Immortality Hurts: While vampires will eventually heal from almost any injury that doesn't kill them outright, the process can take years for severe cases, and they feel as much pain as humans. Petski, Denise (August 25, 2021). " Interview With The Vampire: Jacob Anderson to Play Louis in AMC Series Based on Anne Rice's Book". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 2, 2023.

Living Forever Is Awesome: Lestat has this attitude despite the fact he's gone through numerous horrible traumas. Most of the other Ancients are similarly of the mindset that there's no point in dying. Louis, by contrast, is really the only one who romanticizes death. At least after the Paris Satanic cult was "reformed" by Lestat. They were pretty miserable. From Anne Rice: a message to fans". YouTube. May 16, 2008. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012 . Retrieved May 27, 2020. Bratty Food Demand: Played for drama in the song "I Want More" from the play, sung by a vampire child Claudia about how she wants to drink a lot of blood and doesn't care if she's being rude or evil. To a lesser extent, Armand, who was turned when he was only a young teenager. This actually helps him seduce literally almost anyone he comes across due to his boyish looks amplified by his vampirism, which brings out their beauty ten-fold.Demonic Vampires: According to The Vampire Lestat, the first vampire was created when a bodiless demon fused with the blood of a dying Egyptian queen, and its power sustains all younger vampires. However, later books (and the Devil himself) clarify that the "demon" is a once-human spirit who escaped the afterlife, so vampires have no direct link to Hell. Mael endured this trope twice, as his companion reattached the head at an odd angle, leading to the necessity of re-beheading him so that the parts can reattach naturally. Many vampires also believe that if they are left in the sun or burned, and their ashes are left unscattered, they will experience this.

From Nobody to Nightmare: Lestat was an illiterate, impoverished actor when Magnus turned him into a vampire. 200-odd years later, he's one of the most dangerous creatures on Earth— and possibly Heaven and Hell, too.

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Confessional: Louis confesses his sins to a priest in Interview. Unsurprisingly, the priest refuses to believe that Louis is actually an immortal creature of the night who feeds on the blood of the innocent... until it's too late. Mind Rape: Most of the time, narrators regard their use of telepathy as perfectly normal and OK, but Marius describes it as rape in Blood and Gold. Memnoch the Devil – The fallen angel of legend also known as Satan or Lucifer. He has long defied God in asking why humans should suffer and not immediately be placed in Heaven. Because of these questions and other actions that he makes, he alleges that he is put in charge of preparing the souls for their ascent into Heaven. Memnoch's domain thus serves as a place of punishment that will eventually earn access to Heaven. He may have sinister ulterior motives. In the novel Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, it is alluded to that Memnoch may have been an inhuman spirit that dwelled in the place between the physical realm and Heaven. Rice's New Tales of the Vampires— Pandora (1998) and Vittorio the Vampire (1999)—do not feature Lestat at all, instead telling the stories of the eponymous peripheral vampires, the Patrician Pandora from Rome in the 1st century B.C. and the 15th-century Italian nobleman Vittorio. Jerkass: If you asked Lestat he'd tell you it was Armand, if you asked Armand he'd tell you it was Lestat.

Memnoch's literary name, Lucifer, is Latin for "Light Bringer" or "Morning Star", the latter of which is associated with the planet Venus. Devil's Job Offer: Lestat is given a tour of the history of mankind and the afterlife, including Heaven and Hell. In Hell, the Devil (Memnoch, in case you missed it) offers him a job as his "right-hand man/vampire". Lestat declines and runs screaming out of Hell.Goldberg, Lesley (June 24, 2021). " Interview With the Vampire Series a Go at AMC". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 2, 2023.

Another combination with a Call-Forward: In The Vampire Lestat, Eleni explains the mood in Paris by telling Lestat that the vampires could feed off humans on stage and the audience wouldn't tell the difference. Readers of Interview with the Vampire know this will actually happen, decades after Eleni sends her letter. But even that gets mitigated with age. A sufficiently old vampire can, in fact, withstand exposure to daylight, at least for a time. The very oldest can even handle a full day out with minimal worry.Losing Your Head: After Mekare decapitates Akasha, her mouth keeps snapping while various body parts crawl toward the head. God – Creator and ruler of the universe and all angels. According to Memnoch, he does not know how he came to be and therefore created the universe and life in an attempt to better understand himself. In telling his account of creation, Memnoch characterizes God as aloof and uncaring. Trope Codifier for the modern day interpretation of Vampires Are Sex Gods. Before Interview the general public's image of vampires was based on Dracula via Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, who, while a sex god in his own right, was mysterious, distant, threatening, and a metaphor for rape. Rice's vampires in contrast were modern, petulant, deliciously angsty, incredibly fabulous, and dripping with bisexual eroticism. These were vampires you were supposed to find attractive. The Goth scene owes a ton to Interview with the Vampire.