Isnt silver used to kill werewolves?
i thought you needed a wooden stake to kill vampires not silver.
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I don't think the material matters, just needs to be through the heart.
watch underworld if you wont silver for dogs and uv bullets for vamp and a wearwolf hybrid
watch blade if you wont silver for vamps and a vampire hybrid
simple eh?
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Not only Blade, but many other places cite Silver as being able to kill Vampires too. Silver was regarded as a 'holy' metal or something like that when the myths and stories started so its used on both Vampires and Werewolves I think.
Its really hard to tell though, through all the years the stories have changed so much, for example I heard that Garlic was never supposed to kill vampires, but rather the flower of a garlic plant was the dangerous part to Vampires.
In any event, its pretty common to see Silver used to kill vampires.
Silver is a metal commonly used to kill shape shifting beings in many stories. And since vampires tend to be linked to turning into a bat or a wolf, thats where the silver comes from. Also like stated above silver beinga holy metal and vampires being well not holy also helps the theory for silver killing vampires. Although only the one common method used in killing vampires seems to be decapitation, or at least that is the only one that seems to work on all vampires no matter who the story teller is. But I am sleepy and am finally going to go to bed.
shareSilver has lots of interesting properties that make it stand out amongst metals. Highly conductive of both heat and electricity, highly reflective of light, photosensitive, and is very strong against wear. It's also known to have a toxic effect on many bacteria and viruses.
It stands to reason that a metal with all these properties might well produce an adverse reaction in creatures with unusual blood chemistry, such as vampires or werewolves...
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Silver is used to kill a lot of mythological creatures, and there are always a number of different methods of taking out any mythological creatures, depending on what mythologies you follow. Different people believe different things. Some countries in Europe hold the belief of "Vampire Pumpkins and Watermelons".
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The rules are kind of flexible and seem to be allowed to vary depending on who's telling the story.
shareYes, every story about the supernatural picks and chooses which rules to follow. Not that there are any rules really since vampires only exist in fiction (as far as I know). Most pop culture likes to use Bram Stoker's Dracula as its starting point but remember in that story, a stake through the heart did not kill Dracula, it merely paralyzed him until it was removed. Sunlight also did not hurt him, it merely took away his superhuman powers.
Lots of rules have cropped up around vampires and a lot of fiction ignores any or all of them. Burning in sunlight, being unable to cross moving water (rivers and such), having to sleep in soil from their own grave each night, being unable to enter someone's home unless invited, weakness to wooden stakes, silver, garlic. And I'm sure they'll come up with more new stuff over time.
At least "Blade" said here's what works against our vampires, here's what doesn't.
All the weaknesses are native superstitions and religious symbols are useless in Blade because vampirism was treated as a biological condiction.
shareSpeaking of religious symbols, in some legends a silver bullet will kill a vampire, but only if a priest blesses the bullet first. (For many if not most priests, that seems like a potential ethical dilemma. There's gotta be a story idea in there somewhere.)
shareYep! It's the glaring mistake in the series. Silver is for werewolves. It has no effect on vampires.
Garlic, a crucifix, daylight (or UV light), and a wooden stake through the heart are how you deal with vampires.
That has always been the tradition.
The authors of the Blade series got it wrong. Underworld got it right.
There was no mistake or anything done wrong.
Vampires don't exist. You can make up whatever rules you want with them.
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Being fictional characters they can be killed with whatever the author or the screenwriter wants.
Can you quack like a duck when you suck?