Off My Mind: What If Sun-Based Superheroes Turned Into Vampires?

lol they would not be good for heroes or the general public

If a character like sunspot got bitten wouldn't he not become a vampire? He's living energy. Maybe their should be a one shot comic, where everyone is a vampire. 

Doesn't this remind me of something.. hmm, Marvel Zombies... what if Superheros turned to Zombies.. not a good idea.. we've seen what happend in MZ 1-5 and now ongoing into 5. 

Hm, some myths say you just have to kill the head vampire and all his victims will return to being normal. (Would be majorly LAME!!!)

Why don't you think a step ahead, and think about the fact that what if a vampire, let's say Dracula, Absorbed the powers and became resilient against the sun, maybe it was his plan all along?

" with superman's invulerability he might become a daywalker "

the sun's reflection off the moon

Dracula already fought the hulk and tried gaining his powers like that, though i forgot how it went out.

" Hm, some myths say you just have to kill the head vampire and all his victims will return to being normal. (Would be majorly LAME!!!) "

well first of all, Superman could get vamped, as vampires are magical creatures.  The bite would go through, and im pretty sure whatever magical effects the bite would have on normal people would translate.  idk if were talking about the same comic, but there was one with Superman and Robin fighting vampires, and im pretty sure he got bit and almost turned or something. idk, it was the 90's.
 The on again-off again way to de-vamp people is to kill the first vampire in the chain. Think of the blood suckers as part of a pyramid scheme. You slay the top, and the pyramid goes poof. This concept is often used as a plot device though, and not often in serious vamp stories.  
The other method is to re-soul the vamps (if the vamp is the type to loose its soul). I can recall a couple of stories where returning the soul brought the vamp back to life.

 Im guessing with these solar heroes, one of 4 things would happen:
 1. the sun would burn the vamp contaminant from their bodies
 2. they would die/weaken from lack of UV
 3. They would develop an alternat power source, like darkness or  the moon or some sort of evil wellspring of magic.
 or 4. they become a sort of daywalker, where their ability to draw energy from the sun overcomes their weakness of it.
 
 but the great thing about comics is that there are probably a billion things that the minds of guys like Joss whedon and Robert Kirkman and geoff Johns could do with vampires that we normal folk could never imagine.

Well, in marvel people have been trying to kill Dracula ever since, and he just keeps returning. This might be due to his eternal Damnation as an undead and therefore the actual "head" can't be destroyed, eternally.

Depends on if someone like Supes would become a vampire that has a weakness to sunlight.

I think it would be akin to say a symbiote infecting someone who's powers were sonic or flame based. If it did happen, the first time they used their powers... bye bye.

Now, take Deadpool and make him a vampire, then the world is screwed.

I think it would be a good way to kill Superman wouldn't it? I would think he would still be weak to kryptonite.

I like how this is what you think of when you wake up in the morning. LOL 
Vampires just need to die in the marvel universe.
The only reason theyre not all dead is because it would give blade no reason to live.

" I like how this is what you think of when you wake up in the morning. LOL  Vampires just need to die in the marvel universe. The only reason theyre not all dead is because it would give blade no reason to live. "

" Well, in marvel people have been trying to kill Dracula ever since, and he just keeps returning. This might be due to his eternal Damnation as an undead and therefore the actual "head" can't be destroyed, eternally. "

" @doordoor123 said:

" I like how this is what you think of when you wake up in the morning. LOL  Vampires just need to die in the marvel universe. The only reason theyre not all dead is because it would give blade no reason to live. "

@Voidheart said:

" Well, in marvel people have been trying to kill Dracula ever since, and he just keeps returning. This might be due to his eternal Damnation as an undead and therefore the actual "head" can't be destroyed, eternally. "

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What I contemplate more is specifically with superman, If he is a vampire, what does a red sun do for his vampirism?  How would a red sun effect regular vampires?

well the world went crazy in marvel zombies and they killed every one probley the same with vamps and werewolfs if super powered beings becaome vamps or zombies or whatever it is bad news

" What I contemplate more is specifically with superman, If he is a vampire, what does a red sun do for his vampirism?  How would a red sun effect regular vampires? "

There are a few pseudo-scientific explainations for vampires being destroyed by by exposure to sunlight. Such as:

"It has to do with ultraviolet rays and a vampire's melanocytes. 
UV rays are a form of ionizing  radiation, which does heavy damage
to the DNA structure of cells. Because ultra violet rays are at such
a short wavelength (anywhere from 400 nanometres to 10 nanometres),
they are especially dangerous for the cells that undergo melanogenesis.
In a normal human, this damage causes your melanocytes to release more
melanin and darken the pigment of the skin, ie. get a tan. In vampires,
melanocytes are underfunctioning, and the photodamage to the melanocytes
causes such a drastic shift in melanogenesis that cells' lysosomes
actually initiate apoptosis. Dead cell matter at such a high
concentration puts so much pressure on surrounding tissue that the
blood vessels can become blocked, resulting in pressure buildup and
the eventual failure of the cardiovascular system. Normally, the process
takes somewhere from 10 to 15 minutes, and the vampire looks as though
he or she died of heart failure.

In extreme cases, the sudden blockage can result in internal bleeding
and rhabdomyolysis from sudden internal shock on surrounding muscles.
In this case, death can be instaneous of contact with sunlight."

Karolina Dean from the Runaways answers your question. She has solar-based powers, and when a vampire named Topher bit her, during Brian K Vaughn's run on the comic, he exploded because her blood was filled with solar energy.

haha i like how wolverine just looks normal in the pic cuz hes so hairy anyways

" Karolina Dean from the Runaways answers your question. She has solar-based powers, and when a vampire named Topher bit her, during Brian K Vaughn's run on the comic, he exploded because her blood was filled with solar energy. "

Ultraman got turned into a vamp by Mandrakk.   Not quite run-of-the-mill vampirism tho.

If Deadpool became a vampire then god help us all...Cause that would mean even more Deadpool

that would be a bad idea. its not like solar based characters are " immune " to the sun.
their ability isnt to block it out its to take it in. a vampire would just be committing suicide by 
putting their own weakness into their own body, likewise if they got someone like Sunspot while he
was powered down, the minute he powered up he would incinerate himself.
 
in the case of Superman, and the issue in question, Dracula bit Superman and was incinerated because
Superman is a big battery for solar energy. weakening him with Kryptonite wouldn't help either. Superman
doesnt revert to a human, nor is he. That solar battery aspect is always present, even when low as its part of his Kryptonian
biology.
 
the more tactful idea though would be for a vampire to absorb the power to change physical form in a manner that blocks out the sun for them/keeps it from contacting them.

The overall idea of this is interesting, solar powered characters becoming vampires, although it might be like what happened with Lucy in the Sky

Now the companion line to Marvel Zombies: Marvel Vampires. As the guys at Giant Bomb would say, COMFIRMED! 
 
You heard it here first. 

Well I don't know if this is good since it comes from a movie, but remember in Blade 3 the character Reynolds played was a vampire before and got turned back to human. So i guess there is a cure for vampires.

Superman could get bit by a vampire because they are magical creatures and Superman is vulnerable to magic.

Seriously what is with vampires in this generation these days. You know I am getting tired of vampires, werewolves or whatever because I am sick  of this being in pop culture mainstream. Someone would say the same thing for other stuff that other people like  but I don't  see the horror genre unique but fear, gore to sex. I hope superheroes replace vampires for a long long time at least. HORROR IS OVERRATED and has for very long period.  Now where doing superheroes as or with vampires oh please already. 

Vampires are definitely being toned down and directed more towards teens & tweens nowadays.
I am a huge Anne rice fan and prefer my vampires in that vein or maybe even a bit darker like they are in the 30 Days of Night franchise.
The only piece of vampire lit that I've even been all that interested in recently is the new Vertigo American Vampire series.

doesn't the moon reflect the sun's rays? so the superpowered vamp would get a dose. although not at the usual power level. i think they would still have their powers at a weakened level. although being a vamp usually enhances your abilities so would they not be even more powerful? interesting topic.

If I remember right there was some Superman comic where he got bitten by Dracula (him being a mystic creature), but the vampire died since Clark stored solar power in all his cells; also his blood. Vampire+sun=BAD

Karolina Dean's blood could kill a vampire, which is really awesome.

I figure if a solar powered super hero where to become a vampire, his powers would then become lunar based.

When Batman and Superman switched powers Batman suffered the lack of light problem

Moonlight is reflected sunlight.

" @Voidheart:  LOL. I never said Blade wasnt a badass character. I love Blade. Youre twisting my words. All i said was that vampires should go, but without vampires there would be no blade. I was thinking it would be cool to see what blade would do without vampires. What would he do? "

A vampire drinking Superman's blood would be like drinking explosive battery acid.