Why do werewolf hate vampires

The film industry is always at fault. Those damned films drummed this all up. My belief is this. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. Likes Comments 4. Like Reply to: Selian Hm, that could be possible but if vampires can shape-shift to wolves isn't that would create a bond between them?

Nelson Blackwell. From aul. Featured post Yet another PSA y'all ain't tired of them yet it seems. Featured post How to Request a Public Chatroom. Join the community. Get App. Vampire origins vary from culture to culture. In Slavic and Chinese stories, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal might become a vampire, as might any body with a wound that had not been treated with boiling water.

In modern Western tales, people typically become vampires either after another vampire drinks their blood, or, more commonly, after they drink the blood of a vampire themselves. Vampires are often portrayed as immortal creatures. In some tales, they can fly or turn into bats. Werewolves are associated with super strength and speed. They are typically considered almost entirely invulnerable. Vampires are often portrayed as sensitive to sunlight and garlic. They are also vulnerable to holy objects such as crosses and holy water.

According to some legends , vampires are also unable to enter a house unless they are invited inside. Vampires need to drink blood to survive and are vulnerable during feeding.

Werewolves are vulnerable to silver bullets and other silver weapons. This led to mass hysteria and accusations of vampirism. Some references to men changing into wolves can be found in Ancient Greek and Roman mythology.

Ovid and Virgil both wrote of men turning into wolves. More recently, vampires have appeared in many dark romance and paranormal romance series as sympathetic anti-heroes.

In films, vampires appeared in the German silent film Nosferatu , which was unofficially based on Dracula. The film and TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer made vampires part of the popular culture in the 90s and early s, and were followed by series such as True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.

The novel Dracula also used werewolf mythology. The first film to feature a werewolf was Werewolf of London in Werewolves also appeared, in a sympathetic role, in The Wolf Man in In True Blood , the first few encounters between vampires and werewolves starting with Bill and some weres in Season 3 are what we modern folk expect—seemingly standard Fur Against Fang encounters. But then the situation is subverted, because all of the werewolves are under the control of a vampire, which is one of the first clues about Russell Edgington's awesome level of power.

It's still not clear whether the standard version of the trope would be in effect if not for that, but it seems to be implied, since Edgington's control seems to be based on the vampire blood he's giving the wolves, which makes it like a drug addiction. The Vampire Diaries has introduced the idea of an instinctive rivalry between the two groups, in the second season. A transformed werewolf's bite is fatal to a vampire causing nasty sickness and Sanity Slippage before their inevitable death , while vampires were created specifically to be able to kill werewolves.

In Slavic folk religion, vampires and werewolves were seen as flipsides of the same creature, with werewolves becoming vampires after death.

The Krsnik is a Vampire Hunter from Slavic mythology, whose spirit leaves the body and takes the form of an animal when hunting vampires.

A downplayed version is found in Albanian folklore, where wolves hate and fear vampires and will kill them if they get the chance. In Old World of Darkness , werewolves and vampires generally hate each other because werewolves see vampires as agents of their sworn enemy, the Wyrm a monster bent towards eternal suffering and decay. Vampires are generally confined to the cities and werewolves to rural areas, though each side has at least one faction that prefers the opposing setting and generally gets along better with the opposing side.

Werewolves are much more physically powerful than most vampires, being able to turn into murder monsters with claws that carve through most vampire defenses. Vampires, on the other hand, can easily use silver, have trickier magical abilities than werewolves, and can grow much more powerful as they age, turning the conflict into something of a Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards arrangement.

Whether vampires and werewolves fight against each other or work together is wholly dependent on their personal choices, although the standard seems to be that they are content to stay away from each other out of mutual fear of the unknown. In mixed groups, Interspecies Romance is usually the first thing that happens. One of the first books in the Werewolf: The Forsaken line, Hunting Grounds: the Rockies , parodies the trope with Black Moon Extreme , a pack of young cubs who decide the best way to aid Denver is to hunt down vampires and look cool while doing it.

While some pack members have good reason to hate vampires — and Denver has had a bad history with the bloodsuckers — the pack's alpha is basically just doing it for an ego trip, and a lot of the other packs think they're posers who are going to do something hideously stupid one day.

There is a Forsaken tribe the Iron Masters who specialize in hunting vampires. However, from werewolves this is actually a mark of respect there's also a Forsaken tribe who specialize in hunting other werewolves. Played straighter in Lodges: The Splintered and its Lodge of the Willow Branch, a Polish werewolf lodge dedicated to destroying vampires because it believes they are walking rifts in the Gauntlet that bring negative spirits swarming into the real world in their wake.

The finalized edition of fan-made expansion Genius: The Transgression has a take on each of the above with a Mad Scientist faction; Geniuses and vampires actually get along pretty well fittingly , though Genius blood is no different from mortal blood how Wonders can help a vampire is another story entirely Also fitting, Geniuses and werewolves don't get along at all, but the interaction between Geniuses and Mages is The main Ancient Conspiracies of the two groups actually seem to be incapable of noticing each other.

Since it has roots as a fan-made expansion of the Old World of Darkness above, Tech Infantry of course carries over the hatred between vampires and werewolves.

Once the Earth Federation was established, all werecreatures wolves, tigers, rhinos, etc. Since the bugs threaten them too, the Vampire Kingdom of Enoch sends occasional ghouls and low-level vampires to join the Tech Infantry, and they do work together surprisingly well.

But for the most part, vampires are hated and hunted throughout the Earth Federation and later the Middle Kingdom. Not surprisingly, this made the not-yet-controlled werewolves, wererats and werebats extremely leery of vampires, though they weren't openly at war with them. In Bleak World there is an organization of werewolves that hunt vampires called "The hunters of the dead.

Theme Parks. And then there are the Werepyres. Darkovia in AdventureQuest Worlds was locked in a conflict between the vampires led by their queen Safiria and the Lycans led by the Werewolf King the title of which changed hands when the player arrived! The player was sent there in order to get support for both sides against the Chaos Lord Wolfwing, a Werepyre who has been chaorrupted by the game's Big Bad Drakath, who created an army of werepyres and chaorrupted certain werewolves and vampires and sent them against their respective opposing faction, culminating in having a dragon captured and turning it into a Dracowerepyre, the Chaos Beast of that particular saga.

The Lycans won the war. Operation Darkness has werewolf Allies fighting vampire-aided Hitler and his Ghostapo. Which is kind of ironic, since in real life the Nazis had a division called the "Werewolves" not actually shapeshifters, as far as we know , and the Americans have a Vampire Squadron. In Fatal Hearts , the vampires and the werewolves each think the others are soulless murderers who must be destroyed at all costs, and woe to anyone who gets in their way.

In the original game, the monk gives you a key to the vampire's castle, you trick your way into the castle, stake the vampire, and grab the key. The remake version subverts the hell out of it. The "friendly" monk at the local church is leader of a werewolf pack that has been mercilessly hunting down the ruler's family. In fact, THEY were the ones responsible for turning the count of Kolyma into a vampire in the first place.

It also turns out that the grandma and Little Red Riding Hood expies are the Countess and the Count's granddaughter , forced to flee for their lives due to the persecution. The PC faces a werewolf, who is terrifying, immune to the PC's attacks, and unkillable except through a good, old-fashioned Guide Dang It!

While generally averted in the The Elder Scrolls series as noted below, in Skyrim , Lord Harkon, leader of the Volhikar vampire clan, is outright disdainful of werewolves, offering his own vampiric blood to cleanse the "filth" from a werewolf Player Character if they choose. Harkon: Yes, I can smell it on you.

The power of my blood will purge that filth and make you whole again. Nina Delacroix in Eerie Cuties upon meeting a werewolf boy discovered this and proposed her pet theory sorry of the origin.

There's an established animosity in The Night Belongs To Us , which makes it awkward when vampire Ada gets assigned to be newly-turned-werewolf Hank's mentor. For some reason, being physically assaulted by someone's teeth and suddenly morphing into a half-ton of animalistic rage gives the newly minted werewolf some severe aggression to work out, and the assaulting vampire tends to become the first target. Monster High : Vampires and werewolves don't like each other much, though Draculaura and Clawdeen are best friends.

The TV special 'Fright on! Sengoku Night Blood has vampires and werewolves fighting each other in the Sengoku Era , and rather than races the conflict is between armies. This is the main premise of Tenrou Sirius the Jaeger as it has the theme of Werewolves vs Vampires surrounding the show.

However, the only known werewolves in this anime as for now is Yuliy. Who tries to avenge his clans after being eradicated by the Vampires. Tokimeki Tonight has the parents of the main character, a vampire and werewolf, fighting quite frequently, and their children treat it like an ordinary occurance.

Despite this, they very much love each other. The first couple of times Morbius the Living Vampire and Werewolf by Night 's paths cross, they end up fighting, but it's not anything personal: Morbius is subject to Horror Hunger and the werewolf will attack anything that moves when it's a full moon. Over the years they grow to be best friends, although the occasional fighting is not something they get rid off entirely.

Requiem Vampire Knight : The vampires and werewolves are hostile towards each other, but that's because ALL supernatural races are that way in Resurrection. They're just as likely probably even moreso to punch in the face of a zombie or ghoul, which are lower on the general food chain than they are.

Interestingly, vampires are the reincarnation of people who knowingly committed acts of evil for their own gratification. Werewolves are the reincarnation of people who did evil in the name of good. Lady Claudia Demona even uses a mind-controlled Torquemada the biggest werewolf on the planet as a sex toy. Subverted in the fanfic " Being Human ". Shinji is a werewolf and Asuka a vampire, and sometimes they argue, but they really like each other.

Dennis, incidentally, is also a vampire. Averted in The Saga of Darren Shan. Vampires-Vampaneze and wolves are in fact from the very same bloodline, and wolves are rather friendly with Vampires. However they really hate Vampaneze, and are more than happy to battle them.

Darren tried very hard to fight it, but he was easily defeated, due to being severely weakened by his long-lasting refusal to drink blood. Then Mr. Crepsley showed up in the last moment and effortlessly beat up the werewolf with his bare hands so badly, that Mr. Tall thought it was actually killed. Averted in the books of Mary Janice Davidson because neither race believes in the existence of the other.

Averted in Sergey Lukyanenko 's Night Watch Series , where vampires and werewolves make up the lowest rung on the Other hierarchy. Specifically, they're Dark Others, whose nature seems to change a little from book to book. As such, they have more in common with one another than with the rest of the Others and are universaly loathed by both the Light and the Dark ones. As part of maintaining the Treaty, the Night Watch i.

Light Others are required to give out hunting licenses to vampires and werewolves, picking humans at random. While vampires don't technically have to drain those they feed on, most do. Hunting without a license is punishable by dematerialization. Averted in The Pardoner's Tale. Nick werewolf and Alex vampire fight, snark, and antagonize each other, but it's got nothing to do with their supernatural states, and more to do with the fact that Nick thinks Alex is an idiot.

Averted in Family Bites ; Ben Rivers, the patriarch of the werewolf family, who has never met a vampire before, says you can't trust them, but everything he knows he got from his grandfather, whose vampric business partner ran off with the money.

As it turns out, the Riverses and Alfonzes get on fine. Notably inverted in the original Dracula , where Drac can control wolves as well as all creatures of the night, and even turns into a wolf as a slightly less conspicuous way of breaching the English shore. Inverted in House of Frankenstein where it's mentioned that vampires love lycanthropes, treating them like beloved pets. Averted in the Buffyverse , where the two species share no particular relationship with each other, be it animosity or otherwise.

When Angelus and werewolf Oz stand face to face, they merely growl at each other until Angelus backs off. Of course, Oz does occasionally stake vampires, but that's because he's a Scooby, not because he's a werewolf. Angel even dates a newly turned werewolf for a while in his own show, but neither the relationship nor the breakup has anything to do with her lycanthropy.

Averted in Sanctuary. While there are plenty of issues between different species of Abnormals, vampires and HAPs don't seem to have any particular animosity. Tesla's interactions with Henry do manage to have a bit of this, though, but that's because Tesla is a bit of a misanthrope and thinks everyone who's not a vampire or Helen Magnus is an idiot compared to him.

Averted in The Munsters , vampires and werewolves are not only friendly, they're family. In The Vampire Diaries although not everyone involved likes it. Inverted in Beetleborgs , where Count Fangula and Wolfgang are close friends who have known each other a long time.

In fact, Fangula is always the one who translates for Wolfgang, who only speaks wolf-language. The Magic: The Gathering set Innistrad , vampires and werewolves are symbolic opposites according to Word of God : the former represent repressed lust, the latter repressed rage. Battlefield Heroes just recently added vampire skins for the Nationals and werewolf skins for the Royals.

Averted entirely in BlazBlue. Valkenhayn R. Hellsing, a werewolf, is the faithful butler of Rachel Alucard , a vampire.

Played with in Free Realms. Both races show up for the Halloween event, and they do have a rivalry with each other with players encouraged to choose sides The Elder Scrolls series generally averts this trope.

Outside of a very few specific examples, vampires and werewolves don't really care about each other. Both are diseases which can be spread through any wound inflicted by an infected individual. Both offer Ideal Illness Immunity , making them mutually exclusive to one another canonically barring exploits or Game Mods.

However, thematically vampirism and lycanthropy are vastly different, as vampirism is all about overpowering, dominating, and consuming others, while lycanthropy is about the shifting nature of hunter and prey and how the two roles can be interchanged. Additionally, in Online, it is revealed that Vampires and Werewolves were once allied against the living in a massive military campaign called the Grey Host A natural result of the AI in Dwarf Fortress , whose latest release added vampire immigrants and wandering werecreatures.

One player found a random peasant in a cage trap, and when the full moon rolled around and he turned into a werepanda he was introduced to one of the resident vampires. They did not get along. Bloodborne could be one of the most roundabout versions of this trope yet. The terms for werewolves and vampires are never used , but there are nevertheless strong undertones of lycanthropy and vampirism in the setting.

The people of Yharnam use blood for medicinal purposes, intoxication, and even as a substitute for sex, and the Scourge of Beasts that is afflicting them irreversibly transforms people into ravenous wolf-like monstrosities called Beasts. And it's the player's job to kill the Beasts after receiving a transfusion of Yharnam blood that gives them all manner of supernatural abilities.

In Vampyr , "werewolves" are actually a subspecies of vampires known as Vulkods, and some of them are feral monsters referred to as "sewer beasts" due to the Blood of Hate.

Like most other vampires afflicted by the Blood of Hate, they are enemies that Jonathan has to fight while traversing the streets of London. In City of Heroes , rival fascist groups the Fifth Column and the Council both field hulking Warwolves, only the Council creates the Vampyri, which are products of a Super Soldier program that takes a year to complete.

Last Res0rt recently revealed that Jason Spades vampire protagonist Jigsaw's main rival is actually a werewolf, or at least for what passes as the alien version of a werewolf — but this all has next to nothing to do with the real problem between the two, i.

Daisy and her continued existence. Averted in Bite Me! Averted in Fangs And Frights , where the two main characters are Nathan and Lyne, a pair of friends who are a vampire and a werewolf, respective.

When transformed, Lyne is even aware enough to let Nathan drink from the deer that she's about to eat. Modern MoGal : Vampire Dad and Jennifer a werewolf don't like each other, but don't openly act on it because of their respective children. Vampire Dad doesn't like werewolves because he thinks they bite people and urinate everywhere, and is annoyed vampires always get compared to them.

Jennifer, meanwhile, doesn't like vampires because she thinks they suck out your blood and getting bitten by one turns you into one.