• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Isn’t Dracula canonically immortal? You could technically write him into The Expanse and be accurate. I guess the scifi people might have an issue with it.

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      7 months ago

      Dracula in an otherwise realistic sci-fi setting would also have some potential.

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      7 months ago

      There’s a Dracula “sci-fi western” in development now, and it wouldn’t be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.

      So it’s been done, but I wouldn’t say it’s been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.

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        7 months ago

        they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars

        That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they’re hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.

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      How do vampires handle high g forces, I don’t believe it’s ever been addressed. Presumably the ability to turn into a bat would lower his mass and help.

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      7 months ago

      Hrm…is it only our sun that’s a problem for him? Like how our sun powers superman but Krypton’s didn’t?