Seeing as how everyone’s talking about their favorite characters/types, I might as well include mine. He’s a creation of Joseph Michael Linsner named Tobias Esque, which is a made up name he gave himself to seem tougher. He’s only had a few stories, so he’s still indevelopement, but the recent Christmas special, The Vampire Christmas is great. What I like about him…1) He’s about 38-40 years old, and was converted when he was attacked outside of a Sex Pistols concert in the late seventies; 2) His basic plan of attack is to wait in the bathrooms at bars and snag drunks; 3) He HATES people who have been mystified by Anne Rice’s portrayal of vampires because 4) He’s rotting.
38 year old vampire who’s rotting. He really brings home the idea that vampires are the walking dead. He looks like shit, lives in subway tunnels, and when he hasn’t fed in a while, he has to resort to slitting people’s throats with a knife because his teeth are loose and would fall out if he bit too hard. And, as part of the whole being dead and rotting, he’s also impotent, which helps feed his complex against the idea of the “sexy seductive vampire”. He’s tall and skinny as hell, so takes special joy in feeding on goth kids who find him “mysterious”, but loathes them because he knows that being a vampire isn’t about seduction and sex; it’s about killing to survive and being an animal. And of course, social commentary from the mindset of a 40 year old punk 
I played Vampire for a couple years back in college, and I always loved the Nosferatu because they were what I really liked about vampires…animalistic, hideous, and powerful (and intelligent too, if you like that sort of thing). With effort, they can blend into society fairly unnoticed, but the key to them is that they’re killers and something to be feared, not deired and looked upon lovingly. They look on people the way a farmer looks upon a chicken…you want to have dinner, you wring it’s neck, pluck it, gut it, and eat it.
I did rather like the elder vampire in Underworld, though. I mean, he didn’t do too much, but watching him punch that one guy and split his head open was pretty damn cool, and he had the right mentality…“we may have to conceal ourselves in the shadows, but we’re strong enough to rule this world if we saw fit, and deservenly so.”
I don’t mind the kind that try to fit into the world around them, but when I see things like the mansion scenes from Underworld, with a lot of pretty vampires all sitting around in black leather drinking blood from crystal goblets, I want a real vampire to walk in and tear them all apart.
