Bleh-bleh-bleh!

[iamrman]

Uncanny X-Men #159.

We already had Doctor Doom thirsting after Storm, so why not Dracula?

Comments

[windleopard2]

Wait, you have to be Christian for a cross to work on a vampire?

[lordultimus]

Depends on the telling, but it's usually about faith, hence the bit about the Star of David burning him.

[blues32]

Hasn't Dracula had the same problem with Thor's hammer?

[bruinsfan]

Yes. In fact, contact with it made lesser vampires combust immediately upon contact. (Which was nifty, but considering how powerful Thor and Mjolnir are, probably not necessary as a side effect of his divinity.)

[donnblake]

Depends on your cosmology, but it broadly fits in Marvel, where deities are at least sometimes empowered, shaped, or even created by the faith of their believers.

As noted above, it also works as a workaround to preserve the classic vampire weaknesses without going all in on Christianity.

(Other workarounds I've seen include Peter Watts's having vampires experience seizures upon exposure to intersecting right angles, Scott Westerfield's having vampirism as a parasite that creates strong negative associations for familiar objects and symbols (so folks for whom Christianity was a big part of their life are suddenly repelled) and the conceit whose origin I cannot remember that vampires, being fundamentally selfish predatory creatures, are repelled not because Christ was the son of god, but because the crucifixion represents a truly selfless act of self-sacrifice, with the notation that someone had also successfully repelled vampires with a photo of Gandhi at his spinning wheel.)

[lordultimus]

I recall a bit in Vampire The Masquerade where apparently some Wall Streeters care about money so much their credit cards work the same as crosses.

[donnblake]

The power of Mammon compels you!

[cainofdreaming]

Which one? The Earthbound, the spirit or the bunch of Technocracy bureaucrats?