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Seriously, should this category actually be called "Fictional vampires?" I mean, come on, there are no vampires in actuality! And those who claim they are, have completely lost their minds. EliasAlucard|Talk 18:10, 08 Aug, 2005 (UTC)
As pointed out to you on several articles throughout your career at Wikipedia, mythology and legends are separate from fiction. There are plenty of folkloric and legendary vampires out there that people believed were real. The fictional ones were the ones some author thought up. There is an important difference there. DreamGuy 22:51, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
Without getting into a renaming debate here, it can be pointed out that, by definition, all non-existent things are imaginary and, therefore, "thought up", even if one believes otherwise. Shawnc 18:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, all non-existent things must be "thought up," but the difference here is the origin. In one case, there is a specific author that names a specific character and in the other case there are vampires whose origin we cannot trace to a specific author for a specific body of work and are therefore considered to be separate from fiction. "dizzy bizzy" 03:59, 11 December 2005
Peripherally, I'd liken this to the distinction between 'real' deities - whether or not you believe in them, God, Jupiter, and Shiva are all real-world entities that were actually worshipped - and fictional deities, such as the Blood God of the first Blade movie, or Glory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In the early '70's there was a 'Blaxploitation' film fad. This included the movie BLACULA (1972). The character 'Blacula' isn't among the rest of the 'fictional vampires' listing. 72.66.33.74 (talk) 21:27, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
