Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. Jose Dzireh Chong. There are many ways to kill vampires, almost all of them work on normal people too. Including cutting the head off and stuffing it with garlic. What's possibly more interesting are the ways that don't work on normal people. Show 15 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Why Wood Vampire Blood contains a specific set of proteins and nutrients that allow for almost instantaneous regeneration.
Improve this answer. Dent Dent 2, 15 15 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. One great way to inhibit the effectiveness of many enzymes is to expose them to small amounts of heavy metals, e.
I dunno, now I'm waiting for a vampire to be stabbed through the heart with a carrot Show 12 more comments. Tim B Tim B Also, why should using "a material that was once alive" extend "the regeneration Blood was once alive, still vampires can't regenerate their bloodstream. The virus from the body enters the wooden cells and has the same effect on them that it has on the cells of the vampire's body.
A metal stake has no cells to enter. Note that the whole thing is pseudo scientific at best since there's no energy source for this regeneration. Still if the regenerative power of a vampire can't distinguish between the vampire and external cells, killing via bacterial infection would be the best thing ever.
This does mean that fungal infections are similarly dangerous. As for blood, red blood cells no longer have nuclei, so should be unaffected by the regeneration. I like it! Show 7 more comments. Separatrix Separatrix k 38 38 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. They can be very old fashioned. In the original novel Dracula was killed by a Bowie knife stabbed in the heart and crumbled to dust. But there are many stories probably Hollywood wanting to revive dead villains where a vampire revives when the stake is removed.
It's delving deep into the historical origin of the Hollywood altered myth, but it seems relevant to me and some of the best 'answers' on stack exchange offer no solution at all but offer valuable information to help make an informed decision. Show 4 more comments. Amadeus Amadeus Instead of the cells containing some new substance that reacts explosively to wood have the regeneration go into overdrive around splinters because they can't be removed and the body identifies it as harmful foreign cells.
Swelling in the arm is painful Add a comment. Ann - SonarSource Team G. Ann - SonarSource Team 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Why not use a flame thrower? You just need thin fat layer contains alot of water which has a massive heat capacity to give them a reasonable degree of resistance keeping in mind that you have regeneration so 3rd degree burns aren't anywhere near as bad as on humans.
Stakes interfere with this: Regenerating skin would be a good first step towards reanimation: control decomposition and thwart scavengers. Having a pole stuck through the torso would be a big problem. Reestablishing blood circulation would be another top priority; the stake in the heart would greatly complicate that.
The stake's wound would be septic. Even if the heart managed to start pumping, it would spread putrefaction.
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Dutch can't blame them for not crossing running water! Especially during spawning season. Not to mention many other such weapons. I don't think this answer the spirit of the question, "Why Wood" with its implied and nothing else. That argument is a lot more applicable to other answers. Such a stake would be harder to make in any setting and impossible in most vampire story settings. Could you make that in your garage? I could make a fiberglass or composite material easier though.
Separatrix's and Liquid's answers say metal is fine; GAnn accidentally makes fire better; Tim B's would work for bone. My answer is relevant and is what a better author than me came up with. I came up with more plausible reasons in literally under a minute, and I don't write about vampires at all. Plus as a materials scientist you instantly thought of alternatives for "not wood". I did not vote down your answer, btw.
It is a very good book. You suggested DNA, chain reactions, and atomic configurations as if they were magic; buzzwords don't make things plausible or good.
If it helps: the vampires are rotting and no longer breathe so they build up easily oxidized and flammable compounds in the interior of the body. Any way to explain scientifically accurate undead forming naturally ends up being absurd especially in but it is well thought out and one of the first to do this. Any explanation for why one gets dusted, or why only wood works, is going to smack of magic, too. The question is " As for buzzwords no. I understand genetics better than most people; I have invented and contributed algorithms to this field of study; I am familiar with protein configurations and how they operate.
Anybody with a basic physics education I have four years worth in my 25 years of school has a basic grasp of chain reactions atomic physics. Show 1 more comment. Shufflepants Shufflepants 1, 6 6 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.
Nothing is as durable as movie robots, and if something is running around doing incredible feats of strength and laser power, it's going to run out of batteries pretty quickly. After all, self replicating machines that can take over the planet already happened: it's call 'life'.
To me the big question is "why garlic"? Placidia Placidia 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. And this answer does add information not found in the other answers. Nicely done. The problem is that killing a vampire with staking does not change their appearance like decaying into dust or going into flames, so you do not know if they are dead and that the vampire heart is quite robust and the life signs are extremely hard to detect, so vampires could fake death if you don't hit the heart exactly.
Thorsten S. So if sunlight and garlic were toxic to the virus, they would result in the death of the virus. It does, however, seem to imply some form of sentience for the vampire virus itself. Brythan Justin Thyme Justin Thyme 9, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. SE Justin! Cool first answer. If you have a moment please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site. Looking forward to your contributions to the site.
Have fun! That was the one FrostFyre was referring to. Maybe you should delete your first answer, because you expanded your answer by posting a second one instead of editing the first one. Some of the reasons might be: Vampires are immortal half-gods, capable of taking ghost form, so killing their body won't stop them for long. However, one of the trees contains soul of god that seals the vampire's whatever it has - soul, ghost, mind , and the thing that gets stolen is stored at its heart.
Vampires are built of cells that show some specific quantum properties that make them almost invincible. However, wood disrupts this property. Attacking any other part would leave the vampire with enough time to make his quantum backup. Or however this solution works. However, they are genetically related to some tree, which allows the tree to be used as a weapon. For the same reason as why vampire can't in practice kill other vampire, the wood needs to be applied to the heart.
Although there's really no way to do that without using pseudoscience. MatthewRock MatthewRock 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Wayne Wayne 3 3 bronze badges. Doomfrost Doomfrost 2, 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. It's an important difference and the vampire hunter needs to be able to identify the distinctive style of the noble vampires quickly in the field as it's a mistake that you only get to make once.
You need to spot the better cut cape, bespoke tailored suit and handmade shoes in a matter of seconds. Sure, their speed and strength give them a big advantage, but the truth about vampires is they are too used to overpowering their opponent with their offensive capabilities that very few have spent much time learning to defend themselves. Knowing this, the key to killing a vampire using a wooden stake is to strike first. Yes, that means playing offense against the offensive powerhouse, but in this game of life and death, you only need to score once.
Okay, enough with the sports analogy, but the lesson remains the same: a vampire will let its guard down fairly easily. You should attack quickly and without hesitation. A vampire can heal from most injuries, but a wooden stake through the heart is not one of them. Though they heal quickly, their skin and bones are just as fragile as any humans, so the key to killing them is to make it so they can't heal. Which brings us to Again, the curse of silver begins before the first vampire became a vampire , when the goddess Artemis Greek mythology cursed the first vampire so that his skin burned when it touched silver.
Using silver is a bit like a blend between sunlight and a wooden stake. It doesn't work as well as either of those two options, but it has advantages of its own. First of all, unlike sunlight, silver is highly portable. You can carry an item of solid silver make sure it's real, solid silver please with you easily.
Secondly, it won't kill a vampire to stab it in the heart with silver as it would using a wooden stake , but it will slow down the healing process, which can be very helpful. In order to actually kill a vampire using silver, you'd probably need a lot of it. Silver is more helpful as a slowing or trapping agent. Vampires, despite their strength, cannot break a chain of silver, even if they tried. If you could somehow manage to handcuff a vampire to a tree, say, using silver handcuffs, all you would have to do is wait until the sun rose the next day and you would have yourself a fried vampire.
Of course, how you would actually manage to accomplish this task is another story. At first, fire seems like an easy fix to your vampire problems, but there is a problem. Yes, it will burn vampires, just like it burns humans, but unlike sunlight and silver, it's only through natural means that a vampire will burn by fire.
What I mean is, the reason sunlight and silver burn a vampire and cause its healing process to slow dramatically is because vampires are inherently cursed by these two elements.
While fire can burn just as well as sunlight or silver, it does nothing to slow the healing process of the vampire, because vampires are not cursed with a weakness to fire. If you're going to use fire to kill a vampire, you're going to need to have a big fire and have the vampire stuck in it for a long time.
Probably, say, an hour to be safe, though about a half hour will usually do the trick. This is because the vampire heals as it burns. The hotter the fire, the faster it burns, but you're still basically trying to beat the speed of the vampire's healing process.
Should the vampire be mostly burnt but then escape the fire, it can still survive. This is another situation where tying a vampire down with silver to immobilize it would be very handy, if you could manage it. If you're like me, you've probably never tried to literally tear anyone's head off, except perhaps in some sort of video game. And that doesn't count. It eventually evolved into just needing to pierce their heart. After all, vampires have been around awhile.
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