A hippie named Michael Thompson armed himself with a stake in order to fight off the vampire Count Yorga. Yorga pushed the recently-turned mother of Michael's friend, Donna , into him, and Michael accidentally impaled her with his stake. Yorga fled into the next room, but turned around to face Michael. He charged at him, but Michael ran him through with the stake, reducing him to a pile of dust. A wooden bullet is a bullet made of wood. It serves a similar purpose as that of a wooden stake in that it is an effective means of shooting and destroying a vampire; provided that the bullet hits either the vampire's head or heart.
When Jason Stackhouse and several others raided the Vampire Authority Headquarters , Jason took out numerous vampires with wooden bullets.
Headhunter's Horror House Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Driftwood Roger the Dog Man. Lovecraft Dario Argento. Recent blog posts. Explore Wikis Community Central. Fright Night 2: New Blood : One of the vampire weaknesses, but it's not as easy as it looks. When Peter tries to kill Gerri with a stake, he misses her heart by several inches. Gerri: [after Licking the Blade ] Bunnicula : In book 1, Chester reads that one way to dispose of a vampire is to pound a sharp stake through their heart.
Fortunately for Bunnicula, the cat misunderstands and winds up trying to pound a sirloin steak through his heart instead and Harold offers to taste it and see if it's sharp. Later, in book 3, Chester and the dogs use toothpicks and twigs to impale the vegetables that Bunnicula had drained during his nightly wanderings. Figures in Dracula , naturally, but surprisingly averted at the end: Dracula himself is killed by Quincy's Bowie knife in his heart and Harker's kukri taking off his head.
Also Unbuilt : staking Lucy is difficult and messy, requiring several squirming hammer blows. In The Gardella Vampire Chronicles , Victoria hides her wooden stake in her hair when she goes to fancy events. Subverted in I Am Legend : Neville originally believes that a wooden stake is the weakness of vampires because that's what he's seen in movies.
Upon doing some investigation, however, he realises that actually these vampires are weak to oxygen entering their bloodstream. Staking a vampire in the heart just creates a large wound which can't close up instantly, like it would if the vampire was shot.
Presumably a spike made of metal or another material would still be effective. One of his special anti-vampire weapons is a set of sharp, thin wooden rods. He immobilizes several vampires by throwing one of those rods into the vamp's heart. Justified in-universe in The Vampire Combat Manual , in which it is stated that vampires are allergic to the 'natural resins' in wood; stabbing a vampire in the heart causes a fatal chain reaction.
If he's wounded by wood it will cause the vampire to become severely weak. However, if a wooden stake is penetrated through Stefan's heart, it will result in instant death.
On the other hand, "Restless Souls" goes with more traditional vampirism must be invited in, fears holy relics, etc. Live-Action TV. The weapon of choice on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kendra had a favourite stake she dubbed "Mr. Buffy "adopted" Mr. Pointy after Kendra was killed. Various Improvised Weapons are also used at a pinch, from broken bits of wooden furniture to a magically-levitated pencil.
Buffy: Well, it's more effective than it sounds. Mythology and Folklore. While vampire lore varies hugely from country to country even in the same region, stakes are one of the few consistent weaknesses of Slavic vampires aside from Kill It with Fire. Variants about staking include the stake being made of hawthorn in Poland and Slovakia or being made of alpen in Russia. For some Russian vampires, the stake has to be driven in in a single blow, which is damn near impossible due to the ribcage.
Despite the page snarking about modern vampires being Made of Plasticine due to how the stake effortlessly goes through the ribcage, vampires from Bavaria and parts of the Balkans were said to lack a skeleton. Zigzagged in the Balkans, where severing the tendons was just as common as staking.
Since Jiangshi are harmed and repelled by anything made of peachwood, this would presumably work on them. Tabletop Games. The Dracula Dossier : Telluric Vampires have several similarities to supernatural ones, but also have some important differences.
Notably, wooden stakes have no effect, but stakes made from conductive materials ground out a vampire's telluric energies and paralyze it. That said, Edom is prepared for a GM who is using the default vampire build instead. The agency's standard-issue crossbow is designed to fire heavier-than-normal wooden quarrels, which can stake a vampire with a really good shot.
They also provide a Stake Tube for those times when a vampire is caught sleeping in its coffin; instead of several hammer blows, a pneumatic piston drives the stake into place with a single shot. Don't expect this to work during a fight, however; at best it can be done if you catch the vampire resting in its coffin. Ravenloft added several vampire variants with their own stats in 2 nd edition, including elf vampires, dwarf vampires, halfling vampires, etc.
The wooden stake vulnerability was often changed to something else for each of them; for example, a dwarf vampire wouldn't be stopped by wood, but by a naturally formed stalactite through the heart. Magic: The Gathering features a Wooden Stake card, an artifact that kills vampires automatically.
In Paranoia the adventure Creatures Of The Nightcycle a parody of Vampire: The Masquerade has the player characters turn into vampires, which results in a number of thematically fitting strengths and weaknesses. One of these is, as the game spells out, that getting a stake through your heart will kill you.
It helpfully continues that before you became a vampclone, a stake through the heart would also have killed you. Vampire: The Requiem : Piercing a vampire's heart with wood forces it into a comatose state of "torpor" for as long as the wood is there. This tends to be very unpleasant for the vampire, akin to being trapped in a violent nightmare.
To work, a single piece of wood needs to go completely through the heart — shotgun shells filled with toothpicks are explicitly disallowed. Same thing in the predecessor game, Vampire: The Masquerade. Like in Requiem , staking is hard to do unless the vampire is restrained or has already been beaten up. Some blood sorcerers get around this difficulty through a ritual that creates a Stake of Belated Quiescence, where a splinter eventually works its way to the heart and induces torpor.
Video Games. Maggie, one of the her teammates, is said to use one alongside a machete as her primary means of killing vampires. They are lesser beings compared to the originals so they permanently die by any type of wood. Interesting enough both species body show the same effect as they are killed. Upgraded, only wood can permanently kill a vampire through the heart. Like a shot gun blast. If they want to permanently kill a vamp with something like a sword through the heart.
They need to imbue it with magic spell. Sean Ohhhh I never thought about that.
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