vampire slayer
Stakes nocturnal predators
A vampire slayer is someone who hunts and kills vampires—a stock character in horror fiction and fantasy.
The term gained wide currency through the television series *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*.
More broadly, it describes anyone who defeats powerful adversaries: She's a vampire slayer when it comes to corporate corruption.
- BuffyInformal feminine name
- the chosen oneProphesied hero figure
- stakeSharpened post or share
- wooden stakeSharpened timber post
- hunterPursuer of prey
Buffy Summers · undead · garlic · crucifix · wooden · crossbow · dawn · holy water · holy ground · fangs · night · blade · demon · supernatural · chosen · evil · twilight · Van Helsing
- monster slayerswerewolf hunter, troll hunter, Van Helsing, Buffy, witcher
- heroeshero, heroes, heroine, heroines, superhero
vampire slayervampire
Blood-drinking undead creature
vampire lord · bloodsucker · Dracula · Lestat · vampyre
vampire slayerRenfield
Vampire's deranged human servant
familiar · blood donor · sire
vampire slayernecromancer
Summoner of the deceased
dark lord · creature of the night · sire · prince of darkness · night creature
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