The older vampires had a range of abilities like being able to hypnotize their victims by making eye contact. In addition the power to shape-shift into animals, having to return to the soil where they were buried, unable to cross thresholds and running water. Most modern day vampires do not share these same characteristics with the older vampires. The modern days vampires do share the dislike of the sun like the vampires in The Vampire Diaries which need a magic empowered ring to survive in sunlight or Twilight where the vampires could live in sun light but would stand …show more content…
They fall in love with humans, and do not change them without the humans knowing and with their permission. The one thing that vampires in today 's culture do is actually win. In the past the humans won by killing the evil vampire but in the movies Twilight the vampires do not have a bad side, well the main vampires. . The Vampire Diaries is a good example of the sexual side of vampires. In The Vampire Diaries is more of the true side of the vampires we read in books minus a few changes for the show, a lot of sex blood drinking and