Why Are Movies and TV Shows Always Breaking The Biggest Vampire Rule?

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The earliest vampires in literature establish a whole set of rules that a lot of modern adaptations attempt to follow. Vampires don’t like garlic, can’t see their reflection, can’t handle a stake through the heart, and can’t go out in sunlight. Of course, a lot of modern takes on a vampire story have adapted those with the changing times. Reflections can be seen in the modern day simply because reflective surfaces are no longer made with mercury, the element that wouldn’t allow vampire reflections.

There is one rule that nearly all modern vampire adaptations, from Twilight to The Vampire Diaries, to the upcoming Day Shift all seem to want to break though. Sunlight is supposed to be fatal to vampires. In most early adaptations, if a vampire walks in the sun, they burst into flames or crumble to ash. Modern stories nearly all find a way around that, but why?

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Part of the drama in modern vampire stories comes from some vampires being able to exist in the sun while others can’t. It creates a divide between the characters that allows the writers to draw neat lines between different types of vampires.

Take the Blade movie adaptations from the 1990s. There, Blade is the only known “daywalker” initially, and it paints a target on his back from a young age. For Blade, it only reaffirms that his purpose is to get rid of those vampires who walk at night and perpetuate a cycle of violence.

In The Vampire Diaries, “daylight rings” allow some vampires to walk in the daylight. That ring quickly establishes just which vampires are able to blend into the human world and coexist. The vampires most often wearing one of the rings are the vampires who want a sense of normalcy, the ones who