Asian) vampire queen and a Japanese warlord/vampire-hunter, who she tricked into marrying and later murdered.
* ''[[The Record of a Fallen Vampire]]'': This series actually uses the word dhampire. They frequently become vampire hunters and are less magically powerful than vampires, but lack vampire weaknesses.
** It is a plot point that this depends on how much vampire blood do they have. A dhampyr with a lot of vampire blood has more powerful magic but has to keep it in the night (but not as much as a vampire) while a dhampyr with little vampire blood has little power in comparison but can walk in the sun with little to no discomfort.
* The manga version of ''[[Karin]]'' features a Yuriya, a Dhampyr of the human mother variety. She's fine in the sun and she can work the series' [[Applied Phlebotinum|bats]] and their [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|powers.]] She's a major player in the second half of the series. It is worth noting that [[Our Vampires Are Different]] in the respect that they are a separate living species with their own culture and history and politics and all; the Dhampyr are all sterile. Everything else seems to hold {{spoiler|except for the main vampire}}.
** Technically, Kanon is also one, although with the events surrounding her existence, she might as well be human.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* The anime ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' has a classification to the vampire that depends of their purity, so every vampire in the series except the purebloods and the e-level vampire (humans turned into vampires by a bite) are dhampyrs.
== Comic Books ==
* ''Dhampyr'': in the first issue of this series, Harlan Draka pretends to be a
== Comics ==▼
▲* ''Dhampyr'': in the first issue of this series, Harlan Draka pretends to be a [[Dhampyr]], {{spoiler|until he finds out he is really one.}} In this series, vampires are ''burned'' and killed by also a drop of blood of damphyr (apparently because of its hybrid nature). Vice versa, also if Harlan is mainly human, he is able to suck blood from the Master of the Night (the high vampires), reversing the use. By the way also the Masters of the Night, if willing, are able to suck blood from other Masters - also if rarely; usually they try to avoid a war between themselves, but they are very territorial.
* ''[[Blade]]'': The main character Blade is Dhampyr. Later writers [[Canon Immigrant|changed the definition]] of what the word means in the Marvel Universe to make him closer to the movie character.
* In the graphic novel ''Dhampire Stillborn'', the protagonist Nancy Collins is a
* A short strip published in an old issue of ''[[
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[Blade]]'': The title character's mother was turned into a vampire when she was pregnant with Blade, causing him to develop into a vampire/human hybrid. He is immune to all the vampiric weaknesses, but still ages. He has super strength. His tag line is ''All the strengths, none of the weaknesses'', despite that fact he doesn't ''have'' all the strengths, and is constantly fighting his blood addiction.
* While not born one, Black Hat from the [[Priest (
* ''[[Dracula 2000]]'': A
* ''[[Vampire in Brooklyn]]'': Rita is a
* Averted in ''[[The Monster Club]]'', in which vampires readily crossbred with other monsters (werewolves and ghouls) and produced some weird hybrids, but apparently ''not'' with humans, who were just lunch.
* ''[[Grave Of The Vampire]]'' has the child produced from a vampire raping a woman clinically dead in the womb, and, after it is born, the mother feeds him on her own blood, and keeps him out of direct sunlight. Upon adulthood, he is sensitive to sunlight, and eats VERY rare steak. He also hunts down his daddy. Eventually, {{spoiler|after killing his pop-pop, he becomes, apparently, a vampire himself.}}
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'': Wataru, the eponymous Rider, is born to a human male and a [[Our Vampires Are Different|Fangire]] mother and fights against the Fangire.
** Ironically, the mother's job was to kill Fangires that fell in love with humans, presumably to prevent a
== Literature ==
* In the short story ''15 Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot'' by [[Neil Gaiman]], the Lovers Card segment features an implied dhampir birth, from a vampire mother and a human father.
* ''[[
* ''Lost Souls'': The character named Nothing is a technically a
* ''Midnight's Daughter'': Dorina Basarab is a
* ''The Pine Deep Trilogy'': Mike Sweeney is the off spring of a human woman and an undead werewolf.
* ''Slayer'': Alek Knight is a vampire hunter, [[Anti-Hero]], as well as being
* ''[[Twilight (
** They're not all just brief mentions. There is Nahuel, {{spoiler|who ends up being a major factor in stopping the Big Bad}}
* ''[[Vampire Academy]]'': Rose Hathaway is a
* ''Demon in My View'': {{spoiler|Jessica's mother became a vampire while pregnant, leaving the unborn Jessica in suspension for several years. After a witch converts her mother back into a human, Jessica is born looking like the daughter of the vampire sire and not her natural human parents. Because of this (and the strength of her mother's sire)}} Jessica experiences dreams about vampires, which she then writes into novels. {{spoiler|Unfortunately when the characters in her novels turn out to be real, the connection turns deadly and Jessica is eventually attacked and later becomes a fully fledged vampire}}
** Arguably, the protagonist of another ''Nyeusigrube'' book might qualify. {{spoiler|Erin Misrahe's Disassociate Identity Disorder is brought on by an encounter with a vampire while still in the womb. Her alter is actually a psychic imprint of the vampire in question}}
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** They also lack the extra abilites of a full vampire, such as flitting, sleeping breath and healing saliva, and age one fifth as slow as a normal human as opposed to one tenth as slow like a full vampire.
* ''[[Blindsight]]'' vampires (which are an extinct hominid species, rather than standard undead types) are stated to have been able to reproduce with humans, and given that the extinct species was brought back from dormant genes in humans it's pretty safe to assume a fair number of early humans must have had children with them. This actually seems rather surprising given that Blindsight vampires were [http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm very creepy creatures]; among other things they were visibly inhuman, nocturnal, sociopathic loners and spent most of their time hibernating in a mummy-like state to conserve their food supply (not to mention the fact that they ''ate people''). It's pretty hard to imagine many humans ever wanting to have a relationship with something like that; one suspects most of the human partners were [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|less than willing]].
* Averted in ''[[Dirk
* In the Brazilian André Vianco's books from the ''Os Sete'' chronology (there are two different universes with different vampires), half-vampires, with all dhampyr abilities compared to usual vampires and great but not deadly discomfort at sunlight, come from a human who drank vampire blood but still didn't steal blood, and when he does he will slowly go the way to vampire, increasing both powers and weaknesses, until his heart stops beating. Apparently also, if the stolen blood (not the one from the transformation) is from a vampire with (more) supernatural abilities, like Lobo's vampire werewolf transformation or Inverno's freeze powers, the new vampire also gets them.
* Sonja Blue, from Nancy A. Collins' ''Midnight Blue'' series, is an extremely rare [[Half-Human Hybrid]] vampire, which means she has many vampire strengths and lacks most of their weaknesses. However, she also has a raging case of [[Split Personality]] and [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], so it kinda evens out.
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* Malachi, one of the central characters in the second and third books in the ''Red Moon Rising'' series by Billie Sue Mosiman.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different|The protagonist]] of "The Lost Art Of Twilight" by [[Thomas Ligotti]], {{spoiler|born from his mother's staked corpse}}, is his own, very special subset of this trope. Unlike most fictional Dhampyr, however, he has very few actual powers, aside from the ability to paint bizarre abstract canvases [[Brown Note|that are literally nauseating to look at]]. {{spoiler|He's also quite curious about his father's side of the family, and so invites them to visit . This being Ligotti, [[Downer Ending|this doesn't]] go well for him. [[A Fate Worse Than Death|At all.]]}}
* ''[[
* Daniel Alfonz, in ''[[Family Bites]]'' by Lisa Williams. The son of a human father and a vampire mother (who subesquently married a male vampire at her family's insistence), Daniel can't fly (not that well-brought up vampires in this universe ever do), can be seen in mirrors unless he concentrates, and has slightly less powerful senses than his relatives. He also has no craving for blood, and is actually rather squeamish about it, but has to drink some once every few weeks.
* Shori in [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''[[Fledgling]]'' was designed so she could walk in daylight. She was spliced with human DNA. She also is half-black, causing more problems.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Candorville]]'', these can't normally appear, but advanced fertilization technology has created at least one of them, {{spoiler|in accordance with an [[Either
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** 3rd Edition has the following separate examples:
*** The 3rd Edition supplement ''Libris Mortis'' introduces the half vampire template.
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*** Dragon #313 under the name Katane.
*** ''Ravenloft: Denizens of Dread'' under the name Dhampir.
**** But [[Ravenloft]] also averts the Mom-bitten-while-pregnant variant, as the products of such prenatal infection grow up to be "vampyres" -- ''living'' blood-drinking monstrous humanoids, with mind-controlling
**** 5th Edition Ravenloft has Dhampire as a playable race, with several possible backgrounds; a PC dhampire can be an ''actual'' offspring of a vampire and human (stranger things have happened), an intended victim of a vampire that escaped (though not unscathed), a reincarnated vampire, a mortal who made a pact with a dark entity, or the result of some failed experiment. A PC dhampire always has some sort of [[Horror Hunger]] (blood being one possibility, flesh, emotions, dreams, or life energy other possibilities) and some vampire-like abilities. This is naturally a good choice for the Warlock class.
** 4th Edition introduces the
** Averted by the 1st Edition half-''strength'' vampire, which was simply a vampire-victim that had arisen as a less-powerful undead controlled by its sire. Also by the pseudo-vampire, which was a living creature with a vampire's appearance, hit dice, and slam attack, but none of its powers or undead traits.
* ''[[
** And apart from being capable of going out in the sunlight, they're pathetic. Every generation, the vampire blood thins out a little bit- double the generation, half the blood, and vampires capable of making dhampyr are pretty wimpy already. A dhampyr is double the generation of the (usually) father- which means they've got almost no vamp blood at all. They're also one of the signs of the apocalypse- the "Time of Thin Blood" is one of the main parts.
*** One notable ability that they can have (depending on the
**** White Wolf, in later editions, made a habit of doing this with a lot of the Special Snowflake character types that had popped up in earlier editions. Take the classic Abomination, for instance. Half-Vampire, Half-Werewolf, all kick-ass? Not quite. It has all the weaknesses of both races, loses almost all werewolf powers, is despised by Vampires who won't teach it Vampire powers...oh, and is immediately inflicted with a permanent supernatural suicidal depression. They got a little less subtle as time went on, to the point where trying to turn a Kitsune were-fox into a vampire causes the Kitsune to explode in a pillar of flame killing both itself and the vampire.
** In the Asian setting ''[[Kindred of the East]]'', a Kuei-Jin (Asian vampire) breeding with a human can produce a Dhampyr. They have minimal access to vampiric disciplines, but their main power is their supernatural luck, the spiritual side-effect of the unlikelihood of their birth. This also justifies why the mother is usually human: Kuei-Jin are fertile only if they spend a certain kind of chi when they wake up. If a vampire mother ever ran out of that kind in the course of nine months, she will miscarry, while a vampire father need only spend that type on the night of conception. Ironically, both parents can be vampires. This is very rare, however.
* ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' introduces the Dampyr in ''Wicked Dead''. This time, they're children born of an unnatural desire for a Kindred to procreate and nursed on vampiric blood. Often, they grow up completely unaware of their heritage. Their bodies produce "flat" blood that can't be used for vampiric powers (and has to be expelled -- ''violently''
** Note that the parents don't need to be a female human and a male vampire. Depending on precisely ''which'' dark ritual is used to induce conception, they could also be a female vampire and a male human, [[Homosexual Reproduction|or two men, or two women]]. In the previous example, [[Mister Seahorse|the mother could even impregnate the father]]. Moving forward, a pregnant male vampire will have to hide from his [[Masquerade]]-enforcing peers for nine months, but a pregnant male human is pretty much going to die of organ damage and internal hemorrhaging.
** Another variant is presented as part of the "Dark Fantasy" option in ''Mirrors''. These dhampirs are [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] able to give birth to more of their kind, forming families. Their heritage makes them tougher than humans, able to sense the undead, and resistant to their powers; on the downside, they're prone to going to unnatural lengths to slake their vices, and they manifest a minor supernatural deformity as a mark of their condition.
* Palladim Books' ''Nightbane'' has Wampyrs, which are not quite half-bloods, but rather an anomaly in creating a Secondary Vampire. Water doesn't hurt them like it does full-blooded ones, and they can tolerate Sunlight. Naturally, they're not as powerful.
* As of the ''[[Pathfinder]]'' Bestiary II, the Dhampyr is both a monster race, and one of seven additional [[Player Character]] Races, being created when a fresh male Vampire impregnates a mortal, or a pregnant mortal is vampirised. They're more agile and charismatic than humans, have lowlight and Darkvision, are resistant to most diseases and poisons, live as long as Elves, and can detect true undead. On the downside they're vulnerable to light, can't channel positive energy (which makes healing a pain in the rear end), have a weakened constitution (due to having "one foot in the grave" so to speak), and suffer from an innate bloodlust, on top of the standard persecution. It's worth noting that a vast majority of Dhampyr are every bit as evil as their Vampire parents; as in the case of Orcs and other recent Race options the PCs are the exception, not the rule.
== Theater ==
* [[Sera Myu]] has Bloody Dracul Vampir, daughter of the Vampire Count Dracul and Le Fay, a human woman.
== Video Games ==
* One of the villains in [[Fate/stay
* ''[[
* ''[[Castlevania]]'': Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, also known as ''[[Sdrawkcab Name|Alucard]]'', is the son of [[Dracula]] and a human woman named Lisa. He is apparently immortal like his father, but has notable weakness to water (which can be overcome by a [[Fan Nickname|holy snorkel]]), and can only transform with magical relics and a good amount of effort.
* ''[[
* ''[[Oblivion]]'': The character {{spoiler|Agronak gro-Malog AKA [[
* ''[[Nocturne]]'': Svetlana Lupescu from the first act of this PC game.
** Foreign language bonus: 'Lupescu' means 'wolf-like' in Romanian
* ''[[Vampire Night]]'': You control one of two vampire hunters that are both
* [[Scribblenauts]]: One of the [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|many]] summonable creatures and is one of the few things that scares vampires.
* ''[[
* ''[[League of Legends]]'': Evelynn the Widowmaker, the blue-skinned stealth assassin. Her background is a mystery although it's theorized she was cursed with "a mild form of fantastic vampirism" rather than born with it. She's savage, vicious and a heartless assassin who thoroughly enjoys her job and [[Stripperiffic|dresses like a bondage queen]].
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* {{spoiler|J.C. Summerfeild}} from [[Paranormal Mystery Squad]]
▲* Vix from [[Dream Scar]].
== Western Animation ==
* We eventually find out that Irwin from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Dennis in ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]'' is this, the actual son of Mavis and her human husband Jonathan (vampires are able to bear children the regular way in this series). Still a toddler as of the fourth movie, he has inherited his mother's vampiric powers, though had a hard time controlling them for a while.
== Real Life ==
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[[Category:Vampire Tropes]]
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