Though Dracula usually has a reputation of being reserved and cold-blooded, the Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) in Hotel Transylvania couldn’t be more different. He’s a big softy when it comes to his daughter Mavis and builds a hotel to keep her and other monsters safe from humans.

Alucard is the protagonist of the Hellsing series created by Kouta Hirano. He is the most powerful weapon of the Hellsing Organization which works against vampires and other such supernatural forces. Alucard is no mere vampire; it has been implied that he is the most powerful vampire alive.

Mavis Dracula (voiced by Selena Gomez) grows up before our eyes in Hotel Transylvania. Raising a teenage daughter alone isn’t easy for her father Count Dracula. He does everything he can to protect her from humans, especially human boys.

In Adventure Time, Marshall Lee the Vampire King is the gender-swapped version of Marceline. Like most vampires, he can turn into a bat and is hurt by the sun. Besides drinking blood, he likes to suck the pink filling from cream puffs.

On The Strain, Quinlan (Rupert Penry-Jones) is a vampire/human hybrid who helps the humans fight the vampire outbreak. While his mother was pregnant, she was turned by the strigoi, an ancient line of vampires, and it resulted in him being half human and half strigoi. As a pariah, he resents the Master for his condition, and makes it his life’s purpose to hunt him. The most distinctive aspects of Quinlan’s appearance are his facial scars, gray skin, and pale blue eye color, which can be achieved with zombie makeup. Another unique feature of his character is his scrimshaw, bone-handle sword, which isn’t available. With a little effort, a prop bone can be cut and fixed to the handle of a foam prop sword, and painted to look like an aged bone with scrimshaw markings.

In Warm Bodies, Julie Grigio (Teresa Palmer) is sent out from the zombie fort to find medical supplies. She’s promptly surrounded by zombies, but one of them named R rescues her. They gradually develop a love for each other, which makes R transform from the undead to the living. It’s just like in the old fairy tales.